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Family of Kidnapped Christian Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob: "With every blow on us, they chanted 'There is only one Allah'"

Just last week in Cairo, Obama  talked down to us, extolling the superiority of Islam. Here's an excerpt of his Cairo remarks:

I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.

We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world – tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of co-existence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

Many non-believers have come to view Islam as hostile to humanity.

I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

So can someone show me where is getting better in the world? Can someone point me to anywhere on the planet earth where Islam has improved the quality of life? Can anyone show where in the West Islam has accepted democracy and does not which to impose shariah?

Family of Abducted Christian Coptic Teenager Assaulted By Muslim Mob

Cairo (AINA) -- In another incident of abduction and forced Islamization of Coptic minor girls, 16-year old Nermeen Mitry was abducted by a Muslim man to coerce her into converting to Islam. She was successfully recovered on the same day by her family, who did their own investigation and search to locate her.

Nermeen was abducted from El-Mahalla by Muslim Hossam Hamouda in conspiracy with his aunt Leila Attia; she was hidden away by a third person called Nasser Abu Deif from Assuit in Upper Egypt, at the home of one of his female relatives called Rasha Soliman in Zagazig.

The success of recovering the Coptic girl led to anger, revenge and assaults from the disappointed village Muslims against her family. Nearly 150 Muslims, armed with swords and clubs, physically assaulted five family members of the abducted Coptic teenager, as they drove back to their village after being forced into reconciliation with the abductor's family by State Security, compromising their right to pursue the case any further. "With every blow on us, they chanted 'There is only one Allah' while the Police stood there watching the assault, until we could take no more and three of us were hospitalized," said Nermeen's uncle Sameh Mitry in an aired interview with Coptic News on 6/7/2009. "They dragged us out of the car saying "Get out you followers of the Dog's religion!' They were consumed with anger ever since we got our girl back."

The police rounded up11 Copts including the assaulted family and 14 Muslims. "The police let the real attackers go free and were just arresting people randomly," said Sameh. "We were released after 3 days except for two Copts whom the State Security held as pawns -- just in case we made any trouble they would be detained for a long time," said Sameh.

Nermeen Mitry, 16, from Toma village near El-Mahalla town, was on her way to sit for an exam on May 21, 2009, when she was lured by a Muslim female friend to go home with her where she offered her spiked tea. She regained conscious hours later to find herself facing a bearded Muslim man trying to convert her to Islam, in a far away town and another governorate in Egypt, which she later knew to be Zagazig. The traumatized girl recounted the events to Osama Eid, correspondent of the Free-Copts Organization.

"The man was very confident and told me that I would be the fourth Coptic girl to 'know the true Allah' and convert to Islam through him. He also said that a member of my family was converted 15 years ago by him. I told him I am engaged to be married when I come of age, and would never convert to Islam as this would be a catastrophe for me. He did his best to make me change my mind, and then left me alone for a while."

When Nermeen did not return home, the Mitry family went to the police. Unable to get the police to register the case as an abduction, the family subsequently went to State Security and reported the incident, but were delayed there for hours with no progress.

Read the rest here.

The One Constant - Islamic Jew hatred: Egypt Bans Marriage to Israelis

What is most revealing in this news report is that despite (relatively) good relations between official/government Egypt and Israel for well over 30 years, the people, the street, the masses continue to despise the Jews. This is a consuming evil. It eats these souls alive to the exclusion of everything else. Everything fails. Their economy, their freedom, their quality of life -- all of it -- everything fails except this all consuming hate. What a tragic waste of humanity.

Egypt Bans Marriage to Israelis by Al-Qotb, Contributing Writer

After the verdict was read in the Cairo courtroom, Nabih al-Wahsh, an Egyptian attorney, jumped for joy and received an avalanche of telephone calls from friends congratulating him on his latest legal victory.

Al-Wahsh has managed to extract a ruling from Egypt’s Administrative Court — which rules in disputes between citizens and the state — that would force the Egyptian government to strip Egyptians married to Israelis of their Egyptian citizenship. The May 19 ruling was met with the cheers of millions in this populous Arab country.

A month before Obama's speech in Cairo bowing to their superiority and "tradition".

“This is an historic ruling,” al-Wahsh said to reporters after the ruling. “Egyptians married to Israelis are dangerous to Egypt’s national security, acting in ways that contradict the constitution of their country and Islamic laws,” he said.

Calls flooded into TV talk shows discussing the verdict and readers posted comments on Web sites of newspapers that wrote about it.

Everyone appeared united in elation at the ruling, as well as in hatred of the Jewish state and everything that related to it, even if it was originally Egyptian.

“Israel clamors to become an integral part of the Arab world and to do so it lures Egyptians to get married to its women,” one reader wrote to a local newspaper, commenting on the ruling.

A second writer warned against Israeli plans to use Egyptians married to Israelis as spies, while a third said the sons and the daughters of these people would one day claim property in Egypt, something that would “ease Israel’s hegemony over Egypt yet again.”

Such sentiments among a large chunk of Egypt’s population of about 80 million underscores the wide chasm that distinguishes Egypt at the official level and the same country at the level of its public.

Although Egypt was the first country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, almost 30 years ago, its government and its people still walk two different paths.

Egyptian officials visit Israel, meet members of its cabinet and sign agreements secretly and openly with them, but the people on the street still view Israel as an “enemy,” “imperialist” in nature, and those Egyptians who travel and get married there are seen as “traitors.” These same critics have consistently attempted to abort every possibility of breaking the ice that has blocked the way between Cairo and Tel Aviv for decades now.

No matter what, Islam hates the Jews. Period.

In this sense, it is true that Egypt is the “heart of the Arab world,” as President Barack Obama and his advisers like to call it.

[...]

Some estimates put the number of Egyptians living in Israel between 6,000 and 7,000, although al-Wahsh believes the number could be between 30,000 and 40,000.

The reason people leave Egypt for Israel is not a secret to the people in this country, even among decision-makers themselves. In addition to the fallout from the international economic downturn, which has weighed heavily on the Egyptian economy, Egypt has been suffering its own economic deterioration for years.

In this country, which features the oldest civilization in the Arab Middle East, more than 40 percent of the population lives beneath the poverty line, according to the World Bank.

Another glorious failed Islamic state.

Israel, by contrast, is a thriving multiethnic country that enjoys political pluralism and offers Egyptian job seekers a model totally different from in their own country, where jobs are rare, diversity is nonexistent and religious tolerance is scarce.

Part of the antipathy to Israel stems from what Egyptians see on their national TV and read in their newspapers every day. Israeli attacks against the Palestinians are fodder for the editors of news bulletins.

A few weeks ago, TV anchor Mahmud Saad, in an on-air telephone interview, lashed out at Egypt’s Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, who is seeking election to the top post of UNESCO, for inviting Daniel Barenboim, a conductor with Israeli origins and international acclaim, to lead an orchestra at the Egyptian Opera House.

“I hate Israel,” Saad, who hosts the popular talk show “al-Beit Beitak” (“Feel at Home”), shouted while speaking with the minister.

Days later, Egypt’s ex-mufti — a top religious leader who advises the country’s Muslim majority on religious matters —  lampooned Arab countries that sign agreements with Israel in a veiled criticism of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

[...]

“[These marriages] would usher in a new generation of people who would help Israel implement its imperialistic desires in this region in general and in Egypt in particular,” said Ibrahim al-Enani, a professor of international law from Cairo. “This court ruling doesn’t contradictwith either Egypt’s constitution or international laws,” he added.

Ironically, what might have been missed by the judges who passed the ruling is that most Egyptians living in Israel are married to Israeli women with Arab origins. These people speak the same language as the Egyptians and sometimes also share their same faith.

The constant din of Islamic anti-semitism is nothing new. Dr. Andrew Bostom elaborated on the institutional Islamic Jew hatred in Egypt when Cairo was being discussed as a destination for Obama's bow to the Muslim world:

On the one hand, the fact that Cairo, Egypt is being touted as a potential location for this conciliatory address highlights Mr. Obama's willful blindness to the pandemic of jihadism, intimately conjoined to annihilationist Islamic Jew-hatred, afflicting Muslim communities globally, including those within Europe, Canada, and the United States. Yet Cairo is also a very appropriate potential venue for Mr. Obama's pending speech. The capital of Egypt, the world's most populous Arab Muslim nation, Cairo's 1000 year old Al Azhar University (and its mosque) represents the pinnacle of Islamic religious education. Egypt also receives nearly $2 billion US aid per annum. Such American largesse, one could reasonably argue, should provide Mr. Obama persuasive leverage over our erstwhile Muslim ally -- for example, demanding, under threat of withdrawing this aid, that Egypt actively seek out and destroy the smuggling tunnels through which flow rockets and other munitions from the Sinai peninsula into Gaza, to be fired by Hamas (and its allied) jihadists upon civilian population centers in southern Israel.

But apart from diplomatic threats -- which can be made privately, Mr. Obama should demonstrate courageous moral leadership in his public address, demanding an end to the declarations of Jew-hatred, and even calls for jihad genocide against the Jews, issued regularly by Egyptian clerics, including authoritative Islamic religious leaders at the renowned Al Azhar University.

Preaching this sacralized hatred is endemic in Egypt. A front page New York Times story published January 10, 2009, included extracts from the Friday sermon (of 1/9/09) at Al Azhar mosque pronounced by Egyptian-government appointed cleric Sheik Eid Abdel Hamid Youssef. Referencing well-established (citations provided, below), Sheikh Youssef intoned,

Muslim brothers, God has inflicted the Muslim nation with a people whom God has become angry at [Koran 1:7] and whom he cursed [Koran 5:78] so he made monkeys and pigs [Koran 5:60] out of them. They killed prophets and messengers [Koran 2:61 / 3:112] and sowed corruption on Earth. [Koran / ] They are the most evil on Earth. [5:62<  /63]

FINANCIAL JIHAD: VIDEO Barbaric Slaughter of Pigs Belonging to Coptic Christians

This video was tough to watch. All violence in the name of Islam against man and animal by beasts is tough to watch. (hat tip jdamn)

G-d bless the citizen journalist who, when told not to take pictures, changed.

Check out Abdul, Director of Health (sigh).

The video shows the barbaric slaughter of pigs belonging to Coptic Christians because the Muslims believed the pigs spread swine flu. Maybe we should start calling it jihad flu.

Truth be told, this was done as a pretext to destroy the Coptic community. Any maroon knows the swine flu has nothing to do with live pigs.

They threw the animals into quicklime! Alive. Absolute barbarians. This is jihad, pure and simple. The video is from Coptic-News.

UPDATE: Just for knowing. Davod adds:

Jewish law forbids causing unnecessary suffering to any animal for this reason, for example, the knife of a shochet has to be razor sharp so the cut will be quick and one is required to feed one's pet before oneself so the pet should not suffer from "jealousy" and hunting for its own sake is a no-no.

Fascinating, no? What a difference in everything. Have you ever seen the ragged, jagged, dull knives the Muslims use to behead their victims? Think Daniel Pearl (or this).

UPDATE: Julia Gorin has a priceless take on this story Here: “Egypt’s 300,000 Pigs Die of Islamophobia”

Fatwa in Egypt: Source of Pigs is Jews - Obama, are you listening?

As Obama prepares to make his long promised first major foreign policy speech from the "Muslim capital of the Muslim country" (Egypt), vile fatwas against the Jews are issued unchallenged, with not one word of condemnation from our Mohammedan president or human rights activists. No one.

I, for one, am enormously worried about what Obama will say in Egypt. Jews must gird their loins and prepare for the worst from this man.

Fatwa in Egypt: Source of pigs is Jews   Albawaba.com (Hat tip Bob in Australia)

A new fatwa published in Egypt determines that the source of all the existing pigs in the world is Jews, who were cursed by Allah. The new edict was issued by Sheikh Ali Osman from the Egyptian Waqf ministry.

