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Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Elder mentioned at Newsweek online

My last post was excerpted at the online MSNBC Newsweek site, which seems pretty cool.

But on further analysis, what Newsweek does is use Technorati to find blogs that link back to the original Newsweek article, so rather than this being an example of professional pundits seeing great value in my words of wisdom, it is only an example of being automatically chosen by a robot.

But my swelling head felt nice for a minute there!

UPDATE: It scrolled off. Such is life.

Thoughts on the European Muslim riots

Although the news coverage of the Paris riots took about a week to hit critical mass, the similar Muslim-fuelded riots in Denmark have yet to hit the major media outlets.

Is there a connection between the Moslem-led youth riots in France, and the ones taking place at the same time in Denmark?

The week of riots in poor neighbourhoods outside Paris, which has spread to 20 towns, has been well covered by the international media.

Not so for Århus, Denmark.

“Nothing of it has penetrated to the English-language sections of Danish media,” laments the Viking Observer.

The Observer took the trouble to translate into English the following from Danish Jyllands-Posten:“Rosenhoj Mall has several nights in a row been the scene of the worst riots in Århus for years. “This area belongs to us,” the youths proclaim. Sunday evening saw a new arson attack.

“Their words sound like a clear declaration of war on the Danish society. Police must stay out. The area belongs to immigrants.

“Four youths sit on a wall in Rosenhoj Mall Sunday afternoon, calling themselves spokesmen for the groups, that three nights in a row have ravaged and tried to burn down the restaurant and other stores.

“Around the parking lot, cars with youngsters from the immigrant community are swarming, and many are walking around, greeting each other with a sense of victory after the worst riots in Århus for years.

“Every night 30-40 youths took part, especially immigrants.

“Only two were arrested, “That was a victory.”"

Like the French riots (and the Palestinian intifada before that), the riots in Denmark started ostensibly from a trigger event that was proportionately much smaller than the resulting unrest. In this case, it was sparked by this incident:

ISLAM is no laughing matter. Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten is being protected by security guards and several cartoonists have gone into hiding after the newspaper published a series of 12 cartoons about the prophet Mohammed.

According to Islam, it is blasphemous to make images of the prophet. Muslim fundamentalists have threatened to bomb the paper's offices and kill the cartoonists.

The newspaper published the cartoons when a Danish author complained that he could find no one to illustrate his book about Mohammed. Jyllands-Posten wondered whether there were more cases of self-censorship regarding Islam in Denmark and asked 12 illustrators to draw the prophet for [it]. Carsten Juste, the paper's editor, said the cartoons were a test of whether the threat of Islamic terrorism had limited the freedom of expression in Denmark.

The publication led to outrage among Muslim immigrants living in Denmark. Five thousand of them took to the streets to protest. Muslim organisations have demanded an apology, but Juste rejects this idea: "We live in a democracy. That's why we can use all the journalistic methods we want to. Satire is accepted in this country and you can make caricatures." Danish imam Raed Hlayhel [says]: "This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims. Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world."

Flemming Rose, cultural editor at the newspaper, denied that the purpose had been to provoke Muslims. It was simply a reaction to the rising number of situations where artists and writers censored themselves out of fear of radical Islamists, he said. "Religious feelings cannot demand special treatment in a secular society," he added. "In a democracy one must from time to time accept criticism or [become] a laughing-stock." The affair, however, has also led to a diplomatic incident. The ambassadors of 11 Muslim countries complained about the cartoons in a letter to Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. They say the cartoons' publication is a provocation and demand apologies from the newspaper.

Jyllands-Posten was also included on an al-Qa'ida website listing possible terrorist targets. An organisation [that] calls itself the Glorious Brigades in Northern Europe is circulating pictures on the internet which show bombs exploding over pictures of the newspaper and blood flowing over the national flag of Denmark. "The mujaheddin have numerous targets in Denmark -- very soon you all will regret this," the website says.

