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FRONT PAGE IN THE NETHERLANDS

How cool is this? I can't read a word of it but I love it. yeah baby. The party of Freedom.

He was on Glenn Beck .... if you missed it watch it here. "

"You have almost lost Europe. I think it's one minute to 12:00."

Here's my interview this past Thursday with Geert Wilders.

EZRA ROCKS! EZRA RULES! EZRA WINS!

While giant publishing house  Random House took a dive, Ezra Levant, the individual's individual fought the jihad and won. MENSCH!

After a year-long investigation, the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission has rejected a complaint by the Edmonton Council of Muslim Canadians against former Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant over his republication of the Danish Muhammad cartoons.

The allegation that the February 14, 2006, issue of the now defunct magazine was likely to expose Muslims to hatred helped to spark a national debate about human rights law and free speech, and its rejection comes after similar complaints of Islamophobia against Maclean's magazine also failed.

Expose who to whose hatred. Acts of religious violence are the hallmarks of the Religion of pieces.

In a report on his investigation, which recommended the complaint not be referred for a panel hearing, AHRCC Southern Director Pardeep S. Gundara wrote that the cartoons are "stereotypical, negative and offensive," and they "do reinforce stereotypes," but they were "related to relevant and timely news" and were "not simply gratuitously included."

And if they were gratuitous? What's the dif? Freedom of Speech, baby

UPDATE: Ezra wanted to fight the fight. Check this out. Not entirely happy. Please donate to his legal fund.

UPDATE 8/7/08: Ezra's latest post:  How I beat the fatwa, and lost my freedom

Al Qaeda Neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui Captured in Afghanistan! Arrives in New York

Aafia Siddiqui  is a MIT-trained neuroscientist who married a top Al Qaeda operative who intended to blow up gas stations or poison water reservoirs in the United States.. She is  a possible associate of Majid Khan and she is believed to have links to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She allegedly arranged travel documents for another suspected terrorist.

While in custody she managed to grab a rifle start spouting jihad jizz while getting  off two shots. She didn't hit anyone.

AAFIA SIDDIQUI ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO KILL UNITED STATES OFFICERS IN AFGHANISTAN (source FBI) hat tip wolf

        NEW YORK – Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark J. Mershon, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced today the arrest of Aafia Siddiqui on charges related to her attempted murder and assault of United States officers and employees in Afghanistan. Siddiqui arrived in New York this evening and will be presented tomorrow before a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  According to the Complaint filed in Manhattan federal court:

               On July 17, 2008, officers of the Ghazni Province Afghanistan National Police ("ANP") observed Siddiqui outside the Ghazni governor’s compound.  ANP officers questioned Siddiqui, regarded her as suspicious, and searched her handbag.  In it, they found numerous documents describing the creation of explosives, as well as excerpts from the Anarchist's Arsenal.  Siddiqui’s papers included descriptions of various landmarks in the United States, including in New York City.  Siddiqui was also in possession of substances that were sealed in bottles and glass jars.

        On July 18, 2008, a party of United States personnel, including two FBI special agents, a United States Army Warrant Officer, a United States Army Captain, and United States military interpreters, arrived at the Afghan facility where Siddiqui was being held.  The personnel entered a second floor meeting room -- unaware that Siddiqui was being held there, unsecured, behind a curtain.

        The Warrant Officer took a seat and placed his United States Army M-4 rifle on the floor next to the curtain.  Shortly after the meeting began, the Captain heard a woman yell from the curtain and, when he turned, saw Siddiqui holding the Warrant Officer's rifle and pointing it directly at the Captain.  Siddiqui said, "May the blood of [unintelligible] be directly on your [unintelligible, possibly head or hands]."  The interpreter seated closest to Siddiqui lunged at her and pushed the rifle away as Siddiqui pulled the trigger.  Siddiqui fired at least two shots but no one was hit.  The Warrant Officer returned fire with a 9 mm service pistol and fired approximately two rounds at Siddiqui’s torso, hitting her at least once.

        Despite being shot, Siddiqui struggled with the officers when they tried to subdue her; she struck and kicked them while shouting in English that she wanted to kill Americans. After being subdued, Siddiqui temporarily lost consciousness.  The agents and officers then rendered medical aid to Siddiqui.   

        Siddiqui, a 36-year-old Pakistani woman who previously resided in the United States, is charged in a criminal Complaint filed in the Southern District of New York with one count of attempting to kill United States officers and employees and one count of assaulting United States officers and employees.  If convicted, Siddiqui faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge.

Siddiqui lived in Roxbury and studied at Brandeis University as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents' home in Karachi, Pakistan, in March 2003,  right around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her.

WEAPON OF MUSICAL DEFENSE

Last night I made good on my promise on my new radio show Voices of Freedom on KFNX to play new and original music with a message, a counter jihad message. Great rockin' tunes. Several concerned and talent rock stars got together and put to music everything they had learned about Islam after 9/11. What took years to learn has been put to fabulous music. They are currently producing a CD of roughly 22 songs which will be available on itunes.

Last night I played the world premiere of Appeasement

(minute 5 on the show Download 2nd_Show_July_24.mp3 ) and promised Atlas listeners the opportunity to download two songs for free.  GO HERE FOR THE FREE  DOWNLOADS. 

APPEASEMENT

What happens when a desire for peace at at any price meets an insatiable desire for world conquest?

