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National Geographic blames Israel for Christianity’s Decline in Middle East

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In its June 2009 issue, National Geographic demonstrated just how far it is willing to go to scapegoat Israel for suffering in the Middle East. The magazine also showed how far it is willing to go to downplay the role Islam played in contributing to Christianity’s decline in the region. In an article written by Don Belt, the magazine’s senior editor for foreign affairs, National Geographic portrays the departure of Christians from the Holy Land as largely a consequence of Israeli (and American) policies in the region. The article offers no honest description of the well-documented mistreatment of Christians at the hands of Muslim majority populations in the Middle East.

The Crusades

Belt’s efforts to whitewash the role Islamic conquest played in the decline of Christianity in the Middle East becomes obvious in the third paragraph of the article which states that “it was during the Crusades (1095-1291) that Arab Christians, slaughtered along with Muslims by the crusaders and caught in the cross fire between Islam and the Christian West, began a long, steady retreat into the minority.”

In reality, Arab Christianity began its “long, steady retreat” into minority status hundreds of years before the European crusaders ever set foot in the Holy Land. As Bat Ye’or and other commentators have documented, the process of forced conversion and subjugation of Christians in the Middle East began soon after the death of Mohammed in 632. Ye’or writes that after unifying the Arabian Peninsula under Muslim rule, Abu Bakr, Mohammed’s successor, brought war to non-Muslims, including Christians, outside Arabia. In her book The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam: From Jihad to Dhimmitude (Farleigh Dickinson Press, 1996) Ye’or writes:

Arab idolaters had to choose between death or conversion; as for Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians, if they paid tribute and accepted the conditions of conquest, they could buy back their right to live, freedom of worship and security of property.
 
In 640 the second caliph, Umar Ibn al-Khattab, drove the Jewish and Christian tributaries out of Hijasz by invoking the dhimma (contract) of Khaybar: the land belonged to Allah and his Envoy and the contract could be broken at the discretion of the imam, the religious and political leader of the umma [Muslim religious community] and the interpreter of Allah’s will. Umar also invoked the desire expressed by the Prophet on his deathbed: “Two religions should not co-exist within the Arabian peninsula.” (Page 39)

While Ye’or is careful to explain that the subjugation of peoples and faiths was part and parcel of life in the Middle East at the time and that offering conquered peoples a chance to convert to Islam “curbed the barbarity of war,” she also makes clear that Christianity declined under Muslim conquest in the region conducted under the rubric of jihad, or holy war against non-Muslims.

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UK: Failed Asylum Seeker Helps to Land Plane With Laser

UK: Muslim jailed for shining laser at landing plane

 * Nothing to do with Islam, sure not. Muslims wouldn’t do a thing like that.

He did it because of the dope, doncha know. He was high, that’s all, and just having some fun by trying to bring down an airplane. What’s the big deal? I mean, who ever heard of a Muslim trying to crash an airplane as part of his jihad?

* On the other hand: “failed asylum seeker?”  Why is he still there ? 

“Man jailed for shining laser at landing plane,” from the Belfast Telegraph, May 28 (thanks to JW)

* Most ridiculous BS headline from AP: “Abbas pushing pan-Arab peace with Israel” Steven Hurst, get your head out of your ass..!

Abbas to meet with Obama today, demands that Netanyahu accept Palestinian state

Not that he has ever accepted the principle of a Jewish state. In any case, I expect that the contrast between this meeting and Obama’s chilly meeting with Netanyahu will be marked, and we will see considerably more warmth and enthusiasm — and considerably less talk of responsibilities and obligations — from the sainted new American President.

“Mideast: Abbas To Meet With Obama Today, Wants Assurances,” from ANSAmed, 


Abu Hamza sons admit £1m car scam

  • Tageted asassinations would fix the problem with these creeps, beautifully:

Three sons of jailed cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri have admitted exploiting a loophole in the vehicle registration system to commit a £1m luxury car scam.

Al BeBeeCeera

_45831911_007395483-1Mohamed Mostafa admitted two counts of fraud using a false ID

His sons Hamza Kamel, 22, and Mohamed Mostafa, 27, ran the two-year fraud with his stepson Mohssin Ghailam, 28.

Southwark Crown Court heard they targeted cars in long-stay car parks, fraudulently obtaining their log books and keys before selling the cars on.

Four other London men also admitted their involvement.

‘Sophisticated’ fraud

Radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza was jailed in 2006 for inciting murder and hate in speeches he made at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London.

On Wednesday the court heard that his sons were arrested in November last year, following a police investigation into the organised theft and resale of luxury cars in London.

Prosecutor Martyn Bowyer told the hearing: “This was a sophisticated, well-planned and professionally executed enterprise.”

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Pat Condell: Children of a stupid god

There is a growing tendency to think of man as a rational thinking being, which is absurd. There is simply no evidence of any intelligence on the earth.