Due to their Jewish roots, Sheikh Osman says, it is permissible to slaughter all the pigs. The religious scholar was quoted as saying by a Jordanian newspaper that he personally believes the source of the pigs is Jews and thus the consumption of pork is banned in Islam

Did the geniuses in Egypt slaughter all their 300,000 pigs because of "swine" flu yet?

Based on their advanced thinking, if the 'source of pigs are Jews' then ... the source of swine  flu is Jews?

(/sarc tag off)

See: Obama, make One Stop Before the Muslim Capital

THE EXPANDING AXIS OF EVIL: IRAN-SUDAN-HAMAS

Where is the looney clooney Hollyweird left (George? Mia? Sean? crickets chirping) that wrings its hands and bemoans the horrible genocide in Darfur (without ever mentioning jihad ...shhhhh)?

Iran-Sudan-Hamas Chain Exposed hat tip Rut

(IsraelNN.com) Reports of an alleged IAF strike on a Hamas arms convoy in Sudan have drawn attention to an arms network running from Iran, via the Persian Gulf and Yemen to Sudan, Egypt, and Hamas-ruled Gaza. Noted by analysts in the past, the network forms part of a larger, overt, close relationship maintained by both Iran and Hamas with the regime of Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum, according to Global Research in International Affairs Center senior researcher Jonathan Spyer.

The regime of Brigadier Omar al-Bashir in Sudan is, with the exception of the Hamas enclave in Gaza, the only overtly Islamist and pro-Iranian government in the Arabic-speaking world. Sudan is an acknowledged member of the Iran-led regional alliance, which includes Syria, Hizbullah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

It's the jihad, stupid.

UPDATE: U.S. Officials Confirm Israel Struck in Sudan - Michael R. Gordon and Jeffrey Gettleman

American officials said Israeli planes bombed a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January believed to be carrying arms to Gaza during the weeks it was fighting a war with Hamas there. Two American officials who are privy to classified intelligence assessments said Iran had been involved in the effort to smuggle weapons to Gaza and that an operative with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had gone to Sudan to coordinate the effort. One American military official said the strike was one of a series of Israeli attacks against arms shipments bound for Gaza. (New York Times)

    See also Report: Second Airstrike Hit Iranian Ship at Sea
A new report by Sudanese sources cited an additional strike on a ship possibly making its way to Sudan from Iran. "There were indeed two strikes in Sudan, in January and February," Sudan's deputy transportation minister told Israel's Channel 10 television on Thursday. "The second strike was against a ship at sea and it was completely destroyed," another Sudanese official said. (Jerusalem Post)

    See also Israel, U.S. Agreed to Address Arms Shipments in East Africa - Patrick Martin
A senior Israeli official said Tuesday, "what we learned from Lebanon and from Gaza is that there is a need to prevent forces such as Hamas or Hizbullah from rearming....Is it possible to be more pro-active in intercepting weapons before they arrive at the frontier? That's why we signed an MOU with Secretary of State Rice to intercept weapons shipments." The memorandum of understanding, signed Jan. 16 in Washington, calls for the U.S. and its partners to work to gether to address the problem of the supply of arms to Hamas and other militant forces in Gaza. It lists the areas where such arms shipments may occur as "the Mediterranean, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea and Eastern Africa." Sudan is an Eastern African country.
    Former Israeli Air Force commander Avihu Bin Nun described to Israel's Army Radio the enormous difficulty in carrying out such an operation: "The planes had to pass over areas that have defenses against missiles and against other air forces; this had to be done at night, the target had to be hit precisely and not something else. This is quite an operation. And you also don't have years to prepare for this kind of operation." (Globe and Mail-Canada)

RELIGION OF PEACE SETS OFF BOMBS IN CAIRO: WESTERN TARGETS

Jihad is at work today.

Two foreigners among four dead in Cairo bomb attack (hat tip Jeffrey Imm)

The attack, which was apparently targeted on Westerners, took place beside the 12th century Al-Hussein mosque, a notable tourist attraction in the old quarter of Egypt's capital. About 17 people were wounded in the explosion, including 11 French visitors and one Austrian.

A police officer said that a hand grenade had probably caused the blast. The device was thrown into a crowded tea house beside the mosque, perhaps by someone riding a passing motorcycle. Some reports suggested that a second grenade was also used, but it failed to explode. The security forces cordoned off the area, bringing in sniffer dogs to hunt for more devices, and blood was seen splattered on the marble pavement stones.

"I was praying and there was a big boom and people started panicking and rushing out of the mosque, then police came and sealed the main door, evacuating us out of the back," said Mohammed Abdul Azim, 56, who was inside the Al-Hussein mosque when the attack took place. "We thought that Egypt was the only country safe from bombings," he added.

--- report of 11 French nationals, three Germans, three Saudis injured

In other Jihad related news today:

• Bomb detonated in crowded Cairo tourist area

• Female suicide bomber kills dozens of Shi'ites on Iraq pilgrimage

• Afghan blast deadliest since fall of Taliban

• Pakistan suicide bomb kills dozens at mosque

MOST WANTED NAZI WAR CRIMINAL, CONVERTED TO ISLAM, DIED IN EGYPT

Why am I not surprised?

David adds, "It will be interesting to see if we ever find out WHO was paying the hotel bill and his living expenses".

Reports: Most-wanted Nazi died in Cairo in 1992

CAIRO (AP) — Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times reported Wednesday.

The report said Heim was living under a pseudonym and had converted to Islam by the time of his death from intestinal cancer.

ZDF said that in a joint effort with the New York Times, it located a passport, application for a residence permit, bank slips, personal letters and medical papers — in all more than 100 documents — left behind by Heim in a briefcase in the hotel room where he lived under the name Tarek Hussein Farid.

Though he did not know Heim's real identity, Egyptian dentist Tarek Abdelmoneim el Rifai said he knew him through his father, Abdelmoneim el Rifai, 88, who was Heim's dentist in Cairo.

If it turns out to be true, however, he said that "the German police have a very important investigation on their hands in terms of prosecuting people who helped Aribert Heim escape justice."

He pointed out that Ruediger Heim has previously said that the only contact he had since his father went into hiding in 1962 were two notes that appeared in his family's mailbox, and that he had no idea if he was alive or dead.

"Ruediger has been lying," Zuroff told The Associated Press in an interview from Jerusalem. "Either he is lying now or he was lying before, and he has a vested interest in this so anything he says has to be taken with a certain amount of skepticism and suspicion — and the most important thing is missing: the body. There's no grave, there's no corpse, there's no DNA tests."

Ruediger Heim refused to comment on the discrepancies in what he has said, or on the assertion that his father had died in 1992, when contacted at his home by the AP.

"The whole story is very emotional, and I'm not able to say anything at this time," he said.

Don't you love when the spawn of Nazis (that help hide these mass murderers) talk about "emotional".

Born June 28, 1914 in Radkersburg, Austria, Heim joined the local Nazi party in 1935, three years before Austria was bloodlessly annexed by Germany.

He later joined the Waffen SS and was assigned to Mauthausen, a concentration camp near Linz, Austria, as a camp doctor in October and November 1941.

While there, witnesses told investigators, he worked closely with SS pharmacist Erich Wasicky on such gruesome experiments as injecting various solutions into Jewish prisoners' hearts to see which killed them the fastest.

Read the rest here.

UPDATE: Andrew Bostom is blogging this here.

Dr. Aribert Heim, an SS doctor who worked at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, eluded investigators for decades while living “a quiet life” in Cairo as the Muslim convert Tarek Hussein Farid, where he died in August 1992. He was the most-wanted Nazi war criminal still believed to be at large.

Prisoners outside the hospital barracks at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, in a photo made by a Swiss prisoner during World War II. Dr. Heim was known there as Dr. Death.

Dr. Death, aka Tarek Hussein Farid  rarely allowed himself to be photographed during his time in Egypt. This picture, taken in 1971, is believed to have been taken in Alexandria, Egypt, where he owned a house.

As revealed in this February 4/5, 2008 :

A dusty briefcase with rusted buckles, sitting nearly forgotten in storage here in Cairo, hid the truth behind Dr. Heim’s flight to the Middle East. Obtained by The New York Times and the German television station ZDF from members of the Doma family, proprietors of the hotel here where Dr. Heim resided, the files in the briefcase tell the story of his life, and death, in Egypt.

Aribert Ferdinand Heim, was a member of Hitler’s Waffen-SS, and a psychopathic “medical doctor” who committed the most heinous atrocities at the Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps, including: the performance of operations on prisoners without anesthesia; removing organs from healthy inmates, who were then left then to die on the operating table; injecting poison, including gasoline, into the hearts of others; and taking the skull of at least one victim as a “souvenir.” Josef Kohl, a former inmate at Mauthausen, gave the following testimony regarding Heim to a United States war crimes investigating team on Jan. 18, 1946, less than a year after the German surrender.

Dr. Heim had a habit of looking into inmates’ mouths to determine whether their teeth were in impeccable condition. If this were the case, he would kill the prisoner with an injection, cut his head off, leave it to cook in the crematorium for hours, until all the flesh was stripped from the naked skull and prepare the skull for himself and his friends as a decoration for their desks.

Heim converted to Islam (in his case, at the renowned Al Azhar  mosque in Cairo), becoming “known to locals” as Tarek Hussein Farid—like scores of other Nazis, who found safe haven in Egypt, such as Johannes “Omar Amin” von Leers. Bat Ye’or has described this phenomenon, as follows (here, pp.154-55):

…they lived under false names and worked in anti-Zionist propaganda centers, such as the Institute for the Study of Zionism, which was founded in Cairo, in 1955. Its director, Alfred Zingler (alias Mahmoud Saleh), worked together with Dr. Johannes von Leers (d. 1965, alias Omar Amin), who had been a specialist on the “Jewish Question” in Josef Goebbels’ propaganda department. Zingler’s main assistants were Dr. Werner Witschale and Hans Appler (Saleh Shafar), who had also served on the staff of Goebbels’ ministry, as well as Louis Heiden. Heiden was the editor of one of the many Arabic versions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and of a translation of Hitler’s Mein Kampf into Arabic. In 1955, the Cairo Egyptian special services for anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist propaganda hired Appler.

 

>Other Nazis settled in Egypt as well. Most of them worked with the Egyptian government as advisers on anti-Zionist propaganda or assisted with the organization of police forces or as military trainers in Palestinian terrorist camps. In 1957, according to Frankfurter Illustrierte [August 25, 1957], the number of Nazis in Egypt was two thousand. [emphasis added] Erich Altern (Ali Bella), the chief of the Jewish section of the Gestapo in occupied Galicia [Eastern Central Europe, between Poland and Ukraine] during the war, escaped to Egypt in the early 1950s, where he served as a military instructor in the Palestinian camps. [Standartenfuhrer (an SS regiment leader)] Baumann (Ali Ben Khader), who had collaborated in the extermination of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto and went into hiding, became a military specialist in Egypt for the army of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

The pervasive impact of this ugly mentality is perhaps best illustrated by then Colonel Anwar El-Sadat’s 1953 “Letter to Hitler”. When, in September, 1953 several news agency reports were circulated claiming that Hitler was still alive, the Cairo weekly Al Musawwar, posed this question to a number of Egyptian personalities, including Sadat: “If you wished to send Hitler a personal letter, what would you write to him?” In response, Sadat wrote the following, published September 18, 1953: (, p. 155 )

My dear Hitler,

I congratulate you from the bottom of my heart. Even if you appear to have been defeated, in reality you are the victor. You succeeded in creating dissensions between Churchill, the old man, and his allies, the Sons of Satan. [emphasis added] Germany will win because her existence is necessary to preserve the world balance. Germany will be reborn in spite of the Western and Eastern powers. There will be no peace unless Germany once again becomes what she was. The West, as well as the East, will pay for her rehabilitation—whether they like it or not. Both sides will invest a great deal of money and effort in Germany in order to have her on their side, which is of great benefit to Germany. So much for the present and the future. As for the past, I think you made mistakes, like too many battlefronts and the shortsightedness of Ribbentrop vis-a vis the experienced British diplomacy. But your trust in your country and people will atone for those blunders. We will not be surprised if you appear again in Germany or if a new Hitler rises up in your wake. [emphasis added]

During 1979 Heim wrote in a letter to the German magazine Spiegel, after a report about his war-crimes case was published there in 1979. Whether he ever sent the letter, which was found in his files (along with numerous others were “written in meticulous cursive style in German or English”) is unclear. According to the Times report,

the letter…accused Simon Wiesenthal, who was interned at Mauthausen, of being “the one who invented these atrocities.” Dr. Heim went on to discuss what he called Israeli massacres of Palestinians, and added that “the Jewish Khazar, Zionist lobby of the U.S. were the first ones who in 1933 declared war against Hitler’s Germany.”  The Turkic ethnic group the Khazars were a recurring theme for Dr. Heim, who kept himself busy in Cairo, researching a paper he wrote in English and German, decrying the possibility of anti-Semitism owing to the fact, he said, that most Jews were not Semitic in ethnic origin.

