Qur’an Burning and Destructive Double Standards Posted By Bruce Thornton URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2012/02/27/koran-burning-and-destructive-double-standards/ The riots and violence in Afghanistan over some accidentally burned Qur’ans are following a script that by now is all too drearily familiar. As we have seen over the years with the riots over the Mohammed cartoons, Pope Benedict’s comments about […]
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Jihadists Eye D.C. Yet Terror Bombs As Campaign Issue
National Security: Homegrown terror could hit at any moment, crashing the issue back to center stage politically. Yet in the final GOP debate Wednesday, not one question was asked about it.
Candidates were quizzed about everything from contraceptives to earmarks during the CNN event in Phoenix.
But terrorism and homeland security never came up.
It was as if 9/11 — and the 42 post-9/11 terror plots against the homeland — never happened.
Remarkably, terrorism has lost most of its power as a political issue in this presidential race — just as the tempo of homegrown terror threats against Washington ticks up. Consider:
• On Feb. 17, the FBI nabbed a Muslim suicide bomber headed for the U.S. Capitol.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11493/pub_detail.asp
After 9/11, it became commonplace to ridicule the status of Saudi Arabia as an “ally.” For decades, American leaders cuddled up to the Saudi Royal Family as it spent billions of dollars to export radical Islam around the globe. Today, the U.S. is eager to have our “ally,” Qatar, take a leading role in the region while it does the exact same thing.
Qatar is home to Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi, the most influential Sunni theologian and top Muslim Brotherhood cleric. He uses his popular show on Al-Jazeera, also based in Qatar, to rally support for Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism and to spout the most vial forms of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. Support flows to the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahhabist ideologues from Qatar.
Soeren Kern wrote an eye-opening article about Qatar’s role in funding the spread of radical Islam in the West. In France, it is spending $65 million low-income suburbs inhabited mostly by Muslim immigrants. Hundreds of these areas were coined by Dr. Daniel Pipes as “No-Go Zones” after the French government designated them as “Sensitive Urban Zones” because of their hostility to authority. When the police dare to enforce the law in these areas, violent riots are often sparked that quickly spiral out of control.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120225/jsp/frontpage/story_15179199.jsp
US lawmakers upset over Iraq buying basmati from India
Houston, Feb 25 (PTI): US Congress members from the largest rice-growing states are on the warpath, asking Iraq to resume buying long-grain rice from their country, instead of from India. ”We liberated their country for one thing,” said Texas Congressman Ted Poe. “We would think they would consider the US in trade since we spent billions of dollars not only to liberate their country, but to rebuild their infrastructure.”
Twelve Congressmen have wrote to Iraq’s Trade Minister Khair Alla Babaker earlier this week pressing him to get Iraqis back on the American long-grain variety. The letter said that there was a 77 per cent drop in rice sales to Iraq between 2010 and 2011, even though “not long ago, Iraq represented the largest market for US rice.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9105788/Fireman-Sam-creator-detained-at-airport-for-veil-comment-at-security-gate.html
Fireman Sam creator detained at airport for veil comment at security gate
A retired fireman, and creator of the popular children’s character, Fireman Sam, was detained at an airport for questioning why a veiled woman was not checked by security.
As David Jones arrived at the security gates at Gatwick airport, he was looking forward to getting through swiftly so he could enjoy lunch with his daughters before their flight.Placing his belongings, including a scarf, into a tray to pass through the X-ray scanner he spotted a Muslim woman in hijab pass through the area without showing her face.
In a light-hearted aside to a security official who had been assisting him, he said: “If I was wearing this scarf over my face, I wonder what would happen.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/26/clinton-overseas-backs-down-from-obama-reelection-comments/#ixzz1nWuCfKSz Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested Sunday she may have been less than diplomatic when she told an audience in Tunisia to “not pay attention” to the rhetoric coming from the Republican presidential primary race. But she doesn’t take back the gist of her comments. Speaking Saturday in the first country to […]
Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-climate-skeptics-are-winning_631915.html
The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics—the Chicago-based Heartland Institute—turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.
In an obvious attempt to inflict a symmetrical Climategate-style scandal on the skeptic community, someone representing himself as a Heartland Institute insider “leaked” internal documents for Heartland’s most recent board of directors meeting to a fringe environmental blog, along with a photocopy of a supposed Heartland “strategy memo” outlining a plan to disseminate a public school curriculum aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/joel-mowbray-reports-dem-congressman-winks.php
Joel Mowbray reports: Dem congressman winks AT ANTI-SEMITISM
Our occasional correspondent Joel Mowbray (jdmowbra@erols.com) reports:
The growing predilection on the Left of accusing people who are pro-Israel of having dual loyalties has now emerged in a Democratic congressional primary in New Jersey, where two longtime Congressmen are squaring off because of redistricting. What’s unusual, though, is that the nasty charge is being tolerated, perhaps even encouraged, by a sitting member of Congress, Rep. Bill Pascrell.
Starting the flap was a piece at NJ.com by prominent local Arab leader Aref Assaf. Assaf called Rothman “Israel’s man in District 9.” He argued, “[T]otal and blind support for Israel becomes the only reason for choosing Rothman,” and concluded his attack on Rep. Rothman writing, “Loyalty to a foreign flag is not loyalty to America’s.”
So Where Are The Apologies Now?
A car packed with explosives rammed into a Nigerian church on Sunday, killing at least 4 people. Islamist group Boko Haram has killed more than 100 people in recent months… http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/so-where-are-the-apologies-now/
STOP Apologizing On Our Behalf
An American lieutenant colonel and major were both shot dead in Afghanistan on Saturday, and seven American soldiers were wounded on Sunday, all because Afghans are convulsing over the inadvertent burning of some books. Yes, books… http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/stop-apologizing-on-our-behalf/
No One Is Listening, Mr. President
Yes, Mr. President, the killing of Syrian citizens must end, as must the rampages in Afghanistan, the nefarious nuclear activities and hanging of Christian pastors in Iran, the riots in… http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/no-one-is-listening-mr.-president/
Iran Triples Its Capacity
While our Apologizer-in-Chief is busy prostrating himself to a bunch of Afghan savages who murdered American soldiers over an accidental Koran burning, a new IAEA report reveals that Iran has TRIPLED its capacity to… http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/iran-triples-its-capacity/
Beheadings Raise “Doubts”?!
A series of gruesome killings and beheadings in Afghanistan reportedly raise doubts about whether the Taliban really are less violent as their leaders maintain. Raise doubts?! After having seen the atrocities committed by these ‘gentle’ folk… http://nsroundtable.org/as-we-see-it/beheadings-raise-doubts/
Israel: Address This Problem–And Do So Quickly…
An article by Tsvi Ben Gedalyahu in February 26th’s Israel National News spoke of a new intifada erupting throughout much of Israel proper, within the so-called “Green (’49 armistice) Lines.”
Not wanting to invite its own “Arab Spring,” Israel’s leaders have evidently opted to allow such widespread, violent Arab attacks against both Jewish lives and property to go on, mostly unchallenged.
Big mistake. Israel’s situation is light years different from its surrounding neighbors.
Despite some grievances (who in Israel–or anywhere–doesn’t have some?), the Arabs of Israel are the freest anywhere outside of the West. Their major complaint is the very existence of the Jewish State…Sorry, no apologies for this.
With the region erupting, imploding and exploding, the uncertainty of the devils unkown replacing those known throughout the neighborhood is of course a great concern.
Yet, despite this, there is perhaps an even greater problem facing Israel today–one which it actually has a great degree of control of, if it will only act
