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ISRAEL FIGHT BACKS SPANISH ANTI-SEMITISM IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT INDICT SPAINS ROLE IN BOMBING SERBIA

Julia Gorin vindicated earlier this week at Spiegel - though we always knew she was right. Here, Gorin desribes the vile Jew hatred that would infect the minds of those in Spain who are going after Jews, Israel military for "crimes against humanity". If a Jew defends himself it's a war cirme.

Well Israel shot back. And it was good.

Here latest post  is meticulously researched and lengthy but well worth the read -- all of it, here.

In a little noticed item last month, when a Spanish “super judge” — a rising phenomenon that claims universal jurisdiction — went after Israeli military figures for crimes against humanity over a 2002 Gaza bombing, a member of the Israeli Knesset opened proceedings against Spain for being party to the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia:

MK Eldad: Charge Spanish Officials With War Crimes in Serbia (Feb. 2)

Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad (National Union) has called for Israel to put former Spanish officials on trial for their role in the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. His official request was sent to Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Friday, in the wake of a Spanish court agreeing to try senior Israelis for an IAF operation that killed senior Hamas terrorist Salah Shehadeh in 2002.

Eldad is seeking to have Israel charge the former Spanish Prime Minister, Defense Minister and Army Chief of Staff for war crimes against the people of Belgrade and other Serbian areas. Spain, as part of NATO, was involved in massive airstrike sorties targeting Serbia during the civil war in Yugoslavia.

“In those bombings,” Eldad’s petition said, “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent civilians were killed because NATO pilots dropped their bombs from extremely high altitudes in order not to endanger themselves. They thus caused mass civilian casualties. It is fitting that the State of Israel try the Spanish political and military leaders for war crimes if Spain does not immediately revoke the charges against the Israeli Defense Minister and Chief of Staff.”

MK Eldad wrote to the Attorney General that “in the event that Israeli law does not allow charging and trying someone for war crimes not committed within the national jurisdiction, I would appreciate it if you would instruct the State Prosecutor to turn to the International Court in The Hague so that the Spanish leaders will be tried for war crimes by the international court.”

Failing to see the hypocrisy inherent in the charges against Israel for its actions while NATO carried out the same, or worse, actions against Serbia, Eldad concluded, “is testimony to hatred for Israel - Israel the people and Israel the state equally - and the State of Israel must fight back against this wave of anti-Semitism.”

The Spanish court agreed last week to hear the case for prosecution of former IAF commander Dan Halutz, former Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, and five other senior Israeli officials for war crimes over their decision to assassinate Shehadeh while the Hamas leader was in a building in Gaza City. Sixteen other people people were killed in the Israeli airstrike, including Shehadeh’s wife and child and other children. Israeli leaders called the Spanish court “delusional,” however, pointing out that Shehadeh was a terrorist mastermind responsible for the deaths of up to 100 innocent people.

On Friday, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni claimed that she had succeeded in getting the Spanish legislature to amend its laws regarding universal jurisdiction, to avoid such cases in the future. “I think this is very important news and I hope that other states in Europe will do the same,” Livni said.

In doing some research recently, I came across a Charles Krauthammer article from a 1990 issue of Time Magazine, titled “Judging Israel“. In it are a few paragraphs that apply to both Palestinians in the “occupied territories” of Israel and to the Albanians in the “former” territory of Serbia — Kosovo. In it, he makes the very same analogy between Israel and Mexico that I made between Serbia and Mexico when Kosovo illegally seceded:

Last fall New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis excoriated Israel for putting down a tax revolt in the town of Beit Sahour. He wrote: “Suppose the people of a small town decided to protest Federal Government policy by withholding taxes. The Government responded by sending in the Army…Unthinkable? Of course it is in this country. But it is happening in another…Israel.”

Middle East scholar Clinton Bailey tried to point out just how false this analogy is. Protesting Federal Government policy? The West Bank is not Selma, Ala. Palestinians are not demanding service at the lunch counter. They demand a flag and an army. This is insurrection for independence. They are part of a movement whose covenant explicity declares its mission to be abolition of the state of Israel.

Bailey tried manfully for the better analogy. It required him to posit 1) a pre-glasnot Soviet Union, 2) a communist Mexico demanding the return of “occupied Mexican” territory lost in the Mexican War (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California) and 3) insurrection by former Mexicans living in these territories demanding succession from the U.S. Then imagine, Bailey continued, that the insurrectionists, supported and financed by Mexico and other communist states in Latin America, obstruct communications; attack civilians and police with stones and fire bombs; kill former Mexicans holding U.S. Government jobs (”collaborators”); and then begin a tax revolt. Now you have the correct analogy. Would the U.S., like Israel, then send in the Army? Of course.

Further down in the article, Krauthammer hits on the indulgence the world shows toward violence by the “victimized” population — harkening back to the “revenge killings” by Albanians that went unchecked and shrugged off, without anyone ever asking how a victim people, presumably unpracticed in the art of killing, could kill so easily and wantonly. As in Krauthammer’s Israel example, this never led anyone to question whether the “victims” mightn’t have been the ones killing all along:

When other people suffer - Vietnamese, Algerians, Palestinians, the French Maquis - they are usally allowed a grace period during which they are judged by a somewhat lower standard. The victims are, right or wrongly (in my view, wrongly), morally indulged. A kind of moral affirmative action applies. We are asked to understand the former victims’ barbarities because of how they themselves suffered. There has, for example, been little attention to and less commentary on the 150 Palestinians lynched by other Palestinians during the intifadeh. How many know that this year as many Palestinians have died at the hands of Palestinians as at the hands of Israelis? [This is even more so the case among Albanians.]

The following paragraph again applies to Serbs as well:

With Jews, that kind of reasoning is reversed: Jewish suffering does not entitle them to more leeway in trying to prevent a repetition of their tragedy, but to less. Their suffering requires them, uniquely among the world’s sufferers, to bend over backwards in dealing with their enemies. [Note: With the Serbs, this double standard is applied without their unique WW2 or 1990s suffering even being acknowledged.]

During the recent Gaza war, several letters appeared making similar points about Israel’s and Serbia’s struggles. One was in a local California paper called the Ventura County Star, by Zoran Bogunovic in January:

Israeli vs. Serbian politics

Re: your Dec. 31 article, “Israel rejects truce call, pursues bombing Gaza”:

What do Palestinian Hamas and Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) have in common? They both are labeled terrorist groups, according to the U.S. State Department, but that is where all similarities end as far as the U.S. is concerned, as well as most of the world.