Apparently, Dr. Death became a devout Muslim (he “maintained the discipline to walk some 15 miles each day through the busy streets of Egypt’s capital…to the world-renowned Al Azhar mosque”), and bonded with his Muslim neighbors, who knew him as “Uncle” Tarek Hussein Farid.

He formed close bonds with his neighbors, including the Doma family, which ran the Kasr el Madina hotel, where Dr. Heim lived the last decade before his death. Mahmoud Doma, whose father owned the establishment, said Dr. Heim spoke Arabic, English and French, in addition to German. Mr. Doma said his neighbor read and studied the Koran, including a copy in German that the Domas had ordered for him. Mahmoud Doma, 38, became emotional when talking about the man he knew as Uncle Tarek, whom he described giving him books and encouraging him to study. “He was like a father. He loved me and I loved him.”

He recalled how Uncle Tarek bought rackets and set up a tennis net on the hotel roof, where he and his siblings played with the German Muslim until sundown. But by 1990, Dr. Heim’s good health began to fail him and he was diagnosed with cancer. 

UPDATE: >Banefsheh found this site a few years back:

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Nazis during WWII	Under Hitler	After the war…
Altern Erich Post-war name: Ali Bella	Regional Chief SD (Himmler’s Security Services), Jewish Affairs in Galicia	In Egypt during the 50’s, then instructor in Palestinian camps
Appler Hans Post-war name: Sakah Chaffar	Information services with Goebbels	Egypt 1956: Minister of Information
Bartel Franz Post-war name: El Hussein	Assistant Chief of the Kattowitz Gestapo (Poland)	Since 1959, Jewish Affairs of the Ministry of Information in Cairo.
Baurnann, SS Standartenuhrer	Participated in liquidation of Jewish Warsaw ghetto	Minister of War in Cairo. Instructor for the FLP (Liberation Front of Palestine)
Bayerlein, Col. Fritz	Rommel’s camp aid	Egypt
Becher Hans	Gestapo Jewish affairs, Vienna	Alexandria, Egypt. Police instructor
Beissner, Dr Wilhelm	Section Chief VI C 13RSHA	Egypt
Bender Bernhardt Post-war name: Bechir Ben Salah	Gestapo, Warsaw	Consultant for Political Police in Cairo
Birgel Werner Post-war name: El Gamin	SS Officer	Cairo, Egypt. Worked in Ministry of Information
Boeckler Wilhelm SS Untersturmfuhrer	Wanted in Poland for the liquidation of the Jewish Warsaw ghetto	Egypt since 1949. Worked in Israel Department of Information Bureau in Egypt.
Boerner, Wilhelm Post-war name: Ali Ben Keshir. SS Untersturmfuhrer	Guard at Mauthausen concentration camp	Worked at Egyptian Interior Ministry. Also instructor of the FLP (Liberation Front of Palestine)
****Brunner Alois**** Post-war name: Georg Fisher and Ali Mohammed	In charge of deportation of Jews in Austria, Tchecoslovakia, Greece. Chief of Drancy concentration camp in France.	Damascus, Syria. Consultant for Special Services. Protected against extradition by Syrian government.
Buble Friedrich Post-war name: Ben Amman, SS Obergruppenfuhrer	Gestapo	Director of Egyptian Public Relations Department -1952. Consultant for Egyptian police force.
Bunsch Franz, SA. OBersturmfuhrer	Collaborator with Goebbels	Israel Department in the Information Ministry in Cairo, Egypt.
Daemling Joachim Post-war name: Jochen Dressel or Ibrahim Mustapha	Dusseldorf Chief of Gestapo	Consultant for Egyptian penitentiary system. Active member of Radio-Cairo (Radio-Le Caire)
Dirlewanger Oskar, Oberfuhrer	Chief of 36th Waffen SS division (USSR-Poland)	Some say in Cairo since 1950. Others claim that he died June 7 1945 in Germany under house-arrest.
Eisele Dr Hans	Chief doctor of Buchenwald concentration camp.	Died in Cairo in 1965.
Farmbacher Wilhelm, SS Lieutenant-General	Wehrmacht Eastern Front, Supervisor of Vlassov Army in France in 1944	Military consultant for Egyptian President Nasser.
Gleim Leopold Post-war name: Lt-Col Al Nashar	Unit Chief in Warsaw	High ranking officer in Egyptian national security departement, in charge of political prisonners.
Gruber Post-war name:Aradji	Canaris recruit in 1924. Egyptian resident	1950: Influencial agent within the Arab League
Heiden Ludwig Post-war name: El Hadj	Journalist for anti-jewish agency Weltdienst (NSDAP)	Converted to Islam. Translator of Mein Kampf into Arabic. Lived in Egypt in the 1950’s.
Heim, Heribert. SS Hauptsturmfuhrer	Medical doctor at Mauthausen concentration camp	Became medical doctor for Egyptian police.
Hitholfer Franz	High ranking officer of Gestapo in Vienna	Lived in Egypt in 1950’s
*** Von Leers, Dr Johannes*** Post-war name: Omar Amin	Goebbels’ assistant, in charge of antisemitic propaganda.	In Egypt, he was in charge of anti-israeli propaganda in Cairo since 1955.
Luder, Karl	Chief of Hitler Youth movement. Held responsible for anti-semitic crimes in Poland.	War Minister in Egypt.
Mildner, Rudolf. SS Standartenfuhrer	Gestapo Chief in Kattowitz. Chief of police in Danemark.	In Egypt since 1963. Member of Deutscher Rat organization.
Moser Alois, Gruppenfuhrer SS	Wanted in USSR for crimes against Jews.	Instructor of paramilitary youth groups in Cairo.
Munzel Oskar	SS General	Military consultant Cairo, during the 50’s.
Nimzel Gerd von. Post-war name: Ben Ali		Egypt. 1950’s.
Oltramare, Georges Post-war name: Charles Dieudonne	Director of Pilori in France during German occupation	Responsible for TV show ‘La voix des Arabes’ (The voice of Arabs) in Cairo. Died 1960.
Peschnik Aehim Dieter Post-war name: El-Said		Resides in Egypt
Rademacher Granz Post-war name: Thome Rossel	1940-43. Headed Anti-jewish section of Foreign Affairs Ministry.	Journalist in Damascus.
Rauff, Walter	Chief of SD (Himmler’s Security Services) in Tunisia.	In Syria until 1961. Was arrested and released in Chili in 1962.
Seipel. SS Sturmbannfuhrer Post-war name: Emmd Zuher	Gestapo in Paris.	Converted to Islam. Security Services with Interior Ministry in Cairo.
Sellman, Heinrich Post-war name: Hassan Suleiman	Chief of Gestapo in Ulm.	Ministry of Information in Cairo. Egyptian Special Services.
Thiemann, Albert. Post-war name: Amman Kader	SS officer in Tchecoslovakia	Information Ministry in Cairo.q
Weinmann, Erich, SS Standartenfuhrer	Chief of SD(Himmler’s Security Services) in Prague.	Said to have died in 1949. In fact, he became consultant to Alexandria’s police force in Egypt.

UNCONDITIONAL CEASEFIRE = SURRENDER

What is the point of an unconditional ceasefire hudna? So that Islamic jihad can rearm and integrate what they have learned of Israel's strategy into their resumption of hostilities?

Why would Israel agree to such idiocy?

Mubarak: Israel must end military operations at once, unconditionally. Israel reconsiders ceasefire DEBKA

Cairo disavowed Saturday, Jan. 17 any understandings with Israel and the US on collaboration for ending the flow of weapons to Hamas and launched a fierce attack on Israel.

In a televised speech to the nation, hours before the Israeli defense cabinet was to announce a unilateral ceasefire ending the three-week Operation Cast Lead, President Hosni Mubarak said Israel must accept an "immediate unconditional ceasefire and a complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip." No international monitors would be allowed on Egyptian soil, he said.

His foreign minister Aboul Gheit said Israel was drunk on violence.

So jealous the world is of Israel's superiority.

UPDATE: From Lock n Load:

Is Olmert a mole? I ask because it's hard to imagine why the Prime Minister of Israel would suddenly decide to stop the attack on Hamas just when they are about to crush the terrorists. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory seems to be Olmert's specialty. […]

UPDATE: It's 2006 all over again: Israel to give up, Hamas to keep fighting Jihadwatch

UPDATE: Stupidity of Israel "leadership":

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continue to fire rockets at the western Negev on Saturday evening, despite a cabinet decision that the IDF would halt their fire from 2 a.m. Sunday. At least seven rockets were fired after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the unilateral cease-fire, with one Grad-type rocket causing power outages in Ashdod.

An Israeli woman cries as she is led away by a policeman after a rocket, fired from the Gaza Strip, hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, Sunday.

Rockets also hit Ashkelon and Beersheba. No casualties were reported in the attack, however many suffered shock.

On Saturday afternoon, Hamas exploited a humanitarian lull in IDF activity to fire two rockets at Beersheba. The projectiles hit in open areas, causing no injuries or damage.

Kiryat Gat was also targeted by rockets that struck open areas during the afternoon.

Bad for the Jews. But hopefully good for Likud. If the Israelis vote Kadima in after this Jewicidal move, then they have no one to blame but .......

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.

CHRISTIANS ATTACKED ARRESTED TO "PACIFY MUSLIMS"

Hey, it's what they do -- is reporting the news "insulting to Islam"? Just asking because the UN passed a resolution back in March  that free (anyone for that matter) men are not allowed to defame Islam...

Christians Arrested, Shops Looted in Egypt AINA (hat tip sonia)

Authorities in an Egyptian village arrested 50 Coptic Christians, whose shops were then looted, to pacify Muslims following violence that erupted on Nov. 4 over a Christian boy's unwitting break with local custom.

Muslim villagers attacked the homes and shops of Coptic Christians in violence-prone Tayyiba after 14-year-old Copt Mina William failed to dismount his donkey as a funeral procession passed. Members of the procession reportedly beat William before completing the procession.

The processional members later attacked homes and shops of local Copts before police broke up the crowd with tear gas. A source told Compass that police arrested a disproportionate amount of Christians to create a false sense of equanimity and to pressure Christians into "reconciliation" with the attackers so the Copts would not prosecute them. Police in the village have since harassed Copts through intimidation, "fines" and racketeering, taking an estimated $50,000 from village Christians, sources said. Once police lifted the curfew, Coptic shopkeepers returned to their stores to discover that they had been looted. "It is unreasonable that a mistake by some 14-year-old should lead to all that rampage," a village Coptic priest known as Father Augustinus told weekly newspaper Watani. "Something ought to be done to halt all this."

