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Islamic "charities" that are "misinterpreting Islam" giving Taliban $200 million a year

Hamas-CAIR, ISNA and the hundreds of other Muslim Brotherhood groups in America could learn a thing or two from these murder-financiers. Or perhaps they already have, after having been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the largest terrorist funding trial in our nation's history, the Holy Land Foundation trial.

Islamic "charities" that are "misinterpreting Islam" giving Taliban $200 million a year
(thanks to Robert Spencer)

That's a lot of misinterpretation. But actually, there is no misunderstanding of Islam going on here at all. In Islam, zakat -- the alms required of every Muslim -- can and should be given to further the jihad. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that there are so many jihad charities.

"Terror funds linked to shady charities," by Sandeep Singh Grewal for Gulf Daily News, December 10 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

HUNDREDS of millions of dollars a year are being channelled into the hands of the Taliban - much of it from the Gulf, an expert told the GDN yesterday.

Shady charities in the GCC continue to funnel cash to Afghanistan to fund insurgents, said Afghanistan Centre for Research and Policy Studies director Haroun Mir.

He accused Gulf countries of not doing enough to monitor bogus charity operations, which he accused of filling terrorists' coffers with cash to buy weapons, equipment and conduct operations.

"The Taliban gets $200 million a year to carry out its activities and recruit young people to spread terror across the world," he said on the sidelines of the Manama Dialogue, which ended yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa.

"This huge amount of money is coming from somewhere and one main channel is bogus charities in GCC and Arab states, which collect funds that are used for illegal activities instead of noble causes."

Mr Mir said people in the region were being conned into parting with their money by those misinterpreting Islam.

"Terrorists are using narratives based on grievances of people and misinterpreting Islam," he said.

"The funds are flowing via ghost charities."

The Muslim faith requires followers to make donations to the needy as part of an Islamic tax, known as "Zakat".

However, Mr Mir said there was still no official authority that monitored where the money was going.

"Nobody has an idea where this money goes as it is being used by extremist groups to purchase weapons or recruit suicide bombers," he claimed.....

Moderate Tunisia: #Savage Cleric Ahmad Al-Suhayli Calls the Jews Prophet Slayers and Apes, Prays for Allah to Annihilate Them

But my ads are "hate speech." This is the sickness of the left and the enemedia. In a moral society, this vile ideology would be relegated to the outer fringe with the KKK and Nazis.

Instead, it is commanded that we "respect it." And if we speak against this genocidal ideology, we are "haters," "racists" and "bigots." Lovers of life are the bad guys, jihadists are the good guys.

Islamic Jew-hatred -- it's in the quran. Speak out against it fiercely and proudly! Be proud to be human.

"Tunisian Cleric Ahmad Al-Suhayli Calls the Jews Prophet Slayers and Apes, Prays for Allah to Annihilate Them" MEMRI, December 11, 2012

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon in Rades, Tunisia, which was delivered by Sheik Ahmad Al-Suhayli, which aired on Hannibal TV on November 30, 3012:

Sheik Ahmad Al-Suhayli: Ever since the days of the prophets, the Jews have been obstinate. They rebelled against the decrees and laws of Allah. Whenever Allah commanded them to do something, they did the exact opposite.

[…]

The Jews continued with their deviations and transgressions. Those accursed Zionist Jews even had the audacity to slay the prophets of Allah. Allah said: “They were struck with humiliation and misery, and they drew upon themselves the wrath of Allah, because they rejected His signs, slayed the prophets without just cause, and rebelled and transgressed.” In the days of Allah’s prophet David, a group of Jews was transformed into apes, because they violated the laws of Allah.

[…]

The Koran exposed the evil psyche of the Jews.

[…]

When they violated the treaties and agreements that the Prophet Muhammad made with them in Al-Madina, he banished them and drove them out of Al-Madina. In modern times, this accursed gang gathered once again in Palestine, by means of deception and trickery. Then came the Balfour Declaration. It was Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary back then, in 1917, who gathered the Jews in Palestine and Jerusalem. Then he called upon the foreign powers to help [the Jews], providing them with money and weapons.

This Balfour Declaration was a tragedy and a catastrophe for the Palestinians in particular, and for the Arab and Islamic nation in general. He promised a land that he did not own to people who do not deserve it – because it is not the land of the Jews – to pave the way for the racist Zionist movement to rule Palestine and Jerusalem. Indeed, that is what happened.

[…]

Look at those Zionists. After a bus in Tel Aviv was blown up by a martyrdom seeker, they hastened to seek a truce, when the Arab and Islamic peoples showed their resolve, and stood as one, defending the violated honor of the Islamic nation.

[…]

Brothers, the Arab Spring that the media talks about will not truly be a spring unless we support our brothers in Gaza, and stand united with them, in order to drive those Jews out of Palestine and to liberate Jerusalem.

[...]

Oh Allah, just like you destroyed the people of ‘Aad and Thamud, destroy this gang of Jews. Strike them with a deterring force that will destroy them.

[…]

Oh Allah, you know everything that those accursed Jews have done – the corruption they spread on earth, their diverting of people from your path, and their humiliation of your servants. Strike them with a resounding blow, and do not leave a single one of them. Oh Lord, rip them asunder, and disperse them throughout the land, as you did with their followers, because they have invoked the sanctities of Islam. “Soon the unjust will know what vicissitude will befall them.” “Oh Lord, do not leave a single one of them on Earth, for if you do, they will lead your servants astray, and they will beget none but sinners and infidels.” Allah, make the wombs of their women barren, and dry up the loins of their men. Strike them with Your hatred and wrath, oh You who delivers harsh punishment and torment.

