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http://news.yahoo.com/blast-rocks-nigerian-church-volatile-jos-2-killed-084606745.html

JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 38, the emergency services said, and angry Christian youths reacted by beating two Muslims to death.

A Reuters reporter at the scene of the blast saw two bodies from the explosion, which police said included the suicide bomber, who had rammed his Volkswagen into the church before detonating explosives.

“NEMA (the National Emergency Management Agency) confirms three dead in suspected suicide car explosion in Jos today, including the bomber whose body was shredded to pieces,” NEMA spokesman Yushua Shuaib said by text message.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291963/be-or-not-be-muslim-andrew-c-mccarthy
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291964/does-judge-martins-not-being-muslim-change-bias-argument-andrew-c-mccarthy
“IS HE IS OR IS HE AIN’T”…TO PARAPHRASE AN OLD SONG….THE POINT IS HE DISMISSED AN OPEN AND SHUT AND ADMITTED CASE OF ASSAULT BY A MUSLIM… PLEASE READ BOTH COLUMNS….RSK

Mark Martin is the Pennsylvania state court judge I referred to in two posts (here and here) yesterday — the jurist who, on sharia grounds, dismissed a harassment case against a Muslim man who assaulted an activist atheist whose “Zombie Mohammed” costume the assailant found insulting to Islam.

I reported that Judge Martin is a convert to Islam, based on a published report corroborated by the audio of the court proceeding (quoted in the published report), in which the judge seemed to assert (while lecturing the victim about his purported provocation of the assault), “I’m a Muslim, I find it offensive.”

A member of the judge’s staff yesterday stated without equivocation that Martin is not a Muslim. So why did he say otherwise in the court proceeding? I now believe, though I’m not a hundred percent certain, that he probably did not say otherwise.

The audio sounds clear enough on YouTube streamed through your computer. But I’ve now listened to the sentence in question many times, wearing a good set of earphones with the volume amplified a bit. Based on that, it’s entirely possible that what Martin said was, “F’Im a Muslim, I’d find it offensive” — as in If I were a Muslim, I would find it offensive. The “F” sound before the word “I’m” is almost inaudible, even with good equipment; the “d” sound that changes “I” to “I’d” is more perceptible, but you have to work a bit to hear it.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4194551,00.html
Soldiers nearly lynched by Arabs in Haifa Arab Israelis viciously assault two soldiers in civilian clothing early Saturday; one victim’s head ‘engraved’ by knife-wielding assailant; attackers use bats, rocks

THESE HOODLUMS ARE EMBOLDENED BY THE BOYCOTT AND DIVEST GROUPIES AND THEIR “APARTHEID” PROPAGANDA. …RSK

Two IDF soldiers in civilian clothing were viciously attacked by a group of Arab-Israeli men early Saturday near Haifa’s Rambam Hospital, with guards deployed in the area narrowly averting a lynching.

Police forces detained four suspects on suspicion of taking part in the assault and expect to make more arrests.

The uncle of one of the soldiers said the assailants asked the victims whether they were Jewish before attacking them.

“They beat the hell out of them, using bats and stones, and resorting to kicks,” the uncle said.

http://mideasttruth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10881

An historical twist–to say the least… Towards the end of the 19th century, France accused an assimilated Jewish captain in the army of espionage. It was later proven that Alfred Dreyfus was innocent and shamelessly framed. Much later, after disgraced, sent to Devil’s Island, etc., he was finally exonerated.

The Dreyfus Trial became the cause celebre of the era, and the prominent writer, Emile Zola, wrote his open letter, J’Accuse (“I Accuse”), which was published in L’Aurore on January 13, 1898.

Among those covering the trial after 1894 was another assimilated Jew, Theodore Herzl, from Hungary.

While the religiously-inspired, age-old anti-Semitism of the masses was regrettable (but understandable) to such men, it was the virulent Jew-hatred which remained even after the so-called Age of Enlightenment among the educated classes which became the most troubling.

