The good news here is that for a moment, Lebanon has remembered its identity separate from being the host to Hizballah’s parasitic pseudo-state, and has agreed to contribute its share of funding to the UN Special Tribunal investigating the Hariri assassination, for which four Hizballah members have been indicted. Hizballah tried to create a diversion […]
San Diego: Somali refugee pleads guilty to helping funnel jihadists from Minnesota to al-Shabaab
Nothing says “gratitude” for refugee status like turning around and helping the main reason Somalia is hemorrhaging refugees. “Somali refugee acknowledges aiding terror group,” from the Associated Press, December 1 (thanks to Kenneth): A Somali refugee living in San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to aiding four men who left Minnesota to join […]
“To ‘grant’ the Palestinians and other Muslims ‘permission’ to hate the Jews … reveals unthinking racism”
“The [mainstream media] is guilty in two senses for not covering the pervasiveness of this grotesque hatred. They not only reported Palestinian lethal narratives bordering on blood libels as news, they did not report the hatreds that inspired such narratives.” More on that elephant in the room: the antisemitism that the Arab Spring has helped […]
Afghan rape victim pardoned, out of jail but not free
Gulnaz will still marry the man who raped her. Public pressure and embarrassment for Afghanistan at least got her out of jail, but the fact remains that half of Afghan women who are in jail are there for alleged “moral crimes.” There are many more like Gulnaz who are still behind bars, and unfortunately, there […]
U.S. congressional report: Boko Haram could threaten the U.S.
All they would have to do is get someone on the right plane, as al-Qaeda did with the failed underwear bomber, or get a few of their men in the country and start issuing instructions. “Alarm bells over Nigeria Islamist group: US Congress,” from Agence France-Presse, November 30: A US congressional report on Wednesday flagged […]
Egypt: “Hardline Islamists” surge in polls, may have 20% of votes
We tried to tell you. A democracy is only as good as the values that inform its participants. “Hardline Islamist surge in Egypt polls,” by Adam Plowright for Agence France-Presse, December 1: Egypt is awaiting results on Thursday from its first election since its February revolution which are set to confirm moderate Islamists as the […]
Egypt: Muslims attack Christian village, looting and torching homes and businesses
Jihad causes poverty once again, in opportunistic attacks by Muslims who jumped at the chance to pile on in collective extrajudicial punishment of the Copts. “Thousands of Muslims Attack Christians in Egypt, 2 Killed, Homes and Stores Torched,” by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency, November 30: (AINA) — Thousands of Muslims attacked […]
Pakistan: 16-year-old Ahmadi expelled from school, clerics pressing for “blasphemy” charges against him and his father
Even the newspaper and the reporter covering the story have been threatened. Blasphemy charges against students and minors may emerge as an unfortunate new trend to blackmail non-Muslims and minority Islamic sects in Pakistan. Accusing the minor involves the entire family, threatening to ruin the future of the minor and the lives of his or […]
Shocker: Iran releases 11 detained in invasion of British embassy, representative of supreme leader praises attack
Gee, didn’t see that coming. An update on this story. “Iran releases students who stormed British Embassy,” by Nasser Karimi for the Associated Press, December 1: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) “” Iran has released 11 hardline protesters detained for storming the British Embassy and diplomatic compounds in Tehran this week, the semi-official Fars news agency said […]
Iran: U.K. will suffer consequences for making Iran suffer consequences over embassy invasion
Iran’s assembly voted to expel the British ambassador, in a session where legislators chanted “Death to England,” and threatened a reprise of the U.S. embassy takeover during the Iranian revolution. A mob purportedly made up of “students,” but which reportedly included members of the Basij brigades, obliged two days later and trashed as much of […]