Pamela and Wilders. His speech stopped us cold. Watch the vids as soon as they upload.
Nidra Poller and Allen West. Poller was wonderful when she spoke. "The unacceptable has become the inevitable". And West? He's my candidate for President.
Tom Trento
Pamela and Lord Pearson - he made a powerful speech. Lord Pearson was the warrior who invited Wilders to speak and show Fitna at the House of Lords. Wilders was unable to appear, as he was banned by the dhimmi Jaqui Smith after Muslim Lord Nazir Ahmed threatened 10,000 rioting Muslims in the streets.
Wilders, Fleur Agema - an MP as well and vice-floor leader (she is the number two in the party) - and Allen West.
Lady Pearson
A wondrous night in South Florida. Free thinkers and free speechers converged on the magnificent beach and listened to leading lights in the fight for our lives. Trento, Poller...
The free world rests in the hands of these brave warriors - Frank Gaffney, foreground, Solomon, Wilders.
The hotel internet is not working. The video won't load on my PC card -- argh. I will have all up as soon as technology behaves.
Check back! I will continue to upload.
UPDATE: The videos are dark (bad lighting obviously), but so what. They must be watched. These speeches (and do listen to Lord Pearson's) are for the ages.
I was deeply honored when asked to cover the The Friends of the IDF dinner as press. Last year I snuck in ... this time, I went like a mensch:) The usual cast of vultures, Jew haters, and zombies were protesting the Jews and their homeland across from the Waldorf, where the dinner takes place annually. The good news? This year the turnout for the Jew haters was a fraction of last year's (last year's coverage here).
75 haters tops
Meanwhile on the other side of evil ........ there is ....good. Inside the Waldorf was the IDF soldier, the icon for the beleaguered Jew fighting for survival of a tiny minority.
Jews having dinner need heavy security. The hatred of the good for being good.
Beautiful boys
The girls are so gorgeous
Me and the girls :)
Atlas and Major General Benjamin Gantz
Let me say, it's these moments that I love what I do. What a beautiful evening. The feeling in the room is .... indescribable. Everyone here knows what's at stake, knows what we are fighting for, understands how precious and beautiful life is. Every moment.
These young Jewish people are the basis of Israel's strength, love, and power. I was honored to be in the room with them. And I believe them when they look me dead in the eye and say, "don't worry, they will never beat us. Never".
UPDATE: Here;s another great post from last night. Dan, my favorite Gaterhing of Eagles patriot, has a post up at The Liberty Boys -- he sent me the top pic which I love. It's a comprehensive report. Go.
The concrete steps that Geert Wilders proposes appear reasonable,
prudent and accomplishable for any government that recognizes the
imminent danger to it’s people, itself and it’s institutions. None of
them are draconian in their concept.
Abolish hate speech laws and regulations. These serve only to stifle free speech and expression.
Limit immigration. This would include stopping immigration of ‘refugee’ status immigration over a limit of 5,000.
Punish criminal immigrant behavior. Immigrants convicted of
serious criminal behavior would be stripped of the Dutch portion of
their dual citizenship and deported to their country of origin.
Encourage acculturation of immigrants. Require that children be
enrolled in schools with a western cultural tradition. Prohibit the
institution, construction and operation of schools that serve to
prevent immigrant youth from exploring the western traditions of their
new country.
These proposals all focus on the measures any individual country or
groups of countries (such as the EU) could enact to protect against
internal subversion with a large unacculturated immigrant population.
They do not go so far as to address solutions for the global issue of
radical Islam.
While Geert Wilders makes the important distinction that Islam is an
ideology of world domination, not just a religion as we in the free
world have come to define religion, his failure to develop or express
solutions to the more global problem is something that he will need to
develop in the future as his political career carries him further in
his country and Europe. He remains an optimist about the European
ability to prevail against this latest ideological assault and I have
to agree with his optimism. Europe is not dead. Under assault and
reeling from a seemingly unending stream of subversive attack, but
still able to recover if decisive action is taken in a reasonably short
period of time. The primary obstacle there, as here, is the alliance
the socialist left has forged with the radical islamists. A marriage
of convenience for the Islamists, a marriage of necessity for the
socialists.
The only way to defeat the socialists would be to educate a
sufficient number of ordinary people to the imminent danger they are
facing to ensure that those politicians who favor a fairy tale belief
in detente, with a movement that understands only submission, are
eliminated from public office and replaced with those who have a more
firm grasp of reality. The false icons of political correctness and
cultural relativism need to be cast aside in favor of the defense of
the principles of a free society. One will never be free who submits.
So who really is the injured party here -- academics shunning Jewish thought? That's like a man stranded in the Sahara refusing a glass of water. Asshattery Jew hating makes asshats of them all. And transparent as well. it is evil. Period.
What it represents is the struggle between good and evil.
The traditional Jew-peaceful, studious, dedicated to procreation,
family and life of worship and simplicity. He is concerned with being
benevolent hence the Kosher way of killing animals-without suffering.
He does not deviate from faith in God and belief that God, if he is
good, will take care of him. On the other side is the trayf - the
more likely to use physical force, have many wives, or at least does
not stay with one family and may beget a few, less concern in
procreation rather more concern in pleasure. Kills even for his faith
or in the name of his faith. More physical than studious and much less
faithful to family and religion.Inflicts pain without remorse and
enjoys the disrespect for other living creatures.
Therefore for the strife between good and evil to
continue and exist - the fundamental basis and core for this existence
the traditional Jew must survive. If he dies the good is gone and evil takes over the world. The struggle must continue as this is the setup and fabric of this world.
The conquering of
Israel is in theory. That piece of beach holds no oil, gold, or any
other valuable resources. It however, holds the Jewish people.The world knows that getting the land is meaningless, it is getting the Jew that will be the victory for the forces of evil.
However, if the Jew dies they die too as their survival depends on this
constant struggle because without it they will lose the meaning and
purpose of their existence. And so it goes, a never ending struggle
which is the very essence of life as we know it."
Urban sent in this on the scene report: Here are the photos from yesterday's (Sunday February 22nd 2009) protest against CUPE, held in Windsor, Ontario.
Union mob-rule;
recent islamic "sha'ariyah" honour killing beheadings of wives and daughters in Toronto;
shrill racist, inciting, cries from the Canadian Arab Federation and the Canadian Islamic Congress;
universities and colleges over-run with anarchic Left-Glibbers, anti-semites, and intolerant, bigoted, muslim student associations .....
... this isn't boding well for Canadian democratic, pluralistic society ............
Honourable Members of Parliament, the scourge of tyranny and oppression is upon us, from without and within, and its name is Islamo-fascism ,
fueled in part by re-emergent anti-Semitism ( thinly veiled as indignant anti-Zionism ) ,
and misdirected Left-Glib self-righteousness.
As are descending Holland, France, Germany, and England, among many countries in similar peril, so too will go Canada if we do not defend our society from these ideological cancers.
TERMINATE SID RYAN AND HIS BROWNSHIRT BUDDIES!
'Resolution to boycott Israel by CUPE Ontario
discriminatory and racist,’ says B’nai Brith Canada
TORONTO, February 22, 2009 – B’nai Brith Canada has labeled as "discriminatory and racist" the resolution passed by CUPE Ontario, which proposes to boycott Israeli universities.
"Central to the boycott Israel resolution passed by CUPE is the notion that the Jewish State is somehow illegitimate," said Frank Dimant, Executive Vice President of B'nai Brith Canada. "It marginalizes its supporters here at home and disenfranchises CUPE members who are supportive of democratic Israel and its right to defend its citizens against terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
"CUPE has gone far afield of its mandate by pushing through a resolution that at its very core is racist, employs a double standard, and which seeks to put a stranglehold on genuine academic exchange.
"Followers of Israel Apartheid Week and its fellow CUPE travelers are promoting hatred and advancing a discriminatory agenda that is at odds with Canadian values of tolerance, respect and human rights for all. We urge the wider CUPE membership to come forward to denounce this resolution and call on the Canadian public to do the same."
B’nai Brith Canada has been active in Canada since 1875
as the Jewish community’s foremost human rights agency
And so they came. And came. And came. And came Jews poured onto 42nd street .....peaceful, beautiful. For two weeks I have been documenting the death (to the Jews) marches ........this was a life march.
Hear the sound of marching feeeeeeeet, on the avenue I'm taking you to 42nd st!
Looking east on 42nd street (2nd Avenue in the distance)
Looking west on 42nd street .................GLORIOUS!
GORGEOUS
Unlike the Pro-Hamas, pro terror rallies, the cops are never busy at the rallies. No one is aggressive, hostile or belligerent. Light.
And of course, complete asshattery. But look how big the JINOs crowd was....
UPDATE: I just got back from the haters death march rally in Times Square. It was a small crowd, with a deafening sound system - lots of Jew hatred and America hatred. Funny thing is, in the two cabs I took today, the news report (there are tvs in all the backseats of NY cabs) talked about Gaza and the big Times Square demonstration against Israel's military action. As a footnote, the newscaster said, there are also pro-Israel rallies in the city today too. It was almost a promotion for the rally. Where, when, what. The funny thing is the pro-Israel rally was tens of thousands, the pro-terror protest was a couple of hundred.
The bad news? I left my camera in the cab. Ugh. So all that ugly signage is wending its way through streets of Madhattan and you are deprived of the annihilationists' message. Maybe a blessing in disguise.
The last minute, thrown together pro-Israel rally in NYC today was so packed, so overwhelming, they were turning Jews away. You could not get to the rally. The support parade was across from the Israel consulate between 42nd and 43rd. The police could not contain the throngs of happy, peaceful supporters and forced folks off 2nd Avenue. It was unbelievable.
I have been to all those Jew hating rallies, and they take over whole swaths of New York (this past weekend, for example) - they are given huge amounts of space, but the cops would not let us into the barricades. The Israel supporters were pouring into the streets. The young and the old - what a stark contrast from the haters' demonstrations. Dark vs. light.
Federal building Broward Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Muslims rally against the Jewish state.
It was pandemonium. Muslims dress in full jihad garb juiced with .... hate.It looked like Halloween in Gaza. Throngs of young Muslims drunk with ..... hate. It was madness in America. You had to see it to believe it (watch video for the feel)
Across the street was an anemic counter protest. Where were the Jewish kids? NOWHERE. Jewish leadership and the diaspora have failed miserably in the education of our youth. The entire Muslim rally was young, wild -- frenetic. Itchy fingers on hair triggers.
Jewish lay leadership should be thrown out on the dhimmi asses. They have failed an entire generation of slackers.
"Israel is a terrorist state!" Screaming, yelling, very ugly .... police were not prepared. At one point the Muslims broke out crossed the street and confronted the 18 Jewish and Israel lovers across the street (watch the video, I caught part of it).
Someone tell this asshat that Israel has been sending truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gazastan. The keffiyeh is their signature - the new swastika.
The opposite side of the street (west) was cleared when a bag/backpack was left in front of the office building - Police shooed me away saying - "stay away from there! that could be a bomb!" Below you can see the yellow tape ....
The women all covered up
The scene - check out Tm Trento bottom left (he was covert too)
The good guys across the street (south) - small but strong!
From Alex in Israel: (hat tip Richard Baehr)
....our Defence Dept who said they have access to telephone nos. in Gaza and beginning two days ago began calling the Arab population of Gaza in areas where the Israel Air Force was going to bomb and left messages in Arabic telling them to get out, since their gov't, led by Hamas, had placed strategic weapons and ammunition in their area and Israel was forced to destroy it to protect it's citizens.
First, let me say that the idea of placing ammunition and weapons among it's citizenry is a violation of human rights and the UN. This is something the Arab gov'ts have been doing in just about every war with Israel. Hamas is among the most uncaring and even among it's citizenry that supports them they have used their homes and living space to store ammunition and weapons. Hezbullah in Lebanon did the same thing.
The other point I want to make is that we have been extremely careful to avoid civilian casualties and when was the last time in the history of warfare that any gov't called it's enemy populations and told them to get out since their areas were targeted and tried to protect civilians. To my knowledge this is a first.
I don't think you'll see this story in the popular western press. But it did happen and is happening here. On two different occasions in the past two days I personally heard on radio that our gov't thru the ministry made more than 90,000 telephone calls per day to Gaza residents warning them that their specific area was targeted.
Please let your friends and neighbors know about this action that does show we care, and don't let the local media cry about the poor civilians who are being massacred when their own Hamas gov't cares less about them than their mortal enemies.
Great Americans, Joyce Kaufman (Florida Talk radio host and Alan West - the man in 2010)
Baruch Hashem!
UPDATE: Tom Trento just sent me his video - it's unbelievable --view here.
"nuke Israel" "go to hell" "go back in the oven" "you need a big oven"
Deeply grateful and proud of Atlas readers who made it their business to attend these god awful, evil rallies against Israel, the Jews, America .............. everything that is right with this sick world. I am proud to be in your good company and held in your regard, in this I am blessed.
There were more of them than us and a few incidents
where if the LAPD had not been there, it could have become ugly. The
rhetoric of 'Fakenstinians' is typically ugly. They were screaming for
'Jews and Christians to get out of Palestine', and one Pali man in his
60s told my friend 'Hitler Should Have Finished off the Job'. ( I won't
tell you what she told him, but he was in shock). So many LAPD were
there, including the riot police. It's says a lot about who they are
when most of the cops and riot people were posted on 'their' side.
Also, as the Pali's rode by in their cars, they shouted 'Fuck You, Fuck
you Jews' (which shows their limited intelligence). Of course we were
also called 'pigs', 'dogs' accused of 'Genocide' (very rich coming from
them). They are just looking for a violent fight and confrontation.
Someone on our side had to call the police to come and protect us as
they tried to come over to our side and start something. Amazing, that
we as Jews are facing such vile hate in L.A. in America. Wish I had a
camcorder. Glad we went. Next time we need to be larger and louder
Los Angeles photo
TAMPA FLORIDA: Atlas reader Karen:
Thanks for the info on the planned CAIR rallies. I attended the one in Tampa, Fl this evening.
For 2 hours today, I experienced a little bit of what it is like to be Israel, surrounded by a mob who hates you.
Arriving at the site, and surveying the lay of the land, I decided to
stand with two fellows wrapped in the Jewish flag, across the street
from about 200 "anti Israel" protesters. That was it, me the two jewish
guys and one muslim on one side of the street and a whole sea of
Palestinian flags, megaphones and mania on the other side. I am a
Christian, and was warmly welcomed by my new Jewish friends, and coldly
received by the lone "anti Israel" protester on our side of Dale Mabry
highway.
This guy really wanted to argue with me, which I refused to do, and I
finally shut him up when I asked him if he had been out protesting the
death of thousands of Americans on 9/12 or was he dancing in the
streets? He muttered something about "you must pay, America must pay
and the Jews must pay" and ambled away.
Their side send several instigators to "our side" to try to intimidate
us. A few young men even came and swiped one of the Jewish flags right
out of the guys hands. He bravely went across the street to retrieve
it, God bless him, and finally a cop got it for him.
I guess standing on the street and holding a sign wasn't enough
"action" for these folks, so a whole "contingent" of young men and
women marched across the street towards us. Three teenage girls came
and stood right in front of me, to block my sign - I just stepped back
and held it higher. We were quickly surrounded by this mob of
protesters "for peace" - yelling and chanting at us, and telling us we
were "outnumbered" and to go home. That's when it occurred to me that
this is EXACTLY what Israel is like - surrounded by a mob of people so
hyped up on emotion and inaction and frustration, that they have to
find someone to blame, to target, to hate. This mob decided to hate us.
This mob, holding up signs that said "honk for peace", could not stand
the fact that 3 people stood across the street from them and disagreed
with them.
I heard one of the "leaders" attempt to calm this mob down and move
them back over to their side of the street to no avail - the young men,
and girls were determined to scare us away. They ignored the leader,
and even said
"This is American and it's a free country, I can stand wherever I want
to". Imagine that! One teenage girl ripped a protester sign out of his
hands, two others screamed in an older lady's face, all the while the
entire crowed of them swarming in and around us, chanting, pounding
their fist in the air and spewing hatred.
It wasn't until Tampa's finest (most in plain clothes) showed their
badges that the crowd began to make their way back across the street.
It wasn't until a SHOW OF FORCE other than their own leader, who tried
in vain to calm them, broke up this mob. I would venture to say that if
the police weren't there, we would have all been seriously beaten by
this gang of "honk if you love peace" protesters.
I don't know why I was compelled to go today, it was something that I
could not not do. Perhaps God wanted me to see what His children are
suffering with. To have so many hate you for simply being you, for
being faithful, and for standing for God.
I was told point blank, that I must "pay", that America must "pay" and
that the Jews must "pay" by one of these "honk if you love peace"
protesters. I am reminded, that I am always forgiven even when I didn't
do anything wrong.
San Francisco, Calif, Israeli Consulate: Atlas reader Jeremayakovka
TransAmerica building, SF's signature skyscraper, w/ Hamas flag held aloft in
front
The answer my friend is blowing in the shofar
Very few surprises at tonight's ANSWER-sponsored demonstration outside San Francisco's Israeli consulate. The public needs to know, however, real details about the event that the mainstream media (despite their several network trucks, light poles, and cameramen) may ignore.
The Numbers Game: Pro-Israel activists, no matter how principled and committed, were heavily outnumbered by pro-Pali activists by about 4 (or 5) to 1. The Pali-crowd owned one side of the street, while the side with Israelis was about evenly divided among partisans. The radical left-wing site Indybay claimed that thousands turned out for Palestine – that's bunk – there were hundreds, maybe 500, and maybe 100 for Israel.
