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Incredible. 

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Jury Awards Half Million Dollars to Offended Muslim Employee

Does the company get its half a million bucks back if he goes jihad?

Considering how I get insulted every day by freedom-haters, Jew-haters, women-haters, America-haters, I figure I am owed about a trillion bucks, give or take.

$465,000 Reward for Being a Whiny Muslim Who Quit Moonbattery (hat tip Jack)

It’s not a joke; it’s from San Francisco:

A jury awarded $465,000 to a Muslim security guard who says his co-workers and supervisors called him a terrorist and an al-Qaida member.

Jurors added $400,000 in punitive damages Monday to their earlier award of $65,000 to Abas Idris for lost wages and emotional distress…

This despite his former employer Andrews International having promoted Idris to a supervisory position. No matter how you pander to the special people, it will never be enough.

The lost wages were a result of Idris having quit because the company was unable to take his “harassment” complaints seriously. Now they will be punished.

The case allowed him to show that Islam is a religion of peace, he said.

There’s no mention of whether he was wearing a shirt like this to work.

UPDATE: Thanks to Gordon for the vid:

 

Huge Victory for Infidels: Court Awards Attorneys’ Fees Against the City of Dearborn, Michigan for Violating a Christian Pastor’s Right to Freedom of Speech

Robert Muise, my lawyer in a number of free speech cases, has triumphed in one of America's sharia
hotspots, Dearborn. Muise had a big battle win in the long war against islamization and civilization jihad. Muise, the attorney for Christian Pastor George Saieg, was awarded $103,401.96 in fees and costs for successfully challenging the City of Dearborn’s restriction on the Christian’s right to freedom of speech at the 2009 Arab Festival held in the City. The City enforced the blasphemy laws under the sharia and refused to allow a Christian to hand out religious literature at the Festival.

“The award of attorney fees in this case,” noted Muise, “is critical in the lawfare against Civilization Jihad and dhimmitization, or subjugation, of an entire municipality in Michigan.  Dearborn has a long record of this kind of illegal, heavy-handed treatment of Christians as an attempt to placate Dearborn’s sharia-faithful.  The court’s ruling today demonstrates that this kind of behavior will come at great cost.”

Robert Muise will be speaking at our historic CPAC event: Islamic Law in America, on February 10, 2011. More here

This victory bodes well for our AFDI/SIOA lawsuit against the city of  Dearborn. We won our case when SMART (Dearborn transit authority) refused to run our freedom ads designed to help Muslims escape mortal threats. They still have not run them despite the courts ruling. It was painful to read of Jessica Mokdad's honor killing the week they were scheduled to run. We will be bringing this to national attention in the first-ever human rights conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law in Dearborn, Michigan on the anniversary of the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad: the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference. If you can be in Michigan on April 29th - come. More here.

Court Awards Attorneys’ Fees Against the City of Dearborn, Michigan for Violating a Christian Pastor’s Right to Freedom of Speech

Today, a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Detroit, Michigan recommended that Robert J. Muise, the attorney for Christian Pastor George Saieg, be awarded $103,401.96 in fees and costs for successfully challenging the City of Dearborn’s restriction on the Christian’s right to freedom of speech at the 2009 Arab Festival held in the City.  The City, not wanting to offend its large Muslim population, would not allow the Christian to hand out religious literature at the Festival.

In the order, the federal judge stated, “In this case, the Plaintiff received the full relief he sought — an invalidation of the leafleting restriction and a permanent injunction barring its enforcement. . . .  Because this result ‘cannot fairly be labeled as anything short of excellent, [Plaintiff] is entitled to a fully compensatory fee.’”  AFLC Senior Counsel Robert J. Muise represented Pastor Saieg in this successful free speech case.  At the time, Muise was Senior Trial Counsel for the Thomas More Law Center.  The City has 14 days to appeal.  [Read order here]

“The award of attorney fees in this case,” noted Muise, “is critical in the lawfare against Civilization Jihad and dhimmitization, or subjugation, of an entire municipality in Michigan.  Dearborn has a long record of this kind of illegal, heavy-handed treatment of Christians as an attempt to placate Dearborn’s sharia-faithful.  The court’s ruling today demonstrates that this kind of behavior will come at great cost.”

Muise recently won acquittals for charges of “disturbing the peace” brought by the Dearborn prosecutor against a group of Christians following their arrests by Dearborn police in 2010 for the same kind of peaceful free speech activities.  Muise and David Yerushalmi of the American Freedom Law Center, along with attorneys from the Thomas More Law Center, currently represent these Christians in a civil action arising from these arrests.

Previously at Atlas:

June 16, 2009: Muslim Festival - Dearborn Lawsuit to Fight Islamic Supremacism

June 20, 2009: In Dearborn, Michigan, "Christians no longer are being given the same rights as others"

July 11, 2009: Arab Festival 2009: Sharia in the US - Our Freedoms are Under Siege

Obama's New Icon, the Poor Oppressed Half-Million-Dollar Secretary

Enter stage left, another fictitious character in Obama's world of make-believe and marxist campaign rhetoric. Warren Buffett’s secretary, the poe misbegotten tax slave, has purchased another home, this one in Arizona, with pool and putting green.

And Buffet? He ought to be ashamed of himself. He fully enjoyed the benefits the capitalist system afforded. Sitting up there with his secretary ... two patsies for marxism. Why doesnt he turn over his wealth to the government?

And it gets better. His fortune goes to charity upon his death. Why not to the government?

Warren Buffett’s Downtrodden, Over-Taxed Secretary Just Bought Second Home in AZ, With a Pool All American Blogger

It must be nice to be so oppressed:

Despite a heavy tax burden, Warren Buffett’s secretary last year was able to purchase a second home in Arizona, a residence complete with a swimming pool and a “professional PGA putting green,” according to real estate records.

Debra Bosanek, 55, and her husband Gerald bought the 2100-square-foot home in Surprise, a city outside Phoenix. The Bosaneks paid $144,000 for the four-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath property (the purchase was financed, in part, by a $115,200 mortgage).

Imagine what she could have afforded if she wasn’t paying so much in taxes.

One last thing, turns out this woman makes between $200,000 to $500,000 a year. That’s about the same amount as the Chief of Nuclear Operations at a nuclear power plant I’m familiar with.

By the way, good for her. I’m not begrudging her success at all. I congratulate it, in fact. I wish I could make that much money a year.

I do resent the idea that she’s an every person, someone right out of the steno pool who goes home to a messy house and a stack of bills she can’t handle. That’s just not the story and it’s dishonest.

Hat Tip: Fox Nation

Three Muslim men Charged with Handing out Religious Leaflets Calling for Death Penalty for Gays and Lesbians

Wild contradictions abound.

Three Muslim men,  in the United Kingdom, were charged with handing out anti-gay leaflets advocating the murder of gay and lesbian people. The men's supporters are shocked that they cannot hand out leaflets saying that gay people should be killed and that gay people are going to burn in hell. The Muslim men claim that it is infringing on their religious beliefs and freedom of speech. So saying you can kill gay people because Islam says it's ok is freedom of religion and freedom of speech? So is it Islamophobia to stop some Muslims from passing out leaflets advocating the murder of gays? Under Sharia Law gays would be tortured, and either hanged, burned alive, or thrown off a tall building. (hat tip Bobo)

The Motive of the Pro-Jihad Media is Very Clear UPDATE: Jihadi Recorded Himself Shooting Pentagon Allahu Akbar

UPDATE: Watch this video. The activated jihadist recorded himself shooting at the Pentagon. Listen to the Islamic prayer in the background and the devout Muslim screaming allahu akbar while shooting (with Hamas-like face mask and keffiyeh).

Pentagon shooter records video while firing shots

Ex-marine Yonathan Melaku pleaded guilty Thursday to shooting at the Pentagon and the Marine Corps museum and other military buildings. Melaku recorded himself firing the shots. Read more: CBS News (hat tip van)

But the Washinton Post says, "motive unclear"

Whether it's Islamic honor killings or jihadists shooting up military bases screaming allahu akbar, the motive is always "unclear" to the enemedia.

Check out this WaPo headline. Are these people nutz or converts?

Motive of shooter who targeted military sites is unclear Josh White, Washington Post

Yonathan Melaku was sneaking through Fort Myer and Arlington National Cemetery, his backpack filled with plastic bags of ammonium nitrate, a notebook containing jihadist messages, and a can of black spray paint. The 23-year-old former Marine was heading to the graves of the nation’s most recent heroes, aiming to desecrate the stones with Arabic statements and leave handfuls of explosive material nearby as a message.

Before police foiled the plan in June, the vandalism was to be Melaku’s sixth attack, months after he went on a mysterious shooting spree that targeted the Pentagon, the National Museum of the Marine Corps and two other military buildings in Northern Virginia. A video found after Melaku’s arrest showed him wearing a black mask and shooting a 9mm handgun out of his Acura’s passenger window as he drove along Interstate 95, shouting “Allahu Akbar!”

WaPo posted the above jihadist's video under the headline "motive unclear." Sick.

VIDEO: TLC's "All-American Muslim" Imam Unmosqued: Unhinged Jew-Hatred

Remember the docile imam in the ridiculous TLC TV show, All American Muslim? The benign, sweet imam who oversaw the conversion of that sad Roman Catholic young man to Islam so that he could marry his Muslim girlfriend? Well, here's a side of the imam you may have missed. This is the moderate everyone is counting on. lml.

Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy, who appeared on All-American Muslim, recently debated the author of The Deception of Allah, Christian Prince, and revealed his hatred of Jews and Israel. He said that soon Muslims will destroy Israel. Thus the All-American Muslim imam again shows his true colors. Remember, he melted down on Hannity in 2007 after praying an Islamic prayer cursing Jews and Christians at a Democratic National Committee meeting. And last December 14 here at Atlas I posted Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack's expose about this supposedly "moderate" imam. 

Here again, Al-Husainy shows his real face in this video. He supports terrorism -- and this is the moderate that TLC had on their show.

Imam Husham Al Husainy: soon the Islamic Army will attack Israel.

Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy admits he will fight Israel, vs. the author of The Deception of Allah. The book The Deception is a great reference book, containing so much info about Muhammad and Islam that it is a must have.

When Muslims like al-Husainy speak in Arabic, is it different from what they say to non-Muslims in English...they lie. 

#SOTU Translation

Best said.

State of Disunion Daniel Greenfield

We know that the state of the union is good no matter how many Americans are out of work, how many families are counting every penny, how many industries are falling off a cliff and how high the national debt gets. We know it's good so long as another politician takes a victory lap up to the podium and tells us that it's all good because he's here.

Iraq? Nothing to worry about. We just brought all the troops home. Sure it's breaking up into a civil war, but you won't hear about it on the news. Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat, but his allies have taken over Egypt and Tunisia, and are moving on Libya. The Taliban's momentum has been broken and they are on the verge of taking over the government which means they will finally have been defeated. These achievements are a testament to a military which is facing the biggest budget cuts in decades.

The American soldier is a role model to us. I take away his weapons, fire him, put him on trial and force him to marry his bunkmate to show his tolerance, and he never complains because he's not allowed to. The rest of you need to take a lesson from him. Stop complaining or I'll send you to a military tribunal.

Now it's time for an applause break. We need to spend more money funding college degrees and political indoctrination for everyone. More applause. Only by creating more unemployed people with six figure student debts working at McD's will we be able to restore the post WW2 economy that was built on manufacturing jobs which my administration is working hard to completely eliminate.

More applause? No you shouldn't have. And I didn't get you anything but a monopoly for my buddy Warren Buffett's rail line. Sure it cost a 100,000 American jobs, but who needs them anyway. We need to keep the promise alive and fight the rich whose irresponsible investing tanked this economy. And the only way we can do that is by going deep into debt with irresponsible investments. That's why we've put new rules in place to hold Wall Street accountable in case they ever borrow more money than they can pay back and we've also put new rules into place so the government can borrow as much money as it wants.

The economy is great right now. There are millions of jobs everywhere, even if you can't see them because they're invisible jobs. They only come out at night and during State of the Union addresses. In the last 5 minutes over 3 billion jobs have been created. The auto industry used to be on the verge of collapse. It's still on the verge of collapse but now it's being subsidized by taxpayers. Now the auto industry is too big to fail, no matter how many Volts it makes and how few people buy them. And just wait till you see the GM Lada that uses Soviet manufacturing processes to create a car that only works one day a month and runs entirely on hot air. Just like me.

I will work with anyone who agrees with me, but fight anyone who disagrees with me through executive orders, appointments that I have no right to make and any other way that I can find to violate the Constitution and appoint myself King of America. Applause? Damn right you should be applauding. Your applause just created 300 trillion jobs and eliminated all our debt. Why? Because I said so! I'm the King of America!

What we did in Detroit, we can do in Philly, Raleigh and any other place where a bunch of working class white people are worried about their jobs. As long as they are represented by unions and as long as I need the support of those unions, and as long as my good buddy Warren Buffett can't make any money by putting them out of work, and as long as the Chinese keep lending us money, then I will subsidize every industry until we beat the Chinese.

