Selling them the rope with which they will hang us. “U.S. Approved Business With Blacklisted Nations,” by Jo Becker in the New York Times, December 23: Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries […]
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Spencer and Horowitz: Obama and Islam
“Obama and Islam” by Robert Spencer and David Horowitz is a new pamphlet now available from the David Horowitz Freedom Center. From FrontPage: No president in American history has taken a more admiring view of Islam than Barack Obama. Whether it is his repeated insistence that the attacks on Americans and the war that has […]
“Highly improper”: NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s office helped Ground Zero Mosque project gain city approval
Pamela Geller notes: “The release today of documents, emails and various exchanges between Mayor Bloomberg and radical Rauf and his motley crew of Islamic supremacists shows evidence of collusion and inappropriate political support/favoritism of the Ground Zero mega mosque. It’s worse than we imagined. Mayor Bloomberg’s offices went to extraordinary lengths for the radicals trying […]
Staten Island jihadist indicted on terror charges
He wanted to join the Army so that he could turn and kill American soldiers. “SI man indicted on terror charges,” by Mitchel Maddux in the New York Post, December 23: The Staten Island man who hoped to become a jihadi, operating Web sites calling for a holy war against the West, was indicted today […]
Palestinian family sends mentally ill son to Israeli “settlement,” hoping IDF would shoot him
When faced with a moral challenge, find a way to blame the Jews and claim victim status, even while in the act of trying to commit murder. Islamic antisemitism and Islamic supremacist evasion of responsibility find their apotheosis: “Palestinian family sends mentally ill son to settlement in hope IDF shoots him,” by Chaim Levinson in […]
Indonesia: “Radical” Islamic groups advancing agenda through alliances with “moderates,” seeking membership in country’s highest Islamic authority
A study in stealth jihad: as Muhammad said, “War is deceit.” This report also lends broader context to a recent offer by the thuggish Islamic Defenders Front to “protect” churches at Christmas. While the offer was a poor and obvious ruse to intimidate and gather information for future persecution, it was nonetheless part of a […]
Former Gitmo inmate: Jewish guards used witchcraft on prisoners, made me feel a cat was trying to penetrate me
Those crafty Zionists! Will they stop at nothing? First came the Zionist squirrels, then Zionist pigeons, and Zionist rats, and Zionist sharks. And now: sexually predatory Zionist cats! (Meanwhile, I myself, by means of my Zionist black arts, am able to cast verses into the Qur’an.) Claiming Victim Status, Conspiracy Paranoia and Islamic Antisemitism Updates: […]
Bethlehem: Souvenir sellers stop selling crosses for fear of offending Muslims
Even the Church of the Nativity is depicted without a cross. “Christmas in Bethlehem: the cross banished from souvenirs,” from Asia News, December 22 (thanks to Twostellas): Bethlehem (AsiaNews) – This Christmas in Bethlehem, the cross has been banned from souvenirs for tourists and pilgrims in the Holy Land. Some textile workshops in Jerusalem and […]
Iran’s Thug-In-Chief to U.S.-backed Afghan ambassador: “Islamic Republic of Iran fully supports the Afghan government”
The Karzai government in Afghanistan is supposed to be pro-American, although Karzai himself has threatened to join the Taliban. And now one of the chief enemies of the United States says that he “fully supports” the Karzai government, and the Afghan ambassador responds, “Afghanistan is seeking to utilize all potential to further increase relations with […]
Malaysian Islamic Institute: “Islam rejects religious pluralism”
Of course, few if any serious religious believers of any tradition would agree that “all religions are equally true and equally good.” The problem here is that while this Malaysian government entity says that “national unity should be nurtured by encouraging the uniqueness of each religious tradition and simultaneously encouraging the attitude of mutual goodwill, […]