The Logistics Game: Pro-Pali people had mounted speakers, bullhorns, professionally printed banners and signs (I ended up standing next to the guy who'd printed the signs – the ABC News affiliate filmed us talking to each other), flags (including a Pali flag with the al-Aqsa mosque printed on its white field) and even war drums. Pro-Israeli people had pre-printed signs, many big Israeli flags, and a shofar – all good, but the Palis had the bigger and more portentous act.
The Propaganda Game: The Palis employed all too common slander and very calculated sloganeering to manipulate their several cases. This is key: they were present not merely to protest the Israeli campaign in Gaza, but to present a public face for "FREE PALESTINE!", for "The Right of Return", to "Free The Jena 6" (which some signs described as a "Legal Lynching"). Important to note is the Palis' sense of inevitability: "VICTORY IS OURS!" This includes their case against the US as well as against Israel. One common sign urged to "Stop the US-Israeli Genocide."
Solidarity vs. Solitary: If non-Jews came out to show solidarity with the Jewish State, they didn't show their colors, but non-Palis visibly stepped up to the plate for their pet cause. An average-looking American carried a Hamas flag on a tall pole (he has no direct ties with Hamas – I asked him); an Episcopalian contingent draped a large banner over the police barricade; so did ANSWER. The latter two were on the Pali-owned side, which suggests pre-event planning. An hour into the rally, an aggressive spokeswoman took the bullhorn for the Pali side: she was Asian-American looking and kicked off her remarks with a shrill "Brothers and sisters!" This is par for the course in San Francisco, but anyone who considers himself pro-Israel should note that, by appearances, not one non-Jewish individual or organization dared share sidewalk space with Jews. How existential.
Small world: At one point I found myself alongside Osha Neumann. Osha's a longtime Berkeley radical lawyer, a self-described artist, and a veteran of the 60s anarchist groupuscule, The Motherfuckers. He's also author of the recently-published Up Against the Wall, Motherf**ker, a memoir of going from liberal Jewish kid with a graduate degree from Yale to the more daring fringes of American radicalism. in the book he renounces nothing, but he does admit some of the more bizarre and dangerous elements of modern American radicalism (e.g., willingly submitting to totalitarian organizational structures, submitting oneself to "criticism" in order to become a better radical, etc.).
Most of the Israel activists were young, under 30 & teens.
We were ringed by police, but we were on State Department property in downtown
DC, not everyone there was protesting. I saw at least one panhandler fleecing
the crowd.
And it was several hundred people At five o’clock some of them prayed, but certainly a small
portion of them. I guess that’s as deep as most of them took those shouts of
“God is great” I heard. The most important thing is to listen to the rhetoric and lies
in the videos. Notice there are very few Palestinians, very few Arabs speaking.
The Arab Community, like IVAW, like every other group of “victims” are being
used by the anti-war community to work us all up into a lather. But you can see
that for yourself.
TACOMA WASHINGTON: Atlas reader Janey Barnhart
Just got home from standing as the lonely voice for Israel at the
demonstration in Tacoma WA. We are terribly civil here in the Pacific
NW, so it was me and my large Israeli flag in uneventful, solitary
solidarity with 25-ish 'anti-violence' folks. Just doin' my part as a
Christian to support Israel's right to defend itself against slaughter.
Thanks for letting us know about these events
DEARBORN, MICHIGAN: Rick reports:
Well, we had a pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist demonstration here in
Dearborn this afternoon. This happens every once in a while whenever
somebody other than Israel gets bombed.
It was quite well attended by Palestinian supporters (who in
Dearborn are chiefly Lebanese).
So I made my presence known on the other side of the street. Which
was not easy, since I was the only one over on that side.
I have to ask, where were my brothers and sisters who
believe in the peace that the gospel of Christ brings? Where were my
friends who support Israel's right to exist?
We cannot and must not be afraid to bring truth to the forefront.
We had a COUNTER at this one .
Stand With Israel did a great job!
UPDATE More reportage thoughts from San Francisco. Atlas reader Peter
Just wanted to add my take on the confronting of savages in S.F. If it was pandemonium elsewhere it was absolute anarchy and mob rule in S.F. The last such rally I attended the police managed to separate the two sides. Yesterday, they just swarmed over to our side, the inept police just standing idly by. Outraged, I asked several police why they are allowing it, and they replied that I'm obviously not a native San Franciscan, where everything goes and nothing can be.prevented. It was revolting to watch some of these barbarians intimidate some of the frail, elderly Pro-Israeli supporters. I almost got into a fight coming to the defense of one such lady. When I suggested rearranging the cowardly Pali's face, he made as though he was calling to the police. My wife eventually convinced me to leave as I was becoming more and more agitated and couldn't contain myself any longer. Being 6' 2" and 210, I'm no pushover, but suffering from chronic sciatica due to a back condition, I didn't want to chance being attacked by a wave of hyenas. Walking back to Market the main thoroughfare in S.F to catch a bus home, my wife noticed throngs of savages making there way up Market towards us. I noticed the presence of S.F Commandos and thought they were there to prevent the Pali's from disrupting the rush hour traffic.and otherwise causing mayhem throughout the city. Apparently they were there to contain any possible violence. I again approached several officers asking how they could permit this clearly illegal march to take place. They replied they were inept to do anything as the head dhimmi at City Hall, Gavin Newsome had given them free reign. Unbelievable...So basically an entire city was held hostage to a band of thugs, because the powers that be were intimidated into acquiescence. As it goes in S.F. so it goes the world over. Very scary shit, when even my habitually indifferent scientist-academic wife, finally admitted that my forebodings as to Stealth Jihad are in fact very real. Anyhow next time I'll be better prepared with my sign which would read, " Anti-Israel Jew Hating is none other than " The Swollen Envy of Pygmy Minds" ( Mark Twain). I think this curt saying says all that needs to be said.
Noticeable at these anti-Israel protests as compared with protests of earlier
years was the vocal presence of local Arabs from Israel, the many kefiyehs and
Palestinian flags, and the rowdiness of the young people and young adults.
Evidently they feel more confident now than in previous years, or have moved out
from under the council of prudence. Perhaps conditions are such that they are
moving into phase II or III of a plan. The honking of passers-by to show support
was much more frequent than in earlier years, and many of the drivers were
Muslim, but more weren’t.
Anti-Israel sentiment is growing in Albuquerque in main part because it is
growing throughout the world and the US, and has become socially acceptable. To
most of the public, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish are synonyms. The bigotry has
also been growing in part because the local “pro-Palestinian” groups have been
active for years, patiently and successfully working to produce this sentiment
in schools, the university, the media, local government and the public at large.
Indeed, some synagogues and Jewish leaders have promoted this movement.
[...]
At the evening protest, two passers-by joined me with my lone pro-Israel
sign, and we held up an Israeli flag and took the harrassment of the Arab young
people together, which made us stronger, even later, when there were only two
women. None of us knew each other, but the two supporters were both Messianic.
Coincidence? To us, Messianics seem strange, but many have courage and
conviction in this matter, that others lack.
Because I was the only Jew with a Pro-Israel sign at the anti-Israel
protests, I got my picture taken and got interviewed three times. I doubt my
statements were aired. My statements that Israel is right to attack Gaza, and if
the Arabs of Gaza are suffering, they brought it on themselves by electing and
supporting genocidal terrorist leaders, is socially unacceptable in polite
gentile society. Indeed, it is unacceptable in polite Jewish society, but it is
true.
At these protests I saw a stridency and rowdiness in the Arabs who showed up,
that was not apparent in earlier protests. I saw that the majority of passers-by
were either active supporters of their view, or non-committal. While we
pep-rallied privately in the the JCC, with security, the public was turned a
shade more against us, and we had no effective response.
UPDATE: ATLANTA, GEORGIA Orit reports:
Re: Atlanta Pro-Hamas Rally 12/30/08 (Israeli Consulate) Part 1
There were about 250 people.
Here are
some notes though:
Chants:
no justice, no peace long live
palestine US out of the middle east Free, free palestine 1-2-3-4 we
don't want this racist war, 5-6-7-8 israel is a terror state occupation is a
crime, israel out of palestine gaza is under attack. what are we going to do?
fight back! what do we want? Justice. When do we want it now? Now. allah
akbar US, israel you can't hide, we charge you with genocide not a penny,
not a dime, israel out of palestine Hitler, Olmert all the same, all they
have is different names they kill, they lie, but palestine will never
die free, free palestine, long live palestine
Signs:
gaza
solidarity stop Israeli terrorism sympathize with gaza t-hirt (in hebrew
and english) stop war on iran gaza you are not alone stop the massacre
in gaza stop US, israeli war crimes I am not a terrorist (held by little
girl) honk for gaza (MARTA -- Atlanta public bus honked) zionism equals
(sign) racism
The protest was arranged by the Atlanta International
Center. They had a permit from 4-5:30pm to demonstrate in front of the Israeli
consulate which is in midtown Atlanta. Car traffic was heavy the entire time,
and there was a constant flow of people into the demonstration. Women were
coming with their young children in strollers and older people wrapped in
kefiyahs came and set up chairs.
Representatives from CAIR were there as
well as the student movements of Students for Justice in Palestine at Georgia
Tech and Emory Advocates for Justice in Palestine. At 5:30pm they made an
announcement that they must leave the premises, so they marched into the street
-- walking in the opposite flow of traffic -- shutting down the street entirely
and establishing themselves about 1/4 mile away.
There were about 4
cops from the Atlanta police department ensuring people's safety: staying on the
sidewalks and crossing the street. About a block away there were about a dozen
police on motorcycles. The cops I talked to said they were there in case there
was a counter protest. As I found out afterwards, there were also undercover,
plain-clothes police officers around the entire time.
Local media were
there as well and there was at least one local channel (NBC affiliate) which
interviewed people for their 6pm broadcast.
I have no idea why there was
no counter protest planned. I only found out about it through the Muslim Student
Association at Georgia Tech the night before, so there's was no time to arrange
anything.
There was a big press conference earlier in the day with the
ambassador and the incident involving Cynthia McKinney. But, as far as I know,
no one commented on the pro-hamas rally specifically.
Videos der “Gaza-Soli-Demo” in
BerlinPosted 9 videos about 2000 Hamas activists in Berlin, December
29, 2008: "Israel Murderer of Women", "Israel Murderer of Children", "Zionists
Faschists", nobody, no policeman no politician said anything against ist. More
demos to come all around Germany, Hamburg p.e., on January 2, 2009.
Cold, freezing rain be damned. Indians in New York came out to rally in front of that collective negation of humanity at the UN, against the pox on humanity, the jihad. I STAND WITH INDIA!
What other people stand up against Jewish genocide? I cover these rallies -- no other, I tell ya.
Late in the afternoon Geert Wilders presented FITNA (watch the film here) for the
first time in Middle East. It was an historic moment. Most everyone in
attendance welled up and was moved, shaken........ afraid. But the very tall,
and very sure of himself Geert Wilders composed himself and with purpose set the
stage alight with his passion.
Wilders teared up at the end of the showing of FITNA ..... it crushed me. I did not write of it because I thought it an intensely personal moment. I have since seen written about in the papers, and Ithought you ought to know. This is an extraordinary warrior.
Speech Geert Wilders
Jerusalem
December 14, 2008
Thank you very much.
It's a privilege for me to be here in this beautiful city Jerusalem, the capitol of the only democracy in the entire Middle East. When I was a teenager I lived some years here in this city and after that I visited Israel more times than I can count. Israel: the only country in the region with a functioning parliament, a rule of law and free elections. The only country in the region that shares the values of our Western societies, in fact is one of the foundations of our Judeo-Christian identity.
We are here to voice our concern over the growing Islamisation of the West. We do this in this city, the city of David. The city that, together with Rome and Athens, symbolizes our ancient heritage.
Perhaps a few of you may be new to Jerusalem, yet, Jerusalem is not new to any of you. We all carry Jerusalem in our blood, in our genes. We all live and breathe Jerusalem. We talk Jerusalem, we dream Jerusalem. Simply because, the values of ancient Israel have become the values of the West. We are all Israel, and Israel is in all of us.
This city is the capital of a democracy under threat. Israel is under siege, like the Jewish community in the Land of Israel is under siege for over a century now. Israel with all its glory and splendour is unique, and its history unparalleled. Yet, Israel’s security situation is not unique, and neither is its enemy.
Samuel Huntington writes it so aptly: “Islam has bloody borders”. Israel is located precisely on that border. This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, just like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia. Israel is simply in the way of the Islamic advance. Just like West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel, Islamic imperialism would have found other places to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Therefore, the war against Israel is not a war against Israel. It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Thanks to Israeli parents who see their children go off to join the army and lie awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and have pleasant dreams, unaware of the dangers looming.
At present the front-line of jihad runs not just through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, but through the streets of London, Madrid, and Amsterdam as well. Jihad is our common enemy, and we better start Facing Jihad before it is too late.
Therefore, if we voice our concern over the Islamisation of the West, we have to do it here, where our civilization borders on Islam. Where jihadists fire Qassams into civilian homes in Sderot and Ashkelon, and where a doctor like Aryeh Eldad is characteristic of our civilization by treating terrorists the same way as he treats the Israeli victims. I salute Professor Eldad for his work for humanity, and for his patriotism. And I thank him for hosting this conference in this great city. Aryeh I am proud to be your friend. I will say a few things about the Islamisation of Europe and my film Fitna. I will use some examples from the Netherlands, because they are indicative for the situation on the continent.
The mass migration to the Netherlands continues full-speed ahead. Currently, a staggering number of new immigrants arrive every year, many of them Muslim, often uneducated, if not illiterate. Bringing along with them the local customs of the mountains and deserts of backward Islamic countries. Thousands and thousands of Muslims arrive in the Netherlands every year, while already one million Muslims are living in our tiny country.
There are many problems concerning this massive influx: immigrants are overly represented in social benefits and crime statistics and the overall costs are staggering. The financial costs of mass immigration in the Netherlands exceeds 100 billion euro’s.
But what we have to fear most is the creeping Islamisation, the stealth jihad. Because every Islamic neighbourhood, every Islamic shop, every mosque, every Islamic school, every burqa, every veil is regarded by many Muslims as building blocks towards a larger goal, towards domination.
This is in fact the essence of the problem. Not crime, not even the financial burden. The biggest problem is the demographic development, and the way it influences our society at large. Immigration from Muslim countries and the demographics will result in the Eurabia that the brave Bat Ye'or is warning about. It will become reality if we don't act now. A decade and a half ago, a then unknown American politician used the following slogan in his political campaign: “it’s the economy, stupid.” From now on the motto of my party will be: “it’s demographics, dumbo”.
More than forty years ago a British politician gave a famous speech. He stated that, looking into the future, he saw ‘rivers of blood’ as a result of the uncontrolled influx of immigrants. Enoch Powell’s speech was the starting point of a debate on mass immigration in Europe. As usual, the leftist establishment labeled him an extremist and his career went down. But the British people loved him, and supported Powell. London’s dock workers took him to their hearts, marching by the thousands in support of Mr. Powell.
Looking back, I share Enoch Powell’s alarmist views on mass immigration, but ‘rivers of blood’ is not something I see happening. We will not face civil war. Our political elite is trying to make us believe that the influx of Muslim immigrants is similar to the waves of immigration that took place centuries ago. Or they say that “Christianity developed towards modernity, and therefore Islam will do the same”.
How are we to remain a democracy if a large part of the growing Muslim population is in favour of introducing sharia law? How is Amsterdam to remain the gay capitol of Europe if gays are regularly beaten up by non western immigrants, often Muslims? How are the Jewish communities of Europe to survive with a growing presence of an ideology that is so blatantly anti-Semitic? How are we to remain a centre of cultural and scientific excellence if Islam opposes art, and academic exploration? How are we to remain an open and tolerant society if we are faced with part of the Muslim community favouring self-segregation and showing no desire for assimilation? How can we look to the future with confidence, when a large part of the population turns to a seventh century desert for answers?
These are the questions the multiculturalists don’t want to answer.
Instead of providing leadership our political elite fooled us by using our own principles against us. I will give you five examples.
First. Our tolerance is used as an argument to bring in more Islam, to bring in more Muslims, and a way to tell us that we should not criticize their Islamic culture, if you do you are labeled intolerant and racist.
Second. Democracy. A growing Muslim electorate is too hard for politicians to resist, so they give in to their grievances and demands to win their vote. Before long sharia law will be introduced, legally and democratically, by means of majority vote. The former Dutch Minister of Justice once said that sharia law could be part of the Dutch legal system if a two third majority of the population would be in favour of it.
Third. Our religious freedom is utilized by an ideology that has no plans whatsoever to play by our rules, yet demands the same rights our traditional religions have had for centuries;
Fourth. Our welfare state that once was the envy of the world, now functions as a magnet for a lot of non-Western immigrants, dreaming of a cushy life in wealthy Europe.
Fifth. Our open borders came to symbolize our open mindset, an example of our cosmopolitan hospitality. But now we have lost control of our borders and we can’t even keep track of who is entering our countries, let alone prevent them from entering.
Our Western principles are hollow if they are not accompanied by a desire to sustain our culture and our civilization, based upon knowing who we are and where we come from. We are not from Saudi-Arabia. We are not from Iran. We come from Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. That makes our civilization special, and certainly worth preserving.
In spite of all that, the political elite are still madly in love with their pet project, the multicultural society, as they call it romantically. Apparently they don’t live in the neighbourhoods that are turning Islamic. They will tell you “they are nice people. I don’t see the problem?” The Muslim immigrant’s demands sound reasonably to them, like: “let us have an extra-large mosque”.