I don't know why you're all applauding, even I think that's stupid and I used to own a Zune. I still haven't learned how many states there are and even I know that's not going to work. I believe money is made by leprechauns which is why it's so green, but even I'm not serious about the crap I just said. If I was really into creating white working class jobs, I wouldn't have killed Keystone XL. Look Warren Buffett's secretary is applauding. Isn't that sweet?

The real problem is that we're outsourcing too many jobs, that's why I just signed a bunch of trade agreements that will make it easier for South Korea to sell their products here. It's time we stopped giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas and start subsidizing them, like my stimulus plan which created more jobs in China than it did here. Applause? I didn't know Beijing had their own congressional delegation. Hell we invested 2 billion in Brazilian offshore oil drilling in support of my left wing buddies in the gov over there. If that doesn't create American jobs, I don't know what will.

And hey, you guys are gonna think this is funny, but remember when we loaned half a billion to make electric cars in Finland. Yeah Al Gore loved that one, he was an investor. But don't pay attention to anything I'm saying. As I stand here today, I vow that I will bring the jobs back to America. They just have to go through China, South Korea and Finland first. When they're done with them, we get first dibs. Indonesian scout's honor.

I will go anywhere to open up new markets to American products. Like Martha's Vineyard and the golf course. Thanks to my inability to hit a golf ball anywhere besides a lake, a thousand Americans are hard at work in Shanghai making new golf balls for me to hit. And it doesn't end there. German companies are forming partnerships with community colleges to shoot lasers. Chinese wind turbines are making Finnish cars grow Arugula. All we need is more teachers unions to make it happen.

We have told every state to raise their standards which means more kids who can't read or add being promoted from class to class so the schools don't lose Federal funding. And now we need to start paying teachers more. I don't care if you can't afford to keep your home and pay property taxes, the teacher's unions need more Viagra benefits. Statistics show that a great teacher can teach her students how to cheat off each other's tests just like I did at Harvard. If we just pay teachers 250,000 a year, then every student will be able to cheat their way to Harvard just like me.

The best way to create more American jobs is by legalizing illegal aliens and paying for their college educations. Applause? By the Prophet's beard, you people really will applaud anything. We need to kill puppies. Applause. It's time to start burning down more churches. Applause. If we kill every tenth person there will be more jobs for the survivors. Applause. Sometimes I'm embarrassed at how easy this is.

The rate of crossings from Mexico has gone down ever since I tanked the economy and I pledge to you if you give me another four years, every Mexican who doesn't work for the government will be back home trading in his dollars for pesos before American currency is completely worthless. That's why we need to legalize them right now and ply them with benefits so they don't run away before they get a chance to vote for me a third time as El Dictador.

But that's not all. I am opening millions of acres for offshore oil drilling. Not. I am also investing more money in training children to harness the power of positive thinking. Scientists at Federally funded labs estimate that every child who thinks positively can create enough power to light up an entire city. The only problem is figuring out how to stick the plugs into his head while we stick him in some sort of Matrix. And that's where our Federally funded labs come in. That is why I am asking Congress not to gut funding for the Matrix.

Take a look at Wilson E. Picket-Rammsby over there. Born in a shack in an up for grabs district in North Carolina, he had no arms or legs. Ever since my stimulus plan he works at the Buffett-Gore Wind Turbine Making Co. which is entirely financed by taxpayers. Wilson's job is to take 'Made in America' stickers and affix them with his mouth to imported Chinese wind turbines.

I promised Wilson that I would not walk away from workers like him. I will not allow China to buy more Chinese wind turbines than we would buy Chinese wind turbines with their money. I will not allow Germany to seize the lead from us in wind turbines or paper kite manufacturing or aura beaming technology. We've subsidized oil companies long enough. It's time to start subsidizing Al Gore.

Best of all while the Navy will be losing a whole bunch of ships and Marines, they will be purchasing all that clean energy so that our armed forces will have even less money and Al Gore will have even more money.

Now that I spent 15 minutes discussing tax credits and incentives for companies owned by my friends and my supporters, let me completely switch topics and state firmly that it's time to stop the bailouts, the handouts and the copouts. After we pass my Bailouts, Handouts and Copouts plan to force the Navy to buy Finnish electric submarines from a company co-owned by some guy who hosted a fundraiser for me last week. It's possible the submarines don't work underwater, but they're painted green which means they're good for the environment.

We've all paid the price for lenders who sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them. And by that I mean the lenders paid me money and helped finance my campaign. That's why we need smart regulation. Regulations that are so smart that they automatically exempt me.

Rules that prevent Gibson from making guitars, prevent Canada from selling us cheap oil and prevent businesses from creating new jobs don't destroy the free market. They make the free market work better by taking it out back and putting a bullet in its head, just like my stepfather, the Colonel, used to do to dissidents back home in Indonesia.

Four years after the economic meltdown, I am asking my Attorney General to take some time from being investigated by Congress for shipping assault rifles to Mexican druglords in a plot to subvert the Constitution, and form a special super commission of fact finding investigators to root out financial corruption that we're not responsible for and make them give us our cut.

This proposal is in no way belated election pandering or a way to shake down Wall Street firms into donating to us. They're already donating to us. Applause. Oh yeah, they're donating to us like a Mexican drug dealer with a brand new AK-47.

Because of all the loopholes and shelters and basements in the tax code, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Unfortunately other people besides Warren Buffett are also benefiting from these loopholes and we need to close them so that only Warren Buffett benefits from them.

I'm a Democrat, but I believe what Abraham Lincoln believed, that habeas corpus should be suspended, First Ladies should be able to spend as much money as they want during a war and that some races are inferior to others. But most of all I believe that you cannot fool all of the people all of the time-- but I am hoping that I can do it at least long enough to get reelected.

Losing the war in Iraq has allowed me to shift the war to Afghanistan where we are losing the war from a decisive position of strength. A wave of change has washed across the Middle East. Women are running for their lives and the Al Qaeda flag is flying in Libya. Iran is on the verge of getting the bomb. And I just want to take credit for all of it.

The renewal of American leadership can be felt around the globe. Now the world knows that they don't have to take us seriously anymore. We're not even paper tigers, we're more like paper tigers who set themselves on fire and then the chief paper tiger gets up and makes a speech about how much fire has done for the standing of paper tigers in restoring human dignity around the world.

To keep pace with our new global role, I have called for eliminating most of the parts of the military that don't buy clean energy from my supporters or bomb the people that the President of France orders me to bomb as incidental to my core mission of destroying America.

And I would just like to finish by invoking the inspirational words of a truly great American. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party who wrote in his his autobiography, Soul on Ice, that he began his career as a rapist by practicing on black girls in the ghetto before moving on to other prey. Like him I began practicing on Chicago and then moved on to the Great State of Illinois and then to America.

Thank you and God Damn America.

Another Green Giant Obama Bankruptcy with Your Taxpayer Dollars: Electric Car Battery-maker Goes Bust

The Obama administration is stealing, looting billions from our bank accounts and our childrens' futures to enrich their cronies and prop up the greatest political fraud of our time, green nonsense (ecology) and global climate change.

Newt! Rick! Mitt! Start blasting! Start defining and articulating the real problems this unlawful president and his quislings have wrought.

Obama-backed electric car battery-maker files for bankruptcy

By Andrew Restuccia - 01/26/12 11:55 AM ET
 
An Indiana-based energy-storage company, whose subsidiary received a $118.5 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department, filed for bankruptcy Thursday.
Ener1 is asking a federal bankruptcy court in New York to approve a plan to restructure the company’s debt and infuse $81 million in equity funding.

“This was a difficult, but necessary, decision for our company,” Ener1 CEO Alex Sorokin said in a news release. “We are extremely pleased to have the strong support of our primary investors and lenders to substantially reduce the company’s debt.”
 
The company said it hopes the plan will “support continued operation of Ener1’s subsidiaries and help ensure that the restructuring will not adversely impact their employees, customers and suppliers.”
 
The Energy Department in 2009 approved a $118.5 million stimulus grant for EnerDel, a subsidiary of the company that develops lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. The company has so far spent $55 million of the federal funding.

“While it’s unfortunate that Ener1, the parent company, has entered a restructuring process, the new infusion of $80 million in private capital demonstrates that the technology has merit,” Energy Department spokeswoman Jen Stutsman said in a statement.

“The restructuring is not expected to impact EnerDel’s operations and the company has made clear that they do not expect to reduce employment at the site.”

EnerDel has received support from Republicans, including more than $4 million in federal grants under the George W. Bush administration.

The Obama administration's grant was part of a broader program aimed at promoting the development of electric-vehicle battery technology.

President Obama touted the program in his State of the Union address this year.

“In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world’s leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries,” he said.

At the time, EnerDel said the grant would help the company double its production capacity and create 1,700 jobs. But the company has faced major financial problems in recent months.

Ener1’s decision to file for bankruptcy will likely draw the attention of House Republicans, who are investigating the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar panel maker that received a $535 million Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009.

The GOP has pummeled the White House over Solyndra, raising broader concerns about the administration’s investments in clean-energy companies.

More Freedom From Obama's Endorsed Muslim Brotherhood Egypt: Bars Americans from leaving

Obama will count on the enemedia to cover up this bloody, stinky historical mess of his. Newt! Rick! Mitt! Start blasting! Start defining and articulating the real problems this president and his quislings have wrought.

More "freedom" from Obama's post-American foreign policy.

U.S. outrage as Egypt bars Americans from leaving Reuter (hat tip Van)

(Reuters) - Six Americans working for publicly funded U.S. organizations promoting democracy in Egypt have been barred from leaving the country, provoking angry demands in Washington that Cairo's new military rulers stop "endangering American lives".

Among those hit by travel bans - one of those targeted called it "de facto detention" - is a son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, as well as other foreign staffers of the International Republican Institute and National Democratic Institute, officials at the two organizations said.

The United States said Egypt should reverse them: "We are urging the government of Egypt to lift these restrictions immediately and allow these folks to come home as soon as possible," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

"We are trying to get them free to travel as soon as possible, and we're hopeful that we can resolve this in coming days," she said.

A month after police raided the Cairo offices of the IRI, NDI and eight other non-governmental organizations, it raises the stakes for Washington, which had already indicated it may review the $1.3 billion it gives the Egyptian military each year if the probe into alleged breaches of local regulations went on.

Some see it as a poor omen for Egypt's fledgling democracy following last year's overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.
Egyptian officials have made no comment on the bans.

Obama's Interventionism: Libyan Opposition Being Viciously Tortured

I wondered why Obama didn't laud his human rights record in Libya, Egypt and Iran in his #SOTU..... /sarc tag off.

He didn't mention the vicious sodomy and barbaric murder of Ghaddafi by Obama-supported sharia savages. Nor did his royal flyness mention the barbaric atrocities and genocide of blacks committed by anti-Gaddafi Muslims during last year's Obama Libya moment.

Obama 's war against Libya unleashed hell on earth in Libya. Linda R queries, "Is it ethical for US/NATO to ignore the agony and massive suffering their unjust, illegal war created? And just walk away and leave HELL ON EARTH in Libya?

This is Obama's slash and burn foreign policy, helping to destroy secular regimes in order to install jihadist rule. In this he has been completely and utterly successful.

Where are the media O-hos on this?

Pro-Gaddafi supporters in Libya are being tortured, says United Nations Daily Mail

• 8,000 loyalists loyalists being ill-treated by militia men - human rights report
• Medicins Sans Frontieres pulls out of Misrata
• Amnesty International claim there have been deaths at Libyan detention centres
  

Britain and its NATO allies spent billions freeing Libyans from the evil clutches of Colonel Gaddafi, but what exactly has replaced him?

Democratic elections are still some way away, there's serious unrest in several cities and today a United Nations report reveal that up to 8,000 pro-Gaddafi supporters were being held by militia groups in Libya.

Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay claimed they are being held in appalling conditions and are being abused and tortured.

While Amnesty International state that detainees have died after being tortured by militias in detention centres.

The organisation's medical staff said they were were being asked to patch up detainees mid-way through torture sessions so they could go back for more abuse.

The agency said it was in Misrata, about 130 miles east of the Libyan capital and scene of some of the fiercest battles in the conflict, to treat war-wounded detainees but was instead having to treat fresh wounds.

Meantime, the UN's Mrs Pillay said the problem was down to militias working outside of government control.

She added: 'The lack of oversight by the central authorities creates an environment conducive to torture and ill treatment. My staff have received alarming reports that this is happening in places of detention that they have visited.'

Abuse claims: Ibrahim Mohammed says he was tortured at the hands of the Gharyan city forces earlier this month. His claims support assertions by the United Nations that torture and violence is widespread

General Director of MSF Christopher Stokes reinforced the UN assertions and said: 'Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for more interrogation.

'This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.

The agency said it has raised the issue with the authorities in Misrata and with the national army.

'No action was taken,' said Stokes. 'We have therefore come to the decision to suspend our medical activities in the detention centres.'

Rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about torture being used against people, many of them sub-Saharan Africans, suspected of having fought for Muammar Gaddafi's forces during Libya's nine-month civil war.