                   

  BEST NATION        

is about the tacit acceptance of the Cairo Declaration  of Human Rights in Islam by the UN. We think it's a  pretty shocking document and more people would be shocked by it, if only they knew about it

From the new website:

We're getting ready for a forthcoming web launch. We know  it's a mysterious name but you'll just have to wait.        
       
We’re not quite ready for our full launch yet when we will be making an album of songs available. These will be ground breaking songs that explain concepts that most journalists, politicians and even controversy seeking artists have shied away from.        
       
WMD is a group of concerned rockers and rock stars. We’ve  studied and read since 9-11 and found out some facts that are pretty hard to find out. We want to share these with a  wider audience. We know many people are reading blogs and web sites about these topics but we want to reach out to those who don’t or won’t read the books and blogs on Jihad and Islam.        
       
        We are working on our songs right now. We've had some  limited release of the following songs and we invite you to download them and listen to them. Pass on links to our site  if you like and keep watching. We’ll be updating our site  so you might like to subscribe to our news feed or keep checking our blog.        
       
   Above all, listen to our work about which we will provide copious notes and links so you can study the way we have if you like, and make up your own mind!        

SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL DISCRIMINATORY????

European Affairs Minister Andrea Rochi has actually called for action requiring that "mosque supervisors [in Italy] recognize Israel. Not only that, Rochi said, We must force those who do not recognize Israel to leave the mosques.

How lucid and human  is that. Of course the jihad loving media is calling that "discrimination". Ugh. Theeir hatred of the Jews infects everything they say, do -- every position they take.

Italy has been on the forefront of fighting the jihad .............. I tip my hat to them. They have earned my respect and my gratitude. The Brits should be following Italy's lead. The difference in the two countries approaches could not be more stark.

My favorite wonder woman, Diana West, Is in Europe kicking ass and taking names.

It Has Nothing to Do With "Discrimination" Dian West

From Press TV, via Islam in Europe, comes the following headline--and it's not one you read every day (or ever):

"ITALY: MOSQUES MUST RECOGNIZE ISRAEL"

Indeed, it's an apt headline, describing a bona fide and boffo story from the Italian news agency Il Tempo reporting that European Affairs Minister Andrea Rochi has actually called for action requiring that "mosque supervisors [in Italy] recognize Israel. Not only that, Rochi said, We must force those who do not recognize Israel to leave the mosques.

Not sure how he'll put that one over, but bravissimo,  Minister Rochi, for the call to action.

But look at the Press TV lead:

Italy may take its discriminatory practices to a new level, calling for measures to make mosque leaders quit unless they recognize Israel.

Italy's discriminatory" practices? Mosque leaders who fail to recognize Israel clearly recognize something else: the absence--the eradication--of Israel. But to Press TV, that's not "discriminatory." It's the pathetic cry of the victim, no doubt.   

Looking to Italy for Cujones: Closes Giant Mosque

This is a great story. Hope springs eternal.

MILAN MOSQUE TO BE CLOSED DOWN BBC hat tip Kasper (those are his emoticons too, I loved 'em - )

A controversial mosque in the Italian city of Milan is to be shut down, the country's right-wing government says. 

The Jenner mosque attracts about 4,000 Muslims each week, with Friday prayers often spilling out on to the street. 

Now, after years of complaints from local residents, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said he will close the mosque by August.  

A leading Roman Catholic has accused Mr Maroni of behaving like a fascist. He has rejected that charge.

... The local Muslim community is being offered the use of a nearby stadium, in which the Beatles once played. 

However, the council has said it can only be used four times each week and that each person will be charged on entry.

Geert Wilders to Be Arrested?

Gates of Vienna has the jawdropper of the day. This is the latest in the war on the West - harassing and arresting the truth tellers. The war of attrition.

Geert Wilders fears he will be arrested soon when traveling abroad, due to his movie Fitna. Jordan is working on an international warrant for the arrest of the PVV leader in order to prosecute him. Last Monday the court in Amman found the complaint filed to be acceptable. Wilders expects that the court will soon appeal for an international warrant for his arrest, reports De Volkskrant. Jordan can possibly make a request through Interpol. Such an appeal can be fought by the Dutch government. It is also possible Jordan will ask individual nations visited by Wilders to extradite him. In any case, the Wilders' freedom of movement will be severely restricted. Wilders complains about the uncertainty. "One never knows when it will happen. My freedom of movement will be enormously limited and I cannot operate as a politician," according to Wilders in De Volkskrant. The risks are being mapped by the ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Jane Novak: Blog Heroine

The New York Times (!) did a wonderful piece on Jane Novak of the blog, Armies of Liberation. She is the quintessential blogger doing what she does for liberty, justice and democracy. I have had the distinct pelase of corresponding with her from time to time on Yemeni matters. She is tireless and intrepid and the nemesis of the brutalYemeni government. For Novak, the basic issue is freedom of speech. And so the Yemeni government despises her. She embodies the best of the blogosphere

It is rare that I send you over to the Times but this is a terrific piece. Please read and check out her blog. The title seems to minimize y=her stature but what would you expect from The New York Times, she is doing what they should be doing.

A LIVING ROOM CRUSADE VIA BLOGGING

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country.

And yet Ms. Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph — blond and smiling — is on the cover. Her blog, an outspoken news bulletin on Yemeni affairs, is banned there. The government’s allies routinely vilify her in print as an American agent, a Shiite monarchist, a member of Al Qaeda, or “the Zionist Novak.”