The rise to power of such folks as the anti-Semitic demagogue, Karl Lueger, in Vienna in 1895 combined with the Parisian Dreyfus Affair to convince Herzl that there was no hope left for the Jew outside of the resurrection of Israel. Herzl soon wrote Der Judenstaat–the Jewish State–in response, and while others before him wrote of such things as well (Dr. Leo Pinsker’s Auto-Emancipation is especially haunting), Herzl became known as the Father of modern political Zionism as a result.

Jewish Self-Hatred and the Olive Tree Initiative Posted By Janet Levy http://pjmedia.com/blog/jewish-self-hatred-and-the-olive-tree-initiative/ The phenomenon of Jews embracing the hateful and mendacious rhetoric of those committed to their annihilation has been so commonplace throughout history that a body of psychological literature on “Jewish self-hatred” emerged decades ago. This maladaptive response to antisemitism has been compared to the […]

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291919/perversion-rights-mark-steyn
They’re now gifts that a benign king graciously showers upon his subjects.
CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one of his viewers:
“Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?”
To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the premise of the question. King might have done better to put the issue to Danica Patrick. For some reason, Michelle Fields of theDaily Caller sought the views of the NASCAR driver and Sports Illustrated swimwear model about “the Obama administration’s dictate that religious employers provide health-care plans that cover contraceptives.” Miss Patrick, a practicing Catholic, gave the perfect citizen’s response for the Age of Obama:
“I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.”
That’s the real “hot topic” here — whether a majority of citizens, in America as elsewhere in the West, is willing to “leave it up to the government” to make decisions on everything that matters. On the face of it, the choice between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church should not be a tough one. On the one hand, we have the plain language of the First Amendment as stated in the U.S. Constitution since 1791: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/debra-rubin/
Unsurprisingly, there are more non-Jews than Jews advocating for Israel on campuses. What is surprising are the reasons for their activism

WASHINGTON — Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel events.

Or, of an African American Catholic at a historically black college telling not just her fellow students, but also a Jewish youth group, why she supports Israel.

Yet, Stanley Gonzalez-Martinez and Alexis Crews are among thousands of non-Jewish students at North American colleges and universities who wear their love for Israel on their sleeves.

‘Non-Jewish students vastly outnumber the number of Jewish activists motivated to support Israel’

That shouldn’t be a surprise, says Stephen Kuperberg, the Israel on Campus Coalition’s executive director. “Non-Jewish students vastly outnumber the number of Jewish activists motivated to support Israel,” he says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LVj74Yxoa2o
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/153136
Bolton, Glenn Beck Honor Gush Katif

More than 600 people attended this past Wednesday’s Gush Katif dinner in New York. Speakers included Glenn Beck, John Bolton. The dinner was organized by the Gush Katif Museum in Jerusalem and was endorsed by a number of leading Jewish organizations including, Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI) and The World Committee for the Land of Israel.

The Gush Katif Museum has undertaken the task of memorializing the history of Gush Katif, from the time of the Hasmoneans until the 2005 disengagement plan when residents were evicted from their homes.
The speakers at Wednesday’s dinner included former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, conservative media personality and ardent Israel supporter, Glenn Beck, Congressman Lee Terry of Nebraska, and comedian Jackie Mason.

http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-warns-arab-spring-backsliding-121457871.html TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Saturday of backsliding in the democratic transformations under way in the Middle East and North Africa and appealed for leaders and citizens to make good on the promise of reform offered by the Arab Spring and not abandon the democratic goals that […]

Why Apologize to Afghanistan?By Andrew C. McCarthy http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/291925 We have officially lost our minds. The New York Times reports that President Obama has sent a formal letter of apology to Afghanistan’s ingrate president, Hamid Karzai, for the burning of Korans at a U.S. military base. The only upside of the apology is that it appears (based […]