Author: sheikyermami

thanks to Snapped Shot:

Supporters of Jamat-e-Islami party chant slogans during a protest in Karachi March 14, 2008. Protesters in Pakistan are demanding for ties with Denmark to be severed over the republication of one of several cartoons of Prophet Mohammad that led to violence in Muslim countries two years ago.

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse:

“Sharia not bad at all” – sez Noah Feldman in the NYT

* It seems that America has more than its fair share of kooky professors. Recently, Wakademia has presented us with the most bizarre fantasy products and mental flatulence from Ward Churchills ‘3000 little Eichmanns’ to a ‘leading expert’, who tells us that ‘jihadists do it all out of boredom’ and another nutbag who claims “Oil, not Islam, oppresses women”.

* Now we have Noah Feldman, a law professor at Harvard of all places, who shills for the sharia:

In some sense, the outrage about according a degree of official status to Shariah in a Western country should come as no surprise. No legal system has ever had worse press. To many, the word “Shariah” conjures horrors of hands cut off, adulterers stoned and women oppressed. By contrast, who today remembers that the much-loved English common law called for execution as punishment for hundreds of crimes, including theft of any object worth five shillings or more? How many know that until the 18th century, the laws of most European countries authorized torture as an official component of the criminal-justice system? As for sexism, the common law long denied married women any property rights or indeed legal personality apart from their husbands. When the British applied their law to Muslims in place of Shariah, as they did in some colonies, the result was to strip married women of the property that Islamic law had always granted them — hardly progress toward equality of the sexes.

In fact, for most of its history, Islamic law offered the most liberal and humane legal principles available anywhere in the world. Today, when we invoke the harsh punishments prescribed by Shariah for a handful of offenses, we rarely acknowledge the high standards of proof necessary for their implementation. Before an adultery conviction can typically be obtained, for example, the accused must confess four times or four adult male witnesses of good character must testify that they directly observed the sex act. The extremes of our own legal system — like life sentences for relatively minor drug crimes, in some cases — are routinely ignored.

* Right Noah. Hanging women from cranes, especially underaged girls who have been raped by their accusers, public flogging and beheading of Jews is all not so bad. Go for it, Noah. The mullah’s will love you for it…

Read it and weep.

Barrack Hussein cries ‘racism’, and AP cries along

* Because racism is, and can only be white on black, never the other way around. And now the Manchurian Muslim candidate tells us that ‘”We have to come together,”

* After ignoring the Rev. Wright scandal for as long as possible, the Associated Press is now filing blatant whitewash pieces like this one, in which they don’t even tell the reader what Barack Obama’s pastor actually said:

Obama decries racial rhetoric.

Wright’s sermons were just “inflammatory,” in some oddly unspecific way.

* Update: Obama Web Site ‘Disappears’ Radical Pastor

From LGF

* Its not that easy, brother. We won’t be fooled, even though the leftist press is in your pocket :

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The “Human Shields of Palistan”

* Pali females & Western nutroots protect terrorists hauled up in this burrow from Israeli missiles…

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* Pals brag about it…

Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: “We Used Women and Children as Human Shields”

from MEMRITV

From the “Kuffar we love death and you like Pepsi Cola” department:

Following are excerpts from a speech delivered by Hamas MP Fathi Hammad, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on February 29, 2008:

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Fathi Hammad: [The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: “We desire death like you desire life.”

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Ban Ki Moon, UN secretary-general: Israel ‘using excessive force’

Twit & Twat

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel’s use of “excessive force” and called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

* Affirmative action poontang sings along in unison…

In a speech to Muslim nation member-states, Ban said that “Israel is hurting innocent people and it must restrain itself.” (AFP)

* Israel restrains itself….

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Now comes the flying pig moment:

You never thought it would happen:

Condi controlled state department springs into action:

US: Muslim states, UN fuel anti-Semitism

There has been an upsurge in anti-Semitism over the past decade, much of it a new form whose “distinguishing feature” is criticism of Israel, according to a State Department report released over the weekend.

Iranian President terrorist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at UN headquarters.
Photo: AP

The 94-page report on 2007 criticizes many Muslim and Arab countries for encouraging anti-Semitism, and an entire chapter is devoted to anti-Semitism at the United Nations.

