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When ex-CIA spooks write spooky books one should look beyond the cover

Former CIA analyst: “Islam is not the reason for the rise of Islamist movements”

And then they wonder how we reached this pass. According to this book review, former CIA analyst Pollack’s “tremulousness about Islam makes nonsense of much of his book.” “Ex-CIA Analyst Ignores Islam in Muddled Mideast Strategy,” by George Walden, for Bloomberg, August 11, thanks to JW

Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) — Whoever wins the U.S. presidential election this November will require a rethink on the Middle East. Kenneth M. Pollack, a former National Security Council staffer and CIA analyst, claims to provide one in ``A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East.”
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Imagine a book on the U.S. arguing that the Protestant religion had absolutely nothing to do with the nation’s economic successes and failures, its mode of government or its attitude toward sex. That, in essence, is what Pollack writes about Islam and the Middle East. Islam, a religion that claims to infuse every part of human life, turns out to be responsible for nothing according to this book.

* Turns out  Kenneth M. Pollack and his helpmeet wife Andrea Koppel have a nice little scam going, jetting around those palaces and invitations in the ME.

Take a closer look at this Andrea Koppel careering  and it all falls into place: the connected daddy who pushed her cart over the hill ever since she learned how to crawl, good God: she even looks dumb! And then there is the essential socializing with the Kuwait Ambassador and Diane von Furstenberg, (you get the drift) the socialites of the news-circus, and the third world parasites in suites and fancy costumes who so enrich the lives of us all.

Yes, there are reasons why people write crappy books that don’t make sense. Those Arab petro-dollars wouldn’t have a thing to do with it…

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Al Qaeda headbanger Al Zawahiri calls for jihad in English

Update: Another one bites the dust. “Senior al Qaeda leader roasted in Pakistan,”

* unfortunately, this will not impact on  the eternal notion of jihad 

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official said on Tuesday. 

“He was believed to be among the top leadership of al Qaeda,” the senior security official said on condition of anonymity.

Here’s the link

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Pakistan: Zawahiri’s English-speaking debut

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The polyglot doc calls for jihad and praises “martyrdom”— all in an infidel language. “Purported al-Zawahiri message criticizes Pakistani leadership,” from CNN, August 10: via JW

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — In what’s believed to be the first English-language message from al Qaeda’s second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri criticizes Pakistan’s leadership and calls for Pakistanis to support the jihadist movement. 

The audio message was released by al Qaeda’s production arm, al-Sahab, and initially aired on Pakistan’s ARY channel. CNN could not independently verify its authenticity, and it was unclear when the message was recorded.

“Let there be no doubt in your minds that the dominant political forces at work in Pakistan today are competing to appease and please the modern day crusaders in the White House and are working to destabilize this nuclear-capable nation under the aegis of America,” the message says.

It’s the first official message released by al-Sahab in which al-Zawahiri, a native of Egypt, speaks English, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a Washington-based company that monitors and analyzes militant messages.

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Al Reuters promotes the 'liberating hijab' in Beijing

I guess with a face like this the burka is a blessing…

Veiled athletes challenge “stereotypes” in Beijing

* There is no end to this stupidity. Everyday there is an endless supply of this indigestible Islamo-prop shoved in your face by dimwitted Western reporters who somehow believe they are doing the ‘culturally sensitive’ thing by twisting the Muhammedan misogyny into some kind of fashion statement.

By Catherine Bremer

BEIJING (Reuters) – The women in Roqaya Al Ghasara’s home town in Bahrain are so proud of their pioneering Olympic sprinter that some of them got together to design and sew a set of tailor-made aerodynamic veils for her to run in.

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Palestinians: Our way or the highway

 

Palestinians: Our way or the highway

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Those who blame Israel for the perennial impasse in peace negotiations, including the Palestinians themselves, are fond of portraying the desperate plight of the Palestinians under the supposedly oppressive occupation. One would think that a desperate person or a desperate people would seek to improve their lot by any means possible, and would be eager for the chance for peace and freedom. That is evidently not the case for the Palestinians.

Despite their supposed desperation, the Palestinian Arabs are curiously consistent in imposing impossible conditions for peace, conditions that amount to unconditional surrender for Israel. Palestinians and their supporters appear to be unconcerned about the contradiction. One condition that has stood for years is the so called “right of return,” a stipulation which would flood Israel with refugees of the Israeli War of Independence, their descendants, and many who falsely claimed refugee status. This would turn Israel into an Arab country and deny the right of self-determination to the Jewish people. “Right of Return” is dubiously touted as a right anchored in international law. Surely, it cannot take precedence over the right to self determination, which is Jus Cogens (see Palestinian Right of Return in International Law.

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CNN Avoids Mentioning Islam in Segment on 'Honor Killings'

* Why do they even bother? Their biggest shareholders are Arabs, their ads are mostly paid for by Arabs, only Al Bebeeceera would have more Arab-Muslim announcers for ‘balance’, and they promote the Haj as if there was no tomorrow. Their BS is indistiguishable from Al Jizz. That’s why they call it the Caliphate News Networx…

 

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Quite a feat: CNN has pulled off the MSM equivalent of describing a spiral staircase without using one’s hands.  It has managed to produce a segment on “honor killings” and related violence in the UK . . . without using the word “Muslim” or “Islam.” CNN Newsroom anchor Don Lemon introduced the segment this afternoon at 1:37 PM EDT.