"The Blogger’s Rules For Defeating Liberals"

BC over at the blog 1'm 41 contacted me in a quest to ask

"50 of the brightest minds in the conservative blogosphere their views, so that I can compile a set a blogging best practices to help act as a guide for the thousands of grassroots conservative bloggers -- so that as a group we can be more effective at attacking liberals."

I gave BC a short summary of what I thought needed to be done in the face of a vicious left, a gutless, mealy-mouthed right, and a culture at war with American values and morality.

Kudos to BC for assembling 18 rules by getting a wide range of comment from an interesting mix of right bloggers like The Lonely Conservative, Jimmy Z,  Zilla,  Wolf Files, Angry White Dude, Kathy Shaidle, The Black Sphere, Blazing Cat Fur, The Looking Spoon, Chicks On The Right,  Waznmentobe  McCain  and Moe Lane.

It s a great read. So yeah, read it all.

"The Blogger’s Rules For Defeating Liberal"

After losing to Obama twice, I decided to ask some of the best bloggers what they thought we could do differently.

Below is a short summary of what they feel like would be the best approach (tips, tactics, what to do, what not to do, attack strategy) for enabling conservative bloggers to help conservatives win more elections.

“War!” Andrew Breitbart

I will add the rest as they come in…

Rule 1 – Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs) - A complete reevaluation of the opposition strategy is needed. The Republicans have failed. The Republican Party has failed. The left controls the media, the government, the educational system, and the pop culture. Obama’s reelection is the fruit of 50 years of hammering at the American psyche to destroy American exceptionalism.

Those who are left who still believe in it have to go over the heads of all the centers of power, appeal directly to the people, and formulate new groups and organizations that bypass the corrupt and compromised entities.

The Tea Party did this but failed when the media crushed it. Our only hope is to attempt such an organization anew and decisively throw off old attitudes and perspectives and ways of doing things, refusing to accept the media paradigms, and forming a world view and perspective that is a true alternative to socialism and statism. If we cannot or do not do this, all is lost.

Rule 2:  Dave Blount (Moonbattery) – Here’s my advice for countermoonbat bloggers:

Be relentless. Liberalism is like rust; it never stepscorroding every aspect of society. That’s we why can never stop fighting it. If our attention flags, readers will inevitably wander away. Hammer away with everything you’ve got, day in and day out, not just when you feel particularly inspired.

Be honest. Let the Fox News analysts come up with politically expedient compromise positions. Honesty is what we have to offer that they don’t. Bloggers are the spine and the conscience of the conservative movement. If we sell out, it’s all over. Unite. We don’t all have to be on the same page on every issue; we would go stagnant if we were. But we are all pushing in the same direction, so we should promote each other whenever possible.

Find your angle. There isn’t much difference between 1,001 blogs and 1,002 blogs all shouting the same thing. Ideally every blog will find something slightly different to bring to the table.

Keep your sense of humor. It isn’t easy to laugh these days, but no one is going to read you if you don’t stay entertaining.
Dave

Rule 3: BigFurHat (It’s BigFurHat) - There is no denying that American culture is on the decline. Most people. left and right, agree. Where we split politically is which way the finger of blame points. I think it’s important to be able to lay all societal ills at the feet of progressivism, where it rightly belongs.

No matter what problem you see it is to be labeled “progressivism in action.”
If you encounter racism in our own ranks, teach them that they should NEVER use derogatory terms for any minority. This is the only arrow the left has in their quiver, to call us racists, that is why they are using it so much lately. Do not play into that hand.
Purge our side of racists by reeducating them to be able to articulate their frustrations by blaming the real enemy – progressives.

Remind everyone that when they are witnessing a decline in culture, like a flash mob or a wilding event, it is the corruption of good people by “progressivism.” They are merely victims of progressive policies. Stress that the removal of progressivism will be the first step toward repairing our broken society.

Rule 4: John Hawkins (Right Wing News ) - The Short, Sweet Three Step Guide For Brand New Conservative Bloggers

1) Take the time to see what else is out there and then do something different — enough so that you will stand out.
2) Reach out, link, meet people, market, use social media and try to cross-post as much as possible. It doesn’t matter how good you are if you can’t get anyone’s attention.
3) You don’t build an audience overnight. Be consistently and persistently good over a long enough period of time to draw eyeballs.

There's a lot more, get all 18 rules here.

Human Rights Day at the UN: Election of Islamic Slave-holding Mauritania as VP of UN Human Rights Council

The monsters at the UN strike again. Slavery under Islam is encouraged, and it is still very much alive and legal in Mauritania. Modern-day slavery and the silence of black leadership in the country exposes these demagogues for what they really are: ghouls. The word for slave in Arabic is black. Robert Spencer wrote:

Anti-slavery crusaders have great difficulty in some Muslim countries because slavery is rooted in the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example. Muhammad owned slaves, and the Qur’an takes the existence of slavery for granted, even as it enjoins the freeing of slaves under certain circumstances, such as the breaking of an oath: “Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom” (5:89).

