Also known as the crime of khalwat. There is a presumption of guilt inherent in this so-called “crime.” “Seven Unmarried Couples Arrested in Aceh,” from the Jakarta Globe, September 9 (thanks to Twostellas): “Three Indonesian soldiers were among 14 people arrested for illegally being in close proximity to unmarried members of the opposite sex during […]
Archives for September 2011
AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally Welcomes Clergy, First Responders, 9/11 Family Members Banned From Official Ceremonies
AFDI/SIOA 9/11 Freedom Rally Welcomes Clergy, First Responders, 9/11 Family Members Banned From Official Ceremonies Reuters: NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The human rights organization American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will be hosting its second annual 9/11 Freedom Rally on September 11 at 3pm at Park Place and West Broadway. While clergy, 9/11 […]
Are We Safer 10 Years Later?
The Center for Security Policy just published “Are We Safer? An Online Symposium on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.” My response follows: In order to decide whether we are safer today, a decade after the events of 9/11, we must first establish who “we” are. If “we” means the immediate us, you and me, this […]
New York Times: Assault on Israeli embassy lasted 13 hours; embassy itself was breached
The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Article 27, 1a.: “the receiving State shall, even in case of armed conflict, respect and protect the consular premises, together with the property of the consular post and the consular archives.” Article 31, 1: “Consular premises shall be inviolable to the extent provided in this article.” [And no, mobs […]
Prominent imam tells thousands in Tripoli: New Libya should be governed by Sharia
The rebels have won the support of the West with generalities about freedom, liberty, justice and human rights, but it is Sharia that will determine the specifics. It will not be the academic-exercise, vaporware conception of what Sharia could, would, or ought to be; it will not be the prototype on someone’s drawing board, but […]
Jude Kenan Mohammad, an American citizen already indicted in 2009 jihad plot and believed to be in Pakistan, named as possible plotter in 9/11 anniversary threat
On FBI’s Most Wanted list This jihad plot ended in arrests. Mohammad, it appears, is still trying. “Pictured: FBI put American on their Ten Most wanted list as ‘credible’ suspect who is believed to be plotting 9/11 anniversary car bombing,” from the Daily Mail, September 10: This is believed to be one of the men […]
Israeli ambassador and senior staff leave Egypt after embassy attack; rescue of guards behind “last door” after telephoned appeals by Obama administration and Netanyahu
A clearer picture is beginning to emerge of how ugly the situation became in the embassy building. An update on this story. “PM: I am glad we avoided danger in embassy attack,” from the Jerusalem Post, September 10: Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded on Saturday to the previous night’s attack on Israel’s embassy in Cairo, […]
Geller: The Real Perry/Aga Khan Curriculum Is Bad For Children
In “The Real Perry/Aga Khan Curriculum Is Bad For Children” in The American Thinker today, Pamela Geller exposes more misinformation about the Rick Perry/Aga Khan curriculum in Texas — about which all too many ill-advised and/or agenda-driven people in the blogosphere continue to repeat the false claims of David Stein, who misrepresented one individual teacher’s […]
Egypt on alert after assault on Israeli embassy where police stood idly by as protective wall was destroyed
If Egyptian authorities continue to drag their feet on their obligations to protect the embassy according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Friday’s attack could be but a dress rehearsal, testing the response for a fuller re-enactment of the attack on and taking of hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Iranian […]
Report: Turkey has obtained names of Israeli soldiers in flotilla raid, may try to prosecute for “torture and premeditated murder”
The State Department has told both Turkey and Israel to “cool it,” even as Israel has largely reserved comment and tried to downplay the crisis while Ankara continuously escalates its rhetoric and threats. The saber-rattling has gone in one direction. And now, this. The charges are ridiculous, and are an attempt to intimidate and blackmail […]