Category: General

French banks release Iran’s frozen assets

Tehran, March 12, IRNA — Presidential Advisor for legal and parliamentary affairs Majid Jafarzadeh said on Tuesday that the assets of Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which were seized by French banks, have been released.

Speaking to IRNA, he said that the move followed continued efforts by Presidential department for legal and parliamentary affairs on Monday.

CBI assets had been frozen by French Banque Populaire.

“In the past, the US and the Zionist regime had enacted illegal laws which ran counter to international law to encourage their nationals to lodge unfounded and baseless financial charges against our country’s officials, and had issued judgment by default to seize Iranian assets at foreign banks, but due to hard efforts of the Iranian judiciary officials, their plots failed and resulted in the issuance of a verdict on January 24, 2008 that nullified all these baseless accusations and unfounded charges.”

The case is regarded as a significant achievements for Iran, Jafarzadeh said.

France also likes dealing with ‘new friends’ from the Arab world like this one…

Al Gaddafi to the Scandinivians and Westerners: Mohammad is Your prophet – Your Bible is Corrupted – Your holy texts are forged and Hateful- Europe and All the West will be Muslim

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But when it comes to cartoons, France makes sure they “do not breach the limits of freedom of expression”

Hebdo Muhammad cries over the stupidity of Muslims

French court backs magazine over Prophet cartoons (for now)

PARIS (Reuters) – A French court on Wednesday upheld a ruling in favor of a magazine that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, rejecting an appeal by a Muslim group which said they incited hatred of Islam.

The cartoons, published in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in February 2006, originally appeared in a Danish newspaper five months earlier.

They provoked violent protests in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in which 50 people were killed. Several European publications reprinted them as an affirmation of free speech.

“These caricatures, which clearly target a fraction and not the whole of the Muslim community, do not constitute an insult or direct personal attack against a group of people because of their religion and do not breach the limits of freedom of expression,” the court in Paris ruled.

The decision was the culmination of a long legal battle over the cartoons.

A lower court ruled last year that the cartoons fell into the category of freedom of speech and did not constitute an attack on Islam in general.

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The Psychology of the Musulman

Islamic ‘Peace’

* Best, most damning, breakdown I’ve read on Islam’s version of peace.

By Bassam Tibi, Muslim scholar of jihad:

‘At its core, Islam is a religious mission to all humanity. Muslims are religiously obliged to disseminate the Islamic faith throughout the world. “We have sent you forth to all mankind” (Q. 34:28).

If non-Muslims submit to conversion or subjugation, this call (da’wa) can be pursued peacefully. If they do not, Muslims are obliged to wage war against them. In Islam, peace requires that non-Muslims submit to the call of Islam, either by converting or by accepting the status of a religious minority (dhimmi) and paying the imposed poll tax, jizya.

World peace, the final stage of the da’wa, is reached only with the conversion or submission of all mankind to Islam…Muslims believe that expansion through war is not aggression but a fulfillment of the Qur’anic command to spread Islam as a way of peace. The resort to force to disseminate Islam is not war (harb), a word that is used only to describe the use of force by non-Muslims. Islamic wars are not hurab (the plural of harb) but rather futuhat, acts of “opening” the world to Islam and expressing Islamic jihad.

Relations between dar al-Islam, the home of peace, and dar al-harb, the world of unbelievers, nevertheless take place in a state of war, according to the Qur’an and to the authoritative commentaries of Islamic jurists. Unbelievers who stand in the way, creating obstacles for the da’wa, are blamed for this state of war, for the da’wa can be pursued peacefully if others submit to it.

In other words, those who resist Islam cause wars and are responsible for them.’

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Moe’s Inner Struggle Updates:

* “Your children will be Muslim!”

* But we still have to cut off the heads of the cartoonists..!

And its not even Friday yet!

* From Gaza: We call upon the Muslims, mujahideen, and monotheists all over the world to pursue any of the pigs who drew or helped publish the offensive cartoon, and to slaughter them immediately on the threshold of the tomb of the Prophet… We call upon Muslims all over the world to bomb the embassies, to kidnap Danish ambassadors, and to kill them on the threshold of the tomb of the Prophet.