“Motives for criticizing Israel in the UN may stem from legitimate concerns over policy or from illegitimate prejudices,” the report reads. “However, regardless of the intent, disproportionate criticism of Israel as barbaric and unprincipled, and corresponding discriminatory measures adopted in the UN against Israel, have the effect of causing audiences to associate negative attributes with Jews in general, thus fueling anti-Semitism.”

The report lists forms of anti-Semitic crimes including terrorist attacks against Jews, desecration of synagogues and destruction of cemeteries. In addition, it cites anti-Semitic rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and other propaganda.

While the report notes that traditional forms of anti-Semitism continue to be found across the globe, “anti-Semitism has proven to be an adaptive phenomenon.”

The new forms often incorporate elements of traditional anti-Semitism, but “the distinguishing feature of the new anti-Semitism is criticism of Zionism or Israeli policy that – whether intentionally or unintentionally – has the effect of promoting prejudice against all Jews by demonizing Israel and Israelis and attributing Israel’s perceived faults to its Jewish character.”

While this new anti-Semitism is “common throughout the Middle East and in Muslim communities in Europe,” it is not confined to these populations, the report finds.

The document’s introduction singles out Iran and Syria for their demonization of Jews, and adds, “Venezuela’s government-sponsored mass media have become vehicles for anti-Semitic discourse, as have government news media in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.”

It names Britain, France and Germany as European countries where “anti-Semitic violence remains a significant concern,” but also lists other Western nations as experiencing recent increases, including Argentina, Australia and Canada.

* Read it all. You thought it would never happen….

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With kaftan & coffee-filter:

* Islamist jihad turd Cüneyt C. from Bavaria ‘found religion’, went off to Afghanistan and blew himself up, killing 4 people. Think such an Assshole would ever find any ‘virgins’ in the real world?

Spiegel Online

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150 Illegal migrants from Algeria, Morocco and Iran occupy 2 churches in Brussels…

…trying to force authorities to reward them with asylum and residence permits. The infil-traitors enjoy the support of the church-authorities who seem to believe that EUrabia needs more Muhammedan head-choppers…

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Turkish mosque in Deventer, Holland  

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‘Shadowy insurgents in restive Thailand’ are now ‘perpetrators’

* Not a word about Islam or Muslims. The world has turned to s*#t….

Perpetrators cause chaos in Pattani

(BangkokPost.com) – The violence continues in Pattani province following Saturday’s explosion at the car park of CS Pattani hotel.

Authorities reported that one firefighter was killed in an arson attack on a school in Sai Buri district while there were seven injuries.

The dead man was identified as Surasak Boonyarattanasuan.

The perpetrators also burned public phone booths and car tyres, placed metal spikes on route 42 and blocked parts of the route with felled trees. Several suspicious objects designed to heighten fear amongst locals and to create chaos for security officials were also placed across the province.

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Ends “sinful” life ging to join Mujahideen brothers

Retired Kuwaiti pop star joins al-Qaeda

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* The Islamic headbangers must be infected with a delusion-inducing virus, or is it us who ignore the Islamic teachings?

*    “unjustly associated with Islam…?”  How much longer will our useless ‘leaders’ allow Muhammad worshippers to get away with this crap…???

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Qur’an:9:88 “The Messenger and those who believe with him, strive hard and fight with their wealth and lives in Allah’s Cause.”
Qur’an:9:5 “Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
Qur’an:9:112 “The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”
Qur’an:9:29 “Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Ishaq:325 “Muslims, fight in Allah’s Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious.”
Qur’an:8:39 “Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
Qur’an:8:39 “So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world).”
Ishaq:324 “He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.'”
Qur’an:9:14 “Fight them and Allah will punish them by your hands, lay them low, and cover them with shame. He will help you over them.”

(Koran 2:216) “Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that you hate a thing which is good for you and it may happen that you love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, you knew not.”

