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RABBI HIER:THE WORLD OF LIGHT AND THE WORLD OF DARKNESS

Rabbi Hier gets it. he understand the enemy. Following a visit to Holocaust sites in Europe, Rabbi Hier came to Los Angeles to create the Simon Wiesenthal Center.What is so striking about Rabbi's Hier's speech is despite witnessing the horrors of the holocaust, he warns that Islam is worse.
"The world has never experienced such a plague of darkness like the plague of Islamic fundamentalism that reveres death over life – that teaches young people that the preferred way to get to heaven is by murdering and maiming. Even the worst murderers in the history of mankind, the Nazis, who gassed millions - for themselves would do anything to live another day"

Fund for surviving child of slaughtered rabbi: (hat tip Randall via  Michael Savage)
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Chabad India
Moshe Holtzberg Foundation
770 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11213

The Simon Wiesenthal Center - this just about sums it up for me.

COMMUNITY MEMORIAL FOR RABBI GAVRIEL HOLTZBERG AND RIVKA
Delivered by Rabbi Marvin Hier(hat tip wolf)

Chabad House, Westwood - November 30, 2008

What is there to say or speak? What has become of our world? First, let me express my heartfelt sympathy to all the victims in Mumbai of this horrific attack – Jews and non-Jews, the families of the murdered, the maimed and the traumatized.

Every Saturday night when Shabbat concludes, Jews around the world make a special blessing, “Blessed are you Almighty…who has separated the holy from the secular – light from darkness.” Never has there been such a clear distinction between the world of light and the world of darkness.

In one community, a wonderful 29-year-old Rav Gavriel Holtzberg and his 28-year-old wife Rivka, of blessed memory, were in their Chabad house and what were they doing my friends? Helping people – meals for strangers, places to stay for travelers, counseling for the downtrodden and forgotten, Kosher food and a place to pray and study for those seeking spiritual sustenance.

They could have stayed in Israel or in the United States. They had a child who died of genetic illness and another who is hospitalized with the same ailment. They had no political motivations – all they wanted to do was work hard for a better world.

On the other hand, the young men who came by boat - they too had a task – who should they murder? Should it be the doctor making his hospital rounds, nurses at their stations, a mother shopping for her family, a grandmother walking near the hotel with her grandchild or anyone who just happened to look in their direction?

The world has never experienced such a plague of darkness like the plague of Islamic fundamentalism that reveres death over life – that teaches young people that the preferred way to get to heaven is by murdering and maiming. Even the worst murderers in the history of mankind, the Nazis, who gassed millions - for themselves would do anything to live another day. That’s what Eichmann and Mengele did when they were on the run.

The world should be very clear – achieving martyrdom by killing innocent civilians is an abomination – it is a concept that desecrates religion, denigrates humankind, and defames G-d himself.

But it is not only the terrorists who bear the responsibility – it is the religious leaders who programmed them, inspired them, and sent them, who are equally culpable. Joseph Goebbels and Julius Streicher never killed anyone – but they were named as war criminals at Nuremberg because on a daily basis, they poisoned the minds of tens of millions of Germans. That is exactly what the Imams of the Islamic Fundamentalists do.

The world must not remain silent. We have the tools to at least do something. The United Nations must make suicide terror a priority. Why is it that the General Assembly can call special sessions on drug cartels, on AIDs, on disarmament, on apartheid – all crucial issues – but it has not yet called for a special session on the greatest crime of the 21st century – suicide terror?

The other day, I saw someone on television making the point that we must understand the grievances of the terrorists – that the world has neglected them. My friends, if there is anyone who has grievances in history – it should be the Jewish people and, particularly, the generation of survivors of the Holocaust – who witnessed 1/3 of world Jewry gassed and murdered. They too had grievances – but did you ever see children of survivors blowing up hospitals, hotels, schools, and restaurants?

Yet what was their reaction? They picked themselves up by the bootstraps, taught themselves how to smile and love again, educated their children to dignify the world and not to destroy it – to contribute to it and not to demean it.

In keeping with that tradition, I’m sure that 2-year-old Moshe Holtzberg who was miraculously saved, who has no parents to bar mitzvah him or to escort him to his wedding, will learn about his parents and will grow up following in their footsteps – teaching kindness and love and finding good in people.

And to you, the supporters of the terrorists, wherever you are – your concept may be new, but we’ve seen your prototype before – you’re not the first to threaten our humanity. For 3,500 years, we’ve seen your likes during the pogroms, the Inquisition and the Holocaust and we’ve never changed our belief.

To use a metaphor that is appropriate for the forthcoming Chanukah festival -  that one cruise of light that emanated from of the Chabad house in Mumbai has contributed more to humanity than your whole ideology and way of life. The Jewish people whom you seek to destroy will still be here – long after you and your haters have been deposited in the dustbins of history.

Figurative or literal? UK TO GET 5,000 PAKI BUTCHERS

Butchers indeed.

UK to import 5,000 Pakistani Butchers

Is this really the time to be talking about bringing large numbers of Pakistani butchers into the West?

"5,000 Pak butchers to get jobs in UK," by Asif Mehmood for Pakistan's The Nation, November 30 (thanks to all who sent this in):

LONDON - Over 5,000 butchers from Pakistan would get employment in the halal meat industry of UK through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between National Halal Foods Group (NHFG) of UK and Overseas Employment Cooperation of Pakistan. The MoU has been signed here at the Pakistan High Commission, London Friday.

SUNDAY MORNING: ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS RADIO

UPDATE: HERE'S THE SHOW :Tamar Yona show with Atlas - to download here or listen to it here Download tamaratlasweek081130a.mp3 (my interview kicks in halfway through)

Davod tells me it kicks at 23mins segment, starting at min. 24:30

Wanna listen live to Atlas on Israel National News with Tamar Yonah on, Sunday at 8:30 am. Here is the best link to use is.  Listen LIVE.

Tamar Yonah is one of Israel's most popular English-speaking radio show hosts. She made Aliyah from Southern California and after serving in the Israeli army began a prolific career in radio, including production, news and program development. Tamar is a political activist, wife and mother residing in Judea and Samaria and currently hosts several top-rated shows, including Weekend Edition, The Tamar Yonah Show and TnT Dynamite. She also has an award winning blog that covers current events, religion and politics.

UPDATE: David pointed this out:  For those who can't listen in live, that the show will be available on INN's website for replay or downloading for the week following the show.

UPDATE: You can hear the show or download it for your computer at the INN  website:  www.IsraelNationalRadio.com

The show will be available to download or hear for only one week.  Please make sure you let others know this if they want to hear the show, as after the week is up, the show will no longer be available.

Davod was kind enough to send me these links:Tamar Yona show w Atlas - to download here or listen here Download tamaratlasweek081130a.mp3

Link to Tamar Yonah show page on INN here

MUMBAI: MUSLIMS MERCILESSLY TORTURED THE VICTIMS, JEWS GOT IT THE WORST

I am angry. I am sick in my soul. The West refuses to engage this enemy that has declared all out war on our civilization. The media, the UN, the political elites bow to Islam. They refuse to speak its name. They refuse to stop immigration. They are afraid.

I am not afraid. I AM CALLING FOR NEW LEGISLATION -"Mumbai legislation". Rollback all pending legislation on gun control. Rollback all gun control,  effective immediately. If the Indians had been armed the Muslims would have been stopped dead in their tracks. If this photographer had been armed, he would have shot jihadis and not the pictures of he blood lust in their  eyes. Would pious NY cops react the same way?

New York has severe gun control laws. Who needs the second amendment more than New Yorkers? They are targeting railways? Imagine Grand Central or Penn Station at rush hour .... or Times Square anytime. No guns for criminals, no guns for felons ... but upstanding American citizens are entitled to arm themselves - a right guaranteed  by the constitution,  for a  reason.

WE, THE PEOPLE, MUST FIGHT THIS WAR. Our elected officials are on the Saudi payroll, emasculated by petrodollars. Obama declared on page 261 of his book, should the political winds shift ......he would side with the Muslims.

The left will not fight this war. Historically, leftists have always slept with totalitarian regimes. We are witnessing it here in the US yet again. What is discouraging are those on the right that have turned tail on the war and moved left.

They have become part of the problem.

We must stop the State department from importing whole Muslim communities - they come and seek to impose sharia and Islamic supremacism. We must pass Tancredo's jihad legislation. We must get on a war footing.

The world has 1.2 billions Muslims. They must take sides. They must take to the streets shouting not in our name. They must take action to fight this pox on humanity.

These attacks on the West will not only continue, they will get worse. The enemy is empowered and they are winning. I have been documenting this holy war for years, what they are planning for the US is difficult to imagine. They were planning Mumbai for over a year.

Doctors shocked at hostages's torture Rediff India (hat tip Cathy)

They said that just one look at the bodies of the dead hostages as well as terrorists showed it was a battle of attrition that was fought over three days at the Oberoi and the Taj hotels in Mumbai. Doctors working in a hospital where all the bodies, including that of the terrorists, were taken said they had not seen anything like this in their lives.

"Bombay has a long history of terror. I have seen bodies of riot victims, gang war and previous terror attacks like bomb blasts. But this was entirely different. It was shocking and disturbing," a doctor said.

Asked what was different about the victims of the incident, another doctor said: "It was very strange. I have seen so many dead bodies in my life, and was yet traumatised. A bomb blast victim's body might have been torn apart and could be a very disturbing sight. But the bodies of the victims in this attack bore such signs about the kind of violence of urban warfare that I am still unable to put my thoughts to words," he said.

Corroborating the doctors' claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. "During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis," an IB source said.

It is also said that the Israeli hostages were killed on the first day as keeping them hostage for too long would have focused too much international attention. "They also might have feared the chances of Israeli security agencies taking over the operations at the Nariman House," he reasoned.

Asked specifically if he was talking of torture marks, he said: "It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood," one doctor said.

The other doctor, who had also conducted the post-mortem of the victims, said: "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks. It was clear that they were killed on the 26th itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed. It was so bad that I do not want to go over the details even in my head again," he said.

Corroborating the doctors' claims about torture was the information that the Intelligence Bureau had about the terror plan. "During his interrogation, Ajmal Kamal said they were specifically asked to target the foreigners, especially the Israelis," an IB source said.

UPDATE: Re-running the link to Bostom's piece at American Thinker. Dr. Bostom wrote me,

"The "coverage" of the Mumbai massacre(s) has been an appalling spectacle of  IGNORANCE, denial, and scapegoating--of the victims.

If Hindus and Jews (and in the end, all potential non-Muslim victims of jihad) don't realize their shared predicament--targeting by jihad hatred-- after these events, then they never will, possibly hastening their separate destruction."

UPDATE: Spencer here: "Did the murderers feel justified in this torture by this Qur'anic injunction? "Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews" (5:82)?"

THE PATHOS OF THE JEWS

 'Mumbai gunmen sent to avenge atrocities on "Palestinians" Fakestinians"

9 Reported Dead in Mumbai Chabad House Terror Attack

We must rage against the machine. Davod he sent me the following email. It is unfathomable, unthinkable, souless . 

This Hebrew piece reports that the Israeli Ministry of Defence cannot, or will not, under existing rules recognise the Mumbai Israelis as "victims of terror" and thereby qualify them for State aid (funeral expenses, etc) to cover their immediate and future ongoing special needs.  To enable that, the govt on Sunday morning must pass a special amendment or ruling.  The stated reason is that the "organisation" (and organised they were!) claiming credit for the pogrom is not one already named, recognised or defined as an enemy of the State (such as Hizbollah, Hamas, etc).

Have you ever heard such nonsense? These victims were killed because they were Israelis and Jews.  After all Israel has been through and knows, shouldn't there be in place a mechanism for dealing with this?

Jewish money, Israeli money for the Muslims living in Gaza, living to kill .... Jews but none for the Holtzbergs.

When you have crises like this, you have to transport and bury bodies and deal with numerous other not-so-incidentals -- the expenses are not trivial, the pressure is enormous,and there are all sorts of bureaucratic idiots and hold-ups, not least in Israel itself, which only serve to amplify the agony of decision-making and 'closure' for the family.

In the same edition as that report, there's another article: about the Cabinet's expected approval today of Olmert's recent offer to Abu Mazen to gratuitously release another 250 terrorists, bringing the total to date up to 1,230.

You can't help wondering, which of these two approvals will come first in today's cabinet deliberations?

THE HORRORS OF ISLAM

The audacious attack which took a year to plan

'I was told to kill to my last breath': Captured terrorist's account of Mumbai massacre reveals plan was to kill 5,000

Hospital staff say they saw women militants

Mumbai horror: Rescue workers shocked by Chabad massacre site

Mumbai's Taj hotel was warned of terrorist attack

Mumbai terrorists were 'funded  by cash raised in UK mosques'

Innovative, ruthless, disciplined terrorism stalks us again

Indians claim terrorists took orders from Pakistan (link tip wolf)

MOSHE TURNS TWO TODAY

....According to ZAKA emergency service, the body of the Rabbi's wife Rivka was found covered with a tallit, which her husband had managed to cover her with.... (more)

Please watch this video of the Rabbi and Moshe

Chabad photo hat tip via Gudrun

Orphaned. His parents Rabbi Holtzberg and wife Rivka  murdered by pious Muslims because they were Jews.

UPDATE: My daughter turned to me after reading the following and said, "it's like the holocaust all over again".

Article in Hebrew reporting what Zaka guys found on arrival in Mumbai/Chabad and then the unforgettable scene on entering the house after the battle ended. No time to translate, but I expect it will appear in English tomorrow sometime.  Reminiscent of the Merkaz attack.  These Zaka guys are class A Heroes.

The Rabbi had managed to cover his dead wife with a tallit before he was shot.  Then he and his fellow rabbis were found dead, clutching Torah books.  Evidence indicates they had probably been killed early on in the episode and not, as I had thought, during the commando attack.

The Zaka guys, after 48 hrs without sleep just to get there, had to stay awake and alert all throughout shabbat, sans food or drink, and had to 'do battle' with the Indian authorities repeatedly to prevent them taking away the bodies, doing autopsies, etc.  Also, pre-planted grenades kept continued going off in the house intermittently over shabbat.

 

To crown it all, it appears there had been two -- only two -- 18-yr-old terrorists/murderers in the Chabad House, each around 18 yrs old, and they had managed to hold off the entire force arrayed against them.

Today I attended the local Chabad House here, in solidarity.  The Rabbi spoke but was actually lost for words. I found myself unexpectedly close to tears.  As an aside, they had arrived in the morning to find the House had been broken into during the night, things messed up and property stolen.  Police had been but the whole incident seemed trivial by comparison.

Every Jewish center, synagogue, community center should have a gun any shape or size. For every Jew a 22. They mean to kill us, do not get on the trains.

Ramirez

GOOGLE'S ADMITS CENSORSHIP

“Right now, we’re trusting Google because it’s good, but of course, we run the risk that the day will come when Google goes bad,” Wu told me.

It's the New York Times  talking about google censorship, so you know it is a politically correct kind of censorship --but underneath the tuchas kissing, Google admits to massive information manipulation

Google's Gatekeeper NY Times (hat tip Bare Naked Islam)

Today the Web might seem like a free-speech panacea: it has given anyone with Internet access the potential to reach a global audience. But though technology enthusiasts often celebrate the raucous explosion of Web speech, there is less focus on how the Internet is actually regulated, and by whom. As more and more speech migrates online, to blogs and social-networking sites and the like, the ultimate power to decide who has an opportunity to be heard, and what we may say, lies increasingly with Internet service providers, search engines and other Internet companies like Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook and even eBay.

The most powerful and protean of these Internet gatekeepers is, of course, Google. With control of 63 percent of the world’s Internet searches, as well as ownership of YouTube, Google has enormous influence over who can find an audience on the Web around the world. As an acknowledgment of its power, Google has given Nicole Wong a central role in the company’s decision-making process about what controversial user-generated content goes down or stays up on YouTube and other applications owned by Google, including Blogger, the blog site; Picasa, the photo-sharing site; and Orkut, the social networking site. Wong and her colleagues also oversee Google’s search engine: they decide what controversial material does and doesn’t appear on the local search engines that Google maintains in many countries in the world, as well as on Google.com. As a result, Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet.

Check out how Google cops out on Youtube aka dhimmitube (owned by google) and their the jihad loving, Military hating leftard police . Here, for example is  another jihadi propaganda video showing the murder of US servicemen. It violates several of YT's terms of service, including physical attack, use of explosives, promotes hatred and violence, etc. Please flag it, and any other similar videos from this user.

Iraq War For Jihad

Allahuakbar!!!

More on the Times article and youtube below.

'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back."

Why?

Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back.

Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back

It is the photograph that has dominated the world's front pages, casting an astonishing light on the fresh-faced killers who brought terror to the heart of India's most vibrant city. Now it can be revealed how the astonishing picture came to be taken by a newspaper photographer who hid inside a train carriage as gunfire erupted all around him.

Sebastian D'Souza, a picture editor at the Mumbai Mirror, whose offices are just opposite the city's Chhatrapati Shivaji station, heard the gunfire erupt and ran towards the terminus. "I ran into the first carriage of one of the trains on the platform to try and get a shot but couldn't get a good angle, so I moved to the second carriage and waited for the gunmen to walk by," he said. "They were shooting from waist height and fired at anything that moved. I briefly had time to take a couple of frames using a telephoto lens. I think they saw me taking photographs but theydidn't seem to care."

The gunmen were terrifyingly professional, making sure at least one of them was able to fire their rifle while the other reloaded. By the time he managed to capture the killer on camera, Mr D'Souza had already seen two gunmen calmly stroll across the station concourse shooting both civilians and policemen, many of whom, he said, were armed but did not fire back. "I first saw the gunmen outside the station," Mr D'Souza said. "With their rucksacks and Western clothes they looked like backpackers, not terrorists, but they were very heavily armed and clearly knew how to use their rifles.

"Towards the station entrance, there are a number of bookshops and one of the bookstore owners was trying to close his shop," he recalled. "The gunmen opened fire and the shopkeeper fell down."

But what angered Mr D'Souza almost as much were the masses of armed police hiding in the area who simply refused to shoot back. "There were armed policemen hiding all around the station but none of them did anything," he said. "At one point, I ran up to them and told them to use their weapons. I said, 'Shoot them, they're sitting ducks!' but they just didn't shoot back."