MEMRI

* Islamic Blogger explains how Islam will dominate America

Pakistani students burn tires, block roads in Motoon Rage

Hundreds of students burnt tires and blocked roads in the eastern Pakistani city of Multan on Wednesday in protest at the reprinting in Danish newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad last month.

“All Muslims should fight for Islam,” student leader Imran Liaquat told the crowd.

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In Afghanistan they love cartoons too:

Afghan protesters chant ‘Long live al Qaeda’

CTV.ca News Staff

Thousands of Afghan students chanted “Long live al Qaeda,” during a protest aimed at Denmark and the Netherlands.

‘Inner Struggle’ hits Lahore (again)

Lahore, 11 March(AKI) – More than 24 people have been killed and dozens others injured after at least two bombs exploded in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday.

The blasts, believed to have been carried out by suicide bombers, were the latest in a wave of violence across Pakistan that has left more than 600 people dead this year.

According to Pakistan’s Geo TV, the first attack demolished part of the federal investigation agency (FIA) office in the city, exposing the interior of the building.

A police official said that the blast was a suspected suicide attack.

“We believe the suicide attacker came in a vehicle and hit the reception counter. We have recovered only a few pieces of the car which was used in the attack,” investigations superintendent Babur Bakht Qureshi said.
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Norway submits:

Most absurd ABC header of the day:

“The burqa is the wardrobe of choice for many Muslim women”

* Gone native: Burka with an ethnic (Norwegian) touch. Who said Muhammedans don’t integrate?

Dim, dimmer, dhimmitude…

The Burqa Gets a Makeover

The burqa is the wardrobe of choice for many Muslim women. It is worn over a woman’s daily clothing, usually covering her from head to toe. Today, the burqa has gone designer, popping up on fashion runways in the West, like at this show by Norwegian designers Marked Moskva in Norway earlier this month. Here, a burqa evokes traditional Norwegian dress. The designers reportedly say they are aiming their collection at Muslims and non-Muslims.

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A poster from JW, Battle of Tours, nails our current dilemma and sums it up:

-we put men on the moon, Mohammedans put women in burqqas
-we developed jet travel, Mohammedans fly them into buildings to kill all aboard
-we developed worldwide telephone communications, Islamics use cell phones to detonate bombs
-we developed rocket technology to go into space, Mo’s greatest build primitive rockets to bomb Israel
-we developed medicine to cure diseases worldwide, Islamics train their children to blow up for Jihad
-we developed the arts and films, Hamas TV shows children calling for jihad against _________ (you name it)
-we developed freedom of expression and religion, Mo’s best riot over silly cartoons of their warlord (pbuh) prophet
-we developed computer science and internet, Islamics use their ‘science’ to do da’wa and spread taqqyia on the web
-we generously help those in need during times of crisis, Muslim oil states gouge out highest oil prices in history
-we developed Arab oil wells for manufacturing and transportation, Mo’s toons developed the car bomb and roadside explosives
-we improved high yield agriculture to feed the world, Muslims tend to goat and camel herding
-we improved treatment of the handicapped, Mo’s greatest used mental patients to blow up in pet markets
– we developed the Universal Human Rights, Mohammedans kill their wives and sisters for ‘honor’
-we put satellites in space to better forecast weather, Mo’s greatest die by the thousands from monsoon floods
-we developed world market systems, Mohammedans developed the suk
-we developed high speed computing, Mo’s best developed five calls to Allah daily
-we developed the iPod, Mo’s toons torch music stores

Really, what insanity to think they in their primitive arrogance are in any way superior to the West. Put them all together in their “unified” Ummah, and all you get is a unified insanity worship of some 7th century desert Arab barbarian’s idea of “civilization”. It is not in any remote way civilized to kill for their pagan god Allah.

There is only one way Mohammedans are better than us in their barbaric behavior:
collective criminal insanity.

It disgusts to run a comparison. They can take their “peace” and shove it.