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Bullsh*t on the double:

Bambam calls for ‘peace jihad’ at summit

DAKAR (AFP) — The leader of the world’s most populous Muslim nation called Friday for a jihad of peace to spark an “Islamic Renaissance”, at a summit where leaders struggled to agree reforms to the main international Islamic group.
Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called for greater democracy and efforts to improve the plight of Muslims and spread Islamic values, in a speech to the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) summit.
“The possibility of an Islamic Renaissance lies before us,” Yudhoyono told the summit, but first, he added: “We need to get our act together as an organisation of Muslim nations.
“When the Islamic Renaissance comes it will be the natural fruit of a peaceful and constructive ‘jihad’.”

* …and pigs will fly..!

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Islamophobia? Muslim leaders say West guilty

Summit report urges creation of ‘legal instrument’ against defamation

* Ahmed-in-jihad: whatever it takes to shut you up…

DAKAR, Senegal – The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots.

Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world’s Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in this western Africa capital.

The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations like Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to the fury of the Muslim world.

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* Fitzgerald: The OIC’s rebranding game

“…the world’s biggest Islamic body is seeking to rebrand itself this week as a forum for settling conflicts peacefully and for redistributing wealth to the world’s poorest states.” — from this news article

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* The Islamic presidential runner-up who is heavily associated with a black racist church run by a raving lunatic somehow missed the hateful rants of his ‘spiritual adviser’. He may have heard some things “he doesn’t agree with”, but not that it made him consider leaving the cult:

Mark Steyn: Obama’s pastor disaster

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright thinks that, given their treatment by white America, black Americans have no reason to sing “God Bless America.” “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America,” he told his congregation. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human.”
I’m not a believer in guilt by association, or the campaign vaudeville of rival politicians insisting this or that candidate dissociate himself from remarks by some fellow he had a 30-second grip’n’greet with a decade ago. But Jeremiah Wright is not exactly peripheral to Barack Obama’s life. He married the Obamas and baptized their children. Those of us who made the mistake of buying the senator’s latest book, “The Audacity Of Hope,” and assumed the title was an ingeniously parodic distillation of the great sonorous banality of an entire genre of blandly uplifting political writing discovered circa page 127 that in fact the phrase comes from one of the Rev. Wright’s sermons. Jeremiah Wright has been Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years – in other words, pretty much the senator’s entire adult life. Did Obama consider “God Damn America” as a title for his book but it didn’t focus-group so well?

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Ah, well, no, the senator told ABC News. The Rev. Wright is like “an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with.” So did he agree with goofy old Uncle Jeremiah on Sept. 16, 2001? That Sunday morning, Uncle told his congregation that the United States brought the death and destruction of 9/11 on itself. “We nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” said the Rev. Wright. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards.”

Is that one of those “things I don’t always agree with”?

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“Obama is a MacDaddy” sez this black preacher…

thanks to El Greco

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Just in:

Greetings from the white boy…

 Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TV’s Seinfeld.

> This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in
> his comedy act.
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> He makes some very interesting points.
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> Proud To Be White

> Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to
> this?
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> There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab
> Americans, etc. And then there are just Americans.
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> You pass me on the street and sneer in  my direction. You Call me
> ‘White boy,’ ‘Cracker,’ ‘Honkey,’ ‘Whitey,’ ‘Caveman’ … and that’s
> OK.
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> But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel
> Jockey, Beaner, Gook,  or Chink … You call me a racist.
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> You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you, so why are
> the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?
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> You have the United Negro College Fund.
> You have Martin Luther King Day.
> You have Black History Month.
> You have Cesar Chavez Day.
> You have Yom Hashoah.
> You have Ma’uled Al-Nabi.
> You have the NAACP.
> You have BET.
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> If we had WET (White Entertainment Television) we’d be racists.
> If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.
> If we had White History Month , we’d be racists.
> If we had any organization for only whites to ‘advance’ OUR lives we’d
> be racists.
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> We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce,
> and then we just have the  plain Chamber of Commerce.
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> Wonder who pays for that?
> A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any
> color can be in the Miss America pageant.
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> If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships
> you know we’d be racists.
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> There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if
> there were ‘White colleges’ THAT would be a racist college.
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> In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your
> race and rights. If we  marched for our race and rights, you would
> call us racists.
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> You are proud to be black but when we announce our white pride, you
> call us racists.
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> You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police
> officer shoots a black gang  member or beats up a black drug-dealer
> running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a
> racist.
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> I am proud. But you call me a racist.
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> Why is it that only whites can be racists?