Reports of the mistreatment and disappearances of suspected Gaddafi loyalists have embarrassed Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC), which had vowed to make a break with practices under Gaddafi and respect human rights.

They are installing a sharia government. Sharia is the opposite of humanity.

The allegations are also awkward for the Western powers which backed the anti-Gaddafi rebellion and helped install Libya's new leaders.

Read the rest here.

AFDI/SIOA Deplores Hamas-linked Islamic Supremacist Hate Group CAIR's Attempts to Impede New York Counter-Jihad Training UPDATE: VIDEO

Hamas-CAIR (Muslim Brotherhood operatives in America) are demanding the resignation of America's top cop and New York's chief counter-terrorism law enforcement official. Worse, these declared enemies of freedom call a press conference and all the sniveling toadies in the enemedia show up jockeying for position to do their bidding, as opposed to calling for the prosecution of these unindicted co-conspirators. What is wrong with this picture?

The media has a ban on voices of freedom and anti-sharia proponents. They ignore the great fighters for freedom and women rights. NY1 has the Hamas-CAIR press conference calling for Kelly's resignation on an endless loop. Every occupy lemming is given air time, but 30,000 freedom lovers at Ground Zero on September 11 were ignored by the enemy press.

The situation was further fueled by our quisling Mayor. Bloomberg's knee-jerk denunciation of the film lacks leadership and gravitas. Has he seen the film? Can he cite one example of inaccuracy? We demand the mayor articulate in concretes his objection to the film.

Police Commissioner Kelly is a national treasure. And he is under attack.

Email your support to Mayor Bloomberg, Chairman, mbloomberg@cityhall.nyc.gov

AFDI/SIOA deplores the attempts by Hamas-linked CAIR and a thoroughly compromised New York Times to undermine the security of New Yorkers by demanding the removal of accurate material about the jihad threat from NYPD training. AFDI/SIOA calls on Mayor Bloomberg to reject the persecution of Police Commissioner Kelly, and to reaffirm him in his position. New York's leaders must not cave in to Hamas-linked CAIR's campaign to outlaw the truth about jihad and Islamic supremacism, thereby making us all more vulnerable to them.

 

AFDI/SIOA Deplores Hamas-linked Islamic Supremacist Hate Group CAIR's Attempts to Impede New York Counter-Jihad Training Yahoo News

 

NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national human rights and advocacy organization is asking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and city officials to resist efforts by the Hamas-linked Islamic supremacist hate group the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to dictate the nature and content of anti-terror training for New York Police Department personnel

 

The request by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and its Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) program comes after Hamas-linked CAIR, one of the nation's most notorious Islamic supremacist hate groups, demanded the resignation of New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly for allowing the counter-jihad film The Third Jihad to be shown to NYPD personnel. AFDI/SIOA respectfully requests that the New York City government repudiate this attempt by Hamas-linked CAIR to interfere with and impede counterterrorism training.

 

AFDI/SIOA Executive Director Pamela Geller said in a statement: "AFDI/SIOA deplores the attempts by Hamas-linked CAIR and a thoroughly compromised New York Times to undermine the security of New Yorkers by demanding the removal of accurate material about the jihad threat from NYPD training. AFDI/SIOA calls on Mayor Bloomberg to reject the persecution of Police Commissioner Kelly, and to reaffirm him in his position. New York's leaders must not cave in to Hamas-linked CAIR's campaign to outlaw the truth about jihad and Islamic supremacism, thereby making us all more vulnerable to them."

 

Hamas-linked CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case -- so named by the Justice Department during the trial of the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land Foundation.

 

CAIR has previously attempted to intimidate numerous government agencies and citizens' groups into dropping events featuring foes of international jihad activity, including SIOA's Executive Director Pamela Geller, SIOA's Associate Director Robert Spencer, ACT for America's Brigitte Gabriel, and others. In the summer of 2010 it has embarked upon a concerted campaign of intimidation and defamation to silence public figures who speak out against jihad and Islamic terrorism, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Rev. Franklin Graham, Florida Congressional candidate Dan Fanelli, and Connecticut Congressional candidate Rick Torres.

 

CAIR's attempt to intimidate the NYPD and dictate its choice of training materials is consistent with its long record of pro-jihad duplicity and deception. Although it has received millions of dollars in donations from foreign Islamic entities, it has not registered as a foreign agent as required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), despite spreading Islamic supremacist propaganda within the United States.

 

Although it presents itself as a civil rights group, CAIR actually has numerous links to Islamic supremacist and jihad groups. CAIR founders Omar Ahmad and Niwad Awad (who still serves as CAIR's executive director) were present at a Hamas planning meeting in Philadelphia in 1993 where they and other Hamas operatives conspired to raise funds for Hamas and to promote jihad in the Middle East. CAIR has steadfastly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups.

 

Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror:

 

    --  Ghassan Elashi, founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, in 2009
        received a 65-year prison sentence for funneling over $12
        million from the Islamic charity known as the Holy Land
        Foundation to the jihad terrorist group Hamas, which is
        responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli civilians
    --  Mousa Abu Marzook, a former CAIR official, was in 1995
        designated by the U.S. government in 1995 as a "terrorist and
        Hamas leader." He now is a Hamas leader in Syria.
    --  Randall Royer, CAIR's former civil rights coordinator, in 2004
        began serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding al-Qaida and
        the Taliban against American troops in Afghanistan and
        recruiting for Lashkar e-Taiba, the jihadist group responsible
        for the 2008 Mumbai jihad massacres.
    --  Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's former community relations director, was
        arrested for involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North
        America, which was linked to al-Qaida. After pleading guilty to
        visa and bank fraud charges, Khafagi was deported.
    --  Rabih Haddad, a former CAIR fundraiser, was deported for his
        work with the Global Relief Foundation (which he co-founded), a
        terror-financing organization.

 

In 1998 Omar Ahmad, CAIR's co-founder and longtime Board Chairman, said: "Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

 

After he received unwelcome publicity as a result of this statement, Ahmad denied saying it, several years after the fact. However, the original reporter, Lisa Gardiner of the Fremont Argus, stands by her story.

 

CAIR's spokesman Ibrahim Hooper once said: "I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."

 

SIOA is one of America's foremost organizations defending human rights, religious liberty, and the freedom of speech against Islamic supremacist intimidation and attempts to bring elements of Sharia to the United States.

 

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UPDATE: Urban Infidel was at the CAIR jihadist conference:

CAIR NY Press Conference at City Hall: Calls for Investigations and Firings After Film "The Third Jihad" Used in NYPD Training 

CAIR-NY held a press conference at City Hall this morning calling for the firing of New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and NYPD Spokesman Paul Browne.

They also demanded that Eric Holder investigate the NYPD for the use of an anti-Islamic jihad documentary film, "The Third Jihad." The full-length documentary which opens with a disclaimer which states that only a small percentage of the world's Muslims are radical, details many terrorist attacks including the horrific 2004 slaughter in Beslan. It was produced by The Clarion Fund in 2007 warning against the dangers of violent Islamic jihad was recently shown to cadets at a New York City Police Department. It also ran in a continuous loop in a sign-in area of NYPD counterterrorism training sessions.

Ray Kelly appeared in the film for less than a minute. CAIR is demanding that Kelly be fired as well as NYPD Spokesman Paul Browne for denying NYPD involvement.

On top of everything else, CAIR is also demanding the "re-training" of the 1,489 police cadets who saw the film because they were obviously "poisoned" by it.

After witnessing mass murder when the World Trade Center burned and collapsed in 2001 and the past 10 years of global Islamic terrorism spill oceans of blood across the earth, I fail to see how insensitive this is. Zuhdi Jasser is even in it, for cripes sake! How does CAIR expect us to train our law enforcement to fight terrorism? Should we just show pillow fights between Mormons and Girl Scouts so no one gets 'offended'? Here's an idea,CAIR - how about just start broadcasting to Americans the daily TV programs from the middle east that depict Jews and Christians as apes and pigs? Or the ones that instruct children to blow themselves up in order to kill as many infidels as possible.

My videos from the press conference are uploading now.. please stand by. LOTS more to come...

Here is the first of several videos:

In a heated must-see video below [still uploading], City Councilman Jumaane Williams announces that next Friday, Feb. 3rd there will be a massive public Islamic prayer in the streets of downtown Manhattan, followed by a rally and a march on NYPD Headquarters.

"Freedom" in New Egypt

Ah, more of the fetid blossoms of the Islamic spring in Egypt. You can judge the health of any system of governance by their treatment of women.

Freedom to oppress. Freedom to subjugate. Freedom to rape, honor kill, Jew-hate, commit FGM. Freedom to enslave.

One year later, it is exactly as I said. Yes, I told ya so. The Muslim Brotherhood. Sharia. I was right. About everything. And have been in these matters. The media, OTOH, are among the the ranks of the destroyers.

Have you seen Egypt's newly established 'Religious Police'?

Mob rape of foreign woman exposes scale of sexual violence in Egypt

A map of incidents of sexual harassment and assaults in Egypt, many of which have taken place in or near Tahrir Square.

Tahrir Square became synonymous with Egypt's pro-democracy revolution and the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.

Now, however, it is acquiring an altogether more sinister and shameful reputation as a place where women are cannot visit without being sexually harassed or worse.

On Wednesday evening a foreign woman was reportedly attacked by several dozen men. Some of the men raped her.

Her husband was unable to protect her from the mob, and a number of other people that came to her aid were also attacked.

According to BikyaMasr, one witness reported via Twitter that he “saw the woman and then dozens of men surrounded her and started grabbing her, when she screamed for help some people came, but they were hit in the face."

The woman was stripped and attacked for 10 minutes. She was afterward taken away in an ambulance.

HarassMap, a website dedicated to monitoring sexual harassments and violence in Egypt, shows that the number of incidents rocketed in November 2011, and has remained high since then.

Women and men that are harassed or assaulted are able to alert the public by posting details on HarassMap's website. According to several accounts sexual harassment and groping has taken place at Tahrir Square, which appears to be getting a reputation for being a dangerous place for women. "Some people in Tahrir are harassing unveiled girls," writes one woman, "I was sexually harassed many times in 5 minutes."

Blogger Aliaa Mahdy was threatened with rape and death after she posted nude photos of herself on her blog.

"I got ogled & touched many times in the middle of tear-gas bombs [at] Mohammed Mahmud st[reet], writes another woman" Another woman says that while she was leaving "the square, someone horribly touched me but I couldn't see him cause there were many men around me!!"

A man describing himself as "a male doctor" says that a young woman, who appears to have been a pro-democracy activist, asked for his help after being followed: "a 20 years old girl came to the clinic, she was shivering I thought she's feverish I asked her what's wrong, she asked me to hide her, coz two guys, were stalking her to touch her, through streets, she was begging for protection, with tears in her eyes took her to a safe place in the mosque, and one hour later I took her to the metro station, coz she wanted to go home. also pr[o]mises herself she will never come back to el tahrir for protesting anymore."

And what is the response of Isamic supremacists and their snivelng toadies on the left here in America?

Pamela Hall reports from Time Square (oh and BTW, Hall does not "work for me." We work together. I am honored to call her a collegue- she is a singular force for good. Her work is without peer.)

 Jan 21-Times Sq: Global Day in support of Egyptian Revolution ( vid and pics) americanvalues  

January 21, 2011 at approximately 12:30 PM. Times Square

 

Decided to check out the Egyptian Revolution Rally taking place just after the first light snow of the winter season.

Their stage was late, so sans amplification the rally leaders were chanting and attempting to kept the crowd busy until their errant truck/stage arrived.

It was a small crowd comprised of familiar Leftists, “Palestinians” and Islamist protestors.

Usually, I’m called a Zionist, a Racist, a Nazi and a hate-monger but today, I was lectured, told outright HOW I was to write about the rally or else LEAVE because ( you see) ” I’m an Islamophobe who WORKS for Pamela Geller.”

Policing me was Marxist/Fakestinian agitator, Andy Pollack. Andrew Pollack of   Al-Awda NY who loves to press his hulking mass into my space while proudly declaring that I had to stop filming.

He kept his little soldiers busy infringing on my freedom of speech and assembly by attempting to block my camera with flags and bodies. Nice, huh? The games Lefties play….

Two young women in the rally were ‘alerted’ by Pollack to not speak with me because  I “WORK for Pam Geller”. One of those girls was Micha (Michelle)Balon of the STAGED #OWS marriage (arranged to please the easily duped MSM.)

But, Micha doesn’t seem to be ‘married’ anymore. Her face book page says she interested in MEN and makes no mention of a ‘husband’

lml. What a tool. Read the rest here.

Related: Egypt Jihad: Muslim Brotherhood Sec-General Named First Parliament Speaker

Political parties led by Muslim Brotherhood agree on Egypt’s first Islamic parliament speaker

(Mohammed Abu Zaid/Associated Press) - Saad el-Katatni, secretary general for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, right, attends a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. El-Katatni, secretary general of the influential Muslim Brotherhood political arm, has been selected Monday by a number of Islamic  to hold the post when the parliament convenes on Jan. 23. (hat tip WaPo).