When Hamas targets Israeli people…and when Israel retaliates like it knows how, the U.S. blames it on the Palestinians, Hamas. And let’s not forget Hezbollah, who is being very quiet now.

Yet, when Serbia does the same thing against the terrorist group KLA, which also hides among civilians and kills Serbian people all over Kosovo, the U.S. and the world condemn the Serbs. Let’s not forget, in case local readers did not read in the newspaper, how KLA was taking Serbian people hostages and removing their body organs for sale all over the world before they killed them. (Referenced in Karla Del Ponte book and now the case is being investigated).

Where is [the] world’s outcry now for this barbaric act by the Kosovars? Just two weeks ago, three [Albanians] were found guilty for plotting an attack on a U.S. Army base in New Jersey, but 6,000 miles away, the U.S. supports their actions in Kosovo against Serbian people. Funny how that works: not in my back yard, but it’s OK across the street.

We, the Serbs, also have the same rights to defend our land and people in Kosovo, just like Israel does. Yet, the U.S.-led coalition supports the KLA terrorist actions, but condemns the Hamas terror actions. Funny how that works.

Hamas is a terrorist group and don’t be fooled with the front-page pictures of its civilians, as they would cut you to pieces if you are American or Israeli. The world was fooled with the civilian images in Kosovo and is being fooled again in Gaza. I fully support Israeli actions and its right to defend its people and land.

Also adding insult to Serbia and their people, the U.S. pushed for and got its way for an independent Kosovo, which is part of Serbia and is the birthplace of our Orthodox religion, where more than 150 Serbian churches have been destroyed ever since the so-called piece [sic] force was brought in Kosovo in 1999.

I would like to see the same efforts being exercised by the U.S. government, i.e., push for and forcibly take away Jerusalem and the sacred Wailing Wall from the Israelis and give it to the Palestinians and Hamas.
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Once again, the double standard is being shown by the U.S. when it comes to Balkan politics versus Israeli politics. Support the terrorists in Kosovo, but condemn them in Palestine….

Read the rest and much more from Gorin  on this here.

CHECHEN MUSLIMS HONOR KILLING MASSACRE

Has the mainstream media called this domestic abuse, or are they waiting for the CAIR press release so they can file it as their story?

(Russia) "Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam" -- hat tip Jeffrey Imm
"The bullnecked president of Chechnya emerged from afternoon prayers at the mosque and with chilling composure explained why seven young women who had been shot in the head deserved to die"

-- "Ramzan Kadyrov said the women, whose bodies were found dumped by the roadside, had 'loose morals' and were rightfully shot by male relatives in honor killings. 'If a woman runs around and if a man runs around with her, both of them are killed,' Kadyrov told journalists in the capital of this Russian republic."

-- UN's Yakin Erturk: "In these countries, those who speak on behalf of Islam still justify things like stoning or killing a woman for this or that reason as being part of their religion. I have heard this at the most official of levels". (more here)

You know these Muslims ..... they took a whole  school hostage near Chechnya turned and massacred hundreds of children and adults.

TEA PARTIES NATIONWIDE: GO TEAM AMERICA!

Loving the Tea parties - Chicago! (hat tip Amaros)
Oklahoma Tea Party (Wizbang)
St. Louis Arch Tea Party Draws 1500 Protesters ...
GayPatriot » LA Tea Party for Freedom
Sound Politics: Seattle Tea Party Protest
Wichita Tea Party Citizen Report
FRAMESHOP: Tea Party Republicans
Protesters Stage Greenville Tea Party - Greenville News Story ...

UPDATE: More Berman Post: City Hall Tea Party Protest (NYC)
Tea Party Atlanta
Fort Worth Tea Party
New York Tea Party
More New York
Greenville Tea Party. Picture 2,000 people booing Senator Lindsey Graham all at once! I posted about it at JennQPublic.com.

UPDATE: TEA PARTY Scheduled For 3/6/09 Columbus,Ohio Statehouse 12 Noon

President Hussein  will be in town that day, also world media there for Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Event. (hat tiprandall)

WILDERS EVENT: OBSERVATIONS FROM ATLAS READERS

Atlas readers rule!

The $25 Banana---priceless! If given the chance to fly back in time to hear Patrick Henry deliver his "liberty or death" speech, I probably would. No, I'm sure I would. In a very real sense, that's why I left Danville and drove almost six hours (and almost another six on the way back immediately after) to hear a man from the Netherlands named Geert Wilders.

Friday morning, after almost five hours of class time with my Humanities students, I left for Washington, D.C. to see Wilders, a modern day Henry. Of course, there was a problem I couldn't ignore. I knew that Wilders' speech to the crowd attending what had been billed as AN EVENING WITH GEERT WILDERS: FITNA, FREEDOM, FOOD .............. FIERCE! at D.C.'s Omni Shoreham Hotel would be as short as it would be inspirational. In other words, I knew that I had to be at the site within minutes of the time the event was to begin at 6:00 p.m.

Armed only with mapquest directions, I sped up US 29 North to I-66 East where I eventually exited into the maze of Washington. Thanks to directions from a man who was walking across the Francis Scott Key Bridge, I found 1900 Calvert Street and turned into an area where Omni valets parked visitors' cars.

Immediately I was told that their lot was full, that I would have to try the Marriott lot a few blocks away. There was no time to complain; it was after six. I hurried into traffic, and drove past the Marriott sign that said "TEMPORARILY FULL" then headed up Calvert. For a block and a half, there was nothing. As I neared a stop light, I looked into my rearview mirror and noticed that someone was leaving a curbside spot just behind me. Carefully, but quickly, I reversed, then took that spot.

I speedily walked to the Omni entrance, found the concierge, then headed down the corridor to the left that led to a right turn down a few stairs. There I saw the "Evening With Geert Wilders" sign. But the doors were closed, and a tall and very serious security guard told me that no one else could enter due to the excessive crowd and fire code restrictions.

"But I've driven six hours," I pleaded, too weary to be more defiant.

"Sorry," he said, "those are the rules."

I didn't move since I was next in line if someone left. But why would they? It was almost 6:30 and Wilders was sure to speak any moment. What made me so intent on coming caused me to stay put. If Wilders was brave enough to produce FITNA, a very short and controversial film that discussed the brutal tenets of Islam, and courageous enough to demand Islamic accountability for its violence and its supremacist ideology, I could at least be close.