Unreasonable? Indeed.

"Coptic Christians, women and other minorities" Victims of Increasing Islamisation in Egypt

Where are the dhimmi whores of the UN on the extermination of non-Muslims?

Italy: Copts the victims of Islamisation says prize-winning Egyptian author ADNKronos (hat tip Banef)

Otranto, 10 Nov. (AKI) – Coptic Christians, women and other minorities are paying the price of increasing Islamisation in Egyptian society, leading author and intellectual, Tarek Heggy, has told Adnkronos International (AKI). The fundamentalist opposition Muslim Brotherhood was one of the groups responsible and was indoctrinating young people through its welfare work, Heggy said.

“I believe the major problem for the Copts in Egypt is related to the overall cultural environment. The more radical society becomes, the worse the situation gets. This is also true for Bahaiis,” Heggy said, referring to a smaller religious minority in Egypt which now numbers only a few hundred people.

Heggy was speaking in the southern Italian coastal town of Otranto where he was awarded the prestigious 2008 Grinzane Terra D’Otranto prize for dialogue, tolerance, solidarity and integration.

Loving the eye-talians.  They have testes.

Copts - who form some 10 percent of Egypt's population and the largest Christian community in the Middle East - have been the target of periodic attacks by Muslim hardliners in recent years.

The Islamisation of education in recent decades is a major cause of an intolerant mindset that has developed in Egypt, which the Muslim Brotherhood has helped create under the guise of aid to local communities, Heggy argued.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is well regarded by the average Egyptian, who equates the government with autocracy, corruption and repression,” Heggy said.

Read it all

MORE ARAB GENIUS!

Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel. But the Egyptian authorities still hate the Jewish state enough to let a young Egyptian boy suffering from cystic fibrosis go without the Israeli-made medicine that could ease his pain.

Doctors have recommended that the child obtain and regularly take Creon 1000, a drug produced in Israel, to reduce the effects of the disease and dramatically improve his quality of life.

But the Egyptian Health Ministry told the father that the drug cannot be obtained because Egypt has no cooperation with Israel.

As a government employee, the father knows full well that Egypt does in fact cooperate with Israel when it suits it to do so, while maintaining a icy peace by shunning normalization between the two nations.

The desperate man has launched an uphill battle via the media to force the Egyptian Health Ministry to get the drug his son needs.

(more here)

More uplifting developments in the "piss" process: (all links hat tip marc)

Israeli soldier blinded after Palestinian woman throws acid in his eyes

All that American blood and treasure for this:
Iraqi lawmaker could be executed for visiting Israel

This is a partner in peace:
Hamas using cement shipments to build Gaza bunkers/ more on the cement story

EGYPT: PARLIAMENT OKAYS CLITORECTOMIES

Over [corrected hat tip Ed] 90% of the female population of Egypt has had their clitorises removed.

The US gives these barbarians 300 million a year UPDATE: I low balled it and I stand corrected. It is more to the tune of USD1 to 2 billion per annum.

W magazine does glowing spreads on these savages.
The New York Times magazine did a glowing cultural piece on cliterror (here).

Feminsts are silent. (I vlogged about that here.)

There is something seriously wrong.

Egyptian Parliament Okays Female Genital Mutilation Israel National News hat tip Yisrael

(IsraelNN.com) Conservatives in the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt. The conservatives succeeded in striking several laws that had been passed by the parliament's religious Shura Council in the past. The laws canceled also include a law limiting marriage age to 18 and up, a law permitting a mother to register a child on her name and a law allowing neighbors of a family that beats its children to report the beatings to the police.

One of the parliament's members said that the law permitting a mother to register a child on her name "encourages adultery."

A Cairo appellate judge who is also the legal advisor to the Council for the Mother and Child said that the decision to strike the laws contravened international agreements signed by Egypt. 

Even Egypt is Building a Wall .....

Is it OK now? Is Israel's right to defend the Jews now seen through different lenses. Will the media talk of Egypt's efforts to secure its borders and protect it's people.

Egypt is building a wall to keep the savages out. Is Israel exonerated from the Judeophobic meme - "apartheid wall"?  Gaza is sovereign - good fences make good neighbors or enemies - whatever the case may be.

Egypt Builds a Wall, Changes Its Tune on Israel's Barrier Washington Institute hat tip 007

Much ado has been made of the Israeli security fence isolating the West Bank. When it is completed in 2010, the barrier -- which runs roughly along the 1967 border between Israel and Palestinian territory -- will span nearly 500 miles. Israelis say the purpose of the structure is to curtail terrorist attacks against the Jewish state. There's little reason to doubt them: Despite a March attack that killed eight students at a Jerusalem seminary, statistics suggest that the barrier and a corresponding one around Gaza are working.

West Bankers condemn the structure because it encroaches into pre-1967 Palestinian territory, limits mobility, and separates farmers from their fields. Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since June 2007, describes its territory as "a big prison." Until recently, Egypt too was a vociferous critic. In 2003, Egypt's foreign minister at the time, Ahmed Maher, described the structure as "defying international legitimacy and world public opinion."

Even as Israel moves expeditiously to seal off its West Bank threat, however, Palestinians face the prospect of another wall hemming them in. This latest wall is not being constructed by the Israelis, though, but by Egypt, which seeks more protection from its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.

Cairo has every reason to be concerned. In January 2008, Hamas demolished the Gaza-Egypt border fence, allowing an estimated 700,000 Palestinians -- nearly half of Gaza's population -- to stream into the Sinai desert. Initially, Cairo viewed the Gaza breach as an opportunity to solidify its pro-Palestinian bona fides. Then reality set in. Egypt, it seems, was concerned that Palestinians entering the Sinai might exacerbate Egypt's own terrorism problem. In April 2006, 23 tourists were killed in a car-bomb attack in the Sinai resort town of Dahab; two days later, U.N. Multi-national Force Observers, enforcing the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, were targeted by suicide attacks.

Reads it all ...............

REVOLUTION IN EGYPT!

My dear sweet courageous friend in Egypt, Sandmonkey, wrote me this earth shattering missive,  "Never thought I would see the day, where over 50,000 people revolt against the autocratic regime in Egypt, but it's happening in the Nile Delta City of Mahalla. Thepictures are exhilarating, people are stepping with their feet on pictures of Mubarak.

Yet Nobody is reporting this. Not in the international media in the US or europe, which means that it's up to the blogsphere to get the word out. Those people need all the international media, focus and support they can get. So please help spread the news. Let's shame the MSM. Let's get the revolution televised!"

The leftarded media is really getting on my freakin nerves.

We have come to see the day! Sandmonkey

 

(Picture by Nasser Nouri, via Hamalawy )

Ammar, when he saw this picture, had one comment to make : Hopefully one day we will have this too in Syria.

Yeah, I hope so too Ammar.

The Mhalla riots are going into their second strong day. 50,000 people are rioting. The police is shooting tear gas, rubber bullets, you name it, and IT'S NOT WORKING. The demonstrators were originally only like 2000-3000, but the government crackdown forced the people on the street. And until today, it's a War Zone.

Read it all.

And then read this:  Aftermath!

Hossam has more 

Sometime after 3pm, demonstrations broke out in El-Shoun Sq, chanting
against price increases.. Mubarak’s police fired on the demonstrators..
A man and a child were killed.. Police trucks attacked.. Buses caught
on fire… Mass round ups of activists and citizens… Ghazl el-Mahalla
labor organizers Kamal el-Fayoumi and Tarek Amin el-Senoussi are in police custody… Police gunshots heard throughout the town according to witness…

UPDATE: I’ve spoken with Kareem el-Beheiri,
who’s on the run now… Kareem says hundreds were detained today in
Mahalla including minors… Anyone nabbed was abused also by the police.
Children were beaten up with sticks, sacks full of rocks, punches,
kicks… Lawyers who showed up to defend the detainees were chased by
sword-wielding plainclothes police thugs… For more information about
the mass round ups of activists and demonstrators in Mahalla, Cairo,
Mansoura, Kafr el-Sheikh and elsewhere, please check out the Tadamon, April 6th Strike and the HMLC blogs, as well as Nora’s Twitter account…

UPDATE: Mahalla is under “unofficial” curfew,
according to an activist in the city I’ve just spoken with.. The town
is occupied entirely by Mubarak’s Central Security Forces who managed
to pacify the city by 10pm.. Citizens are instructed by microphones to
stay in their homes…

 

Related: If you missed this: my  EGYPTIAN SANDMONKEY Interview - listen. It was one of the best

 

Incident n the Suez, American Ship Fires at Swarm?

The AFP is spinning this with an Arab slant but from what I can gather an American cargo ship, the Patriot,  were approached "swarmed"  by small boats. They took the appropriate steps (using a bull horn and setting off a warning flare) but a couple of  boats continued to approach. The Americans saying they say everyone alive - the Egyptians are claiming on dead, 3 wounded.

After the Cole, not to respond would be suicidal. The Americans are saying there were no casualties.

U PDATE: An observation. I find it interesting that if this story is true and warning shots were fired, that we did not hesitate to engage with the Egyptians but did not (would not) engage the Iranians when a hostile band of aggressive Iranian boats did the same back in January.
 

US, Egypt in dispute over Suez Canal shooting AFP

CAIRO (AFP) — US officials on Tuesday denied reports that a an Egyptian was killed when a US Navy chartered ship opened fire on small boats near the Suez Canal, confirming the incident but insisting no one was hurt.

Egyptian accounts however said one man was shot dead and two other people injured on Monday when the US ship fired on barges approaching the vessel wanting to sell merchandise.

The Global Patriot "fired warning shots at a small boat approaching the ship as it was preparing to transit the Suez Canal Monday evening," a statement from the US embassy in Cairo said.

"Initial reports from the Global Patriot indicate that no casualties were sustained on either vessel."

US warships in the Middle East have previously been harassed or attacked by small boats.

Egypt's official MENA news agency said that "an Egyptian citizen was killed and two others injured when a US military vessel opened fire at a small boat," citing preliminary reports.

A medic at Suez hospital who asked not to be named said Mohammed Moqtar Afifi was killed by one bullet in the incident, which occurred as the Global Patriot was waiting in the Gulf of Suez to sail to the Mediterranean from the Red Sea.

But it's OK when they do it to Israel?

What the world doesn't understand, as they gleefully throw Israel under the bus, is they are next.

Retired Egyptian General Hussam Sweilem Slams Hamas for Destroying Egyptian Border and Warns of Extremist Religious Regimes Neighboring with Egypt MEMRI

To view this clip, go here.

General Hussam Sweilem: The most important issue today is the organized crime that came from across the border. This is a violation of Egypt's sanctity, a transgression of its borders, which [Hamas] has called "the great raid." They called the transgression of our borders "a raid"...

Interviewer: Who did?

General Hussam Sweilem: Those Hamas members from Hamastan.

[...]

Interviewer: Why is it a crime, if these people came to buy medical supplies, and to look for food?

General Hussam Sweilem: How would you explain that the people who got into Egypt... We allowed them in, but they violated Egypt's sanctity, and entered our country with bulldozers, and then with men wearing masks from the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades... Those are Hamas members, not the Palestinian people... But it was completely organized. It was organized four months ago, not now.

[...]

How can I sympathize with people who smuggled into Egypt cars with explosives belts, weapons, ammunitions, and explosive devices? How can I sympathize with a man with an explosives belt at Bani Sweif? What's he planning to do with his explosives belt there? Two [Palestinians] were arrested with explosives at Bani Sweif. What, they were going to fight the Jews at Bani Sweif? Is this proper Islamic behavior, with which I can sympathize, when they break into homes of women at Al-'Arish and Rafah, and attack Egyptian women for not allowing them to sleep in their homes? Who would allow a stranger to break into his home, when there are women there? How can I sympathize with someone who detonated an explosives device in Rafah? How can I sympathize with them, when after taking all the goods from the shops of the Egyptians, they paid with counterfeit dollars?