Dan Friedman opined, "This has been bothering me a lot. Mumbai (Bombay), a great metropolis of 19 million people, is no stranger to terrorism. It has had a history of bloody attacks that have taken hundreds of innocent lives in only the last few years. Yet 10, that's right 10, young men carrying large assault weapons could make their way through the streets of the toniest part of the city during the early evening hours, shoot up a major train station, a popular high-profile bar, then move on unchallenged and enter and reach the upper floors of the Indian equivalents of the Waldorf-Astoria and New York Hilton - all without a shot from law enforcement being fired at them. Pardon the American pride, but if terrorists were to try and mimic their Indian colleagues in any of America's great cities, it wouldn't take two days and 100's of military commandos to stop them. A dozen good cops would have them lying dead on the sidewalks inside of an hour.

Exit question: Just how much of the death and destruction do you think was actually caused by the "good guys" in this incident?"

RACIST OR REALIST? UK EPIDEMIC - MUSLIM TAXI DRIVERS RAPING BRITISH GIRLS & WOMEN

So let me get this straight, we are supposed to sacrifice our daughters to the misogynist death cult to insure we do not insult Islam. Got it.

Is reporting these acts of jihadi rape  insulting to Islam and in violation of the UN resolution against "defaming Islam"? Fines or jail? What's next? They fined Brigitte Bardot.

UK EPIDEMIC - MUSLIM TAXI DRIVERS RAPING BRITISH GIRLS & WOMEN The Opinionator

Recently a BBC announcer was sacked/fired for requesting a "non Asian taxi driver" to transport her young unaccompanied 14 year old daughter. (Out of concern for her daughter's fears/mental well being & safety)

Of course, the "racist" club was trotted out by the mainstream media and others to verbally bludgeon Sam Mason for having the audacity to demand an "English driver". But was Sam Mason really exposing her racism or was she reacting, as any mother would, to the facts that there is a ongoing epidemic of muslim taxi driver rapes in the UK? (Note: the media prefers the more vague term "Asian")

Not surprising - the mainstream media, is aiding and abetting these rapes, by refusing to "connect the dots" and report on the clear evidence: The growing numbers of predatory muslim taxi drivers (some posing as taxi drivers)raping British girls and women.

Here are some - but far from all - examples of muslim taxi driver rapists:

Abul Malik. 29.  raped 19 yr. old female student - he was angry she didn't have all the fare money - Oct 2008

Salam Rahman, 27, and his friend, 26-year-old Mohammed Elahi - along with two other men - gang raped two woman - a newlywed and a city worker - Aug 2002 (Police said after the case that they feared these were not isolated cases and appealed for any woman who may have suffered a similar attack to come forward.)

Assadullah Razaq, 31, raped 28 yr. old secretary - Mar 2003

Mohanid Al obaydi, raped 22 yr old woman (was found guilty), Apr 2005

Ghulam Haider, 49, brutally raped 16 yr old gir,l Aug 2006

Murtaza Mateen, aged 47, lured 42 year old woman into his taxi & raped her, Jan 2007

Shahjahan Islam, 27, linked by DNA to attempted rape of lone young woman, Nov 2008

Rami Kayyali, 26, found guilty of raping young woman, Nov 2008

Asian - bogus taxi driver, in his mid-20s, wanted for attempted rape of 18 yr. old girl, Mar 2008

Asian male, aged in his late 20s or early 30s, wanted for brutal rape of 24 yr old woman, Aug 2008

Asian "taxi driver", in his 40s, sought in rape of teenager, Nov 2008

Also disgustingly prevalent are examples of dhimmi members of the British police denying and intentionally obfuscating of the epidemic of muslim taxi drivers raping British women:

"Speaking after Kayyali's conviction, Detective Sergeant Andy Willmott said: “Thankfully these types of crimes are very rare, but that makes it no less distressing for the young woman subjected to an attack by this man."

SAMANTHA POWER RETURNS: I TOLD YOU SO

Back in March Power resigned under pressure from all quarters (allegedly for a Hillary slam) but we knew better. A proud anti-semite (think Robert Malley, another "fired" anti-semite who has returned to the post election fold)  Samantha Powers calls for the invasion of Israel

Yes, she's baack and that aint good, deeply disturbing though predictable.  I have been warning of her return  for months. She stepped back in March so "the one" could seize the White House.

In what can only considered a masterstroke in the machination of an antisemite, Obama has installed Power at the Arabist, Israel (Jew) hating State department where she will be right at home. Melanie Phillips explains it here:

As I have said before, Emanuel’s parentage is irrelevant. As The Forward notes, he was not only a player in the catastrophic Oslo appeasement process but also supported the informal ‘Geneva initiative’ which even doveish Israelis condemned as a suicide note for Israel.

And as for Mrs Clinton, Hillary the Moderate is itself a fairly recent piece of triangulated reconstitution. Not that long ago, she was significantly to the left of her husband; and it must not be forgotten, crucially, that she herself is an Alinsky disciple.

What is much more likely is that Hillary, a professed defender of Israel, would be used (as would, to a lesser extent, Rahm Emanuel) to provide deniable cover for Obama as his administration forces Israel to cut its own throat -- the centrepiece of what passes for his foreign policy to date.

For surrounding Hillary would be appointments which would be solidly anti-Israel: people who believe that Israel must be forced to jeopardise its security to bring into being a Palestinian state which they think would lance the Islamist boil – because they believe that Israel is not the victim but the cause of Islamist rage and global terror. It has been widely reported that Obama has been consulting the former Republican National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, who is a leading voice in this camp. Moreover, according to the Wall Street Journal, Scowcroft is linked to a number of like-minded Republicans Obama is thought to be considering bringing into his administration, such as Jim Jones as his National Security Adviser.

A few days ago, Scowcroft and Carter’s former NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski (an open enemy of Israel and another of Obama's advisers) penned a significant op-ed in the Washington Post. This appeared to be a first draft of the Obama plan to force Israel back into its 1948 ‘Auschwitz’ borders and bring a Palestinian state into being, in the quite remarkable belief that this

would dissipate much of the appeal of Hezbollah and Hamas, dependent as it is on the Palestinians' plight. It would change the region’s psychological climate, putting Iran back on the defensive and putting a stop to its swagger.

What planet are they on? A Palestinian state would be run by Hamas as a proxy for Iran. As such, it would be a disaster for the Palestinians  -- as several of them have now realised – as well as for Israel, the region and the world.

Moreover, to allay Israel’s security concerns over handing over territory to a Palestinian government that is incapable of combating terrorism, Scowcroft, Brzezinski and Jones recommend stationing an international force, perhaps from NATO, in the disputed territories.

Ah yes: to repeat the conspicuous success NATO troops achieved in bringing peace in Srebenica, for example, or Rwanda, or Lebanon?

The Republicans, who really don’t begin to grasp just what has hit them, similarly fail to acknowledge that among their own ranks are many who, just like in the British Conservative party, share with the left the desire to neutralise American power and throw Israel under the bus. Some of those people came to power under George W Bush and set him on the disastrous path to appeasement -- which his demented detractors on the left somehow failed altogether to notice.

There are other unsettling indications that Obama may already be running a shadow foreign policy. Robert Malley, one of Clinton’s Oslo negotiators, is one of America's most outspoken apologists for Palestinian terrorism against Israel and claims that Syrian, Lebanese and Iranian attacks against Israel are all Israel's fault. The Obama campaign distanced itself from Malley last May after the Times reported that he was meeting regularly with Hamas leaders. But a few days after Obama’s election, Malley travelled to Syria, ostensibly under the aegis of the appeasement-minded International Crisis Group. Yet one of his aides told FrontPage Magazine that acting on Obama’s instructions, Malley traveled to Cairo and Damascus to tell Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s President Assad that ‘the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests.’ And as Caroline Glick reported, Hamas terror operative Ahmad Youssef told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that in the months leading up to his election, Obama's advisers held steady contacts with the leaders of the terror group in Gaza, and had asked that Hamas keep the meetings secret in order not to harm Obama's chances of being elected.

If Israel is to be browbeaten into committing suicide, however, it is essential that the fingerprints of the Israel-haters are not found at the scene of the crime and that it is carried out instead by someone with impeccable credentials as an Israel supporter. That person may well be Hillary Clinton who, if appointed Secretary of State, will be expected to finish the job her husband failed to do and force a Palestine state into being.

To fully grasp this, it has to be understood that there are two kinds of people who threaten to deliver Israel to its enemies for annihilation. The first are the Israel-haters who want to see it destroyed. The second are those on the left who, while believing they have Israel’s interests at heart, believe also that its security can be guaranteed by a Palestine state. They thus see Israel’s resistance to that state as the obstacle to peace in the region, whereas in fact it would pose a mortal threat to Israel (and now also to the region and the world, since such a state would be a proxy for Iran).  That’s why Clinton Mark One pressurised Israel to dismember itself under Oslo and in the process turned the Palestinians from a terrorist gang into an army with international backing.  Clinton Mark Two would be Oslo all over again -- but this time trailing clouds of Iranian plutonium.

Baehr's article (11/29) in American Thinker:

This new role is ironic, to say the least, since the new Secretary of State , expected to be announced on Monday, is Hillary Clinton, a woman Ms.Power called a "monster" back in March. That characterization by Ms. Power embarrassed  the Obama campaign and Ms. Power resigned from her formal campaign role.    Presumably, Ms Power now  understands the need to be diplomatic in a State Department role, and not fly off the handle making vicious insulting statements,  and so will be a good judge of the people who don't behave as she has.

In any case it is worth recalling why Power was a problematic associate of Barack Obama even before she mouthed off about Clinton. Ms Power is not a friend of Israel.  Will she try to find people for State Department jobs who will balance (undermine?) Ms Clinton, who is viewed as friendlier to  the Jewish state? 

The expected appointment of General  James Jones for National Security Advisor is also viewed as potentially problematic by the pro-Israel community, following his harsh criticism of Israel in a report prepared for Secretary of State Rice on Israeli security forces in the West Bank.  Both Ms Power and General Jones have supported a role for international forces in the West Bank, whether UN or NATO, a concept that is anathema to even 
left of center Israelis.

Does Ms Powers' return, and General Jones imminent appointment suggest that Barack Obama is warming to this concept?

March 7, 2008 Atlas Shrugs: Powers: Obama's Foreign Policy Appease Team UPDATE ...

MORE OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE CENSORSHIP

What is the Mansourian candidate hiding. Release the vault copy so we can put this baby to bed.

  "SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE.

And Mary Lentz in the comments points out, in checking the Get all Results site for the query " Obama birth certificate supreme court", one finds that Yahoo has 1,940,000 articles, and google has 95,800".

Google 'censoring' anti-Obama bloggers? And now this ....

Why Tulsa Today went dark Tulsa Today hat tip Lovely Larwyn

Monday morning Tulsa Today posted an analysis by veteran New York journalist and the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards, Joan Swirsky, titled, , titled, “The Great Birth Certificate Scandal/Cover-Up of ‘08” questioning the missing Barack Obama birth certificate and his eligibility to serve as President of the United States.  Two hours and 10,000 page views later, our local Internet Service Provider and domain hosting service, Tulsa Connect locked us off the Internet.

"If the facts do not support the theory, Destroy the facts!"

July 4, 2008   EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Tech Expert Declares Obama Birth Certificate Forgery
July 11, 2008 ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FORENSIC EXPERT: "the [birth] certificate is still a horrible forgery"

July 20, 2008 ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

Mr. Obama: Don’t Miss Next Week’s Chicago Tribune  Full-Page Citizenship Challenge To Run Twice,
December 1st and 3rd

D.C. National Press Club Event: Dec 8th

Our full-page Open Letter to Mr. Obama will be published in the Chicago Tribune on both Monday, December 1, 2008 and Wednesday, December 3, 2008. It will appear in the main news section. Click here to view a copy of the final ad.

Chicago is Mr. Obama’s hometown. His transition team is operating out of the Kluczynski Federal Building in downtown Chicago. He is known to be a regular reader of the Tribune, Chicago’s principal newspaper, with a daily circulation of over a half-million readers. 

The Open Letter to Mr. Obama is a formal Petition for a Redress (Remedy) for the alleged violation of the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution of the United States of America. Mr. Obama is respectfully requested to direct the Hawaiian officials to provide access to his original birth certificate on December 5-7 by our team of forensic scientists, and to provide additional documentary evidence establishing his citizenship status prior to our Washington, D.C. press conference on December 8. 

A First Amendment Petition to any official of the Government for Redress of a violation of the Constitution is substantially different from the garden-variety political petitions frequently received by government officials. This Petition demands it be given the highest priority for an expedited review and official Response by Mr. Obama. 

UPDATE: DEFINING NATURAL BORN CITIZEN (hat tip cit)

GEERT WILDERS: "You have to give up this stupid, fascist book"

Taranto soft pedals (all these mainstream apologists are rendering themselves irrelevant - see FOX news) but gilded Wilders is spot on.  Go Geert!

'OUR CULTURE IS BETTER'

"If you look at the press and the rest of the political elite in the Netherlands, nobody Nobody gives a damn. This is the worst thing, maybe. . . . A nondemocratic country cannot use the international or domestic legal system to silence you. . . . If this starts, we can get rid of all parliaments, and we should close down every newspaper, and we should shut up and all pray to Mecca five times a day."

BRAVO!

Mr. Wilders's views on Islam, though, are problematic.

Problematic? For who Taranto? Savages? The global jihad against the West - now thats "problematic"

Since 9/11, American political leaders have struggled with the question of how to describe the ideology of the enemy without making enemies of the world's billion or so Muslims. The various terms they have tried -- "Islamic extremism," "Islamism," "Islamofascism" -- have fallen short of both clarity and melioration. Melioration is not Mr. Wilders's highest priority, and to him the truth couldn't be clearer: The problem is Islam itself. "I see Islam more as an ideology than as a religion," he explains.

Bingo!

His own view of Islam is a fundamentalist one: "According to the Quran, there are no moderate Muslims. It's not Geert Wilders who's saying that, it's the Quran . . . saying that. It's many imams in the world who decide that. It's the people themselves who speak about it and talk about the terrible things -- the genital mutilation, the honor killings. This is all not Geert Wilders, but those imams themselves who say this is the best way of Islam."

Yet he insists that his antagonism toward Islam reflects no antipathy toward Muslims: "I make a distinction between the ideology . . . and the people. . . . There are people who call themselves Muslims and don't subscribe to the full part of the Quran. And those people, of course, we should invest [in], we should talk to." He says he would end Muslim immigration to the Netherlands but work to assimilate those already there.

His idea of how to do so, however, seems unlikely to win many converts: "You have to give up this stupid, fascist book" -- the Quran. "This is what you have to do. You have to give up that book."

Uh, count me among the converted.

Taranto: "Champion of freedom or anti-Islamic provocateur? Both."

Pure asshattery.

BTW, If you missed my two video interviews with Wilders, go here now  and here is the transcript. 

Above photo: Gratuitous Atlas shot

A Music Thread ..... Hope

I know Friday night open threads are generally a break from the tsunami of evil crashing in on the West but there was no way -- not tonight, not this week, not when confronted by the face of evil.

Hatikva Itzhak Perlman, John Williams

Click below link for the video

FOX GOES OVER TO THE DARKSIDE

Watch their numbers slide. FOX never really understood why they were number one. Back as far as 2005, I lamented the dhimmitude here and  here and here. We all lost a chunk of our innocence after the Sauds  purchased 6% of  FOX News. The fix was in. FOX threw in with the Saudis  and we could not help but notice the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims.

“I picked up the phone and called Murdoch … [and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots out of poverty,” Prince al-Walid said.

Yes Obama's Prince Al-Walid (go here for that story: Obama's Benefactor: Dr. Khalid al Mansour, I presume ...

“Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.”

Gald wrote me,    "The analysts at Fox (the "sane" network) were theorizing (hoping) that the murderers at Mumbai Chabad were (get this) HINDUS! Of course! Those Jew-hating HINDUS!

Even before the Jewish corpses have experienced rigor mortis, liberals are cautioning against an outbreak of...Islamophobia! Lewis Carroll never constructed such an inversion of reality. It would be devastating even if Jews were united, but most American Jews are participants in this charade. Will Time Magazine's house Hebrew Joe Klein condemn the Islamic murderers of innocent Jews? No, he will question the patriotism of Jews who support Israel. Tragically, Klein is the rule...not the exception. Keep fighting the good fight, although embracing reality will just convince people that you are crazy. Still, we must unite to battle those Jew-hating Hindus".

A TOOTHLESS FOX? Radio Equalizer

FNC Censors Itself Ahead Of Obama Presidency

Confirming the worst fears of millions of dedicated fans, the Fox News Channel really has gone soft on Obama. That's at a time when viewers are counting on it to remain a key opposition voice during a disturbing political shift away from freedom and prosperity.

According to columnists Rush & Malloy of the New York Daily News, Fox has issued a chilling edict to its hosts that they must cease criticism of Obama for the near future:

Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn't want to spoil Barack Obama's political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. "We're not going to have any personal attacks on Obama," a network insider says. "The public has spoken - we must treat him with respect."

This confirms an almost-identical account your Radio Equalizer was given Wednesday evening from a key source. That person contends the order came from the top: Rupert Murdoch himself.

"Personal attacks", by the way, can be construed to mean any criticism of Barack Obama whatsoever.

The reason? News Corporation is bracing for potentially-vindictive actions by Obama's incoming thugocracy, especially regarding dual station / newspaper ownership rules and apparently seeks to placate the Dear Leader, hoping he will be merciful.

Unfortunately, this is a great way to send FNC's audience running for the hills, with evening talk radio as the likely beneficiary. Meanwhile, the left will still hate Fox.

Did MSNBC lay off of Bush during his time in office? Of course not. Then why should FOX sacrifice its entire audience out of fear of Obama's thugs?

What about the tens of millions of voters that didn't support Obama and refuse to join his creepy cult?

Even before the election, viewers were alarmed over a sudden shift to a pro-Obama stance, especially during its debate coverage:

McCain Won the Debate, but the Drive-Bys (Even Fox) Deny Reality
October 16, 2008

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I watched the debate last night, as everybody did, and I'm thinking, "This is cool. McCain finally on message. McCain finally on offense." I thought Obama looked like he was stumbling around. I thought Obama looked off his game. I thought Obama was totally on defense. I did not see somebody cool. I did not see a mountain. I did not see somebody elegant. I didn't see any of that. I saw somebody who was lying through his teeth time after time after time. I saw somebody who seemed irritated when McCain was speaking. I saw somebody who almost was close to blowing his cool in terms of facial expressions, and I saw the director cut away from Obama at those times so as to assist Obama in having his facial expressions not broadcast as much as possible. I'm getting e-mails all night long from people, I mean in the thousands, who are jazzed, finally somebody is taking it to Obama, somebody is standing up for the middle class, somebody is standing up for the right economics, somebody trying to do the right things for the first time in a long time.

