An attempt to manufacture a casus belli and stir up more outrage against Israel falls flat. More on this story. “Mideast: Lebanon; Beirut Confirms, No Israeli Violation,” from ANSAmed, August 4 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) – BEIRUT, AUGUST 4 – The Lebanese government has confirmed that the Israeli army did not commit a violation in […]
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Ridiculous media bias against Israel: Israeli soldiers did not enter Lebanon, as was widely reported
Yet another example of why mainstream media journalists are just a notch above child molester. Or maybe a notch below. “Today’s Example of Ridiculous Media Bias Against Israel,” by Barry Rubin, August 3: Along Israel’s border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in […]
Nigeria: Veiled female Sharia police smash 80,000 bottles of beer while shouting “Allahu akbar”
Veiled female Sharia police smashing beer bottles. 80,000 beer bottles. Good God. Welcome to your future, Europe. Note the beer was set to be delivered to a Christian area — something to keep in mind for those who insist that in a Sharia state, non-Muslims will be exempt from its dictates. Sharia Alert from Nigeria. […]
American Center for Law and Justice poised to file court challenge to Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero
Never giving up. “ACLJ Poised to File Court Challenge to Proposed Ground Zero Mosque After NYC Declines to Landmark Historic Building,” from Business Wire, August 3 (thanks to Twostellas): WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is representing a New York City firefighter who survived the 9-11 terrorist attacks, said today’s vote […]
Landmarks Commission greenlights Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero
I just got word from my SIOA colleague Pamela Geller that the New York City Landmarks Commission has, as expected, voted unanimously to deny landmark status to 45 Park Place, thus clearing the way for the demolition of the building currently there and the construction of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero. Until the […]
UK: Four Muslims found guilty in botched honor killing
Jurors encountered “a spectacular number of lies.” An update on this story. “Four guilty of bungled ‘honour killings,’” by Kim Pilling for the Press Association, August 2 (thanks to Block Ness): Four men were convicted today of murdering a couple in a bungled honour killing arson attack. Abdullah Mohammed, 41, and his wife, Aysha Mohammed, […]
Germany spends $1 million to train Somali police officers, who then desert and join the jihad
Training the enemy — a policy that could only have been formulated by people who have no conception of the jihad doctrine or any will to fight it. “Hundreds of German-financed Somalia police officers go missing,” from Deutsche Welle via Garowe Online, July 31 (thanks to Block Ness): Almost 1,000 Somali police have gone missing […]
Surprise: U.S. appeals court says prison can ban Islamic headscarf
“A prison is not a summer camp.” Indeed. Nor should it be a place for Islamic supremacist cultural agitprop. “US appeals court: Prison can ban Muslim scarf,” from AP, August 3 (thanks to Twostellas): Prison officials can ban employees from wearing religious headscarves out of concerns they pose a safety risk, a US appeals court […]
Obama’s envoy to OIC says Obama has embarked on ambitious plan to promote education, health, science and technology in Islamic world
And other news items show that this is not just empty talk. But once again, what is the United States getting out of all this outreach? Does Obama actually believe that if he makes the U.S. play Santa Claus to the Muslim world, the jihad will end? Or does he have some other agenda? “Obama […]
Iranian supremo: “Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic”
Whenever I have pointed out that Islam generally views music negatively and that some schools of Islamic law even ban it outright, I get called an “Islamophobe” — so I guess Khameni is an “Islamophobe” as well. There Is No Fun In Islam* Update from the Islamic Republic: “Music fails to chime with Islamic values, […]