It is very difficult to remain optimistic in the face of the growing Islamisation of Europe. The tide is turning against us. We are losing on every front. Regarding the demographics, Islam is gaining momentum. The ruling elite is even proud of the Muslim immigration. After all, this way they can show everyone that they are not racists. Academia, the arts, the media, trade unions, the churches, the business world, the entire political establishment have all converted to the suicidal theory of multiculturalism and cultural relativism.
Cultural relativism is the biggest disease modern day Europe suffers from. Not all cultures are equal. Our Western culture is better than the Islamic culture. In the words of the brave Dr. Wafa Sultan: “It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality”. Indeed also here in Israel you are not fighting a territorial war, it's not about territory it's about ideology. The Islamic ideology does not seek cooperation or assimilation but aims for submission and dominance over non-Muslims. There is no moderate Islam, there will never be a moderate Islam. There might be moderate people who call themselves Muslim, but there is no moderate Islam.
Leftist journalists and leftist politicians hasten themselves to label anyone critical of the Islamisation a ‘right-wing extremist’. The entire establishment has sided with Islam. Leftists, liberals, and Christian-Democrats are now enslaved to Islam. They are Dhimmi’s. Lenin once labelled ignorant people that unknowingly aided his cause ‘useful idiots’. Well, the West is now full of these ‘useful idiots’, and they are even proud of it.
Now some words about my film Fitna.
I felt I had the moral duty to educate people about Islam and the Islamisation of Europe. The duty to make clear to everyone that the Koran stands at the heart of what some people call terrorism but is in reality jihad. I wanted to show that the problems of Islam are at the core of Islam, and do not belong to its fringes.
I have warned against the dangers of the Koran and Islam in numerous interviews, opinion articles, speeches and of course parliamentary debates, but pictures often say more than words. That is why I made Fitna.
Fitna is a documentary that shows what is being done in the name of Islam. Without placing all Muslims into the same category, I think I have succeeded in showing that the Koran is not some dusty old book, but that it is still used today as a source of inspiration for, and justification of hatred, violence and terrorism across the world.
A few weeks ago the world has once again seen what Islam is capable of. In Mumbai, jihadists separated Muslims from non-Muslims, according to a witness in a Belgian newspaper. The non-Muslims, the Kaffirs, were subsequently shot. The terrorists also went straight for the tiny Jewish centre in Mumbai, where, according to reports made to an Indian news website, they horribly tortured Jewish people before brutally murdering them.
Most of the Western media stick to naming the culprits as being members of ‘separatist movements’. In doing so, they are missing the main point and are unjustly ignoring the Islamic nature of the terror attacks. After all, if it is a conflict about borders, why are they killing Jews in Mumbai? Why, in a city of tens of millions, find the jihadists the shortest way to the only rabbi in town – in order to kill him and his wife? Why are Israel’s enemies always shouting “Allah hoe-Akbar” and “kill the Jews” if all they want is peaceful coexistence and mutual understanding? Maybe, I’m just guessing, is it because they have an ideology that tells them to kill Jews, to kill unbelievers, and to advance Islam until there is world domination. Islam, after all divides the world in a dar-al-Harb, and dar-al-Islam. Islam is a totalitarian ideology full of hate, violence and submission.
From the day the plan for my short film was made public it caused quite a stir, in the Netherlands, in Europe and across the world. First there was a political uproar, with government leaders across the continent in sheer panic. The Dutch Minister for Foreign Affairs called on me to abandon my film project. The Minister of Justice let it be known that post hoc criminal proceedings could be initiated if the movie was shown. The Dutch government investigated the possibility of having Fitna banned in advance. The Dutch branch of the Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir declared that the Netherlands was due for an attack. Internationally there was a series of incidents. The Taliban threatened to organize additional attacks against Dutch troops in Afghanistan and a website linked to Al Qaeda published the message that I ought to be killed, while the Grand Mufti of Syria stated that I would be responsible for all the bloodshed after the screening of the film.
In Afghanistan and Pakistan the Dutch flag was burned on several occasions. Dolls representing me were burned as well. The Indonesian President announced that I will never be admitted into Indonesia again, while the UN Secretary General and the European Union issued statements in the same cowardly vein as those by the Dutch government. I could go on and on. It was an absolute disgrace, a sell out. It was treason to our Western principles, it was treason to freedom of speech, it was treason to liberty itself. My own government was not defending me, but became my worst enemy in the process.
Because of Fitna the State of Jordan is currently litigating against me. Jordan wants to prosecute me for blasphemy, demeaning Islam and slandering the Prophet Muhammad; violations of the Jordanian Penal Code, even though the alleged violations did not even occur in Jordan. As you all know, Jordan is a non-democratic country, without an independent or impartial judicial system and without a strongly developed civil society. According to a recent study by Human Rights Watch, torture is a routine and widespread practice in Jordan.
Jordan’s attempt to prosecute me is an infringement on the sovereignty of my country, the Netherlands. It is an infringement on freedom of speech. Jordan’s attempt is in fact a hostile act towards freedom itself.
If Jordan succeeds in prosecuting a democratically elected member of a Western parliament, what kind of precedent would that set? But its not about me. The principle is not Geert Wilders. If you look at the press and the rest of the political elite in the Netherlands, nobody cared. Nobody gived a damn. This was the worst thing. A nondemocratic country like Jordan cannot use the international or domestic legal system to silence anyone. If this starts, if we allow this, we can get rid of all parliaments, and we should close down every newspaper, and we should shut up and all pray to Mecca five times a day.
But there is some hope. For instance there is some hope with the middle class workers. Underneath the empty bravado of the elite, the middle class worker, the average Joe, is starting to realise that there is something terribly wrong with Islam. In the Netherlands, sixty percent of the population considers mass immigration to be the worst mistake since the second world war. And an equal sixty percent sees Islam as the number one threat to our national identity. But the Freedom Party is the only political party in the Dutch parliament that shares their view.
And there is hope that political parties critical about the Islamisation of the West are gaining momentum all over Europe, are getting stronger. And we will work together with common legislation, with common initiatives, perhaps even with a common group in the European parliament as defenders of the West, defenders of our culture, defenders of our identity, defenders of our freedom.
We need a new way of thinking, a new paradigm, to defend our liberties. Just reiterating our devotion to tolerance and democracy is not good enough, as we are Facing Jihad. We need a new set of goals and ideas. We need new leaders. And we should always remember where we come from. We all come from Jerusalem.
Let me wind up. The essence of my short speech today is that Europe is in the process of Islamisation, and that we need to fight it. Because if we don’t fight the Islamization we will lose everything; our cultural identity, our democracy, our rule of law, our liberties, our freedom. We have the duty to defend the ideas of Rome, Athens and Jerusalem. The ancient heritage of our forefathers is under attack; we have to stand up and defend it.
A century and a half ago, on the other side of the world, a young President said exactly what I mean. This is what Abraham Lincoln said in 1862, and I leave you with that: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country. (Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
It is five to twelve. Freedom must win, we have to win and we will win.
An international conference on jihad that took place in
Jerusalem on Sunday highlighted what hawkish scholars on Islam described as
"real disputes" about the nature of the problem. The event also inspired the
controversial Dutch legislator Geert Wilders to plan a European follow-up in the
coming months.
"It's time for such an event in the Netherlands," the
far-right Wilders said on the terrace of Jerusalem's Begin Center, where the
event was held. "But the cost of security would be much higher in Holland than
in Israel."
Wilders - the only one of the six speakers to receive a
standing ovation from the 600 people in the audience - told his listeners that
"as the terrorist attacks in Mumbai proved, there's no moderate Islam," and it
is time for the West to realize it is "in a conflict with the Muslim faith at
large." He sided with scholars like Haifa University's David Bukay, who averred
that "moderate Islam" does not exist and that the Koran could not be reformed or
modernized.
But
American scholar and activist Daniel Pipes disagreed. Quoting Egyptian
philosopher Hassan Hanafi, Pipes said the Koran "is like a supermarket where one
takes what one wants and leaves the rest." This freedom of selection, he argued,
provides a means for reshaping Islam.
UPDATE: will continue to update this post with video, robservations and some dish
It's a spectacular day on Jerusalem, we walked over to the Begin center .... give me some time to load the video and gather my thoughts . I am back in the big apple and have my tools.
I am sitting between Wilders and Spencer. Happiness! I am twittermaster (I guess I better get twittersavvy - I am posting there live ). Even non-Twitter users can see the feed here.
Robert Spencer is master of ceremonies and he is masterful. No dillydallying,
the program kicks right away.
Spencer introduced Dr. Eldad
Dr. Eldad begins by saying (watch the vid) that there are moderate Muslims but Islam kills. We lie to ourselves because a territorial conflict is one you can solve. This is not a territorial conflict. Islamic totalitarian statism is in conflict with the nations of the West. statism is in conflict with the nations of the West. Western nations blame themselves for the rise of this threat, and this self-blame arises from three sources: pragmatism, multiculturalism and altruism.
Photo Boaz
After Robert's introduction, Dr Eldad, doctor and candidate for MK .............. cut right to the chase. "Is there a moderate Islam" Do we have an obligation to encourage moderate Muslims in the hope that they take over? There are moderate Muslims but Islam kills. We lie to ourselves, because a territorial conflict is something you can solve,
but the jihad against Israel is a religious conflict.
John
Lewis: Islamic totalitarian statism is in conflict with the nations of the
West. Western nations blame themselves for the rise of this threat, and
this self-blame arises from three sources: pragmatism, multiculturalism and
altruism.
There are many versions of cognitive evasion."STATE ISLAM MUST GO" not all Muslims but those supporting the imposition of
Islamic law.
Islamization consumes all aspects of cultural life: Islamization is a
cancer that grows from the inside out. Islamization is not a legitimate
constitutional exercise of freedom Islamisation is an an attempt to leverage
the freedoms available only in the nations of the enlightenment in order to
destroy them
The threat is overt and violent and covert and internal. This is not a demand for change in beliefs but in the right to impose them. This
threat cannot be contained unless the schools stop teaching jihad.
The defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism ..... John Lewis cites crushing the
religious hold on the Japanese:
On December 7, 1941, we were attacked by Japan, a country then governed
by a militaristic, religious ideology, in pursuit of a divine empire,
with indoctrinated soldiers who soon used suicide tactics. We chose the
ruthless, offensive response. Three years and eight months later, the
Japanese surrendered, their country in ruins, their people starving.
Five years after the attacks, Japan had a constitution that included
the following (from its famous Article 9): “[T]he Japanese people
forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation. . . . The
right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.”
An interesting point, But remember, we dropped two atomic bombs.
SNAPS! Itamar Marcus (below)of Palestinian Media Watch. Marcus monitors the news and broadcast channels of Palestinian media. The crossword puzzles have hate messages. The soccer teams are named after terrorists that have killed Jews in terror attacks. "We ruled the world before, we'll rule the world again." The message to the children is you are part of this destiny.The conflict is defined not my Israel but by a religious mandate.
Once you understand that dying for Allah is glorious, then there can be no
deterrence. . Islam must be crushed if there is any hope of reform.
84% of Palestinian youth support the jihad against the Jews.
The world has accepted the Palestinians' self-definition of themselves as
victims and reports on them as such. When they fire thousands of missiles into
Sderot, the media ignores or reports it as a response to ongoing hostility from
the Israelis.
Spencer Eldad
Dr. David Bukay (one of the best speakers) teaches in the Political Science Dept at the University of Haifa.Among his fields of expertise are the Arab- Israel conflict, inter Arab relations and the Palestinian questions. He spoke of Dawah as the real secret enemy.. Dawah is the cultural enemy.
To deceive, cheat, mislead us by misinformation.
Ibn Sa'd said it is permissible to deceive the enemy.
Allah deceives infidels and so it's allowed or commander for believers to do so
(Koran 4:142, 8:30, 85:15-16).
Bukhari: When one makes up false statements, though untrue, to spread Islam, one
does not lie.
Ibn Said said it is permissable to deceive the enemey
They can swear allegiance to the United States of America or the Knesset but
maintain their primary allegiance to Islam.
Bukhari: Muslims are not bound by oaths to infidels.
Today they use this as a diplomatic strategy. Here are their biggest lies
Islam is a religion of peace
Jihad is a spirited struggle
Islam and Democracy are compatible
Terrorists are a minority that hijacked islam
Moderate voices are all silent. They don't act against savage inhuman
behavior.
Povery leads to terrorism
Poverty leads to terrorism> Moslem terrorists are highly educated and rich.
Durban2: The catastrophe that Arabs and Muslims prepare for the rest of the world, "Islamophobia"
Eldad getting iviewed
Atlas and Jihadman -- lunch break in amongst the gorgeous old ruins -- kept meticulously
Simon Deng ....we talked of helping the refugees who have escaped the Islamic jihad in Sudan and into Israel. They need our help
Eldad, Sharan and Spencer. Shlomo Sharan took the stage to discuss the failure
of education..Sharan is Professor Emeritus in Educational and Organizational Pyschology at
TelAviv Univ's school of education. He has authored many books, research
studies, and articles.
Wilders and Eldad
Pipes prefaced his remarks with a careful disclaimer - a sort of cover your ass preface. He wouldn't want to part with the whole Moderate thing. It's his one steadfast premise, despite whatever facts (or bodies) to the
contrary
He has three interpretations of who is the enemy,
terrorism
Islam
radical Islam
Pipes: We agree on an enemy, we disagree on the solution. n1948-1993 Israel pursued victory
1993--------->appeasement. Palestinians are feeling strong and
optimistic. The conventional view
Pipes spoke of crushing the will of the Palestinians.
When the Jews of Hebron need no more security than the Arabs of Nazareth.
Palestinians can't thrive --They can't do that so long as they are focused on the destruction of Israel
outside my window
The room was full. So many Atlas readers readers were there. It was wonderful. Yisroel from My Right Word (who took some great pics), Augusto from Brazil, Kevin, Ann, Shy Guy (who left this spot on comment):
Francis, you should know that the subject you mention was NOT explicitely covered at the conference. Geert Wilders came closest to calling for an outright ban on Islam and he received tremendous applause from the crowd. The only speaker to specifically state apologetically that he believes the problem is "Islamo-fascism" versus Islam itself was Daniel Pipes. But anyone who reads Pipe's writing should have known this already. All the other speakers did not appear to agree with Pipes, although Professor Lewis mistakenly sounded somewhat like Pipes. However, I spoke to Lewis for about 20 minutes after the conference and he clarified his staunch view against Islam. I think he will clarify his opinion in future speeches.
Atlas highlight: When Wilders was fielding questions from the press, one reporter asked why women were not involved. Geert responded (paraphrasing)
Yes, the world famous blogger Pamela Geller is here covering this event for her wonderful blog Atlas Shrugs. Everyone should be reading it.
Among the speakers are Arieh Eldad MK - Knesset, Robert Spencer,
Dr. Itamar Marcus - Director of Palestinian Media Watch, Robert
Spencer, Daniel Pipes...... and the first Middle East screening of Fitna presented by Geert Wilders, MP, The Netherlands.
J'lem Post: MK Arye
Eldad, who is currently with the National Union-National Religious
Party but has founded the new Hatikva Party, says he is planning to introduce a
package of emergency "anti-Islamization legislation" in the next Knesset to
"confront the enemy within and without."
Among the speakers are Arieh Eldad MK - Knesset, Robert Spencer, Dr. Itamar Marcus - Director of Palestinian Media Watch, Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes...... and the first Middle East screening of Fitna presented by Geert Wilders, MP, The Netherlands.
J'lem Post: MK Arye
Eldad, who is currently with the National Union-National Religious
Party but has founded the new Hatikva Party, says he is planning to introduce a
package of emergency "anti-Islamization legislation" in the next Knesset to
"confront the enemy within and without."
The legislation would make military or civil service obligatory for both Arab
and Jewish citizens, require all citizens to declare their loyalty to Israel "as
a Jewish democratic state" as a condition for voting in national elections and
ensure punishments are meted out for illegal construction, which is rife in the
Arab sector.
"I am trying to preserve the state of Israel as a Jewish state," Eldad told
The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. "I'm trying to struggle against both a
post-Zionist trend and the trend of 'Islamization' of some citizens of Israel,
who are saying we no longer need a Jewish state and that this should be a
binational state of Jews and Muslims."
UPDATE: Another monumental endorses Obama - Tariq Ramadan. (see below)
UPDATE: MORE VIDEO! Click on the link on the bottom of this post! DON'T want to slow the load of the page!
UPDATE: THIS IS THE TOP POST AS I BLOG FROM THE ROAD. I am uploading more video as we speak :)
Beverly flew in from Chicago for the reverse schlep!
Great Americans on the schlep!
Nidra Poller chatting up the crowd
These folks ........ Russian Jews, flew in from New York for the schlep. They lived under Obama's proposed socialist poltical system and they want to do anything they can to keep America free.
There were a number of folks there who fled socialist countries -- and they were desperate to help get the message out.
UPDATE: 10/14/08 In a conversation yesterday with Lars Hedegaard of the Free Press Society in
Denmark, he made a very sagacious point. When Muslims lie down on Madison Avenue, it is not an act of prayer, it is an act of territorial control.
Notice how they line up - a line of soldiers, like a file. Rank and file. It's like an Army lined up for battle. That's what it is.
When they "paraded" down Madison Avenue, they are alternate yelling Allahu Akbar (Allah is great!) and Takbir! (expansion!)
UPDATE 4:01 am: An important middle of night observation, the rules are changing.
First, the difference between the fighters for free world over in Europe who get attacked, harassed, berated and in some cases physically beaten and us (in America) is law enforcement. The police in the US do their job. Magnificently. What was striking today was, for the first time since I began
covering these demonstrations (three years and counting), an agitator was allowed behind our barrier and permitted to harass the patriots (as seen in the video). Later on, when a Muslim was filming on our side of the barrier in our designated area, screaming allahu akbar, I asked the cop why he was permitted to agitate where we had secured the space with a permit, she replied, "he's allowed on the sidewalk".