But while the freeing of a slave or two here and there is encouraged, the institution itself is never questioned. The Qur’an even gives a man permission to have sexual relations with his slave girls as well as with his wives: “The believers must (eventually) win through, those who humble themselves in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in deeds of charity; who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess, for (in their case) they are free from blame…” (23:1-6). A Muslim is not to have sexual relations with a woman who is married to someone else – except a slave girl: “And all married women (are forbidden unto you) save those (captives) whom your right hands possess. It is a decree of Allah for you” (4:24).

Slavery is still practiced more or less openly today in Sudan and Mauritania, and there is evidence that slavery still continues beneath the surface in some majority-Muslim countries as well -- notably Saudi Arabia, which only abolished slavery in 1962, Yemen and Oman, both of which ended legal slavery in 1970, and Niger, which didn’t abolish slavery until 2004. In Niger, the ban is widely ignored, and according to a Nigerian study, as many as one million people remain in bondage there.

And that collective negation of humanity, aka the UN, has become the de facto arm of the modern-day caliphate, the OC (Organization of Islamic Conference.)

Slavery In the Quran, Traditions, and Classical Law James M Arlandson

It's just a matter of time before the Human Rights Council honors Adolph Hitler with a Lifetime Acheievement Award.

"Human Rights Day Marred by Election of Slave-holding Mauritania as VP of UN Human Rights Council" UN Watch.org 

GENEVA, Dec. 10 – UN Watch condemned today's election of Mauritania, a country that allows 800,000 of its citizens to live as slaves, as Vice-President of the UN Human Rights Council.

In addition, the Geneva-based group also announced the failure of its yearlong campaign, with 55 MPs and NGOs, to get UNESCO to remove Syria from its human rights committee.

1. Mauritania Elected Today as VP of UN Human Rights Council

The UN Human Rights Council met today in Geneva and elected Mauritania as its Vice-President and Rapporteur for the next year, the second highest position at the world's top human rights body.

"It is obscene for the U.N. to use the occasion of Human Rights Day, when we commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to elect the world's worst enabler of slavery to this prestigious post," said Hillel Neuer, UN Watch executive director.

"The U.N. is making an arsonist head of the fire department. It defies both morality and common sense."

According to a recent report by the Guardian, "up to 800,000 people in a nation of 3.5 million remain chattels," with power and wealth overwhelmingly concentrated among lighter-skinned Moors, "leaving slave-descended darker-skinned Moors and black Africans on the edges of society."

In today's session, Poland was elected president, while Ecuador, Maldives, and Switzerland were also elected as vice-presidents.

Neuer also objected to Ecuador's election, citing its "notorious record of censoring independent journalists and shutting down newspapers."

UN Watch expressed regret that while the dictatorship of Belarus took the floor in today's meeting to criticize the election of Poland, none of the democracies said a word about the election of Mauritania or Ecuador.

Not Only

Islamic supremacists are playing the victim in Burma. Don't believe it. It's the same strategy over and over and over. Agitate, brutalize, subjugate, then cry victim. Thanks to The Religion of Peace.com for the photo:

But Islam tells Muslims differently, and that is why Buddhists in Burma are having the same problems with Muslim entitlement with which Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Christians in Nigeria, and Baha'i in Iran are all too familiar. "You should know that the earth belongs to Allah and His Apostle, and I want to expel you from this land"  Muhammad

Human Rights Watch: Iran's genocidal calls for annihilation of Israel not "incitement," but "advocacy"

When is genocide not genocide? When it calls for the annihilation of the Jews. And genocide is certainly not genocide when it's Islamic. Obama say, "respect it!"

More moral depravity from the leftist/Islamic alliance.

Soros-funded Human Rights Watch: Iran's genocidal calls for annihilation of Israel not "incitement," but "advocacy" Jihad Watch

How compromised and in thrall to Islamic supremacism is the Left? This much. "Dancing Around Genocide," by David Feith in the Wall Street Journal, December 4 (thanks to Paul):

Is promoting genocide a human-rights violation? You might think that's an easy question. But it isn't at Human Rights Watch, where a bitter debate is raging over how to describe Iran's calls for the destruction of Israel. The infighting reveals a peculiar standard regarding dictatorships and human rights and especially the Jewish state.

Human Rights Watch is the George Soros-funded operation that has outsize influence in governments, newsrooms and classrooms world-wide. Some at the nonprofit want to denounce Iran's regime for inciting genocide. "Sitting still while Iran claims a 'justification to kill all Jews and annihilate Israel' . . . is a position unworthy of our great organization," Sid Sheinberg, the group's vice chairman, wrote to colleagues in a recent email.

But Executive Director Kenneth Roth, who runs the nonprofit, strenuously disagrees.

Asked in 2010 about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement that Israel "must be wiped off the map," Mr. Roth suggested that the Iranian president has been misunderstood. "There was a real question as to whether he actually said that," Mr. Roth told The New Republic, because the Persian language lacks an idiom for wiping off the map. Then again, Mr. Ahmadinejad's own English-language website translated his words that way, and the main alternative translation—"eliminated from the pages of history"—is no more benign. Nor is Mr. Ahmadinejad an outlier in the regime. Iran's top military officer declared earlier this year that "the Iranian nation is standing for its cause that is the full annihilation of Israel."

Mr. Roth's main claim is legalistic: Iran's rhetoric doesn't qualify as "incitement"—which is illegal under the United Nations Genocide Convention of 1948—but amounts merely to "advocacy," which is legal.

"The theory" to which Human Rights Watch subscribes, he has written in internal emails, "is that in the case of advocacy, however hateful, there is time to dissuade—to rebut speech with speech—whereas in the case of incitement, the action being urged is so imminently connected to the speech in question that there is no time to dissuade. Incitement must be suppressed because it is tantamount to action."