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Islam: Moe’s gift to the world

* Fasten your seat belts:

The mad mullah’s of Iran invoke Universal Declaration of Human Rights against Wilders’ film, says it will “breed violence”

* Its not Islam that breeds violence. “Wilders film will breed violence” from the Associated (with terrorists) Press:

Iran warned on Tuesday that an anti-Quran film by a right-wing Dutch lawmaker would “beed violence” and said the Dutch government could ban it based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

* So… stonings are okay, child marriage is okay, death for apostates and homosexuals is okay, but a film about the Koran is right out.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has said he plans to air the film this month, though no date has been set. The government says it is powerless to ban the film before seeing its contents and is wary of breaching Wilders’ right to freedom of expression.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari cited the 1948 Human Rights declaration’s 29th article that individual rights may be limited in the interest of respecting other people’s freedoms and “meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.”

‘Nobody can say what’s going to happen’

* Strange. Islamic countries don’t respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and never signed up. But instead they cooked their own Cairo Declaration of Human Rights under the sharia. There is a difference, you know…

Wilders says the film will depict the Quran as a “fascist book” that can be used by extremists to incite violence and which preaches the oppression of women and homosexuals.

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“Freedom of speech is not unlimited,” Tehran’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Bozorgmehr Ziaran told a small group of reporters at the Iranian Embassy. The film, he added, “would just breed violence.” Wilders, Ziaran said, “is not a peacemaker, Mr. Wilders is a warmonger.”

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*  Line of the day:

* A couple  of years ago a reporter asked Steven Emerson  why the Muslim world is suddenly so aggressive now. The answer was “Because they never had the money to do it before..” 

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No more dhimmitude:

* Penang Chinese majority had enough of Islamic Bhumiputra discrimination:

Penang, styled as Malaysia’s “Silicon Valley”, is Malaysia’s only Chinese-majority state and is home to the manufacturing operations of electronic giants such as Intel and Sony.

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysia’s opposition Tuesday announced plans to dismantle race-based discrimination policies and warned the government not to sabotage the transition of power as it prepared to rule in five states.

After a stunning weekend election performance that seized a third of parliamentary seats and four new states from the ruling coalition, an opposition figure was sworn in Tuesday as chief minister in Penang.

Lim Guan Eng, head of the Democratic Action Party which is a part of a three-member opposition alliance, immediately targeted positive discrimination policies for Muslim Malays who dominate the nation’s population.

“We want to run the state government administration free from the New Economic Policy that only breeds cronyism, corruption and systematic inefficiency,” he told reporters.

“Instead, we advocate a stakeholders’ economy for all, based on the principle of shared prosperity in an equitable manner,” he said.

The New Economic Policy was introduced in the early 1970s to bridge the wealth gap with ethnic Chinese who dominate business, by giving Malays advantages in education, housing and business

Link to AFP

* The revolt of the dhimmi’s:

* Now sit back and watch: in increasingly Islamic Malaysia it won’t be long before the clerics call for jihad against the dhimmis.

The religion of Islam denies equality between Muslims and non-Muslims. In lands subject to Islamic law, the dhimmi lives by the grace of the Muslim who is obliged to humiliate him in return for sparing his life. The non-Muslim must literally choose between dhimmitude and death.

Infidels who submit without fighting to the Islamic armies, are granted a pledge of security. They are protected from the jihad laws against infidels which command killing, slavery, ransom or deportation for the enemies. Peace and security for non-Muslims are recognised only after their submission. Protection status is provided through the Islamization of conquered lands.

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Bat Ye’or and Andrew Bostom

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* Heard that one before? Heaven help us and safe us from the ‘experts’: anything, blame anything and everyone but not Islam. Because Islam is a ‘RoP’…

Bored Muslims…

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Marc Sageman rides again. “Latest terrorists are ‘looking for thrills’,” by Natalie O’Brien for The Australian:

The third wave of terrorism facing the world is a leaderless mishmash of young and bored terrorist wannabees, according to a leading US expert.
Former CIA officer and now author Marc Sageman says that the latest jihadis taking up the global call for action more closely resemble criminal gang members than religious fanatics.