Flashback to a Sandmonkey tweet that was retweeted by Mona Eltahawy, another Egyptian protest lover who was subsequently sexually attacked at one of these "freedom" protests. Of course, I disagreed with Sandmonkey and had my public falling out with him over my insistence that the Muslim Brotherhood was very much a major player in the overthrow of Mubarak and whatever freedom Egyptians had enjoyed under his government.

Flashback January 2011:

As I predicted by Atlas in January 2011, the Islamic supremacist killers have swept the elections in Egypt. Even then the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader was ululating"Prepare for War with Israel"

How the left was deriding me for questioning big media's narrative of freedom lovers and democracy (here, too). So why isn't this splashed across the newspages, front pages and broadcast news ledes across the country? Instead, these spineless, gutless wonders slithered back under their rocks.

 

Devout Muslims Arrest Muslim Father After Sons Convert To Christianity

What's it going to take to address this inhumane and barbaric ideology? This is the sharia.

And the father of an apostate is just as "guilty" as his convert son.

Islamists Arrest Muslim Father After Sons Convert To Christianity (Hat tip Jerry Newcombe)

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on January 14 Somali Islamists arrested a Muslim father after two of his teenage children converted to Christianity in Kismayo, Somalia. The two sons of Mo’alim Mohamud Aw-Omar converted to Christianity late last year. They fled their homes following their conversion.

Members of the radical Islamic group, al-Shabaab, accused Aw-Omar of “failing to raise his sons as good Muslims” because “good Muslims cannot convert to Christianity.” Aw-Omar, who is still a Muslim, insisted that his sons have memorized the Qur’an, fasted and prayed regularly and therefore he should not be accused of failing his duties.

According to sources on the ground, the Islamists have refused to release Aw-Omar until his two sons return to Kismayo. This is unlikely to happen because the teenagers will be killed if they return.

According to the strict interpretation of the Islamic sharia law that Al-Shabaab follows, leaving Islam is a crime punishable by death. The law is based on the Hadith “…The Prophet of Allah said, ‘If somebody [a Muslim] discards his religion, kill him” Bukhari (52:260).

Bomb Threat at Honor Killing Trial

I just wrote up a post on CNN's complicit sanction of honor killings by covering the motive in this very disturbing mass honor killing case.

Rest assured that the media and the rest of the quisling herd will cover up the motive behind this bomb threat as well.

Shafia trial delayed, court evacuated after bomb threat Sympatico News (hat tip Jerry)

A bomb threat forced the evacuation of a Kingston, Ont. courtroom where the case of three people accused of killing four female family members is being heard.

Journalists and spectators had lined up at the Kingston, Ont. courthouse hours before court began Thursday morning, but were suddenly told by police they had to leave and court would resume in the afternoon.

Police would only say there was a "security concern," but a source told The Canadian Press that a bomb threat prompted the evacuation.

Journalists and spectators were initially moved onto the street but were then told to cross the street, said CTV's Genevieve Beauchemin, reporting from outside the court.

"They want to be on the cautious side and they've been moving people further and further away from the building but yes, they are searching the building," she said.

Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, have each pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder.

They were evacuated from the courthouse Thursday in a police prisoner vehicle.

The trio is accused of killing teenage Shafia daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Shafia's first wife in his polygamous marriage.

The Crown began its final arguments on Wednesday and was expected to wrap up Thursday. It isn't clear whether jury deliberations will still begin on Friday, as originally scheduled.

"We'll see whether this causes any delay and whether this now has to go into Saturday. We'll find that out as the day progresses," Beauchemin told CTV News Channel.

Three defence lawyers presented their final arguments Tuesday and Wednesday.

The bodies of the four were found in June 2009 in a car at the bottom of a canal in Kingston.

The Montreal family had stopped in Kingston on their way back from a trip to Niagara Falls, Ont.

The Crown has alleged that the girls were murdered by their father, his wife and their brother, and that the killing was then made to look like an accident after the fact.

The Crown's argument is built on the premise that the girls broke the family's moral code and dishonoured their family by wearing clothing that was not conservative and having secret boyfriends.

The defence, however, calls the argument preposterous and said the deaths were the result of a tragic accident.

"They say the Crown latched onto a theory and went about proving it but when you look at the facts themselves they say it just doesn't bear out," Beauchemin said.

She added: "They say that to suggest this businessman, his stay-at-home wife and an 18 year-old high school student would be involved in killing them for that is just a ridiculous theory, they say."

CNN Sanctions, Covers Up Motive in Mass Honor Killing

"God's curse on them for generations.  ... They betrayed Islam."

"May the devil shit on their graves. Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore?" -- Muslim dad woho honor killed his three daughters and wife.

"I would do it again 100 times," said Mohammad Shafia, who murdered his THREE daughters in honour killing for dating the wrong boys.

CNN just did an entire report on the Shafia honor killings, noting that "interrogations of the family never uncovered a motive." Mohammad Shafia, however, declared that his daughters' betrayal of Islam was his motive.

These are the lengths the dhimmedia will go to in its self-enforcement of sharia. CNN, the  Crescent New Network.

AFDI/SIOA will be hosting the first-ever human rights conference dedicated to exposing the plight of women under Islamic law in Dearborn, Michigan on the anniversary of the honor murder of Jessica Mokdad: the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference. We’ve named the Conference after her as part of our ongoing campaign to raise awareness and bring a stop to the phenomenon of Islamic honor killing. These girls have rights, too, they’re human beings, and yet they’re completely forgotten in our politically correct culture, in which speech that is offensive to Islam is increasingly forbidden. We’re standing for the human rights of girls like Jessica Mokdad. Join us, fight the islamization of America and fight the dehumanizaton and diminishment of women.

CNN's deceit on the motive of the Shafia is a crime against women and humanity.

CNN Conceals Motive Behind Canadian Honor Killings David Wood

On June 30, 2009, Mohammad Shafia, with the help of his wife Tuba and his son Hamed, murdered his three daughters and his other wife in Ontario, Canada. The wealthy Shafia family worked quickly to conceal their actions, staging a car accident and weeping for their daughters. The media rushed to support the grieving family, until evidence showed that the girls' deaths were no accident.

Yesterday, CNN posted a video about the murders, noting that "interrogations of the family never uncovered a motive." Indeed, the closest CNN comes to identifying a motive in the killings is when the reporter says that the Shafia family comes "from a very conservative Afghan background."

Yes, it's the family's Afghan background, rather than some other background, that is most relevant to this case. At no point in the video does CNN use the words "Islam" or "Muslim."

This is all the more disturbing when we consider that Mohammad Shafia himself, in a recorded conversation, identifies his daughters' betrayal of Islam as his motive for the killings. He declares:

"They betrayed kindness. They betrayed Islam. They betrayed our religion and creed. They betrayed our tradition. They betrayed everything."

Shafia was so confident that his actions were justified, he had absolutely no remorse for killing his daughters:

"God curse their generation, they were filthy and rotten children."

"To hell with them and their boyfriends, may the devil shit on their grave."

“Even if they come back to life a hundred times, if I have a cleaver in my hand, I will cut (them) in pieces.”

Yet CNN remains puzzled about Shafia's motive. I assume CNN is also puzzled about why Muslims commit 91 percent of the world's honor killings. But there's a difference between (a) being puzzled due to ignorance of Islamic teachings, and (b) willfully concealing the stated motive of a group of murderers. By deliberately leaving Islam out of the equation, CNN has joined in the cover up.

Reliance of the Traveller: On Killing Offspring

Much thanks to Kamala for scanning these pages from one of the most important English-language sources for the content of Islamic law: Reliance of the Traveller: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law:

It is certified by Al-Azhar University as a translation that "corresponds to the Arabic original and conforms to the practice and faith of the orthodox Sunni Community...":

Here is the certification in Arabic:

Note that this Sharia manual also garners respect in the USA. Dr. Alan Godlas, Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia, calls it a "carefully translated manual of the proper practice of Islam (shari'a) according to the Shafi'i madh'hab. It has been an essential book in the library of any serious English speaking Muslim or scholar of Islam since its publication in 1991."

In Book O, titled "Justice," in section 1, "Who is Subject to Retaliation for Injurious Crimes," section o1.1 reads, "Retaliation is obligatory ... against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right...":

However, o1.2 clarifies (above) that "The following are not subject to retaliation" and then lists — after the lovely, egalitarian "Muslim for killing a non-Muslim" and "Jewish or Christian subject ... for killing an apostate" — "(4) a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring":

"Strict Muslim" Kidnapped, Raped four women at knifepoint to "punish them for being on the streets at night" including 15-year-old

Obama say, "Respect it!" Daisy Khan say, "The era of extremism is over!" Jay Leno's wife, Mavis, say, “the koran is more liberal with women than the Bible." Geller say, "He raped her twice despite her claiming she was only 11 years old. He told her he was going to 'teach her a lesson.' Islamic honor, respect it!"

The silence of the NY TImes feminist writers on these new stories is criminal.

'Strict Muslim' raped four women at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night' Daily Mail

• Sunny Islam, 23, kidnapped and raped girl, 15
• Subjected victims to his 'trademark double rape'
• Attacks took place over 2 months in east London
• Jailed indefinitely due to danger he poses to women

By NICK ENOCH
Last updated at 4:53 PM on 25th January 2012

Islam, who told the jury he was a practising Muslim, was convicted of seven charges of rape, one of sexual assault and one of kidnap.
Tana Adkin, defending, said: 'The only piece of mitigation is his age. He was 21 at the time of these offences and comes from something of a strict background.'
His mother, in religious dress, sat with her covered head bowed throughout and wept as her son was jailed....

A Muslim man who raped women to 'teach them a lesson' for being on the streets at night was jailed indefinitely today because of the danger he poses to women.

Sunny Islam, 23, who comes from a strict Muslim family, dragged his terrified victims - including a 15-year-old - from the street at knifepoint, bound and assaulted them during a two-month reign of terror.

Police fear that Islam may have attacked many more.

Three of the assaults took place close to his home in Barking, east London, while a fourth occurred in nearby Forest Gate.

Judge Patricia Lees, sentencing him to a minimum of 11 years, said: 'The harm you have done to your victims is incalculable.

'The nature and extent of these offences drives me to the conclusion that you represent an extreme and continuing danger to women, particularly those out at night.'

He was traced through the number plate of his girlfriend's car after he kidnapped and raped the 15-year-old in September 2010.

He grabbed her from behind as she walked home with a friend and bundled her into the car at knifepoint before driving to a secluded spot where he raped her twice despite her claiming she was only 11 years old

Judge Lees said: 'You told her you were going to "teach her a lesson", and similar things were said to the other women. 

'Those words are a chilling indictment of your very troubling attitude towards all of these victims.

'You seem to observe women out at night as not deserving respect or protection.

'I have no doubt that you were out that night looking for a victim, as you were on each of these occasions.'

The teen, who feared she would be murdered, was in court and smiled as her attacker was jailed.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, she said: 'No one will ever understand the flashbacks - they are so real. At night, I lay in my bed and it is like I am there.

'It is like a screen in my mind forcing me to relive that night again and again.

'People will say time will heal, but I think time has helped me accept the truth - that I will never escape what has happened to me.'

After his arrest, Islam's DNA was linked with three other attacks near his home in Barking, prosecutor Sara Lawson told Woolwich Crown Court.

'He treated me like an animal and made me feel worthless. I thought I was going to die'

The judge said on July 8, 2010 he subjected a 20-year-old prostitute to 'his trademark double rape' and then tied her up, repeatedly punched her in the face and stole her wallet.

She said: 'He treated me like an animal and made me feel worthless - I thought I was going to die.'

Six days later, in Forest Gate, he struck again on a 28-year-old when he dragged her into his car and forced her to commit a sex act.

She managed to kick out the back window of his car and escape despite being throttled.

His fourth victim, also attacked in September, did not come forward until police found the 31-year-old's blood in the back of the car along with a knife he used to threaten his victims and plastic ties he bound them with.

She was repeatedly repeatedly punched in the face until she was bleeding and then tied up and raped twice.

Islam, who told the jury he was a practising Muslim, was convicted of seven charges of rape, one of sexual assault and one of kidnap.

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NY Times Wages Holy War On Film, Third Jihad

The king of mainstream media, The NY Times, is taking its job of Islamic law enforcer in America very seriously. 

The traitorous NY TImes has decided to wage holy war on the documentary, The Third Jihad, a film made by moderate Muslim, Zuhdi Jasser (someone I have crossed swords with in the past, but that has no relevance here).

Film description: The Third Jihad is a documentary that alerts Americans to the danger radical Islam poses to the United States and to Western civilization as a whole. The film spotlights radical Islam's war against liberal ideas, its violent, anti-democratic agenda as well as its human and civil rights abuses against women, blacks, homosexuals, Christians and moderate Muslims.

The NY Times is unhinged (there has been Times 'press coverage' on this non-story every day this week) because the film was screened for more than 1,400 officers during training in 2010. So what? There is nothing inaccurate in Jasser's film. This is not about the film. This is about the prohibition on truth. This is about the media self-enforcing the blasphemy laws ('do not offend Islam') under the sharia. And in doing so, disarming law enforcement.