Behind me there were others who had apparently made the same commitment. They weren't leaving either. None of us became unruly or upset. We looked at each other as if to say we were happy to have gotten this close. I shrugged just as the door opened to within a foot of where I stood. A man with wire rim glasses and a short sandy colored beard asked who I was.

"I've driven here from southern Virginia," I said, "and Robert Spencer and I..."

He stopped me. "Come on in." He waved to the others also.

Inside was standing room only. On a small platform at the other end of the room in front of the microphone was Pamela Geller, dressed in black, the bright and attractive outspoken American Jewess who produces the prize winning blog, Atlas Shrugs. Touting the work that Wilders had done regarding the defense of free speech, she commented on the size of the audience who had come to express their support. Just behind her were Dr. Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, and Robert Spencer, author of the best selling book, The Truth About Muhammad and many others. Geller thanked both of them, who, along with the David Horowitz Freedom Center and Atlas Shrugs, sponsored the event.

After rousing the crowd to repeated cheers, Geller introduced Dr. Bostom, a brilliant researcher, who briefly spoke about his reasons for being committed to defending democratic freedoms before introducing Robert Spencer.

Spencer held a thick reference book, an impeccable Islamic source regarding the true intent of sura 8, verse 60 and sura 47, verse 4 of the Koran. Both dealt with Muhammad's dictate to murder infidels, unbelievers in Islam. Both were discussed in FITNA. Spencer explained that a rational discussion of such suras, even using or relying on Islamic texts, was regarded as hate speech. When Spencer referred to handouts given the crowd by Muslims in opposition to the event, he read Muslim claims that references to the Koran in the movie FITNA were taken out of context. That's when Spencer opened the reference book and read from it.

Then he introduced Wilders who took the stage during our thunderous applause. Geller, more than a foot shorter than Wilders, was beaming as both stood at the podium. Then Geller walked away.

"Free speech is no longer a given," he said, reflecting on charges filed against him in the Netherlands, where he and his family live. "I will be prosecuted because of my film FITNA."

He described his full time protection from Muslims, how he moves from one safe house to another, how he occasionally sleeps in prison cells. He asked why free speech was being put behind bars.

"Cultural relativism is the biggest disease of Europe today." He claimed that the European left was attacking cultural values rooted in Christianity and Judaism in a vain attempt to please Muslims. Gravely, Wilders said "Their population is growing ten times faster than our local populations."

He mentioned the need for the Europeans to adopt a freedom of speech law that would allow criticism of any and all ideologies. Quoting George Orwell, Wilders said that freedom was the ability to tell people what they didn't want to hear.

When the applause that followed ebbed, he looked around the room and said, stoically, "Freedom must prevail! Freedom will prevail!"

Cheers accompanied him off the stage as FITNA began.

I saw Geller and Spencer head for the exit. Earlier I had introduced myself to them both when I ignored the security guard behind me who was warning me not to. Both recognized my name from the many messages I had sent to each of them. Geller gave me a hug. Now that they were leaving, I stopped Geller to hand her a $25 check I had written for the Wilders Legal Defense Fund.

"It's just a small donation," I said.

"No, it's a big one," she replied, as she gave me an even bigger hug, one I will never forget.

All eyes were turned to the hanging screen that was as wide as the small stage. FITNA had begun. I worked my way to the rear door. I had seen FITNA before because I had shown it many times to my classes, and would show it many more. As I reached the exit, I turned in time to see the opening image of a plane sailing into the World Trade Center.

"Bastards!" I heard a woman seethe who an arm's length away. "Yeah," I thought, acknowledging the reason that I had come. Like Wilders I knew that our freedoms were worth fighting for.

Once out the door, I patted the pocket inside my sport coat. I had taken a banana from one of the food tables for my ride home. Amused by the thought that some would say I had paid twenty five bucks for the banana, I told myself that I wished I could have given more.

B. Koplen 2/28/09

Falcon Eye writes:

experience. I felt the energy in the room, I felt the presence of enlightenment, it physically lifted me off my feet. I can smell change in the air, that smell is Mr. Wilder's determination.

George wrote and sent along these pictures:

There is a growing group of like-minded people out here working to spread the word among family and friends.  We are writing letters,  making phone calls and attending demonstrations and events like the one tonight.  I believe that eventually the pressure will grow from the bottom up so that political leaders cannot anymore ignore what is happening.  I’ll send you the pictures I took sometime this weekend after I find the cable to upload the pix to my computer (sometimes I think I would misplace my head if it wasn’t firmly attached).  Take care and keep up the good work.

UPDATE: The wonderful Ann and Judy of Refugee Resettlement Watch were there too.

Thank you George for your donations to the Wilders legal defense fund. If anyone else wants to contribute to the fight for the West and Wilders's freedom - go here.

UPDATE: From Isabella

I was one of the people who was standing outside near 6:30 last night and lucked out to get in when the man with the glasses opened the door. A great freedom fighter I know did not get in and had to go back home without having seen Geert or any of the list of amazing people that were in that room.

It was indeed a magical evening in many ways. One of the things I noticed was that there was a tangible feeling of good will and hope that permeated the atmosphere. I've been fortunate enough to attend many pro-freedom/anti (stupidity) jihad events and I always have the feeling that I am very welcome, I am valued and that the guys in the room would be willing to kill for me. I like that, and I'm not willing to give it up, no matter how scary these powder puffs think they are. Think about it, just because a Muslim man can't control himself and has never been taught to suppress his base passions and behave like a gentlemen ALL THE TIME, not just when he's on the prowl for an American chick and thinking he's oh so hip, anyone of us here could become a killing machine if we allowed ourselves to get ticked off enough and practiced totally disregarding other people's value. Sorry Muslim men; that ain't no big thang. But I digress.

The really interesting thing about last night was how all the luminous pro-freedom stars in our solar system aligned and created an amazing bond in that room, something Muslims will never understand in their destructive brotherhood, no matter how organized, until they come over to the light. It is a weapon they can never use against us because there is no way for them to attain it. In order to grab hold of it they would have to use both hands and then they would let go of Islam.

I got to meet so many cool people last night. I finally got to meet Miss Pamela and like Monsieur Koplen, I too got the warmest, tightest hug from that Atlas girl. She and I e-mail and so we were looking forward to meeting in person. She's a teeny little thing with a very big heart.

I also got to talk with Stephen Coughlin, Diana West, Tom Trento, and Andrew Bostom. The Laffertys were there from the Family Values Coalition and also Frank Gaffney and Christine Brim from the Center for Security Policy. But the best part of the whole evening was when I got to sit down and talk to Robert for ten minutes when he was taking a rest. These guys were running on all cylinders all day long and it was a long day. Thank you Robert, for putting up with my chatter.