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U.N. tells Serbia to quit interfering in Kosovo

Adding insult to injury:

By Matt Robinson

PRISTINA (Reuters) – U.N. authorities in Kosovo told Serbia on Wednesday to stop interfering in Serb areas of the new state, where a Serb boycott has fuelled speculation Belgrade is trying to partition the territory.

The U.N. mission called on Serbia to respect its mandate in the former Serbian province, where the 90-percent Albanian majority declared independence with Western-backing last month.

It said Serbia should cooperate in re-establishing customs points on Kosovo’s northern border, which were burned down by Serb mobs, allow Serb police officers to return to work and stop strengthening Belgrade-financed “parallel structures” in health, education, courts and administration.

“If Belgrade says publicly that (U.N. Security Council Resolution) 1244 should be respected, we expect them to put their money where their mouth is,” U.N. mission spokesman Alexander Ivanko told a news conference.

“We are trying to re-establish the courts, we are trying to re-establish the customs,” he said. “This will take time, it will not happen tomorrow.”

Kosovo declared independence on Feb 17, nine years after NATO bombed to drive out Serbian forces and halt the killing and ethnic cleansing of Albanians in a two-year Serbian counter-insurgency war.

Backed by big-power ally Russia, Serbia has rejected the secession and is instructing the 120,000 remaining Serbs to do the same, deepening an ethnic divide that almost nine years of international administration since the war has failed to tackle.

Continued here

Jihad in Bosnia 

Update:

Oric’s Hague Acquittal Enrages Serbia

 

03 July 2008 Belgrade _ Serbia has condemned a decision by The Hague Tribunal to acquit Srebrenica Army Chief Naser Oric, saying it is “another serious blow to international justice.”

But the verdict will not have effect on Serbia’s further cooperation with the tribunal, some politicians vowed.

Serbia’s National Council for Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, based in The Hague, added in a statement that it would be difficult to explain to anyone in Serbia that the tribunal does not have “double criteria” in deciding on command responsibility.

Earlier on Thursday, the Appeals Chamber acquitted Oric, a former commander of the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Srebrenica, of crimes during 1992 and 1993 because judges ruled the first trial failed to prove he had control over his men. Read more:http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/11526/

“Though we have restrained from commenting on the tribunal’s rulings so far, we have to say that this one cannot contribute to either achieving justice and truth or to regional reconciliation which is one of the basic intentions of the ICTY,” the Council’s statement said.

Bruno Vekaric, the spokesman for the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor, agreed, adding that Oric’s acquittal “will only strengthen those who anyway believe in (the tribunal’s) selective justice.”

He did not want to go into the details of the verdict but said that it was proven beyond doubt that “terrible crimes were committed against the Serbs in the town.”

Former Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic also said that those who criticised the tribunal would now have more material, adding “such a verdict leaves a bitter taste.” 

He also said that there was enough evidence against Oric as there had been against former Kosovo guerrilla commander Ramus Haradinaj who was acquitted in April. Read more: http://balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9128

From our ‘what is a mosque’ series:

Thanx to Mullah:

THE Masjid is the fortress of faith; the guardian of virtues; the home of the pious; the meeting place of Muslims; the centre of consultation and mutual advice, and the first school from which the Muslim graduates. The Masjid provides relief and respite to the needy and the distressed. Muslim armies sprang from the Masjid and spread the message of Islam to all parts of the world within a short time.

Gulf Times

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“People Who Vote Wilders Must Die”

A Moroccan youth group from Delft in the Netherlands, calling themselves “Scheme 015 Delftse Samenzwering Shit,” [samenzwering means conspiracy] has posted a video clip threatening to kill voters and sympathizers of Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The clip shows a group of Moroccans youths provoking two Dutch lads on a crowded public train. The hooded Moroccans ask the lads, who are dressed in black, what the badges on their clothes mean. At first the lads do not react. When the Moroccans start pulling at the lads’ clothes the latter ask to be left alone. At this the Moroccans grab them from their seats and beat them up.

Brussels Journal

* Update: Show your film in parliament, MPs tell Wilders

Socialist, Liberal, GroenLinks and D66 MPs would not object to Geert Wilders’ showing his anti-Koran film in the parliament building itself, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.