There have also been similar incidents in Brussels.
How much of the unrest is a result of radical Islam and how much is just criminal behavior? It really is hard to separate the two. In the early days of the French intifada, the rioters were heard to shout out "Allahu Akbar" and "Jihad." (credit Iris Blog.) However, the activities seem to be more criminal, more reminiscent of LA riots than Al Qaeda.

The Muslim communities in Europe have not assimilated into European culture, but it appears that this is at least as much the fault of the Muslim leaders as the Europeans. Islamic leaders are always is suspicious of assimilation and nervous about the West influencing its youth. Combine this with the mindset that the world owes them something and they have no personal responsibility for the actions of their own people, and a smattering of the obsession that Muslims (and Arabs especially) have about controlling land (which effectively made the status quo of Muslim ghettoes acceptable both the the Europeans and to the immigrants) and you have the ingredients for a non-religious, but very Muslim, uprising.

Another factor, highlighted by the cartoon incident, is how much the liberal mindset of fake multiculturalism has instilled itself in world Islam. Since the privileged classes offending minorities is considered a major crime by the Left, but minorities that are deemed to be disadvantaged by the Left have no similar rule, we consistently see cases where Muslims cannot be offended and yet are allowed, and sometimes encouraged, to be offensive. (No similar consideration is given to Hindus or Jews.)

A generation growing up with these rules ingrained - no personal responsibility, no consequences for acting immorally, and a dash of Islamic supremacy - will inevitably turn out to be criminal. And while this is not terrorism, the types of people who participate are prime targets for terrorist networks.

Things that make you go hmmmm

When I notice in my hit statistics someone from Libya Googling information about Israeli UAVs...

Today's quiz

Who wrote this?

For all their big noise and blusterous approach to statecraft, the Bush clique and the Neo Con establishment that stands behind it are as legally fragile as any evil concoction of men and women. It is obvious that any force or political agglomeration that is based on the imposition of its own dictates on its own society – and the world at large – cannot be expected to pass the test of honor and conscientiousness in flying colors. Sooner or later, the true colors of scandal and misconduct, as well as the abuse of power it has relied on to institute its will and dictates will show in their true living colors and all their claims to goodness and “freedom and democracy”, not to mention their promises of safety and security for all can be thrown against the wall.

First it will be Mr. Libby, the Chief of Staff of the icon of icons in this estrablishment, Vice President Dick Cheney. However, pretty soon, one will start seeing the strings of attachment and links to the network of evil that has overtaken the American political scene for half a decade now with its false façade of loyalty become clearly manifested to the American people and they, more than anyone else will certainly demand a very strong explanation, if not justice from their Congressmen and Congresswomen for their long silence on the bad behavior of their executive leadership.

One of the interesting phenomenon that the Bush Administration is that it has adopted as an inalienable right for states to meddle in the internal affairs of other states and to use all their influence and power to do so and achieve their objectives accordingly. Thus, we have all been affected by all the policies that have long ago reflected an evil streak in them, which have been called for by the neo cons and the icons of the Bush Administration in seminars and conferences mostly organized and endorsed by the International Zionist Establishment. We have also warned that, from the very beginning, this establishment is after something that will probably have a strong bearing on the trend in American politics and state of being – for the worse of course. Logic will dictate to anyone that an alliance that is deeply nurtured in the concept of the “ends justify the means” cannot etch its place in society without having to inflict pain on many people and destroy the lives of many others. The Zionist establishment, which has spoon-fed this Neo Con establishment with false pretensions about itself and perceptions about the rest of the world is well known for its record of evil and deceit as a “genuine moral society” that is the pride of Western culture and civilization in the region. But surely, this establishment was not expected to railroad all the American people into believing that if Israel can enjoy the imposition of will by power and chauvinistic dogma, then imagine what America can do in the rest of the world? A frightening scenario it would seem to many an observer, and others might even say far fetched. But the fact is that the association of these Neo Cons to the Zionist establishment is there for everyone to see. It will be the right of Americans to ask, why all this mess we are seeing in Iraq and why this continued insistence to meddle in the affairs of other nations so far away and not directly having any effects on the affairs of state within the United States? It should also be important for the American people to know that they have been asked to pay a dear price for the implementation of policies that create enemies more than friends, increase tension more than they create an aura of international peace and they impose more autocracy than spread the call of freedom. Evil begets evil and there is no evil that this world has seen in these times more than the Zionist menace that has sought to dominate the affairs of state not just in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon (not to mention Iran) with the unfailing support of the Neo Con establishment in the United States, but has actually sought to deepen its niches in the American political establishment through the adoption of typical “twist your arms” tactics, financial string puppetry and scandalous connivance (the Monica Lewinsky Affair is not far behind in one’s memories). If the Bush Administration believes the American people can be misled and have their trust exploited forever, then how could the rest of the freedom loving people of the world ever hope for a brighter future?