You guys, whatever pro-freedom/anti-jihad event happens in your areas, go. You will be amazed at how grateful these wonderful people are that you are part of the group. We think it's they who are amazing. They think it's us. Post reply » 8 hours ago

CPAC UPDATE

I have much stuff to load, report and opine on. Last night's evening with Wilders was electrifying. Stunning. The packed house was wild for him. SRO and we had to turn folks away.
I will be introducing David Horowitz at CPAC at 3 pm Eastern Standard time so I should be on the live feeds if you want to watch.
Posting will be erratic as I will be traveling as well.
I don't have time to write it up today but not to worry, I will catch you up on all ..............

Frank Gaffney and I at the National Press Club event

Last night ...whoop

Bostom, Wilders, Spencer, Geller

UPDATE: Spencer has coverage of this event here.

OBAMA GRANTS EMINENT DOMAIN RIGHTS TO AMERICAN LAND TO CHINA UPDATED: NOT LIKELY

****SEE UPDATE BELOW*****UPDATE: MORE INFO**
**** EMINENT DOMAIN? MAYBE/MAYBE NOT*****

UPDATE: Yes, the story is in dispute (see my comment section) and it could be wrong. I prefer not to take it down but rather to investigate (readers welcome). Yes, Atlas is right 99% of the time - 

I am not an economist but here is what I know:

It's a fairly complex area. Usually it's a question of the US trying to collect debts others owe us or international lending organizations, where they default. Like Peru - so-called "vulture funds" go after this debt before the statute of limitations runs out.

1. See here - a brief summary: here

2. Here is a more temperate article: http://www.chrismartenson.com/forum/does-future-include-collateralized-sovereign-borrowing/14139

3. Also a similar - not identical - concept of collateralizing sovereign bonds sold to a foreign power (or banking interest essentially so identified with the government that it is defacto the government) was floated by the UK concerning shariah financing here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/darling-to-decide-on-use-of-sharia-bonds-for-public-spending-783435.html

"Treasury officials confirmed that the Chancellor would decide whether to help fund the Government's public-spending programme by borrowing funds via Islamic law-compliant bonds, known as sukuk, within the next few weeks."

Because shariah requires "real" assets in shared equity arrangements, the UK was genuinely considering funding new investments in public infrastructure using shariah funds. It's not quite the same as using existing infrastructure as collateral for future Chinese purchases of U.S. debt (land, corporations - think all kinds of assets, not just real property), but it raises similar questions of national sovereignty. It's one thing for foreign countries to own assets in the country - lots of countries own US property and corporations (that's investment and it's generally thought to be a good thing). It's another for foreign countries to own federal properties or have federal properties offered as collateral. But logically - they're either collateralized with Fort Knox gold or with some other federal asset.

4. The Bloomberg article is straightforward - the Chinese are worried that the U.S. government will try to pay off its debt cheaply by inflating the currency (making a "weak" dollar) - see this

This quote from Bloomberg does not mention eminent domain -  but it does raise the general issue of "secured" lending: "China may try to link trade and currency policy disputes to its future investment in Treasuries, said Lu Zhengwei, an economist in Shanghai at Industrial Bank Co., a Chinese lender partly owned by a unit of HSBC Holdings Plc. "

That would not be anything new - trade and currency policy, and investments in other countries' debt are always linked. That's what governments do.

There are a number of ways collateral can be generated.  At some point, debt holders do want to collect - or if Sovereign bonds go into default, as indeed China's bonds have in the past, there are historical precedents for purchasing those bonds at a fraction of their face value.  A number of US fortunes were made doing just this with defaulted sovereign debt. 

But the eminent domain solution seems unlikely.  It's actually an interesting question how this gets worked out, in terms of maintaining the U.S. debt in undefaulted status. 

I think people also exaggerate how much debt China owns - see wiki (usual caveats):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

Japan owns almost as much, and UK comes in third.  If you think of this systematically, the question becomes all that interlocking financial collapse of those countries combined with the U.S

UPDATE: Please see CLINTON GROVELS AT THE PANSA'S DOOR AMERICAN THINKER hat tip Michael

UPDATE: This book on eminent domain gets a little into the sovereign debt issue in footnotes - you can see how technical the question gets -

or this good comment: (excerpt)

Because nations don't "declare bankruptcy," then this is what happens: Assets/firms in your country are either bought up by foreigners or they become the target of hostile takeovers and attempted takeovers by foreign investors looking to profit off the situation after they note their purchasing power increased in the market in which currency devaluation occurred. Sometimes you are bought out against your will. In the mid 1980s when the US dollar began to devaluate at a rapid pace due to massive deficit spending under Reagan, Japanese investors began to actually buy up Manhattan real estate when they noted their purchasing power increased in the US market.

Eminent domain requires using the power of the state.

Instead, Chinese may just scoop up investment properties the way the Japanese did in the 80s, or the Arabs in the 90s and early 21st century. See here: 

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Can he do this? Can he use our property for his pork payoffs?

Impeachment Time: Obama Grants Eminent Domain Rights to China to Secure Debt The Examiner (hat tip terri)

                                     They own us. 
(Photo credit Future Atlas)

The time for partisan bickering just ended.  This is as serious as a heart attack.  Obama is going to spend so much money, which he intends to get from China via the sale of government backed bonds, that the Chinese apparently don't think he'll be able to make good on them. 

So President Obama gave the Chinese eminent domain rights to American land and businesses as collateral - i.e. we don't pay, they now own America.

From Patriot Room.

Because it looks like our wonderful new administration is granting the Chinese eminent domain as collateral for US debts. Yea you read that right. That means when we can no longer pay for all this massive spending the Chinese can call in the loans and take our land.

The thought that American citizens and businesses could lose their land as a means of payment is downright scary. I highly doubt ANY American citizen would have voted for Obama if they knew this was coming down the pike.

Live Leak has more details.

Sources at the United States Embassy in Beijing China have just CONFIRMED to me that the United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China's continu More..ed purchase of US Treasury Notes and existing US Currency reserves!

The written agreement was brought to Beijing by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and was formalized and agreed-to during her recent trip to China.

This means that in the event the US Government defaults on its financial obligations to China, the Communist Government of China would be permitted to physically take -- inside the USA -- land, buildings, factories, perhaps even entire cities - to satisfy the financial obligations of the US government.