Wilders has dropped plans for a formal launch in the nearby press centre because of the security costs.

‘A lack of money should not stop an MP doing his job,’ GroenLinks leader Femke Halsema was quoted as saying.

D66 leader Alexander Pechtold said the government should pay the security costs. ‘If he wants to do it in parliament itself, he can count on my support,’ Pechtold told the paper.

Wilders has not made a request to use the parliamentary facilities and refused to explain his reasoning.

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Belgium: Smuggling weapons in coffins

Belgian-Moroccan terror suspect Abdelkader Belliraj from Evergem smuggled weapons to Morocco in coffins of deceased Muslims, according to ‘well informed’ sources. A brilliant idea to transfer forbidden objects, since closed caskets are not opened.

* Just curious: He smuggled weapons to Morocco? One would have thought the other way around would be easier. Does that mean weapons are easier to come by in Belgium?

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Fitzgerald: Gaza & the endless gravy trains of jiziyah

Note that the usual NGOs have been lamenting the fact that “conditions in Gaza are worse than at any time since 1967.”

Think about that. What that means is that the conditions in Gaza were terrible under Egyptian rule, and then, once the Israelis took over in 1967, steadily improved as long as Israel was in control, and then, now that Israel has been entirely out of Gaza (so much for this “occupation” the local Arabs in Gaza keep screaming about — they mean, of course, Israel itself is occupied by Jews, and that simply, to them, isn’t right), conditions have again, under Arab rule, slowly degenerated. They have degenerated to the extent that conditions of life now approach, despite Israel turning over intact much-improved infrastructure, and those greenhouses that were promptly looted and destroyed by the “Palestinians,” and the billions in aid money received from Infidels (strangely, nothing substantial appears to come from fellow members of the Umma), what they were the last time Arabs were in control.

And yet these British NGOs dare to suggest that this is Israel’s fault? What nonsense people are allowed to get away with, if no one calls them to account. NGOs have come a long and very dismal way since the dreams of Rene Cassin.

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Brazil & Samba Jihad

* America’s affirmative action showpiece, the forever oblivious Condoleeza Rice, somehow worries about ‘terrorism in Brazil’

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“We need more interfaith harmony”, sez Indonesia

JAKARTA, March 14 (Xinhua) — Indonesia on Friday warned Dutch lawmaker not to release an anti-Islam film which could destroy interfaith harmony, the country foreign ministry said here.

* “If you release the movie we have to go on a violent rampage worldwide, and its all your fault..”

* 9/11, that couldn’t disturb interfaith harmony. Bali bombings? Nope. 7/7 in London? Naah. Over 10,000 jihad terror attacks since 9/11? No problem. But a film about the contents of the Qur’an — now that will disturb interfaith harmony.

* And as always, the reporter hastens to add the obligatory, totally stoopid line:

Indonesia, with 87 percent of its over 240 million population are Muslim, practices tolerant strain of the religion.

Sure. Ask Abu Bakr Bashir, he’ll tell ya…

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If the Arabs are correct and Israel has lost the will to live, this war can only end with the destruction of Israel and a second Holocaust where they will, as they often boast, finish the job Hitler started. The Palestinians would be only too happy to administer the coup de grace but it will be the Israelis who have committed collective suicide.”

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Al-Jizzeera slams Israeli boycott as ‘attack on freedom of expression’

The Foreign Ministry’s decision on Wednesday to boycott Al-Jazeera stemmed from government outrage at the network’s coverage of Israel Defense Forces operations in Gaza, which the ministry said constituted incitement to terror.

The Qatari-based TV network’s Jerusalem bureau denounced the decision as anti-democratic and an attack on the freedom of expression.

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Hawaii is not free. Its just like Palistan, believe it or not. And California is next…

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From Moe’s ‘seriously deluded’ department…

* Remember: Haiti only became successful because it was the first ever slave-colony to liberate itself from the yoke of the white man…

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Gynacology Jihad:

Muslim women fear treatment of feminine conditions

Husbands threaten divorce while male gynecologists being killed

* After honor killing, clit-cutting and wife beating: doctors who take a closer look at a Muhammedan pussy risk everything…

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Camel Jihad:

Camels, Donkeys, Sheep, Goats Rally in Gaza to Protest Israel. No, Not Kidding….