The worst of her many offenses is her dogged campaign on behalf of a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who incurred his government’s wrath by writing about a bloody rebellion in the far north of the country. He is on trial on sedition charges that could bring the death penalty, with a verdict expected Wednesday.

Ms. Novak, working from a laptop in her Monmouth County living room “while the kids are at school,” has started an Internet petition to free Mr. Khaiwani. She has enlisted Yemeni politicians, journalists, human rights activists and others around the globe. Her blog goes well beyond the Khaiwani case and has become a crucial outlet for opposition journalists and political figures, who feed her tips on Yemeni political intrigue by e-mail or text message.

She says her campaign is a matter of basic principle. “This is a country that lets Al Qaeda people go free, and they’re putting a journalist on trial for doing his job?” she said. “It’s just completely crazy.”

But Ms. Novak does admit to a personal interest in the case. She and Mr. Khaiwani have become close friends, though they have never met, and neither speaks the other’s language. One of the charges against him is receiving a cellphone text message from her, as part of an alleged plot (which he denies) to aid the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.

“The penalty for this crime is usually death,” Mr. Khaiwani said during an interview at his home in the Yemeni capital, Sana, in January. A lanky 42-year-old with large, piercing eyes and a dark sense of humor, he has already been jailed four times by the authorities in connection with his journalism. Last year he was kidnapped and beaten by men he says were plainclothes police officers.

Mr. Khaiwani added, with a broad smile: “If you add to this my relationship with Jane Novak, it means the death penalty for sure.”

Ms. Novak does not fit the profile of a dilettante in exotic causes. A former sales manager for a textile company, she speaks with a distinct Brooklyn accent, having grown up in Flatbush. When a Yemeni government minister visited the United States last year and invited the notorious “Jane,” as she is known throughout Yemen, to go to Washington for a meeting, she turned him down. “It was too much, the money, the kids, all for a one-day trip,” she said.

Nor does she have any background in Middle East studies. One of her opponents in Yemen accused her of being a Zionist member of Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “I had to Google it,” Ms. Novak said with a chuckle. “I didn’t know what it was.”

It was after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that Ms. Novak, who used to work not far from the World Trade Center, first took an interest in the Arab world. “I thought it would be a good idea to write in the English-language Arabic press on subjects we could all agree on, freedom of the press, equality, stuff like that,” she said.

In 2004, she started her blog, www.armiesofliberation.com, adorned with a Stars and Stripes logo, and soon wrote an article defending Mr. Khaiwani, who was in prison. He wrote her a letter of thanks, addressing it to “Jane Novak, the American journalist and political analyst.”

“Leaders in our region transform into gods,” he wrote. “They even come to believe in their fake holiness, which we aim to shatter, as they know they are humans just like us. Democracy and freedom are not granted by a leader of a regime. It is a worldwide human achievement of all the free people on earth.”

Moved by the letter, Ms. Novak started her first petition campaign on Mr. Khaiwani’s behalf. Through translators, the two began corresponding.

“He’s just such a nice guy,” Ms. Novak said. “He really believes in democracy, and he’s paying the price for it.”

It was months after their first letters before Ms. Novak could bring herself to tell Mr. Khaiwani that she was not, in fact, a journalist and political analyst, but a homemaker blogging on a laptop at home. “I didn’t want to tell you before, because I didn’t want you to lose hope,” she wrote.

Mr. Khaiwani wrote back to say that the news made him even prouder of her and her work.

Bless you Novak. Go getta 'em. :)

Read it all and don't forget to sign the petition.

FJORDMAN ATTEMPTS THE IMPOSSIBLE

Fjordman, over at  Brussels Journal, is  attempting, yet again, to  reason with the the unreasoned. It's a waste of his extraordinary talent, IMAO.

As I have repeatedly lamented, this division of the right and, in effect, the clubbing of the transatlantic counter jihad movment plays right into the hands of the ....... jihad. It is like arguing over the place mats on the Titanic dining tables, as the water is washing over the decks. I just don't get it but have stopped trying to understand the motive. It's plain wrong.

Fjordman's account of events in Europe is a bloody mess. The Euro lefties have a death/obliteration wish.

The trouble with Europe trying to defend the political and religious and demographic invasion by Islam is there is nobody left in the house to defend the house, they have all become their enemy.

There is no one else left to defend Europe except the nationalistic groups. Fjordman shows that in associating with those whom he believes to be moderates, Charles is consorting with the devil. I have seen the enemy, it aint us.

It's one thing to pose as the  great conservative fighting the pure & good fight against  "fascist" elements in the Euro-nationalistic movements, but consorting with marxists, leftist and outright feminazis is hardly pure.

To the obvious point, that absent the nationalists, there is no one to defend Europe. Absent a defense & a fight, Europe is swept away in the encroaching tide of Islam.

To the readers of Little Green Footballs Fjordman, Brussels Journal

I've written about the Swedish organization Expo before, but it seems I have to do so again. As most of my readers know, I have been involved, along with several others, in a very public debate with Charles Johnson of the major American "anti-Jihad" blog Little Green Footballs. If it can indeed be called a debate, I'm not so sure. I can personally testify that pretty much everybody on "my side" of this issue has been tired of it for a very long time. Yet recently LGF again publicly attacked Gates of Vienna and The Brussels Journal, and Johnson has continued posting negative remarks about the website Atlas Shrugs.