Put simply, the feds have now actually mortgaged the physical land and property of all citizens and businesses in the United States. They have given to a foreign power, their Constitutional power to "take" all of our property, as actual collateral for continued Chinese funding of US deficit spending and the continued carrying of US national debt.

This cannot stand.  It is traitorous and Obama should be impeached.

MMC RTV Slovenija - prvi multimedijski portal RTV Slovenija - 19 hours ago
The crash of the US economy has begun FEDS GRANT EMINENT DOMAIN AS COLLATERAL TO CHINA FOR US DEBTS! Beijing, China -- Sources at the United States Embassy ...

Obama's $3.6 trillion budget marks a major shift

Minneapolis Star Tribune - Feb 26, 2009

Hilary is in China right now offering them eminent domain to keep buying our debt. That means if we don't make the payments, they will start foreclosing...

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Hollywood Stars Open "Dialogue" With Iran

Willful stupidity knows no bounds -- only thing is it's coming directly from the White House. Annette Bening is dialoguing with the poison pygmy regime on behalf of President B. Hussein? Does Bening have a clue about Islam? Does she sanction the stoning, hangings, the repression and murder of reformers? Does she think she can disarm the mullahs with a screening of The Grifters? This is embarrassing. And very dangerous.

Hollywood Stars Open "Dialogue" With Iran

A delegation of Hollywood stars, headed by Annette Bening, is traveling to Iran to open a dialogue on behalf of the Obama administration:

Thirty-eight years ago, a ping pong team sent by US president Richard Nixon to Beijing opened the door to Communist China. February 27, 2009, president Barack Obama launched his bid for dialogue with Iran with an Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences delegation from Hollywood. It is led by the actress Annette Bening, AMPAS president Sid Ganis and his predecessor Frank Pierson who flew in just after the Oscar award ceremony. Visiting in the framework of "US-Iranian culture exchanges," they will hold talks in Tehran Saturday and Sunday.

While the Hollywood stars are in Iran, I'm sure they will meet with the thousands of opposition political candidates who have been excluded from elections, the students who protested at Tehran University against repression, the homosexuals whose conduct is punishable by death, and the women who risk being stoned to death for adultery.

 

Hollywood is going to Iran, one of the most repressive states in the world, but I'm sure we'll hear hardly a peep of dissent; after all, we want the mullahs to like us, and everything that has happened the last 30 years is our fault:

While the Hollywood team's visit to Tehran is not political, it does show the openness of Iran toward the expansion of cultural relations with the US.

How ironic that the Academy of Motion Pictures is going to one of the most repressive anti-homosexual countries on earth just days after awarding Sean Penn an Oscar for his portrayal of gay San Francisco mayor Harvey Milk. Do they not see the irony? Will they have the courage to speak up, much like Hollywood stars bashed George Bush at every opportunity? Perhaps the stars can visit the factory where Iran manufactures explosively formed projectiles used to kill our soldiers.

When Obama pledged to make the world like us again, what he meant was that we would willingly sacrifice the populations of countries like Iran to perpetual repression so that its repressive leadership liked us and stopped attacking us.

MUSLIMS ANGRY AT INFORMANTS AT MOSQUES

This is almost comic. Three in four mosques preach hate and anti-Western extremism, and un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR is calling out the FBI on basic security measures?

And notice how MSNBC doesn't identify CAIR with its call letters. Neither do they point out CAIR's terror ties, or that CAIR was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial, and that CAIR was banned by the FBI. Further, they practically run CAIR's press release word for word. Who the hell are they working for, anyway?

Southern California Muslims Angry at Informants at Mosques

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- A Muslim advocacy organization said Friday that American Muslims are feeling "anger, disillusionment and mistrust" toward the FBI in the aftermath of reports that it used an informant to infiltrate Southland mosques.

"The American Muslim community has never wavered from its commitment to keeping America safe, nor has it hesitated from cooperating with various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, in ensuring the security of all U.S. citizens," the Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a statement.

But, it said, reports that informants have been paid "to monitor and provoke law-abiding Muslims in houses of worship" and the recruitment by the FBI of Muslims "to become informants" have left American Muslims with "deeply troubling concerns."

One of them is that "these coercive and intimidating methods highlight the fact that the FBI continues to view the entire American Muslim community as suspect and treat it as such," the statement said.

"Infiltrating mainstream mosques the way FBI informants infiltrate white supremacist groups illustrates the FBI's perception of American Muslims as a community that must be constantly monitored, instead of being treated as an equal partner in fighting crime and terrorism," according to the statement.

An Irvine man who claims he worked as an FBI informant to infiltrate mosques and gather information about a man now accused of lying about ties to al-Qaida said this week that he spent four to five hours a day with the suspect, and he now fears his life may be in danger from extremist groups.

Craig Monteilh, 46, says he recorded Ahmadullah Sais Niazi discussing jihad, weapons and plans to blow up abandoned buildings.

Monteilh filed court documents Wednesday saying he served as a confidential informant for the FBI from July 2006 to October 2007 to identify and thwart terrorist operations in the Orange County Islamic community.

The CAIR statement said Monteilh's story coupled with an FBI agent's court testimony this week in Niazi's trial regarding the use of an informant "to infiltrate" Southland mosques "have re-ignited feelings of anger, disillusionment and mistrust among American Muslims toward the FBI."

"...The FBI's counter-productive actions damage the trust between Muslims and law enforcement and trample our constitutionally mandated civil liberties," it said.

Scotland: Police ordered to give priority to crimes against Muslims

You can't make this stuff up.

Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit, says that “you have to consider cases according to need. The idea of treating people all the same is a bit naive and we have to remember that there are vulnerable individuals who can be put on the path of radicalism.”

POLICE IN RACE BIAS OUTRAGE

Scottish forces ordered to give priority to crimes against Muslims by Dean Herbert

Police in Scotland have been ordered to give special priority to crimes where the victims are Muslim.

In a move that last night sparked a fresh row over political correctness, a senior officer revealed that the race and religion of a victim has now become a crucial factor in how police respond to crime.

Inspector Tom Galbraith, of Lothian and Borders Police’s diversity unit, told a conference on tackling terrorism that it was important to stop Scottish Muslims feeling “vulnerable” in case they were driven towards radicalism.

Mr. Galbraith said the force encouraged officers to consider the religious or ethnic backgrounds of victims to assess their needs in dealing with hate crimes.

He said that both an attack and a perceived lack of action by police could turn Islamic youths into future terrorists.