Mr. Roth added in another email: "Many of [Iran's] statements are certainly reprehensible, but they are not incitement to genocide. No one has acted on them."...

Not yet, anyway! So relax!

Syrian jihadist rebels demand Islamic caliphate

Obama is backing these jihadists --

Syrian rebels demand Islamic caliphate

Syrian rebels demand Islamic caliphate, praise bin Laden and Taliban (thanks to Robert Spencer)

The jihadi speaks about not fearing the West or America, but only wanting to please the Lord of the Worlds and establish an Islamic caliphate, as Sponge Bob looks down on the scene from the wall above.

Video thanks to Lachlan.

Pamela Geller on CBS Radio: AFDI's Quran ad campaign

Click the links to listen:

Pamela Geller on WCBS-NY (Radio) - New York, NY
 14:03:38 A blogger has bought more ad space at subway stops and Metro North platforms to display anti-Islam messages. Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative tells the New York Observer the ads going up later this month will feature a panorama of the sky the moment the World Trade Center burst into flames in 20o1 with a quote from the Koran that reads ...

Pamela Geller on WCBS-NY (Radio) - New York, NY
 16:06:39 A blogger has bought more ad space at subway stops and Metro North platforms to display anti-Islam messages. Pamela Geller of the American Freedom Defense Initiative tells the New York Observer the ads going up later this month will feature a panorama of the sky the moment the World Trade Center burst into flames on 9/11 with a quote from the Koran that reads ...

Pamela Geller on WCBS-NY (Radio) - New York, NY
22:09:08 ... New Yorkers quickly defaced the anti-Islam ads put up by a blogger in the city subway and Metro-North platforms; that blogger Pamela Geller tells us, "Here I ran ten, ten little posters in the New York City subway system, and all ten were defaced and destroyed within an hour." Undaunted by that graffiti, though, Geller says she's bought more space to put up another anti- ...

Pamela Geller on WCBS-NY (Radio) - New York, NY
12/09/2012 07:09:50 ...  New Yorkers quickly defaced the anti-Islam ads put up by a blogger on the city subway and Metro-North platforms; Pamela Geller complained; "It's very dangerous. It's really dangerous, the war on free speech, and I think every American should be more concerned about that than with the content of my ads."...

 

Jamie Glazov: Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Crime

The silence of the feminists is as criminal as the cutters. The manifestation of the absence of morality.

Jamie Glazov: Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Crime (thanks to Robert Spencer)

At FrontPage this morning Jamie Glazov tells truths about FGM that the Western Leftist intelligentsia seems determined to ignore or deny:

Asia News recently reported how the misogynist crime of female genital mutilation (FGM) continues to be a “widespread traditional practice” in “rural areas and more remote areas of Indonesia, particularly the island of Java.” The story makes sure to remind us, naturally, that while this crime is being perpetrated in a Muslim country, the crime “is not a rule set in a rigid manner by the precepts of Islam.” It is only widespread, we are consoled, because of the actions of “the more extreme and integral fringe.”

In her coverage of this news report, freedom fighter Pamela Geller shrewdly asks the key question that somehow mysteriously eludes the minds of every breathing human being in our mainstream media: “The fringe made it widespread?”

Indeed, if only the “extreme and integral fringe” supports this sadistic and vicious crime against women, and if it is “not a rule set in a rigid manner by the precepts of Islam,” then where are all the Muslim imams, muftis and clerics in the world, and in Indonesia in particular, vociferously denouncing and repudiating this crime as un-Islamic and coming to the defense of Muslim women?

Why haven’t they shut down this crime against women, since it is, after all, so un-Islamic? Where are all the tens of thousands of Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations around the world shouting in moral indignation and fury about their young little Muslim girls having their clitorises cut out with broken glass and being maimed for life, as they do about Danish cartoons and American movies? Why do cartoons and films mean more to them than the brutal maiming of their women?

Hmmm. What a great mystery this continues to be.

One can’t help from wondering: could it all have something possibly to do with the fact that female genital mutilation is rooted in Islam and integral to its misogynist structures?

Pamela Geller gives us the easy answer – an answer you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting to hear on Anderson Cooper, Geraldo or Pierce Morgan, since uncomfortable answers can’t be given when pertinent questions are never asked in our mainstream media. Geller affirms that this Islam-denial coverage of FGM in Asia News “is just more whitewashing of Islam’s human rights abuses.” She points out that FGM is “fundamentally Islamic” and cites its foundation in Islamic texts such as Umdat al-Salik:

“Circumcision is obligatory (O: for both men and women. For men it consists of removing the prepuce from the penis, and for women, removing the prepuce (Ar. Bazr) of the clitoris.” Sacred Islamic Reliance: page 59, Umdat al-Salik  (“Reliance of the Traveler”), a manual of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence, endorsed by Egypt’s very own Al-Azhar University of Cairo — the oldest and most prestigious university in the Islamic world.

December is Hatred and Violence in the Qur'an Awareness Month

Robert Spencer has started an illuminating new daily series at Jihad Watch: Hatred and Violence in the Qur'an Awareness Month. Running through the month of December, it was inspired by the Pat Condell video above, which utterly destroys the trumped-up and manipulative propaganda concept of "Islamophobia Awareness Month." Toward the end of the video, Condell says that a Hatred and Violence in the Qur'an Awareness Month would be much more appropriate, and Robert took him up on it.