Isn't it amazing how the far left rhetoric is now indistinguishable from that of the Arab world?

The West-haters in the Arab world have found such affinity with the rhetoric of the Left that they feel quite at home writing editorials like this, even with the implication that they aren't against the US as a whole, but only against Bush (echoing the Left's defensive "We are patriotic too!" line.) Their agendas are obvious - the destruction of Western civilization and the ascendancy of an Islamic umma. But since it dovetails so nicely with the far Left agenda, they have learned to use the language of the Left as it suits them.

Too bad that this language includes overt anti-semitism.

Abbas' Fatah: Iranian president is right

It cannot be stressed enough that the Fatah party is headed by Mahmoud Abbas and he seems to condone these sorts of remarks, which are indistinguishable from those of Hamas and PIJ and Hezbollah. On the contrary, he continues to hire Fatah terrorists as "policemen."

Any thought that he is truly interested in peace with Israel (outside of a short-term strategic cease fire) is clearly wishful thinking.

And it is interesting to note that while the press and world leaders had a field day over the Iranian screed they are completely silent over the PLO remarks. Evidently when the people who make bigoted comments are "the good guys" there is no reason to castigate them. Where's Kofi Annan today?

The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the Fatah's military wing, expressed in a leaflet published Sunday its identification with the remark of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called to 'wipe Israel off the map.'

The Palestinian news agency Maan reported that in the leaflet, the Brigades stressed its 'Identification with and overall support of the position and declaration of the Iranian President, who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world.'

The leaflet also said that 'We stress our support of the Iranian president's position toward the fictitious Zionist state, which will disappear with the help of Allah.'

The Brigades stressed that 'The acknowledgement of the State of Israel, the state that was established on Palestinian land, constitutes contempt of the Palestinian people, who sacrifice their blood every day for the sake of freeing Palestine and Jerusalem.'

The organization also emphasized its identification with Ahmadinejad's declaration that 'The battles conducted in the occupied territories are part of fate's commands and will be conducted in the next hundreds of years in the territories.'

French Muslims: "We're not rioting, it's all a Zionist plot!"

You knew it had to happen....From Islam Online:

The Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF) will issue a fatwa (religious edict) banning Muslim scholars from joining the raging riots, IslamOnline.net has learnt Sunday, November 6.

The fatwa is expected to underlined that such acts run counter to the basic teachings of Islam.

The influential UOIF is one of the main groups comprising the umbrella French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM).
[...]
UOIF's chairman Lhaj Thami Breze cast doubt over the parties behind the accelerating violence.

He accused several parties, including far-rightists and Zionist lobby, of fishing in the troubled water to 'smear the image of Muslims and Arabs'.

The Muslim leader said many of the incidents involving the burning of public properties remain ambiguous.

'The rioting, which started as a spontaneous reaction, is not like that anymore. Some parties are feeding these incidents,' Breze charged.