[...]

What if a Jew said it?

    CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt said on Thursday it would no longer tolerate Palestinians infiltrating the country from the Gaza Strip, and threatened to break the legs of anyone crossing the Rafah border illegally.

    "Anyone who breaches the border will have their legs broken," Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit was quoted as saying by the official MENA news agency on public television overnight.

Perhaps if another qassam falls maybe they should break Olmerts legs. (hat tip Rick)

iSLAMIC SCHOLAR: NO BAN ON CLIT CUT

From the "you can't make this stuff up" department. I think this scholar ought to have his pecker cut. You know, reciprocity;

Islamic scholar opposes ban on female circumcision Mail and Guardian Hat tip Daryl

In an act that has sparked outrage among Egyptian women's rights activists, a controversial Islamic scholar filed a lawsuit against the minister of health protesting against a recent ban on female circumcision, a practice referred to by rights groups as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Egyptian Sheikh Youssif al-Badri claims the ministerial decree violates the Egyptian Constitution as well as Islamic principles.

Jew haters of the World

The hate industry: a review of anti-Semitic literature published in Egypt in recent years and sold at the Cairo International Book Fair.

Inculcate, indocrinate, infect the soul.
 

Not Despite Rice ..........

I do not believe this is "despite Rice" I think it is because of Rice and her foreign policy of welcoming, supporting, and advocating for Islamic terrrorism. Legitimizing Islamic terror - going so far as calling it "resisitance."  Resistance? To What? Civilization?

U.S. engages Muslim Brotherhood despite Rice Washington Times hat tip Rut

CAIRO — The United States has resumed contacts with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 commitment not to "engage" with the banned group — a move that could strain relations with President Hosni Mubarak's government.

All that dhimmi does is engage.

U.S. Embassy officials said they are acting in conformity with a worldwide policy of dealing with political parties that are represented in their national parliaments. Muslim Brotherhood members can only run for Egypt's parliament as independents, and U.S. officials say they have met them only in that capacity.

So if barbarians, savages etc are elected we engage? oh yeah Hamas!

"Our rare contacts with the nominally independent members of parliament have occurred only in the full light of day, with many other Egyptians present, including members from the ruling National Democratic Party," said Francis J. Ricciardone, the U.S. ambassador to Egypt.

Asked whether the dealings were approved by Miss Rice, who ruled out such contacts in June 2005, Mr. Ricciardone said: "Of course, we report fully to Washington on these contacts."

UPDATE: Whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood Alyssa Lappen

EGYPT: Torturing Bloggers

Sandmonkey reports the latest atrocity out of our friends the Egyptians here;

KARIM AMER IS GETTING TORTURED IN PRISON

Abdel Karim Soliman, famously now known as Karim Amer, who got jailed for "disdain for religion" and "insulting the president" on his blog, is reportedly getting tortured by the Prison authorities.

Karim who is an Egyptian blogger sentenced to prison for 4 years for 'vilifying religions' and defaming the president was tortured & that was ordered and supervised by an investigation officer in Borg Alarab prison. Karim was also ordered into a solitary cell where he was assaulted again and had one of his teeth broken; this assault's date came to mark one year since Karim was sent to jail.

Karim reported his being tortured in prison to his lawyers in the Arabic Network and Hisham Mubarak Center, the torture came at the hand of another prisoner and a prison guard, ordered by Midhat Samir one of the prison's investigations officers. This came to pass after Karim has uncovered some corruption act in the prison. Karim was punished and tortured severely which resulted in several injuries in addition to a broken tooth. He was deprived from officially reporting the incident against the accused officer as well as denying him the right to document these injuries in a medical report. The Arabic Network for Human Rights information and Hisham Mubarak Centre for Law mentioned in their communiqué to the Prosecutor-General that the assault on Karim is manifested in the following:

• Being beaten inside
  ward Number 22 where he is imprisoned at the time of the assault, the
  battery was launched by another prisoner and a prison guard, in the
  presence of Officer Midhat Samir and under his supervision. Samir also
  gave the green light for the assault which resulted in a broken tooth
  "upper right canine tooth" along with a number of bruises and abrasions
  on various parts of the body.
• Transferring Karim to a disciplinary cell where he was
  handcuffed and had his feet strapped into shackles; he was beaten up
  again which caused him more injuries.
• Another inmate prisoner was brought over where they stripped
  him out of clothes and beat him severely in front of prisoner Kareem
  Soliman as they also threatened to inflict upon him the same
  punishment, if he didn't mind his own business.

Sandmonkey has more.

Thw War Against Israel: What's Old is New Again

The more things chnage the more they same the same. Uh, I take that back. It never changes. The war to annihilate the Jews, to drive Israel into the sea, to destroy the Jewish people never changes. The narrative gets fine tuned. The media inject the Arab lies like a strung out methadone junkie but the bottom line is - Israel's enemies never change and their objective is always clear, no matter how matter hundreds of billions America throws at the savages.

America has juiced Egypt with aid and armaments and planes -we have supplied them with roughly 150+ F-16's, apaches and M-1's. In fact Eygpt has just about the same number of US built warplanes as does Israel. And this is the end result. The House of Representativesdefeated a proposal to reduce by $100 million aid for Egypt. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975.  Al-jizz reported the United States has freed 300 million dollars in aid to Egypt earlier this month. Thats alot of jizya. (More here.)

HAMAS AND EGYPT J Post

In a letter responding to a request from US senators, MK Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Subcommittee on Defense Readiness and Combating Terrorism, has done his nation a service by outlining Egypt's complicity in Hamas's weapons and training buildup in Gaza. We are watching the folly of Hizbullah's pre-war build-up in Lebanon repeat itself, this time under the blind eye of a neighboring state that claims to be committed to the peace process.

Steinitz's letter to the senators reveals that, according to Israeli intelligence, Gaza's Hamas overlords are "absorbing, on an annual basis, approximately: 20,000 rifles, 6,000 antitank missiles (mainly RPG's), 100 tons of explosives, and several dozens of Katyusha rockets, as well as shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles."

Since Hamas's violent expulsion of Fatah from Gaza five months ago, Hamas has been sending "large groups of operatives" for military training in Iran. Steinitz reports further that "in late September, a group of 100 operatives who completed their exercises in Iran was permitted to cross the border back into Gaza, despite strong Israeli protests."

While Egypt makes a show of finding a smuggling tunnel from time to time, this is "an insult to the intelligence," he states. If Egypt really wanted to stop the smuggling, it would "erect a number of roadblocks along the very few roads that run from mainland Egypt to the Gaza region, in order to intercept heavily loaded trucks carrying hundreds of rifles and missiles from reaching the border," Steinitz writes. "Alternatively, they can declare the border area a closed military zone, with a depth of 2-3 miles into the interior of Sinai, and prevent any movement in it. Since the entire length of the Egyptian-Gaza border is less then 9 miles, the area affected will be equivalent in size to a military air base.

Egypt: 80 Lashes for Freedom of Press

Sandmonkey reporting from the Freedom Capital of the Middle East, "Freedom of Press in an islamic country. It's a fantastic thing!"
(/not)

Azhar Sheikh: 80 lashes for freedom of press

So has decreed the Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar Mohamed Sayyed "Ok" Tantawi, as islamic punishment for those bad journalists who spread rumors about the president and the country.

    "God will not respond to the invocation of the arrogant and     pretenders who accuse others with the ugliest vice and unsubstantiated     charges," said Tantawi during a religious celebration Monday attended     by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and broadcast live on television.

    "The Islamic Sharia (law) subjected all the people to be equally     punished for the crime of libel which is a flagrant aggression on the     virtuous men and women," he added. Tantawi's comments were published in     Al-Akhbar newspaper Wednesday and in Sawt Al-Azhar, the mouthpiece of     Al-Azhar, the following day.

    […]

    During his speech, Tantawi seemed to argue for serious punishment as     well, quoting a verse from the Quran saying that those who accused     women of adultery without necessary proof were to receive "80     floggings."

    He said his example involved women but added that "libel is also     applicable to men … this punishment is set by God to protect the     honor of men and women from bad talk that hurts dignity and honor."

Nice ehh?

There's much more.  GO.

Muslim Woman w/Christian Man? RIOTING!

Ugh, the stories are endless. Over at Weasel Zippers;

What's that word for non-Muslims living in an Islamic country?  Oh yeah, dhimmi...

Cairo - Police in Egypt arrested 28 people in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria after Muslim and Christian youths clashed in a row over a girl, police said on Saturday.

Fighting broke out late on Friday after Ahmed Abdel Hamid, a 22-year-old Muslim, claimed he saw a Muslim girl headed for a residential building with Sami Rustum, 22, a Christian in the Al-Asafra district, the policeman said, on condition of anonymity.

Abdel Hamid demanded to know where Rustum was taking the girl and a verbal exchange took place before both called on their friends to support them.

The fight, in which at least 20 Christians and 20 Muslims threw stones and hurled bottles at each other, left six lightly injured

Rest here>>

"you escaped to America, but your family and your people are still here in Egypt. We know them one by one. We know their whereabouts and everything about them"

Religion of pieces strikes again and again and again. Another glaring example of Islam's tolerance. Who can forget my interview with the Egyptian Sandmonkey?   I am so effing tired of these damn stories and even more exhausted by the the  pathetic liberal sycophants that are paving the road for the damn mahdi and the coming caliphate.

Institute Fellow Threatened for Defending Democracy, Religious Freedom hat tip Daryl

Washington, D.C. – Institute on Religion and Public Policy Islamic Thought Fellow Sheikh Ahmed Subhy Mansour has reported receiving numerous threats against his family and colleagues in Egypt as a result of his work to advance religious freedom and promote democracy in Egypt.

One message states, "Basically, you escaped to America, but your family and your people are still here in Egypt. We know them one by one. We know their whereabouts and everything about them. What happened lately is just a beginning. We will do them good." The threat was signed by "Abu Hurayrah Al Asiuty."

In May, the Egyptian Security Service unlawfully arrested, detained, and have to date not charged Abdellatif Mohamed Saied, Ahmed Dahmash, Abdelhamed Abdelrahman and Amr Tharwat. The security services also confiscated Quaranist books, research papers, and computers. The Quranists have been targeted for their dedication to the promotion of human rights and democracy in Egypt and for their belief that Islam should be modernized in a peaceful way based on ideologies of democracy and human rights.

Read it all and vomit.

Second 13 Year Old Girl Dies of Clitorectomy

The religion of barbarism strikes cuts again. Second to die in less than two months. Imagine the terror this little girl suffered. Imagine her horror. As a woman and a mother of daughters, I am weeping.

And the media continue to depict the gross and utter lie of women in Islam. Why?

Egyptian girl dies from circumcision Jeruslalem Post hat tip eretz

A 13-year-old Egyptian girl died during a female genital mutilation (FGM) operation, the second such case reported over the past two months, local media said Saturday.

The doctor involved has been referred to the state prosecutor for investigation and his clinic in the rural Gharbiyah province has been closed down, state-owned Al-Gomhoria daily reported.

The earlier death of a 12-year-old girl during an FGM operation in June sparked a public outcry and prompted the government to officially ban hospitals from performing the traditional procedure which is widespread throughout Egypt.

The latest death was uncovered when Karima Rahim Massoud's father applied on Friday for a death certificate, insisting his daughter had died from natural causes, reported the independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm. The father has also been referred to the prosecutor.

The reports could not be immediately confirmed as judicial authorities could not be reached for comment Saturday.