But the NY Times means to shut down any frank discussion on jihad. They are on the attack against the film. And Mayor (sharia finance king) Bloomberg, the Ground Zero mosque's staunchest advocate, is doing their bidding. No surprise here either. It dovetails nicely for our quisling Mayor. His mayoral agenda is largely driven by the Times' uber-leftist agenda. And he bolsters his newly formed Islamic finance platforms. Kills two kuffar with one stone.

And of course, the Times and the Mayor are doing the Muslim Brotherhood in America's (CAIR's) bidding.

Late in 2010, Tom Robbins, a former columnist with The Village Voice,  contacted an officer who spoke of his unease with the film; another officer, said Zead Ramadan, the New York president of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, talked of seeing it during a training session the previous summer. “The officer was completely offended by it as a Muslim,” Mr. Ramadan said. 

In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims NY Times, January 23, 2012

Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.

Third Jihad, NY Times blog, January 24, 2012

Mr. Bloomberg said that neither he nor the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, had known at the time that the film, “The Third Jihad,” was being shown to officers. Speaking to reporters after testifying here at a state budget hearing, Mr. Bloomberg said that the film had not been shown at the Police Academy.“It was done someplace else and as soon as they found out about it they stopped it and took it down,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “Somebody exercised some terrible judgment. I don’t know who. We’ll find out.” Read more…

In Shift, Police Say Leader Helped With Anti-Islam Film and Now Regrets It NY Times January 24, 2012

The New York City police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, through a top aide, acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday that he personally cooperated with the filmmakers of “The Third Jihad” — a decision the commissioner now describes as a mistake.

The film, which says the goal of “much of Muslim leadership here in America” is to “infiltrate and dominate” the United States, was screened for more than 1,400 officers during training in 2010.

Deputy Commissioner Paul J. Browne told The New York Times on Monday that the filmmakers had relied on old interview clips and had never spoken with the commissioner.

On Tuesday, the film’s producer, Raphael Shore, e-mailed The Times and provided a date and time for their 90-minute interview with the commissioner at Police Headquarters on March 19, 2007. Told of this e-mail, Mr. Browne revised his account.

“He’s right,” Mr. Browne said Tuesday of the producer. “In fact, I recommended in February 2007 that Commissioner Kelly be interviewed.”

So now Kelly is caving. Is there no one in power brave enough to speak the obvious truth about the gravest mortal threat the West now faces?

Worse yet, but typical of the anti-Jewish newspaper, The NY Times implies a Jewish conspiracy went into making the film:

The 72-minute film was financed by the Clarion Fund, a nonprofit group whose board includes a former Central Intelligence Agency official and a deputy defense secretary for President Ronald Reagan. Its previous documentary attacking Muslims’ “war on the West” attracted support from the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a major supporter of Israel who has helped reshape the Republican presidential primary by pouring millions of dollars into a so-called super PAC that backs Newt Gingrich.

Repeated calls over the past several days to the Clarion Fund, which is based in New York, were not answered. The nonprofit group shares officials with Aish HaTorah, an Israeli organization that opposes any territorial concessions on the West Bank. The producer of “The Third Jihad,” Raphael Shore, also works with Aish HaTorah.

Vile. The NY Times then spents lots of ink on investigating Clarion's financing. No, there is no there there, but they write about their non-findings nonethelesss.

 

Bloomberg blasts use of 'Jihad' movie during police training

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used "terrible judgment" in showing officers a film about Muslims that Islamic groups have complained is inflammatory.

Bloomberg said commanders have stopped showing the movie, "The Third Jihad," which contends that Muslims are bent on establishing an Islamic regime worldwide. The film, which was played during counterterrorism training seminars, was bankrolled by a conservative group called the Clarion Fund, according to The New York Times.

"Somebody exercised terrible judgment," Bloomberg said in Albany. "As soon as they found out about it, they stopped it."

The criticism was unusual for Bloomberg, who in recent months vigorously defended the police department's counterterrorism efforts after an Associated Press investigation exposed a secret program to gather intelligence on Muslim neighborhoods.

Bloomberg said neither he nor Police Commissioner Ray Kelly knew about the film being shown. The movie was shown on a continuous loop while officers were signing in for counterterrorism training from October to December 2010, according to police documents obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice, a think tank at New York University.

"The Third Jihad" shows TV images of Hezbollah rocket attacks, children being held hostage by Muslim militants and a woman it says was arrested in Iran for wearing immodest clothing. It shows images it says were taken from Islamic videos and websites, including a doctored picture of an Islamic flag flying over the White House.

It accuses Muslim extremists of posing as moderates and charges several Muslim organizations with being soft on terrorism. It accuses Middle Eastern studies departments at some American universities of supporting hard-line religious governments. Speakers interviewed in the film say "Islamism is like cancer" and urge a "battle for our civilization."

The film is narrated by M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Foundation for Democracy, based in Phoenix. Jasser rejected Bloomberg's criticism.

"I could not disagree more," Jasser said.

The New York-based Clarion Fund did not return calls for comment. Its website, Radicalislam.org, says Clarion was founded in 2006 by Raphael Shore. Shore is a former leader of Aish HaTorah, a chain of Jewish educational centers.

Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne said that the police brass did not approve the use of the movie for training and that the decision to play it was made by a sergeant, who has since been reprimanded.

"This was never used in training, period. It was never authorized for use in training, period," Browne said.

The film was used as "intermission filler" and to "provide information for students during breaks to keep their attention focused on counterterrorism issues," Assistant Chief George W. Anderson wrote in one of the documents obtained by the Brennan Center.

Anderson wrote that he believed the video was given to police by someone in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Homeland Security said it didn't authorize the distribution of the movie.

Muslim groups have complained that the film exaggerates radical Islamic elements.

Why don't these Muslim groups complain to the jihadists doing all the killing, oppressing, subjugation?

Instead they kill the messenger -- no pun intended.

The people know. This will backfire, and I predict that the producers of The Third Jihad will sell a whole lot of DVDs with people looking for answers.

Authorities Arrest Teen In Rutherford Synagogue Firebomb Attack and Attempted Murder of Rabbi and His Family

I want to know what radicalized this teen.

HACKENSACK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Authorities arrested a New Jersey teen Tuesday following their investigation into the firebombing of a Rutherford synagogue earlier this month.  His father, however, said he doesn’t think his son did it or if he did he was “coerced.”

Nineteen-year-old Anthony Graziano of Lodi was charged with nine counts of first-degree attempted murder, one count of first-degree bias intimidation and one count of first-degree aggravated arson for the Jan. 11 attack in Rutherford.

Graziano also faces arson and bias charges related to a similar incident in Paramus, an attack on Temple K’Hal Adath Jeshrun on Jan. 3.

“I’ve been crying all day. I don’t know what to say, what to do,” said Graziano’s father, whose name is also Anthony.

Investigators said they found Google searches of both temples. Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli described the Hasbrouck Heights High School grad as an unemployed loner, who was obsessed with Xbox and had a brewing hatred for Jews.

“We have no doubt that the arson and the attempted murder in Rutherford were directly the result of Mr. Graziano’s hatred for people of Jewish faith,” Molinelli told reporters, including 1010 WINS’ Steve Sandberg.

“He does not hate Jewish people,” Graziano’s father told CBS 2′s Sean Hennessey. “I don’t care what the prosecutor says. I know my son.”

However, a classmate of Graziano told Hennessey: “For the past two months he’s been talking about how much he hates Jews because they were going to take over the country. This kid is crazy. He’s insane.”

The arrest comes just days after the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office released video of a “person of interest” sought in the investigation into the firebombing. Investigators say surveillance video shows him leaving a Walmart on Route 46 in Saddle Brook after buying materials to make Molotov cocktails.

It was that video that authorities said had multiple tipsters calling in and that eventually led to Graziano’s arrest.

Molinelli said a receipt was found showing a purchase for duct tape, three cans of Suave aerosol spray, Crush soda bottles and low-grade motor oil. Molinelli said members of his department and police canvassed stores on the day of the attack looking into their databases before coming across the video.

Molinelli said the big break came when law enforcement officials linked all of the firebomb ingredients to the Saddle Brook Walmart, WCBS 880′s Peter Haskell reported.

“Our ability to track down a store that sold not just the Crush bottles, but duct tape, the same type of aerosol hairspray used and motor oil,” Molinelli said.

“It’s disturbing that a hate monger like Graziano was living in Bergen County right in our midst. The arrest shows this won’t be tolerated,” Etzion Neuer, of the Anti-Defamation League, told CBS 2′s Christine Sloan.

Synagogue Fireboming Person of Interest at Walmart (credit: Bergen County Prosecutor's Office)

“He’s my blood and I don’t know what happened. He just, I have no idea. I’m just, I’m like flabbergasted,” said Graziano’s father.

Several Molotov cocktails were hurled at Rabbi Nossom Schuman and his family inside Congregation Beth El. One landed on the rabbi’s bed.

(credit: Bergen County Prosecutor's Office)

Pamela Geller, Commentary Column, WND: Gingrich: The SOB we need

Make sure you read my weekly commentary at WND:

Gingrich: The SOB we need

Exclusive: Pamela Geller cheers Newt's understanding of Islamic threat

Newt Gingrich’s victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary means that we are still alive.

Gingrich really won the primary in the first five minutes of Friday night’s debate, when he challenged John King of CNN. King opened the debate trying to press forward the media’s campaign of destruction of Gingrich, using the 13-year-old slings and arrows of a still-bitter ex-wife. The best thing about the exchange was that Newt turned the tables with the speed and skill of a black belt and put the media on the defensive. It was brilliant, a defining moment. And the crowd cheered. People are fed up.

The country needs a tough fighter. There is a war on the American people; we are under attack from within, and the Republican establishment has been meek, cowed, defeated. Gingrich is fierce. We need a fighter to go toe-to-toe against the silver-tongued snake in the White House.

Longtime readers of my website AtlasShrugs.com know that I have not been a Gingrich fan, so he has had to have done and said extraordinary things and taken courageous positions during this GOP battle for me to support him for the GOP nomination.

And he has. Gingrich continues to persuade me with his arguments. I pricked up my ears a few months back, when Gingrich said that he would pursue the prosecutions of the unindicted co-conspirators (CAIR, MSA, MAS, ICNA, ISNA, etc.) named in the largest terrorist-funding trial, the Holy Land Foundation conviction. Is it any wonder that these Muslim Brotherhood groups are quaking in their jackboots? Hamas-tied CAIR just called him “one of the nation’s worst promoters of anti-Muslim bigotry.” It’s a badge of honor.

Gingrich has also enraged them by coming out against Islamic law (Shariah), the most repressive political ideology on the planet today. He said last week: “A truly modern person who happened to worship Allah would not be a threat; a person who belonged to any kind of belief in Shariah, any effort to impose it on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat.” He said he was “totally opposed” to the use of Shariah in American courts and support laws against it.

Also last week, Gingrich stated that the “rising Islamization of Turkey has been accompanied by a 1,400 percent increase in women being killed.” When someone in the enemedia asked if he would ever support a Muslim who ran for president, he said: “When you look at the application of Shariah in places like Iran, when you look at churches being burned in Nigeria and Egypt, and that the decline of Christians in Iraq from a 1,200,000 when the Americans arrived to about 500,000 today, I think it depends entirely on the person. If they are a modern person integrated in the modern world and they are prepared to recognize all religions, that’s one thing. On the other hand, if they’re Saudis, who demand that we respect them while they refuse to allow Christians to worship in Saudi Arabia, that’s something different.”

Gingrich even came out against the Islamic supremacist Ground Zero mosque, calling it a “deliberate and willful insult to the people of the United States who suffered an attack by people who are motivated by the same thing.”

And several weeks ago, Gingrich far exceeded all expectations when he spoke the truth about the fact that the “Palestinians” are an invented people, a fake nationality created by Yasser Arafat as a weapon to destroy Israel. The ensuing reaction from the Jew-hating left was visceral, but not unexpected. I was enormously disappointed, however, as the entire Republican field dumped on Gingrich for telling the truth about the Muslims in Gaza and the Jewish territories of Judea and Samaria.

Gingrich said what everyone knew: that the emperor has no clothes. But Romney, Santorum and conservative Washington insiders used Israel as their excuse for their failure to stand up for the truth when it was finally spoken. Instead of spontaneous, enthusiastic support for Gingrich’s exposing of the dirty lie, they sought to force the cat back into the bag. Shameful.

Yes, Gingrich has much to answer for. Yet while Newt has an inconsistent history, he seems a man of the time. He knows what America needs: He sees the threats from within and without, and he is pulling no punches. Romney is not strong enough for the coming battle. Newt may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB. And we need an SOB to defeat the snake in the White House.

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But How Did they Know?

If a girl can't be naked under her abaya, where can she be?

Actually it's not funny; these women are as good as dead.