And then, after the debate, people that are e-mailing me, a lot of them turned on the Fox News Channel, and they were dispirited and depressed. They felt that Obama had found a new ally in some of the commentators on the Fox All-Star Panel.

Now, they view the Fox News Channel as their network. They tuned in for post-debate analysis expecting the Fox All-Stars to have seen what they saw, and they listened to the Fox All-Stars talking about a debate they didn't see. The Fox All-Stars were talking about how rotten McCain was, how horrible he had done, what a rock Obama was, how cool Obama was, how elegant Obama was. I got a note from a friend who watched this in a bar with 200 people last night, and they were cheering themselves crazy during the debate last night. One of these guys happened to e-mail a friend and said, "What's the reaction on Fox?" He said, "The Fox guys say Obama skunked McCain, that McCain was just horrible." And the guys at the bar said, "What? What in the world did they watch?" And I'm thinking, Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, these are the people, folks, who told us that McCain was the best chance Republicans had way back when. I mean, as far as Kristol was concerned, going back to the year 2000 in the primaries versus George W. Bush.

Particularly disturbing to Fox fans was Carl Cameron's now widely-discredited hit piece against Sarah Palin, which has led to a huge backlash in favor of the Alaskan governor. Also from Limbaugh's show:

CAMERON: Early on, they began to discover that there were these gaps in her knowledge. I just want to rattle off a couple of the things that insiders say she just simply didn't know. There were real problems with basic civics, government structures; municipal state and federal government responsibilities. She didn't know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement, we're told. She didn't understand, McCain aides told me today, that Africa was a continent and not a country, and actually asked them -- they argue, they say -- if South Africa wasn't just part of the country as opposed to a country in the continent. They go on to say that she didn't understand the idea of American exceptionalism, a classic principle of Wilsonian doctrine that says that the United States is exceptional in the world and has therefore a very special role in leading the globe.

RUSH: I don't believe any of this, and what kills it for me is that she "didn't understand...American exceptionalism." She's the only one in the McCain campaign who did understand American exceptionalism, and had to drag the rest of the campaign kicking and screaming into the concept. We never heard about American exceptionalism from our own party 'til Sarah Palin showed up. This South African... Not knowing the countries in Africa? Not knowing how the federal government works? She's governor of Alaska, for crying out loud! This is just a smear job. She is being smeared worse than anybody in the McCain campaign went after Obama or any of his questionable allies.

CAMERON: There are stories that say she would look at her press clippings in the morning and throw what has been described to me as "tantrums." One of the more infamous stories that's now come out is there was a time when McCain staffers went to collect her at her hotel room and she had just stepped out of the shower and essentially met them wrapped in a bathrobe. They were taken aback by that. They have suggested that she's a bit of a shopoholic and that on more than one occasion she would go out and buy clothes that to many seemed unnecessary because the campaign had already provided her with a very large wardrobe, uh, a wardrobe that famously rang up a bill of $150,000, mostly because they bought extra sizes to make sure everything fit.

RUSH: (laughing) So this is Carl Cameron last night on Fox detailing what had been told to him. Carl Cameron, by the way, is the voice of the McCain insiders, I should point out. So they're dumping on Sarah Palin, and you have to ask yourself: "Why? Who benefits from this happening to Sarah Palin?"

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: You might ask, "Why is Carl Cameron spewing all this stuff?" Okay, so somebody inside the McCain campaign reports it to him, but why does he spew all this stuff out there? I guess to have a scoop. I don't know. But it's quite telling, it is quite instructive here, ladies and gentlemen, as if we conservatives aren't angry enough with Obama and McCain, the fact is we're going to have to defeat 'em both now, all over again. So I'm just going to warn you, there's going to be a McCain-somebody, comprehensive immigration bill, which will result in the migration of more nonpaying Democrat voters. This I cannot believe and I'm going to deal with this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today. The wizards of smart on our side are all out there talking about how Obama's going to govern from the center. (laughing) They have learned nothing! I don't even think that this is wishful thinking, or hopefulness.

There's a lot more here.

OT but related: Morally ill media: Lets Be Honest GM

Headline from the Associated Press:  “Hostages said dead in Mumbai Jewish center.” What a load of bovine fecal matter.  These people were not  hostages, they were murder victims from the very start.  Get it through your thick heads AP, we are at war with Islamofascism and there is no place for sanctimonious political correctness.  Those poor folk never had a chance, you know it, we know it and you know that we know it.

And Jewish Odysseus:

NBC's Richard Engel Needs to be Horsewhipped

ISLAMIC WEBSITES REJOICE OVER MUMBAI ATTACKS

It's a holy war, I tell ya. Pious Muslims celebrate worldwide.

India: Islamic websites rejoice over Mumbai attacks

Mumbai, 27 Nov. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda websites on Thursday were swamped with messages from people who were celebrating the devastating Mumbai attacks which have left over 100 people dead and 281 injured. "Oh Allah, destroy the Hindus and do it in the worst of ways," was one of the comments that appeared on Islamist forums on the Internet immediately after the attacks.

"The battle that is underway in Mumbai is a battle for Allah between its servants and the infidels," said another message published on the al-Falluja forum.

Several Al-Qaeda sites also posted several pictures of the victims in Mumbai and provocative statements.

The Legacy of Jihad in India Andrew Bostom

Mumbai gunmen were British Jihadwatch

Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and 'came from same area as 7/7 bombers'

• British-born Pakistanis among arrested violent muslims
  
• Commandos storm strongholds to rescue hostages
• Siege continues at Taj hotel as bystanders wounded
  
• Death toll rises as another 24 bodies found in hotel
• At least five dead hostages found in Jewish Centre

Calm: One of the young gunmen with his weapon, looking for more victims. Indian authorities say two of the arrested militants were British-born Pakistanis

Loss: Bollywood actor Ashish Chaudhary is consoled outside Mumbai's Trident-Oberoi Hotel after learning about his sister's death

Gone: US citizen Alan Scherr and daughter Naomi, pictured with his wife Kia, were killed in Mumbai's Oberoi hotel. They were in India with religious group Synchronicity Foundation, which was hosting a meditation program at the hotel

Mumbai officials say more than 155 people in total have now died in the attacks. Another 370 were wounded.

 

Terror: Indian special forces prepare to take back the Taj Palace Hotel in Mumbai

The tragic figures include the bodies of another five hostages who were found dead inside the Nariman House Jewish Centre this afternoon after commandos finally secured the building.

Two militants were also killed. It is not known whether the Rabbi and his wife who were believed to be among the hostages are dead or alive.

Around 20 masked officers had raided the centre this morning, dropping from helicopters onto the roof, in an operation dubbed Operation Black Tornado.

Hours of heavy fighting ensued as they moved from floor after floor. As dusk fell, there was a massive explosion and it appeared to be over.

Air rescue: A commando drops to the roof of Mumbai's Jewish centre and below, officers span out ready to storm the building

Across the city at the Oberoi Hotel, the siege ended when two militants were shot dead. 

Rescued: A British man is led to safety from the Oberoi Trident Hotel today and below, another guest emerges clutching a tiny baby

Foreigners from Japan, Australia, Italy and Germany and one Briton - tycoon Andreas Liveras - have already been confirmed as among the victims.

At least eight Britons were injured and there are fears the British toll could yet rise further as more and more buildings are made stable and searched.

Earlier, one commando revealed he had seen around 50 bodies littering the Taj hotel floor after special officers stormed the building and rescued hundreds of guests.

Clad in black, with a mask covering his face, the unit chief said: 'There was blood all over the bodies. The bodies were strewn here and there and we had to be careful as we entered the building to avoid further bloodshed of innocent civilians.'

The terrorists had seemed like young, ordinary men but had clearly been very well trained, he said.

'They were wearing T-shirts, just ordinary looking, but they have definitely been trained to use weapons. There is no way they could handle such weapons without being taught how to.'

Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were believed to be inside the Jewish centre where the bodies of five hostages were found

It is thought they gained entrance to the hotels by pretending to be staff and hotel guests, according to reports.

Indian commandos have recovered credit cards and the militants' ID cards as well as seizing a vast arsenal of grenades, AK-47 magazines, shells and knives.

Desperate: A hostage at the Oberoi peeks out of his window during the siege

There has been speculation that a British Al Qaeda suspect reportedly killed by a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan last weekend may have helped plot the attacks.

Rashid Rauf was among five killed in a missile attack in a tribal area in North Waziristan on Saturday.

Security sources believe that at the time of his death Rauf had been planning a major attack on Western targets.

On the hunt: Two muslims brandishing automatic weapons and below, the scene of carnage they left behind at the main train station

The bloody drama which began on Wednesday night has now lasted more than two days. The targets across the city were:

• The Oberoi Hotel, in the commercial district. Its restaurant was bustling with diners, many of them tourists;
• Also attacked was the Leopold restaurant, a haunt of the city's art crowd. As the fanatics sprayed the packed cafe, diners fled in terror;
  
• Some of the worst scenes were at the major railway station. As they entered the Gothic Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus, once named after Queen Victoria, the gunmen were smiling. With an astonishing air of casualness, the terrorists started to shoot. Within seconds the concourse was a bloodbath. People lay screaming on the floor;
  
• A further prestigious target was the 105-year-old Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel;
  
• More hostages were taken at the nearby Chabad House, headquarters for an ultra-orthodox Jewish group. A rabbi was among those held.

About 15 police officers were killed, including the head of Mumbai's anti-terrorism unit.

The attack on the train station had echoes of previous terror outrages.

In July 2006 more than 180 people were killed in seven bomb explosions at railway stations and on trains in Mumbai that were blamed on Islamist militants.

• Worried friends or relatives should call the Foreign Office's emergency line on 0207 008  

  A map shows the locations of the bombings across Mumbai

Al-Qaeda top dog to U.S.: Avoid financial meltdown by converting to Islam

What's it all about, Alfie? And the thumbsuckers? They keep on sucking.

Al-Qaeda top dog to U.S.: Avoid financial meltdown by converting to Islam Jihadwatch

Al-Zawahiri invites us to accept Islam, which Muhammad the prophet of Islam stipulates as the first step when meeting the unbelievers, before going to war with them (cf. Sahih Muslim 4294). But of course, he and his ilk are already at war with us; his statement here merely reveals yet again the goal for which he and the jihadists are fighting: to extend Islamic law over the world.

It is noteworthy also that the Telegraph article about which Raymond commented here has no mention of this invitation to Islam. Why would the Telegraph not consider that fit to print? Do they think it's meaningless religious boilerplate? Irrelevant? Or that it would offend Muslims in Britain if they called attention to it?

"Al-Qaida No. 2 to US: Overcome meltdown with Islam," from AP, November 28 (thanks to Mackie):

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader appeared in a new video posted Friday calling on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ayman al-Zawahri, whose 80-minute recording touched on a number of subjects, also lashed out at Afghanistan's government and said any U.S. gains in Iraq will be temporary.

Zawahri's new recording came in the form of a question-and-answer session with an off-camera interviewer.

WHO GAVE THEM CREDIT CARDS?

WTF?

The gunmen were well trained, well armed and ready for a long siege. One backpack the commandos found had 400 rounds of ammunition inside. Some gunmen carried almonds to eat during a long siege and dollars, rupees and credit cards from local and international banks. (more here) hat tip randall

Who is giving them credit cards?  Which international banks?

UPDATE: MUMBAI: A officer of Indian Navy said on Friday that they recovered several credit cards issued by top Indian and foreign banks from a rucksack of a terrorist at the Taj while conducting their combing operation on early Thursday morning. (hat tip Randall)

Economic Times:The credit cards were issued by Citibank, HSBC, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and SBM (State Bank of Mauritius). "We recovered several credit cards apart from US$ 1200 from the rucksack," the Indian Navy officer, who had participated in the operation from early Thursday morning at the Taj said.

"We have forwarded all the evidence to the Mumbai police for further investigations," the officer said on conditions of anonymity due to security reasons.

The marine commandos or Marcos of the Indian Navy also recovered a national identity card issued by the government of Mauritius from the rucksack which contained 400 extra rounds of the notorious assault rifle - AK-47 and Made-in-China grenades.

What has come as a surprise that the terrorists managed to get hold of multiple credit cards in spite of strict Know Your Clients norms formulated by the Reserve Bank of India to avoid money laundering and use of banks by the terror outfits.

When contacted a [bailout] Citi spokesperson said: "We have not received any information on this from the authorities . Our procedures require validation of identity and address of all our customers, in line with regulatory norms. If we are approached by the authorities, we will cooperate with them fully" .

Other banks did not respond as they had not been officially informed by the police as yet and did not have any details on the cards.

banks -
Citibank - (US bailout)
HSBC - New York Bank + international operations
ICICI Bank - India's 2nd largest bank
Axis Bank - was UTI, India bank
HDFC Bank - India Bank
SBM (State Bank of Mauritius)

HOLY WAR: ISLAM'S GENOCIDE AGAINST THE JEWS

Brooklyn Couple Killed in Attacks, Rabbi Holtzberg and wife Rivka

They murdered the Jews for being Jews. Period. It is not complicated. It's war. It's not "terrorism" or "extremism", it is Islam. How many tens of thousands have to be senselessly murdered before we fight back?
Muslims are allowed to murder Jews in cold blood because we are Jews, but it is a crime to insult Islam.

“Ethos” of the Mumbai Jihad on Chabad? “Whenever a Jew is killed it is for the benefit of Islam.”

This is not about India- Britain investigating links to India attacks The British government is investigating whether some of the attackers in the deadly India shootings could be British citizen. (hat tip Randall)

Chabad of Mumbai
We mourn the loss of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holzberg during the terrorist attack in India

A fund has been established to help the family and rebuild Chabad in Mumbai which was seriously damaged during the attackYou really have no idea how much good Chabad does for this planet. Even in this period of mourning, Chabad is busy providing relief for the victims of the Mumbai attacks and the community in Mumbai.

Please give generously

http://www.chabadindia.org

 

UPDATE: 6 Moroccans among 11 suspects arrested in Belgium for links with terror cell

WORLD NET COVERS THE GOOGLE BAN ON ATLAS

Chelsea of World Net Daily has picked up on this outrage:  "SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE.

Check it out:

Google 'censoring' anti-Obama bloggers?
Writer claims Internet giant banning stories that expose president-elect

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Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs

Is Google censoring anti-Obama stories?

Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs claims the search engine giant has banned her groundbreaking articles about Obama – a technique many people refer to as "sandboxing."

"There was no warning, no notice, nothing," Geller told WND. "They have basically sandboxed me."

"Sandboxing" happens when Google strips a website's rankings from its search engine results. According to some theories, this happens to new websites when Google puts them into a holding area known as a "sandbox" until the site gains credibility.

However, Atlas Shrugs is not new, and Geller believes her stories have been intentionally suppressed by the Internet giant – especially ones about President-elect Obama. She said her exclusive stories about Obama's birth certificate that once received thousands of hits every day will not come up in Google word searches.

"I was in the top five search results before the story got legs," she said. "These stories drove 12,000 to 15,000 people to my site every day."

But now a November earnings report from shows her Google clicks and revenue flat lining since Nov. 20. Daily page impressions dropped from an average of 20,000 and 45,000 to single digits – overnight. Also, her Google images hits are slowed to only 4,720 since that day, while Yahoo and other search engines list them in the hundreds of thousands.

"The media gives blogs the silent treatment," she said. "The only thing we have is these searches. The Google word search is gone – all gone. When you are in my business, that's how you build readership."

On July 4, Geller featured a story about a board-certified forensic expert who declared Obama's online birth certificate a "forgery" and an "obvious fake." She attributes most of her problems with Google to that report.

"I think that it's the birth certificate story," Geller said. "All of the sudden, my numbers were down by 10,000."

She has also featured reports on Obama's support of Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga and cases of alleged campaign finance fraud involving his campaign. Geller believes Google is censoring her stories because it objects to their content.

"It's a freedom of speech issue," she said. "Who are they to decide what should be searched? They don't like what I'm running so they ban me?"

Geller said she has contacted Google three times, and the company said it has filed "requests for consideration" to put her stories back on Google's search pages.

"They want me to sit this out for six months," she said. "Are they kidding? Based on what?"

Geller said the top Google word searches used to be about Obama's birth certificate. But now she said the searches only return "a bunch of speculating and hearsay" to make the stories appear to be unfounded conspiracy theories.

She believes the censorship could have something to do with Google CEO Eric Schmidt's relationship with the president-elect. According to recent reports, Schmidt will soon be holding a position in the Obama administration.

Geller said she has hired a cyber-crime consulting firm to remove her articles from the search engine's "sandbox" and has asked her readership to help fight censorship with donations.

"Google cannot arbitrarily silence voices of freedom," she said. "Blogs are the last vestige of free speech."

UPDATE: The interesting timing is that it seems to correspond with the "Google Search Wiki"

Click here: The Liberty Sphere: Google Blacklists Geller's Atlas Shrugs

UPDATE: Yid with Lid: CENSORSHIP--GOOGLE CENSORING ATLAS SHRUGS FOR TELLING TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA 

HOLY WAR: MUSLIMS FREE MUSLIMS, BUT KILL EVERYONE ELSE, JEWS TARGETED

UPDATED 1:31 PM:  CONFIRMED that Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka were killed (NY Post)

So let me understand this, Muslims are allowed to murder Jews in cold blood because we are Jews, but it is a crime to insult Islam.

MUMBAI: The bodies of five hostages were found in Nariman House while the National Security Guards (NSG) killed two terrorists during the gunbattle there, NSG Director General JK Dutt said on Friday.

UPDATE: SEE BELOW:Three bodies found on the 2nd floor of the Nariman House. The terrorists killed the hostages before moving on to the next floor. They killed two more hostages on the 4th floor. Third floor is the only floor remaining, commandos are there. It is just a matter of time.(hat tip Randall)

Joshua wrote me, "how many chabadniks do we know? They are all sweet people with amazing ahavas yisroel".