FGM usually involves the removal of the clitoris and other parts of female genitalia on the grounds it tames girl's sexual desire and maintains her honor.

ISLAM: 12 Year Old Clitorectomized Girl DIES

Religion of Misogyny strikes again. What is it going to take?  What has to happen?  Apparently Norway is trying to nip this horror in the bud. Gates of Vienna: Norway Cracks Down on Female Genital Mutilation (hat tip Can)

Death of 12-Year-Old Circumcised Girl Shocks Egypt, Prompts Ban on Rite Hat tip Atlas readers

CAIRO, Egypt —  The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision in the country's south has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities this week to ban the practice.

The girl, Badour Shaker, died earlier in June while being circumcised in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she had paid $9 dollars to a female physician to perform the procedure.

The mother also told the paper that the doctor later tried to bribe her to withdraw a lawsuit accusing the physician of murder, in return for $3,000, but she refused.

A forensic investigation into the case showed the girl's death was caused by an anesthesia overdose during the procedure.

The case sparked widespread condemnation and was closely followed in Egyptian papers, which also reported that Shaker had passed out sweets to pupils in her class earlier on the day of her death, to celebrate her good grades.

It also evoked memories of a 1995 CNN television documentary depicting a barber circumcising a 10-year-old girl in a Cairo slum.

Treason or Stupidity?

Either way, whether it is willful blindness or sedition, emboldening Islamic savages drives yet another Democratic nail int the coffin. That one Republican is a jackass (no pun ntended.)

From left to right, U.S. congresswoman Gwen Moore, Rep. Wisconsin and congressmen David Price (D - NC), Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R - NE) and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) meet with Egyptian Lawmakers including the head of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood�s parliamentary bloc, at the Egyptian Parliament in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 27, 2007. (AP Photo) hat tip Phyllis Chesler

Four Congressional representatives, 3 Democrats and 1 Republican, met with leaders of one of the most dangerous jihad organizations in the world! These are the people who represent you - the American public! Time to ACT!� Make a difference.� Let them know how you feel about this act of treason. TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE�THE FOLLOWING CALLS:

 

1. David Price (D-NC)
(202) 225-1784 (D.C. Office)
(919) 859-5999

2. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
(202) 225-4572
(414) 297-1140

3. Nick Rahall (D-WV)
(202) 225-3452
(304) 252-5000

4. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
(202) 225-4806
(402) 438-1598

ISLAM ATTACKS! Black Friday For Christians

Isalm attacks and the West can't stop apologizing to Islam. It's enough to make you sick. And the leftards in this country will bitch and moan about our soldiers driving too aggressively while millions live under the boot of Islamic fascism (but hey it's a cultural thang.)

Another Black Friday for the Coptic Christians of Egypt AINA hat tip Daryl

One phenomen one can't help but observe is that much of these attacks took place after attending the Muslim Friday prayers in mosques. Most significant, also, is that the vast majority of these attacks were not committed by organized terrorist groups, but by seemingly 'ordinary' people from the neighborhood, under the influence of hate propaganda emitted through the media, the education system and mosque preaching. The Egyptian justice system has yet to adequately punish a single Muslim perpetrator.

Monitor the mosques.

The latest attack on Friday May 11, 2007 in Bamha, 15 miles south of Cairo, was a result of a rumor circulated among the Muslims that the Copts of the village were planning to convert a house, which they used (with the authorities' knowledge) for prayers, into a church. The Muslim worshippers were incited by the Imam of the mosque and a few other fanatics to rise and defend Islam against the 'Christian infidels.' A Muslim mob estimated to exceed 500, went on a rampage using fireballs, knives and hatchets that resulted in burning 27 homes and shops owned by Copts. At least 10 Copts, including several women, were injured; one of the victims is in a serious condition. Full article here

Holy shia! Breastfeeding Muslim Men

From the you can't make this shia up department. The money quote on this Islamic nightmare, "if a man [is] nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation."

OK let me get this straight, sucking a woman's  breast eliminates suspicion of a sexual relation? I am confused. But thrilled I am not a muslim woman. There is a G-d.

Egypt: Fatwa allows breast-feeding among adults J Post hat tip Jakesgramma

Al-Azhar University, one of Sunni Islam's most prestigious institutions, ordered one of its clerics Monday to face a disciplinary panel after he issued a controversial decree allowing adults to breast-feed.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman's biological children.

Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar's Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.

Gotta crush this plague on humanity.

Lynne Stewart is Making Parties?

Why ins't this traitor rotting in prison? What a world .................. (hat tip Pamela)

Monday, May 14th ,
5:30PM Join Lynne Stewart:
Book Party to celebrate the release of :
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, by Joel Kovel &
We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon
Edited by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel

Place: Mamlouk 211 East 4th Street
Joel Kovel, Kathy Engel and others will read from their works.

Queen of the pig people. 

CONFESSIONS OF A SANDMONKEYSANDMONKEY TALKS TO ATLAS

I met with Sandmonkey (at an undisclosed location) and commiserated. He is as charming and clever as you might expect from the "writer of an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey." Fabulous. But his words of premonitory warning gave me great pause. He has scorn for the "new Democrats" that sold out reformers and activists and destroyed fledging movements of democracy.

Upon learning of his blog departure, I was heartbroken. Look, the blogosphere and the fighters for liberty and democracy lost a warrior when Sandmonkey backed away from the keyboard, signed off on his blog and wrote his last post here.

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Security agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or  the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means.

Listen to our conversation here:
Download Sandmonkey43007.mp3

Here are some excerpts. On reform:

SANDMONKEY: "Any kind of democratic reform in the country [Egypt] for the past 3 years has been rolled back specifically because there is no more pressure coming from Washington anymore."

ATLAS: Why? What happened to the pressure in Washington?

SANDMONKEY: You know what happened to the pressure in Washington. The Democrats won the Congress. There is no more pressure coming from Bush because he is not able to push people anymore to do those things. He is not able to push the Egyptian government anymore because the American public is suddenly not interested in reforming the Middle  East because of what's going on in the Iraq. So suddenly the Egyptian government is not afraid of the American pressure. They are doing whatever they want to do. They are beating up demonstrators, they are cracking down on activists, they are changing the constitution, and eroding civil liberties once and for all and they are using proxies to take down bloggers.

On personal security:

SANDMONKEY: Security people began to ask more and more questions about me. I ignored it. But I don't think about stuff like that. You can die any day. Is that going to stop you from living? No.  So they can crack down and and they can get me any day. There is no point in worrying about that. But when are on my doorstep, and coming down on me and you see people in Egypt getting arrested left and right  for no reason and being charged with the most ridiculous charges..... the majority of the Egyptian blogosphere is becoming silent. People that were vocal before are censoring themselves big time.

ATLAS: Who are they arresting and for what?

SANDMONKEY: They're arresting activists. People they don't like. They are threatening to arrest any  journalists with the new terrorism law who might voice any opinion that contradicts with the government. They are calling anybody the defends that is deemed a terrorist as a terrorist collaborator and should be thrown in jail. And the thing is there is no definition of "terrorist." Anybody can be a terrorist. They actually stated that trying to pressure the government is a form of terrorism. Anybody that talks bad about the government ...........lawsuits left and right for "defaming Egypt's reputations."

On the Democrats embracing Muslim Brotherhood:

Atlas: Where you shocked when Hoyer met with the Muslim Brotherhood?

SANDMONKEY: Let me tell you something. I was in Turkey a couple of weeks ago and I met a couple of Syrian activists. They one thing they told me that was really funny about the Pelosi visit. After Pelosi came to Syria two things happened. People on Syrian TV were saying, "We forced the Americans to knock on the Damascus gate!" Sort of like an admission that we messed things up in Iraq so much that America had to come and beg for their help.

But the day after Pelosi's visits there were immediate arrests of Syrian activists. That was the fruit she yielded. "Oh the Americans came over and they said they have a different foreign policy  and they're more interested in placating Bashar's ego." And he went out and got [arrested] everyone he wanted because he knew he had an ally in Washington that wouldn't pressure him as much.

ATLAS: Isn't that disgusting?

SANDMONKEY: Yeah, but what are you going to do?

ATLAS: We have to educate the American people. You think the American people know this?

SANDMONKEY: No, but do they even care at this point? I don't think they are interested in the discussion any more. There are people that have made up their mind, they think we need to placate the dictators because America is wrong and everyone else is always right. That's how they operate.

SANDMONKEY: What they are doing is completely irresponsible.

ATLAS: THe world is watching.........

SANDMONKEY: Of course the world is watching and the world is gloating.
Everyone wanted Bush to lose the 2004 elections. If he had lost  2004 we would not have had our push for democracy in 2005. The moment Bush won again that's when Mubarak said maybe we should have democracy because Bush didn't go away. And had Bush gone awaythere wouldn't be democracy right now ...... like there wouldn't be two years of freedom and fresh air that we were able to breathe and that' we've had.
After 2006 [elections] the change went in the opposite agenda.

ATLAS: As an Egyptian who understands democracy, life,  liberty the pursuit of happiness....and who  admires America. Looking at America, I want to know what you see.

SANDMONKEY: I'm seeing a country in great danger. Simply speaking, I don't think the people get what's at stake anymore. I don't think they see where they are heading.

There's more on compromise, diplomacy, Rumsfeld, Bolton,  truth, Israel, the second amendment, the Bedouins, America's founding forefathers ........Listen to the interview. Every word.

UPDATE:  Check out WaPo's: NO RESULTS FROM DAMASCUS hat tip ejo

UPDATE: More of Pelosi's fruit:Repression getting worse in Syria: opposition figures AFP  Six leading opposition figures jailed in Syria warned on Tuesday that the "repressive climate" in their country was worsening and called for the release of all political prisoners.

SANDMONKEY!

This is terrible. Sandmonkey, my favorite Egyptian blogger, actually - Middle Easterm blogger quits blogging. I knew this was coming. His life is in jeopardy. Can't we get him out? Please read it all here. This is what is happening to the voices of reason, freedom and moderation but Peloshia and her insurgents are inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to Washington. Ugh.

DONE

One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or  the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I've grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!

"Seduced by Israel Satan"

The Egyptian judge accused the Canadian of selling "his country and himself to the devil."

Another reliable US ally in the Arab world........... Egypt. I thought they signed a "peace accord" with Israel  Silly me.
A Cairo court sentenced an Egyptian with Canadian citizenship to 15 years in jail on Saturday for spying for Israel, based on a confession the defendant said was extracted by torture.

Canadian man jailed for spying for Israel
Reuters via Yahoo! News
An Egyptian court convicted an Egyptian-Canadian dual citizen on Saturday of spying for Israel and sentenced him to 15 years in prison, saying he had been "seduced by Satan" into selling out his country.

CRACKDOWN IN EGYPT

Sandmonkey wrote me about the latest frightening development in the continuing  crackdown in Egypt. His post here is most disturbing.  Pathetic that this would be happening as dhimmi Condi was visiting Mubarak. That woman must go, she has done more to hurt the fight for freedom than any two bit dictator.

Sandmonkey mentions towards the end of his post that when he reached hom two  things happened: his phone suddenly died, which has all his numbers. The funny thing is when I tried to SKYPE him yesterday and the day before, it said USER HAS EXPLICITLY DENIED ACCESS.

I won't forget Sandmonkey's parting words the last time we spoke (click here) about the crushing crackdown on bloggers in Egypt, "thank the Democrats for me."

Here is his eyewitness account. Go here and read it all.

I just came back from the demonstrations…No, that's a lie.

I've been back almost an hour and a half now, and it took me this long to get myself together, shake myself out of the shock I am feeling, and actually sit down and write this. Here is what happend.