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Dr Sageman who has just published his second book on terrorism networks, Leaderless Jihad: Terrorist Networks in the Twenty First Century, said they were typically young men looking for action, and wanting to copy their heroes, who include Osama bin Laden.
“It is more about hero-worship than about religion,” said Dr Sageman.
“It’s about youth culture … about being cool – jihadi cool.” […]

* If somebody makes your head hurt, don’t you wish you could do that to them too?

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Wakademic flatulence from another mental toss tycoon:

New study: “Oil, not Islam, oppresses women”

* The never-ending quest to find something, anything, anything but Islam, to explain Islamic violence, Islamic supremacism, and — in particular here — the oppression of women in Islam continues. This one is particularly egregious: it’s all about oil, you see, which is why Texas oilmen all have their women in burqas. It was oil that led all this and more to be written into the Qur’an many centuries before oil was discovered in Arabia:

Spencer:

1. The Qur’an likens a woman to a field (tilth), to be used by a man as he wills: “Your women are a tilth for you (to cultivate) so go to your tilth as ye will” (2:223).

2. The Qur’an also declares that a woman’s testimony is worth half that of a man: “Get two witnesses, out of your own men, and if there are not two men, then a man and two women, such as ye choose, for witnesses, so that if one of them errs, the other can remind her” (2:282).

3. It allows men to marry up to four wives, and have sex with slave girls also: “If ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly with the orphans, marry women of your choice, two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess, that will be more suitable, to prevent you from doing injustice” (4:3).

4. It rules that a son’s inheritance should be twice the size of that of a daughter: “Allah (thus) directs you as regards your children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females” (4:11).

5. Worst of all, the Qur’an tells husbands to beat their disobedient wives: “Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them” (4:34).

6. It allows for marriage to pre-pubescent girls, stipulating that Islamic divorce procedures “shall apply to those who have not yet menstruated” (65:4).

But it’s all because of oil, you see, and that’s why wife-beating and child marriage are legal in Texas also!

“Study: Oil, not Islam, responsible for oppressed women,” by Nick Juliano in The Raw Story

Link to JW

*  Dr. Robert A. Koslover has the answer for the kooky Professor Michael Ross here

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Meanwhile, Reality Bites:

Subject: “FIRES ALL OVER DENMARK’

(from the Danish Press)

During the night preceding Friday, February 15, 110 fires were set in Denmark.
From 4 p.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday, 400 fires were recorded.
From 7 p.m. Saturday until 4 p.m. Sunday, 103 fires.
From 4 p.m. Sunday until 8 a.m. Monday the police and fire department listed 88 fires.
From 8 a.m. Monday until 8 a.m. Tuesday, 49 fires in all.
The fires were set in connection with a wave of rioting which broke out in Inner Norrebro (A heavily Moslem-immigrant area–SWG) in Copenhagen on February 10.
SOURCE; The National Police Coordinating Staff.

WHY THE RIOTING?

Many explanations have been offered for why young people, principally (exclusively, Moslem–SWG) immigrants have set fire to cars and buildings:
*Dissatisfaction with the police’s “visitation zones” in, e.g., Norrebro in Copenhagen.
*Several Danish media’s reprinting of the Mohammed drawing where the prophet was depicted with a bomb in his turban.
*The expulsion of two Tunisians who were accused of plotting the murder of Kurt Westergaard (the cartoonist, who now lives in hiding– SWG) from Morgenavisen/Jyllands-Posten (the newspaper that originally published the cartoons–SWG).
*Inequality and discrimination.
*Boredom during winter vacation.
*The police had been accused in Politiken (leading Danish daily, but still the organ of the now-marginalized Socialist Party–SWG) of racist behavior in dealing with immigrants in Inner Norrebro.

Doc Molloy comments:

This totals 750 fires set in one long weekend! Did you see this reported in any U.S. media? I didn’t. How do you like “boredom during winter vacation” as the explanation?! I don’t know of any other European country more generous and welcoming to its immigrant population than Denmark was, but this is the thanks they get. These immigrants cannot tolerate Denmark’s liberal policies (whether press freedom, or clothing-optional beaches, or even education for women), and this is their real grievance. Many Danes still believe they must try harder to make these immigrants feel “more welcome”; but a growing number finally realize they have a serious problem. Copenhagen’s “sister city”, Malmo, at the other end of the bridge to Sweden, already has a Moslem majority, where fewer and fewer ethnic Swedes are willing to live. Unless there is a dramatic change, Western Europe will be part of “Dar Islam” before 2050.

