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Better Than Them Posted By Daniel Greenfield

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/24/better-than-them/

We are better than them. When all the other arguments for why we can’t fight back have been exhausted this is the one that remains in the background presenting our moral exceptionalism as the reason we shouldn’t fight to protect ourselves.

“Fight back? But then we’d be no better than them?” If we waterboard then we are no better than the headchoppers and mutilators. If we profile then we are no better than the genocidal jihadists. If we treat our friendly Pakistani and Saudi visitors the way they would have been treated a century ago– then we would be guilty of being un-American.

But is that really the difference between us, that we treat everyone equally even when they are cutting our throats, and the moment we deviate from the standards of the Trial Lawyers Association then we’re no better than the Taliban or Al-Qaeda? Does our exceptionalism derive from our laws, in which case if we compromise our laws then we give up the only worthwhile thing about us and there is nothing more to fight for– or are our laws the means by which we protect our individual and national exceptionalism?

Obama’s Libyan Disaster Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/24/obama%e2%80%99s-libyan-disaster/ Anyone who believes that NATO’s overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi is a “success” for President Obama’s foreign policy should listen to the speech of Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council, at the “liberation day” celebrations in Benghazi: “We are an Islamic country,” the […]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1685/pub_detail.asp Libya’s New Path Heads Toward Sharia Law [FOX] Islamist group joins with Occupy Wall Street [DAILY CALLER] Key general calls Iraq pullout plan a ‘disaster’ [WT] The Credit Rating Agencies Have Strongly Suggested That Further Rating Cuts Are Likely If Congress Does Not Come Up With A Credible Long-Run Plan [BUSINESS INSIDER] Pullout Raises […]

Hezbollah and CAIR Attacks on U.S. Jihad Experts are Synchronized

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10650/pub_detail.asp
Al Manar – the official broadcasting arm of the terrorist group Hezbollah – is again attempting to discredit (and thus silence) respected American national security experts. And as a means of doing so, they are touting a now-public letter by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which refers to respected foreign policy analyst Dr. Walid Phares as “an associate to war crimes” and a “conspiracy theorist.”

The issue stems from the fact that the Mitt Romney presidential campaign has named Phares to its team of national security advisors.

CAIR, which authored the letter and sent it to Romney, doesn’t approve of the appointment. Neither does Hezbollah.

In a posting on Hezbollah’s official TV broadcast arm al Manar, the terrorist organization (implicated by a UN Tribunal in the 2005 assassination of Rafiq Hariri of Lebanon) attacked Professor Walid Phares. They cited an article which was based on a CAIR letter leveling vicious attacks on the Jihadism expert and author of The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East. The Hezbollah propaganda arm warned that, by appointing Phares as one of his advisors on Middle Eastern affairs, Republican hopeful Mitt Romney is echoing the appointment by the State Department of Heinz Mahoney as deputy ambassador for the US in Damascus.

http://www.jidaily.com/8fy Confused by the two apparently conflicting views of Occupy Wall Street’s relations with the Jews — The Emergency Committee for Israel portrays the occupiers as a bunch of anti-Semites, while the Forward described Kol Nidre services being held at Occupy Wall Street on Yom Kippur — I went down there myself Thursday night for […]

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The tyrant is dead, and the head of Libya’s Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, (who was also Gaddafi’s former Justice Minister), has declared that Libya has been liberated.

What a glorious day it is when a country is liberated from its justice minister by its justice minister. If only Gaddafi had been quicker on the ball, he could have staged a revolution against himself and liberated the country from himself.

We mustn’t laugh. Now that American troops are leaving Iraq and Afghanistan has declared that it will back Pakistan in any conflict with the United States, we must have the highest hopes for Libyan democracy. Didn’t we declare an undeclared war on Gaddafi to have a fallback position? Even if Egypt and Tunisia go down the tubes, and Yemen declares an official Bin Laden day, we’ll always have Libya.

http://www.hudson-ny.org/2530/denmark-sharia-hezbollah A Muslim group in Denmark has launched a campaign to turn parts of Copenhagen and other Danish cities into “Sharia Law Zones” that would function as autonomous enclaves ruled by Islamic law. The Danish Islamist group Kaldet til Islam (Call to Islam) says the Tingbjerg suburb of Copenhagen will be the first part of […]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-15256764
Child abuse claims at UK madrassas ‘tip of iceberg’By Fran Abrams
Britain’s madrassas have faced more than 400 allegations of physical abuse in the past three years, a BBC investigation has discovered.But only a tiny number have led to successful prosecutions.
The revelation has led to calls for formal regulation of the schools, attended by more than 250,000 Muslim children every day for Koran lessons.
The chairman of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board said he would treat the issue as a matter of urgency.
Leading Muslim figures said families often faced pressure not to go to court or even to make a formal complaint.
A senior prosecutor told the BBC its figures were likely to represent the tip of an iceberg.

Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/france_2_tv_markets_a_palestinian_state.html Eleven years after the al Dura hoax — produced and broadcast by state-owned France 2 TV — the same outfit treats us to a ludicrously staged Palestinian State promotional film.  Was the 2½ -hour “documentary” aired on October 3 in the geopolitical magazine Un �”il sur la planète (an eye on […]

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Iraq won’t give us permanent bases, let alone immunity for our troops in Iraq to train demonstrably untrainable Iraqis. (I mean, come on; eight years and they’re still not “trained”?) Score: Iran.

Now, Karzai says he would back Pakistan in a war with the USA:

“God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan,” he [Karzai] said in the interview to Geo television.

“If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan needs Afghanistan’s help, Afghanistan will be there with you.”

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