I was not mentioned by name, but since I publish essays regularly at GoV and TBJ and will probably publish occasionally at AS in the future, it is tempting to treat attacks on these websites as attacks on me personally. If I have been slow in responding, this is because I am so tired of this nonsense that the mere thought of getting involved once again almost makes me feel physically ill. After thinking about it, I have decided I will respond after all. First of all because it annoys me to see good, honorable and decent individuals being unfairly demonized in this way, but also because ignoring such attacks, which was my initial reaction, leaves the impression that you are an easy target for bullying. I'm not an easy target, and I will thus respond once again, against my better judgment, to give my side of the story.

Go. Read it all, it's lenthy it's a must read.

OT ................ Fjordman will be reviewing Andrew Bostom's devastating new book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,  but before this  he "intends to write about the causes of Christian anti-Semitism. I will publish the full essay about this at Atlas Shrugs".

I am honored.

Warrior vs Wuss (Steyn vs SocKPuppets) STEYN ALONE!

YOU MUST SEE THIS .... NO! NOW! Hot for jihad and upside assimilation. Steyn is the warrior alone!

British Commonwealth versus Islamic Caliphate Battle: (many thanks to josef for the links)

The best is Steyn begging the Islamists (the three "law students") to debate him "it's not a chair issue!"

SOCK PUPPETS:

"I am Pakistani Muslim born in Canada" (huh?)

"I am taking almost quotes from the text" (an almost quote WTF?)

Here's Steyn's Online report of the Battle

Well, we did the TVO show and I doubt it was Must-See TV, even by the standards of Canadian public broadcasting. I succeeded in bouncing the Sock Puppets into agreeing to a face-to-face discussion, though it wasn't my finest hour or theirs. I believe the final words of the show were me saying, "Do you wanna go to dinner?", and Khurrum Awan yelling back, "No."

TV Ontario (TVO) website of the battle between the Commonwealth and the Caliphate. Watch this VIDEO!

Atlas's favorite Steyn line: "let's all sing selections from South Pacific!"

Atlas's favorite Muslim litigants quotes: " "Steyn wants to be a martyr!"

"He [Steyn] hides behinds quotes of Muslims!" [say what? Steyn is "hiding behind accuracy, he is hiding behind fact, he is hiding behind  quotations, he is hiding behind statistics, he is hiding behind truth, that is what writers with integrity do, they have not disputed a single fact.....emotion should not be part of the law of Canada criminalizing your  fluffy feelings "]

"The law is evolving"

"There are actually case law that the tribunals, the Human Right tribunals rely on and they have  hallmarks of hate......."

Commentary at  HotAir.com:

The “sock puppets” being the three Canadian Muslim law students whom he says are acting as spokespersons for Mohammed el-Masry, the complainant in the Star Chamber case against him and a noted proponent of killing Israeli civilians. He’s also been known to accuse the media of being controlled by “the zhoos,” according to Ezra Levant, which should indicate how abiding his respect for “human rights” is. The clip’s in three segments: First Steyn alone, then the Puppets, then in the last third the long-awaited confrontation between the two, in which the Puppets clarify their position. It’s not that they’re fascists bent on silencing Steyn’s criticism of Islam; it’s that they’re socialists, evidently, insofar as they think Maclean’s magazine owes them a right of reply to his commentary in its pages under penalty of law. It’s the Fairness Doctrine, in other words, aimed a la the American version at confiscating private property to promote a viewpoint with which the property owner doesn’t himself agree.

And from Steyn.....

As my accusers see it, quite a lot. I was struck by something Naseem said to me on the sidewalk. I'd mentioned that I'd heard her on NPR saying that it was improper for me to attack "multiculturalism" because multiculturalism was officially embedded in Canada's constitution. And I said: So what? A free society shouldn't have an official ideology, but, if it has, I certainly reserve the right to object to it. If I'd lived in Italy 70 years ago, I would have objected to their official ideology (Fascism), and I object to Canada's, notwithstanding its touchy-feelier name. And she looked at me as if I was bonkers. I feel rather bewildered at meeting graduates of an elite institution in one of the oldest settled democracies on the planet who seem to think just because Pierre Trudeau cooked it up it's chiseled in granite. You can only marvel at what an amazing job he did of wiping a society's collective memory. What was the most depressing part of the post-game show for me was realizing that for my accusers the assumption is that every defect in society can be corrected by government intervention. They said one reason they went to the "human rights" thought police is because they're worried Rogers might buy, for example, The Toronto Star and install Ken Whyte, yours truly and the rest of the Islamophobes. Well, maybe. But look: right now, I'm "excluded" from The Toronto Star and so's every other conservative. We're "excluded" from the CBC, which is paid for by the tax dollars of Canadian conservatives. But so what? Society is not perfectable, and for a government tribunal to order the Star to run one Steyn column for every Siddiqui column in runs would only make things worse.

Steyn's killer close quote ,"The shut down of speech, the criminalizing of opinion, should be embarrassing to as old a settled democracy as Canada. I don't have as low an opinion  of Canadians as these phony complainants and the Human Rights commission do."

Gratuitous Atlas shot :)

love that man

UPDATE: If you prefer youtube viewing, just watch it!

Part 1 : here.
Part 2 : here
Part 3: here
Part 4: here
Part 5: here
Part 6: here
Part 7: here

 

GO SILVIO!

heh

Libya thinks it can dictate to Berlusconi who he can or cannot appoint? Outta control, I tell ya.

Incoming Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is facing a row with the Muslim world over plans to appoint a member of the far-right to his cabinet, press reports said.