Also, it's noteworthy the policemen in uniform dropped to their knees and prayed on Madison Avenue while on duty (see pics). They removed their hats and shoes to pray. Now look, on their own time they can do what they want. But that is unacceptable. I am sure that shiz would not fly if it were a Christian, Jew, Jehovah, wiccan, pagan ...... bottom line seperation of church and state.
It is disturbing to think that the thin blue line is being erased and we only need to look across the pond to see the dark future.
I have been covering these things for three years now and as I have recently said, there has been a palpable change. It is getting uglier, more aggressive - violent even .Today was no different. The parade was much smaller this year and there were a couple of American flags, most unusual. This is calculated. They do not want to hurt their candidate, Obama, in any way.
At first, I couldn't find the parade - went to Madison and there was nothing there but I heard a lot of parade noise on 5th Avenue so I walked down and there was this jubilant celebration. Shiny happy people in a sea of America flags - dancing and I'm like, this can't be it - and it wasn't. It was the Hispanic Day Parade. What a difference. A sea of colors and smiles - not the parade I was looking for.
I made my way back to Madison and found what I was looking for. I have a lot of coverage so you will have to click on the link on the bottom of this post. I do not want to slow down the load of this page any more than I have to. The video must be watch. There is a very nasty incident recorded when the Muslims came over to our side (behind our barrier despite our permit) and began to proselytize - it got ugly. Watch it
This from the Jewess being verbally assaulted:
The goon you'll see in the video attacking me was on the other end of a rather simple question from me. Why was I given the apes and pigs rap. He gave me a vague answer. That led to another simple question from me. Does Israel have a right to exist? He started in on a history lesson. Was I familiar with Balfour, Rothschild. His eyes were dripping blood. Rothschild, he told me, was a Zionist not a Jew. I'm both, I told him. Zionist, Jewish and proud as hell. Then Atlas, a hero of mine, showed up with the camera and she takes it from there. She always has my back. As I was being led away by the police the goon on the left told me he will rape me 50 times so I remain nameless. Proud, Jewish and nameless.
I covered it last year (2007demonstration here).-- this was much smaller. Deliberately so. Click link below for full coverage
Lars Hedegaard, President of the Free Press Society in Denmark, said in my interview with him last month here and here said:
"You can talk and you can talk and you can preach
but people, in the final analysis, people have to feel it on their
bodies and in their daily lives
I doubt that America will wake up for what they are in for in until they're in for it.
When I walk around in New York and I was recently in
Washington, I see the signs. The best indication of the level of
Islamisation in the country will always be the number of veiled women
in the streets. Once you see veiled women in the streets, you know
what's going to happen".
I attended a lunch to benefit lone warrior against libel tourism, Rachel Ehrenfeld. James Woolsey helped host this benefit to assist the beleaguered Rachel Ehrenfeld. The lack of substantial support reflects poorly on us. The Saudi use of litigation warfare is a lethal weapon. What is really at stake is our very freedom of speech. This is economic warfare against the West.
WE MUST HELP GET THIS LEGISLATION PASSED! It's importance cannot be stressed enough. It is extraordinary as it's use is "dual cause". First it is specific to the great evil of funding Islamic terrorism and secondly it allows authors to freely write their books without worrying if some foreigner with a bottomless bank account will sue them in a foreign court.
STATUS OF RACHEL'S LAW BEFORE CONGRESS: Senators Specter and Schumer have filed the Free
Speech Protection Act, with minor changes, as an amendment for consideration to
be included in the Senate Defense Authorization bill (S. 3001).
FROM ACT FOR AMERCIA:
The
decision to allow amendments like this to be voted on for inclusion in the bill
is made by the "managers" of the bill (Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman
Carl Levin and for the GOP John Warner in Senator John McCain's absence).
Senator Levin has to agree to allow a vote on our amendment. Levin, Warner and
other Senate leaders are negotiating over which amendments (if any) will be
allowed for consideration, and so far, only amendments directly related to the
defense bill have been considered and voted on.
It is therefore
URGENT that Senators Levin, Warner, and other members of the Senate Armed
Services Committee hear from the grassroots right away. We need you to contact
these members and urge them to include the Free Speech Protection Act as an
amendment to the Senate Defense Authorization bill, S.3001. Tell them protecting
American authors who write about terrorism is crucial to our national security
and the war on terrorism.
Following is a link to a listing of the
members of this committee.
* Please email, fax or phone Senators Levin
and Warner and respectfully ask them to include this vital legislation as an
amendment.
* If any of these Senators is YOUR Senator, it is especially
important for you to make contact with them as soon as possible, preferably by
phone.
Getting this legislation passed will help ensure that American authors
who have the courage to write about terrorism will not be subject to
intimidation lawsuits filed in foreign jurisdictions. Protecting our precious
free speech rights is a crucial front in the war on terrorism.
Great oped piece today in, of all places, The New York Times
When Rachel Ehrenfeld wrote “Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed and How to Stop It,” she assumed she would be protected by the First Amendment. She was, in the United States. But a wealthy Saudi businessman she accused in the book of being a funder of terrorism, Khalid bin Mahfouz, sued in Britain, where the libel laws are heavily weighted against journalists, and won a sizable amount of money.
The lawsuit is a case of what legal experts are calling “libel tourism.” Ms. Ehrenfeld is an American, and “Funding Evil” was never published in Britain. But at least 23 copies of
the book were sold online, opening the door for the lawsuit. When Ms. Ehrenfeld decided not to defend the suit in Britain, Mr. bin Mahfouz won a default judgment and is now free to sue to collect in the United States.
The upshot is a First Amendment loophole. In the Internet age, almost every American book can be bought in Britain. That means American authors are subject to being sued under British libel law, which in some cases puts the initial burden on the defendant to prove the truth of what she has written. British libel law is so tilted against writers that the United Nations Human Rights Committee criticized it last month for discouraging discussion of important matters of public interest.
Mr. bin Mahfouz, who has denied financing terrorism, said Ms. Ehrenfeld’s book contained inaccuracies and demanded a retraction. He also demanded a significant contribution to a charity of his choice — a charity Ms. Ehrenfeld said she feared would be one with ties to terrorism. Ms. Ehrenfeld, who describes herself as being “in the business of stopping people who fund terrorism,” refused to back down. “I said,” she later recalled, “he’s found the wrong victim.”
Ms. Ehrenfeld rallied prominent champions of free speech to her cause, including the American Library Association, the Association of American Publishers and the PEN American Center. She also set to work trying to change American law. The New York State Legislature passed a bill that some are calling “Rachel’s law,” which blocks enforcement of libel judgments from countries that provide less free-speech protection than the United States. Gov. David Paterson signed it on May 1.
A similar, bipartisan bill has been introduced in Congress. The federal bill would extend protection to the entire country. It would also allow American authors and publishers to countersue, and if a jury found that the foreign suit was an attempt to suppress protected speech, it could award treble damages. There is little opposition to it — and Congress should pass it before it adjourns later this month.
“Libel tourism” is a threat to America’s robust free-speech traditions, which protect authors here. If foreign libel judgments can be enforced in American courts, there will be a “race to the bottom”; writers will only have as much protection as the least pro-free-speech nations allow.
Most writers, particularly those who concern themselves with arcane subjects like terrorism financing, are not wealthy. The prospect of a deep-pocketed plaintiff coming after them in court can be frightening. Even if the lawsuit fails, the cost and effort involved in defending against it can be considerable.
The result is what lawyers call a “chilling effect” — authors and publishers may avoid taking on some subjects, or challenging powerful interests. That has already been happening in Britain. Craig Unger’s “House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties” was a best seller in the United States. But its British publisher canceled plans to publish the book, reportedly out of fear of being sued. (A smaller publisher later released it.)
Ms. Ehrenfeld says that even in the United States, writers and publishers have been backing away from books about terrorism financing — particularly about the Saudi connection — out of fear of being sued. It is hard to know if other books are not being written out of fear of lawsuits — that is the essence of the chilling effect.
Britain should rethink its libel laws, as the U.N. committee urged, for the sake of its citizens. But until it does, the United States should ensure that other countries’ pro-plaintiff libel laws do not infect this country and diminish our proud tradition of freedom of expression
Gorgeous day New York City and it's even more gorgeous at the Women's Republican Club. I am LivebloggingAnnual Black Republican Forum. Where's McCain?
David Webb is happy to be in a room with "Africa American conservatives and everyone else" introducing conservative man of the year Right Talk radio host and WND columnist Mychal Massie (moderator for the afternoon)
"We don’t need a black man to be
president so badly that it forces
us to take leave of our senses.
We need a man (or woman)
president who is pro-America,
pro her citizens, is committe
to our Constitution, and
pro traditional values."
Yeah baby
Princella Smith is recounting the true history of Civil Rights. And its
been the Republicans that have the history on fighting slavery, racism
and civils rights? Whyis that Black America stands with the party of
Jim Crow laws and the Klu Klux Klan, that fought civil rights?
"All those racist Democrats stayed racist Democrats until the day they died"
The Democrats keep the black community in abject poverty to maintain power of them.
The Democrats hijacked the Republicans civil rights movement upon JFK's death (the Republicans would not exploit his death)
"The Democrats are the party of poverty, the Republicans in the party of prosperity"
AN ATLAS FIRST: GUEST BLOGGER ON MY MACHINE. Now that's hot.
GUEST LIVEBLOG -Hip Hop Republican is taking over and writing the following update:
Atlas and Frances Rice Hip Hop Republican takes over Atlas's machine
Thanks Pamela for allowing me on to take over..the person who is up speaking is Rep. Jennifer Carroll she is speaking on the bias in media. She started her talk with a question is the media biased? She answered the question with a question "does the veins need blood". Rep. Jennifer Carroll is speaking about the slaughter of black children by black children and the failure of the media to highlight this. She just spoke about the media's influence on black youth and the terrible consequence that occur when they are parroted. The message she is leaving with the audience is that Republican's do not want to harm the black community but to heal it.
The next speaker is David Webb he is a radio show host who is speaking about the need for all us us to look at character over race and to focus on the issues.
There is now a panel starting to answer questions from the panelist and Bob Parks is being asked by a women in the audience about the success of his campaign in Massachusetts's. Bob is giving a brief history and demographic of the issues of the district.
We are all being asked now to take a break.....
Okay break over..I am sitting here with fish crackers and sprite and am listening to Niger Innis from CORE a Manhattan based advocacy group. Niger is speaking on immigration policy he is talking about the differences in various nations regarding this policy. He is talking about the historical diversity of our nation and how effective policy can shape its role in the future.
Now for the number one speaker Colonel Allen West. He just saluted
three army service members in the audience. He is now talking about the
historical significance of building up a nations border from ancient
Rome till today. He is talking about the dangers of sanctuary cities
that effect mostly black and poor communities. Allen West is
highlighting how many of the gangs like MS13 have created turf wars and
a potential nightmare. He is tying in health cost and economic security
with the ability of our nations failure to crack down in illegal
immigration...okay he is done
Now the panel is applauding the young solders who are in the audience ironically all Hispanic.
Pamela here: Deborah Honeycutt is up. WOW. This brilliant brash, doctor is a proud Republican and she will be the first African American females Republican congressperson. I am listening to her and she is inspiring. Apparently, my first impression is spot on because Hip Hop just gave me an article and it appears Honeycutt is strategically poised to become the the Republican Party what Oybambi is for the Democrats - an historic political star.
She is running in the 13th District in Gerogia and she is electric.
Pamela here:I asked the panel how they were going to copmbat the media blackout on their message. "if the Republican message is the bastard, the Black republican message is the aborted child (ta liberal pun). What are you going to do to circumvent the MSM and get the message out."
Deborah Honeycutt responded: "We have to go to every meeting, every group discussion. We must shout from the housetops. We cannot be silent. We mest get out there. We must use the net"
Speaking of which, I am going to go see if I grab Honeycutt and see if I can get a VLOG. I just finished a interview with Kerry's opponent Jeff Beatty. Check it out on youtube now!
Break time: Loading video of Deborah Honeycutt. What a woman! This is a great event. McCain stumbled big time by not being here. This is his constituency. He would have brought the press and the message of these great Americans would get out there. Foolish move.
UPDATE: HONEYCUTT AND ATLAS INTERVIEW. She rocks!
Bishop Yonel Yarboro (left) Leftie sighting! Ellis Henicon showed up for the carrots.
Next up: Keynote speaker Lynn Swann
Frances Rice, Lynn Swann, David Webb
Black Republican Chair Jennifer Carrol just endorsed McCain. CROWD GOING WILD!
Webb is speaking of tonight's theme. RACE AND THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE. Lynn Swann will be speaking on the subject.
Swann speaking.He's funny. "my mom and dad wanted two daughters. They wanted two daughters, and they had me. They named me Lynn anyway" :)
She enrolled him in dance classes anyway and after being surrounded by girls for a couple of years he said to himself, this is not a bad place to be. He was a Baptist and and went to an all girl's religious school.
Discussing Race in the Presidential Race.
Race is not an issue. The economy is an issue.
Foreign Policy, if you are elected to the office of the United States, is an issue.
Education is an issue. Race is not an race.
The Democrats and the candidate has made race an issue.
Martin Luther King said a man should be judged, not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character.
The race is about the economy. He is going on to describe the short and long term impact of the deleterious effects of what the Democrats have planned. He is saying that small business cannot take such a hit.
21 million small businesses will suffer enormously. They will be forced to lay off workers.
ENERGY: We have to drill. HUGE APPLAUSE.
I live in Pennsylvania, We like coal. We need a president who do what is necessary not a facade of hope.
Swann is congratulating what Obama acheived and it deserves respect.
You must ask these three questions of the candidates:
Who am I?
What do I believe?
How do I act on those beliefs?
Ask those questions and there is no other answer. That person is JOHN MCCAIN!
John McCain is the clear choice.
I do not have aclear undrstanding of what and who Obama is and what he stands for.
We need someone we can count on.
We don't need more entitlements.
I do not intend to be herded into a polling place and be told I have vote a certain way.
Thats racist.
McCain has been tested.
Recounting a story now of how he was questioned at a football game by a woman, "how can you be a Republican"
and he said, "because I choose to."
Why do you assume because I am black that I have to be a Democrat?
I am a free man. I choose
The Republican party is the spirit and the soul of the Black people. We have to be ministers of the Republican.
Ladies and Gentlemen, open those doors to the Republican church.
New York was a little sweeter today, a little safer, a little stronger. The wonderful Allen West came to the big town and I am honored and proud to support his candidacy. This man represents the Republicans' best hope, our new vision for the future of the Republican party. This is a great American. A hero.
He gets it. He knows what needs to be done. On energy. On limited government. On creeping sharia. On the nanny state. On Islamic jihad. Read the columns he wrote for Atlas while stationed in Kandahar: Colonel's Column from Kandahar
This man makes Oybambi look one of those cardboard display characters, a mere shell.
Get involved in his campaign. Join his army. Contribute. Please. Your country depends on it.
I had planned to appear at the open hearing down in Somerset on the Flight 93 Islamic Crescent Memorial but the best laid plans of mice, men and bloggers change when Atlas daughter number flies in from London late evening She was on an intern exchange program studying law in the magistrates court and the London Crown. Having been away a month, I wasn't leaving and Alec said he had Somerset more than covered.
I couldn't do 10 plus hours away from sweetness and light. But, I knew
she'd be jet lagged and sleeping very late so I headed off for Times
Square for three reasons.
First, and the most importantly, the Philistines, moonbats, commies, Palis, Islamists, American haters and the godless were staging a "huge" "NO WAR WITH IRAN" rally, that promised thousands of attendees. /not
Secondly, the counter rally- my rally, the Patriots. Gathering of Eagles, many on their
hogs, protest warriors and great Americans gathered to counter the
anti-war protest. I was to be joined by Dan of Gathering of Eagles, Pamela H,
Coretta, Tom D, Urban Infidel .... the best folks.
Latly, Desiree, warrior girl patriot and 911 family member invited me to a concert by the recruiting station. It was a rockin' choir, headed by a most inspiring singer/preacher, Kim Clement, singing and chanting. Fabulous (and I'm Jewish!). Jesus loves New York.
The day was gorgeous. The singing was spectacular. Then suddenly the wind started swirling, came up so fast as the pro Iranian nuke Nazis across the started to assemble (just like last time - "let there be rain!") . Urban Infidel said as she came up from the subway and the wind began to turn it felt like those movies, apocalyptic. It was very freckly and then the skies open up and it down poured. Not a drop all summer and today - boom! Torrents, lightening, thunder until all of the action was over.
Great crowd, happy dancing singing. Wonderful people. They are lovers of America, Israel and were recently at Mt. Carmel with the entire team of "prophetic" musicians
The anti-god crowd whose slogan was "Iran is not the enemy, the US government is the enemy." Hysterical. They don't know how they sound. They say, "we're the great Americans" and there is not one American flag being waved in their crowd. We wave the flag, they. The only flag I saw was the "Pali" Gazan flag
They love to cry about police brutality. What about their brutality. The police ROE's are impossible.
DEATH crowd
The hateful invective of the speakers was vile. The willingness of members to engage in street violence does not bode well for the oblivious masses.
The mentally sick, the pathetic, the haters, the losers, the moochers, the looters, the left, the Islamists, this is their constituency.
It was an ugly nasty crowd. Blaming all the worlds ills on the US. It's "the man's" fault... the big three automakers are laying off workers (how about the burdens labor demands for healthcare, wage increases, seniority etc) It's unsustainable. These folks blamed the boil on their ass on the man
And the their favorite annihilationist chant "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
As we made our way to the barricades set up across the street from the America haters rally - this Isalmist came directly up to one of our first women (with family serving in Iraq) who was one of th first behind our barricades and he began screaming in her face and started to physically attack her, completely unprovoked Police scrambled. This guy went off.