Around 5:15 pm today I was in Talaat Harb square with my friend M. when I called Hosam and asked him his whereabouts. He informed me that he is at 7amadah cafe next to the AUC. So I went there with M. and sat with him, while waiting for the people to gather up. On the road over we counted about 40 state security cars and we saw the delpoyment of SS troops everywhere. We joked about what awaits us during this demonstration and how if we get beat up we will just start beating up Hosam and pretend to be part of the plainclothed SS thugs, and how it's not a good sign that Rice is meeting up with Mubarak today and how the US doesn't give a damn anymore what happens to us. Slowly more people came and joined us, including M's friend H., Bassem  and gemyhood (Mohamed Gamal) and his girlfriend R. Bassem and Hosam started arguing back and forth over which strategy to use: Bassem in favor of small group infiltration, while Hosam for big group formation. I couldn't care less either way. I just wanted to move. And we finally did.

We got out on Tahrir square and were trying to figure out which is the best strategy to get to the square itself, which was surrounded by SS soldiers. While walking you couldn;t help noticing the redicilous amount of plainclothed SS agents just standing around and holding walkie-talkies. Whenever someone would stop they would tell them they couldn't stand where they were standing and that they had to move along. While walking with the group, I got a phonecall from Alia, who was one street behind us with two more friends, one of them is Salma. I met up with them and we started to walk together towards the bigger group which was now surrounded with police officers and plainclothed thugs. When we tried to cross the street towards them the police wouldn;t let us, and then they did allow us to cross the street but not get on the otherside of the pavement, forcing us to go back and cross the street again. I was holding M's hand from one side and Alia's from the other, when I heard Salma say: "Fuck this" and started running across the street towards the square with the other girl, who pulled Alia with her. Alia tried to pull me with them but M. held my hand and said "Don't you leave us!" so I had to let them go. And right before they reached the square they were tackled by the police who swarmed on them from every direction. Some of the guys from the bigger group went directly to their rescue and pandamonium broke out for about 2 minutes, all the whole the police officers were pushing us to move forward. I could see the girls back in the bigger group, but the bigger group wasn't moving because it was trapped. And then I saw someone break free and run, and recognized him as Jimmyhood, and also saw 5 plainclothed police thugs run after him and hold him and started to pull him towards the Paddywagon. One of his friends triued to come to his rescue and was grabbed as well and thrown in the same car with him, and then the car started moving taking them to an unknown destination. That break, however, allowed the other demosntartors to break free and start walking towards Talaat Harb sqaure, while chanting Anti-Mubarak slogans. As people were walking, you could see the police walking behind them, as well as you can see the police lining up on the sidewalk in order to entrap them.

picture by Amr Abdallah

Clitorectomy or No Clitorectomy? That is the question....

A couple of Religion of Peace "scholars" sitting around shooting the breeze discussing the legitimacy of cutting clitoris' (the horror.)
Where is the show with Wafa and Ayaan discussing cutting the dicks off of Muslim men? Just askin........

Al-Azhar University Scholars Argue over the Legitimacy of Female Circumcision Practiced in Egypt on Al-Arabiya TV

The following are excerpts from a TV debate between Egyptian Al-Azhar University scholars Sheikh Muhammad Al-Mussayar [1] and Sheikh Mahmoud Ashur, who is a member of Al-Azhar's Islamic ResearchAcademy (or Islamic Research Council) on the issue of female circumcision. The debate aired on Al-Arabiya TV on February 12, 2007.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, go here. 

Mahmoud Ashur: "Female circumcision is a traditional custom, and not a religious act. All the hadiths dealing with female circumcision are unreliable. Moreover, the hadith cited by those who support circumcision calls to refrain from it more than it calls to perform it.

[...]

Muhammad Al-Mussayar: "All the jurisprudents, since the advent of Islam and for 14 centuries or more, are in consensus that female circumcision is permitted by Islam. But they were divided with regard to its status in shari'a. Some said that female circumcision is required by shari'a, just like male circumcision. Some said this is the mainstream practice, while others said it is a noble act. But throughout the history of Islam, nobody has ever said that performing female circumcision is a crime. There has been a religious ruling on this for 14 centuries."

Mahmoud Ashur: "In the days of Jahiliya [i.e. the pre-Islamic period] and in the early days of Islam, a man whose mother carried out this custom was scorned by people who called him 'you son of a clitoris cutter.'

[...]

Muhammad Al-Mussayar: "First of all, allow me... Regarding the claim that the instruments are not sterile - this is the reality and is not part of religious law. If there are dentists who do not sterilize their instruments, should we abolish medical faculties and dental clinics, or should we demand that they rectify the situation? Flawed reality cannot serve as a religious argument. The claim that female circumcision leads to barrenness is not true. The Muslim woman bears more children than any other woman. It is the Western woman who is barren, even though she is not circumcised. Moreover, when talking about nervous breakdowns... This is considered a day of celebration for the family."

Interviewer: "A day of celebration for the family?! Let me begin with the psychological effects. According to some studies, when there is a celebration, and sweets are given to the girl, and then an act is performed in which the girl's flesh is cut off...

UPDATE: How women suffer in Islam

hat tip Ralph

BLOGGER GETS PRISON FOR INSULTING ISLAM

Islam has got a choke hold on mankind and it must be physically removed. Yo Moe, lighten the f**k up.

BLOGGER GETS 4 YEARS FOR INSULTING ISLAM

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- An Egyptian blogger was convicted Thursday and sentenced to four years in prison for insulting Islam, the Prophet Muhammad and Egypt's president, sending a chill through fellow Internet writers who fear a government crackdown.

Abdel Kareem Nabil, a 22-year-old former student at Egypt's Al-Azhar University, an Islamic institution, was a vocal secularist and sharp critic of conservative Muslims in his blog. He also lashed out often at Al-Azhar - the most prominent religious center in Sunni Islam - calling it "the university of terrorism" and accusing it of encouraging extremism.

His conviction brought a flood of condemnations from Amnesty International and other international and Egyptian rights group and stunned fellow bloggers.

"I am shocked," said Wael Abbas, a blogger who writes frequently about police abuses and other human rights violations in Egypt. "This is a terrible message to anyone who intends to express his opinion and to bloggers in particular."

Islam Must be Stopped

EGYPT: Kidnappers Forcing Teenage Girl to Convert to Islam Brought to you by The Voice of Martyrs

Lorans Wageah Emeel Lorans Wageah Emeel, a 15-year-old Christian girl, was kidnapped by Muslims in the Egyptian city of El Mahala Al Kobra, about 60 miles north of Cairo. It is reported that the abductors were trying to force Lorans, a student of Saida Nafesa High School in El Mahalla Al Kobra, to deny Christ and accept Islam. The kidnappers drugged and threatened to rape her if she refused Islam, before abducting her from a public bus, according to Compass Direct. The following night Lorans managed to escape from her abductors while they were taking a break from a Ramadan fast. The kidnapping of Christian teenage girls in Muslim nations has reached into the thousands. Many are forced through physical violence to convert to Islam. Other girls are often lured into becoming Muslims with promises of material wealth. The Voice of the Martyrs sponsors safe houses in Islamic countries to protect Christian teenage girls who have been threatened with or have escaped from abduction. These Christian refugees are also places where young women learn job skills and receive spiritual training.

Sex, Lies and Islamic Jihad

Sandmonkey has part  two of  this awful story here. He writes," I wish I was lying. They seem to be willing to go to any length to stop the public outrage on the eid mass sexual assault."

Oh, and in other news, they blocked one of the best egyptian english blogs in Egypt.

Yesterday was the second sexual harrassment protest in downtown cairo against what went down in the eid incident. And while the first one passed without incident, the police has cracked down on the second one. On my way there I bumped into Sharkawy, who told me that its nearly impossible to get to the protest: State security cars were everywhere, and police agents were blocking anyone from reaching the protest area, so they had to cancel it. The few activists who were there, however, were harassed, beaten up and arrested. Here is a describtion of how the situation was like:

The Silence of the Feminazis

I know, I know it's a religion of peace. I got it. hat tip grasiela

On the first two days of Eid in Cairo a mob of hundreds of men swept through downtown attacking and sexually assaulting random girls in an animalistic display that must boggle every mind. Apparently, the utter lack of basic decency, respect for women, or the rule of law was not confined to Ramadan alone - in fact, Ramadan was the only thing suppressing the baser instincts of these men. I feel sick at heart, and may never spend time downtown again, as it seems we women are actively in danger there. Will Cairo one day be like Mogadishu, where every woman is raped before she turns 16? More here

Sandmonkey investigates here;

The bloggers available downtown documented the whole thing, and provided pictures of it as well. Reading their accounts I can't help by feel my heart being torn on what the people of the country has turned to. The one that broke my heart the most was Sharqawi's account (remember, he is the guy who got sexually assaulted by the police during interrogation ) and how it suddenly danwed at him that what happend to him wasn;t an isolated incident. That The Police forces didn;t came from another planet, that they were born and raised egyptians, amongst the egyptian people, the same egyptian people who have produced those mobs who found it in their right to attack girls in middle of crowded downtown for 5 houres under the police's watchdul eyes. The ones who approached the police asking them to do something were told : "what do you want us to do? It's Eid. Happy Eid to you too!" The same response was given to women who went to the police stations to report the incidents. The police refused to do their jobs and take a report, because it would probably reflect badly on their downtown peers. Some people were surprised at the Police's reaction, but the majoirty of us weren't. Those are the same police officers who facilitated the assaults on women last year during the referendum. This is business as usual for them.

What was unusual was the silence of the press. Nobody was mentioning it. Nobody was bringing it up. It seemed like there was some consensus of just not reporting it and maybe it will just go away. What at first seemed like a conspiracy got later on confirmed by my sources in the news media. Al Jazeera had taped the incidents but were forbidden to air it at the request of the egyptian authorities. The new editor at the Daily Star refused to touch it with a 6 foot pole. This was going to be one of those incidents that only the blogsphere would talk about, while the mainstream media ignored.

Sandmonkey is irate. Me? I am paralyzed. Sandmonkey rails at the Egyptian police here;

"We didn't hear of anything. This didn't happen. Things were just crowded in downtown that day, but no girls were assaulted, because no police reports were filed in that regard!"

FUCKERS!

I am not one of those people who claims to be above hate. I do hate, and I hate quite passionately, the same way when I love I love passionately. But I have to say that I have never hated anyone or group as much as I hate the egyptian police at this moment. It's a hate of unequaled proportions. I really wouldn't mind them all dying horrible deaths right now. A police force that doesn't protect its citizens, especially its women, has no business being on the streets. They become nothing more than an organized armed gang now in my opinion, even lower, because they are shaming everyone who wore theat uniform before and did his job. THEY DESERVE TO DIE!

Palis Blow a hole in the Pali/Egypt Wall

Apparently the Palestinians have blow a hole in the wall into Egypt. Hundreds of Arabs pour into Gaza to show solidarity. If they want to support the Palestinians why don't they support the Palis with money, land etc. Why have they left them in camps for decades. Why do they just use them as a tool. The Arab world is awsh in oil money. But they keep the Palis in abject povety to use them as a tool to bash the Jews. It has been Israel that was the major source of the Palestinian economy.

Islamic Police Coming to a Town Near You

This just in from the Khaleej Times. Muslims are forming a posse to roam the world and make sure you are treating  Muslims right. Yeah, Sudan, one of the world's leading murderers of their own people, Iran, who put a torturer murderer on the UN Human Rights Council  -- is the world's worst violator of human rights and the largest state sponsor of terrorism, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabi capital of the world and another limitless ATM for terror organizations --are going to teach the West about humane treatment of our citizens-- you can't make this stuff up;

Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan have urged that the rights of Muslims should be safeguarded. In a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Turki Al Sudairy, Iranian Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-Rad, said that both Iran and Saudi Arabia have a decisive role in the world of Islam, and added that their cooperation and coordination in all affairs contributed to the progress of Muslim countries.