ITALY REJECT LIBYAN INTERFERENCE  IN CABINET DECISIONS  Crosswalk
The son of Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi warned Italy on Friday that the nomination of MP Roberto Calderoli to a ministerial post would have "disastrous consequences" for Rome-Tripoli ties.

Calderoli, 52, was a minister in the previous center-right government of Silvio Berlusconi when he sparked deadly riots in the former Italian colony after appearing on television wearing a T-shirt bearing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

The Italian consulate in Libya was set on fire, 11 people were killed and another 69 injured in riots.

Calderoli also threatened to defile the proposed site of a mosque in Padua by walking a pig over the ground

Silvio Berlusconi has yet to take office after being re-elected Italian prime minister, but already the conservative politician faces the possibility of new tensions with some in the Muslim world.

A prominent organization in Libya headed by Muammar Gadaffi's son has called for the incoming government in Rome not to appoint as a minister a politician whose views on Islam have angered Muslims in the past.

Angered Muslims ....... we can't have that.

Roberto Calderoli served as reforms minister in Berlusconi's last government, but he resigned under pressure in February 2006 after deadly riots at an Italian consulate in Libya's second city, Benghazi.

Libyans who attacked the mission were angry because Calderoli had during a television program displayed a T-shirt depicting one of 12 cartoons satirizing Mohammed, the Muslim prophet, that were at the time at the center of an international furor.

STEYN, DON'T SURRENDER!

ATLAS ODE TO STEYN! (want more? go here)

Isabella the Crusader sent me the fabu news. The lawfare jihadi weenies are vewy scar-wed wight now. Malkin has dah money post here, "Well, well, well. Looks like the speech-squelchers in Canada want to back off their bullying of Mark Steyn and Maclean’s. Too little, too late:". Yeah baby.

The National Post’s Jonathan Kay reflects on unintended consequences:

[I]t’s fair to say that the Maclean’s imbroglio has been one of the biggest shots in the arm to Canadian conservatives in general. It’s turned red-meat right-winger Ezra Levant into a star blogger and a free-speech hero with brand-name recognition in the United States, turned Steyn’s name into a household word, created a debate within the Jewish community over its traditionally doctrinaire support for blanket hate-speech laws (Ezra for CJC president, anyone?), shone a light on the amateurish shenanigans of Canada’s human rights commissions, driven a powerful movement for reform of said commissions, and generally served to marginalize the pro-censorship lobby to the point that its main defender is now a disgruntled former journalist who fills his blog with unhinged conspiracy theories about how everyone who favours free speech is a racist.

All of which to say: Thank you, CIC. You’ve done a good deed — albeit unintentionally.

Stay vigilant.

Alternative to Burka

I like it, I like it, yes I do.

See No Evil Jules Crittenden

The Wonderful World of Islam "WILDERS MUST BE KILLED"

UK Imam: "Non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet"

Words, truth are war, beheadings, suicide bombings, honor killings, beheadings, clitorectomies are peace. Got it!

Fitna Rage in Indonesia: "The Dutch government must arrest him. Wilders must be killed because he has declared war on Muslims."

OMG ...............what pussies. Bend over!

hat tip Brian

Fitna (Update 3)

DMartyr · Tuesday, April  1. 2008 08:53

LiveLeak is reporting Geert Wilders has removed the Fitna film in order to make some edits. If you click over to LiveLeak, you get this message instead of the video:

This media item has been removed by the uploader!

Reason from user 'Geert_Wilders': "deleted due to copyright issues...will upload edited version shortly..."

Saving Wafa

Atlas readers know how I love and adore the bravest of the brave Wafa Sultan. You share my respect and admiration. We owe her an incaluable debt. Her place is history cannot be underestimated.
There is a death threat on her head. Islam wants her dead. We must take action. Jerry Gordan writes me:

Help Wafa Sultan-Send a Letter to the Qatar Embassy about her Death Fatwa (hat tip Michael)

We posted on courageous Dr. Wafa Sultan's second al-Jazeera interview that included a debate with Egyptian Islamist, Tal'at Rheim on the republication of the Danish Mohammed cartoons. Subsequent to the March 4th Al-Jazeera interview, Egyptian Islamist Sheik al-Qaradawi issued a Fatwa against her. Sultan and her family have gone into hiding.

Our ally , Bob Spencer of Jihad Watch has called Sultan " a national and international treasure". Having met Dr. Sultan, we agree.

Yesterday, we received email s from Joyce and Persia expressing concerns about the lack of 24/7 personal security protection for Dr. Sultan. Note that in Holland, Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders received 24/7 security from his government with the release of his important film, "Fitna". Her safety is the equivalent of what the British government did for author Salman Rushdie when the Ayatollahs of the Islamic Republic of Iran issued a Fatwa calling for his death with the publication of his book, 'The Satanic Verses". Our government should consider doing the same for Dr. Sultan, an American citizen who is the subject of a death threat from an Islamist Cleric, Sheik al-Qarawadi.

She asked us to help her by submitting a letter to the Embassy of Qatar. Qatar hosts the 24/7 Arab language satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera.

Please either use her letter as a template, or write your own. Submit your letter on the embassy site: http://www.qatarembassy.net. Click into "feedback."

Sultan has been forced into hiding and needs our help for her valued and courageous stands against radical Islamism.

Copies of letters that you send to the Qatar Embassy in Washington,DC should be sent to President Bush, Secretary Rice and all Members of Congress.