And then when subdued, he got on the phone - I guess to file his lawsuit with CAIR.
Patriots arrive! Woo Hoo!
Downpour
the Patriots
Gathering of Eagles
Pint sized great Americans.
Leathernecks.
My favorite bike.
No media at the Christian Choir rally
No media at the Patriots' rally
All the media was stationed at the "Stop the War on Iran" rally ....what about Iran's war on us? Oh yeah, we're the bad guys.
And then the annihilationists and Jew haters show up --- cloaked in the keffiyeh
She's ashamed, she covered her face.
This fat bastard kept calling me "hey Pamela! Cover up!" Yeah, said I was "sagging" (so not) and called me a prostitute> I thought I caught it on tape but I wasn't in movie mode. Just a pig thats all. He was with Yousef al-Khattab, the depraved all hang together.
And boy did it rain. This largely touted rally had maybe 175 kids there, bussed in from .... madrassahs. Young girls mostly - how ironic. Girls marching for oppression.
all dressed in full headress and kefiyah "Free free Palestine ........from the river to the sea!" Lots of phallic inspired signage. light attendance ......McKinney still MIA when I left Ethnic cleansing? They were screaming at this Jewish guy (see below) "Jew Jew I hope you die today!"
Met up with Sammy from Yidwithlid, Pamela H. Marcing to 2nd Avenue The view down Second Avenue
The buses down Second Avenue
This was basically the whole of it. The whole nakba. Was it not lost on these girls that they would have none of these freedoms living under shariah?
And then there were the great Americans
Sign in a windshield
Great signage.
This Jewish man was on the other side of the street when the Nakba neanderthal started yelling at him "Jew! Jew! Jew! I hope you die today! So much for the "It's about Israel, not the Jews" canard.
LONG LIVE ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hat tip on this chai (it means life! in hebrew) baseball cap photo, to the great Sammy, yidwithlid (thanks sweetie!)
UPDATE: Mary over at Exit Zero picked up where I left off. She got there after me and she's got excellent coverage. Go here now.
UPDATE: Chaim (JEW, JEW, I hope you die today!) has posted about his Jew hating nakba incident and he posted, quite frankly, a really beautiful picture of Atlas. Thanks Chaim ...... we actually did a radio show together a couple of years ago. Small word, blog world.
Here's the big Islamic Thinkers Nakba Rally today - this ain't Irvine 4, count 'em 4 Nakba supporters 5, count 'em (one's across the street) 5 cops..... heh all those police gates down 2nd Avenue ....heh
I did wait a half hour ..... no one else showed. They did trot out their old tired signs.
The old mushroom cloud over Israel whatever ................ the big one is on Friday. Be there at noon.
Please read the following article by Bos Smith, a Wall Street lawyer, who accompanied Paul Williams on a tour of the radical mosques in Brooklyn. They were snagged at the mosque of Siraj Mahaj by a host of Muslim Ninjas, grilled in the basement of the mosque, and barely got out of the place alive. What follows is their harrowing account of Bos Smith's visit to a Brooklyn mosque.
Just for knowijng, if they went to my shul (or any shul) they would have been served coffee and danish. WTF is going on in America and why aren't we monitoring the mosques. Individuals doing law enforcement's job.Again.
ESCAPE FROM A BROOKLYN MOSQUE
By Bos Smith
Bos Smith in front of Masjid At-Taqwa
Don’t snap a photo of the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn unless you want to be hauled away by a group of angry Muslims in Islamic attire to the basement of the facility where a group of twenty “security guards” in karate suits will interrogate you.
This might sound preposterous.
But it happened on Saturday, April 24, at 3:00 in the afternoon.
Ali Kareem, the head of security for Siraj Wahaj’s mosque, conducted the grilling. A small, muscular man with a wispy black beard that has been dyed red with henna, Kareem demanded to know the reason why a trio of kafirs had dared to photograph the building on a public street without securing his permission.
He further insisted on securing our identities and obtaining our motives for such a violation of Islamic space.
Being surrounded by a group of militant guards in a mosque basement from which there is no means of escape is not a comforting place to be for a Wall Street financier.
We tried to explain that we found the neighborhood with its halal meat vendors and food stores; Islamic dress shops, featuring the latest styles in burqas and hijabs; Muslim souvenir outlets, replete with bumper stickers stating “Don’t Be Caught Dead Without Islam”; and Middle Eastern restaurants offering a variety of goat dishes to be rather quaint and interesting.
This explanation was not sufficient.
Kareem was impatient and did not want a detailed explanation of the reason for our excursion (simple sight-seeing) or a graphic account of the sights we had seen and photographed.
“I ask the questions here,” he said, “and you provide the answers.”
Realizing that we were in a bit of a pickle, my companion explained that we were interested in various religions and knew Siraj Wahaj, the imam of the mosque, was a prominent Muslim figure whom we would like to interview for a news outlet.
This didn’t work too well since we could not produce a business card from a wacko blog, let alone credentials from a national publication.
At last, we blurted out that we were admirers of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings Be Upon Him) and wanted to obtain information about conversion. We were even knowledgeable enough to blurt out “Salaam” and “Allahu akbar.”
The last utterance seemed to be the “Open Sesame” that got us out of the basement and back to Bedford Street, where we managed to take a picture of the mosque before hailing a cab and making a getaway.
The experience was disconcerting. Surely, anyone who takes a picture of St. Patrick’s Cathedral or the Riverside Church is not hauled off to a basement for questioning by a threatening figure in a karate uniform and a band of Ninjas.
What is taking place within Masjid At-Taqwa?
And what about Siraj Wahaj, the celebrated imam of this mosque who claims to be a moderate?
Masjid At-Taqwa at 1226 Bedford Street was an abandoned clothing store, which Wahaj purchased at an auction in 1979 for $30,000 with cash from oil-rich Saudis. The interior is divided into spacious, windowless rooms that have been painted green and beige.
At Friday afternoon prayers the meeting room is crammed with hundreds of congregants. Some show up in do-rag stocking caps and Sean John sweatshirts; others wear finely embroidered, authentic-looking Muslim caps and flowing robes of crimson and gold. About half of the attendees are African-Americans. The others are immigrants from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Worshipers range from Brooklyn street bums to the local celebrities, such as former heavy-weight champion Mike Tyson.
The place has played host to a number of notorious exponents of radical Islam, including Clement Rodney Hampton-El (Dr. Rashid), a key player in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Mr. Hampton-El is presently cooling his heels in a federal slammer since he was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Mr. Hampton-El, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, fought as a mujahadeen under Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the holy war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Upon his return, Hampton-El was hailed as a hero by members of the mosque. Imam Wahaj has said that he was sought out by young and old alike for spiritual advice as an “elder” in the community. Wahaj, in fact, appeared as a character witness for Hampton El when the former mujahadeen stood trial before Judge Michael Mukasey in New York’s Federal District Court on charges of seditious conspiracy and attempted bombing.
Hampton-El is currently serving thirty-five years in a supermax prison for America’s most dangerous inmates.
Bos Smith at Masjid al-Fooqra
Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman visited Masjid At-Taqwa on many occasions while serving as the imam of the nearby Masjid al-Fooqra at 554 Atlantic Avenue, several blocks from Masjid At-Taqwi.
On the second floor of Rahman’s mosque, al Qaeda had opened an office under the name of the al-Kifah Refugee Center. It became a favorite haunt for members of Wahaj's congregation.
Rahman also spoke on occasion at Masjid At-Taqwa. In one speech, the fiery sheikh suggested that Muslims should rob banks to benefit Islam.
In 1995, Sheikh Rahman was hauled into court as the alleged architect of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and for planning to blow up the United Nations, the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, the George Washington Bridge, and buildings throughout Manhattan. At his side was his good friend Siraj Wahaj who provided testimony of the sheik’s sterling character.
In a Feb. 2, 1995, letter to defense lawyers in the landmarks-bombing case, then-U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White named about 170 people as "un-indicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators." Imam Wahaj was on the list.
Other infamous characters reportedly have made their way to the Bedford Street mosque, including Imam Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, whose son Adnan has been singled out by the Justice Department as “the next Muhammad Atta.” Gulshair, it turns out, served a stint as imam at another radical Brooklyn mosque - - the now defunct Masjid Nur a-Islam, at 21 Church Street.
Another visitor, according to informed sources, was Sheikh Gilani, the founder of Jamaat ul-Fuqra, who served as the imam of yet another Brooklyn mosque - - the Yasin Masjid at 777 Saratoga Avenue. This infamous mosque is now a beauty salon. From 1980 to 1995, it served as a recruiting center for the jihad and for paramilitary Islamic compounds that remain in existence throughout the country.
Since the time of its inception, Jamaat ul-Fuqra has been responsible for more terror attacks on American soil (30 and counting) than all other terrorist groups combined. Members of ul-Fuqra, which maintains headquarters in Pakistan, have been convicted in US courts of such crimes as homicide, conspiracy to commit murder, firebombing, gun smuggling, grand theft, counterfeiting, and workers’ compensation fraud. Others remain leading suspects in criminal cases throughout the country, including ten unsolved assassinations and seventeen fire-bombings. Some of the better-known adherents of ul-Fuqra are Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and John Allen Muhammad, the Beltway sniper.
But what of Wahaj? Is he an exponent of radical Islam - - a man who poses a threat to millions of Americans?
He is a well-known and welcome figure in Washington DC. He was the first Muslim cleric to offer the invocation at the opening session of Congress. He has dined with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and serves on the boards of no less than five major Muslim organizations. He has received commendations from the Brooklyn police for eradicating crime from the Bedford-Stuyvesant area. In 2003, Siraj Wahaj Day was celebrated in Brooklyn in recognition of what one borough official called a “lifetime of outstanding and meaningful achievement.”
But the proof of the real Wahaj is in the proverbial pudding.
In one of his sermons, Wahaj announced that the "real terrorists" are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. In another, he said, "In time, this so-called democracy will crumble, and there will be nothing. And the only thing that will remain will be Islam." He proclaimed that a society governed by strict Islamic law, in which adulterers are stoned to death and apostates beheaded, would be vastly superior to American democracy.
To a Muslim audience in New Jersey, Wahaj advocated the idea of Muslims forming a coup to take control of the federal government. “If we are united and strong,” he said, “we’d elect our own emir [leader] and give allegiance to him. Take my word for it, if six to eight million Muslims united in America, the country will come to us.”
His so-called “moderate” interpretation of the Qu’ran became clear by this remark: "If Allah says 100 strikes, 100 strikes it is. If Allah says cut off their hand, you cut off their hand. If Allah says stone them to death, through the Prophet Muhammad, then you stone them to death, because it's the obedience of Allah and his messenger -- nothing personal."
Wahaj informed an audience of black women wearing Muslim head coverings in Orlando, Fla., that Islam condones a man's marrying up to four wives, and that this rule, when introduced in the seventh century, served as a restriction on arrangements involving even more wives per husband.
And there are the national organizations to which Wahaj remains affiliated. He served as emir (president) of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which has been charged with funneling millions to terror groups, and as an advisory board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which has been labeled by author and counter-terrorism expert Steven Emerson as a “radical fundamentalist front group for Hamas.”
All this may be well and good, save for the fact that Wahaj and his mosque retains a small army not of brown-shirts but black-belts who now claim the right to collar ordinary citizens on the sidewalk and to haul them off for interrogation.
You’re only safe in Brooklyn at this writing if you say your prayers - - meaning, of course, the Basmalah.
(Bos Smith holds a law degree from Wake Forest University. He serves in the securities division of a major Wall Street investment bank. The research for this article was conducted in preparation of Within the Belly of the Beast: Jihad in America. Questions and comments may be directed to mail@bossmith.org).
When he moved the girls bodies to a deserted part of the Omni hotel parking
lot, Yasir was covered in blood and too far from anywhere to travel on foot. Someone had to have come
and picked him up. Who? Who helped Yasir that night? Who did Yaser Said call on his cell phone? Who? Have police checked those cell phone records?
Yaser Said made the lives of his wonderful, athletic, top honors daughters a living hell. This sexual sociopath raped them in their youth and beat them fiercely as a regular diet.
The legitimacy of male violence against rebellious women is by no means an
extreme view among Arab Muslims. A columnist in the Yemen Times last week
argued that violence against women is sometimes necessary to "preserve the
morals and principles with which Islam has honored us." In Arab culture, where
honor is prized and female sexual purity exalted, a family can be cast out if a
female member brings shame upon it. Traditionally, the only way to restore peace
is through violence. (Ron Dreher here)
"Honor killer" Yaser Said and his three younger brothers are very close. They take care of each other. This is as much a religious
mandate as it is familial. Muslims brothers take care of each other. I suspect
it is Yaser's brothers who have set Yasir up in the Muslim underground. They have extensive connections and own real estate together in Texas, New York and even Indiana.
Yaser Abdel Said and his brother set up a post office box in
Covington, Texas (where the families once lived on a compound) on November 15, 2007, the same day that a separate box was being set up
near property owned by the Saids in a small town in Shrub Oaks, New York.
There has been activity at the post office
box in Shrub Oaks set up by one of the Said brothers on November 15, 2007 just days before the murder of the two desperate young girls.
One of the addresses that a younger Said brother is
linked to is in Mohegan Lake, New York, that home is owned by a Muslim man who runs an
Arabic translation company.
The Mohegan Lake home
owner was one of the Arabic interpreters in the USA V Al Qaeda
1998 case. The Mohegan Lake home
owner worked for the defendant Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali and
WADIH EL HAGE (who just happens to be from Arlington Texas, same as all of the Said brothers). The
Arabic interpreter helped create a lot of confusion in the case for the defendants Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali and WADIH EL
HAGE
Three of the Said brothers have had apartments near Wadih Al Hage in
Arlington TX during the the same time frame -- the early 1990's and then 1997
to 1998 while Wadih was facing trial as a member of al qaeda.
The Arabic translator for Wadih El Hage's defense
team, caused a whole lot of delays and problems with the translations of the
surveillance wire taps in the trial of Wadih El Hage. The translator is also from
the same part of the Dallas Fort Worth area as Wadih El Hage and all of the Said
brothers.
Yaser Abdel Said was in the same part of Arlington Texas in 1993 as Wadih El
Hage. They more than likely went to the same Mosque, the Central Arlington
Mosque in Arlington, Texas where El Hage and his family worshiped
for years. It now calls itself the Islamic Society of Arlington.
Wadih Al Hage was Osama bin-Laden's personal secretary in the Sudan prior
to the 1998 US Embassy bombings and Wadih Al Hage went to prison (for life) for his part in
the bombings.
Whether El Hage was a mediator or collaborator, evidence shows he was friends with many people who were later convicted in the World Trade Center and New York City Landmark bombing cases. On March 8, 1991, El Hage signed in to visit El Sayyid Nosair at the Riker's Island. Nosair was serving a sentence for gun charges stemming from the Meir Kahane murder case. Both El Sayyid Nosair and Mahmud Abouhalima were central figures in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and both have been convicted in that crime.
There are other unusual connections between the men. In January of 1992, El Hage was arrested in Arlington, Texas, for writing several bad checks. He was riding in the car with a companion named Marwan Salama. According to phone records from the World Trade Center case, Salama had extensive phone contacts with the World Trade center bombers in the two months before the actual bombing.
El Hage moved back to the suburban community of Arlington, Texas in 1997 and got a job in a local tire store. The family moved into a small apartment near the University of Texas and the children enrolled in a local Muslim school. According to friends and neighbors contacted by FRONTLINE, the family lived a normal Muslim life, regularly attending Mosque and schooling their children in the Koran. "He was a hard worker, had a good business sense and was very devout," said his co-worker at the Lone Star Tire Store, Mahmoud Mazouni. "He became something of a religious leader, like an imam and sometimes led the prayers."
Apparently, Said has ties to Jihadis tied to al qaeda. That's who is helping to hide him, the Muslim underground.
It's no wonder Yasir told his wife, every time he goes to the shooting range, he
is shooting an Americans.
It is more than curious that Yaser Abdel Said's brother just happens to link to an
addresses in Mohegan Lake New York and Shrub Oak, New York when Yaser is on the run.
The legitimacy of male violence against rebellious women is by no means an
extreme view among Arab Muslims. A columnist in the Yemen Times last week
argued that violence against women is sometimes necessary to "preserve the
morals and principles with which Islam has honored us." In Arab culture, where
honor is prized and female sexual purity exalted, a family can be cast out if a
female member brings shame upon it. Traditionally, the only way to restore peace
is through violence.
According to a Dallas Morning News report, Yaser Said was a
rage-filled, troubled man. Almost 10 years ago, his wife and daughters told
police he was molesting the girls; they later recanted. He was not faithful to
his prayers or his mosque. He was, it appears, a sociopath obsessed with female
purity and willing to use violence to enforce his will. This kind of man exists
in every society. But Mr. Said comes from a shame/honor culture in which this
form of sociopathy is not only tolerated but validated as a positive social
value.
What's more, experts say that while educated, urbane Arab Muslims don't
practice honor killing, they tend not to condemn it, either. And not all Muslims
leave this barbaric code behind when they emigrate to the West. In two separate
meetings with members of this newspaper's editorial board, Mohamed Elmougy, a
prominent North Texas Muslim community leader and Egyptian immigrant, defended
violence, even deadly violence, against women and homosexuals. Though the term
"honor killing" did not come up in either discussion, Mr. Elmougy explained that
violence against sexual outlaws is acceptable to defend the family and the
social order.