'The perpetrators of such actions can never be Muslims,' he averred.

Haveil Havalim #43 is up

The latest round-up of the greatest of the blogosphere, Haveil Havalim #43, is now up at Jack's Shack.

At the suggestion of SoccerDad, I nominated myself for the first time to HH, for this article that he suggested. But for some reason, Jack chose a completely different article in his post, so I suppose that my meager record of not getting self-nominated articles mentioned in HH remains unblemished!

At any rate, it is recommended reading, as usual, even on the weeks that I am not mentioned!

Jews were the canary in the coalmine of France

Let's see - "North African youths," "Paris suburbs"; where have we heard those terms before?

Has it already been three years since the outbreak of anti-semitism in France that the world softpedaled for months? And then the EU commissioned a report on French anti-Semitism, only to decide not to release it, because it showed that Muslims (the M word that is so often missing in the articles about the current French "Intifada") were usually the perpetrators. (After Jewish groups published it anyway, the EU reluctantly did the same.)

Here are excerpts of that report:

As the second Intifada began, the number of anti-Semitic criminal offences rose drastically; out of 216 racist acts recorded in 2000 146 were motivated by anti-Semitism. The peak was reached during the Jewish High Holidays in October 2000; one third of the anti-Semitic attacks committed worldwide took place in France (between 1 September 2000 and 31 January 2002 405 anti-Semitic incidents were documented). The perpetrators were only seldom from the extreme right milieu, coming instead mainly from non-organised Maghrebian and North African youths. After interrogating 42 suspects, the police concluded that these are “predominantly delinquents without ideology, motivated by a diffuse hostility to Israel, exacerbated by the media representation of the Middle East conflict (…) a conflict which, they see, reproduces the picture of exclusion and failure of which they feel victims in France”. Beginning in January 2002, but mainly from the end of March till the middle of April 2002 , there was a wave of anti-Semitic attacks. In the first half of April attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions in Paris and surrounding areas were daily occurrences. This was a repeat of the situation of October 2000. In reaction to the anti-Semitic mood the number of the French Jews who immigrated to Israel in 2002 doubled to 2,566, the highest number since 1972.
[...]The fact that anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish acts in France are presently being committed mainly by youngsters from North African immigration, apparently acting in an isolated manner, brought many observers to the conclusion that a far right anti-Semitism has been superseded by a form of anti-Semitism rooted in urban decay and social deprivation. The French term for this combination of urban decay and social deprivation is “banlieue”, literally “suburb”, which functions in roughly the same way as “inner city” in English.

The report was ignored then and now the French are paying for ignoring the problem. Once again, Jews are the lightning rod for hate against all of Western civilization, and the West ignores anti-semitism at its own peril.

Liberal media at its worst

This morning, I picked up the free newspaper "Metro NY" that is given out at subway stops and train stations. Metro is part of a large network of free city newspapers worldwide, and they claim a total of 17 million readers. Its editorial policies are clearly and unflinchingly liberal.

I noticed an article on fringe mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan, with generally straight coverage of his "Rent is Too Damn High" party, saying that he resembles Papa Smurf and talking about his wide smile (also pointing out that his city council candidate was endorsed by the New York Times in 2003.)

Through all 13 paragraphs of this page 2 article, talking about his platform of high rents and his army of volunteers, something seemed to be missing. Then it hit me - they forgot to mention that McMillan is a Jew-hating lunatic!

As of a week or so ago, his web site had some amazing anti-Semitic screeds (that have since been removed) and it is hard to believe that the reporter spent any time with him without hearing some of his hate - since in McMillan's opinion, the entire reason the rent is too high is because of Jews!

You can still see some of his rantings on pages that have not been deleted from his website, such as this one:

After I begging sending Faxes to the News Media in the New York City area in 1990 in attempt to blow the lid on what I’ve uncovered in the (Williamsburg Section of Brooklyn) Quote - Unquote the Jewish Community on what I called at the time the Jewish Mafia. Some how or another they got a hold to my Home Address, Phone Number and so much more all through the License Plates of my Car?