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Sowdi demented inbred watch:

Islamic scholar: “By Allah, we will not be satisfied even if all the Jews are killed”

MEMRI

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What is it with the finger?

Islamofacism Fraud: How to snatch a ‘prayer room’ from stoopid infidels in the dar-ul harb…

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* Now that Barrack Hussein’s racist hate preacher has been exposed,  the rabid far- left are focusing their attention rather on McCains ‘spiritual guide’, a televangelist who urged a Christian war on Islam:

 John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has been called upon to renounce a church leader he considers his spiritual guide for urging a Christian war to destroy the “false religion” of Islam.

A number of prominent US weblogs demanded he reject the support of Reverend Rod Parsley, of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, an influential televangelist and political figure who campaigned alongside him in the run up to the Ohio primary.

On February 26, a week before the Ohio vote, Mr McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the evangelical pastor, who praised the candidate as a “strong, true, consistent conservative”. With Mike Huckabee, a Baptist preacher, then continuing to snap at his heels, Mr Parsley’s endorsement was a boon to Mr McCain’s efforts to knock out his last remaining challenger and win over social conservatives. Standing side-by-side with the minister, Mr McCain hailed him as a “spiritual guide”.

Since then, the writings of Mr Parsley have attracted attention from political commentators. Several have noted that Mr McCain’s Democratic rival, Barack Obama, was forced to publicly denounce and reject the support of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, after he received unsolicited praise from the controversial figure.

The leader of a 12,000-member megachurch, Mr Parsley has written several books detailing his fundamentalist views, including the 2005 Silent No More. In this contentious work, Mr Parsley castigates homosexuals, abortionists, the entertainment industry and civil libertarians before turning his attention to the perceived threat to the United States from Muslims.

In a chapter titled “Islam: The Deception of Allah,” Mr Parsley speaks of Allah as a “demon spirit” and urges “war between Islam and Christian civilisation”. There is no difference between violent Islamist extremists and moderate Muslims, he argues.

* The man has a point.

“I cannot tell you how important it is that we understand the true nature of Islam, that we see it for what it really is,” he writes. “In fact, I will tell you this: I do not believe our country can truly fulfill its divine purpose until we understand our historical conflict with Islam.

“I know that this statement sounds extreme, but I do not shrink from its implications. The fact is that America was founded, in part, with the intention of seeing this false religion destroyed, and I believe September 11, 2001, was a generational call to arms that we can no longer ignore.”

It is not the first time that Mr McCain’s desperation to win over the religious right has landed him in trouble. The Republican had already angered Catholics by cosying up to John Hagee, the leader of an evangelical Texas megachurch who has described the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore” and a “false cult system”. However the row did not prevent Mr McCain from storming to victory in all four March 4 primaries and laying claim to the party nomination.

Mr McCain had already been forced to dissociate himself from one speaker at the rally, a conservative talk radio host who repeatedly stressed Mr Obama’s middle name “Hussein” as he introduced the Republican candidate.

Today, several liberal commentators called on Mr McCain to explain what he meant when he said Mr Parsley was his “spiritual guide”.

Steve Benen wrote on Crooks and Liars: “It’s unsettling, but in this political climate, it’s easier for a right-wing religio-political figure to get away with anti-Muslim animus than anti-Catholic.”

He added: “But if McCain is going to tout Parsley as a “spiritual guide,” it’s certainly worth learning more about where Parsley might “guide” the Republican nominee.”

 Times Online

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* You wouldn’t want to be caught dead with this As-shole who sounds like a Bowery bum on crack. But if this is where Barrack Hussein gets his kicks: God bless America…

*  This is the man Barack Obama calls his spiritual adviser, who married Obama and his wife and baptized their two daughters: turns out he is an America-hating racist

Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11 

Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.” 

An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright’s sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

In addition to damning America, he told his congregation on the Sunday after Sept. 11, 2001 that the United States had brought on al Qaeda’s attacks because of its own terrorism.

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye,” Rev. Wright said in a sermon on Sept. 16, 2001.

“We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost,” he told his congregation.

ABC 

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