"The way we view it, we don't look at it as violent," he said. "We look at it
as a deterrent."
Screenshot of the missing persons report filed by Yasir Said when the girls ran away. It clearly says Yaser was upset with Amina. Yaser admits
it. Two weeks before they left, there was a fight because Yaser
found out about Amina's NON- MUSLIM boyfriend. read the whole report. The cops should have removed those girls from the premises when the mother brought them back.
Well. When you have a community acculturated to the belief that women (and
gays) who break taboos deserve to be beaten, even killed, out of some twisted
concept of the common good, you can be sure there are innocent people enduring
silent, anonymous suffering.
Rafia Zakaria, an American Muslim woman starting a legal defense fund for
battered Muslim women, told The New York Times recently, that Muslims
"are reluctant to look within to face their problems because it will
substantiate the arguments demonizing them."
It would be preposterous to believe that all, or even most, Muslim men are
wife-beating brutes. But it also would be irresponsible to ignore the cultural
and religious teachings that create an environment in which females who don't
behave as males command deserve to suffer.
And it would be immoral not to confront them.
The Said girls had a funeral at the Dallas Central Mosque. One imam talked
about the primary importance of the family in Islam and of the responsibility
parents have to keep their families strong. These are arguments used to justify
honor killing.
And the girls spoke prior to their death of not wanting an Islamic burial.
But if a word against honor killing – or violence against women – was spoken
in English at that service, no one heard it.
And then there is this from a family member:
Family Recollections of Yaser Said
When Tissy [Patricia, mother of the dead girls] met Yaser, he was working at a seven eleven store. So
was his brother, Yassein. She and her family lived in an apartment complex very
close to this store. When she and her siblings went to the store, Yassein,
flirted with Tissy. He gifted her, made her feel special and this wooing,
created a "crush". Yassein, asked Tissy to marry him and she said yes!! The
following week, Yassein broke off the engagement. Then, up steps Yaser! He began
the same process and told my brother-in-law that he was a college student, self
sufficient and Tissy would be well cared for. They became engaged and the
gifting process continued.
Tissy was 15.
He said he was in school but, I never heard what his major was!
I am not sure he was actually in school! Yaser, was Muslim and I warned my niece
and begged her to please read and UNDERSTAND Yaser's religion and culture. She
promised me she would. She did not...I later found out.
Yaser's need to control was implemented immediately! Tissy took
a photo album to my sisters house and showed them pictures of Yaser holding a
knife to her throat! Yaser always carried a
machine gun, in his car! My sister was terrified of him!! She would tell me that
she was afraid that he would kill those children and her daughter, Tissy!
Information from those who were around him more: He was a sharp
dresser...even if the children and Tissy had little, he always dressed very
nicely.
Tissy, was the primary money maker in the home. He did not work
most of the time!
All monies, Yaser made from driving a cab, was never to be
touched by anyone!
Yaser went to Egypt, at least once a year.
Yaser, bought property, in Egypt, on the Mediterranean and had
Islam and Amina a flat built...from ground up! He had intended to build one for
Sarah as well.
Yaser told Tissy, when they had the two girls, they could NEVER
date or, marry an American! Only an Egyptian Muslim.
Yaser, was very militant in his dealings! In as much, many were
told that he had actually built an underground survivalist structure...this was
on the property, in Covington. I went there the other day to see if could find
any signs of this...I could not! I tried!!
Yaser controlled most all the movements of the girls and when he
could not, he had his son, Islam to spy on his sisters.
Yaser spent much time with his own family. They seemed to be
very close.??
Yaser owned many weapons! Knives, guns and such.
Yaser molested my seven year old niece! He molested his seven
year old daughter and his eight year old daughter.
Yaser took my niece, which he raped, to a firing range and told
her, "You see that target? Yes, she replied....everytime I shoot this, I am
shooting an American! This was only a couple of years after Tissy married him.
When relatives visited the Said home, Yaser kept away from them
and stayed to himself. He was polite to my Mom but, did not take up conversation
with her.
Yaser, had Tissy doing much of the dirty stuff! She lied to get
government subsidies and told them Yaser had left her and the children. Not
true! They learned of this and my niece was arrested for fraud. He was being
hidden, by her, for the sake of getting monies they were not entitled too.
Yaser was cruel to the girls! Not his son but, these girls were
scared to death of him.
Yaser beat Amina and Sarah...not Islam!
He smoked cigarettes even if it meant there would be little to
no food, on the table!
Yaser Abdel Said plays everybody and the American welfare system, controlling, a constant sexual predator, ultra macho outward appearance, always claims to have a weapon (even if he doesn't) constant fear factor in his presence, non-communicative in groups unknown, classic sociopath, extremely dangerous, confides in his brothers very close to them, plans with them, probably not so much the son as he uses him as a tool, not an equal.
He could look like this or this. evil smiles Check out all the different ways he could change his appearance here.
Bill Warner private investigator, owner WBI Inc. Private Detective Agency Sarasota Fl and the WBIPI Terrorism Research Ctr. Consultant to the FBI and ICE on support of terrorism related investigations and consultant to the US Secret Service on domestic money laundering case, website here.
Via
Phyllis Chesler: “I have been warned to shut up. But when Yasser Abdul Said
killed those girls he did not just spill Muslim blood on American soil. He shed
my blood. I am not going to be quiet. I made a promise at their funerals that I
would speak out.”
I am talking to Gail Gartrell, the great-aunt of Amina and Sarah Said who
were honor murdered by their father, Yasser Said, on New Year’s Day,
2008.
Apparently the Aunt believes that the girls father who
murdered them may be a terrorist.
Gail and the other female relatives with whom I have spoken believe
that Yasser Said is “possibly some kind of terrorist. I was only recently told
that Yasser always seemed to have a lot of guns, machineguns—they’re illegal
here—but handguns too.” Gail tells me:
Family members gathered at
the spot where the girls were killed on Saturday March 8th.
The girl’s own mother, “Tissie” (Patricia) Said, was not at the
March 8th Celebration. She is the one who effectively lured her daughters to
their deaths. Also not there was their brother, Islam Said, Yasser and
“Tissie’s” first-born son.
You may recall it was the son Islam who found Tissie and the girls in hiding
and convinced them that they should come home and promised no harm would come to
them. Shortly afterward Yaser Abdel Said Murded his daughters. According to the
article the family believes that Mr. Said is still in the area and being hidden
by sympathetic Muslim relatives.
Panel discussion ........ On death threats and fatwas: ...... more often than threats, Warraq has received letters from Muslim women thanking him for fighting for their rights.
Steve Emerson on Wafa Sultan: It's the first time an American has been forced to go into hiding in several years
My fellow hatemonger Ezra Levant was a big hit at
yesterday's conference on legal jihad in New York. In fact, judging from his
reception, he and his inquisitrex Shirlene McGovern seem to be the two most
famous Albertans on the planet. If I were Shirlene, I'd be pitching some sort of
hate-speech show-trial show to Court TV. Ezra writes about the conference
here, but he also makes some sharp
points about the preposterousness of the Section 13 prosecutions: Why is it okay
for Richard Warman, a private citizen, to join Stormfront and say that gays are
a cancer, but it's a crime for Joe Schmoe, a private citizen, to join Stormfront
and say gays are a cancer? Whatever happened to equality before the law?
Likewise, why is it okay for Canadian Human Rights
Commission bigshot Ian Fine to quote in public a lot of offensive speech by
hateful white supremacists to show the virulence that's out there, but, if I
quote in public a lot of offensive speech by hateful Islamic supremacists to
show the virulence that's out there, I get hauled up before his crappy
commission?
The contradictions in this racket are what render it
preposterous. In what Paul Wells calls her "barely lucid, rambling meditation",
Ontario's head commissar gives the game away: Unfortunately she doesn't have the
jurisdiction to jail Steyn for "Islamophobia", but she would if she could - so
she's going to seek the power to do so when the Ontario "Human
Rights" Commission is "reformed". I hope the Government of Ontario is
dumb enough to give her the extra powers she seeks, and perhaps then she'll be
man enough to haul me and Ken Whyte into her pseudo-courtroom and actually
convict us of the crime rather than merely issuing the verdict in a press
release.
The Toronto Star has figured out where all
this is headed and they don't care
for it. Nor do all the impeccably liberal
progressive types quoted in Charlie Gillis' profile of Richard Warman, in the
new print edition of Maclean's. The "human rights" racket has no
friends and no defenders other than current commissioners, former commissioners
and others living high off the "human rights" hog - and Barbara Hall is too tone
deaf (or hanging out with too many sharia-hungry Islamists) even to
notice.
I am having trouble loading the video on the event -- give me some time (TAXES DUE!) Thought you'd enjoy ..... Bostom Rosett Loverboy Spencdr Warraq (champs of da free world) Rachel! Lunch! The man! Gaffney., Emerson, Warraq
Money quotes: Robert Spencer: Islamofascism is Islamorealism
Mark Steyn: I am phobiaphobic.
I will have more, more, more. Patience gentle friends
Atlas readers are very familiar with long time reader Rich who was so inspired by what one individual can do he started his own counter anti-war group in Philly to stand up against a weekly motley crew of seditionists, traitors, and and your regular weak, run of the mill group of hippie leftists. I ran previous reports of his work here and here.
Well the anti-war cowards don't like to be challenged or questions or called out on their lies especially by proud patriots. So they cry and whine and stomp and wail and summon the police but to no avail. Rich and his wonderful patriots grow and grow ....so the anti-war leftards resort to ..... violence. Now that's rich, Rich. Here's last week's story.
Peace Protester hits female blogger - the video.
7 months ago, a retired Navy veteran named Rich
Davis began a counter-protest against a group of peace protestors near
Phila, PA. The leftists had been protesting against Bush and the troop's
mission every Saturday in West Chester, PA for the last 5
years.
Last Saturday, one of the peace protestors, a man who carries a "veteran for
peace" sign,became unhinged and struck a conservative female blogger who had
been covering the counter protests since they began. There were about 50 peace
protestors and 25 pro-troop protestors present. The police arrived and when
they attempted to question "the slugger" - he resisted and shoved the policeman
- resulting in his arrest. A fellow peace protestor was arrested for
interferring with the police while they were handcuffing the "the slugger".
My friend Alan posits:
One good question to put in Meicht and Grant's faces is this - they
scream they're not traitors, well, here's a way to put them to the
test. Ask them if they know anything about ANSWER? who runs it, who
is behind it, where they get their funding from.
The answer to ANSWER is that it is headed by one Brian Becker of the
Socialist Workers Party, or Progressive Communist Party of the
U.S.A. - a coterie of former Trotskyites led by a Sam Darcy who
broke with Trotsky's disciples - the guy himself had been long dead,
pick-axed in the brain by the Stalinists - to - yep, become
Stalinist Communists, Maoist (until he met Nixon), and then
following Enver Hoxha in Albania. Becker - a "Red Diaper" (sad to
say) Jewish-born self-loathing Fascist, has journeyed throughout the
world to places few of us would ever want to go - he has been a
honored guest of Kim Il Jong, who treats him to lavish feasts while
babies are starved or froze to death in the wastes of North Korea's
Gulags. He has been to Iran, openly supports Hamas, and sympathize
with Bin Laden - Becker was one of the first to urge NO U.S.
Imperialist response to 9/11 - in short, a Stalinazi fascist. He and
his brother lead ANSWER, alongside a few other fellow Stalinazi
fascists.
ALL of this may be found on David Horowitz's excellent FrontPageMag
site.
If Grant and Meicht - striking a woman is sure the way of an
American soldier, pardon my deep sarcasm - still argue they're not
traitors, then the evidence is right in their faces. They are.
Ask Grant if he'd like to join his Uncles Adolf and Joe?
The blogger is known as Skye and I met her recently
at the CPAC convention. Here's a picture of Skye at yesterday's rally in West
Chester where she was presented with a "Combat Action" ribbon by Rich
Davis.
Skye and Rich here
Here is Skye's actual video showing John Meicht
striking camera on Mar 22. NOTE: Meicht, who claims to be a Vietnam Veteran,
loses his cool during a verbal altercation with a female Veteran of the Air
Force and suddenly strikes at Skye who was videoing it. - see the shocking
video here.
Here it is: In the video you will see John Meicht - the man who hits Skye, Dee -
an Air Force Veteran, and John Grant - the president of the "Veterans For Peace"
-
Also notice how Grant describes the video - he
blames the whole thing on the troop supporters.
"A wounded combat Vietnam veteran member of the Chester County Peace
Movement is harassed and provoked, then pointed out to "Tom," a local cop, by
Chester County Victory Movement leader Rich Davis as hitting a CCVM video
provocateur "in the face" when all he was doing was pushing her camera out of
HIS face. The vet is, then, knocked to the roadway and handcuffed. Trial to
come."
Note: The peace protestors have been playing victim
and demonizing Rich Davis calling them "Jack-botted thugs", "full of violence
and hate" and "old men fullfilling wet dreams by sending younger men off to
war" since they arrived last September. They don't like that they can no
longer protest unopposed. They have recruited the bottom of the barrel
extremists and groups include, "Veterans For Peace" - (a continuation of the
Vietnam Winter Soldiers and ally of the Iraq Vets Against The War) and Women in
Black (a group that recently gave Code Pink leaders their annual "Vagina Warrior
Award").
Rich Davis calls his group the Chester County
Victory Movement (CCVM). Check out their blog www.americansheepdogs.com. And they
have received a lot of support from the Gathering of Eagles (www.gatheringofeagles.org).
Atlas salutes the GOE and CCVM for not letting
these "propagandists for the enemy" go unopposed. "PINO" (peace in name
only) protestors around the country are mischaracterizing our
troops, undermining their mission and attacking our military recruiters, and
should be opposed whenever possible. NEVER AGAIN, NOT THIS WAR, NOT THESE
TROOPS.
It's John Meicht with his "veteran for peace"
sign.
GREAT SHOT OF GREAT AMERICANS.
For those who ask me who will save the world..... here's your answer.
UPDATE: Just to give you an indication of what lurks in the hearts of these America haters - here is an excerpt from the leader of this "peace" group, Karen Porter.
Porter's 3/30/08 newsletter (Peace Digest, Vol 48, Issue 24) contains this
gem: (hat tip x__dhimmi)
Our own Richard MacIntyre Going to North Korea
I covet Richard's trip. I find North Korea, with its extreme
isolation, an incredibly mysterious place I'd LOVE to visit. Well,
Richard is going there - I'm happy for him. And Richard should be
the one going, having served in the Peace Corps in Korea and having
kept up his interest and love for the country, as well as having
built homes for Habitat for Humanity in so many places, domestic and
foreign. So: If you're like me, eat your heart out - and wish
Richard a safe and wonderful trip!!--Karen P.
Bitter cold outside the Israeli Consulate to stage a memorial demonstration for the murder of Jewish children in Jerusalem by an Arab terrorist. It is disturbing to me that Jewish organizations did not stage a massive memorial demonstration to express absolute outrage at the cold blooded murder of Jewish children. Where were the Jews today? Where? If this is not the defining moment, if this is not the line in the sand, then we have lost our souls, our humanity, our Jewishness.
Beautiful people
Beautiful people
Tired, cold little Atlases :)
We walk to the UN en masse...........
Then in front of the UN
Rabbi Weiss's remarks and footage of the memorial rally
Israel supporters worldwide must organize massive rallies and public prayer vigils in memory of those killed in the Thursday attack on a yeshiva in Jerusalem, Jewish Agency Chairman Ze'ev Bielski wrote in a letter to Jewish leaders this week.
Jennifer! Coretta! Are we ever ........... the insurgency that bombed the recruiting station Windblown Atlas desperately in need of a manicure. The great one!
Only one cop car vs the leftards that need a fleet.
Classic!
Is that Ahmadi-nijad? WTF? Very eerie eh?
VETS! Gd bless 'em.
The media does the cursory interview but never broadcasts the coverage. There was only one or two members of the media present (of course they were alerted) but if you ain't dissing the troops it aint news.
Closing with a song.
UPDATE: FREEPERS!Many in attendance. Wonderful peeps, the freeps - props to Ally(veritas!)
TOMORROW! NEW YORK! SHOW SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFTER THE JEWISH MASSACRE
Where: Israeli Consulate, 2nd Avenue and 43 Street, NYC When Sunday, 11 am
UPDATE: Pamela has great videos. Watch the last one. At the end the homeless lowlife is shreiking, it's was the Jooooos! That's how deep the hate and the narrative has seeped.
Show up ............ today for our troops, tomorrow for Israel.
Photo: Pamela Gathering of
Eagles will stage a "Support Our Troops" rally at the Times Square Recruiter
Station this Saturday, March, 8, 2008, from 1pm until 4pm. All are invited to
bring flags, signs and banners supporting our troops and recruiters. What:
Support Our Troops Rally Where: Times Square Recruiter Station West 44th St
and Broadway. When: Saturday, March 8th, 1-4pm
TOMORROW! NEW YORK! SHOW SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL AFTER THE JEWISH MASSACRE
Where: Israeli Consulate, 2nd Avenue and 43 Street, NYC When Sunday, 11 am
LOS ANGELES Community Memorial and Solidarity Rally For the Victims of the Terror Attack at The Jerusalem Yeshiva Where: Young Israel of Century City, 9317 West Pico Blvd When: 4-5 pm
A rally disgusting show of Anti American, Anti Israel hate.
The Pentagon inserted on the flag of Israel. Sick
Our crowd
Nazis screaming "Never again!" The nerve ...
Lynne Stewart....... al qaeda operative, guilty of treason (she should be rotting in prison) made a speech while we chanted "treason! treason!" Stewart making speeches. Such lovely people.
"Don't like Holocaust. Don't Make Holocaust"
CJ, Coretta and me.