Kuwait arrests women for being naked under abaya bikyamasr (hat tip Jack)

DUBAI: Kuwaiti police have reportedly arrested three women for not wearing any clothes underneath their abayas at a cafe in the Salmiya commercial complex, the al-Rai daily newspaper reported.

Two of the women were from Gulf countries and are not Kuwaiti, police sources said.

The report said that a local boy told his mother that he had seen one of their naked bodies. The mother then called the police and they were arrested.

The newspaper added that the women, one of whom was a minor – allegedly told police that they had just had sex in an apartment, consumed alcohol and “had become drunk.” They had then gone to the cafe afterwards.

Police reported to have phone the father of the two GCC girls, but he said he could not come to Kuwait as he was busy. The girls have been referred to the Criminal Investigations Department.

According to Marwa Tarek, a women’s rights activist and blogger in Kuwait, the women could face a number of criminal charges, especially if they are accused of being lesbians.

“The crime and penalty for being gay is not a nice one here and they could be facing years in prison if the accusations they had consensual sex are proven true,” she told Bikyamasr.com.

Tarek said that she questions how the boy saw any of them naked, as the abaya usually covers the entirety of the body and is difficult to see through.

“The boy was probably peeking underneath and then told his mother. It is the boy who should be in trouble, not the three women who did nothing wrong except be in public. I know a lot of women who often wear nothing underneath their abaya because it is so hot and nobody can see,” she added.

That ought to give a rise to tourism.

Convicted North Carolina Jihadist Accused of Plotting to Behead Witnesses

The jihad plot on Marine base at Quantico Bay was thwarted before they could strap one on. But even after the conviction, the jihad never stops. Hysen Sherifi activated family members in an assassination plot of witnesses who testified against him (one of the family members was his sister, a teacher). I am sure they were moderates, too.

These Muslim terrorists hailed from ...... Kosovo. The gift that keeps on giving.

Convicted terrorist accused of plotting to kill witnesses FOX News

RALEIGH, N.C. –  A North Carolina man sentenced to prison recently as part of a homegrown terrorist ring has been accused in a federal court document of plotting to kill witnesses who testified against him at trial.

An affidavit unsealed in federal court Monday accuses Hysen Sherifi of plotting against the witnesses from his jail cell. Authorities say an FBI informant posing as a hit man met with Sherifi's brother and a female friend and accepted $5,000 and a photo of an intended victim.

FBI agents have arrested the brother, Shkumbin Sherifi, and Nevine Aly Elshiekh, a school teacher. Now in federal custody at the New Hanover County Jail, each is charged with a felony count of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire.

Hysen Sherifi, 27, was sentenced to 45 years in prison earlier this month in what prosecutors described as a conspiracy to attack the Marine base at Quantico, Va., and targets abroad. Five others, including construction contractor Daniel Patrick Boyd, have been sentenced to federal prison terms for terrorism charges related to raising money, stockpiling weapons and training in preparation for jihadist attacks.

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In a 10-page affidavit filed under seal Friday, FBI Special Agent James Langtry writes that he developed a source as a confidential informant inside the New Hanover County Jail near Wilmington, where Hysen Sherifi was sent after a jury convicted him in October.

The informant soon befriended Sherifi, who requested help in hiring someone to kill three people who had testified against him at his trial, according to the affidavit. Sherifi specified that he wanted the witnesses beheaded and that he would be provided photos of the severed heads as confirmation of the deaths, according to the document.

FBI agents said in the document that they arranged for a second informant to pose as a hit man and monitored Sherifi during a series of jailhouse visits with Elshiekh.

Following a Dec. 21 visit at the jail, Elshiekh left a voicemail on the fake hit man's cell phone, identifying herself as "Hysen Sherifi's friend," according to the affidavit. It added that the FBI observed and recorded subsequent meetings between Elshiekh and the fake hit man, during which she provided names, addresses and photos of those targeted and $750 in cash toward the first murder.

Agents also observed Elshiekh meeting with Shkumbin Sherifi, who met with the FBI's fake hitman on Jan. 8, the court document said. According to the affidavit, the brother traveled from Raleigh to Wilmington to provide the hit man another $4,250 in cash.

The affidavit provides no information about the nature of the relationship between Hysen Sherifi and Elshiekh, but a woman with that same name was quoted in media reports from last year's terrorism trial in New Bern. The names of the witnesses allegedly targeted were redacted from the affidavit.

Nevine Elshiekh is listed as a special education teacher on the website for Sterling Montessori Academy, a charter school in Mooresville. Bill Zajic, the school's executive director, did not return a message from the Associated Press on Tuesday.

No one answered the phone at Elshiekh's Raleigh home Tuesday.

The Sherifi brothers and other family members emigrated from Kosovo following the wars that ravaged the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. A call to the Sherifi family home in Raleigh on Tuesday was not returned.

Hysen Sherifi and others arrested in the terrorism conspiracy were members of the Islamic Association of Raleigh, the largest Muslim congregation in the Triangle. Several members of the mosque also routinely made the 4-hour round trip for the trial in New Bern to support the accused, who they described as innocent men being railroaded by overzealous federal authorities.

Messages to the media contact listed for the mosque were not returned.

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"We the People"

Ava Aston is a recording artist who happens to be a conservative from New York (booya!). She was moved to write and record this song ("WE THE PEOPLE") because of the coming election. Her desire to write this song came out of her frustration of what she saw happening in our country since the Obama  administration took office. She wrote me:

My father came to America from Greece with $20 in his pocket before I was born to live the American Dream, he worked hard and became a success.  I grew up with a respect and reverence for the amazing opportunity that is available here in America and no place else in the world.  I have been trying to get this song and it's message out to the masses since I wrote it back in the fall of 2009.  I did so in hopes of affecting the minds of the American voters and sharing the message of our founding fathers.

The reason for my writing to you today is that I was hoping you could possibly share the video with your members and/or list the video on your website, or anywhere that you may deem it to be appropriate to be exposed to our voting populous. I really feel it can help inspire people to get fired up to get involved as it is now or never! 

Everyone must contribute to this fight in whatever way they can. We the people, indeed.

Muslim Cannibal acquitted in UK (Jewish Student Bitten on the cheek by a Muslim University Lecturer)

Grotesque ruling from a grosteque judge. More anti-Islam press.

"Self-defence" is when a holocaust denier is filmed and he bites the cameraman.

SOAS 'biter' acquitted of assault TheJC Jessica Elgot, January 24, 2012 (hat tip Armaros)

The alleged attack took place at SOAS's Israel Apartheid Week
A PhD student who bit a pro-Israel campaigner on the cheek at SOAS Israel Apartheid Week has been acquitted of assault.
Mohamed Abdelkarim was accused of biting Dean Gold on the face during a tussle on March 20 last year, while Mr Gold was filming a man at the event who was making obscene remarks about the Holocaust. After Mr Abdelkarim knocked the camera out of Mr Gold's hand, both accused the other of throwing the first punch.
Mr Abdelkarim said the bite had been in self-defence, as he was immobilised by Mr Gold.
Both were originally charged with assault, but charges against Mr Gold were later dropped.
Three witnesses from the pro-Israeli campaign outside the university gave evidence, as did others attending the event.
District Judge James Henderson said political points of view of the witnesses had affected “what they saw and what how they interpreted it.”
But Kuwait-born Mr Abdelkarim, 44, a father-of-two and part time university lecturer, was “consistent and believable”, the judge said. He said: “I cannot be sure that Mr Abdelkarim was not acting in self-defence. The prosecution have not achieved that.”
A second charge of criminal damage to Mr Gold’s flip camera was also dismissed, as Judge Henderson said there was not proof cosmetic damage to the camera was not caused during the 10 months it was in police care.

#SOTU Tweets

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Here are tonight's #SOTU tweets:

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Obama is Bagdad Bob #SOTU #Nailsonachalkboard

8 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Anyone, even Howdy Doody, in a landslide, bet!“@sallykohn:bet obama wins re-election chancesgetting better byday,&GOPcandidates getting ewaker”

10 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Here comes the soap opera drama and inflection --- give that man a raspberry! #badactor #statistoftheunion #SOTU

14 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

ur right, bowing“@JamesWolcott: Gonna be a little harder for Mitt Romney2continue saying(lying)thatObama goes around world "apologizing."

17 minutes ago

johnhawkinsrwn John Hawkins

I will bow to as many people as it takes & lead from behind as much as possible to keep America as an indispensable nation.

18 minutes ago

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Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

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@sallykohn wanna bet on what? with whose dough? Yours or the taxpayers? #SOTU

19 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Ahmadinejad and the mullahcracy are laughing at this weakling -- and he's using Israel to puff himself up? Ugh #SOTU #Vilelittleman

20 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Libya? He is touting Libya??? - a sharia government with jihadist and al qaeda elements. Asshattery. #SOTU #nailschalkboard

22 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

lml- He defeated jihad.. Meanwhile daily jihadist arrests in America, Thailand, Indonesia, UK, France, Russia, Denmark, Ethiopia, Bangladesh

23 minutes ago

TimJGraham Tim Graham

Obama lecturing about deficits is like Kim Kardashian lecturing about marriage.

28 minutes ago

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Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Obama lies: I believe what Repub.Lincoln believed...gov't should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves & no more #SOTU

25 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Yes, O, all Americans are thinking the same thing right now, your losing the 2012 election #SOTU #nailschalkboard

28 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

You go jobkiller! Demonize millionaires and wealth creators. Vile little man. O begrudges America her exceptionalism #SOTU #nailschalkboard

30 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Big cancer grows.Another behemoth gvmt agency that will criminalize and prosecute 'mortgage misconduct' & businessmen #SOTU #nailschalkboard

34 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Here we go - blaming everyone for his incompetency in handling BP spill - this man has no conscience shees #SOTU Nails in a chalkboard

37 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Doncha love when he acts - uses those inflections to show faux enthusiasm, and those bad jokes about milk--give him a raspberry award! #SOTU

39 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Building a "new energy future" -- windmills and turbines - snakeoil from a snake #SOTU Nails on a chalkboard

43 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

"clean energy" it's all a political fraud - all of it #SOTU nails on a chalkboard

44 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

"I will not walk away!" Please, walk away, please #SOTU Nails ona chalkboard

46 minutes ago

ybrook Yaron Brook

Here goes -- bogus gov programs to promote fictional new energy sources.

48 minutes ago

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Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Relied less on foreign oil?? Because consumption is down, economy is down…failure=less oil consumption Great Plan, Statist in Chief #SOTU

48 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Energy! Kill the pipeline! Fill shale, coal, fracking! OMG he is touting his energy record LML! #SOTU nails on a chalkboard

49 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

What does the Statist in Chief know about work? Jobs? Employment? Man never worked a real job. I mean seriously. #SOTU Nails on a chalkboard

50 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Every time he says fair *drink!* #SOTU Nails on a chalkboard

53 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Al Franken, Obama, Sheila Jackson …..it's like a failed SNL skit #SOTU Nails on a chalkboard

54 minutes ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

#SOTU Blame Bush! - Statist of the Union is such a pussy

1 hour ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Uh oh, here it comes - Statist of the union invoking collectivist "fairness" - that is so Marx #sotu

1 hour ago

Atlasshrugs Pamela Geller

Statist of the Union address-Obama is implying the global jihad has been defeated-lml! His grandstanding is like nails on a chalkboard

1 hour ago

The Cancer Grows: Livetweeting #SOTU

UPDATE: Livetweeting the Statist of the Union address.  Join me here.

Politico is reporting that Obama will announce another behemoth government agency, calling it the "mortgage crisis unit." It will "be headed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, his office confirmed to POLITICO. The unit will criminalize and prosecute 'mortgage misconduct' and 'illegal activities."

More criminalization of the businessman.

It will be announced tonight in Obama's Statist of the Union address.

In other news of government skulduggery: Spirit Airlines sent this to their customers (hat tip Sean):

WARNING:
New government regulations require us to HIDE taxes in your fares.

This is not consumer-friendly or in your best interest. It's wrong and you shouldn't stand for it.
Starting January 24, 2012, fares are distorted.
Why?
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares.
If the government can hide taxes in your airfares, then they can carry out their hidden agenda and quietly increase their taxes. (Yes, such talks are already underway.)
And if they can do it to the airline industry, what's next?
As the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline, Spirit DOES NOT support this new USDOT mandate. We believe the better form of transparency is to break out costs so customers know exactly what they're buying.
What can you do to help stop this injustice?
Join us in keeping government taxes and fees low and transparent by contacting your elected officials.

And a word from Ayn Rand: Businessmen vs. Bureaucrats

A businessman’s success depends on his intelligence, his knowledge, his productive ability, his economic judgment—and on the voluntary agreement of all those he deals with: his customers, his suppliers, his employees, his creditors or investors. A bureaucrat’s success depends on his political pull. A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not—and the more advanced the stage of a country’s statism, the wider and more discretionary the powers wielded by a bureaucrat. If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes.