Below is the form of letter suggested by Dr. Sultan that you should consider sending to the Qatar Embassy in Washington, DC:

Embassy of Qatar:

As an American citizen I am appalled by the rage, threats and hateful rhetoric leveled against Dr. Wafa Sultan by Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

Al-Qaradawi does not have the right to issue religious edicts, or "fatwas" against persons residing in the U.S., who express their opinions in an attempt to uphold the truth. In fact, it was this type of hateful rhetoric, threats and rage that compelled Dr. Sultan to speak out in the first place. As a result of al-Qaradawi's actions to exact revenge and incite hatred against Dr. Sultan, she has now been forced into hiding.

These are extraordinary charges against Dr. Sultan made by al-Qaradawi, who states them in a manner which his fellow jihadists understand perfectly. In fact, we all understand exactly what he is threatening.

Given that al-Qaradawi has justified suicide attacks against innocent civilians and American soldiers in Iraq, it is abundantly clear that he encourages violence and threats of death over civil discourse and free speech.

Law enforcement officials should take this latest threat against Wafa Sultan very seriously indeed.

Signed...

Banning FITNA Like Dhimmi Dogs

These developments give us a clear indication of who is with us and who is against the fighters for freedom.

COMCAST BANS GEERT WILDERS ‘FITNA THE MOVIE’ FROM ITS BANDWIDTH hat tip wolf

Yesterday afternoon I posted a link to the LiveLeak website which streams Geert Wilders new film "Fitna" within the Comcast Community "News and Current Events" Forum.

My post read as follows:

"Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders film "Fitna the Movie" was released globally on the web this afternoon. This film is a MUST SEE." Fitna the Movie (which was an active html link to the LiveLeak website).

Within minutes of that posting, which was made under an anonymous username, so-called "moderate Muslims" made posts denying that the texts quoted in the film were from the Qur’an, and had apparently notified Comcast of the offensive post existence on the forum.

The employees of Comcast promptly and permanently banned my account and deleted the thread without a trace.

My banning and thread deletion notification stated that Geert Wilders "Fitna" contained "racial and extremely graphic content." This is virtually the same grievance cited by a Muslim Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman against the film as published by Reuters and currently available a couple of pages deep on the Comcast website. ( http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/general/2008/02/27/NEWS-DUTCH-ISLAM-FI LM-DC/ )

As if 9/11, London, Madrid and repeated Islamofascist cold-blooded murders and rampant carnage around the world are any less racial or extremely graphic!

WATCH FITNA

The truth is out. Can't stop it. It is spreading .......... virally. Thank the Baron for this:

It doesn’t matter how the Dutch court rules today: Fitna is out, and is spreading virally.

People have been sending me links to the alternate sites since yesterday afternoon. The movie is available to download as well as to view, and has been subtitled in French and Czech.

Here’s my current list of sites:

• AJM (dedicated server — very fast)
  
• Bivouac-ID (French subtitles)
  
• Czech Infidel (Czech subtitles)
  
• Daily Motion (flagged as inappropriate — must register to see it)
  
• Google video
  
• Isohunt (links to torrent sites)
  
• Rapid Share (flv format)
  
• Rapid Share (wmv format)
  
• The Pirate Bay (bit torrent)

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If you know of additional download sites, feel free to leave them in the comments.
 

VIDEO: GEERT WILDER'S FITNA FILM IS LIVE!! UPDATE: LIVELEAK CAVED TO ISLAMIC THREATS! TOOK FITNA DOWN!! FITNA LIVE AT ATLAS

UPDATE! WATCH IT! IT'S VIRAL NOW -- IT CAN'T BE STOPPED!. I LOVE Rusty over at My Pet Jawa ***UPDATE*** LIVE LEAK CAVED! BUT I THOUGHT THIS WOULD HAPPEN AND I ASKED A FRIEND TO DOWNLOAD IT. Let's see if I can get it back up. Give me sometime .... Meanwhile play the video for Liveleak's explanation. If we all don't stand up to Islam together,we all go down.

This is the point of the film, is it not?

UPDATE: SITES RUNNING FITNA are being suspended - POLIGAZETTE - Michael VanderGalien from the Netherlands - WAS suspended.

Phyllis Chesler opiines, Liveleak is apparently based in the UK. I did not like what they said about "understanding other cultures" in their explanation for why they took it down after being threatened. Viewing the film is the BEST way to "understand" this other culture of hatred.

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LIVELEAK ENGLISH VIEWS AT 2:29PM: Views:  3,340,843

LIVELEAK DUTCH VERSION: 4,057,578

DUTCH Version: Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film over de Koran. (Nederlands)

UPDATE: ATLAS OBSERVATION: This is a great film and I will tell you why. It is powerful and succinct. There is no editorial, no opinion. Just Islam. There are the violent acts of war by Islam and the Koranic verses that call for them. There is nothing incendiary except for the actual word of the Koran. It pulls together, for the the misinformed public, what is really happening around them, why it is happening. And while it is nothing we haven't seen (MEMRI, PMW, blogs etc.), FITNA (because of its controversial nature)  had sufficient publicity to whet the public's appetite. Other films that have more depth and give a more complete picture of the long war (ie Obsession) were viewed by only a handful of already clued in citizens.

The misinformed public, by and large, have been saturated with the  fallacious meme about peaceful Muslims when really what we are talking about are non-practicing or secular or lapsed Muslims vs. those that adhere to the basic tenets of Islam. This  is a critical distinction that is never made. A pious Muslim is compelled, is required to be a supporter of jihad.