In a desperate attempt Because of the increase of personnel attacks against me I climb to the top of the Brooklyn Bridge (c1993) after someone tried to kill me. The way they came after me I knew I had stumble onto something I couldn’t handle so first I made every attempt to contact Law Enforcement at Federal, Local level, and then I tried to contact every Black person who you have seen on television that they proclaim to represent Black people – everyone, and I’m still waiting to hear from them. When I say everyone I mean everyone, so now there is know need to ask me about anybody.

The corruption in the State of New York in every City, Town, and County goes far deeper than one would imagine. When you the public learn the truth you have all the right to be Pissed-Off, Mad and Angry. Well you are about to learn what many don’t want you to know (I will explain that to you later if you don’t understand what I’m about to show you). I will give you a summary but the full story can be found in the Book I have written that will soon be release Title "The Road Less Traveled".

Remember this is the same group that was Cast Out by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in 1997 as the Top Leaders of the Jewish people stood together in a News Conference for the New York Times Newspapers who was using the Jewish People as a Shield, Cover to commit their crimes against New Yorkers that I later learn this same group were in fact tied to Al-Qa’Ida, Usama Bin Laden network?. My investigations reveal immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center the strong hole where they were operating out of in the Williamsberg section of Brooklyn were abandon and left to be operated by local Jewish Rabbis.

Now, why exactly would a "reporter" write such a fawning article on someone who is so disgusting? Either he is embarrassingly incompetent, or he didn't feel that it was an important enough part of the story to mention. Either way, it is unbelievable.

UPDATE: I emailed the reporter about this and he asked me for my number so he can call me and explain what happened. Unfortunately I'm busy until Monday, but from his tone it is possible that this was more the fault of the editor rather than the reporter. I am inviting him to write in the comments section here, though.

Today's Palestinian Police Phunnies

More than two months after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority seems to have failed in preventing many land thieves from laying their hands on the former area of Gush Katif.

PA officials here expressed fear over 'increased transgressions' on the lands that used to belong to the settlements and called for immediate action against the perpetrators. They pointed out that some of the thieves belong to various branches of the PA security forces.

Iranian news exclusive!

The crack reporting team at the Iranian Islamic Republic News Agency have broken a major news story. They found a professor in India that agrees that Israel should be wiped off the map!

At this time, this is one of the major stories on their website.

It's worth reading:

India's Jamia Hamdard University professor of Islamic Studies, Dr. Eshtiyaq Danesh, in an exclusive interview with IRNA's New Delhi correspondent, expressed support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent remarks that "Israel should be wiped off the world map."
He said the stand taken by the Iranian president that "Israel should be wiped off the world map" is very correct and precise because Israel is an illegal and artificially made country.

Professor Danesh, an expert on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, views Israel as a government which has been sponsoring state terrorism since its creation.

Zionist forces have illegally occupied the land of Palestine with the help of Western powers and are daily committing heinous crimes against innocent Palestinians, he said.

According to this Indian intellectual, Israel does not have any right to survive, and not only Muslims but all freedom and justice- loving people of the world as well would like to see Palestinians liberated in their homeland.

According to the professor, the Zionist regime of Israel has never fullfilled its international obligations since its creation and has not respected and much less implemented any resolution passed by the Security Council or any other international body.

The most important of those resolutions is Resolution No. 242 of the United Nations Security Council which asks Israel to vacate all occupied land, he said.

Further in his talk with IRNA, Dr. Danesh expressed his anguish over Israel's demand that the UN expel Iran from its membership.

He asked: "How can the zionist regime of Israel, which has always defied UN resolutions, now ask this body for removal of some country from its membership?"
"As a humble scholar of Islamic and West Asian studies, I strongly believe that a world without Zionism would be a peaceful and stable world," Danesh concluded.