Human rights of Muslims should be safeguarded’

Turning to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's initiative on the human rights dialogues offered to the world, he said that according to his proposal, some delegations should be dispatched to world countries, including the Western countries and the United States, to investigate various sides of the issue and urged the need for mutual inspections. "Based on Ahmadinejad's suggested scheme, to promote human rights the grounds should be prepared for exchange of views on human rights principles," he added.

For his part, the Sudanese minister called for expansion of multifaceted mutual ties and addressing his Iranian counterpart, said, "Given your high morale, you are a successful country.”

Egypt TV: Inculcate Arab kids with Jew hate and the desire for Jihad death

Egyptian TV Promoting Anti-Semitism and Child "Martyrdom"


As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak portrays himself as an honest broker in the Middle East, recent Egyptian TV programs inculcate Arab children with Jew-hatred and the desire for Jihad death.

Egyptian cleric Sheikh Muhammad Sharaf Al-Din appeared on a children's program on Al-Nas television on June 21, 2006, and told a story from Islamic tradition in which a Jewish woman tried to poison Muhammad. After telling the story, in which the prophet of Islam is miraculously spared, the sheikh took a call from a child viewer (all video and translations provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI))

America has juiced them with aid and armaments and planes -we have supplied them with roughly 150+ F-16's, apaches and M-1's. In fact Eygpt has just about the same number of US built warplanes as does Israel. And this is the end result. The House of Representatives has just defeated a proposal to reduce by $100 million aid for Egypt. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975.  Al-jizz reported the United States has freed 300 million dollars in aid to Egypt earlier this month. Thats alot of jizya.

Egypt To Israel No Real Peace with Arabs

Egypt has warned Israel not to take peace for granted.

So there you have peace - with an Arab nation. America has juiced them with aid and armaments and planes -we have supplied them with roughly 150+ F-16's, apaches and M-1's. In fact Eygpt has just about the same number of US built warplanes as does Israel. And this is the end result. The House of Representatives has just defeated a proposal to reduce by $100 million aid for Egypt. The US has provided Egypt with $1.3 billion a year in military aid since 1979, and an average of $815 million a year in economic assistance. All told, Egypt has received over $50 billion in US largesse since 1975.  Al-jizz reported the United States has freed 300 million dollars in aid to Egypt earlier this month. Thats alot of jyzya.

Carl reports here;

Egypt is the third largest recipient of US foreign aid, which aid it receives as a direct result of its having signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. Under that treaty, Israel gave Egypt every last grain of sand in the Sinai which Israel had captured from the Egyptians twice, once in 1956 and once again in 1967.

Today, the head of the Egyptian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Mustafa al-Fekki, a senior member of President Hosni Mubarak's ruling party, said Israel should not think the "peace reached with an Arab country can be guaranteed while it continues to perpetrate its 'crimes and aggressions'."

Sudan Blames the Joooooos

UPDATE *SCROLL DOWN*

Sudan toughens anti-peacekeeper stance
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has escalated his rejection of the United Nations deploying peacekeepers in Darfur, saying they would be neo-colonialists and accusing "Jewish organizations" of pushing for their deployment.

Bashir, President of the Islamic government, executing the most brutal genocide, rape of women and children, human (and chikd) slavery on his own people is blaming the Jooooooooooos.

Where is George Clooney? He fancies himself the poor man's Bono  /not. He must be confused between his far left Israel bashing constituency and hs new found bogeyman janjaweed.

In his response to journalists who pressed al-Bashir on his objection to UN troops in Darfur, he said:  "It is clear that there is a purpose behind the heavy propaganda and media campaigns . . . If we return to the last demonstrations in the United States, and the groups that organized the demonstrations, we find that they are all Jewish organizations."

"In pointing the finger at Jewish involvement in the campaign to draw attention to genocide in Darfur, President al-Bashir is playing an old game. Those who engage in or tolerate genocide always try to divert attention from their actions. Blaming Jews is a favorite choice," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "We in the Jewish community take pride in our leadership role in opposing this genocide and calling for international intervention. The Sudanese leader's ranting is a badge of honor for the Jewish community."

Al-Bashir was referring to the Save Darfur Rally in Washington, D.C. and other sites around the U.S. earlier this year.  The Sudanese President also said that he would lead a resistance to a UN peacekeeping role in Darfur and accused the UN of wanting "to colonize Africa, starting with the first sub-Saharan country to gain its independence." More here

UPDATE: From The Strategy Page

June 24, 2006: Most of the small arms found in Darfur apparently come from China. The new weapons and ammunition have been entering Darfur despite a ban on sending weapons into the region. Sudan acknowledges that China is one of its leading weapons suppliers.  UN investigators have found that  Libya, Chad, and Eritrea have also sent weapons to groups in Darfur. China produces serviceable light automatic weapons and ammunition (including several versions of AK-type assault rifles, RPGs, and light machine guns). The weapons and ammunition are also inexpensive.

June 22, 2006: Attacks along the Sudan-Chad border (most by Islamist Janjaweed militias) have displaced more than 50,000 people. The Chad government also backs "border militias." The Janjaweed have been recruiting among tribes inside Chad.

Imam Calls for Blair's Head

Empowered. The Muslims in England are feeling empowered. Every hint of weakness is another notch on their belt, another bullet in their arsenal. Now they are calling for Blair's head.

Imam backs terror attack against Blair

A RADICAL Muslim who ousted a leading moderate cleric from his mosque on the south coast with a campaign of violence has said he believes Tony Blair is a “legitimate target” for terrorists.

Abubaker Deghayes, who now runs the mosque in Brighton and whose brother Omar is a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, told an undercover reporter that he endorsed the views of George Galloway, the Respect MP, who said an attack on the prime minister by a suicide bomber could be morally justified. Deghayes said he prayed for Allah to support anyone who attacked Blair.

Court documents show Deghayes took over the mosque using violence, intimidation and threats. Dr Abduljalil Sajid, a leading imam and a government adviser on Islam, was forced out as head of the mosque by Deghayes and his supporters.
The Charity Commission, which has jurisdiction over the mosque because it is run as a charity, said it did not know how the mosque was receiving and spending money and added that it was operating “in breach of legal requirements”.

Fallaci on Trial for Speaking Truth to Power

In an extraordinary case of European dhimmitude, the trial of Goddess Fallaci for 'defaming Islam' started yesterday. The Jawa Report has the best coverage here. Read it all, I insist. I saw Fallaci at her last lecture here, read that too.

I predict that the only sound you'll hear coming from the left is deafening silence. The left abandoned true free speech some time ago. A pity, really. There was a time when even the most despicable communist or child molester could count on help from the ACLU to defend his rights.

Clarity and Resolve, a must read BTW:

Just another chunk of the Italian soul being sold for a pittance to the multicult/death cult consortium.

UPDATE: FALLACI TRIAL DELAYED UNTL THE 26TH

The trial opened Monday in Bergamo, Italy, and quickly was adjourned, according to the Associated Press. It is set to resume June 26. The 75-year-old Fallaci, who also suffers from cancer, faces a possible three-year prison term.

This is the first time a judge has ordered a trial for "defamation of Islam," and some other judges are concerned.

Some intellectuals in her home country also have expressed contempt toward Fallaci. A Milan art gallery featured a portrait of a decapitated Fallaci in a recent exhibit of Giuseppe Veneziano's "American Beauty," a series of paintings designed to highlight the "weakness and perversity of the American way of life." Spencer calls the display an illustration of the "deep affinity between the Left and the forces of global jihad."

Palestinians Behind Sinai Bombing

Terrorists are the government in the Pali territories. These savages must be taken out. It's no wonder the world doesn't want Israel to leave the territories. The descent into violent madness would be occur with frightening speed.

Rand said "the spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." We have been compromising our principles for far too many decades to deleterious effect.

Egypt: Palestinians aided Sinai bombings

Palestinian extremists [is there any other kind ?- Atlas] helped finance and train members of the militant Egyptian group that carried out deadly attacks at Sinai resorts, Egypt said Tuesday, making a direct connection for the first time between militants on either side of the Egypt-Gaza border.

The accusations could add to the troubles of the Islamic militant group Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government and is struggling with international isolation.

The Egyptian claim made no mention of either al-Qaida or Hamas and did not say whether the Palestinians who helped the Egyptian militants belonged to any organization.

Egypt's accusation also could fuel Israeli and Palestinian claims that al-Qaida militants have infiltrated the Palestinian territories.

Some analysts say the Egyptian group that carried out the bombings that killed 21 people last month at the Sinai resort of Dahab were al-Qaida-inspired. It took the name Monotheism and Jihad, which has been used by groups linked to al-Qaida.

The Interior Ministry said Palestinians helped the Egyptian group. It said three brothers who belong to the Egyptian group and helped plan the suicide attacks "made contacts with some fundamentalist Palestinian elements" before the attack and two of them - Ayman and Yousri Muhareb - went to the Palestinian territories.

UPDATE: Pastorius from CUANAS and the brilliant alliance, Infidel Bloggers Alliance sent this intel over to me;

Egypt as a New Front for al-Qaida

Egypt is the cradle of Sunni Islamist radicalism, but since the Luxor terrorist attack in 1997, there has been no significant jihadist activity there. Now that appears to be changing. Is Egypt becoming a New Front for al-Qaida?

 

Amnesty International Blames the Victims of Terror

These guys are sick, mentally ill. What are they suggesting? That we don't fight back? Idiots that live off the freedom our military strength provides. BTW, this is the lead story on Google.

Amnesty says brutal terrorism on rise as "war on terror" fails

London (dpa) - Terrorism by armed groups reached a "new level of brutality and intensity in 2005" amid clear signs that the so-called war on terror was failing, Amnesty International said in its annual report published in London Wednesday.

"Terrorism by armed groups is inexcusable and unacceptable. Sadly, the increasing brutality of such incidents throughout the world last year is a further bitter reminder that the 'war on terror' is failing and will continue to fail until human rights and human security are given precedence over narrow national security interests", said Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty, at a press conference.

Someone, get Irene a chador and a circumsion.

The annual human rights report accuses the world's most powerful governments of playing a "dangerous game with human rights" by paralysing international institutions assigned to safeguard global security. (hat tip Steve)

Safeguard global security? Is that what oil-for-food, UN pedophiles, terror enablers, and ineffectual UN/IAEA workers do?

This is the lead story on Google. The lead story. Somebody tell them they ain't William Randolph Hearst. See my previous post, 'by their acts ye shall know Google' here.
From the Reliapundit here

IS LEFT-WING DOMINATED GOOGLE CENSORING NON-LEFT NEWS/COMMENTARY?

Maybe. At least according to these SEVEN (7) reports I got from GOOGLING "google censoring" at GOOGLE NEWS.

BLOG SEARCH at GOOGLE and put the same words in, and got 4.254 hits.

IS IT PROOF THAT GOOGLE CENSORING NON-LEFTIST NEWS AND COMMENTARY AND TRYING TO COVER IT UP?!

I'm very suspicious because history is replete with Leftist states which have done the same thing. And are doing it today: North Korea; Cuba; Vietnam; Syria; Iran and Zimbabwe. And the like. All ruled by Leftist regimes. Like GOOGLE.

UPDATE: Flight delays! Should arrive in DC just in time for rush hour traffic.

NO Amnesty International report would not be complete wihtout a good does of Jew hate and moral equivalency....some things never change here;

Israel continued to build a "separation wall/fence" in occupied Palestinian land, restrict Palestinian movement in the West Bank which contributed to high unemployment and poverty, and conduct unlawful attacks routinely using excessive force against peaceful demonstrators, Amnesty International charged in its annual report for 2006 released Tuesday.

The report also referred to Palestinian suicide bombings, shootings and mortar attacks "that were part of a pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity" perpetrated by both sides.

Lie.