Israeli  Jewish men pray for the well-being of their friends Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who are being held hostage by suspected gunmen in Mumbai, India, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City,Thursday,

"Terrorism" the big lie used to club the minds of free men into confusion. This isn't terrorism. This is war, holy war.BTW, ever hear of Jews killing imams? (not that that matters, right)

Unconfirmed: Chabad Rabbi and his Wife Murdered in Mumbai
Fears have grown that the Chabad rabbi and his wife in Mumbai has been killed. Indian helicopters dropped commandoes on the roof of the Chabad House in Mumbai early Friday morning, and a battle is continuing at this moment. Three blasts were heard inside the building, where four terrorists remain. One was killed in an earlier battle. It is thought that no more hostages are being held inside.

An Indian newspaper has reported that Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka were murdered by Muslim terrorists who held them hostage.

The Chabad couple's two-year-old son Moshe was taken out of the building by his babysitter shortly after the siege began Wednesday night.

David Bogner over at Treppenwitz who was  just there last week, and ate at the house of the Jewish couple that was held hostage and murdered (unconfirmed)

Early in the reporting from India it became clear that the attacks were centered on tourist centers, with two luxury hotels and Mumbai's largest train terminal bearing the brunt of the attacks. And most of the reports seemed to fixate on the disturbing fact that Americans and Britons seem to have been singled out by the terrorists.

Yet, seemingly unremarkable to the media, also among the targets singled out for attack was a house in a mixed residential/commercial area that is well off the beaten track.  From the outside it is rather non-descript, and in fact if you didn't have good directions, you would never know it for what it is; the home of one of Mumbai's few orthodox Jewish families (I know, having eaten there several times last week). 

Yes, of course they reported it... but the attack on Nariman house/Beit Chabad didn't strike them as odd... or at least no more odd than the rest of the coordinated attacks.

Here's why it should have.:

Mumbai is a city of over 18 million people, yet there are only about five thousand Jews living there.  And of those, only a few dozen are identifiably Jewish outside of the synagogue.

Heck, the entire country of India - with a staggering population of over 1.1 billion people - has only about 15 thousand Jews!  I'm not so good at math, but I think that if you try to express the Jewish population as a percentage of the overall Indian population, you're going to end up with a lot of zeros to the right of the decimal point.

So isn't it weird that nobody seems to be talking about how statistically odd it is that this Muslim terror group sought out and attacked an unremarkable home containing one of India's only identifiably orthodox Jewish families.

Apparently the breaking news from Mumbai has demonstrated anew that targeting Jews is not unusual... even when just finding Jews in India to attack is harder than finding Samoans in Iceland. 

So why is that unremarkable?  And more importantly, why does the rest of the world continue to push us to understand and excuse murderous Muslim aggression against us... even when they hound us to the end of the earth?  Yet we're the racists. 

The answer is that attacking us - even in a country where just finding us is like finding a needle in a haystack - is considered completely unremarkable... just part of the natural order. "

Randall points out The percentage of Jews in India is 0.00136% or just over one thousandth of one percent.

It seems that Jews are 73,333 times as important as the average citizen in India!

A commando fires at suspected terrorists holed up in a house owned by Israelis in Colaba, Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008.  

Turkish couple let off by terrorists for being Muslims India Times

The Muezzinoglus, however, found themselves in a hostage situation, along with a group of foreigners. That night, they shared a room with three foreigners - all women. Two machine-gun-wielding terrorists stood guard over them the whole night.

All the hostages were asked to reveal their religion. When the Muezzinoglus said they were Muslims, their captors told them that they would not be harmed. The other three Caucasian women were removed from the room next day, and the terrorists informed the Muezzinoglus that they had been shot.

Arpaciouglu kept in touch with his friends all through the hostage crisis, up until the time they were released the next day. While the hostages allowed the couple to make one phone call to Arpaciouglu at 3am, for the rest of the day, they relied on text messages. The couples' final messages read: `Soldiers are here now. Soldiers found us'.

These folks in the below pics were not so ..... Muslim

Hospital attendants place the body of a victim of Wednesday's shootings on a stretcher at the St. George hospital in Mumbai November 27, 2008. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday the attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 100 people were well planned and probably had "external linkages". Singh was speaking as witnesses in the Indian financial capital said commandos were preparing to storm the Taj Hotel, the Trident-Oberoi and a Jewish centre, where militants have trapped or taken hostage scores of people.

Bodies lie near the swimming pool of the Taj Mahal hotel after shootings

UPDATE: One floor still to being cleared at Nariman House-

By MM Online Bureau Posted On Friday, November 28, 2008

7.05pm: Fresh firing at Taj. Reports that there might be more than one terrorist holed up in Taj. Two unidentified bodies recovered from the Hotel

6.57pm: J K Dutt: Three bodies found on the 2nd floor of the Nariman House. The terrorists killed the hostages before moving on to the next floor. They killed two more hostages on the 4th floor. Third floor is the only floor remaining, commandos are there. It is just a matter of time.

Muslim Resourcefulness: MUMBAI MASTER WARPLAN

Unconfirmed: Chabad Couple Murdered in Mumbai

I will say it again for the umpteenth time. This ideology must be crushed not appeased, not gently spoken of. Is reporting the planning of the mass murders of infidels, Christians, Jews, Sikhs, Americans, Brits et all  insulting to Islam and in violation of the UN resolution against "defaming Islam"? Has the media given this coverage or are they still too buys kissing President elect Hussein's tuchas. Asshats.

This is not "terrorism", this is war. WAR.

VIDEO HERE: TERROR EMAIL  CLAIMING 'CREDIT' AID "STOP ATROCITIES AGAINST MUSLIMS" If this wasn't so tragic it would be sidesplitting funny.

Mumbai Terror E-Mail Sent by Deccan Mujahideen Hyd Traced to Russian IP Address

Terrorists did recee, set up control rooms in luxury hotels India Today (hat tip Wolf)

Terrorists who struck Mumbai had set up advance "Control Rooms" in the luxury Taj and Trident Oberoi hotels which was also targeted and did prior reconnaissance executing plans worked "over months", Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal said on Thursday night.

Sibal said the unprecedented terror attack in the country's financial capital was planned "over months" and the terrorists were not carrying AK-47 rifles but sophisticated weapons like MP-6.

"The terrorists have identified the targets earlier. Somebody had told them earlier. Enormous planning went into the incident. The terrorists were dropped by a mother ship and travelled in rubber boats which they docked (at Mumbai)," Sibal said.

Terrorists were not attacking people at random. It was a well though out plan, Sibal said.

They had targeted certain key police officers even when they were wearing vests and protective head gears, he said, adding the terrorists shot them dead within minutes of their arrival.

As security agencies pieced together various leads in the probe on India's worst ever terror strike, there were reports that a likely marine arm of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba may have been involved in the well-planned attacks that left 125 people dead.

The Union Home Ministry said the terrorists chose the sea route and came to the city in boats before spreading out in the metropolis to carry out the sinister strike.

The assessment by the Centre as Mumbai continued to be under siege for the second day came amid reports that the leader of the armed terrorists involved in the attack was killed by his own men.

 

Taxi was meant to blow up Mumbai airport Prabhu Chawla Mumbai,  November 28, 2008

The flyover outside the domestic airport in Mumbai and a taxi driver¢s unfamiliarity with the new slip route to the terminal perhaps went a long way in averting a major disaster that could have taken the toll into hundreds on Wednesday night itself.

Shortly before the terrorists moved into their targets in South Mumbai, a black and yellow taxi, with three passengers and enough ammunition to bring down a dome, sped in the direction of the airport. Instead of taking a slip road that would have taken the passengers straight to the airport, the driver took the flyover which bypassed the airport, only to get stuck at a red light.

At rush hour, the lights stayed red for long, at which the passengers berated the driver and asked him to cut the traffic lights. The driver moved on, but the wait turned out to be a minute or two too long. The car exploded. All that was found was a severed head and parts of three human legs. Had the terrorists' plans of coinciding a blast at the airport with the attacks on the Taj and Oberoi hotels succeeded, the death toll of 26/11 would have been much bigger than it already is.

Planned to perfection
From New York to London, Madrid and Bali, the world has seen horrific terrorists attacks but few have been as perfect in terms of planning, organisation, operation and execution. It was clinical enough to make it apparent that the two dozen or so terrorists had logistical support from scores of "field officers" who mingled with the crowds outside the Taj and Oberoi hotels, not to speak of the many others who were sitting in hideouts watching TV.

The presence of TV crew, many of whom  quoted their sources to tell readers about impending action by security forces, came in handy for the terrorists, at least some of whom are reported to have used satellite phones. With TV reporters dishing out exclusives about the actions that the forces were contemplating, it appeared that the terrorists were always a step ahead. The frustration boiled over and the official agencies had to finally ask the hotel management to disconnect TV cables.

When America Knew Who She Was

"We'll fight to the finish this time, and we'll never have to do it again" [link fixed]

Just caught this on Turner Movie Classics and had to share

FJORDMAN: THE HISTORY OF THE CALENDAR

Classic Fjordman greatness - "The Great Pyramid is visually impressive, to be sure, but it's a stunt and represents more of a triumph for organization than for science." Love him for nothing less than setting the record straight and putting to rest mendacious narratives.

FJORDMAN: THE HISTORY OF THE CALENDAR

Writers praising the science of ancient Egypt will often start with the pyramids. There are dozens of pyramids, indeed more than one hundred in Egypt alone. The earliest is the so-called Step Pyramid at Saqqara, designed by the polymath Imhotep for Pharaoh Djoser (reign ca. 2630–2611 BC), but the most famous examples are the ones at Giza outside the city of Cairo, the pyramids of Khafre, Menkaure and the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) was the tallest man-made structure in the world for almost four thousand years, until Lincoln Cathedral was completed in England around 1300 AD.

The Great Pyramid is visually impressive, to be sure, but it's a stunt and represents more of a triumph for organization than for science. Contrary to popular belief, the ancient Egyptians were not too sophisticated in mathematics compared to their contemporaries in Mesopotamia. Their most lasting achievement lay in the medical sciences. Since these were continued by the ancient Greeks, it is possible to claim that the Western medical tradition begins with the Egyptian medical tradition. Among the Egyptian mathematical achievements, by far the most influential was their solar calendar, which, admittedly with many later modifications, formed the basis for the Gregorian calendar which is used internationally today.

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TODAY IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD: RELIGION OF PEACE'S MURDEROUS RAMPAGE

MUMBAI: MUSLIM TERRORISTS KIDNAP CHABAD RABBI AND FAMILY

India: Bomb blasts heard in hotel by trapped Australian , آكي, ItItaly - 1 hour ago

Bomber kills 4 near U.S. embassy in Afghanistan

Two Iraqi security members killed in Baghdad bomb attacks

raq: Car bomb explodes in Mosul, killing 2

Three killed as bomb rips through Yemen minibus

Pakistan mosque blast hurts five

Eighteen female Qaeda fighters give up - US

Bomb Alert For Subway

Muslim rebels blast Christian site in S Philippines

Fire bomb at synagogue investigated

Bomb accused 'destroyed my life'

Eye-witness Twitter - on Mumbai bomb blast

Four German Soldiers, Afghan Civilians Injured in Bomb Attack

Thailand's militarist-Islamist squeeze

This post is painfully easy to assemble. Just search bomb in your news search engine. Is reporting these acts of jihad  insulting to Islam and in violation of the UN resolution against "defaming Islam"?

I will update throughout the day. The morning is still young ..............

UPDATE: Emails from Mumbai (hat tip m)

It is most instrumental to learn that the terrorists hijacked police cars. It is a tactic that had been advanced in an al-Qaidah website instructional video along with dressing up to the occasion using uniform and learning the communications systems used by police and others.The diffusion of innovation is impressive.

The multi theatre operations , coordinated and somehow rehearsed is also remindful of mid east and certain European actions. If there is logic behind this actions that goes beyond the advertised torture reason-- it may go beyond tourists scare.It may suggest the onset of a new terror by Islamic - Fascists that may include US as well.

Other excerpts here:

Two of the dead terrorists have been identified as citizens of Pakistan. One of the arrested terrorists has confessed allegiance to Lashkar-e-Taiba.

This event has been structured like a war on the nation with sixteen different studios of action within one night seizing the entire city. It may not be ruled out that once “O” is in office in January, one of the first things that happens is a co-ordinated strike on Pakistan with US and India together playing the larger studio.

I am unable to ignore the fact that the only civilian building that the terrorists today seized, the Nariman House is a tiny four storied house amidst business skycrapers on the Nariman Point. This Nariman House was owned by and resided into by an Israeli family of six.

UPDATE: '10-15 Israelis held in Chabad House and Mumbai hotel'

10 Taliban held for acid attack on Afghan schoolgirls

GIVING THANKS THIS DAY

This is an original 1863 illustration by Thomas Nast of "Thanksgiving Day, 1863." The image shows scenes of importance to this critical period in our Nation's History.  The image show a nation in earnest prayer.  Our founding fathers, our political leaders, our military leaders, emancipated slaves, and the destitute are all seen lifting their prayers before God. In the center, we see a dramatic image of Columbia (Lady Liberty) kneeling in prayer.  This is a touching illustration, and an important reminder of the critical role that prayer played in the history of our Nation.

I feel genuinely blessed this day. This is a favored holiday of mine (right up there with Independence day). Thanksgiving  is a completely American holiday, non-denominational and authentically American (we love that) - a nationwide day of gratitude. This is a superb day to give thanks to you, my dear and loyal readers who always step up to the plate and do the right thing and  to those fine young Americans in the military fighting for what's good and right.

Thank you dear, sweet friends for all of your support this past crazy and upside year. I walk with you every step. We will defeat the bastards! This I promise you.

On thanksgiving day my thoughts will be with you, and my hopes for your happiness, and the happiness of your children.

1774 Thanksgiving It would be the first American Thanksgiving proclamation issued for many years that didn't end in "God Save the King," this proclamation issued in 1774 just two hundred years ago. And it would set a pattern for all future American Thanksgiving proclamations.

Civil War Thanksgiving (in the Camp)

1940 photo here

 

Thanksgiving in Iraq 2006

The first Thanksgiving Jean Louis Gerome Ferris

UPDATE: Be thankful that you are free (Robert Spencer)

In past years I've written on this day that I'm thankful that there haven't been more jihad terror attacks on U.S. soil. I am thankful for that this year also, but this year's Thanksgiving comes in the shadow of the jihad attacks in Mumbai -- and we must not forget that their defense is our defense, their murders threaten us, they are facing the same jihad that we continue to face, although most Americans don't know it.

2008 THANKSGIVING GREETINGS

"SANDBOXED"/ BLACKLISTED BY GOOGLE

How does Atlas grow? Google search is one critically important way. People find Atlas when they do a word search in google ie "Obama birth certificate", "Obama odinga", "honor killings", "Obama campaign finance fraud"  - stories that I broke or did groundbreaking work on and Atlas is usually in the top five of the search results. That's how folks find my work and generally I keep 15-20% of them as return readers. Regular Atlas readers know the media refuses to cover these stories - building readership is the only way to boost awareness in this increasingly dangerous world.

A couple of days ago I was wiped off google search pages. Yes, if you google Pamela Geller or Atlas Shrugs, I come up, that is not the issue. My work is not there, it does not come up in google's search results. It is critical to building Atlas that I be searchable.Youtube searches are still intact as are images.

Further my google search box (left sidebar) which I use almost constantly to search my site for reasearch (as do my readers) has been dramtically affaected. Input any term, any word in my search box and the same thing comes up - FORBIDDEN.

I have had to hire a separate security/consulting firm to get me back online. It is costly.  I need your help. Anything you could contribute to help offset the cost - it's a lot of hours would be greatly appreciated.

You can paypal my email address writeatlas@aol.com - go here to paypal.

Or write me offline if you wish to send a check.

UPDATE: And my google ads, which used to throw off a few bucks a day, generate nothing now. Nada. Zilch. Zero.

I juat want to be Atlas again in the googlesphere

I earned it.

THE GOOGLE OBAMA CONNECTION:

Owen Thomas, editor of the Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, has penned a reasoned argument as to how Google is winning political influence in the wake of this month's presidential election. In the column he wrote, he takes a sharp-tongued look at how CEO Eric Schmidt appears to be trying to win and use influence in the new Washington.

Schmidt is savvy enough to realize that YouTube's growing prominence as a media outlet could help the company become a larger political player -- which is why the site sponsored two campaign debates. Traffic? Come on. YouTube hardly needs the help.

Thomas concludes:

In that light, isn't there something that stinks about handing the president's weekly addresses to a single commercial outlet controlled by a political ally of the president? Obama's YouTube chats amount to a large, unspoken, behind-the-scenes government kickback. Every election has something dirty about it. And there's no question Google won this contest.

UPDATE: Google CEO Could Be Obama's Tech Advisor

Rumor has it that Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be occupying the newly-formed tech advisor position to the president of the United States. Barack Obama created this position just shortly before visiting the Google headquarters during his campaign, and some believe that the reason this happened was because the job was promised to Schmidt.

The head of Google endorsed the Democratic candidate throughout the elections, though the ads the company posted on various sites were mostly Republican. However, Google employees donated far more to Obama's campaign than they did for John McCain – about $487,355, and $20,600 respectively, as estimated by the Wall Street Journal.

Me thinks it was the birth certificate story .... I broke it. I have the forensics.

Remember this back in June? Atlas Shrugs: GOOGLE SHUTS DOWN ANTI-OBAMA SITES

UPDATE 2:23pm: Jan did a little investigating:

How is this one for lies?

Policies and Principles: Google and censorship

It is Google's policy not to censor search results. However, in response to local laws, regulations, or policies, we may do so. When we remove search results for these reasons, we display a notice on our search results pages. Please note: For some older removals (before March 2005), we may not show a notice at this time.

UPDATE: Mike in Texas pointed me to Google Ranking Diagnostics

Website Diagnostics panel
Helping you self-diagnose your website

Please note that this page is using NOINDEX, NOARCHIVE, NOFOLLOW to prevent it from being indexed.
Check URL: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/ -
what to look for

Uh, please note I am indexed, and I am archived.

Banned from Google
Penalized by Google

UPDATE: From reader Mairi:

After checking the online support site, I found out there is NO WAY to access information on WHY a site has been deemed "Forbidden" or HOW to get the problem corrected.

     I phoned google again. The young "no named" woman stated that NO PERSON handles the problem, and NO ONE would take my call. When I told her I had been to the support site, and there was NO WAY to get info or support there, she stated that was my ONLY option.