Spencer explains: "After all, November was Islamophobia Awareness Month, and certainly the hatred and violence in the Qur'an kills many, many more people than 'Islamophobia' ever has or ever will, and so it is far more deserving than 'Islamophobia' of a month of its own."

Here is today's installment:

One of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and the niche where it used to be

Why do some Muslims hate pre-Islamic art with such frenzied intensity that they would destroy it, despite its historical and archaeological value? Why did the Taliban blow up the Buddhas of Bamiyan, and why do some Islamic supremacists in Egypt today want to do the same thing to the Sphinx and the Pyramids?

It isn't just because they are artifacts of a religion that Islam rejects as false and idolatrous, although that is a large part of it. It is also because the Qur'an says that the ruins are a sign of Allah's punishment of those who rejected his truth:

Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth. (Qur'an 3:137)

This is one of the foundations of the Islamic idea that pre-Islamic civilizations, and non-Islamic civilizations, are all jahiliyya – the society of unbelievers, which is worthless. Obviously this cuts against the idea of archaeological preservation. V. S. Naipaul encountered this attitude in his travels through Muslim countries. For many Muslims, he observed in Among the Believers, “The time before Islam is a time of blackness: that is part of Muslim theology. History has to serve theology.” Naipaul recounted that some Pakistani Muslims, far from valuing the nation’s renowned archaeological site at Mohenjo Daro, saw its ruins as a teaching opportunity for Islam, recommending that Qur’an 3:137 be posted there as a teaching tool.

Their hatred for their own heritage and past was a point of pride for them, inculcated by the Qur'an.

WPIX TV on AFDI Quran ads: "New York's most notorious anti-Islamist, Pamela Geller"

That's quite a mouthful: "NY's most notorious anti-islamist." WPIX says "anti-islamist" like it's a bad thing. Are they pro-Islamist? Nuts.

Pamela Geller, WND Monday column: Willfully blind to reality of jihad

Start your week off right. Read my new column up at WND:

DEFENDING THE WEST

Willfully blind to reality of jihad
Exclusive: Pamela Geller exposes 'primary goal of millions of Muslims'

Academics produce “studies” that are advancing the ridiculous fiction that “anti-Muslim fringe groups dominated the mass media via displays of fear and anger” after 9/11 that “stoked public fears that Muslims are secretly plotting to overthrow the U.S. government.” “Anti-Muslim fringe groups” are responsible for that idea? Osama, Anwar Awlaki, Sheikh Qaradawi, et al have made no secret of it. And yet it is somehow the fault of champions of freedom. This is what passes for research and analysis at a major American university today. It’s a sign of how intellectually corrupt and morally bankrupt our universities have become.

The same moral blindness is rampant at the highest levels of our government. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last Saturday: “So, look, I’m not making excuses for the missed opportunities of the Israelis, or the lack of generosity, the lack of empathy that I think goes hand-in-hand with the suspicion. So, yes, there is more that the Israelis need to do to really demonstrate that they do understand the pain of an oppressed people in their minds, and they want to figure out, within the bounds of security and a Jewish democratic state, what can be accomplished.”

Hillary is demanding that Jews empathize with their annihilationists. Hillary wants Jews to “be generous” with those who are obsessed with their extermination and the elimination of the tiny Jewish state. The crime of the Jewish people is their love of life and their desire to live free, and not under constant terror and war. Why doesn’t Hillary counsel the oppressors, the worst violators of human rights in the world, to cultivate empathy? Why doesn’t she urge the savages who target innocent civilians to empathy? Why doesn’t this ghost of a woman urge empathy upon the savages who drag the bodies of friends of the Israelis through the streets of Gaza? Why doesn’t she counsel empathy to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader who recently promised a new and “savage round” of the jihad against Israel?

She doesn’t because she knows the jihadis are incapable of empathy. It doesn’t exist in their brutal ideology. There is no Golden Rule under Islam. Clinton’s remarks were a violation of the most basic human right: the right to live. And they were of a piece with the now nearly universal tendency to blame the victim of jihad, and to do everything possible to excuse the jihadis.

Gets better. Read the rest here.

Sunday Night Art

A favorite poem from a favorite poet. A precious gift of love on the second night of Chanukah.

And please spare me the lecture on what a communist Neruda was. I know, I know. I don't like him for his politics, I love him for his art. His ill-thought politics be damned.

The painting (below) Girl with a Pearl Earring is is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks.

Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)

XVII (I do not love you...)

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

 

Leg-crossing Swedish ambassador angers Iran

Perhaps Columbia University and other ivys will honor Ahmadinejad again in light of this latest progressive stance. And Queers for Palestine can do a rendition of These Boots Are Made for Walkin' before Ahmadinejad calls for their public hanging on the gallows in Union Square.

The leftist lapdogs at the Atlantic Wire were wildly quick to explain away this Islamic savagery:

"Pointing the soles of the feet towards someone is impolite because the soles of the feet (shoe) are considered dirty, closest to the ground, closer to the devil and farther away from God. When in the presence of Muslims, be careful not to raise or cross your legs in such a way that the sole of the foot faces others in the room."

If only The Atlantic would move their HQ to Tehran (and take Sully with ya, and all the students who applaud him, and all the leftists who laud him, and .....)

"Leg-crossing Swedish ambassador angers Iran" The Local (thanks to Robert Spencer)

Sweden's newly appointed ambassador in Tehran has reportedly upset Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - by crossing his legs during a meeting.