Mr. Galbraith also revealed that police officers, Special Branch and BAA security staff were being given special lessons about Islamic culture after Muslims complained that being questioned when entering the country about whether they pray and attend mosques was offensive to their faith.

Speaking at a national security conference in Edinburgh on Thursday, Mr. Galbraith said, “It is not about treating everybody the same.

If I have a young Asian man who has been subjected to a hate crime, I would rather put more resources into that than if it had happened to a white male because the white male is far less likely to end up becoming radicalised.”

He later confirmed that his remarks were in line with Lothian and Borders Police policy, saying that cases of hate crime were assessed “by need”.

He added: “You have to consider cases according to need.  The idea of treating people all the same is a bit naive and we have to remember that there are vulnerable individuals who can be put on the path of radicalism.”

Last night, the police were criticised for being too politically correct in dealing with hate crimes.

Conservative Justice spokesman Bill Aitken said: “I’m afraid we are now living in a society in which some people are more equal than others.

[...]

During the conference, Mr. Galbraith also said that police officers and airport security staff were being given lessons in Islamic culture to avoid offending arrivals.

March For Islam, Yes to Sharia march, NO to Geert Wilders! UPDATE: VIDEO OF MARCH

UPDATE: March For Islam in London. They had to shut down the roads for this march, they are walking in the road, the police bill will run into thousands of pounds.
Islam for UK!
Sharia for UK!

Listen out for how they know how to go to the toilet (8:10).

(The camera pans backwards at the end of the video, there are quite a few on the march.)

HATE PREACHER GETS OK TO RUN SHARIA LAW DEMO  Daily Star Hat tip Kasper

HATE preacher Anjem Choudary will march in London today calling for Britain to adopt Islamic Sharia law.

The startling move comes just days after processions celebrating St George were banned for being racist.

Choudary was given the green light yesterday despite a previous demonstration in which some of his supporters chanted: “Bomb the UK”.

Publicity for the march, in the East End, carries 41-year-old Choudary’s personal mobile number and says the aim of the campaign is to “emulate the Prophet and his companions, by calling for Islam and speaking out against the oppression of man-made law”.

It says that Britain is full of “disbelievers” who are involved in prostitution, gambling, alcoholism and worshipping other gods.

The publicity says women are welcome to join the march but they must walk at the back of the procession as “strict segregation will be enforced”.

The demo comes 18 months after three of Choudary’s supporters were jailed for soliciting murder in a London protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in Denmark.

That was when some demonstrators chanted “Bomb the UK” and “Europe, you will pay with your blood”. Organiser Choudary was fined.

Today’s march won permission after a council withdrew funding for a St George’s Day parade in the Midlands – on the grounds that it was “racist”.

SRO: STANDING ROOM ONLY!

Steve Coughlin (red tie), Andrew Bostom (glasses and tie), Robert Spencer (bottom right hand corner)

The event with Wilders was an unimaginable success ................Pamela Hall caught it all. She has all the pics and videos. Waiting for her to load.

For Atlas, the highlight of the evening was the line out of the building. Wilders emerged from the elevator and the lines in the crowd went wild. Nobody caught that on video.

I apologize to the folks who were refused entry because the space was over capacity. From what I hear a hundred or more people could not get in.

The blogs rule. We are the future.
G-d bless Atlas readers.

OBAMA SURPRISE: US PULLS OUT OF DURBAN II

Excellent news.

It must have called for a final solution. The agenda must have been vile. Perhaps it's to offset the appointment of Freeman - he is the most egregious of Obama's appointments.

U.S. pulling out of Durban II conference

The Obama administration has decided to boycott the so-called Durban II conference out of concerns for anti-Semitism. Multiple sources on a conference call with the White House on Friday told JTA that the Obama administration had opted not to attend any further preparatory meetings ahead of the planned U.N. conference against racism in Geneva in April.

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Unindicted Co-Conspirator, FBI banned CAIR Asks AG Holder to Defend U.S. Muslim Rights

Muslim rights? No special classes. This is America. No special rights for special classes. This should be interesting to watch how Holder responds to CAIR and how the President Hussein administration will handle this terror tied group.

CAIR Asks AG Holder to Defend U.S. Muslim Rights -- CAIR Press Release
Recent incidents target Islam, Muslim lobbying, mosques, Islamic religious rights

WASHINGTON, Feb 26, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on Attorney General Eric Holder to protect the right of American Muslims to participate fully in the political process and to practice their faith without fear of government intrusion. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued that appeal following a number of recent government-related incidents targeting Islam, American Muslim lobbying efforts, American mosques, and Muslim religious practices.

In a letter to Attorney General Holder, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote: "Today in Congress, taxpayer funds are being used for the screening of a virulently anti-Islam film and to promote the Islamophobic views of its producer. Despite appeals to offer a balancing perspective to the closed-door screening, elected officials and congressional staff will hear only anti-Muslim invective, without an opportunity for response from American Muslims.

It's Official

He's  a joke.

OBAMA'S TERRIBLE APPOINTMENT: CHAS FREEMAN

Another henchman in President Be Hussein's Reich.

Obama Announcement "F**K The Jews They Will Vote for US Anyway" Yid with Lid

I just received the following notice:

The Director of National Intelligence has selected Charles W. Freeman, Jr. as the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). The Chairman of the NIC will report to the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis (DDNYA) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). As Chairman of the NIC, Ambassador Freeman will be responsible for overseeing the production of National Intelligence Estimates (NIE) and other Intelligence Community analytical products, providing substantive counsel to the DNI and senior policymakers on issues of top national security importance, reaching out to nongovernmental experts in academia and the private sector to broaden the Intelligence Community's perspective, and articulating substantive intelligence priorities and procedures to guide intelligence collection and analysis.

As discussed over the last few days, Ambassador Freeman is not just Anti-Israel. His views go way beyond the range of normal, even for an opponent of the Jewish State. Freeman runs a magazine that claims the Iraq war was waged to help Israel. He subscribes to thesWalt and Mearsheimer contention that the Israel Lobby (a nice way of saying Jews) controls the US Foreign policy. His MEPC political action group publishes a Workbook that teaches our children that the Muslims discovered the "New World" and the "Indians" who met the English Explorers all had Muslim names. The man will now be the gatekeeper deciding what gets to the President. He is a Friend of the Bin Laden family, is supportive of Chinese Cruelty and runs a company, Projects International, that does a lot of business with the Saudi Royal family.