     The rest of the conversation was something like this:
Me: Someone had to have made a conscious decision to label the info on the Atlas site "Forbidden"
She: I don't know who that person would be, I cannot release any "name" information, and if there is no support online, than there is no support, we don't do "tech" support, and there is no one I can transfer you to who does "tech" support.
Me: Someone made the decision to label the site info "Forbidden", who do I contact to straighten this out?
She: I cannot give you any other information. I don't have any one to transfer you to. Me: So if a site has been labeled "Forbidden", then that decision has been handed down, and there is nothing else that can be done?
She: I would guess so.
Me: google STINKS! Mairi

UPDATE: Have a look at my google earnings for November:

Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Date	Page impressions	Clicks	Page CTR	Page eCPM [?]	Earnings
Saturday, November 1, 2008	25,411	60	0.24%	$0.81	$20.59
Sunday, November 2, 2008	28,109	57	0.20%	$0.53	$14.79
Monday, November 3, 2008	41,367	90	0.22%	$0.67	$27.80
Tuesday, November 4, 2008	42,606	52	0.12%	$0.26	$11.25
Wednesday, November 5, 2008	47,634	47	0.10%	$0.27	$12.96
Thursday, November 6, 2008	36,408	53	0.15%	$0.32	$11.63
Friday, November 7, 2008	32,684	49	0.15%	$0.34	$11.03
Saturday, November 8, 2008	27,604	33	0.12%	$0.35	$9.65
Sunday, November 9, 2008	30,147	66	0.22%	$0.43	$13.10
Monday, November 10, 2008	36,732	103	0.28%	$0.36	$13.24
Tuesday, November 11, 2008	31,011	129	0.42%	$0.58	$17.95
Wednesday, November 12, 2008	28,618	118	0.41%	$0.68	$19.38
Thursday, November 13, 2008	34,782	139	0.40%	$0.36	$12.65
Friday, November 14, 2008	30,009	128	0.43%	$0.51	$15.41
Saturday, November 15, 2008	20,087	93	0.46%	$0.49	$9.79
Sunday, November 16, 2008	20,132	91	0.45%	$0.44	$8.91
Monday, November 17, 2008	25,438	76	0.30%	$0.48	$12.23
Tuesday, November 18, 2008	25,990	74	0.28%	$0.29	$7.54
Wednesday, November 19, 2008	17,692	45	0.25%	$0.72	$12.75
Thursday, November 20, 2008	13	0	0.00%	$0.03	$0.00
Friday, November 21, 2008	17	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Saturday, November 22, 2008	16	0	0.00%	$0.01	$0.00
Sunday, November 23, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Monday, November 24, 2008	9	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Tuesday, November 25, 2008	14	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Wednesday, November 26, 2008	2	0	0.00%	$0.00	$0.00
Totals	582,541	1,503			$262.67
Averages	22,405	57	0.26%	$0.45	$10.10

UPDATE: Reader TGH posted this -- until it's censored?

UPDATE: Boycott Google

MUMBAI: MUSLIM TERRORISTS KIDNAP CHABAD RABBI AND FAMILY

UPDATE: Unconfirmed: Chabad Couple Murdered in Mumbai

8 hostages freed!Eight Jewish hostages held by Islamic terrorists were released from the Chabad Housein Mumbai on Thursday evening in an Indian commando operation, according to a state official.(hat tip wolf)

UPDATED 10:00 am 11/27: See below for communique from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

UPDATE: '10-15 Israelis held in Chabad House and Mumbai hotel'

UPDATE: (Video) Part of the Muslim's plan was to kidnap the Jews

VIDEO - There is growing concern Thursday evening that the Israelis who were taken hostage by terrorists who stormed the Chabad center in Mumbai, India have been killed, this after alarming information was relayed to Israel's senior-most officials. However, there has been no definite word of their fate.

At around 4:30 am Thursday four terrorists took advantage of the fact that local security forces were operating in several locations throughout Mumbai and seized the Chabad center in the city.

Keep telling us this is not a religious war. Keep telling us that Islamic anti-semitism is a figment of Bostom's imagination. Keep telling us this is not about good and evil. I wonder if the UN is going to strongly condemn the Rabbi's family for being such a desirable target.

Is reporting this story insulting to Islam and in violation of the UN resolution against "defaming Islam"?

Chabad's website reported Wednesday night that the organization's emissary to India and his wife Rivka were missing. The couple has a two-year-old child. According to the report, one of Holtzberg's friends received an email from the rabbi at around 11:30 pm (local time). Israeli Consulate was in touch with Holtzberg, but the line was cut in middle of the conversation.

Did the Rabbi have a UZI and if not, why not? For every Jew, a 22.

Report: Mumbai Terrorists Abducted Chabad Rabbi's Family

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) Muslim terrorists in Mumbai reportedly have abducted Chabad Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg, his wife Rivka and their child. Indian television reported that six Israelis are being held hostage.

Indian media reported that a couple and their teenage son, none of them Israelis, were killed in the Chabad House, called the Nariman House. One terrorist also was killed. Gunfire occasionally has been heard from the building, which the army has surrounded.

At least 101 people, including five terrorists, have died since the attacks began, and 600 others have been wounded. The terrorists have held more than 250 people as hostages in the Chabad House, a hospital and luxury hotels. 

Several other Israelis have maintained telephone contact from their eight floor hotel rooms. The Chabad website reported that "the situation is grim." Commando forces have arrived by sea and are battling the terrorists in an effort to rescue the hostage victims.

The Chabad emissary outside the building attacked (Archive photo: col.org.il)

Read it all and this too: Israelis held hostage in Mumbai

Terrorists seize Chabad offices in Indian city, hold emissary's family hostage. Rabbi's toddler son, nanny seen leaving place safely; gunshots heard from inside. At least 10 sites attacked overnight; 101 people killed, 287 injured

Read about the massive Islamic attack here:

At least 101 people dead and more than 900 injured
Up to 200 hostages taken, many believed to be Brits
Two luxury five star hotels targeted
Attacks believed to be the work of Islamic terrorists Reported that England's cricket team have cancelled remaining part of its cricket tour

UPDATE 11:17pm Please see below for a communique from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the terror attack in Mumbai.

 

Israel's Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni spoke today (Thursday, 27 November 2008) with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Kumar Mukherjee. Foreign Minister Livni condemned the violent attacks in Mumbai and was briefed by Foreign Minister Mukherjee on the current situation. Foreign Minister Livni offered the Indian government any assistance it might require to cope with the situation and its aftermath.

 

Foreign Minister Livni also requested the assistance of Foreign Minister Mukherjee, and the assistance of his Ministry, in the communication of any relevant information regarding developments in Mumbai to the Israeli authorities and assistance in the evacuation of Israelis from the terrorist attack sites if required.

 

"Israel, India and the rest of the free world are positioned in the forefront of the battle against terrorism and extremists. Unfortunately, we were harshly reminded of this once again yesterday. The struggle against terror must be a communal struggle, and compels us to improve our cooperation on this front. Israel is ready to assist India in any way possible." ***

Further, please see the AP story below on police commandoes that have surrounded the headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch, which gunmen had seized overnight:

Indian police surround Jewish center hit by gunmen

UPDATE BOSTOM!

“Ethos” of the Mumbai Jihad on Chabad? “Whenever a Jew is killed it is for the benefit of Islam.”

INDIA: ISLAMIC JIHAD SHOOTINGS, BOMB BLASTS UPDATED: CLOSE TO 100 DEAD,900 INJURED:"MASSIVE TERROR ATTACK" UNFOLDING

UPDATE: Report: Mumbai Terrorists Abducted Chabad Rabbi's Family

MUMBAI: The terrorists, who created havoc here overnight, came by boats and struck at 10 places but their number is not known immediately

Fire engulfs a part of the Taj Hotel

LIVE COVERAGE HERE! (hat tip Martin)

UPDATED: Analysis: 700 have died in Indian terrorist attacks, but no cases have been solved

Nearly 700 people have died and hundreds have been maimed in terrorist strikes across India over the past three years, but none of these cases have been solved and no convictions secured.

Muslims have attacked at least 7 hotels and restaurants. There are over 100 injured, possibly 80 dead and the battle is still going on. They are holding hostages. If you think you are safe in the west, stop drinking the bong water. How long before this starts happening here?

UPDATE: They targeted Jews: INDIAN REPORT SAYS THREE DEAD IN CHABAD HOUSE:

According to CNN/IBN, three people were killed after shots were heard in the area of Chabad House in Mumbai, Israel Radio reported Thursday morning. The dead, a couple and a 16-year-old boy, were shot inside the Chabad House, the report said.

Chabad fears for safety of its Mumbai rabbi and his wife  Hat tip Cynthia

Are we allowed to talk about it, or is this insulting to Islam and in violation of the UN resolution against "defaming Islam".

Mumbai shooters targeted Americans, British Jihadwatch

More on Mumbai, or Bombay, as it used to be more commonly known, in calmer days. "Foreigners targeted in coordinated Bombay attacks," by Rhys Blakely in the Times, November 26 (thanks to Alan):

Gunmen stalked a hotel in Bombay looking for British and US passport holders during co-ordinated attacks across the city that have left at least 80 dead.

A series of shootings and bomb blasts at luxury hotels and bars in the south of the city hit at least nine locations. Security sources said “a major terror attack” was unfolding amid reports that foreigners had been taken hostage in one hotel.

Shootings were reported in the lobby of the five-star Taj Mahal Palace hotel in the Colaba area of south Bombay and at the nearby Leopolds bar, a popular destination with western backpackers. Witnesses described pools of blood and bullet scarred walls at both locations.

A witness at the hotel told a local television station: “They wanted anyone with British or American passports.

"They wanted foreigners.”

It was feared that the death toll could rise significantly....

Shootings at Mumbai luxury hotels: "No doubt in my mind" they were jihad attacks

Mumbai Shootings Update. "Unknown terrorists have conducted a coordinated attack across Mumbai's major tourist hubs, with over a dozen deaths and many injuries reported," from SkyNews, November 26 (thanks to Alan):

Gunmen have targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks across India's financial capital.

NDTVare reporting an eighth attack at the JW Marriott hotel.

Terrorists are reportedly still holed up at in three places, including Oberoi and Taj hotels.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) are advising all Britons in Mumbai to stay indoors.

The FCO also report a further explosion near Mumbai airport.

The death toll is unknown. Officials have said at least 25 people have been wounded.

Reuters are reporting at least 18 fatalities.

The Times of India are reporting as many as 80 people killed and 250 injured in the attacks.

The police commissioner A. N. Roy said: "These are terrorist strikes in at least seven places."

He added: "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some places grenades have been lobbed."

Tory MEP Witnessed Shootings

Gunmen opened fire on two of the city's best known luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi.

They also attacked the crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station in southern Mumbai and Leopold's restaurant, a Mumbai landmark.

It was not immediately clear what the motive was for the attacks.

An eyewitness report says one of the attackers asked tourists if they were British or American before opening fire.

Alex Chamberlain added there was "no doubt in my mind" that the attacks were the result of a fundamentalist Islamic terror attack....

A man carries a victim of a gun attack at the Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. A top state officials says at least 40 people have been killed and 100 have been injured when gunmen opened fire on a crowded Mumbai train station, luxury hotels and a restaurant popular with tourists. Johnny Joseph, chief secretary for Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, says the death toll could rise further. A.N. Roy, a senior police officer, says police were battling the gunmen

A policeman gives water to an injured child at a hospital in Mumbai November 26, 2008. At least 10 people were killed and 26 wounded in a series of shootings around India's financial capital Mumbai on Wednesday night, with two five-star hotels among the targets in what police called a terror attack. Maharahstra state police chief A.N. Roy said attackers had fired automatic weapons indiscriminately, and used grenades, adding that they were still holed up in some buildings.

UPDATE: Hat tip wolf:

Update | 8:46 p.m. Wired blogger Noah Shachtman points out that “First-hand accounts of the deadly Mumbai attacks are pouring in on Twitter, Flickr, and other social media.”

Shachtman rounds up links to Twitter accounts which are being updated minute by minute, including one on Mumbai and another called BreakingNewz.

The samples Shachtman quotes — “Hospital update. Shots still being fired. Also Metro cinema next door,” tweets mumbaiattack. “Blood needed at JJ hospital,” adds aeropolowoman, supplying the numbers for the blood bank. — are among the more newsy. What is striking is how Twitter blends together accounts from people who have real, even first-hand information, and notes from people who are watching TV or reading the Web and passing on second or third-hand accounts.

Schachtman also draws our attention to a Google map of the attack sites, which has been created and “a shockingly-current Wikipedia page.”

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Update | 8:34 p.m. According to NDTV “more than 100 hostages” are still being held in the Taj hotel. Their man on the scene outside the Taj says that the hostages are not contained in one area, but are spread throughout the hotel and that no explosions have been heard for about 20 minutes.

Just now though, gun fire was clearly audible in or around the Taj.

Update | 8:18 p.m. Another source of live video from Mumbai is the Web site of NDTV, where the latest report from outside the Taj Hotel is that more gunfire has broken out in the area of the hotel’s lobby.

IBN reports that police sources tell them that 4 or 5 foreign hostages are still being held on the 19th floor of the Oberoi hotel.

Update | 8:05 p.m. More eyewitness accounts: Britain’s The Guardian talked by cell phone with a Member of the European Parliament, who said he was barricaded in the basement of the Taj Hotel.

“Some of us split one way and some another,” said Sajjad Karim, who represents the North West of England in Europe’s legislative body. “A gunman just stood there spraying bullets around, right next to me. I managed to turn away and I ran into the hotel kitchen and then we were shunted into a restaurant in the basement.”

“We are now in the dark in this room and we’ve barricaded all the doors. It’s really bad.”

Update | 8:00 p.m. Amit Varma, a Mumbai blogger, gives us a sense of how these attacks clash with the normal atmosphere in this cosmopolitan city:

This is turning out to be one crazy night. A friend of mine had an opening of her art exhibition a few hours ago, so we ventured to South Bombay for that. We attended the exhibition, sipped the litchee juice, nibbled on party snacks, and then six of us headed out for dinner. First we tried Indigo Deli, which is a couple of hundred metres from the Taj. We were told there would be a 25-minute wait. So we headed to All Stir Fry, the restaurant in the Gordon House Hotel in a lane down from there. They told us we’d have to wait 20 minutes. We stepped out again, and as we did so, we heard gunshots, and saw people running towards us from the left side.

One of the hotel employees rushed out and told us to get back in. “There must have been an encounter,” he said. “Get back in, you’ll be safe inside.”

We followed him in. We waited in the lounge-bar upstairs for a while. The big screen there was showing cricket. India won. Then someone changed the channel.

That’s when we realised that this was much more than a random police encounter, or a couple of gunshots. We heard that terrorists with AK-47s had opened fire outside Leopold’s, the pub down the road. We heard there was firing elsewhere in the city as well, including in the Taj. We watched transfixed, and as the apparent scale of the incidents grew, we realised we couldn’t go home. We asked if they had a room vacant; they did, so we settled in, switched on the TV, and watched in horror.

Update | 7:19 p.m. A spokesman for President-elect Barack Obama said that Mr. Obama “strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India.

The statement continues

These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. The United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India, whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks.

Update | 7:04 p.m. One of our readers, Kamla Bhatt, points us to the Flickr page of Vinukumar Ranganathan, which has a series of photographs of the aftermath of the attacks.

Update | 6:50 p.m. Michael Rubenstein, a photographer working with The New York Times reports from outside the Taj hotel in Mumbai that the top floor of the hotel is still on fire and that hotel guests are banging on the windows begging to be rescued.

Update | 6:29 p.m. The Web site of the South Asian Journalists Association, SAJA Forum, will be hosting another live discussion on the attacks in Mumbai at 10 p.m. New York time. Suketu Mehta, the author of “Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found” will take part. You can listen to the discussion via Blog Talk Radio or participate via phone by calling +1-347-324-5991.

Update | 6:23 p.m. For those unable to load the live video from IBN’s Web site, we have this video report from MSNBC.com on the attacks in Mumbai.

Update | 6:02 p.m. At Mumbai’s Taj Hotel, firefighters have rescued several people from lower floors and are still battling fires on the upper floors.

Earlier in the evening, a leading anti-terrorism official, Hemant Karkare, was killed in what Indian TV described as “a shootout with terrorists at the Taj Mahal Hotel.” CNN-IBN’s report features a photograph of Mr. Karkare getting ready to take part in the action.

Update | 5:52 p.m. The Indian TV news channel CNN-IBN reports from outside the upscale Oberoi Hotel that Indian military forces entered the hotel after gunshots were heard inside.

CNN-IBN’s Web site reports that earlier this morning

The Army stormed Hotel Taj Intercontinental in Mumbai early on Thursday morning to flush out terrorists holed up inside. Plumes of smoke were seen billowing out of the top floor of the hotel and there were reports of the floor catching fire after a bomb - the sixth in a series of blasts heard from inside the hotel - exploded. The attack on the 22-storey, five-star hotel by the Arabian Sea was one among the seven daring strikes across various locations in south Mumbai.

The Web site of CNN-IBN, an English-language Indian TV news channel, is streaming live video from Mumbai of events as they continue to unfold. At 3:50 a.m. local time, the broadcast was dominated by dramatic images of the Taj Hotel on fire and reports of hostages still being held.

Details of what happened tonight in the city are still developing. In her most recent update, Somini Sengupta, chief of the New York Times news bureau in New Delhi, reports:

The state’s highest ranking police official, A.N. Roy, said the attackers, armed with machine guns and grenades, opened fire and disappeared. Local television reported deaths tolls as high as 80, none of them could be confirmed and the police were yet to give an official count of their own.

Her article will continue to be updated throughout the evening.

The Web site of the South Asian Journalists Association, SAJA Forum, is hosting a live discussion with journalists and experts in Mumbai and the United States on the attacks, and a comment thread there contains a large number of links to other reports online.

We have posted Indian television footage of the chaotic aftermath of the attacks. The BBC is also streaming video from India’s Star TV.

We expect to have more video and links to other sources of information soon.

As Randeep Ramesh of The Guardian notes, Mumbai has a grim history of large-scale violence:

Mumbai has frequently been targeted in terror attacks, including a series of blasts in July 2006 that killed 187 people.

The city has been hit repeatedly by attacks since March 1993, when Muslim underworld figures tied to Pakistani militants allegedly carried out a series of bombings on Mumbai’s stock exchange, trains, hotels and gas stations.