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* Prostitution scandals do not only happen in the U.S. In Tehran the Islamic hypocrisy is astounding, but also exhilarating.

* Or perhaps the good fellow was only trying to emulate his prophet:

Narrated Qatadah: Anas Bin Malik (RA) said, “The Prophet (s) used to visit all his wives in a round, during a day and night and they were eleven in number. I asked Anas, “Had the Prophet (s) the strength for it?” Anas replied, we used to say that The Prophet (s) was given the strength of 30 (men)”
“Sahih al Bukhari” Volume. (I). Book (5): “The book of Bathing” Chapter (13)

* With thanx to Shiva from the Illustrated PIG who has a rather graphic illustration here…

Tehran, 10 March (AKI) – Tehran’s police chief, Reza Zarei, has been arrested after he was found nude in a local brothel with six naked prostitutes, according to report on the Iranian Farda News.

Farda News is a website said to be close to the mayor of Tehran and former chief of the police forces, Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf.

Following the raid, Zarei stepped down from his post as police chief. The news of his arrest however was not reported by any official Iranian news agency.

According to a popular Iranian website Gooya, the order to raid the brothel was given directly by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, chief of the judicial authorities.

Before he was arrested, Zarei was in charge of the programme for the ‘moralisation of the city’.

It is alleged that in the past six months, hundreds of young people have been arrested in Iran for not respecting the Islamic code of behaviour.

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* Affirmative action poontang once again fails to connect the dots:

“Muslim World Values Human Rights”

(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the appointment of Washington’s first-ever special envoy to the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference will help to promote principles that Muslims and non-Muslims alike “hold dear,” such as human rights, liberty and the rule of law.

“These are not American values or Western values,” she told OIC ambassadors in Washington on Monday. “They are universal values, values that are lived and practiced by the majority of Muslims in the world, many of whom are citizens of democracies.”

* Delusional beyond imagination. Rice is more ignorant than a brick wall.

* She has overstayed her welcome, she has become unbearable. Her stupidity annoys. Her ignorance is infuriating.

* Another train crash in the making:

Fourteen of the OIC’s 57 members qualify as “electoral democracies,” according to criteria applied by Freedom House in its latest report on freedom in the world. None are Arab states.

And only six of the 57 — Benin, Guyana, Indonesia, Mali, Senegal and Suriname — are deemed “free” according to a Freedom House evaluation that scores nations for both political rights and civil liberties, and classifies them as “free,” “partly free” or “not free.”

* Pakistani’s to the front:

Sada Cumber, the man appointed by President Bush to serve as the first U.S. envoy to the OIC, is a Pakistani-born Texas businessman. He would combat misperceptions about the U.S. that are spread by America’s enemies, Rice said. (Sada Cumber is an Ismaili Muslim–a member of a small and historically suppressed branch of Shia Islam./ed)

* Does Hesham Islam ring a bell?

“The notion that the United States is at war with Islam … is simply propagated by violent extremists who seek to divide Muslim communities against themselves, to judge who is and who is not a pious Muslim and to commit any atrocity, even against their fellow Muslims, to impose an intolerant ideology on their societies,” Rice said.

“The OIC plays a vital role in promoting moderation, dialogue and understanding and we welcome the statements that this organization has made in support of those values.”

* Hello, anybody home?

Established in 1969, and with its secretariat based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC groups 56 independent countries plus “Palestine.”

The Arab-Israeli conflict has been a top priority, and enhancing Islamic solidarity its stated goal, although over the decades it has also faced frequent crises within its ranks, such as during the Iran-Iraq War, a 10-year conflict between Libya and Chad, and the Persian Gulf War.

In the years since 9/11, the OIC’s focus has increasingly turned to relations between the West and Islam, the campaign against Islamist terrorism, and episodes of what it calls “Islamophobia,” such as the publication by Danish newspapers in 2005 of 12 cartoons satirizing Mohammed.