"A religion of peace" but only under a pax Islamica - one world living under Islam (that part is always left out).

I hope and I pray that FITNA is viewed buy millions, billions even of freedom loving peoples the world over so that we can finally begin to develop a strategy that will succeed against an enemy we have willfully failed to recognize or understand. The film is simple and brilliant.

Props to LIVELEAK. Powerful.  Truth. G-d bless Wilders. Wilders has described the film as "a call to shake off the creeping tyranny of Islamization"

Shame on Network Solutions.

Anti-Qur'an film Fitna goes online  Radio Netherlands hat tip wolf

The Hague -Dutch politician Geert Wilders has released his anti-Qur'an film, Fitna, on the internet. The website of his Party for Freedom (www.pvv.nl) contains a link to the site where the film, which lasts approximately 16 minutes, can be seen.

Before it begins, viewers are warned that they may see shocking images; these include pictures of the terrorist attacks in New York, Madrid and London. Fitna also contains fragments of interviews with the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, translations of verses from the Qur'an, newspaper headlines about death threats to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and quotes from sermons delivered by orthodox imams. It also notes that the number of Muslims living in the Netherlands has risen from 54,000 to 944,000 over the last hundred years.

Towards the end, a hand is shown grabbing a page of the Qur'an; the image is accompanied by the sound of tearing paper. Dutch subtitles then explain that the sound was that of a page being torn from a telephone book. In a written declaration, Mr Wilders declares that it is not up to him to tear malicious verses out of the Qur'an, but that Muslims themselves must do that.

1945 saw the triumph of democracy over Nazism and 1989 the fall of Communism. Mr Wilders believes that that the time has now come for Islamist ideology to be defeated.

Muslim group seeks fine for Dutch lawmaker, ban on anti-Quran film

Associated Press , THE JERUSALEM POST  Mar. 27, 2008

A Dutch judge is due on Friday to hear the petition of a Muslim group seeking an independent review of an anti-Quran film by lawmaker Geert Wilders to see whether it violates hate speech laws.

Showing the attacks on the West on 9/11 is now going to be considered hate speech?

The petition, seen by The Associated Press Thursday at the Hague District Court, says the Dutch Islamic Federation "believes the situation of Muslims in the Netherlands today is comparable with that of our Jewish fellow-citizens in the 1930s."

*SPIT* The twist this time is the "victims" are the ones doing all the killing, beheading, mass murder ....

The federation asked for a fine of $79,000 per day if Wilders airs the film, and a $7,900 fine for each future instance of an "injuring remark."

Let's start a collection.

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UPDATE: Diana West has a great post on Fitna on her blog here:

News Flash from Pakistan: Fitna protest in Karachi outside a mosque. Guess they found some flags.

New flash from Denmark: Kurt Westergaard, he of bomb-head Mohammed cartoon fame, is planning to sue Geert Wilders for Wilders' use of his cartoon in Fitna. Oh, brother. (Psst, Kurt: Every time somebody reprints your terrific cartoon, freedom of speech in the West is upheld, remember? The problem has been, so very few media outlets have had the guts to do so. Please, have a glug of Danish beer and think it over...)

 

Meanwhile, from the same story, an interesting Fitna Rage--Fita Controlled Rage--report out of Jordan:

Meanwhile, a coalition of Jordanian media says they will take Mr Wilders to court over the film and urged Arab leaders to review ties with Denmark and the Netherlands.

"We held an urgent meeting Thursday evening and decided to sue extremist and Zionist deputy Geert Wilders," over the film deemed offensive to the Koran, Islam's holiest book, coalition spokesman Zakaria al-Sheikh said.

Sheikh said the coalition of 30 Jordanian independent newspapers, websites and radios would also initiate a campaign to boycott Dutch products in addition to launching legal proceedings against Mr Wilders in Jordan.

He also urged Arab leaders at a weekend summit in Damascus "to denounce campaigns hostile to Islam and review their ties with countries like Denmark and the Netherlands where these campaigns were launched".

A handful of Muslim countries had responded early Friday, with Iran saying the short movie showed some Westerners were waging a "vendetta" against Islam, and warning of unspecified repercussions.

Bangladesh also said the film could have "grave consequences", while a coalition of Jordanian media said it would sue Mr Wilders and launch a campaign to boycott Dutch products.

The European Union's Slovenian Presidency also attacked the film, saying it served "no other purpose than inflaming hatred."

But Muslim leaders in The Netherlands called at a joint press conference for their co-religionists in other countries not to over-react.

"We call on them to follow our strategy and not react with attacks on Dutch embassies or tourists," the head of the Dutch Moroccan community, Mohamed Rabbae, said.

"We feel offended by the link between violence and Islam but we know this guy [and] the best response is a response in a responsible manner."

UPDATE Pete Hoekstra in The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Hoekstra, who was born in the Netherlands, is ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence..

ISLAM AND FREE SPEECH

Radical jihadists are prepared to use violence against individuals to stop them from exercising their free speech rights. In some countries, converting a Muslim to another faith is a crime punishable by death. While Muslim clerics are free to preach and proselytize in the West, some Muslim nations severely restrict or forbid other faiths to do so. In addition, moderate Muslims around the world have been deemed apostates and enemies by radical jihadists.