Authorities say those attacks, which killed 257 people and wounded more than 1,100, were carried out to revenge the deaths of hundreds of Muslims in religious riots which had swept India.

Ten years later, in 2003, 52 people were killed in Mumbai bombings blamed on Muslim militants and in July 2006 a series of seven blasts ripped through railway trains and commuter rail stations. At least 187 died in those attacks.

NYC ON THANKSGIVING TERROR ALERT

Fellow New Yorkers, put your walking shoes on ........... hat tip GoE)

NYC - Thanksgiving Terror Threat

For those who may have forgotten we are in the midst of a war and that New York has sustained the single largest number of casualties in that war so far…

Federal authorities are warning law enforcement personnel of a possible terror plot against the New York City subway and train systems during the holiday season, and police are beefing up security in preparation.

An internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says the FBI has received a “plausible but unsubstantiated” report that al-Qaida terrorists in late September may have discussed attacking the subway system.

A person briefed on the matter, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the intelligence-gathering work, said the threat may also be directed at the passenger rail lines running through New York, such as Amtrak and the Long Island Railroad, which are particularly busy with Thanksgiving holiday travelers.

A U.S. counterterror official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to do so publicly, said senior government officials have been briefed because the FBI very recently received credible information about possible attacks over the holiday season, and authorities are particularly concerned about this long holiday weekend.

Read the whole thing here.

If you are traveling in the City this holiday season keep your eyes wide open. If you see something say something. No Joke.

UPDATE From ABC news:

Exclusive: NY Rail Plot Details Based on 'Reliable' FBI Source New Information in Last 48 Hours Led to Public Warning

By RICHARD ESPOSITO (hat tip rut)

SHARE Uniformed police officers have flooded New York City's Penn Station, home to the Long Island Rail Road, following a warning from the FBI of a "plausible but unsubstantiated" threat of a terrorist bomb attack against the system during the holidays.

Law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com, the plot involved a "Madrid-like attack," a reference to the synchronized bombing of the commuter rail system in Spain in March 2004 that killed 191 people.

Click here to read the full FBI warning.

And while I find it out of character for these savages to do a holiday thing, they love to sneaqk up and catch you unawares - their fondest bloody trick - is the element of surprise
 

AMINA AND SARAH SAID HONOR KILLINGS: OBSCENE RAVINGS FROM EGYPT

Previously at Atlas I have made the case for the arrest of Islam Said, the brother and accessory to the honor killing of Amina and Sarah Said. He is guilty and it would surely lead to his terrorist father.

This walking radicalized time bomb helped lure his petrified sisters to their waiting murderer father. This accessory to murder gave his father the gun before Yaser Said departed in the cab with those two innocent girls in the backseat -- ostensibly to go out for "for tea" (so said mom form hell, Tissie). The radicalized brother who brought the girls home to their father and gave him the gun should be  arrested.

Their brother Islam has repeatedly said (and told his Aunt Joyce)  "the girls got what was coming to them". The girls got what they deserved because they knew the rules". (here). In many of the honor killings I have documented here, the brothers are almost always involved and at the least complicit.
The brother has repeatedly threatened family members who have spoken out about the horror of the honor killing and the abject terror  these poor souls lived under. Why hasn't he been indicted? (like the brother indicted  last week on obstruction of justice charges in  a similar honor killing in Canada). It is a crime that this walking time bomb is allowed to threaten, harass, and intimidate any family members that speak out against the honor killing of Amina and Sarah.

Why has he been allowed to threaten and intimidate the aunts, boyfriends (of the girls) and anyone else that speaks out about the heinous crime.

In the latest escapades of the mad jihadi brother, a  blogger who picks up my posts on the Said honor killings has been receiving these threats from Egypt. I was told my a family member that Islam Said is in Egypt. How lovely for him that he can globe trot at will

These vile, belligerent "comments" are very much  his "style" of illiterate writing. He dropped out of school when he was 14 years old  because he was a spoiled, impossibly petulant child.  Yaser had Tissie file for a monthly disability claiming Islam was  "mentally retarded." The disability check paid the rent. There was nothing wrong with Islam that solid parenting and Western values would not have cured.

Here are his comments:

" fuck you
fucku_gall00@yahoo.com | 41.234.10.6

FUCK YOU!!! AND THE FBI YASER DID NOT KILL HIS KIDS HE LOVE AMINA AND SARAH I DO NOT SEE YASER KILLING THEM SO THE FBI CAN GO TO HELL IF YOU THINK YOU CAN STEP ON US YOU ARE SO FUCK UP!!! WE WILL SHOW ALL OF YOU TO PLAY THIS GAME I HAVE YOUR NAME GET IT BITCH I LIKE YOUR KIDS LETS HOPE GOD GET TO THEM BEFOR I DO LOLLOL

From Attention Friends and Family of Yaser Said!, 2008/11/25 at 12:47 PM"

(Also, the author seems to think I am Gail Gartrell.  He knows the name but not how to spell it, and his other comments make it seem like he knows American culture as well- reminded me of his myspace page with all the marijuana leaves and violence)

I've shortened the comments in the other posts, they are usually repeated a million times.  I think I've deleted other ones.  Here's another one, again IP is from Cairo, Egypt.

IN THE SUMMER OF1999 GALL GARTRELL WAS BUYING WEED FROM A LAWYER NAME BILL MANNY IN DALLAS TEXAS GALL WAS HAVEING AFER WITH HER HUBEN SHE NEVER TOLD HER HUBEN AT ALL ABOUT THE AFER SHE WAS HAVEING A INTMED RElATIONSHIP WITH BILL MANNY HE SAID
KKKKK_KKKKKK@AOL.COM | 41.196.82.66

2008/09/17

IN THE SUMMER OF1999 GALL GARTRELL WAS BUYING WEED FROM A LAWYER NAME BILL MANNY IN DALLAS TEXAS GALL WAS HAVEING AFER WITH HER HUBEN SHE NEVER TOLD HER HUBEN AT ALL ABOUT THE AFER SHE WAS HAVEING A INTMED RElATIONSHIP WITH BILL MANNY HE SAID HE WAS GIVING GALL GARTRELL WEED FOR SEX IN HIS DALLAS HOME
HE IS GOING TO FOX4NEW TO TELL HIS STORY TO GET STORY OUT THAR IN THE OPEN GO http://www.myfoxdfw.com TO GOT MOR INFO

From UPDATE on Yasser Said (Muslim who murdered his two daughters in Texas), 2008/09/17 at 7:33 PM

And he spams with vile porn:

2008/11/14

fucku_gall@yahoo.com

What follows was 7 links to the most disgusting porn sites .... I took them down. Don't want my readers caught unawares.

 217.53.79.254 - Geo Information IP Address 217.53.79.254 Host host.217.53.79.254.nile-online.net Location EG, Egypt City Gizeh, 08 - Organization Nile Online ISP Nile Online

Photo Islam and his hero and father, brutal torturer murderer Yaser Said Television mtv show Books hahaha Heroes dad and mom

islam's Friends Comments

 

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deb [texastornado] Jun 6 2008 5:51 PM I really hope all this Said Mafia stuff is a joke. It's not funny if it is...but I think you should be putting more effort into keeping the girls' memory alive... It's not about your father, it's not about your mom, it's not about you. It'll always be about the girls. I'm sorry Islam, I'm your friend and always will be... but all this junk is wrong. Hope you're okay. islam Jun 6 2008 2:13 PM we love you yaser jest go no we got this islam Jun 6 2008 5:37 AM IF THAY TUSH YASER WE WILL GOT ALL THE PIGS IN TEXAS IF YOU NO WHAT I AM SAYING LOL islam Jun 6 2008 5:16 AM SAID MAFIA WILL FIGHT TO THE DEAL FUCK ALL OF YOU WE LOVE YASER islam Jun 5 2008 7:05 AM we all love yaser and we will fight for him to the dealth fuck americans all of them اللة اكبر islam Jun 5 2008 6:52 AM said mafia fight for yaser اللة اكبر god is good اللة اكبر islam Jun 4 2008 7:13 AM said mafia fight for yaser islam Jun 4 2008 2:51 AM we all love yaser and we will fight for him so if you are a man come to me i will show you and the fucking dogs >>>>>>you no what i am saying bitch islam May 1 2008 12:40 PM said mafia i am in texas today deb [texastornado] Apr 30 2008 10:06 AM yeah! How are you doing? deb [texastornado] Mar 11 2008 4:41 PM Hey... I'm here for you if you need anything, okay? We miss you out here! deb [texastornado] Mar 9 2008 4:36 PM I know y'all really need to come back home! haha we miss youuuu! deb [texastornado] Feb 28 2008 11:43 PM I'm doin pretty good. How are you? I miss you and your mom! islam Sep 18 2007 6:00 AM i am the best boxing in lewisville

Islam's myspace page - an homage to reefer, his murdering father and illiteracy

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The brother's hero is his murdering father (see here). He's a punk that  threatens anyone that speaks of the honor killing. Download islamsaidthreat.

‘Honour killing’ brother blames victims

During the vigil, the girls’ brother took the microphone, saying his father did not kill his sisters.

“They pulled the trigger, not my dad,” he said.

What does that tell you? The control is inbred in the son.

"I remember her telling me that her dad told her he would take her back to Egypt and have her killed," she said. "He said it's OK to do that over there if you dishonor your family." (article here)

When will there be justice?

(A screenshot of Islam's myspace page).

ATLAS EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: ISLAM SAID'S VIOLENT THREATS AGAINST NONMUSLIM FAMILY MEMBERS OF AMINA AND SARAH

UPDATE: Robert Spencer wrote me:

Those June 2008  "Said mafia" posts from Islam -- that's 6 months after the murders, right?

In them he writes,

repeatedly, اللة اكبر .

That's "Allahu akbar."

IMAGINE JIHAD!

It's done... finally! GO GET YOURSELF SOME

Attack by Muslim mobs on newly built St Mary and Anba Abraam church in Cairo

Attack by Muslim mobs on newly built St Mary and Anba Abraam church in Cairo United Copts of Great Britain (article and video)

United Copts of Great Britain learned that an attack by more than 3000 Muslim extremists’ mob took place on yesterday 23/11/08. The attack has led to extensive damages to St Mary and Anba Abraam church, Ain Shams, Cairo. The building of the church which was consecrated the same day in the morning seems to have trigged massive hostility.

The radicalised mob could not stand the sight of the building which they called  “infidels worship house in Islamic Land” shouting “No god but Allah” and “Allah Akbar” “we will demolish the church” Events escalated from bad to worse when the number of Muslim demonstrators swelled up reaching more than 3,000 people who gathered in front of the Virgin Mary and Anba Ibraam church.

Security forces tried to disperse the protesters but they could not meet the hostile crowd which came in large numbers from different areas. The crowed attacked the church, hurled stones and burned several cars owned by Christians, and causing the injury of more than 5 people. Worshipers and several priests were trapped inside the church unable to return home because of the hostile crowd outside.

The Egyptian police did not seem to be too bothered about arresting the perpetrator of violence at the start of the riot. The police had a flimsy existence from the beginning of the attack about 5pm local time.

At 12 midnight, Cairo time the police arrested Imad Abdullah, Joseph Fuad Ramses and Yusuf Nasim all Christians. Also arrested 38 Muslim youth but soon released 30 of them “under the pretext of being minors”

United Copts of Great Britain learned that the Assistant Investigation Police Department deputy Inspector Wael Tahoon had a hand in planning and executing the attack on the church.

Fanatic Muslims started to gather about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, the influx of a large number of citizens from different parts of Ain Shams, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Madinet El-Salaam, and Mataria made the numbers well over 3000. The crowd started shouting and denouncing the building of a new church.

Slogans such as “We will demolish the church” “Islam is the solution "," God is great "," there is no church to be build here "... etc continued till 4am on 24th November.

The UN had no comment, only to belch the following:The President of the UN General Assembly has launched an unprecedented attack on a UN member state from the Assembly podium. Going beyond even existing UN resolutions, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann of Nicaragua accused Israel of apartheid and called for "a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions" against it. Reminiscent of a classic antisemitic slur, Brockmann (himself a Roman Catholic priest and one-time official of the World Council of Churches) also claimed our Palestinian "brothers and sisters are being crucified" by Israel.

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

A couple of months back I ran this deeply troubling story of Mattel's BABY DOLLIE TALKING DAWAH ....bwahahaha. You tube removed the video  I originally linked to but regular Atlas readers remember the blond, blue-eyed baby doll spouting Islamic propaganda, "Islam is the Light" -  listen to the slowed down version here: Download Lil_Mommie_Coo_Original_slowed31K.wav Randall ulpoaded a better one with Audacity - it's definitely a woman, foe shizzle.

More audio here (thanks to Randall) Download Lil_Mommie_Coo_Original_10K.mp3

Mattel refuses to remove secret "Islamic" doll that tries to convert children; but wages jihad against competitor to remove Bratz dolls from retailer shelves for Christmas - insists all Bratz dolls be "impounded and destroyed." Mattel - the Real Grinch that stole Christmas. November 10, 2008: Mattel wants Bratz dolls banned

Fred Taub over at Boycott Watch has put together a comprehensive post on the boycott and protests we will be staging  at stores that won't take that thing off the shelves. Taub fact checks boycott calls so people can get both sides of the story and decide for themselves what the truth is. He is an expert in boycotts, including the Arab boycott of Israel.

BW: Mattel / Fisher Price Doll States "Islam is the light" - Boycotts Expected

Summary: Examination of audio in a doll indicates Fisher Price / Mattel doll is been used to promote Islam to children without parents knowledge.

On October 7, 2008, Debbie Schlussel broke the story about the Fisher Price (Mattel) marketing the Little Mommy Cuddle & Coo Doll, a doll that she claims states "Islam is the Light" (See: INDOCTRI-Nation: Fisher-Price Doll Tells Your Kids, "Islam is the Light")

In response, on October 7, Mattel, the parent company of Fisher Price, issued a press release on their website stating:

Statement by: Mattel, Inc.

Re: Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo Dolls

The Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure. The only scripted word the doll says is "mama."

There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word "night, right, or light." To avoid any potential misinterpretation, we have eliminated that segment of the sound file from future production.

Because the original sound track is compressed into a file that can be played through an inexpensive toy speaker, actual sounds may be imprecise or distorted.

We remain confident in the high quality standards of our Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls. If consumers have any questions or concerns regarding any Mattel or Fisher-Price toys, they may contact our consumer relations center at 800.524.TOYS (8697) and we will be happy to assist them.

We take every call from our consumers very seriously and do our best to help address their concerns

--- End of Mattel statement

    This week, a group calling itself Moms Asking Mattel for Accountability is planning protests outside of several stores nationally, as parents have recently discovered the doll on store shelves while they happened to pass by the doll with a built-in proximity detector. The protests are scheduled for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when many retailers make their money for the year during the Christmas shopping frenzy.

    Boycott Watch contacted Mattel / Fisher Price, but found itself at a brick wall. Juliette Reashor (juliette.reashor@fisher-price.com) the Senior Manager for Public Relations at Fisher-Price was able to send us a statement, but essentially refused to even hear our questions and then tried to derail our questions by asking for our sources, which we obviously refused to reveal.

    Boycott Watch took the liberty of examining the audio posted on the Mattel website and found that the there were several segments of audio, all divided by short moments of total silence, indicating that the audio was in fact most likely recorded in a professional studio or at the very least in professional studio conditions. The last segment of the audio was clearly compressed and sped up audio. While we were unable to totally reverse the compression and pitch changes, we were able to slow down the audio to reveal, in our opinion, that the audio clearly stated "Islam is the light." We posted that audio here, both regular and slowed down, so you can decide for yourself what the audio contains.

    When we examined the audio graphically, there is a definite clear "T" at the end of the word "Light," which you can see circled in the following graphic.

To us, this indicates the audio is not a "misinterpretation" as Mattel states. Rather, we believe that anyone with basic audio editing software and skills will come to the conclusion that this was, in fact, actual words spoken, and that the words "Islam is the light" were intentionally placed in the audio cut.

    Questions now remain: What is Mattel's Quality Assurance procedure for imported and domestic goods? Since Mattel was able to conduct a simple examination of the audio we did, did they in fact examine of audio once a complaint was made? If no, why not? If yes, why did they do nothing? If there was a reason to examine the audio, which there clearly was, why didn't they examine the audio or act upon that examination?

    The Mattel press release stated: "The Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls feature realistic baby sounds including cooing, giggling, and baby babble with no real sentence structure. The only scripted word the doll says is "mama."

    Boycott Watch asks our readers to listen to the slowed down audio here and tell us if you hear "Islam is the light."

    The Mattel press release continues: "There is a sound that may resemble something close to the word "night, right, or light." To avoid any potential misinterpretation, we have eliminated that segment of the sound file from future production."

    Based on our examination of the audio, Boycott Watch believes these words are willfully inserted, not the happenstance of an infinite number of monkeys in a room with typewriters. We also believe that Mattel was the victim of a trick, but one they could have avoided by doing simple quality assurance examinations, and later recalls.

I will have more details on the boycott and protests shortly.

FRAUD: OBAMA'S CERTIFICATE OF LIVE BIRTH

The first birth certificate  forgery that appeared at daily KOS - admitted to being altered here.

The Obama COLB - posted on BHO's website exposed for the first time at Atlas here. The story that Atlas broke could change the course of human history (if the system is not completely corrupted, that is)

July 4, 2008   EXCLUSIVE: Atlas Tech Expert Declares Obama Birth Certificate Forgery
July 11, 2008 ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FORENSIC EXPERT: "the [birth] certificate is still a horrible forgery"

July 20, 2008 ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

UPDATE: We know he's it's a fraud so sign this, it can't hurt.

UPDATE: Why the Barack Obama Birth Certificate Issue Is Legitimate Joe the Farmer, American Thinker (hat tip Larwyn)

UPDATE 11/26: Diana West sums it up nicely here. Excellent letter from her reader:

Dear Diana,

I can't not write to you about this Elephant that no one on the right wants to touch. 

This was the last straw for me.  I just heard a taped interview on the Peter Boyles radio show.  The interview was done by two hosts of a Detroit radio talk show, "Mike in the Morning", on WRIF FM 101, on November 5, 2008.  The recording is still up on the WRIF website and Boyles has it up on his site on KHOW.com.

The subject of the interview was the Kenyan ambassador to the United States.  During the interview, the ambassador acknowledged, with some degree of pride, that Barack Obama was born in Kenya;  and that his place of birth is marked as a national tourist attraction.