“From My ‘Future File,’”
The Ayn Rand Letter, III, 26, 5

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A businessman cannot force you to work for him or to accept the wages he offers; you are free to seek employment elsewhere and to accept a better offer, if you can find it. (Remember, in this context, that jobs do not exist “in nature,” that they do not grow on trees, that someone has to create the job you need, and that that someone, the businessman, will go out of business if he pays you more than the market permits him to pay you.) A bureaucrat can force you to work for him, when he achieves the totalitarian power he seeks; he can force you to accept any payment he offers—or none, as witness the forced labor camps in the countries of full statism.

The businessman’s tool is values; the bureaucrat’s tool is fear.

“America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,”
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 48

Muslim Football Players in Dearborn Heights Arrested for Assault on Christian Quarterback

It appears that the contention is that Muslims can beat up anybody they want, but if they are charged, it is islamophobia.

One can only imagine the nationwide crackdown on infidels if four Christian football players attacked a Muslim quarterback (and then alleged Jesusophobia).

Muslim Football Players in Dearborn Heights Arrested for Assault on Christian Quarterback Answering Muslims

I'm not sure what motivated these Muslim players to rip off a quarterback's helmet and beat him senseless, but if their lawyer is claiming that their arrests were racially motivated (Islamophobia, of course), then I will say that the attacks themselves were racially motivated (Christianophobia). Could you imagine the media uproar if four Christian players had given a Muslim quarterback a concussion?

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A figurative beat down turned literal beating has led to the felony arrests of a group of local high school football players.

Police arrested four Star International Academy seniors Wednesday on aggravated assault charges stemming from an altercation in the team’s last game of the season.

The players -- Mohamed Ahmed, Fanar Al-Alsady, Hadee Attia and Ali Bajjey, all age 17 -- are accused of gang-beating Lutheran Westland’s quarterback as time expired in Lutheran’s 47-6 drubbing of Star on Oct. 21.

According to numerous witness statements gathered by police, Lutheran’s quarterback was set to take a knee to run out the clock. Before the snap, referees told both teams to refrain from contact, police said.

After the snap, however, the four arrested Star players burst through the line and allegedly manhandled Lutheran’s quarterback. Police said they ripped off his helmet, threw him to the ground and punched and kicked him repeatedly. The incident came to an end after coaches, players and refs stepped in and broke it up.

Police took a statement from a referee who said he heard a Star player say to hit the referees after being directed to not hit the other team.

According to published reports, Lutheran’s quarterback suffered a concussion from the beating. (Source)

UPDATE: Hamas-CAIR is all over it --

But the Council on American-Islamic Relations held a news conference Tuesday on the basis that the allegations are not true.

CAIR said there is new video showing the incident was "greatly exaggerated" and that the players were targeted because they were Arab-American.

"We believe that from the very beginning that, if these young men may have been of a different ethnicity, of a different religion, different skin color, that Dearborn Heights police officer most likely would not have been so aggressive in the means in which he carried out his investigation," said CAIR Executive Director Dawud Walid.

Pamela Geller on Jaz Mckay Show

Listen today to my regular gig on today's Jaz McKay Show, on KNZR at 1560 AM and 97.7 FM at 4pm. Listen LIVE. We will take it all apart for you and put it back together.

 

What Anti-Islam Press?

The clueless and complicit rally round an annihilationist ideology in the hope that what? If the media, which does a poor job of reporting on jihad as it is, stops reporting on the slaughter of non-Muslims, secular Muslims, Jews, Hindus Sikhs, honor killings, clitorectomies, etc., then all will be right with jihad.

A is A whether these navel gazing leftists like it or not. A rose by any other name ....jihad by any other name, you get the picture. The funny thing is that the media, the left, and the politicians will address everything except the very thing that inspires this violence, mass murder and oppression.

Such denial and stupidty is without peer. Look at the list of tools:

UK: Islamic supremacists, Leftists demand "inquiry into anti-Islam press" Jihadwatch

What anti-Islam press? The mainstream media in both the U.K. and the U.S. has been for years and remains completely unwilling to discuss jihad and Islamic supremacism. When mainstream reporters are forced to report on jihad activity, they regularly ascribe it to other factors or obscure its motives. Thus we hear about "militants," "insurgents," and "youths" in connection with violent jihad activity, while being endlessly regaled with articles designed to intimidate people into thinking that concern about the stealth jihad and creeping Sharia is "Islamophobia."

This initiative is designed to shut down the last vestiges of truth-telling about jihad and Islamic supremacist in the British mainstream media. Note also that among the signers is not only once-fashionable Leftist Bianca Jagger, but Moazzam Begg, an apologist for Anwar al-Awlaki. That's right: the fox is demanding that the farmer stop his anti-fox activity of guarding the henhouse.

"We need an inquiry into anti-Islam press," from The Guardian, January 23 (thanks to Steven):

Over the past decade, a number of academic studies have indicated a worrying and disproportionate trend towards negative, distorted and even fabricated reports in media coverage of the Muslim community. Recent research at Cambridge University concludes that "a wider set of representations of Islam would signify a welcome change to reporting practices. Muslims deserve a better press than they have been given in the past decade." And according to a recent ComRes poll, one in three people in Britain today believe that the media is responsible for "whipping up a climate of fear of Islam in the UK".

The Leveson inquiry has so far failed to adequately address unfair media coverage as it relates to less prominent cases, including those relating to Muslims and Islam, focusing as it does on the impact of phone hacking on celebrities and other high-profile individuals.

An alternative inquiry is necessary to investigate what many regard as widespread and systematic discriminatory practices in reporting on Muslims and Islam in the British media. Victims – whether prominent or not – of alleged discriminatory media coverage have a right to have their testimonies catalogued and examined thoroughly by credible, independent assessors. Recommendations can then be made to improve ethical standards in the reporting of not solely the Muslim community but of all sections of society.

Imran Khan Human rights solicitor
Bianca Jagger Chair, Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation
Michael Rosen Writer
Jeremy Corbyn MP
Jemima Khan
Navnit Dholakia Deputy leader, Liberal Democrats, House of Lords
Mohamed Ali Harrath Islam Channel
Hajj Ahmad Thomson Barrister
Jenny Jones Assembly member (Green), London Assembly
Andrew Boff Assembly member (Conservative), London Assembly
Rabbi Janet Burden
Walter Wolfgang
Hugh Lanning Chair, Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Sanum Ghafoor, blogger
Jean Lambert, MEP, London
Peter Murray Former president, NUJ
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari Chair, East London Mosque
Dr Omer El-Hamdoon Muslim Association of Britain
Massoud Shadjareh Islamic Human Rights Commission
Sunny Hundal Liberal Conspiracy
Ahmed J Versi The Muslim News
John Rees Counterfire
Vivien Lichtenstein
Anas Altikriti Cordoba Foundation
Miriam Margolyes
Farooq Murad Muslim Council of Britain
Sarah Colborne Director, Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Dr Daud Abdullah Middle East Monitor
Moazzam Begg Cageprisoners
Phil Rees Out of Office Films
Nabil Ahmed Federation of Student Islamic Societies
Abdullah Faliq Islamic Forum of Europe
Rabbi Jeffrey Newman
Cllr Larry Sanders Oxfordshire county council
Diana Neslen
Shemiza Rashid Director, The Creative Muslim Network
Na'ima B Roberts Editor, Sisters Magazine
Asa Winstanley The Electronic Intifada
Richard Peppiatt Writer and former tabloid reporter
Shazia Arshad Human rights campaigner
Myriam Francois Cerrah Activist
Murtaza Shibli Journalist and author
Lindsey German Stop The War Coalition
Murad Qureshi Assembly member, London Assembly
Cat Smith Chair, Next Generation Labour (pc)
Robert Pitt Islamophobia Watch
Dr Alana Lentin University of Sussex
Robin Richardson Insted Consultancy
Cat Boyd Coalition of Resistance Glasgow
Baroness Pola Uddin
Sean Rillo Raczka University of London Union
Chris Nineham Enough Coalition Against Islamophobia
Mark McDonald Barrister
Dan Poulton Journalist
Yasmin Khatun Producer
Frances Legg Producer
Chris Bambery Journalist
Sadiya Chowdhury Journalist
Supporters of the The Alternative Leveson inquiry

Israeli consulate in Boston receives envelope with anthrax

The Israeli consulate in Boston received an envelope with anthrax on Monday. (Israel Matzav has the video) hat tip Jack

Arutz Sheva reports that Boston is not the only Israeli diplomatic installation that received white powder on Monday, but the others were apparently false alarms.

The local CBS outlet quoted Fire Chief Steve Dunbar as saying, “The initial reports were that there was some white powder. They felt the envelope and the particles of grain, so they wisely decided to isolate it into their specialized containment vessel, and that was a smart move on their behalf.”

A similar scare was reported at a Rhode Island government office and at five other Israeli missions, including New York, Houston, Texas and London. The substances were found to be harmless.

The Anthrax scare appears to be a new epidemic that began last week with a scare in Florida, where the Palm Beach International Airport was partially evacuated, White powder was found on the carpet and later was determined to be harmless.

Some of you may recall that in November, Occupy Boston attempted to storm the same Israeli consulate.

Mitt Romney Praises Hezbollah

I think the video is stark proof of how clueless Romney is on jihad. His previous statements, "jihadism Is not part of Islam" and "Islam is not an inherently violent faith," show a willful ignorance on a crucial issue facing the nation.

This video is from 2007, when then (and current) Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is holding a town hall meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa. One of the members of the audience asked him if he would commit the money necessary to continue President Bush's AIDS program in Africa as a way to restore good will toward America. His answer, while not picked up on by the members of the audience, absolutely floored me. He started out by agreeing with the premise of the question, touting America's health care system -- then he dropped the bombshell.

Mitt Romney is praising Hezbollah's healthcare system, and says at the end of the video that we should support muslim countries with our legal and healthcare systems to fight jihadism. 

We know that a higher education and living standard are not inversely associated with less terrorism. At all. The 911 hijackers were well educated, and some were well off. The Christmas balls bomber was a UK-educated son of a diplomat. The recent arrest of a Texas Muslim was a US boarding school student who became an Al Qaeda homicide bomber. The Glasgow jihadists were wealthy physicians. Osama bin Laden himself was a scion of an extremely wealthy family.

Romney's ignorance and pandering to jihadists are stunning. It's surprising that this vid hasn't been picked up by Newt Gingrich yet. I am sure that what Romney says here would be a significant blow to his campaign if people knew about it. (hat tip Robert W.)

Romney: ..."Did you notice in Lebanon, what Hezbollah did? Lebanon became a democracy some time ago and while their government was getting underway, Hezbollah went into southern Lebanon and provided health clinics to some of the people there, and schools. And they built their support there by having done so. That kind of diplomacy is something that would help America become stronger around the world and help people understand that our interest is an interest towards modernity and goodness and freedom for all people in the world. And so, I want to see America carry out that kind of health diplomacy..."

OT but related: Coulter's tirade against Newt on Bull O'Reilly's show last night (watch it here) was not logical or coherent with her positions. Her hatred for Gingrich is visceral, abiding, and inexplicable rationally. There is something more here. Personal, perhaps? 

Comparing Newt to Jesse Jackson is an outrageous charge. She is way off base, and O'Reilly ought to have a conservative pundit out as vocal in their support of Newt as she was in support of Romney.

She is ...unhinged, and I hate to use that word because it is used against me with such venom and dishonesty, but you can see she is beside herself. She is staking out positions she wouldn't support in other contexts, like covering for mainstream media reporters.

Romney is more conservative than any of the other candidates? Nuts. More than Santorum? More than Ron Paul, who is largely conservative except for nuts on foreign policy? Something else is happening here. They must know each other and hate each other for some reason we don't know.

Occupy AIPAC Next Step for Hate Group

It's funny (/not), I have been covering these anti-Jewish, pro-jihad protests for years. They are awful -- so awful, in fact, that the mainstream media has had to ignore them, as the hatred and inctement to violence would revolt most Americans.

Finally, the Jew-haters have a "respectable" name they can associate with: the Obama-endorsed #OWS. And using this co-opted title, they include all of the subversives and jihadi operatives under this umbrella -- even the 'respectable' ones like the Iranian regime's über lobbyist, Trita Parsi.

Obama-endorsed Occupy Wall Street: "Blame the Jews" "Hitler's Bankers, Wall Street"

“End the Fed. Turn off the spigot!!!”, with an illustration showing Stars of David (containing the word “Zion”), missiles, and dollar signs, implying either that Jewish influence in the Federal government is what causes war funding, or that Jews pressure the government to send military aid to Israel, or both.

Occupy AIPAC Next Step for Leftist Group Commentary

Many Jewish liberals have been in denial about the anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic tone of much of the Occupy Wall Street movement since its inception. As our colleague Jonathan Neumann wrote in the January issue of COMMENTARY, the leftist hatred for Israel is thoroughly integrated into the Occupy worldview even though some mainstream sympathizers with the movement would prefer to ignore it. But their tolerance for the way this virus has attached itself to a movement that is supposedly about “social justice” will soon be put to the test again.