It has only been five weeks, but the President has made great strides to prove what many in the conservative community were warning the Jewish voters, "Obama is not a supporter of the Jewish State".  Just look at the other moves he has made over the past two weeks....

CPAC 2009: JEROME CORSI, ROBERT SPENCER AND ATLAS!

Rockin' da house .... tonight at 6 pm, The Blue Room at the OMNI!

PART II: ALYSSA LAPPEN INTERVIEWS ATLAS: ISLAM'S WAR ON WOMEN

Here's part II of journalist Alyssa Lappen over at Right Side News -- it's lengthy; what follows is a small excerpt. If you missed part one, go here.

The Evils of Islamic Political Ideology, Suppression of Women

Part Two: How Muslim Theory Suppresses Women By Alyssa A. Lappen

U.S. women received universal suffrage in 1920 with passage of the 19th Constitutional Amendment, avowing that neither the federal government nor any state could deny or abridge the right of U.S. citizens "to vote ... on account of sex." Article II granted Congress the right to enforce the amendment legislatively.

Long before the U.S. declared itself a nation, however, America gave women at large great respect. The Uxbridge, Mass. town fathers in 1756 granted the young widow Lydia Taft the right to vote in local matters, for example. America again showed its respect for women in 1789 when the states ratified the U.S. Constitution, inferring rights to women amongst "We the people of the United States," when early 19th century suffragette Abby Kelley Foster first sought votes for women, and in 1869 when Susan B. Anthony's formed the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Voting rights would never have accrued to American women, moreover, without their basic and universal right to free speech and their right "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances," as guaranteed in the First Amendment, drafted and ratified in 1791.

Nowhere in the world, by contrast, does Islam grant such rights to women, either political or religious. Far from it. Current Islamic teaching more or less parallels that of the 7th century original. In October 2006, for example, former Australian Mufti Sheikh Taj Aldin al-Hilali described women as "uncovered meat" in a sermon at Sydney's Lakemba mosque. Similarly, Muslim Brotherhood spiritual chief Yusuf Qaradawi, widely recognized as Islam's "greatest" living scholar, in the Status of Women in Islam derides any woman having "free rein to assert herself, promote her personality, enjoy her life and her femininity... mix with men freely, experience them closely where they would be together and alone, travel with them, go to cinemas or dance till midnight together."

Moreover that theme---of women as not only chattel, but actually meat---is embedded in Islamic tradition, as stated by Second Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (634-644). Umar stated, "innamaa al-nisaa' laHm `alaa waDam illaa maa dhubba `anhu" (Women are only meat on the butcher's block, except for any parts that have dried up), according to a medieval Arabic text cited in 1937 by the great Islamic scholar, Georges Vajda. [1]

This might be unbelievable but for the fact that Islamic law, as cited in the Hadith (traditions of Mohammed) ascribes to women's testimony just half the value given to that of men. Muslims consider the accounts of Sahih al-Bukhari unassailable. And according to Sahih al-Bukhari (3:48:826), Mohammed said, "This is because of the deficiency of the women's mind." Presumably for the same reason, Islamic law historically accepts accusations of rape only when there are four witnesses (not including the victim), an intentionally impossible benchmark. Three quarters of women imprisoned under Pakistan's hudud laws, not surprisingly, are reported to be rape victims.

The global Muslim war on free speech is best exemplified by verbal and legal attacks on Dutch freedom fighter and Member of Parliament Geert Wilders, who has for years required non-stop personal security protection, now faces trial at home for his truthful statements quoting the Qur'an, and was recently barred entry to the U.K. This is all the work of advocates for global shari'a rule.

As we've previously noted at Right Side News, several large North American Muslim organizations also advocate global imposition of Islamic law, which prohibits "defamation" of Islam and Mohammed. For Muslims who leave the faith or "blaspheme" against Islam or Mohammed, the punishment is death, a statute on the books in several Muslim states, and widely enforced by mob rule in others. Non-Muslims may not criticize Islam or Mohammed, either. Pakistan's hudud code enforces shari'a laws on everyone, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Iran, Saudi Arabia and Sudan also enforce hudud laws. According to Islamic scholars, these statutes apply to all of mankind.

"Shari'a is barbaric, hateful, imperialistic, and unjust," says ex-Muslim Abul Kasem, who no doubt voices the thoughts of tens of thousands of former Muslims. But the situation in which shari'a places women, both in Islamic countries and the West, is by far one of most intolerable created by the code. In Women in Islam: an Exegesis Kasem, a contributor to Leaving Islam, Ibn Warraq's superb collection of essays by a host of former Muslims, challenges readers to imagine their mothers and sisters imprisoned under such shari'a.

"Men are in charge of women," asserts the Qur'an in Chapter 4, verse 34. Other Qur'anic edicts concerning women are also especially harsh, and they are all based on the Qur'an, as well as other traditional Islamic sources. Kasem also asks readers to find a single Western law as misogynist as the following two Haditha, which equate a woman with a rib, and therefore crookedness.

From Bukhari Volume 7, Book 62, Number 113, as narrated by Abu Huraira:

"Allah's Apostle said, 'The woman is like a rib; if you try to straighten her, she will break. So if you want to get benefit from her, do so while she still has some crookedness'."

From Shahih Muslim, also narrated by Abu Huraira Volume 8, Number 3467,

"Women were created crooked; if you try to straighten her you will break her and breaking her is divorcing her..."

One of the foremost U.S. advocates of equal rights for Muslim women, in North America and worldwide, is AtlasShrugs.com editor and publisher Pamela Geller.

Here, in the second installment of an exclusive four-part Right Side News series on the Evils of Islamic Political Ideology, investigative journalist Alyssa A. Lappen focuses the discussion on the plight of Muslim women worldwide.

AAL: Why do you consider the situation of women so important within the Muslim war upon Western freedoms?

Atlas: This war is for women, and about women, and the ownership of women. You can judge the health of any society by how they treat women. And obviously in Islam, women are chattel.

I grew up in the Golden Age. I grew up in post World War II America. I was a post-boomer, what they called the generation Joneses. I grew up watching Andy Griffiths and I Love Lucy --- mindless, carefree, free. Freedoms were like the air I breathe. It was not until those freedoms were threatened that I realized how privileged I was and am and how I must do everything in my power to save it. No one stomps on my neck because I wear high heal shoes and low necked sweaters.

And now, the key to our freedom, believe it or not, is the freedom of women in the Muslim world.

AAL: Changing the situation for them seems like a very tall order, almost an impossibility.