The Kenyan ambassador has now refused to talk to the media about the election and about his post-election statements regarding Obama's place of birth.

We now have by my last best information 17 separate lawsuits filed in different states, (including a suit by presidential candidate Alan Keyes in California), one of which is lodged in Clarence Thomas' division of the United States Supreme Court, all challenging the Constitutional qualifications of Senator Obama to attain the Office of President.

Phillip Berg has published a taped interview with Obama's paternal grandmother, in which she claims that she was present during his birth in a Mombasa hospital.

Team Obama, by and through his lawyers, refuses to release for inspection the following:

1)  His original birth certificate.  Access is sealed by the Governor of Hawaii.

2)  Admissions/College transcript records from Occidental College.

3)  Admissions/College transcript records from Columbia University.

4)  Admissions/College transcript records from Harvard University.

5)  Records of his editorial writing in the Harvard Law Review.

6)  Medical Records.

7)  Selective Service Registration Records.  (Debbie Schlussel has obtained Obama's Selective Service Registration record.  She has done an investigation, posted on her website, thoroughly demonstrating that the registration is a forgery and a fraud.)

8)  His Illinois State Legislative calendar.

9)  The list of his legal clients from his days of private law practice.

Something is very wrong here.

Rush Limbaugh is silent.  Michelle Malkin is silent.  FoxNews is silent.  The Wall Street Journal is silent.  Laura Ingraham is silent.  CNN is silent.  ABC is silent.  NBC is silent.  CBS is silent.  The major newspapers are silent.  This story is so big, yet no one wants to touch it.

If this man is not a natural born citizen and is sworn in, our Constitution will have been shredded and rendered meaningless.  Obama's got one more hurdle to clear prior to being sworn in - to present his United States Passport to the Clerk of the Senate when the Electoral College vote is certified by the Vice President in December.

Time's running out.

UPDATE: And then there is this. Hardly anecdoctal.

VANISHED! MUSLIMS DISAPPEARING RIGHT OFF U.S. STREETS

Regular Atlas readers are fully aware of the ramifications of State department policy to import whole Muslim communities from Somalia to work for various US companies ie Swift, Tyson etc. The crazy thing is the UN decides who gets refugee status. I have  recounted the subsequent sometimes violent repercussions of these "religious" communities attempting to advance Islamic supremacism by imposing sharia law on these workplaces in America (go here and here and here and here and here and  here)....now this

VANISHED! Somalis 'disappearing' off U.S. streets WND
Communities believe men are being recruited to join holy war Posted: November 24, 2008 10:46 pm Eastern

Young Somali men have been mysteriously disappearing from the Minneapolis-St.Paul area – and many Minnesotans believe they are being recruited to join the holy war in Somalia

According to KMSP-TV in Minneapolis, more than 20 men between the ages of 17 and 22 have vanished from the Twin Cities area in the last few months. Minnesota has the largest Somali community in the U.S. – nearly 60,000 – but some have left without ever informing their families.

The Somali community simply calls them "The Missing."

"It looks like people are being recruited to join the jihad in Somalia, but who's doing it?" Omar Jamal of the Somali Justice Center told the station. "We don't know."

Family members and community leaders all say they think the men have returned to fight in the country's civil war – where al-Qaida has a strong presence. The area is so violent – with road blocks and pirates – that the U.N. has refused to allow peacekeeping and humanitarian aid workers to enter. According to U.N. estimates, there are now 1 million Somali refugees. Many people are starving and living on roadsides.

Families are deeply concerned about their relatives in Somalia, and now their men are vanishing from the U.S.

"They're concerned, emotional and in shock," Jamal said. "They're completely grief stricken."

Importing Muslims "susceptible to religious indoctrination"

ISLAMIC WEAPONS SMUGGLING IN ..... VIRGINIA

I wonder if they use Gaza-like tunnels (just kidding, they don't have to!)  Is it politically incorrect to report this story? Is the arrests islamophobic? Just askin ...... is this "cultural" too?

Illegal missile dealing? In   Fairfax County? Snapped Shot

That's impossible:

Two Annandale men have been arrested in an FBI sting that uncovered visa fraud, gun smuggling and references to Lebanon, Yasir Arafat and bombing the Pentagon with a missile.

According to a recently unsealed U.S. District Court affidavit, an FBI informant met with Annandale resident Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native, in April 2006.

Hamed provided the informant with six valid Palestinian passports and asked him to obtain U.S. visas for them.

According to the affidavit, Hamed revealed that he was part of an international visa fraud scheme. "I challenge anyone in the world who can bring so many passports without being inspected," he is quoted as saying.

Liberal Facists will Exploit the "utter vacuum of conservative political voices"

Thew conservatives better get their act together and fast. The totalitarians are on the march. Over at American Thinker

Prelliminaries for an assualt on talk radio? letter to the editor

A Monday New York Times editorial discussed radio ads for "loan-modification companies."  In the process they got in a few jabs at talk radio, and specifically WABC talk radio, which hosts Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin.  It sounds to me like a little preliminary rope-a-dope, with a few soft jabs, to get attention and set us up for a few one-two punches before the liberal hope of a knockout punch.  I'm sure Senators Schumer and Bingaman were pleased to read this over their morning coffee.

The three hosts mentioned above are our conservative leadership by default, as there is a complete and utter vacuum of conservative political voices right now on the national stage. The liberal left would love to take advantage of that by shutting down conservative talk radio. They will do it in nicks and cuts like yesterday's editorial.

NUTS! UN'S DEATH KNELL FOR FREE SPEECH

You have to ask yourself, what does the West stand for? What does the US stand for? If not free speech, than we are finished. We stand for nothing. "Defamation" or "insulting" a cult, a dogma whatever is entirely subjective and dangerous.

UN anti-blasphemy measures have sinister goals, observers say
Steven Edwards ,  Canwest News Service

UNITED NATIONS - Islamic countries Monday won United Nations backing for an anti-blasphemy measure Canada and other Western critics say risks being used to limit freedom of speech.

Combating Defamation of Religions passed 85-50 with 42 abstentions in a key UN General Assembly committee, and will enter into the international record after an expected rubber stamp by the plenary later in the year.

But while the draft's sponsors say it and earlier similar measures are aimed at preventing violence against worshippers regardless of religion, religious tolerance advocates warn the resolutions are being accumulated for a more sinister goal.

 

It provides international cover for domestic anti-blasphemy laws, and there are a number of people who are in prison today because they have been accused of committing blasphemy," said Bennett Graham, international program director with the Becket Fund, a think tank aimed at promoting religious liberty.

"Those arrests are made legitimate by the UN body's (effective) stamp of approval."

Passage of the resolution is part of a 10-year action plan the 57-state Organization of Islamic Conference launched in 2005 to ensure "renaissance" of the "Muslim Ummah" or community.

"Renaissance"

While the current resolution is non-binding, Pakistan's Ambassador Masood Khan reminded the UN's Human Rights Council this year that the OIC ultimately seeks a "new instrument or convention" on the issue. Such a measure would impose its terms on signatory states.

"Each time the resolution comes up, we get a measure of where the world is on this issue, and we see that the campaign has been ramped up," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch.

While this year's draft is less Islam-centric that resolutions of earlier years, analysts note it is more emphatic in linking religion defamation and incitement to violence.

That "risks limiting a broad range of peaceful speech and expression," Neuer argues.

The 2008 draft "underscores the need to combat defamation of religions, and incitement to religious hatred in general, by strategizing and harmonizing actions at the local, national regional and international levels."

It also laments "Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism."

But Western democracies argue that a religion can't enjoy protection from criticism because that would require a judicial ruling that its teachings are the "truth."

"Defamation carries a particular legal meaning and application in domestic systems that makes the term wholly unsuitable in the context of religions," says the U.S. government in a response on the issue to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"A defamatory statement . . . is more than just an offensive one. It is also a statement that is false."

AN ANTI-SEMITE'S CHRISTMAS

Where are those Christian Zionists when you need them? They know not what they do? They know and these same "British secular Jews" are godless. And accident of birth does not make them Jewish. We have the same amoral monsters here in the States.

Organisers of a Christmas carol concert being held in a famous church have been condemned for rewriting  traditional verses to attack Israel. Mail ONline hat tip Davida

Far from bringing tidings of comfort and joy, the participants will instead sing about ‘war crimes’, ‘assassinations’ and the ‘oppression’ of Palestinians.

The concert, which has been organised by anti-Israeli campaigners, is due to take place on Wednesday at St James’s, Piccadilly, a Christopher Wren-designed church in Central London.

Its critics include the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, who said that the rewriting of much-loved traditional carols for such partisan political purposes was deeply offensive.

"Partisan poltical purposes"? Fancy euphemism for Jew hatred.

The reworked carols include favourites such as O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, The Holly And The Ivy and Hark The Herald Angels Sing.

Even The Twelve Days Of Christmas gets the treatment. A revised opening verse of While Shepherds Watched goes: ‘While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, Some occupying soldiers came and bulldozed all around.’

The event, called Bethlehem Now: Nine Alternative Lessons And Carols For Palestine, has been organised by Jews For Boycotting Israeli Goods, a group of secular British Jews opposed to Israeli policies.

Secular (godless) Jews are not Jews. They are ... the enemy.

It has been approved by the rector of St James’s, the Rev Charles Hedley, who said he thought that Christmas was a good time for Jews and Christians to co-operate in a bid to ‘address the need for peace and reconciliation’.

Jewbashing "cooperation"? Only a leftard .....

Bruce Kent, a former Roman Catholic priest and prominent peace campaigner who will read one of the lessons, said: ‘I think it is perfectly reasonable for carols to be rewritten in this way.

‘I am fed up with sugary religion – the baby Jesus sitting in his stable and all that stuff.’

huh?

Lord Carey, who has been deeply involved in peace efforts in the Middle East, said:

‘It’s a shame to see a famous London church lay on such a one-sided political demonstration. There are many reasonable concerns about both Israeli and Palestinian policies and actions, but a stunt of this nature is just unhelpful.

‘Many British people have a great affection for Christmas carols and will be offended that they’re being used in such an overtly political way.’

SOROS PLAN FOR US: SCREWED, BLUED AND TATOOED

Chaos Theory

Soors has been talking the economy down for a year( and probably making tons of money shorting the markets) in order for the situation to favor a new Democratic government. Before you know it the USA will be like the EU socialist countries.First you break the back of the largest financial and manufacturing entities and everything else falls into place......unless the GOP grows a backbone (hat tip s)

Obama/Gore/Soros/UN un Fairness Doctrine.......

Soros: Definitely. I think this is a great opportunity to finally deal with global warming and energy dependence. The US needs a cap and trade system with auctioning of licenses for emissions rights. I would use the revenues from these auctions to launch a new, environmentally friendly energy policy. That would be yet another federal program that could help us to overcome the current stagnation.

SPIEGEL: Your proposal would be dismissed on Wall Street as "big government." Republicans might call it European-style "socialism."
Soros: That is exactly what we need now. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful -- but also very harmful to our society.
SPIEGEL: Would you advise the new president to say that publicly?
Soros: He has already spoken about changing the political discourse. I think it is better to have a government that wants to provide good government than a government that doesn't believe in government.

A very dangerous man.

The Wall Street Journal did a puff piece on Soros ........... and it was telling just how owned Obambi is.(hat tip Stacy)

Hedge-fund billionaire and left-wing political activist George Soros has become one of the Democratic Party's most important players. Now that Barack Obama is in the White House, his influence is due to expand even further as the web of activist groups he funds becomes the new brain-trust of the incoming administration.

Mr. Soros has been a friend to Barack Obama since Mr. Obama first ran for Senate in Illinois in 2004. Because of a special provision of the campaign finance law that allows greater contributions to candidates who are running against millionaires, Mr. Soros was able to donate $60,000 to Mr. Obama's campaign against primary opponent Blair Hull and then against Republican Jack Ryan. Four members of the Soros family also donated to Mr. Obama's Senate campaign, making Mr. Obama one of only a handful of candidates -- including Hillary Clinton, Tom Daschle and Barbara Boxer -- to receive the richest Soros nod.

Mr. Soros's influence on Democratic policy has been years in the making, through groups like the Center for American Progress, which he helped underwrite back in 2003 (along with film producer Stephen Bing) to the tune of several million dollars. CAP is currently headed by former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, now Mr. Obama's transition team leader. With 180 staffers and a $27 million budget, the group is expected to play a role in the Obama administration similar to that played by the American Enterprise Institute during the Bush years, as a feeder for staff and a pusher of liberal ideas.

The problem for Mr. Obama, of course, is that not all Mr. Soros's ideas fly as well with voters as with the New York and D.C. cognoscenti. The Soros connection already created trouble for Mr. Obama last year over the billionaire's comment that Democrats should "liberate" themselves from the influence of the pro-Israeli lobby. Mr. Soros also is a prominent advocate of drug legalization. So while the hedge-fund legend may pour money and staffers into the Obama administration, Warren Buffett is likely to remain the billionaire Mr. Obama still prefers to share photo-ops with.

HOLY LAND DEFENDANTS GUILTY ALL COUNTS!

Justice served! Oorah!  .... now it's time to indict  unindicted co-conspirator CAIR.

This just about made my day - hell, it made my year!

Defendants guilty on all counts in Holy Land Foundation trial

Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts

By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News om(hat tip JihadWatch)

A jury on Monday determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Defendant Mohammad El-Mezain is embraced by Hadi Jawad outside the Earle Cabell Federal Building prior to Monday's reading of the Holy Land Foundation trial verdicts. At rear is Abdulrahman Odeh, Mr. El-Mezain's

The unanimous verdicts are a complete victory for the government, which streamlined its case and worked hard to carefully educate jurors on the complex, massive evidence presented in the trial.

The prosecution's victory is also a major one for the lame duck administration of President George W. Bush, whose efforts at fighting terrorism financing in court have been troubled, even though the flow of funds seems to be effectively shut down.

It was the second trial where the government attempted to convict the men and the now-defunct, Richardson-based Holy Land Foundation itself. It took the jury eight days of deliberations to reach its decisions – less than half the time it took jurors to deadlock end up with an almost complete mistrial last year on the first go-around.

Before he read the verdict, the judge had ordered all observers to remain civil and respect the proceedings.

Spencer declares, "This verdict is a huge official recognition of the reality of that stealth jihad, and a huge setback for the likes of CAIR, which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in this case."

JEWISH STUDENTS TARGETED IN UK DAILY

It's all bad .... and getting worse. Why won't they leave the Jews alone?

Anti-Semitism Arrives in Golders Green INN hat tip Laura

(IsraelNN.com) Anti-Semitism has begun to rear its ugly head in northwest London’s Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green.

Jewish students are increasingly being targeted by rock-throwing hate-mongers, according to a report published in The Jewish News. Concerned parents have organized a private bus to transport their children in order to keep them safe from the daily attacks on their way to school.

At the Hendon Park Café, vandals scrawled “dirty Jews” and a swastika on the walls of the eatery. A sketch of a gun and the word “kill” was scrawled alongside it as well.

The unsightly vandalism stunned the upscale neighborhood, including the outraged café owner, Jason Ezekiel, who told The Jewish News, “I was shocked when I saw it… I feel I’ve done something nice for the community. I feel, why target me? They did it at night in an area where they wouldn’t be seen. It was a cowardly act.

WEST WINS THIS ROUND

I love these little victories. Thanks to you readers and wunderkind. You saved the day.

If you missed the opening salve on this leftard's attack on DianaWest and invariably free speech, read this post: Hanover Sun setting on the West: Charisse Charade.

Well Charisse caved. Thanks to you. I love you guys.

Forced to backpedal, the bitch is back and this column is worse than the first. See little man belch:

Charisse: Walking the tolerance walk

I guess I should have known better, as the saying goes, than to pick a fight with a woman who buys her ink by the barrel. Especially one who also has her own Web site.

But pick I did on Washington Times columnist Diana West, whose column continues to run most Saturdays in The Evening Sun. I reminded readers I found her tiresome (something I first observed a year ago when I first threatened to dump her column) and sided with the more recent complaints of a couple of left-of-center readers who have had enough of her anti-Islamic screeds. Unless I heard some reasoned defense from her fans, I threatened, I would stop publishing her column.

Now I know what it's like to be the victim of the right-wing media. Sort of a rhetorical Bush Doctrine: Any ideological transgression is to be met with total retaliation by overwhelming force.

The mass destruction started minutes after West wrote us a letter, and posted it, along with a link to my original column, on her Web site.

West called my column - which generally wrestled with the urge to silence speech we disagree with - "grotesque" and "striking for its mud-slinging crudity." Wow, I didn't think I wrote that well.

In the last few days West's readers have called me a Kool-Aid drinker and a coward with my head in the sand, unfit for editorial duty.

"Your stunning display of ignorance and mindless arrogance towards Diana West represents a milestone in journalistic criticism," begins one fairly typical e-mail. "You should try to read George Orwell's 1984. Oh sorry, it probably has too many big words. Enjoy your new izlamic regime under King Hussein Oungbama"

There's more if you are in the market for syrup of ipecac.

Diana's says thank you :)

SNOWBALLING BAILOUTS: NETWORKS NEXT? STATE RUN MEDIA?

This of this as your worst nightmare. How dare they? Where is the public outcry - every single American soul should be contacting their congressmen, senators, etc and insisting no bailout. We must let the markets work. If the car companies are dead - if the unions put them out of business - so be it. If the networks produce garbage, let them fail (a long time coming).

You are breaking the back of the American working man. No mas. When the first bailout was proposed it was all but implied that the American taxpayer was already on the hook. Whatever.

Get your teeth out of our neck.

It's D-Day for the broadcast networks. Variety

Needed: Network bailout? Bad economy slows ad sales

They've been living on borrowed time for the better part of two decades, thanks to advertisers willing to toss in more cash each year even as ratings slowly trended ever lower.

But with the economy in a tailspin -- and the Big Three auto manufacturers, some of TV's best advertisers, near ruin -- the biz may finally have to pull the emergency cord.

"This day was going to come," says one conglom bigwig. "I don't think the business can be sustained without real change at this juncture. ... We have a gun to all of our heads."

Bang bang.

UPDATE: Screenshot hat tip Cathy

CARBON BUSTERS!

Watch the video - funny and scary.

Friday is the deadline to send a comment to the Environmental Protection Agency about its proposed carbon dioxide regulations. You can expect the Obama administration to move quickly on this next year, which is why it's so important for conservatives to voice our dissent now.