— Marvin the Martian

  • In his latest video the usually humorous British wordsmith makes the typical mistake of the diehard atheists and attacks all religions as evil and equally bad. But how many of us feel threatened by Christians or Jews?  Today, our civilization and culture is -once again- threatened by Islam and the invading Muselmanic armies, not by the aging Christians or the few Jews who still remain in EUrabia. 

Two thumbs down!

Australia: How (not) to Defend a Serial Rapist

“AT LEAST HE DIDN’T BASH THEM”

Tim Blair – 

Lawyers sometimes wonder why they’re held in low public esteem. Perhaps they should consider the arguments offered by Sydney lawyer Clive Steirn in defending a multiple rapist: 

Suffering bastard:

Taxi driver Hassan Nagi should not receive a harsh sentence for raping three women as he suffered a condition called “Don Juanism” which made him addicted to sex, his barrister said yesterday.

Clive Steirn SC also urged a District Court judge to spare the sex predator a “crushing” sentence because he never bashed his victims while he was raping them.

“There was no gratuitous violence. None of the women was physically harmed. It’s an important consideration,” he said. 

The judge’s response: “He doesn’t get rewarded for not belting them.” Good, although it shouldn’t need saying. Further from Steirn, who seems to have emerged from the 17th century: 

Mr Steirn said Nagi – who has pleaded guilty to raping female passengers in 2003, 2006 and 2007 – was merely being “opportunistic” and should be punished “at the lower end of the spectrum”.

“He’s taken advantage of their extreme states of intoxication to carry out the offences,” he said.

“In terms of driving a cab over many years, he had ample opportunity to commit other types of offences”. 

This is offered in mitigation. In 2009. Seriously. Do continue, Mr Steirn: 

“It cannot be said he is a serial offender. These are three separate episodes over five years.” 

Three rapes in five years? That’s a definition of a serial offender. Nagi should be jailed for life. About Clive Steirn, I really don’t know what to say. 

Good News for Jews: Jews are allowed to live as dhimmies under Islamic rule!

Any buyers?

Occupiers can change nationality, says Qorei
Mohammed Mar’i | Arab News —

  • From our “why can’t we all just get along” department:
RAMALLAH: Ahmed Qorei, the head of Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, said that Jewish occupiers could live under Palestinian law and can become Palestinian citizens. “(Former US Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice told me she understood our position about Ariel but that Ma’aleh Adumim (an Israeli settlement in part of the West Bank that would become part of a Palestinian state) was a different matter,” Qorei said in an interview yesterday with the Israeli daily Haaretz.

“I told her, and (former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi) Livni, that those residents of Ma’aleh Adumim or Ariel who would rather stay in their homes could live under Palestinian rule and law, just like the Israeli Arabs who live among you. They could hold Palestinian and Israeli nationalities. If they want it — welcome,” Qorei said when asked if Israel would agree to evacuate Ma’aleh Adumim’s 35,000 occupiers.

payjiziyaThe jiziyah is to be paid on demand, while the dhimmi must feel humiliated and subdued. The dhimmi has to tremble with fear and will be struck behind the jaw-bone while being spat at. The Muslims curse him…

“Israeli settlements in the heart of the territories would be a recipe for problems. Israel evacuated all the settlements in Yamit and in the Gaza Strip. All the prime ministers who negotiated with Syria, including Netanyahu, agreed to evacuate all the settlements from (the Golan) Heights. So why is it so difficult for you to evacuate the settlements in the West Bank?”Qorei added that “negotiating the annexation of Ariel to Israel is a waste of time. Ma’aleh Adumim and Givat Ze’ev must also be part of Palestine. Any agreement must guarantee our territorial contiguity; leave historical sites in our hands, especially Jerusalem, as well as natural resources, especially water.”

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White men can't judge: Obambi's affirmative action racism hits America

Obambi’s America: “Racist, racist, racist…!

Who Wants to be Labeled a Racist? White House Press Secretary Issues Not-So-Veiled Threat to Sotomayor Critics…

Smarter than any white colleague on the court

Andrew Bolt –

Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama’s affirmative action pick for the Supreme Court, reaches a conclusion that proves her conclusion is false:

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

Not only is this racist and foolish, it fundamentally misunderstands the role of a judge, which is to uphold the law, not pass on the lessons of her personal experiences. Be afraid that Obama finds this fine.

Update from Ann Coulter:

I Feel Your Pain. Not Theirs. Yours.

God save us from liberal “empathy.” After President Barack Obama announced his empathetic Supreme Court nominee this week, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, we found out that some people are more deserving of empathy than others.

Read it all…>>

Reverse Racism in Full Swing: whitey need not apply…

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Obama’s Coming Attack on the Courts

Gingrich: Sotomayor ‘Racist,’ Should Withdraw

Sotomayor: Radical on the SCOTUS

Here is a brief look at President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court. You may want to forward this to your friends.

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"Islamic Human Rights Commission exposes the Islamophobic agenda of da Jooozzz…"

From the Bunglawussi blog:

An “Islamic Yuman Rites Commission”- good grief, how absurd does it get?