Atlas: Women in the Muslim world have to be part of the effort, although they know nothing else and they live under fear and oppression. They have no one fighting for freedom. Their situation is like that of people who've had Stockholm syndrome for 1,400 years.

If you throw a frog in boiling water, he will jump out. But if you put a frog into warm water and turn up the heat until it gets hotter and hotter, that frog will be toast. That is what has happened to Muslim women, and it's why we have to work for them. We have to stop that, because it is already happening here.

People are auto-censoring themselves. There is double speak. People say what seems correct because they are afraid of the truth. Where you are not free to speak we are all in trouble. And the battle line in North America, first and foremost, is for Muslim women.

AAL: How can we show skeptics how difficult things have already grown in the West.

Atlas: Look, all you have to to is going onto YouTube to see videos on how to beat your wife without leaving marks, what tools to use, like they would beat a dog. There are Islamic clerics who teach men to beat their wives "gently."

The long and short of it is, in Islamic countries, women are slaves. And there is still slavery in these countries. They have human trafficking. It is not part of our culture; it is not part of our rules. Of course there is illegal human trafficking here, but it is not systemic. It is against the law. Slavery was abolished with the emancipation proclamation. Slavery is still very much a part of Islamic societies.

They consider it perfectly normal.

But we currently have a United Nations that has paid no attention to the millions of people murdered in the southern Sudan and Darfur genocides. These atrocities are of no consequence to them. So women's rights are certainly not even on the playing field.

AAL: How much of this happens in the West. Do we now have an epidemic in North America, too?

Atlas: So many people ask me how many women in the West are murdered in honor killings. I can't give them an answer. Part of the problem is that even when there's unquestionably been an honor killing, officials do not want to label it. This was the case when Yaser Abdel Said murdered his daughters Amina Said, 18, and Sarah Said, 17 on New Year's Day in 2008. They were gorgeous, vibrant, quintessential girls. But they were too Western and they were dating non-Muslims. They spoke to a teacher at school. They called social services. They totally invested themselves in the West. They took honors and advanced placement classes. None of that mattered. No one helped them. Finally they ran away. The West could not save them. Their mother Patricia and brother, Islam, lured them back to Texas, to be murdered on New Year's Day. Their father Yaser fled the country, probably to Egypt and the FBI issued a wanted poster. Their great aunt, Gail Gartrell, lobbied officials to designate the crimes honor killings, which they were.

Their mother, father and brother are still at large. And it took the FBI 10 months to add the words "honor killing" to the wanted poster. I called it a pig-flying moment, when the FBI finally acted, it was so rare. They called a spade a spade. But within days, the FBI caved in to pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood and revised the wanted poster, to exclude the truth. 

AAL: That's horrible. But this is anecdotal. To play the devil's advocate, how do we know the problem is so huge, even in the U.S.

Atlas: For one thing, there is a fear of labeling. It took the FBI 10 months to call those murders honor killings. After 10 months, the wanted poster finally said:

Yaser Abdel Said is wanted for murder. On January 1, 2008, Said took his two teen-aged daughters for a ride in his taxi cab, under the guise of taking them to get something to eat. He drove them to a secluded park in Irving, Texas, where he allegedly shot both girls to death. They died of multiple gunshot wounds. The 17- and 18-year-old girls were dating American boys, which was contrary to their father's rules of not dating non-Muslim boys. Reportedly, the girls were murdered due to an "Honor Killing." Said may have fled to New York or Egypt."

But the FBI redacted that language very quickly. I called them on it. I called the agent and the man in charge. And he said, look we do not want to get involved in labeling. So there is real fear. It's fear, or dhimmitude.

Go: there's more.

BRITAIN BANS WILDERS BUT WELCOMES ISLAMIC EXTREMIST

Oh, the cowardice. This is embarrassing. They are throwing Britain away with both hands.

HOME secretary Jacqui Smith is facing a double standards row after it was revealed that an Islamic extremist exposed by the Sunday Mercury is set to travel to the UK. Hypocrisy - she'll bar Geert Wilders, but let in extremist Ibrahim Moussawi.

Outcry as Muslim extremist is allowed to tour Britain to 'promote violence hat tip Randall

The Home Secretary came under fire last night for allowing a radical Lebanese propagandist with links to the extremist group Hezbollah to enter Britain for a national speaking tour.

The Conservatives urged Jacqui Smith to ban Ibrahim Moussawi from the UK, warning that he was "likely to foment extremism or promote violence".

Mr Moussawi edits Hezbollah's newspaper and is former political editor of the Iranian-backed group's television station, which is banned in many countries including France, Spain and the U.S. where its output is seen as anti-Semitic.

He was recently barred from entering Ireland, where he was due to speak at anti-war meetings.

He is scheduled to appear at an event in London tonight organised by the Stop the War Coalition, with more events planned around the country over the coming week.

Shadow Security Minister Baroness Neville-Jones attacked the Government's record of allowing radical extremists into the UK, after ministers previously ignored calls to deny Mr Moussawi entry to the UK.

She said: "The Government has the power to deny entry to people whose presence is not conducive to the public good.

"Yet in the past they have let in extremists to preach hate.

"Jacqui Smith failed to stop Ibrahim Moussawi from coming last December, despite my specific request that she do so.

"Regardless of what Moussawi actually says when he is here, it is vital that the Government always makes the security of the UK its top priority.

"That means stopping those who are likely to foment extremism or promote violence from coming here to speak. Ibrahim Moussawi should not be allowed to return to the UK."

The Stop the War Coalition website describes Mr Moussawi as "Editor of the journal Al-Intiqad in Lebanon, linked to Hezbollah."

Last night, the Home Office would not comment on Mr Moussawi's case, although sources confirmed that his visa had been approved for the trip.

Al-Manar television - the Arabic word for "beacon" - where he worked until recently as foreign and political editor, is Hezbollah's main mouthpiece in the Middle East and around the world, broadcasting from Beirut.

Moussawi gets love letters and Geert Wilders got this letter:

**NEW VIDEO** DEBATE FOR THE SAKE, THE SURVIVAL OF A NATION: THE HOUSE OF LORDS

GEERT WILDERS ARRESTED! REFUSED ENTRY

"Threat to society? I'm an elected member of Parliament; I have done nothing wrong," "I'm a normal, law-abiding democrat. You might agree or disagree with my political point of view, but I'm no threat to anyone."

BREAKING: WILDERS DENIED ENTRANCE TO UK!

WILDERS: "LET THEM ARREST ME AT HEATHROW"

Letter to Wilders from the UK Home Secretary

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