The OIC holds summits of heads of state every three years, with the 11th due to take place later this week in Dakar, Senegal.

OIC considers terms used by Bush, Rice to be ‘Islamophobic’

United Ummah Against Freedom of Speech:

One of Cumber’s first tasks in his new role will be to attend the conference, which secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu says aims to prioritize Islamophobia.

Many Muslims have been angered by the republication last month of the Mohammed cartoons, earlier sketches by a Swedish artist depicting Mohammed as a dog, and a Dutch lawmaker’s plans to release a short film critical of the Koran.

Since the original Mohammed cartoon furor, the OIC has led a campaign to have the defamation of religion and “prophets” outlawed.

It cites as a guiding document the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, a controversial text signed by OIC members in 1990 that says all human rights and freedoms must be subjected to Islamic law (shari’a).

Read it all. It makes your head spin.

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Moe’s Outreach Centre reports:

Deja Vu:

Weeks added to required ‘enrichment’ program:

‘We all need to learn and understand each other’

*  Nice little winner of a definition of “political Correctness”  

*   “Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick a TURD by the clean end.”

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Fear & gullibility as Weapons

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

* Kumbaya alert:

The FBI believes its agents still aren’t sensitive enough to Muslims and their culture, so the bureau has extended by “a few weeks” its Islamic cultural “enrichment” training program, WND has learned.

During a recent outreach event at a Washington-area mosque, FBI officials also reassured a large turnout of concerned Muslims that the bureau is not profiling Arabs and Muslims for terrorism, and has made investigating alleged “hate crimes” against them and other minorities “the second-highest priority in the criminal division of the FBI.”

Among the officials who attended the Feb. 8 “town hall meeting” at the large ADAMS Center mosque were Timothy Healy, deputy assistant director for FBI intelligence, and Dave Bennett, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Washington field office.

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AUSTRALIA VILE: Labor’s Disgrace Julia Irwin Vilifies Israel; Calls Gaza “Concentration Camp”

Government of caring toads: Peter Garret bends over to kiss Julia Irwin

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Disgraced Labor MP Julia Irwin, a sucker for every Arab dictator dead or alive, brought even more shame on her party the ALP yesterday by pouring hatred and scorn on Israel.

In her sick mind, Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza is somehow a fiendish trick designed to promote the international Zionist conspiracy and impose “concentration camps” (her words) on Palestinians. A grub like her has no place in Australian public life. Equating Israel’s conduct in the Territories (whether you oppose it or not) with the genocide of the Nazis is a despicable lie with no basis in truth.

Indeed those watching SBS last night would have seen just how liberal, tolerant, inclusive and amazing a society Israel has become. It was a documentary basically about various Air Force pilots who were opposed to the settlements in the Territoris and who refused orders to be involved in policing the area. They were punished, as you would expect them to be in any army, but they weren’t shot or sacked or tortured as might occur in neighbouring countries, they were sent to jail for twenty-one days. I understand that in Australia, there would be a much stricter punishment for disobeying orders like that. Whether vipers like Julia Irwin like it or not, that is Israel. It’s not perfect but it is what it is, an open, democratic, prosperous, ambitious, liberal (even very left-wing traditionally full of hippies and kibbutzniks) sort of place.

Link from The Other Cheek

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Labor MP clashes with PM on Israel

Samatha Maiden, Online political reporter |The Australian

* Did you vote labor? This is what you get:

PRO-PALESTINE Labor MP Julia Irwin has accused Israel of human rights violations and threatened to boycott a vote to celebrate 60 years of the Jewish state.

May marks the 60th anniversary of the modern Israel, an event which the Australian Parliament is due to commemorate in a celebratory vote of support..

Ms Irwin, who clashed in the Labor caucus today with Kevin Rudd over the issue, has told The Australian Online she has yet to decide whether she will turn up to tomorrow’s vote in protest.

Earlier, she questioned the decision to celebrate the anniversary in light of Amnesty International’s warnings of human rights abuses and questioned what the motion would say about Palestine.

In response, Mr Rudd said the decision to mark the anniversary was not in conflict with Labor Party policy that supported peace negotiations based on two states for both for Jews and Palestinians.