With just four days left,  spread the word - send it to your peeps.

http://stopEPA.com

JUST DESSERTS: CAIR'S AWAD SERVED THEIR SUMMONS FOR RACKETEERING AND FRAUD

In a word ....heh

ALERT: at approximately 7:00 p.m. this evening, Nihad Awad, Executive Director of CAIR, was served a summons at the CAIR 14th Annual Banquet - onstage - by Dave Gaubatz. The dinner is ongoing and viewers here will be able to see the Youtube video which was edited and uploaded to Youtube immediately after the dessert course. So great!

Giving CAIR a taste of their own medicine. Gorgeous.

CAIR Sued by Former Clients for Racketeering, Fraud, & Breach of Fiduciary Duties

November 24, 2008 – Washington, DC:Four clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have filed a federal civil complaint alleging criminal fraud and racketeering against CAIR, a self-described public interest civil rights law firm. The lawsuit also names CAIR’s national leadership as individual defendants.

The defendants were served with the complaint and summons to appear while attending the CAIR 14th Annual Dinner Sunday night in Arlington, Virginia. Congressman Ellison (D-Minn) was a guest speaker at this affair.

The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that Morris Days, the “Resident Attorney” and “Manager for Civil Rights” at the now defunct CAIR MD/VA chapter in Herndon, Virginia, was in fact not an attorney and that he failed to provide legal services for clients who came to CAIR for assistance and who had paid for CAIR legal services.

While attorney David Yerushalmi represents the four plaintiffs in this particular lawsuit, two of whom are African American Muslims, the complaint alleges that according to CAIR internal documents, there were hundreds of victims of the CAIR-Days fraud scheme.

According to the complaint, CAIR failed to conduct a background check on Days prior to hiring him and when they did discover his massive fraud, they immediately set about to cover it up. CAIR officials purposefully concealed the truth about Days from their clients, law enforcement, the Virginia and D.C. state bar associations, and the media. When CAIR did get irate calls from clients about Days’ failure to provide competent legal services, CAIR fraudulently deceived their clients about Days’ relationship to CAIR, suggesting he was never actually employed by CAIR, and even concealed the fact that CAIR had fired him for criminal fraud.

“The evidence has long suggested that CAIR is a criminal organization set up by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas to further its aims of stealth Jihad in the U.S.,” Mr. Yerushalmi said referring to the fact that CAIR has been named by the federal government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing trial.

“But our investigation and this complaint make clear that CAIR’s criminal activities know no bounds,” Yerushalmi continued.

“According to the facts as carefully laid out in this complaint,” Yerushalmi explained, “CAIR has engaged in a massive cover-up of a criminal fraud in which literally hundreds of CAIR clients have been victimized and because of the CAIR cover-up they still don’t realize it. The fact that CAIR has victimized Muslims and non-Muslims alike demonstrates that CAIR is only looking out for CAIR and its ongoing effort to bilk donors out of millions of dollars of charitable donations thinking they are supporting a legitimate organization.”

The complaint also alleges that in addition to covering up the Days fraud scheme, CAIR officials in D.C. forced angry clients who were demanding a return of their legal fees to sign a release that bought the client-victims’ silence by prohibiting them from informing law enforcement or the media about the CAIR-Days fraud. According to the agreement, if the “settling” clients said anything to anyone about the fraud scheme, CAIR would be able to sue them for $25,000.

This enforced code of silence left hundreds of CAIR client-victims in the dark such that to this day they have not learned that Days is not an attorney and that he had not filed the legal actions on their behalf for which Days and CAIR publicly claimed credit.

UPDATE: The baron has more on the banquet.

 

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA

Wonderful, crisp,  cool evening in New York where The Zionist Organization of America held it's annual dinner. This is the one event I particularly enjoy.
I have taken Jewish lay leadership to task for their weak appeasement and inability to stand for the Jewish people. I am appalled at the UJA, AJC, NJDC and all of the submissive dhimmi Jews that cave. They are striking in their similarity to the Jewish Councils in Germany that also went along so as not to make any trouble.
There is one organization that stands up unafraid and  unapologetically  for the Jews and for Israel and that is ZOA.I particularly loved them this past summer when ZOA ripped into Jewish lay leadership for disinviting Palin to anti-Ahmadinejad rally.  Mort Kelin is a ganser mensch.

Tonight they honored the intrepid Philippe Karsenty who took on the French media and the French government when he exposed Al Dura.

Lisa Magnus - (Pierre Rehov's producer), Philippe Karsenty (honoree for the Al Dura Hoax) and Atlas.  Click on the link on the bottom of this post for Karsenty's full remarks. Here is an excerpt:

Tonight, you’ll get a DVD that summarizes the al Dura hoax, the worst blood libel of our times.
For centuries, Jews have been killed because of lies.

Lies such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, lies that the Jews killed the son of God, or that the Jews killed Christian children in order to use their blood in the Passover matzoth.
Lies and blood libels resulted in the murder of thousands, of hundreds of thousands, of millions of Jews over the centuries.

A lie that is not exposed becomes the truth for those who don’t know that it’s a lie.
The al Dura hoax is a French lie, which became an international lethal lie: the so-called death of Mohamed al Dura.
The lie was the creation of France 2, a French government owned and controlled TV station.
Therefore, al Dura is an official lie, an official blood libel against Jewish people.

On September 30, 2000, France 2 broadcast a news report which spread like wildfire to all parts of the world: the real time assassination of a little Arab boy in his father’s arms.
According to the TV narrative, the father and the boy were targeted for 45 minutes by Israeli soldiers who ultimately killed the boy and grievously injured the father.
Although there are many problems with this story, the biggest problem is that the boy moved for a good 10 seconds after he was pronounced dead!
Any medical doctor could tell you that a child cannot move, lift his head, arm and leg, stare at the camera and still be considered “dead” a good 10 seconds after the newscaster tell us: “The child is dead”.

This evidence, as well as a thorough investigation of many other discrepancies, led me and others, to claim that the news report was a complete fraud, a staged hoax!
Nevertheless, the picture of the young boy lying dead in his father’s arms became an icon of hatred, the most damaging image ever associated with the state of Israel.
It is THE anti-Semitic lie of our generation.

Because of Mohamed al Dura, Israel was Isolated and weakened diplomatically.
It triggered terrorism in Israel and all over the Western world.
Thousands of Jews and non-Jews were killed to avenge a murder that did not occur.
The image of Mohamed al Dura is embedded in the video of Daniel Pearl’s brutal assassination.
Jews were savagely beaten all over the world to avenge this fake death.
In France, some Jews had to move from their apartments to escape from hostile environments.
Osama bin Laden employed the al Dura icon in his terrorist recruitment tapes.
It was one of his justifications for the attacks against the US.
The al Dura hoax preceded 9/11 by one year.

Once I realized that the al Dura story was nothing short of an anti-Semitic blood libel sponsored by the French government, I felt betrayed.
I couldn’t rest and remain silent.
In 2004, I created Media-Ratings, a media watchdog agency which monitored all the French media outlets.

For my outcry about the al Dura hoax, I was sued for defamation by France 2.
In 2006, I lost the first trial despite the fact the government adviser said I brought enough evidence the France 2 TV news report was staged.

France 2 gave to the judges a letter of support of Jacques Chirac for the French journalist who did the fraud!

That was enough for me to lose the case.
Last May, I won in the appellate court but France 2 is now going to the Supreme Court on procedural grounds.

Moreover, all the French media outlets, as well as most of the foreign press, covered up my victory and the fact that the al Dura news report was a hoax.
Then, news of the verdict has reached a very small audience.
Worse: some French media compared me with Holocaust deniers and those who claim that 9/11 was an inside job!

I’m still labelled a dangerous extremist and fanatic.

Therefore, no rest is possible until the truth is admitted by France 2 and revealed to the whole world. And I will only be satisfied when France 2 publicly discredits its notorious blood libel against the Jewish people.

During this battle, I was naïve because I thought the Jewish leaders would rally their organizations to protest the injustice that has been done to our people.
Unfortunately, it didn’t occur.
The first Jewish organization to support me has been ZOA and Morton  Klein, personally.

Alyssa Lappen(a senior fellow at the American Center for Democracy and expert on sharia finance) and Steve Feldman, executive director of the Zionist Organization of America's Greater Philadelphia District.

Philippe Karsenty and Mort Klein, President of ZOA

Film maker Pierre Rehov and I

Mort Klein and Anne Bayefsky (who was also honored)- human rights activist, acholar and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. We owe Bayefsly an incalcuable debt for her meticulous reportage. She is a fierce watchdog  of the UN skulduggery  here.

Check out Durban Watch

Durban II:  The UN Platform for

• Undermining the West and democracy
• Promoting anti-semitism
• Demonizing Israel as racist
• Foiling efforts to combat radical Islamic terrorism
• Manufacturing Islamophobia everywhere
• Fomenting religious extremism
• Curbing free expression

Human Rights Actions by the United Nations

January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2007

Top Five Countries Subject to Most UN Condemnation for Human Rights Violations in 2007
1.	Israel (criticized by the UN twice as many times as its nearest competitor)
2.	Sudan
3.	Myanmar
4 (tied).	United States of America and Democratic Republic of the Congo

UN to Mourn 60 Years of Israel's Existence

NEW YORK - This Monday, November 24th, the UN will commemorate its annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People with a film depicting Jews as Nazi-equivalents and a public exhibit mourning the sixty years of Israel's existence. "The event is an annual reminder that the UN's real agenda is to delegitimize the birth - and the perseverance - of the state of Israel," said Anne Bayefsky, Editor of EYEontheUN.org. Monday's observance marks November 29, 1947 - the day that the UN voted to establish a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine - a decision accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs. This year's observance is being held a week early due to scheduling conflicts. As in years past, there will be a formal meeting Monday morning of the Committee on the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, a film, an afternoon meeting of the General Assembly on the "Question of Palestine," and the opening of a public exhibit in the entrance to the UN's New York headquarters. Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan referred to November 29th as "a day of mourning and a day of grief," and the usual procedure is for UN member state after UN member state to use the opportunity to grieve for the suffering of the Palestinian people at Israeli hands. The General Assembly is scheduled to adopt another six resolutions condemning only Israel for violations of human rights. The total number of resolutions criticizing Israel expected to be adopted at this fall's General Assembly is 20, as compared to only four resolutions critical of human rights records in any of the remaining 191 UN member nations. The 2008 installment of what is in essence a repeat of the "Zionism = Racism" allegation, will be the public showing of the film "La Terre Parle Arabe" or "The Land Speaks Arabic." The film draws parallels between the Nazis' final solution and the alleged Zionist design for Palestinians. It is commonly billed with these words: ".the late-19th century Zionists.drew up plans, put them into practice, then.used. force, often brutal." Here is some of the script for the UN public's edification: "Christians and Muslims alike.unite in their hatred of Zionism.I preferred to die as a martyr rather than be governed by the Jews .We were against the Jews.The number of Jews increased constantly.The children cried .The Hagana had no mercy, no pity. Zionists! They were Zionists!. The Jews were shooting at us, they were facing us.The Jews yelled "turn around you bastards, you dogs." They machine gunned us.They started killing people who were asleep.[We].found a poor woman.pregnant. They had killed her and the baby came out of the womb. They started slaughtering them until morning." The exhibit to be opened at 6 p.m. on Monday in the UN lobby - the public entrance through which school children from across the United States and tourists from around the world pass every day - is entitled "The Palestinians: 60 years of struggle and enduring hope." Bayefsky comments: "The "sixty years" of struggle is telling. It puts a lie to the alleged root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict as an "occupation" that began with the 1967 war. The real complaint is the alleged wrong of the creation of the State of Israel itself." She adds: "The carefully selected word "struggle" also speaks volumes. What the UN glorifies as a struggle is a series of wars launched by Arabs to annihilate the state of Israel beginning in 1948, and the ongoing "struggle" of Palestinian and other Arab terrorists dedicated to the same end." Past UN Palestinian Solidarity Day observances have included: The display of a map in Arabic with the State of Israel missing altogether Flying only the flags of "Palestine" and the United Nations, and omitting the flag of the UN member state of Israel Opening the day with a moment of silence commemorating the death, among others, of suicide bombers or "all those who have given their lives for the cause of the Palestinian people..." Exhibits promoting terrorism and the alleged right of return while criticizing a host of non-violent efforts by Israel to prevent terrorism from checkpoints to a security fence - all of which are invariably presented as evil steps taken in a vacuum. "Anyone hoping to see an Israeli flag flown in addition to a Palestinian one in celebration of the UN partition plan that approved a two-state solution, should not hold their breath," said Anne Bayefsky, Editor of EYEontheUN.org. She continued, "the UN tradition of mourning the creation of the state of Israel continues."

Much thanks to Steve Goldberg, LA sports lawyer and ZOA macha who invites me every year ....

Me and Steve Goldberg                                           Lisa and Joel Mowbray

AMERICA'S MOST ..... DISHONEST

Close to a year after Amina and Sarah's death, America's Most Wanted did a segment on the story and rewrote history.

The deliberate silence of media, law enforcement, culture and the families, this disconnect in the West, endangers our ability to fight the global jihad and jeopardizes the lives of those who wish to escape the shackles of the oppression of women in Islam.

I haven't seen it yet but here is their Aunt Gail's reaction. I am vomiting.

I am livid! My heart is broken for poor Amina! They portrayed her as a killer and even used a knife as an assumed weapon of choice. How dare they! Then, to show these girls plotting against a man who they feared more than a rattlesnake! How preposterous! In this airing, the producer and John Walsh made the victims seem deserving of what Yasser did to them. Now, I see them as victims of a show intended to bring justice!  

You know, the facts were all wrong. Why? I know that I have spoken to this producer for months now! So has Joyce Boucher as well! Let me do a reality check! Here are the facts they misrepresented: My niece is not Arabic nor, is she Hispanic looking! She is pale skinned and blue eyed! They represented this as an Arabic family with a dictator father and husband. Another fact totally avoided...ISLAM, the brother and son of the parents from hell. The very one who promises to kill me? Where was Yasser's and Tissy's beloved son who spied on these girls and bullied his mother? To me, this was an intentional omission! To have added a character as radical as Islam, this might have given Cair, the wrong impression! God forbid! Another, Amina DID NOT come home on her own! no way as she told Connie that she would rather be dead than ever go back home. She meant that too! Amina was co-hearsed by my own niece to go back. This, after hours of calling Amina and telling her to come home. Tissy went as far as to put Yasser on the phone but, Amina knew death was awaiting her if she returned. When Amina did return, she and Sarah were taken into Yasser's cab and she did not go into that kitchen and rummage through the frig. Give me a break! One of the biggest misrepresentation of the facts, Amina was in the front seat and Sarah was in the back seat. Amina, was sitting facing Yasser as a friend saw them and said so. If you simply listen to the 9-1-1 phone call from the cabbie who found them, he says there are two women, one in the front seat and one in the backseat! He describes what he sees in this call as he was asked too. He saw a woman in the front seat, "I have not seen her hand move, there is blood coming from her ear and she is slumped over." THESE ARE EYEWITNESS FACTS! Yasser, also knew exactly where to park that cab! It could not be seen by the cameras which are on the Omni Mandalay. No mention of this premeditated fact! I could go on and on about how they misrepresented the facts and truth about this tragic HONOR KILLING of my sisters granddaughters.  

Where was the part of Sarah's call where she says," no, not again, (door opens) I'm dying, my blood baba...no, stop it!" These were Sarah's own words to her father. She is telling him, LOOK, see my blood! I'm dying, you do not need to do more to me! But, to no avail, he finishes her off as she is on the cell phone with the police who placed her on hold! How dare they! I guess they did not want everyone to hear the officer ask Sarah for the address and to hold on as he called the fire department for paramedics. Oh yeah, let's not offend the police and certainly not the radical Muslims!! Talk about political correctness...what a joke.

I used to have a lot of respect for John Walsh as I know that man had to walk through hell when his own child was abducted. Now, I resent him saying this case was special to him! Yeah, right John John! I saw his true colors tonight and he is definitely in this for the money...oh, of course, "in my opinion!!!!!" He did not even understand the term, honor killing, " Some people say this was an honor killing. But, there's no honor in this." Again, how dare he! I have worked my butt off to educate and get the word out about honor killings and he diminished what honor killings entail. You know, like usually, they are well planned out in advance and others in the family often involve themselves as well. How about this one? Yasser shoots the girls, gets out of the cab with not a single drop of blood on him (after 11 shots were fired at close range) and simple walks away. WHO PICKED HIM UP? He did not leave there on foot! Someone picked his sorry butt up and fled with him. FACT!  

Never, will I watch this comedy of errors again. If only they researched, then perhaps I would believe this show has some credibility. I suppose no one read the autopsy. Amina had more rigor mortis than Sarah. Does this not imply that perhaps, Amina was shot before Sarah? After all, she was sitting in the front, not the back! My niece told me herself that Sarah called not ten to fifteen minutes after Yasser left with these girls and she did not answer the phone. "I don't know why I did not answer the phone for Sarah." I think she did and does know why she did not answer that phone to Sarah. Yet, AMW made Tissy look like a beaten down puppy. If that were so, then why did Yasser not kill her for running with his girls? After all, Sarah and Tissy did return before Amina was brought back. Yasser had plenty of time to kill them both but, he waited! He was waiting on Amina and Amina knew it too! My opinion, so did my niece!  

By the way, those girls were not shot and left in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay! I believe Yasser shot them at another location. In fact, there are two shooting ranges just a few blocks from the hotel. Had he shot them there, no one would have been shocked to hear gun shots ring out. The cell tower where Sarah's call came in...right near the shooting ranges! The cowardly beast shot them and I think he thought they were dead until Sarah made that call. This forced him to drive quickly to the Omni as Sarah gave away the location from using that phone. If it had played out the way they portrayed this, it would have meant that Yasser killed the girls in the daylight, at an exclusive hotel on New Years Day, and no one heard 11 bullets ring out nor, saw anything. You know, like a bloody mess walking down the sidewalk, in daylight?

You and I both know AMW made this Muslim friendly for their viewers. But, we also know that the truth was NOT enacted. Simply, a fact! Someone please write to AMW and define honr killings for these pseudo intellectuals! Oh! My opinion, of course! Let's keep this politically correct! I DETEST THIS TERM! It hides many sins of mankind! Truths, too!

Gail

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