These wankers have clearly rejected all human rights and subjected themselves to the Sharia’a, the law of Islam, which subjugates unbelievers to dhimmi-status and women to chattel. Just take your time and read the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights” , then   compare that with the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and you will quickly realize that “Islamic Yuman Rites” is a perversion of everything, an insane concept cooked up by psychopaths, deviants, child rapists and genocidal maniacs. This fake ‘Yuman Rites’ organization also claims that “Islam is a Religion not an Ideology”- well, Fibbi Hooper, the ridiculous spokesman for CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case and a Muslim Brotherhood front group,  has completely different ideas and calls  Islam an ideology, not  a race. He must be another misunderstander of Islam then…

Check it out, its crazy stuff in a pseudo-scientific package: 

“IHRC exposes CST evil Zionists” (again!)

The Islamic Human Rights Commission has just published a well-researched briefing, “Concerns regarding demonisation of Islam and Muslims by Community Security Trust publications“, which exposes the Islamophobic agenda of the CST, an organisation that claims to be merely a defence organisation for the Jewish community (an entirely admirable role in itself) but also pursues a hardline right-wing Zionist agenda that leads it to adopt a hostile attitude towards Muslims, and politicised Muslims in particular.

  • Gee, can’t have that now, can we? What’s the world coming to?

Revisiting Louise Arbour: Leftist Lawyer, Liberal Lackey, Appeaser of Iran,  one who never understood what’s at stake here:

*  Do you realize that this dumb twat was unable to tell the difference between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the pathetic Muhammedan ‘Cairo Declaration of Human Rights which means no human rights at all  for the subjugated dhimmies, but  eeking out a living under shariah, all the while trembling with fear, paying the jiziya with willing submissing while feeling humilated and subdued?’

Bostom: Stop ignoring Islam’s antisemitic doctrine: Bronx bomb plot reminds us of a core religious problem

In “Stop ignoring Islam’s antisemitic doctrine: Bronx bomb plot reminds us of a core religious problem” in the New York Daily News, May 27, Andrew Bostom tells some truths about the Bronx synagogue bomb plot that have been largely ignored in the mainstream media

Big Bang in Lahore

Al BeBeeCeera: Huge blast rocks Pakistani city

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(AKI) – A powerful suicide car bomb attack destroyed a police headquarters building in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least 23 people and injuring 200 others. Pakistani media reports say two suspects were arrested at the site. 

Rescuers are searching the rubble of a police building in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a bomb attack killed at least 23 people and injured 200.

Gunmen reportedly opened fire on guards before detonating a car bomb which flattened the emergency response building at police HQ.

Nearby offices of the ISI intelligence service were also damaged.

The interior ministry chief linked the attack to Taliban insurgents whom troops are battling in the Swat valley.

Pakistan: Jihadists attack historic church, burn Bibles, destroy altar and cross — police reluctant to investigate

“They are not investigating it as they would if the attack had been on a mosque.”

“Suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban Militants Destroy Pakistan Church, Christians Say,” from Worthy News, May 26 (thanks toWeasel Zippers) via JW

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One Day Sunni, Next Day Shiite

Afghanistan destroys books deemed insulting to Sunnis

“Books like these are more dangerous than Taliban bullets,” Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad told The Associated Press.

In the recent case, it was a load of pro-Shi’ite books from Iran that was destined for the bottom of the Helmand River. Ironically, the Afghan government has thus ignited sectarian strife by supposedly aiming to prevent it. And the question remains: are they concerned about Shi’ite Islam as a vehicle for Iranian influence, or simply because it is not Sunni Islam? Beyond that, there are several points of interest:

First, transparency is a prized attribute of a functional government, at least in the Western sense; it does not co-exist well with official corruption. But when a society and a government believes it is permissible to lie or equivocate in order to smooth things over or guard against non-believers (cf. Qur’an 3:28), there exists a disastrous precedent for how the government may do business when officials think no one is looking.

Second, the principle is expandable: What else will the government suppress in order not to “insult” this or that brand of Islam? Quite a bit, if the case of Syed Parwez Kambakhsh is any indication. And that begs the question of what kind of government Western forces are spending untold amounts of blood and treasure to prop up.

Above all, however, the story belies the harmony that would supposedly break out under a pure Islamic state: To say nothing of unbelievers, there could be no harmony as long as everyone was not in agreement about the “purity” of said state, and its fidelity to and enforcement of Sharia law. Even without the sense of entitlement of the “true believers” to govern and the call for open-ended warfare against unbelievers, stories like this make quite a case for the separation of religion and state.

From our Meet The New Boss, Same As The Old Boss department: “Afghan gov’t destroys books it says insult Sunnis,” by Amir Shah and Heidi Vogt for the Associated Press, May 27, via Marisol from JW

Pakistan: Jihadists attack historic church, burn Bibles, destroy altar and cross — police reluctant to investigate

“They are not investigating it as they would if the attack had been on a mosque.”

“Suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban Militants Destroy Pakistan Church, Christians Say,” from Worthy News, May 26 (thanks toWeasel Zippers):