Radical jihadists believe representative government is un-Islamic, and urge Muslims who live in democracies not to exercise their right to vote. The reason is not hard to understand: When given a choice, most Muslims reject the extreme approach to Islam. This was recently demonstrated in Iraq's Anbar Province, which went from an al-Qaeda stronghold to an area supporting the U.S.-led coalition. This happened because the populace came to intensely dislike the fanatical ways of the radicals, which included cutting off fingers of anyone caught smoking a cigarette, 4 p.m. curfews, beatings and beheadings. There also were forced marriages between foreign-born al Qaeda fighters and local Sunni women.

There may be a direct relationship between the radical jihadists' opposition to democracy and their systematic abuse of women. Women have virtually no rights in this radical world: They must conceal themselves, cannot hold jobs, and have been subjected to honor killings. Would most women in Muslim countries vote for a candidate for public office who supported such oppressive rules?

Read it all.

A Ray of Hope

I have two words for Israel - Don't stop! One has to wonder if Obama and his disaster Pastor are in mourning.

Israel: Hamas mastermind captured  IAN DEITCH, AP hat tip Hal

JERUSALEM - Israeli soldiers on Wednesday arrested the Hamas mastermind of the bloodiest suicide bombing of the Palestinian uprising, an attack that killed 30 people and wounded 143 others during a Passover dinner celebration in 2002, the army said.

Omar Jabar planned the attack and dispatched the suicide bomber to the hotel in the Israeli coastal city of Netanya, the military said. He was arrested early Wednesday in the West Bank, the army said. The attack spurred the military to launch a broad offensive in which Israel retook control of West Bank cities from the Palestinians.

 

Fear and Loathing Of Islamic Violence Czech Nationalist Party Would Air Wilders

toon tip Sheik yer mami

Titulek: Czech nationalist party to release anti-Islamic film on this website hat tip ejo

Zaroven vam vzkazuje:

Czech nationalist party to release anti-Islamic film on website

Prague- The Czech extra-parliamentary nationalist National Party (NS) has offered its foreign server for the release of the controversial anti-Islamic film of Dutch ultra-right MP Geert Wilders, the NS announced on its website today.

UPDATE: I don't think Wilders is going to want to hook up with this hardcore group. There's a lot of ugly history here. hat tip and thanks to Bill Warner

Senator Jaromir Stetina has filed a suit against Jan Skacel from the NS for the denial of the Holocaust

Nationalists unlikely to be punished for their statements - press

Members of the far-right National Party (NS) will probably not be punished for their statements made at a meeting in Lety, south Bohemia, on Saturday, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes writes today.

Political scientist Zdenek Zboril who has analysed the contents of the NS leaders' speeches in Lety, has arrived at the conclusion that their statements are unimpeachable, the paper says.

At their commemorative event staged at the site of the former WWII camp for Romanies in Lety last Saturday NS members branded Romanies as "dirt" and "Gypsy agitators." Senator Jaromir Stetina has filed a suit against Jan Skacel from the NS for the denial of the Holocaust since Skacel said in his speech that "there was no genocide" in Lety, the daily says.

According to Zboril, Skacel compared the Lety camp with the concentration camp in Auschwitz and said that there was no genocide in Lety compared to Auschwitz. In addition, Skacel based his speech on the historical manual on Lety published by the Academy of Sciences, Zboril points out.

"Although the meaning of certain word combinations in the nationalists' speeches are unclear and they can be interpreted as the expression of hatred towards Romanies it was a mere presentation of their political views," Mlada fronta Dnes quotes Zboril's analysis as saying.

"There is nothing in their speeches that would constitute a crime," an unnamed police officer who is an expert on extremism told the paper, confirming Zboril's opinion.

He said he agreed with Zboril that NS members know precisely what kind of provocations and insults they can use to remain unimpeachable.

"Even if only a single person was sent from Lety to Auschwitz there was a genocide in the south Bohemian camp," Stetina told the paper in reaction to Skacel's statement. 

UPDATE: It's all about fear

Fears of Muslim Violence Inactivates Web Site Israel News

IsraelNN.com) The world's largest website name registrar, Network Solutions, is blocking web surfers from accessing an anti-Islam site - prompting concerns that fear of Islamic violence has become so powerful that it even controls WWW content.

Network Solutions developed the domain name registration system in 1993 and was the world's only domain name provider until 1999, when the domain name industry opened up to competition.  Today, the company hosts seven million domain names.  The Washington Post reports that Network Solutions is now, for the first time, blocking access to a site that has not yet put up any substantial content. 

The site in question is owned by a Dutch politician, Geert Wilders,  who is known for his opposition to Muslim immigrants and the Koran.  Wilders has said that he planned to post a short anti-Koran film on the site, named fitnathemovie.com.  Wilders hopes to rally support for banning the Koran in Holland, explaining that the book urges followers to commit acts of violence.

A Network Solutions spokeswoman told the Washington Post that the site was blocked on Saturday night "due to the potential unrest that could follow if Wilders followed through on his pledge to post his film on the site."  She said the company was still investigating whether the site violated its "acceptable use policy."

The inaccessible site contained, before it was shut down, only a picture of a gilded Koran along with the text "Allahu Akhbar" (Allah is Great), and the words "Geert Wilders presents Fitna - Coming Soon."

Fears of Moslem Violence in the Wake of the Movie
The decision by Network Solutions followed warnings and threats that the movie could lead to pro-Moslem violence.  Earlier this month, for instance, NATO's secretary general expressed his concern that the Wilders movie could foment anger and added danger for Western troops in Afghanistan. Protests were held in Afghanistan against the Wilders film.  In addition, Dut