According to Iranian website Asriran.com the Swedish ambassador, Peter Tejler, committed the apparently offensive act after a ceremony in which he presented his credentials to the president.

It is unclear, though, whether the president himself was offended by the ambassador's cross-legged pose or whether this was, in fact, the interpretation of events by Asriran.com. Photos from the meeting show Ahmadinejad himself sitting cross-legged, too.

Armenian website Panorama translated the Iranian website's report, which explains that crossing one's legs "contradicts international diplomatic norms".

The report continues: "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his part, himself crossed his legs in response to the impoliteness of his interlocutor."

Photographs from the meeting indeed show Tejler sitting cross-legged, his right foot pointing slightly upwards.

The Atlantic Wire has published this explanation, from the University of West Florida, of why it is a taboo in Muslim culture to show the soles of one's feet.

"Pointing the soles of the feet towards someone is impolite because the soles of the feet (shoe) are considered dirty, closest to the ground, closer to the devil and farther away from God. When in the presence of Muslims, be careful not to raise or cross your legs in such a way that the sole of the foot faces others in the room."

The website of the Swedish Embassy in Tehran confirms that the ceremony and meeting took place in on December 3rd but has no mention of the ambassador's and the president's sitting poses.

VIDEO: Unable to Respond, Israeli Soldiers Attacked by Muslim Mob Sustain Injuries

This is shameful. The idea that the IDF must retreat against violent "Palestinian" Muslims is patently ridiculous on its face, and everyone knows it. America suffers from this same moral corruption. We force our soldiers to fight with their hands bound and tied....

Israel and the US are "not allowed" to use the proper measures and force.

Ayn Rand spoke of this (in the context of the Vietnam war) and said that it was "worse than appeasement. It's a shameful pretense. Further, since the world knows we [and Israel -- Atlas] are not physically weak, it would be an admission of moral corruption: that we do not possess a primitive dignity that any nation should have -- to its own dead, if nothing else -- that if it is involved in a war, it should finish it. It must win or be defeated."

Unable to Respond, Israeli Soldiers Chased by Arab Mob Sustain Injuries (VIDEO) Algemeiner, December 9, 2012

Video has surfaced of a confrontation between IDF soldiers and a mob of rock-throwing Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank. The incident took place outside the village of Kafr Qaddum and comes only days after a similar scene played out in Hebron.

In the video the IDF soldiers  attempt to disperse a riot before retreating to their posts under a deluge of rocks and stones.

According to Israel’s Maariv three soldiers were injured in the incident, “two by stones, one with a fractured hand and the other in the face with a cut to his head. Another fighter was hurt when a stun grenade exploded and burned his hand. The injured soldiers were evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.”

A source in the IDF told The Algemeiner that soldiers must ask for approval before using force. “Every time you go out on a mission you breach the subject beforehand,” the source said. “Every scenario has its own procedure of how you can engage fire or what they’re going to do in specific scenarios.” The source continued.

If the expectation for that particular mission doesn’t go as expected, as was the case in that scene in the video, then the soldiers have no recourse but to retreat. “I was in the reserve two weeks ago and I heard over the radio that several soldiers were surrounded by a mob throwing rocks and they had to wait for permission to use rubber bullets,” the source said.

Ynet reports that many soldiers have complained of the vague rules of engagement.

For its part an IDF spokesperson for the soldiers’ unit released the following statement:

“The incident depicted in the video is being investigated. The event took place during a violent and illegal riot in Qaddum – one of the most violent areas in the Judea and Samaria Sector.

“Following the incident, the orders pertaining to crowd control were clarified further, stressing that soldiers must break up violent riots with professional determination, while exerting operational discretion as to the use of force.”

A video of the incident can be viewed at the top of this post.

The most precious gift of all...... truth

What a beautiful Chanukah message. A true leader is one who speaks the truth no matter the consequences in an age of evil. This is the opposite of everything Obama says and thinks.

I stand in awe. Prime Minister Harper, Gd bless you.

Minister of Citizenship Jason Kenney and Mr. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, thank you kindly for your warm wishes for Hanuka.  it is especially significant in these days, when the Palestinian enemies of Israel not only engage in a war of terror, destruction of Israel and the Jewish people, but they also engage in a massive campaign with the active help of the antisemitic UN (UNESCO), to delegitimize Israel, to rewrite history and to deny our  Biblical connection to Jerusalem and Eretz Israel.  

According to Mahmoud Abbas, Jews never had a temple in Jerusalem and he denies any historic connection between the Jews and land of Israel.  Please note that Mahmoud Abbas the so called moderate, is also the author of a PhD thesis in holocaust denial.  although he is more pragmatic than Hamas and does not endorse firing of missiles, or another intifada (for the moment), in a nutshell, there is not much difference between Abbas & Hanieh in terms of incitement to Jew hatred and to the ultimate goal of elimination of Israel from it's land.  

Therefore I urge you to review Canada policy of "two state solution", which is based on meaningless slogans, but not anchored in reality for the following reasons:

1) The Palestinians do not wish to have a state.in the west bank of the Jordan, or Gaza.  if they did they could have had it until 1967.  this is the overwhelming proof that settlements, or building in Jerusalem are NOT obstacles to peace.  

2) The PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was established in 1964, 3 years before the six day war in June 1967.  The PLO was established to liberate what?  They want Jews GONE from the ME and Hamas (represents the majority of Palestinians) say it loud and clear.  