DON LEMON: Women forced into marriages, or killed for having the wrong boyfriend.  So-called “honor crimes” are often committed by fathers or brothers when daughters do something that supposedly brings shame on the family.  It’s on the rise in  Britain, and authorities, they are very worried about it.  Our Paula Newton reports. 

View video here.

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Brussels Churches: Magnets for Muhammedan Invaders?

*  Misguided clergymen unwittingly aid and abet the global jihad by misguided humanitarian foolishness. Cunning Musulmanic invaders are learning fast; their numbers grow ever bigger. How many Brussels churches are now permanently occupied by Afghan & Pakistani tribes?

* Allah Takes Over Catholic Church

* Asylum seekers lie on mattresses inside the Beguinage Church in Brussels May 20, 2008. Asylum seekers, who said they numbered at 240, had occupied the church and had been on a hunger strike for about two weeks after the Belgian government rejected hundreds of asylum requests.

Brussels: Illegals evacuated from church

The mostly Afghani illegals had occupied the church this past week.  Alliet says that he usually agrees to such actions if they’re prepared in advance, which wasn’t the case here.

Alliet says he also feared that with the lack of toilets neighbors would put films on YouTube of the illegals using the church as a bathroom, as well as the resulting fights due to lack of mattresses and sleeping places.  

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Israel: Skunk Spray and Stink Bombs make debut

 

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IDF personnel checks ID’s of young Pals…

Border Police have begun employing a new means of crowd control to disperse violent demonstrations against the security fence in Ni’lin.

The weapon, nicknamed “The Skunk,” is a foul-smelling liquid which is sprayed on the protesters, compelling them to leave the scene to escape the smell.

Security officials told Channel 10 that “The Skunk was developed as part of police’s efforts to develop non-lethal means and…avoid irreversible physical damage.” They added that it was less harmful than tear gas or rubber bullets.

Border Police forces used the new weapon during a demonstration on Friday. They said it proved effective and led the protesters to leave the area to shower and change their clothes.

Some demonstrators described the smell as similar to that of sewage, adding that it was hard to get rid of, even after a shower.

 

UK: Jihadists in prison threaten to behead prison officials

 

Perhaps this will move British officials to crack down on the Islamic activities of imprisoned jihadists. But, of course, perhaps not.

“Islamist threat to behead prison officer,” by Graham Tibbetts for the Telegraph, August 11 (thanks to JW):

Prison authorities have compiled an action plan for dealing with a kidnap plot involving radicalised Muslim convicts inside Britain’s jails.The dossier has been compiled in the past few months following rising tension in the prison system.

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Philippines: MILF Jihadists want an Islamic state

 

MILF jihadists displace 130,000 in southern Philippines

The MILF wants to cancel elections — they want an Islamic state, and that’s all they will settle for. “Thousands flee fighting in southern Philippines,” from Reuters, August 11:

Fierce clashes between Muslim separatists and government troops have displaced nearly 130,000 people in the southern Philippines, officials said on Monday (local time), but the government has vowed to press on with today’s local election.

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Al Jizz: pushing the illusion of a 'French' Islam

*  The French, once they wake up from this nightmare, will be horrified when they realize that their ‘French Islam’ is not (and cannot be) any other kind of Islam then what Islam is elsewhere in North Africa or in Arabia.   But Al Jizz is there to create the illusion…

The six million Muslims in France form Europe’s largest Islamic community and we explore the tensions between a people defined by their religious identity, and a fiercely secular state.
Set in Lyon, France’s second most populous city and filmed during Ramadan, this film explores the rivalry between the Grande Mosque, financed by Saudi Arabia, and a newly-opened local mosque which is the first to be funded only by French Muslims.
The funding of the new mosque represents an urge for independence from foreign influence, and a conscious attempt to create a French Islam; the French government supports the principle of a home-grown Islam. But what does this mean in practice?
The question is also pressing at the first Islamic school to gain a place in the state system, which we follow in its very first days. It has taken years of struggle against resistance from the city authorities to get this school open.
The organisers hope to have scores of such schools in France, but have to reconcile their aims with a society that demands public education free of religious influence. French Islam is at the epicentre of the debate about what Islam might become in the modern world.

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Ask yourself how many mosques were in the West 20 years ago — if you could find one, it was odd.

Count how many mosques there are today and count the building permits for the new ones.

Count how many halal shopes are going up in urban areas today compared to how many there were a scant 10 years ago.

Just for kicks, go to the inner city Christian charity stores and food banks and look around.

Count the number of islamics in line getting the free goods that all those Christians with their silly smiles are handing out to them.

The muslim takers are much more affluent than the Christians volunteering their time and resources; you get a sense of that when you see the islamics load their free goods into newer mercedes while the Christian volunteers take public transportation,

You find lots of islamics in these Christian food pantries — but good luck trying to find any islamic food pantries.

These are statistics you can gather that will tell you what you might not want to know.

Posted by: witness  at August 17, 2008 4:32 PM