UPDATE; WE'VE GOT MAIL!
Subject: Thanks for the entertaining video!
Date: 1/26/2008 6:50:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
From: chango412@yahoo.com
Hey! i am the person with that sign that you liked so
much. the one with the pentagon on the israeli flag. i
really enjoyed your documentation of today. i am
sending it around to my friends.
chango
and p.s. "sweetie": jim crow did not last, apartheid
did not last and zionism will not last. without the
support of the US taxpayers, israel will not last a
week.
Lovely people.
UPDATE: Pamela H sent some new video from the rally. Mangia!
So there I am, with two of my little infidels in tow, dashing across town to hit Carnegie Hall. It seems Red has to have a classical concert in the bag for a report due tomorrow. I love these mandates, the kids as an impetus for some culchuh for a change. So imagine my surprise to stumble upon a sea of black down Park Avenue against a backdrop of loud Muslim prayers blaring over loudspeakers, no less. We were running late and I didn't have a picture card in my camera but Red said, "ma, there's a Staples down the block, you've got to get this". It was surreal.
The cop tells me, Moe's grandson along with 72 other Muslims beat back an army of 70,000. Yeah 72 guys beat an army of 70,000 and they are mourning the death of Husayn (the grandson). The mock coffins represent Husayn and his followers who "were denied proper burial." When I saw them beating themselves up, I asked the cop, "is this Ashura"? He said, yeah I think that's in the pamphlet. Indeed it was. He told me there was a large number from Pakistan (but no sign of mourning for Bhutto, or any sign of her for that matter), Iran Iraq, Lebanon.
ASHURA! Regular Atlas readers are familiar with this ritual as I have covered it here and here and here. Every year in fact. Remember Ashura?
Ashura in NY. Ironic how it plays out in front of the mixed LOVE artwork on Park and 57th. Mixed up indeed
What flag is that? Anybody know?
The women brought up the rear (but of course)
The flag of Husayn (Hussein) carried into battle. TMI? Too bad.
Crowds surround the men fiercely beating their chests
The most disturbing image was all those black clad women (from head to toe) en masse down Park Avenue. My 13 year old said, "ma that's scary". Indeed. Mind you, it was scary, as in an altered reality.
On every corner a young girl in full dress would stop you to explain the meaning and the beauty of this festival of mourning (did I just say that) and give you Islamic propaganda. The taqiya was in full blast mode. Check out my inter-faith dialogue with an attendee in my video.
Headed over to the Israel Consulate to protest the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic agenda of Annapolis. And of course it was woefully unattended. Pitifully small crowd. Shame on us! The Jews in this country, New York no less, are in a self induced coma. Living on borrowed time. Israel - the Jewish people are in grave danger. The parallels between the road Helene Berr traveled and ours will become increasingly apparent in the near future.
Great cop. Family's roots Russian. His father fought in 1948 to establish Israel. Beautiful.
84 year old protester goes to every rally. "there's no such thing as a Palestinian." "There's no such thing as settlements". "There is no such thing as give back -- give back implies it was not yours. Israel is ours." Amen.
Here was what was presented to the Israel Consulate:
Public Statement Issued to the Israeli Consul General for New York by the Grassroots Rally for Israel
Whereby:
The current Israeli Government has taken extreme positions which do not reflect the will of a vast majority of the Israeli People, do not represent and support the best interests of a vast majority of its citizens and may endanger world Jewry in its bond with the Land of Israel;
During the discussions at the Annapolis Summit this past November, Prime Minister Olmert offered to name the United States as final arbiter in Israel's deliberations with the Palestinian Arabs, thus proposing to strip the Jewish State of its sovereignty; The citizens of Sderot and elsewhere in the Negev have been bombarded with rockets from Gaza for the past seven years. The number of attacks has intensified greatly since the expulsion of the Jews and still more since the takeover of Gaza by Hamas in 2007.
Despite the death, destruction and physical and mental suffering caused by this unending war against Israel and Israeli civilians, and despite the overwhelming supremacy of Israel's military capabilities over that of the attackers, the Israeli Government has enforced a policy of strict restraint on the activities of the Israel Defense Forces, justifying its relative inaction with absurd claims such as its desire to not disturb the "peace" process. PM Olmert even has said that "a nation cannot defend itself forever." But a nation that does not defend itself will not endure;
In addition to failing to suppress enemy attacks, the Israeli Government has failed to provide adequate life-saving shelters to the men, women and children of Sderot and neighboring communities, instead 'patching' the pain with sporadic psychological treatment of its panic-stricken population. You can't cure cancer with a band aid;
The Israeli Government has expressed its inclination to divide Jerusalem - which had been miraculously re-united after 2000 years of prayers - and forever change the look and feel of Judaism's holiest city;
The Israeli Government has expressed its willingness to surrender Judea and Samaria to its enemy (whose textbooks and posters show that they still intend to wipe Israel off the map entirely) and to expel up to 250,000 of its citizens from their homes and communities – this, despite having watched, and continuing to observe, the destructive results of Israel's removal of Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria. This is further evidence of the Israeli Government's extreme views and policies, ones that imperil Jewish history, rights and continuity;
In supporting the expulsion of Jews and the giveaway of land, including many of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Israeli Government is inviting Arab terrorists to live within 10 miles of all of Israel's major population centers and her one international airport. With 60 years of hatred and war before it, and thousands of years of persecution before the establishment of Israel, the government still does not view its policy as a threat to Israel's security – rather, it promotes it as the road to peace as if they were press agents for current, misguided American diplomacy;
The Israeli Government continues to appease its enemies by releasing convicted terrorists from Israel 's prisons, only to watch as these freed criminals repeat their terrorist activities with even more fervor, determination and confidence. Three hundred Jews have been murdered by released terrorists since 1993. Yet the current Israeli Government continues down this path that imperils the state and sheds Jewish blood despite receiving NOTHING IN RETURN: Gilad Shalit, Ehud (Udi) Goldwasser, Eldad Regev, Jonathan Pollard and many other heroic Israelis remain in their private living hell;
In light of the preceding evidence, we hereby demand the immediate resignations of Ehud Olmert, Shimon Peres, Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak, the immediate disbandment of the artificial Kadima "expulsion-party" and new elections in Israel to take place as soon as possible to save the Jewish People and State.
Steyn goes on to explain the fallacious accusation;
That line certainly appears in my text, but they're not
my words. Rather, they were said by a prominent Scandinavian Muslim, Mullah
Krekar, to a respectable Norwegian newspaper. The imam was boasting at how Islam
would outbreed Europe: "We're the ones who will change you . . . Just look at
the development within Europe, where the number of Muslims is expanding like
mosquitoes. Every western woman in the EU is producing an average of 1.4
children. Every Muslim woman in the same countries is producing 3.5 children."
This is the nub of Messrs Mithoowani, Awan, Sheikh and
Simard's complaints against Maclean's: They're objecting to a Canadian magazine
quoting accurately the statements of leading Muslims. And at least two of
Canada's "human rights" commissions, to their shame, have accepted their absurd
proposition that accurately quoting leading Muslims is somehow "Islamophobic."
Read Steyn's rebuttal here. Hey, don't believe your lying eyes, believe their Muslim lies
Headed down in the rain to the grassroots Annapolis protest at the Israeli consulate on 43rd Street and 2nd Avenue. Regular folks, about 45 in total, stood in the rain and protested. Small turnout but not when you consider that no major organization helped to organize. It is pathetic that the kapos in the Jewish lay leadership in this country are standly idly by while Israel is served up cold. This sign is plastered all over Israel. Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who is excellent on this issue. The only politician with the balls to show up.
YidwithLidand Atlas - so wonderful meeting Sammy and protesting together. Love his blog.
Bud Macy, organizer. Great guy. The individual will save the day.
This video explains why the Saudi Foreign minister won't shake hands:
Mary wrote more about that here. "Saudi/Wahhibis consider themselves to be 'human beings'. Everyone else is
basically, not. They're polytheists, Jews, najis or whatever."
I am uploading video now of the remarks. Check back.
UPDATE: Listen to Hikinds's remarks. Powerful. The video starts with Bd Macy, protest organizer, introducing Mr. Hikind.
UPDATE: Binyamin Netanyahu is skeptical regarding the Annapolis conference. During
the Likud party meeting, on Monday in the Knesset, the leader of the opposition
said that the summit would lead to « war, and not peace». He added that the
government « had already lost, well before the negotiations had started». (Mailinfo Guysen FR)
Early morning kick off -- a stream of important speakers spreading really depressing news.
Herb London, President of the Hudson Institute, very powerful speaker, quoted Orwell - “Things have sunk so low that the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
Jewish blood does not count and that is very obvious in every single decision that is made in teh United Nations today. UN policy is now a policy organized largely by these these Muslim states [OIC] organized for one purpose anti-American activities and anti-Israel activities.
The misguided view of many Americans about the UN, includes many Jews I might add, the business of brotherhood of man, the flags wave, children come in buses to the United Nations thinking this a a place organized for a ostensible purpose - to bring about peaceful understanding among peoples. And yet it is very very different.
The Human Rights council has become laughable................. The Human Rights Council exists for one purpose and that is to support nations that violate human rights."
The UN still has no definition of terrorism. The UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) has never named a single state sponsor of terrorism, individual terrorist or terrorist organization.
The UN has been unable to adopt a comprehensive convention against terrorism. The Organization of the Islamic Conference insists blowing up Israelis and Americans in the name of self-determination doesn't count.
Anne Bayefsky, spoke next and presented the abysmal record of Israel bashing, resolution after resolution against the Jewish state.
"The UN human rights system has been irrevocably hijacked, corrupted and lost to those who stand to gain the most from its demise. The death throes have been evident for some time. But in many ways, events, only this last Friday, plunbed new depths of depravity. The General Assembly committee charged with humanitarian affairs whose decisions are rubber stamped by the Assembly plenary declared that Israel would be the only UN member state subject to permament agenda item of the human rights council."
The vote 168 for and 7 against was met with a round of applause."
Jew hating at its finest. This is the "reformed" UN.
"This is the real UN. Less than 50% of members are fully democratic.There are 192 members of the general assembly. 117 belong to the so called non aligned movement (NAM). And the largest single voting bloc of the NAM is made up of the 56 nations of the Organization of the Islamic conference."
Next the Godfather of soul, John Bolton. He was in rare form. He lauded Senator Norm Colemanfor doing an outstanding job (Coleman appeared later in the afternoon but who I missed because of parent teacher conferences) . He described Coleman as an expert on the UN, probing oil for food and recently producing legislation in the Senate to defund the depraved Human Rights Council.
Bolton focused primarily on the relationship between Israel and the United States as it plays out at the UN.
"What is not understood ...................in addition to all the other burdens that Israel bears, many of which Ann described for you, it bears another burden as well and that is in many instances it serves as a surrogate for the United States. People who are unwilling, for whatever reason , afraid of attacking the United States directly, attacking Israel is almost as much fun. A lot of criticism aimed at Israel intentionally or otherwise is also criticism directed at the United States. You can see this as it arises in a variety of different context in the Security Council in particular. A body that was marginal during the Cold War because of the vetoes of the Western bodies and then Soviet Union. And a body that, that despite the end of the cold war, is well on the way to marginalizing itself against the greatest threats of our time - the threat of international terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."
"The fact is many of the issues discussed in the context of purported criticism of Israel actually directly affect the United States. There's an important example from the deliberations over at Hezbollah last summer that lead to resolution 1701. I use this as an example, there are many others, but this is a particularly important one for the United States. After the Hezbollah attack across the blue line and Israel's resonse in self defense, Israel was criticized repeatedly for the disproportionate use of force. This is a way of saying, in UN terms, that your exercising your legitimate right of self defense is actually illegitimate because you are doing something more than you need to do to respond in self defense. In fact what Israel started to do but didn't finish was respond not only to the particular attack but to go after the threat posed by Hezbollah .I asked at the time, what would a proportionate response from Israel would have been. Were they required simply to kill 3 hezballah terrorists, kidnap 2 and fire a couple of rockets across the blue line in opposite direction? Is that what they were limited to? .......... Would that argument have meant that in World War II, after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, that the United States limited to sinking an equivalent number of aircraft carriers and battleships and then we would have had to have stopped.
I mean this is an argument that is so fundamentally fallacious that it is hard to know whether to laugh at it or to try and rebut it seriously. But the point is given American military capacity we are always likely to be met with an argument that we are using disproportionate force when we respond to an attack on our interests ......
So although it sounds like a limited point of criticism of Israel to say they're responding with a disproportionate force in answering a Hezballah attack, underlying this criticism is something that relates directly to American security. And that's why there was such intensity in the Security Council and such feeling by Kofi Annan despite his reputation as being friendly to Israel, the VEHEMENCE with which he pushed the attack against the so called disproportionate use of force by Israel, I think, is very revealing.
Now we are going to see this conflation of Israeli and American interests in a variety of contexts as the years go ahead and I want to bring to your attention one in particular that so far has not been the subject of of discussion at the UN or the Security Council ............the Israel raid of September the 6th against a Syrian facility
There has been a veil of secrecy by both the Israelis and Americans.
Based on Bolton's own conversations and his contacts, this facility was a nuclear facility under construction in cooperation with North Korea.
For years JB has been arguing/warning of the threat of North Korean and Iranian nuclear weapons programs. Many thought logistically, North Korea presented little threat tp the Middle East. But North Korea is the largest proliferator of ballistic missile technology.
There is no doubt that this nuclear facility was a serious threat to Israel. And why no serious call for a security council meeting. Clearly the Syrians understoon the implications of admitting to a secret NORK provided nuclear facility.
But why all the secrecy here in America? Why would the Bush administration keep such a secret form the American people? The motivation of our own government - not security concerns, but political concerns. There is no reason to withhold the information from the American people. Other than the release of such diabolical dealings might very well tank the six party talks and sink Annapolis.
Syria/NORK has implications for Iran.
"Iran's increasing hegemony over Syria and the use of Syria as a conduit for aid to Hezballah and other groups that is one explanation, the most powerful explanation, why you heard such silence in the Arab world after the Israeli attack. Here here was a raid on a brother Arab country and there was nothing by way of protest. I think because it was known or suspected in much of the Arab world that indeed it might well have been a North Koran nuclear facility."
And that it was a what better way for the Iranians to avoid the IAEA inspectors
If we take North Korea off the list of the state sponsors of terrorism it would have a remarkable and entirely affect on our alliance with our closest ally in the Pacific, Japan.
North Korea has been kidnapping Japanese citizens and holding them for decades.
What kind of signal does it sent in the Middle East and beyond? To say,well its ok for North Korea to build a nuclear facility with Syria in the middle of the Syrian desert, a state sponsor of terror, and to supply ballistic missiles to both Syria and Iran.
Misguided effort to resolve the North Korean nuclear program that we are about to undertake a decision that will have profoundly negative impact not to just NORK and Japan but to the Middle East as well.
The relationship of the US and Israel is critical in the UN.
Shimon Samuels, Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Center, outlined the rampant antisemitism at Durban.
As the only Jew elected to
the NGO Steering Committee of the UN World Conference Against Racism in
2001, I there witnessed the birth of the new antisemitism.
In the years since that
cataclysm in Durban, the blueprint turned the traditional charge of
"all that is Jewish is evil" on its head to "all that is evil is
Jewish", and a claim that the Holocaust had empowered the Jew in
exonerating his multitude of crimes - the greatest being "the Naqba" of
Palestinian misfortune.
Shimon Samuels: Hitler called the Jews unza "our misfortune". Then it was "Ungluck". Now it is "Naqba".
The prelude to the Holocaust was sounded by the order "Kaufen nicht bei Juden" - "Buy Not from Jews". Today it is "BDS"... Protocols of Durban has replaced the protocols of Zion. Launch to campaign Durbin -it is a racism, limit its funding, take the intitiave of cacus of integrity. Operation pushback."
Yehuda Blum: Oslo was not a direct result of Camp David accords. It's true we have had a cold peace with Egypt, but its better than a hot war. Those that see a link between Camp David and Oslo are wrong. There were very specific differences.
Jerusalem was deliberately omitted from Camp David. Menachem Begin would never have agreed to the accord.
No recognition of the PLO and self determination of the Palestinian people
Third, the autonomy mentioned in Camp david meant personal autonomy for the Arab residents of West Bank and Gaza
Oslso spoke of terrortorial autonomy.
The linkage between the two is dishonest. The left tries to make that connection but it is not so.
UPDATE: U.S.
Conference: UN Biased Against Israel - Michal Lando "The United
Nations is not a forum to protect human rights, nor peace and security," said
Anne Bayefsky, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and one of the organizers
of a Sunday conference across the street from the UN billed as the first to
target UN discrimination against Israel. The conference, "Hijacking Human
Rights: The Demonization of Israel by the United Nations," which included
professors, ambassadors, and members of Congress, coincided with the General
Assembly's upcoming annual adoption of over 20 anti-Israel resolutions.
(Jerusalem Post)
As the nation gears up for the 2008 presidential election, the candidates’ positions on terrorism and Islamism are coming into focus, with major implications for national security of the United States and around the world. Especially of note is the vast difference in collective outlook between the Republican and Democratic candidates.
The Middle East Forum had Robert Spencer, the prolific author, brilliant Islamic scholar and theologian discuss this issue.
So of course I ran across town to catch Robert. He was, as always, most informing and alarming in his substantive warning. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why he's not a regular visitor to the White House advising Bush and his minions.
I wound up commiserating with Robert after his remarks. We hit the streets of the citay - lunched, laughed our asses off and strolled the electrified streets of the greatest city in the world on a particularly spectacular day. Fabulous, all of it. Thanks Bob. It was swell.