3) The EU, the US & Canada do not have any plan to disarm Hamas, nor Hizbullah. It does not make sense to engage in a pipe dream of negotiating "peace" with an enemy who has no interest in peace, but in total anihilation of our people.

4) Jerusalem was never a capital of any Palestinian, or Muslim entity.  It was the ancient capital of Judea and the united kingdom of Israel under king David.  in fact until 1967 Jews did not have access to their holly grounds.  Under Israeli sovereignity, all religions have access to their holly sites.

5) The only reason the Palestinian terror organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al Aqsa martyrs.....) still exist is because of money pouring in from EU and north America.  Canada should take the lead and cut all financial aid to the PA, until they stop incitement and recognize loud and clear Israel existence as a Jewish state.

thank you again, for the warm wishes....God bless you, as you are true friends of Israel and the Jewish people.

"Do the ads take free speech too far?"

The question is never, does jihad take religion too far?  Is ethnic cleansing in the cause of Islam going too far? Or is death for apostates taking Sharia too far? The question is always whether we should abridge our freedoms so as not to offend savages.

"9/11 Anti-Islam Ads Hit NYC Subways" Mary Noble, Senior Editor, Politix

Do the ads take free speech too far?

Pamela Geller has outdone herself with her most inflammatory anti-Islam subway ad yet. The poster combines a quote from the Quran with the image most likely to inflame anti-Muslim passions among New Yorkers – a photo of the Twin Towers in flames during the 9/11 attack.

Geller heads the American Freedom Defense Initiative, who sponsored the previous spate of anti-Muslim ads in subway stations this fall. Transit police have probably only just finished mopping the sweat wrung from their brows by the earlier ads, which prompted the NYPD to double the number of officers in affected subway stations.

Some New Yorkers compared Geller's earlier ads to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" when there's no fire – one of the rare situations in which public safety concerns trump free speech rights. The NY transit authority initially refused to run the ads for that very reason, but was compelled to by a federal court on First Amendment grounds. Geller herself cites a free speech justification, asserting that "I refuse to abridge my free speech so as to appease savages."

Hamas vows to build Islamic state on all the land of Israel

And the NY Times reports so matter-of-factly on these genocidal savages. La-dee-dah. Jewish annihilation, la-dee-dah.

And what did Israel think it was getting in agreeing to a hudna with these savages? World acceptance? Really?

"Leader Celebrates Founding of Hamas With Defiant Speech" NY Times, December 9, 2012

 Tens of thousands of Hamas supporters gathered in Gaza City near a large replica of an M-75, a Hamas rocket, that bore the words "Made in Gaza." (Wissam Nassar for The New York Times:)

GAZA CITY - Khaled Meshal, the political leader of Hamas, gave a defiant speech on Saturday, vowing to build an Islamic Palestinian state on all the land of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Speaking before tens of thousands of supporters to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Mr. Meshal said the Jewish state would be wiped away through "resistance," or military action. "The state will come from resistance, not negotiation," he said. "Liberation first, then statehood."

His voice rising to a shout, Mr. Meshal said: "Palestine is ours from the river to the sea and from the south to the north. There will be no concession on any inch of the land." He vowed that all Palestinian refugees and their descendants would one day return to their original homes in what is now Israel.

"We will never recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli occupation, and therefore there is no legitimacy for Israel, no matter how long it will take," he said. "We will free Jerusalem inch by inch, stone by stone. Israel has no right to be in Jerusalem." He also promised Palestinian prisoners held in Israel that they would be freed using the same methods that had worked in the past - the kidnapping of Israelis and Israeli soldiers, like Gilad Shalit, who was released last year in a prisoner exchange after five years as a hostage.

Guess who?

Guess who is winning the Guardian person of the year 2012. Malala Yousafzai, the little girl who took on the Islamic supremacist Taliban murderers and freedom killers? Guess again; it's the Guardian we are talking about. (thanks to Armaros for sending it in).

Monstrous.

#savage French Muslims sue magazine to impose blasphemy laws under sharia

_{French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's publisher, known only as Charb, herocially defiant as he presents to journalists the "controversial" issue which features a satirical drawing titled "Intouchables 2". (AFP)}

Under the sharia, insulting their prophet is punishable by death. Under the Third Reich, insulting their prophet was punishable by death. Same murderous type of ideology.

The "genius" of the imposition of Islamic oppression and subjugation is playing the victim. Nazi propagandists under Goebbels did this as well. It's all victim mythology, just as Muslims employ in their war on freedom. In trying to impose the suffocating and oppressive restrictions on free speech, they claim that "French Muslims complain of growing restrictions on their religious freedoms."

Muslims have already firebombed the magazine offices of the free speech heroes at Charlie Hebdo magazine. A kosher store in the Paris suburbs was also bombed (this is a default position for agitating jihadists -- when in doubt, kill some Jews. That's holy moe-ly). French embassies and schools were closed in fear of these savages. Despite the West's delusion and denial, we are at war. Freedom of speech in the age of  jihad. Stand up, fight back. Do not sacrifice freedom so as not to offend savages.

"Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, who goes by the name of Charb and has been under police protection for a year, defended the cartoons."I'm not the one going into the streets with stones and Kalashnikovs," he said.

What they failed to blow up and murder in their bombing, they hope to achieve in the litigation jihad. Bankrupt them.