The so-called U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is organizing an Occupy AIPAC event set to coincide with the annual national conference in Washington, D.C. of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in March. The group, an anti-Zionist organization dedicated to promoting boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel is hoping to piggyback on the popularity of the Occupy movement to try to sabotage or at least overshadow the AIPAC event. Though the odds are, it will fail, as most such anti-Israel efforts generally do, the manner with which this BDS group has commandeered the Occupy brand name ought to alert liberals to the direction the movement is headed with respect to Israel and the Jews.

Anti-Israel protests at AIPAC are nothing new but the way the BDS coalition has neatly appropriated the slogans and the spirit of the movement praised by Obama could give these outliers a bit more prominence and a more respectful hearing in a mainstream press that has bent over backwards to excuse the excesses of the occupiers.

Even more importantly, the identification of this viciously anti-Zionist group with the mainstream of the Occupy movement ought to shock get the attention of liberals who have refused to acknowledge the connection between the hard left and anti-Semitism. As Neumann points out in his article, far from being a marginal phenomenon, the link between the neo-Marxism of the occupiers and the BDS crowd is far from tenuous. The occupiers and the Israel-haters are natural allies. The only question is when, if ever, are mainstream Jewish liberals who want nothing to do with the Occupy AIPAC leftists going to face up to the fact that there is no distance between this group and the rest of the Occupy mob.

Anti-Jewish haters at AIPAC 2011 here:

Self-loathing Jew Medea Benjamin (nee Susan, who changed her name to that of the monster who killed her children; I guess "Eva Braun" was taken) was dancing wildly with the hijabed one on the left. Medea is a constant vistor to the White House, acting as an emissary between Obama and Hamas.

 


AIPAC flotilla

The haters erected their hatred of Jews wall. One of many spectacles in the circus of genocidal aspirations.

Proud Nazis

Egypt's New Parliament Speaker Supports Clitorectomies

"Nothing in Islam forbids clitorectomy," said Saad al-Katatni, president of Egypt's main opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

Female genital mutilation can cause death through hemorrhaging and later complications during childbirth. It also carries risks of infection, urinary tract problems and mental trauma. Al Arabiya, June 7, 2008) (hat tip Ali Haider)

Last week I posted that Muslim Brotherhood Saad Al Katani was elected to  Egypt’s first Islamic parliament speaker.

Mubarak had banned these barbarians. Now they rule. According to the illustrious historian and Human Rights commission Geneva NGO David Littman, over 95% of the women in Egypt have been clitorectomized (more here and here). I guess we can now look forward to 100%.

(Mohammed Abu Zaid/Associated Press) - Saad el-Katatni, secretary general for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, right, attends a press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. El-Katatni, secretary general of the influential Muslim Brotherhood political arm, has been selected Monday by a number of Islamic  to hold the post when the parliament convenes on Jan. 23. (hat tip WaPo)

January 2011 flashback to a Sandmonkey tweet that was retweeted by Mona Eltahawy, another Egyptian protest lover who was subsequently sexually attacked at one of these "freedom" protests. Of course, I disagreed with Sandmonkey and had my public falling out with him over my insistence that the Muslim Brotherhood was very much a major player in the overthrow of Mubarak and whatever freedom Egyptians had enjoyed under his government.

Flashback January 2011:

As I predicted by Atlas in January 2011, the Islamic supremacist killers have swept the elections in Egypt. Even then the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader was ululating"Prepare for War with Israel"

How the left was deriding me for questioning big media's narrative of freedom lovers and democracy (here, too). So why isn't this splashed across the newspages, front pages and broadcast news ledes across the country? Instead, these spineless, gutless wonders slithered back under their rocks.

French Senate passes Armenian Genocide law

 

The French Senate passed a genocide law. The bill makes it a criminal offence to deny that Turks committed genocide against Armenians. I don't believe in criminalizing free speech, but I do believe in the recognition of the islamic genocide against the Armenian Christians. Denying Islamic annihilationism is a crime against humanity.

Everybody .....  but America.

Under a hostile Obama administration, America is increasingly behind the curve in defense of freedom, freedom of speech, of freedom of conscience and equality of rights for all.

The Israeli Knesset is moving towards officially recognizing the massacre of over one and half million Armenians in Turkey by the Muslims as a genocide. The Jewish people had close to half their people annihilated in the holocaust. The Armenian genocide was Hitler's template. And Hitler's ally, the leader of the  Muslim world, the Mufti al-Husseini, was an Ottoman Empire officer during the Armenian genocide.

On December 8, 1938, Lord Harlech said this of the Muslim Mufti of Jerusalem in a debate in the House of Lords: "He was a Turkish Staff officer --- and incidentally a Turk who knew him thought he was the blackest-hearted man in the Middle East."

In "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau, he wrote:

"My only reason for relating such dreadful things as this is that, without the details, the English-speaking public cannot understand precisely what this nation is which we call Turkey. . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. [Written, of course, before the Holocaust.]. . . [The Armenian atrocities] were the product of religious fanaticism and most of the men and women who instigated them sincerely believed that they were devoutly serving their Maker." (page 221)

(CBS)  The Ottoman Turks developed a template, which according to genocide scholars, was later adopted by the Nazis.

"Most dramatically we have Adolf Hitler saying eight days before invading Poland in 1939, 'Who today, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?' Hitler was inspired by the Armenian extermination. You know, it made him think, 'Well, sure you know, you can get rid of a hated minority group and if you're powerful and your side wins, that event will never get recorded,'" Balakian explained.

Obama campaigned on this and promised to designate the Armenian genocide a genocide, but of course he was just flapping his tongue. Instead, President Barack Hussein calls them them....."great atrocities."

Kudos to France for speaking the truth out loud. Expect the ummah to riot, stomp, threaten and incite for jihad because the truth is exposed about this jihadi genocide. They have already begun "agitating" in France.

French Senate passes Armenian genocide law BBC

Thousands took to the streets of Paris on Saturday to demonstrate against the bill

The French Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it a criminal offence to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I.

Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died in 1915-16 as the Ottoman empire split. Turkey rejects the term genocide and says the number was much smaller.

The measure will now be sent to President Sarkozy for final approval.

The bill's passage in the lower house caused major tensions with Turkey.

Ankara froze ties with France after the vote last month and promised further measures if the Senate backed the proposal.

In the event the Senate approved the bill by 127 votes to 86.

The BBC's correspondent in Istanbul, Jonathan Head, says stronger Turkish measures could include the withdrawal of ambassadors and creating more barriers to French businesses in Turkey.

In the first reaction from Ankara, Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin condemned the bill.

"The decision made by the Senate is a great injustice and shows total lack of respect for Turkey," he told the CNN-Turk television channel.

The Turkish embassy in Paris warned that if President Sarkozy approved the bill, the damage done to relations between the two countries would be permanent.

"France is in the process of losing a strategic partner," Turkish embassy spokesman, Engin Solakoglu, told AFP news agency.

Armenia described the vote as "historic".

"This day will be written in gold not only in the history of friendship between the Armenian and French peoples, but also in the annals of the history of the protection of human rights worldwide," said Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, in a statement carried by AFP.

[...]

France formally recognised the killings as genocide in 2001, one of more than 20 countries which have done so.

The current bill means that anyone denying the deaths were genocide would face a jail term and a fine of 45,000 euros (£29,000; $58,000).

The bill was put forward by President Sarkozy's UMP party.

France has half a million citizens of Armenian descent, and correspondents say their votes may be important in this year's presidential elections.

Ahead of the vote, a spokesman for the French foreign ministry called for "calm," saying Turkey was a partner and a very important ally of France.

March 2010: Time for President Obama, MSM, To Tell the Truth About the Armenian Genocide Pamela Geller

NYC Protest Greek, Armenian, Assyrian Genocides by Islamic Jihad

Video: Pamela Geller Remarks at NYC Protest Greek, Armenian, Assyrian Genocides by Islamic Jihad

Where did the Jews of Afghanistan go?

Why did they leave tolerant Islamic Afghanistan?

Ancient Jewish scrolls found in north Afghanistan Reuters (hat tip Robert Spencer)

KABUL (Reuters) - A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan that has only recently come to light is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry.

The 150 or so documents, dated from the 11th century, were found in Afghanistan's Samangan province and most likely smuggled out -- a sorry but common fate for the impoverished and war-torn country's antiquities.

Israeli emeritus professor Shaul Shaked, who has examined some of the poems, commercial records and judicial agreements that make up the treasure, said while the existence of ancient Afghan Jewry is known, their culture was still a mystery.

"Here, for the first time, we see evidence and we can actually study the writings of this Jewish community. It's very exciting," Shaked told Reuters by telephone from Israel, where he teaches at the Comparative Religion and Iranian Studies department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The hoard is currently being kept by private antique dealers in London, who have been producing a trickle of new documents over the past two years, which is when Shaked believes they were found and pirated out of Afghanistan in a clandestine operation.

It is likely they belonged to Jewish merchants on the Silk Road running across Central Asia, said T. Michael Law, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford University's Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

"They might have been left there by merchants travelling along the way, but they could also come from another nearby area and deposited for a reason we do not yet understand," Law said.

"SOLD ELSEWHERE FOR TEN TIMES MORE"

Cultural authorities in Kabul had mixed reactions to the find, which scholars say is without a doubt from Afghanistan, arguing that the Judeo-Persian language used on the scrolls is similar to other Afghan Jewish manuscripts.

National Archives director Sakhi Muneer outright denied the find was Afghan, arguing that he would have seen it, but an advisor in the Culture Ministry said it "cannot be confirmed but it is entirely possible."

"A lot of old documents and sculptures are not brought to us but are sold elsewhere for ten times the price," said advisor Jalal Norani, explaining that excavators and ordinary people who stumble across finds sell them to middlemen who then auction them off in Iran, Pakistan and Europe.

"Unfortunately, we cannot stop this," Norani said. The Culture Ministry, he said, pays on average $1,500 for a recovered antique item. The Hebrew University's Shaked estimated the Jewish documents' worth at several million dollars.

Thirty years of war and conflict have severely hindered both the collecting and preserving of Afghanistan's antiquities, and the Culture Ministry said endemic corruption and poverty meant many new discoveries do not even reach them.

Treason: Former CIA officer (Dem staffer) Charged in Leaking Classified names to Al Qaeda

I would hang 'em high for treason and would vote for a patriot who promised the same.

Drudge headline says he was a Dem staffer, but I did not see that in the article. The NY  Times and ABC were also involved in the publication of covert names. We knew; we protested the NY Crimes here, remember?

I did note this pearl:

"Critics warn that the crackdown will erode the ability of news organizations to expose government abuses."

That must be President Bush and Republican abuses, since the press obviously has no interest in Obama's abuses of the Constitution.

Senate Democratic staffer arrested for disclosing identities of CIA operatives to al Qaeda Gitmo inmates...

Former CIA officer charged in alleged leaks Washington Post (hat tip Van)

The Justice Department on Monday charged a former CIA officer with repeatedly leaking classified information, including the identities of agency operatives involved in the capture and interrogation of alleged terrorists.

The case against John Kiriakou, who also served as a senior Senate aide, extends the Obama administration’s crackdown on disclosures of national security secrets. Kiriakou, 47, is the sixth target of a leaks-related prosecution since President Obama took office, exceeding the total number of comparable prosecutions under all previous administrations combined, legal experts said.

Kiriakou, who was among the first to go public with details about the CIA’s use of water-

boarding and other harsh interrogation measures, was charged with disclosing classified information to reporters and lying to the agency about the origin of other sensitive material he published in a book. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

In its criminal filing, the Justice Department obscured many of the details of Kiriakou’s alleged disclosures. But the document suggests that Kiriakou, 47, was a source for stories by The New York Times and other news organizations in 2008 and 2009 about some of the agency’s most sensitive operations after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. These include the capture of alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaida and the interrogation of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

The Justice Department said that the information Kiriakou supplied to journalists also contributed to a subsequent security breach at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, enabling defense attorneys there to obtain photographs of CIA operatives suspected of being involved in harsh interrogations. Some of the pictures were subsequently discovered in the cells of high-value detainees.

Kiriakou, who worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, was charged with four counts, including disclosing the identity of an undercover officer and providing classified information to individuals not authorized to receive it.

In an appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria Monday afternoon, Magistrate Judge John F. Anderson set bond at $250,000 for Kiriakou, who was also forced to surrender his passport and restrict his travel to the Washington, D.C. area.

Kiriakou did not comment on the charges in court. He wore a blue dress shirt and black dress slacks but no tie. Plato Cacheris, Kiriakou’s attorney, said his client would plead not guilty and expected to be released on bond.

The surge in such prosecutions is seen as a measure of the Obama administration’s determination to root out leaks but may also reflect the government’s expanded ability to mine suspects’ e-mail accounts and other digital devices for incriminating evidence.

The complaint filed Monday includes numerous passages apparently taken from Kiriakou’s e-mail exchanges with reporters as well as former CIA colleagues.

Critics warn that the crackdown will erode the ability of news organizations to expose government abuses. Steven Aftergood, an expert on government secrecy issues at the Federation of American Scientists, noted that Kiriakou is accused of being a source on stories about CIA interrogation measures that President Obama described as torture.