I just love "intellectuals."

Excellent work again by the IAF:

Two major Arab terrorists were killed Tuesday afternoon when Israeli Air Force planes fired a missile at on a car in the town of Jebalia in Gaza.

One of the terrorists, Hassan Al Madhun, was active in the Al Aksa Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen).

Another terrorist killed in the vehicle, Fuazi Abu Kara, was a member of the military wing of the Hamas, the Al Kassam Brigades.

The two men were killed in a vehicle bearing a license plate belonging to the PA’s official security apparatus.

An army spokesman said that Al Madhun was responsible for twin attacks in Ashdod’s harbor in 2004, killing ten people, and for bombing the Karni crossing between the Gaza district and the Negev, an attack that left six dead.

Al Madhun is also suspected of attempting to send a female suicide bomber to blow up Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva.

While doing all this for Fatah’s military wing, Al Madhun held an official position in the Palestinian Authority, working for the PA’s Preventative Security Agency in Gaza. Ironically, the PA set up this agency to thwart terrorist attacks against Israel.

Israel repeatedly demanded that the Palestinian Authority arrest Al Madhun, though the requests were ignored.

Al Madhun, who headed an Islamic faction in the Al Aksa Brigades, closely coordinated his activity with the Hamas.

Al Madhun’s Fatah faction was also responsible for firing Kassam rockets on the eastern Negev town of Sderot, including the rockets fired over the past few days.

So do we have this straight? The US government is paying the PA to hire terrorists as "policemen" to fight Hamas, and these same terror-"police" are working together with Hamas.

It is also amusing to see Palestinian Arab reaction to Israeli defensive actions:
- If Israel asks the PA to arrest a terrorist, they are meddling in internal Palestinian affairs;
- If Israel arrests the terrorists themselves, the PA demands that their "freedom fighters" get released;
- If Israel kills them outright, the Palestinians complain about "extrajudicial killings;"
- If Israel builds a barrier to stop terrorists, the PA calls it an "apartheid wall" and gets gullible Westerners to stage protests.

What do these things have in common?

Only that according to Palestinian Arab "moderates," and with the agreement of a significant number of Westerners, Israel has no right to do any actions whatsoever to protect her citizens.

Your tax dollars at work - US pays for "police" jobs for terrorists

Disgusting, outrageous, insane.

RAMALLAH [MENL] -- The United States has provided more than $4 million for the absorption of hundreds of insurgents into Palestinian Authority security forces.

Palestinian sources said the Bush administration relayed 20 million shekels, or $4.4 million, for the transfer of Fatah insurgents to the PA security forces. The sources said the U.S. aid, allocated via the PA, was meant to facilitate the elimination of the Fatah-dominated Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a leading insurgency force in the war against Israel.

'The U.S. money was meant to pay salaries for Al Aqsa people who join the PA,' a senior Palestinian source involved in the effort said.

Al Aqsa has a force of between 500 and 700 fighters, and the sources said they would receive at least 1,750 shekels, or nearly $400, per month. The sources said most of the fighters have agreed to join the PA security forces, but said at least 100 would continue attacks against Israel in operations financed by Iran and Hizbullah.

Why exactly does anyone think that the Al Aqsa Palestinian Arab "policemen" aren't also terrorists at the same time - just with a little more money?

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July, 1948 - The Gap in Jihad

In light of the recent talk about "truces" from various terror groups, which usually don't last beyond the next news cycle, the following article is instructive - especially the last paragraph.

The words could have been written today by the vast majority of Arabs - even the most "moderate" will say frankly that Israel's existence is just a temporary blip on the road to Muslim domination. Only the "hardliners" will speak these words where Western ears can hear them, however. (This is one of the reasons why the whole Iranian president kerfuffle was so funny - most "moderate" Arab leaders agree with him; his crime was just saying his thoughts out loud.)