Some pull quotes:
"The Democrats has limited to statements more notoriously such as John Edwards, "the war on terror is just a bumper sticker."
"On the Republican side there has been a little more realism about the issue most notably when Gov Romney spoke in a TV commercial about the threat of global jihad and said this was something that directly threatened the survival of the United States. He was roundly ridiculed for this. Saturday Night Live actually took the commercial and just put it to a laugh track as if it was self evidently ridiculous."
Spencer was not endorsing Romney but it is noteworthy that he is the only candidate to mention jihad. The WSJ actually ran a article about what a terrible thing it was that Romney used that word.
"The war on "terror" is a complete misnomer. Terrorism is a tactic. Terrorism is as old as war itself. Terrorism has been used throughout history. Words matter. Our refusal to name the enemy is the fundamental weakness which has so far has marked the prosecution of the war."The Bush administration obviously has not wanted to focus more clearly on who are fighting because of various sensitive political considerations in terms of our Muslim allies and yet it has to be done. Someone is going to grasp this."
On Israel:
"Much more urgently right now in these dark days .... with Annapolis. No one is making the connection between the jihadist intransigents of Hamas and Hezballah and what we are facing in the war on terror in the United States. No one undeerstand that The enemies of Israel will not be bought off with this concession or that concession or this piece of land or that piece of land. It won't happen. Because the Hamas and Fatah charters are both very clear, that they intend to destroy Zionism, they intend to destroy Israel utterly because, and this comes back to Islamic theology, it is the offensive for any part of what is considered to be ruled by no Muslims. Once an Islamic land is an Islamic land it is an Islamic land forever. So you also see in the al qaeda literature call for the Islamisation, the re-islamisation of Spain under exactly the same terms as they're calling for the destruction of Israel.
But these things are not being put together.
Because in the US, in the public discourse, everyone, liberals, conservatives, whatever -- is afraid with --very few exceptions -- to talk about the actual ideology and the actual motives and the actual goals, that the terrorists themselves have articulated."
There's much more. Please listen and watch the video. The MP3 audio has more of the Q&A. Download spencer.mp3
Today the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism had Hillel Neuer speak at a delicious little lunch at the Yale club. This initiative is such a good thing. Long overdue. Much kudos to Yale and Charles Small (if ever a name was not fitting.)
The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) is dedicated to the scholarly research of the origins and manifestations associated with antisemitism globally, as well as other forms of prejudice, including racisms, as it relates to policy. Through the examination of antisemitism and policy, YIISA disseminates scholarly material so to promote further understanding and contribute to aspects of policy analysis. YIISA is housed at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale University.YIISA
"Anti-Semitism has re-emerged internationally in a manner that many leading scholars and policymakers take seriously," Small said. "Because of this, there is a need to establish a high-caliber, interdisciplinary, nonpartisan, scholarly institute, so that students and faculty can engage these issues fully."
While much of the report deals with UN "inaction" on anti-Semitism, it also finds that anti-Semitism is "aided and abetted" by "an infrastructure of manifestly one-sided and irrational UN measures designed to demonize the Jewish state."
The report by UN Watch, an American Jewish Committee-affiliated NGO that monitors UN activities, was written by the organization's executive director, Hillel Neuer, and examines UN action in recognizing and combating anti-Semitism through UN institutions since 2004.
Noting that "both the [General Assembly] and the Human Rights Council, whatever their deficiencies, are influential on the global stage, with their decisions cited throughout the world," the report claims the two institutions' record on anti-Semitism "is mixed."
Mixed Grades for UN on Anti-Semitism UN Watch
New York, Nov. 1, 2007 — While the United
Nations has taken several "unprecedented" steps in recent years to recognize and
reject anti-Semitism, the world body has yet to "to fully live up to its
promise," according to a report released today by UN Watch.
“Founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust, the UN as a global
organization has a unique role to play combating the alarming
resurgence of this age-old scourge,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of
the Geneva-based human rights monitoring organization. “We need renewed
commitment from UN officials and member states to combat anti-Semitic violence
and incitement, and greater vigilance against those who, in the words of former
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, ‘use criticism of Israel’s actions as a mask for
anti-Semitism.’”
Based on an examination of key actions by leading UN agencies
and officials, the 64-page study, “The
UN and Anti-Semitism, 2004-2007 Report Card ,” marks the first time the UN’s
record on fighting anti-Semitism has been measured since Mr. Annan issued a call
to action in June 2004, urging NGOs to “keep us to the mark.”
The report gave the UN high marks for new Holocaust
commemoration activities, and for condemnations of Iran’s Holocaust denial
issued by the Security Council, the General Assembly, and several senior
officials. Mr. Annan won special praise for his “key role in these efforts,”
while “early indicators show that his successor, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,
is similarly willing to speak out against anti-Semitism.”
Others received mixed grades. UN investigator on racism Doudou
Diène “on more than one occasion confronted the government of Iran for its
anti-Semitic statements,” while religious intolerance investigator Asma Jahangir
addressed rising anti-Semitism during a mission to France. However, despite
numerous appeals, both experts have “insufficiently addressed the incitement to
hatred against Jews, Christians, and other non-Muslims, that have been
documented in children’s textbooks distributed by the governments of Egypt and
Saudi Arabia.”
The report also revealed “inaction” by certain UN officials.
Despite numerous appeals made by NGOs to High Commissioner for Human Rights
Louise Arbour, the report failed to find any “noteworthy action on her part
against Holocaust denial or any other form of anti-Semitism.” Because Ms. Arbour
is charged with overseeing the UN effort to protect human rights and fight
racism, said the report, “this lapse is disappointing and cause for
concern.”
The report describes how the UN’s Islamic bloc of fifty-six
states is waging a campaign in key UN bodies “to gut anti-Semitism of its
meaning, by making the absurd argument that the term also refers to hatred
against Arabs and Muslims.” In September, Ambassador Masood Khan of Pakistan,
speaking for the Islamic group, said that Islamophobia was “a cruel form of
anti-Semitism.”
The report examines the annual plethora of resolutions by the
General Assembly and the Human Rights Council “that contribute—whether by intent
or in their effect—to an atmosphere that demonizes the Jewish state and promotes
hostility toward Jews as a whole.” In its first year, the Human Rights Council
“passed one hundred percent of its condemnatory resolutions against Israel,
ignoring the other 191 UN member states, including the world’s worst
abusers.”
The report analyzes speeches and articles showing how Iran,
Syria, and other Middle Eastern extremists “make direct use of these resolutions
to justify their cause and to delegitimize Israel.”
Professor Alan Dershowitz, Harvard University, "Antisemitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a
Marketplace of Ideas."l (Video Link)
20 Sep 2007
David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London, “The Academic Boycott and the New Antisemitism” (Video Link)
One for the Ages, I tell ya. A press release from Vigilant Freedom Europa has the details and Gates of Vienna has the background on the summit here.
I came to Brussels before the barbaric curtain descends altogether and
the last memory of man's greatness vanishes in another Dark Ages.
The course of of mankind's progress is not a straight automatic line,
but a tortuous struggle, with long detours or relapses into the
stagnant of the irrational. (Ayn Rand)
Warriors, bloggers, scholars, politicians, from across the globe converged in Brussels at the EU to strategize against the onslaught of the Islamization of the West.
I came with my buds Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Jihad and the forthcoming Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism and Robert
Spencer, Director ofJihadwatch and author of several books on Islam. Sitting together made the relentless stream of bad news more tolerable as we scribbled little notes to each other and kicked each
other under the table (on the off moments, of course :)
Some names must remain unreported here, their security too tenuous. But it was an extraordinary group! Much thanks to our gracious hosts Paul Belien of The Brussels Journal, Bart Debie, Filip De Winter, Philip Claeys, Dirk Crols and their colleagues and the blogosphere ambassadors, Baron Bodissey of Gates of Vienna, and many European bloggers, activists and experts who contributed ideas and contacts.
The middle of the road is like an unstable, radioactive element that can only last so long - and its time is running out. (paraphrasing Ayn Rand )
On October 18 and 19, over 70 organizations and individuals joined
together in the European and Flemish Parliaments to create a European
network of activists from 14 nations to resist the increasing
Islamisation of their countries. Keynote speakers included Bat Ye’or,
author of Eurabia and Dhimmitude and Robert Spencer, author of Religion of Peace, Why Christianity is and Islam Isn’t.
Additional speakers included David Littman, Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of
the Israeli Knesset, Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, Director of the Institute
for the Study of Islam and Christianity, Sam Solomon, Director of
Fellowship of Faith for Muslims and author of the Charter of Muslim Understanding, Dr. Marc Cogen, Ghent University, Dr. Andrew Bostom, author of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism,
and Laurent Artur du Plessis, author of a forthcoming book on shariah
finance. Many participants worldwide also attended the first day of
presentations online through webex
The most fascinating portion of the morning program was a series of country reports on the status of the Islamization and the creeping sharia in their respective countries.Paul Belien of Belgium, Stefan Herre of Germany, Nidra Poller of France, reports from the UK (the worst), Ted Ekeroth and Reinhard Fomi from Sweden, Lars Hedegaard from Denmark (extraordinary presentation), Jens Anfindsen from Norway, KGS from Finland, Johannes Janasen from Holland, Adriana Bolchini Gaigher of Italy (what passion!), Arnaud Dotezac from Switzerland, Traian Ungureanu of Romania (gave excellent advice how to bite back at the jihad), Austria.
Germany Muslim immigration is unknown, "unverified."The only thing known about the number of Muslims in Germany is that they don't know it. Given the federal survey's lack of interest in the number of immigrant Muslims, analysis of the costs of Muslim immigration is very difficult. The Federal government says between 3.1 and 3.4 million. Mideast expert Hans-Peter Raddatz believe the number north of 6 million. Massive German family reunion programs (from Turkey primarily), frequently directed into the German Welfare system, rapidly established a huge flux
Additional influx of German citizens with Lebanese backgrounds were evacuated from Lebanon. The goverment did not want to be too particular about passport controls (for humanitarian reasons) so how many were tied to affiliated with Hezbollah is impossible to know.
What I found most interesting is European countries consistently underestimated their Muslim numbers, while in America CAIR , MAS et all consistenly overestimated the number of Muslims in America. I am sure that will continue to until the Muslims reach critical mass in America.
The islamization in Germany is not only a question of ideology but increasingly of an
intervention of a foreign state -- Turkey in national sovereignity.May of the 2800 mosques built in Germany were built by theDITIB a subsidiary of the Turkish government authority for religion.
POLICE:
The police force in Germany's biggest state, Nordrhein-Westfalen is proceeding to reserve jobs for Muslims, whom they recruit in mosques. The establishment of exclusive Muslim units for "better cooperation between the police and Muslim communities."
When we define as an unreasonable demand that Muslims accept infidel police officers, we are starting to seperate society into Islamic and no-Islamic enclaves.
A problem Stefan thought was only Germany's yet it now more widespread is the tactic of the promoters and and defemders of Islamization to conflate, and deliberately mix up critics of Islam and nazis. Accusations such as racism, fascism or nazism usually are hurled at people who criticize Islam or even question the Islamization of Europe or the Eurabian concept. This is done by politicians, the media. clerics. academia and regular folks as well.
There are somee 100,000 Jews living in Germany, most of them immigrants from the Soviet Union, and they are increasingly harassed, especially in the public schools. It's horrific, appalling and sad. The harassments orginate mainly from Islamic immigrants but not only from them. Unfortunatrly there is still some original anti-semitism and Anti0Americanism dound within the native German population, though most of it is not open aggressive but rather, latent.
Most Germans support the European Union as a garantor of peace in Europe. and perhaps as a way to give up an embarassing nationality trading German for European.There is hardly any knowledge among Germans about its antidemocratic and Eurabian aspects so they tend to consider inofrmation about it as some odd conspiracy theory. To sum it up, there is only very little resistance agaisnt the Islamization in Germany.
Italy:
"The shadow of the throcratic totalitarianism hovers over Italy and Europe and is in danger of winning the war declared on us."
For western democracies this is the mani problem: If in Islam society, politics culture and religion are all one, how can we live in harmony with a Muslim system that wishes to islamize all aspects of life.
The political plan as already produced in Italy a series of small manifestations of intolerance towards Christians and their symbols (who have not relited by burning mosques ir killing Muslims.)
Muslims are demanding seperate beaches and restricted use of swimming pools and calls to consider Friday the festive day for Muslims (where it is not even in practice in Islamic countries.)
Further demands are being made for 5 pauses for prayer during study and work times which interrupts the rhythms of all other workers and damages the freedom of study and work for the Italian population at large.
Reports of maltreatment of women dominate the newspaper crime reprots. These are the ones that come to the attention of the public, but we know the tragedy of Muslim women segreagted at home and subjected to ill treatment is so very widepsread. Their Calavry begins when they arrive in Italy. They are isolated from the indigenous population are not sent to school, do not learn the language and therefore they cannot communicate with us and cannot ask for assisitance .
Not that they would. Terrified to I am sure.
New and hurried consturction of mosques has become an emergency, they excpect them as an urgetn need and there is not one Italian city that is not affected by thenis problem.They are not simply mosques but Islamic citadels, catering to their needs from birth to death seperating them form the Italinas. The main problem is that these Centers are under the influence of UCLII (unione delle Communita' e Organization Islamiche in Italia) whose Presiddnt and former secretary Robberto Piccado was investiaged for "incitement to to ethni and religious hatred" and "aplogists for terrorism. Charges levelled by two paliamentarians.
She went on to cite crime after crime against the church, women and hate speech.
DEMONSTRABLE PROOFS ON THE PREACHING OF HATRED: ROME: A hidden television camera catches the imam of the Turin mosques, Khohaila, preaching to his folllowers "not to mix with Westerners", to "stay far away from the infidels" and telling them "to hold women in submission." This is just one of many videos.
A courageous inquiry was carried out to discover that in our mosques the niqab, the integral veil, should be imposed byn the Divine authority and symbolizing the penetration of Sharia, the Koranic law, as part of the Islamization of Italy.
The Baron, Bat Yeor
The next speaker , whom I recorded, was Dr. Aryeh Eldad (see below.) Many of us are looking at Knesset member Arieh Eldad as a symbol of hope for the tortured Jewish state.In fact, the Israeli politician is heading a new national movement called Hatikvah, which means, literally, the hope.
Eldad is a world-renowned medical doctor. He was surgeon general of the medical corps and the head of plastic surgery at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem when the second intifada broke out in 2000.
There were about 3,000 casualties in two years, mostly burns, among other injuries, from suicide bombers,"I realized that preventive medicine is the most effective way to practice. Prevention is so much more efficient. In terror, preventive medicine doesn't lie within the hospital walls, but in the field of politics. We can prevent this terrible wave of terror."
And the only way is by preventing the creation of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River the famous two-state solution that is actually a suicidal plan.Every piece of land given away is interpreted as just another stage towards the goal of elimination of the state of Israel, he continued. "We can see that from Gaza. ˜It will turn into Hamastan"
Dr Eldad, Israel's next Prime Minister (well I can hope can't I?)
NEW: Dr. Eldad VIDEO
The most compelling presentation was Patrick Sookhdeo. I am right now reading his book GLOBAL JIHAD, The Future in the Face of Militant Islam. His evaluation of Islam in the UK was depressing. That train has left the station and frankly there is little hope of stopping it. I have an audio interview with Mr Sookdheo which I will post later (don't haver the right connection here.)
We don't do our homework so we do not understand how the enemy operates. Sookhdeo laid out how Islam infiltrated and co-opted British society.
In Islamic theology, you must organize. If there are two Muslims they must get together (and they do) and strategize. That is the genius of Islam.
LIVEBLOGGING PRESENTATION: Organization and Imposition of Sharia Radicals take over Muslim community and its infrastructure, shape it in their image. Gain control pf local Muslim areas, turn them into no go areas for non Muslims.
From his book: GLOBAL JIHAD, The Future in the Face of Militant Islam:
"Radical Islam has declared war on the West. It is the
manifestation of a theology that is rooted in classical Islam.
Traditional Islam which, developing under colonial pressure, saw a
break from violence, from the totality of shari's and from politcal
activism, is now gradually being subsumed into classical Islam. The
challenge for the West is .. to declare war on on the Islamic
theology, philosophy, and ideology that motivate and sanction
fanaticism, extremism, violence, and terrorism.
We live in depressing times, as leaders, both political and military,
whether in the Islamic or the non-Islamic world, grapple with issues
that seem insoluble."
For this to be done, the Muslim world - its clerics, theologians,
political leaders and umam -- must rise up and engage in a radical
reformation of Islam.
While liberal societies have long relegated religion to the outer
reaches of society, leaving it a primarily private matter, Islam has
shot back in the opposite direction. Muslims are presently engaged in
instituting Islam and Islamic law into every tenet of society. A DARK
AGES AS IT WERE. By using the classical tenets of Islam, they have
undertaken a strategy to impose Isla, on Muslim and no Islamic states.
The quranic view on war (according to the book) "The initiation of war
is for the cause of God."
Pakistani General S.K. Malik in his military textbook:
"'Jehad' the
Quranic concept of total strategy, demands the preparation and
application of total national power and military instrument is one of
its elements. As a component of the total strategy, the military
strategy aims at striking terror into the hearts of the enemy from the
prepatory stage of war while providing effective safeguards against
being terror stricken by the enemy." Source Sookhdeo's GLOBAL JIHAD.
Nidra Poller .
Belien, Littman and .....
And into the evening................
Tossing back a few.
The Czech Republic is well represented!
Filip De Winter, Dr. Eldad, running for Prime Minister of Israel on the Hatikvah ticket and David Littman who is very active in several NGOs on human rights issues at the UN commission (check out my interview with him here.)
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