French Muslims Sue Anti-Prophet Magazine
 

Accusing it of provoking Muslim sensitivities, two Muslim organizations are suing a French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published inflammatory cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).

 (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The drawings were “damaging to the honor and reputation of the Prophet Muhammad and the Muslim community” the complain made by the Algerian Democratic Union for Peace and Progress (RDAP) and the Organization of Arab Union was cited by France 24 on Friday, December 7.

The court action is to “defend and support Islamic and/or Arabic people”.

The two Muslim organizations are claiming a total of €780,000 in costs and damages.

Fuelling anti-Muslim sentiments, the French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons displaying a man said to be the prophet as ..... .

Published last September, the French drawings come amid turmoil in the Muslim world over an American-made movie defaming the Prophet.

Hamas message "killing of Jews as worship of Allah"

Give 'em a state! Islamic Jew-hatred, it's in the quran. Obama say, "respect it!"

Hamas: Martyrdom death for Allah is ideal
"We love death more than you love life"
"You [Israel] scare us with what we love"

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

During Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense that aimed to destroy Hamas' terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, Hamas' TV propaganda included various ideological messages. Palestinian Media Watch documented one such message that promoted thekilling of Jews as worship of Allah. Another ideological message promoted the Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood interpretation of Islamic tradition that places love of Martyrdom death for Allah - Shahada - above the desire for life. Addressing Israelis, Hamas' spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said: 

"You [Israelis] think that we will be afraid of your killing policy and of these threats. We say to you: This policy is futile. Hamas leaders seek Martyrdom (i.e., death for Allah). You scare us with what we love (i.e., death)." 

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Media shocked (shocked!) Ground Zero mosqueteers are liars: No community programs, just prayer

Tens of thousands attended our Ground Zero mosque protest on September 11 (and this)

The NY Post sounds surprised that the Ground Zero mosqueteers were liars. We're not. It's the modus operandi of mega-mosque builders. Sell it as one thing, but build a beachhead for Islamic supremacism.

And while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer services — but that’s the only activity in the building.

Aren't you glad we defeated that mega-monster? It looks like the chair of Community Board and the number one Ground Zero mosque shill Julie Menin was unavailable for comment.

And don't fall for the "they opened the mosque" lie. They were always praying in that building that was partially destroyed in the September 11 attacks. Look at my story back in December 2009, when I first took up the fight. They were praying then. It was never about that. They pray everywhere. Here's a photo of Muslims praying at Ground Zero pointing to Mecca. So what else is new?

We fought the 15-story mega mosque and we won. The rest is all propaganda.

Look at how the NY Times kept pimping for that hustler -- long after we exposed El-Gamal (photo below) for the fraud and two-bit gangster he is. Sharif El-Gamal thinks that beating people up is a great "stress reliever." He threatened Muslims who think that the triumphal mosque is offensive. He is a deadbeat who didn't pay his taxes -- to the tune of a quarter of a million dollars. He defaulted on not one bank loan, but two. And he was evicted from his Soho properties offices. And he lost in a series of lawsuits that ConEd filed for back payment of rent. They are trying to evict him.

"No community programs at 'Ground Zero' mosque a year after the controversy" NY Post, December 9, 2012

It’s all pray and no play.

The Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero that opened with great fanfare a year ago is now an empty space with no community programs.

And while the developers behind Park51 insisted for two years that the project was more than a mosque, it now appears to be just that. Dozens of worshipers gather at the site on Park Place Friday for prayer services — but that’s the only activity in the building.

Gone are the Arabic classes, workshops in calligraphy, talks on the genealogy of Muslims in America, film screenings and art exhibits. The sole community event is a class in capoeira — an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines dance and music. The teacher of the twice-weekly class said she has five students.

Helayne Seidman

PRAYER BOOKED: Although popular as a place of worship, the controversial Park51’s vaunted role as a cultural center has all but evaporated.

“We are the only cultural program that is still there,” said Luz Emma Canas Jesus, of Capoeira Mucurumim.

The Park51 Twitter feed was last updated in June, and its Web site lists no events. The Web site for the mosque, formally called Prayer Space, lists four services a day, and a handwritten note on the building’s window also advertises a 4 a.m. service.

Park51 organizers repeatedly refused to answer questions about what happened to the programs offered last fall and spring. Sharif El-Gamal, the lead developer behind the project, ducked out the women’s entrance for the prayer space and would not speak to a reporter.

Just two years ago, El-Gamal’s grand plans for the site — a $100 million, 15-story community center and prayer space — generated worldwide controversy because of its proximity to the Ground Zero site.

At the photography exhibit that kicked off the opening of a scaled-down center in September 2011, El-Gamal admitted he erred in not including families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 in the planning process.

Development plans are now in limbo over fund-raising for the project and a dispute with Con Ed, which owns half the site. In 2009, El-Gamal’s company bought half the property, which once housed a Burlington Coat Factory store, for $4.8 million, and leased the other half from the utility. It is seeking to buy that part of the property.

Con Ed threatened to evict Park51 a year ago over $1.7 million in unpaid back rent.

El-Gamal’s company then sued Con Ed, claiming its appraisal for the property was wrong and the formula to figure the rent was inaccurate. A judge ruled in Con Ed’s favor on the appraisal, and the rent lawsuit is continuing with the next court date set for Tuesday.

In an interview last year, El-Gamal said he was exploring other uses of the property, including an office tower or condominiums. He said a prayer space would remain part of the project.