Ms Irwin refused to comment on what she said in the ALP caucus but said she could not rule out boycotting the vote.

“I haven’t decided what my actions will be tomorrow,’’ she told The Australian Online.

Asked if Israel was engaging in human rights violations, Ms Irwin said she had no doubt.

“I have been to Palestine. I have seen with my own eyes.”

* And then she quickly ran back to her bulletproof limousine and back to safety.

To her excellent hotel in Israel.

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The Anti-Semitic Labor Party

Former ALP minister Barry Cohen used to be proud of his party because it fought prejudice. Not any longer.

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Iran: Kidneys For Sale To Wipe Israel Off The Map

Mullah Madness:

The perverted ISLAMIC Killer Zombies of Iran continue to amaze with their depravity, and the Western Media plays along:

Iranian student group puts bounties on heads of Israeli military leaders, encourages Iranians to donate kidneys to raise reward for killings

A woman walks past a poster featuring portraits of (L-R) Israeli military intelligence chief General Amos Yedlin, Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Defence Minister Ehud Barak during an anti-Israeli ceremony in Tehran. Iranian hardline students have offered rewards totalling a million dollars for the “execution” of the three Israeli military leaders. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

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VICTORIAN police are resisting calls by powerful Melbourne Jewish figures to set up a hate crimes squad to tackle the growing number of anti-Semitic attacks.

Richard Kerbaj | The Australian

* ‘Powerful Jewish Figure’

* Note the tone of this article: “powerful Melbourne Jewish figures”

Police opposed to the idea have accused Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation Commission – which keeps tabs on anti-Semitic violence – of exaggerating the number of attacks to justify greater taxpayer-funded security measures.

It is believed Victoria Police Commissioner Christine Nixon was approached by Jewish leaders to set up the unit, which would play a similar role to a successful program in NSW.

Senior Victoria Police sources said the Jewish community received more attention and security for its functions and events than other religious and ethnic groups. “They already get great coverage,” one source said. “If the Muslim community was to know to what extent, they would go crazy.”

* Let the ‘Muslim community’ go crazy!

* It just so happens that Islam teaches Muslims to hate and kill Jews. They do it all the time. Besides, have these anti-Semites in the Police force ever considered that their wages are largely paid by these ‘powerful Jewish figures?’

Another source said: “The police hierarchy is forever being bombarded by prominent Jews lobbying to get more resources.”

Jewish leaders, who have stepped up their calls for the squad to be set up at meetings with Victoria Police over the past few weeks, have attacked the force for failing to acknowledge the magnitude of the anti-Semitic violence.

This follows a spate of anti-Semitic incidents, including an attack by a group of footballers on orthodox Jewish father Monachem Vorchheimer as he walked home from a synagogue in 2006.

Bnai Brith Anti-Defamation Commission chairman John Searle accused police of being ignorant to the community’s problems, saying their attitude could lead to an increase in the number of anti-Semitic attacks, which were at a record high last year, with 638 incidents recorded nationwide.

“There is no exaggeration of the figures,” he said. “The suggestion that the figures have been ramped up or that they’re bogus in any way just to get a bit more police attention is absurd, and I’m disappointed that such a suggestion would be made.”

Between 1989 and 2005, an average of 85 anti-Semitic incidents was annually recorded in Victoria, according to researcher Jeremy Jones, who compiles figures for the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

He said the average incidents rate increased to 185 and 171 in 2006 and last year respectively. The Melbourne-based ADC puts last year’s figures at 119.

Incidents last year included nine physical attacks and 21 “missile attacks”, bottles and eggs thrown at community members. But most of the incidents, 53, were verbal.

The Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council’s executive director Colin Rubenstein also urged police to rethink their position on the proposed unit.

NSW Police appointed a temporary co-ordinator last June to liaise between community groups of various religions and backgrounds.

Update:

* Winds of Jihad readers should use the opportunity to write to Richard Kerbaj at the Australian. Letters to Editor <letters@theaustralian.com.au>The man is not beyond hope, he often gets it right on Muslim issues. Unfortunately it seems that Jew-hatred is stronger than reason and common sense, which is deplorable…

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