“For the past few years, the US and the international community looked the other way as the lines between Hezbollah and the Lebanese military and government became blurred,” in a phenomenon we like to call Hizballebanon. “Top US lawmaker: Block aid to Lebanese military,” from the Associated Press, August 9: WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US […]
Archives for 2010
Ground Zero mosque moves forward, Ground Zero church in limbo
Why is New York City throwing roadblocks in front of the rebuilding of a church that stood for decades at the site now known as Ground Zero, while moving heaven and earth to clear away all obstacles to building an Islamic supremacist mega-mosque there? More on this story: “Mosque Moves Forward, Yet Church in Limbo,” […]
Rifqa Bary is 18!
Happy Birthday, Rifqa Bary! Now she can live free — although given the threats she has received on Facebook, and Islam’s death penalty for apostasy, she is under threat forever, and needs the support and protection of all free people. Meanwhile, Pamela Geller has yet another revelation about Rifqa’s situation here.
New York Governor Paterson offers state help to move the Islamic supremacist mosque away from Ground Zero
At last, a politician still in office who has some courage to stand up for what is right. “Gov. Paterson offers state help to relocate mosque,” from Associated Press, August 10 (thanks to David): ALBANY – New York Gov. David Paterson offered state help Tuesday if the developers of a proposed mosque near the site […]
Greg Gutfeld: In the spirit of tolerance, I’m opening an Islamic gay bar next to the Ground Zero mosque
The spirit of outreach. “Monday’s Gregalogue: My New Gay Bar,” by Greg Gutfeld at the Daily Gut, August 9 (thanks to Mark): So, the Muslim investors championing the construction of the new mosque near Ground Zero claim it’s all about strengthening the relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim world. As an American, I believe they […]
State Department: Taliban not a terrorist organization
It is, of course, a jihad and Islamic supremacist organization — but no worries on that score either, as the State Department thinks jihad, i.e., interior spiritual struggle, is just fine. Capitulation: “State Department: Taliban is not a terrorist organization,” by Amanda Carey in The Daily Caller, August 10 (thanks to Weasel Zippers): A new […]
Fjordman: On the Illusion of a Moderate Islam
On the Illusion of a Moderate Islam by Fjordman This essay overlaps to some extent with earlier essays of mine regarding the alleged existence of a “moderate Islam,” including Do we want an Islamic Reformation? and Why We Cannot Rely on Moderate Muslims. In this discussion I take as my starting point the fact that […]
Fitzgerald: The mosque, Mayor Bloomberg, and the obligation of good faith, fair dealing, and best efforts
By now there can be few people in this country who have not heard about what has come to be known as the Ground Zero Mosque, the name given metonymically to that planned skyscraper that one Feisal Abdul Rauf and his wife plan to build just around the corner from the site of what was […]
Why is Islamic supremacist Ground Zero mosque imam traveling to Muslim countries on taxpayer money?
The New York Post asks pointed and necessary questions about this story. “An odd envoy,” from the New York Post, August 10: It’s not sufficiently divisive, apparently, that a controversial imam wants to erect a mosque near Ground Zero; now the Obama folks have him conducting “outreach” to Arab countries on behalf of the United […]
SIOA: NYC’s MTA Drops Restrictions on Free Speech, Allows Bus Ads Linking 9/11 to Ground Zero Mosque
Yahoo News has it: NEW YORK, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority on Monday dropped its restrictions on the free speech of the human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (FDI) and Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). MTA officials reversed an earlier decision not to allow FDI bus ads that pointed […]