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http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/09/19/thank-obama-for-russias-resurgence/
Russia has expelled USAID, and the pundits are wagging a collective finger at the Kremlin. Complaints about the lack of democracy in Russia recall the late Sam Kinison’s monologue about food in the desert. There has never been democracy in Russia, least of all during Boris Yeltsin’s presidency. Yeltsin and his oligarch friends stole more than any thieves in world history, which is why so many of the world’s richest people are Russian and why Russia went bankrupt in July 1998. The free-for-all following the collapse of Communism ultimately gave us the Putin regime, and there he remains. It is easy to to support a noble democracy activist like Garry Kasparov, the former world chess champion. It’s a bit harder to cheer for the women of Pussy Riot, who didn’t deserve long prison sentences for their disgusting behavior in a Moscow cathedral. In America, we would ignore them, while Russia characteristically made a horrible example of them.

But it really doesn’t matter much. Russians never learned how to stand up for their rights, and most of the prospective leaders of a hypothetical Russian democracy did what Kinison advised in the case of world hunger: they moved to where the democracy was. Their kids take a lot of the science prizes in New York public schools and ace medical school admissions in Israel.

Americans instinctively sympathize with democracy movements everywhere. I sympathize, too: I took part in the first wave of neo-conservative economists commuting to Moscow in the early 1990s, trying to help the Russians build a free market, as chief economist for a supply-side consulting firm. The fact is that complaining about the Putin regime’s misbehavior is about as effective as shooting spitballs through a straw at the bears in the zoo. Go and do it if it makes you feel brave or self-righteous, but keep the expectations down.
Let’s talk about how to tame the bear, rather than just tease it.

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2012/09/death-to-jews-sounds-no-prettier-in.html

‘On September 15th, 2012, 200 extremist Muslims demonstrated violently in the 8th district of Paris and on the Champs-Elysées. They tried to attack the US embassy , offended France, roared ” Allah u akbar! “And” Death to the Jews”! five times! in Arabic at 2.35 mn and finally prayed illegally on the most beautiful avenue of the world.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZF-Vvv3wg&feature=player_embedded

Explains the uploader:

‘Dans la vidéo, les musulmans crient “Souvenez-vous de Khaybar, Juifs !” (bataille après laquelle Mahomet et ses sbires ont assassiné tous les Juifs de la ville de Khaybar), ce qui signifie “Mort aux Juifs !”, comme les musulmans et arabisants le savent.’

Meanwhile, across the Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F6KoC2dxdlk

muslim extremists threaten to dominate world usa embassy london 14th sept 2012

That’s the event the BBC failed to show the great British public.

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1671/iran_s_crazed_gay_bashers
Conspiracy is rife in certain sections of Iranian society when it comes to issues such as Israel, the US, and homosexuality. Sadly, mainstream media outlets also play their part

The ideologues of the Islamic regime in Iran know all too well how to use external enemies to persecute enemies closer to home. According to those in power, the Jews, the Israelis, the United States, and even the West more generally are the causes of Iran’s domestic problems.

One such “problem”, as perceived by Tehran at least, is homosexuality – of which the West is considered to be the root cause. This of course implies that homosexuality has not existed in Iran and the Arab world for thousands of years, until very recently.

In this regard, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism are the tools that the Islamist rulers of Iran use to legitimise the execution of homosexuals. The ruling Islamists in Iran not only treat homosexuals with prejudice and disdain, but go so far as to execute those convicted of homosexuality – just as in Nazi Germany.

The Iranian news agency Mashregh News, an organisation with close ties to the Revolutionary Guard, recently published an article entitled, “Open and covert dimensions of homosexuality.” Mashregh News writes that Western culture, particularly that of the U.S. and Britain, with the help of Jews, spread homosexuality among their own people and among other nations.

The newspaper asks why the British government supports homosexuality even though homosexuals play a minor role in its society. For its answer, Mashregh News turns to conspiracy theories.

“For example, in England, only 1.5 percent of the population is homosexual. The official recognition of this minority is not adequate to their power and influence on the politics and society of that country.”

The author of the article then asks why homosexuals have received government support in the UK, even though they are politically insignificant.

http://news.yahoo.com/tax-penalty-hit-nearly-6m-uninsured-people-194442599.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 6 million Americans — significantly more than first estimated— will face a tax penalty under President Barack Obama’s health overhaul for not getting insurance, congressional analysts said Wednesday. Most would be in the middle class. The new estimate amounts to an inconvenient fact for the administration, a reminder of what […]

Obama Hands Middle East Over to Islamists — on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Ben Shapiro, Leon Weinstein and Gershon Kelman analyze the nightmare in the Middle East — and in our leadership.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/undercover-in-ramallah-on-the-glazov-gang/

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3358/australia-geert-wilders A sympathizer for jihad is allowed into the country as part of the “normal” process for of British applicants, but an opponent of jihad — a man never convicted of a crime, and a member of the Dutch parliament — is blocked from coming. Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP who frequently warns about the […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3353/peace-process-west-bank Abbas’s media, spokesmen and mosque imams have radicalized Palestinians to the point where many of them are no longer prepared to hear about peace. The conflict in the Middle East is not over a settlement or a checkpoint. Rather this is a conflict over the very existence of Israel. The day the video was […]

http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/09/19/charlie-hebdo-and-sharia-versus-freedom-of-speech/

Charlie Hebdo and Sharia Versus Freedom of Speech

My forthcoming book Sharia Versus Freedom [1], elaborates in great detail the grave threat, Sharia, Islam’s totalitarian “universal law” poses to our bedrock Western liberties—especially freedom of conscience and speech.

Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French tabloid, has just published [2] (9/19/12) a new series of cartoons lampooning Islam’s prophet Muhammad.

According to one of contemporary Islamdom’s most popular and respected clerics, Yusuf al-Qaradawi—who will no doubt raise vociferous objections to the publication of these caricatures, and perhaps even issue a fatwa calling for the “punishment” (i.e., death, imprisonment, etc.) of the cartoonist—Muhammad remains the “Jihad Model [3]” for all Muslims justifying the creed’s mission for violent subjugation of the “infidel” and sanctioning murderous “martyrdom operations,” in modern parlance homicide bombings, to achieve that end.

As Qaradawi himself, legions of other mainstream Muslim legists, including the mainstream Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America, and the laws of many Islamic nations affirm, Charlie Hebdo’s publication of such “blasphemous images” is a criminal act punishable [1], at minimum by fine and imprisonment, or even death—all in accord with Islam’s freedom of speech abrogating “Holy Law,” the totalitarian Sharia [1].

Professor Carl Brockelmann (1868–1956), the renowned scholar of Semitic languages, and arguably the foremost Orientalist of his generation, made these candid observations [1] about the sharia’s injunctions pertaining to penal law, in 1939—Islamic law being “valid” eternally, and all too widely applied in Brockelmann’s era, till now.

Blasphemy with respect to God [Allah], the Prophet, and his predecessors is punished by death, as is defection from Islam, if the culprit persists in his disbelief.

Almost three-quarters of a century later, Rising Restrictions on Religion, a report by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life issued August 9, 2011, examined [1] the issue of “defamation” of religion, tracking countries where various penalties are enforced for apostasy, blasphemy, or criticism of religions. “While such laws are sometimes promoted as a way to protect religion, in practice they often serve to punish religious minorities whose beliefs are deemed unorthodox or heretical,” the report noted. The Pew report, consistent with Brockelmann’s assessment from 1939, found that application of the sharia at present resulted in a disproportionate number of Muslim countries, twenty-one—Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Brunei, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Maldives, Morocco, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Western Sahara, and Yemen—registering the highest (i.e., worst) persecution scores on their scale. Furthermore, the Pew investigators observed [1],

Eight-in-ten countries in the Middle East–North Africa region have laws against blasphemy, apostasy or defamation of religion, the highest share of any region. These penalties are enforced in 60% of the countries in the region.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/19/why-im-a-one-issue-voter/

EITHER THE MAN IS A TOTAL FOOL OR ANOTHER FOOL SABOTAGED HIM AND WROTE THIS DRIVEL ON HIS STATIONARY…..SHAME ON HIM….HE SHOULD ISSUE AN APOLOGY…INSTEAD HE IS PREENING AND PROUD OF THIS FOUL LINKING OF THE HOLOCAUST AND HIROSHIMA….RSK

“There are two words that symbolize the terror of the twentieth century: Auschwitz and Hiroshima. An Iranian bomb threatens to combine them both. It portends the destruction of an entire nation and an entire people in a moment. However hard it may be to imagine such wholesale slaughter, if history has taught us nothing else, it has taught that today’s delusions of madmen can become tomorrow’s reality.”

I have never voted in a Presidential election on one issue alone, but I will this year.

We all know there are crucial economic and social issues. If you are out of a job, what could be more pressing? There are foreign policy challenges with Russia, China, North Korea and the Middle East. I do not mean to minimize the urgency of these issues. But this year, for me, they must all take a back seat.

Although I recently delivered the benediction at the Democratic National Convention, I considered the act religious, not political — a blessing, not an endorsement. My decision this year will be simple: I will vote for whichever candidate seems likelier to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

There are two words that symbolize the terror of the twentieth century: Auschwitz and Hiroshima. An Iranian bomb threatens to combine them both. It portends the destruction of an entire nation and an entire people in a moment. However hard it may be to imagine such wholesale slaughter, if history has taught us nothing else, it has taught that today’s delusions of madmen can become tomorrow’s reality.

The problem is not one person. True, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad describes Israel as an “insult to humanity” and “a cancerous tumor,” and calls for its “disappearance.” But it is equally true that in May, the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, Major-General Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi, said: “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause [and] that is the full annihilation of Israel.” And in June, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told a United Nations-sponsored anti-drug conference that the Jews were responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world, that the Zionists control the international drug trade, and that they had ordered doctors to kill black babies.

Experts from Israel’s former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan and others point to a genuine concern that Iran would bomb Israel. So those like The New York Times‘ Bill Keller who declare that Iran would not use the bomb are foisting their own humanitarian criteria on people who do not share them. The reasoning seems to be: “Since for me it is unthinkable, it must be impossible.” But we have learned to our cost in the twentieth century, when it comes to atrocity, the unthinkable is indeed possible. “Containing” a nuclear Iran is the opposite of real politik; it is fantasy politik.

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-fantasy-of-the-fragile-muslim/ Immediately following the initial Islamist violence in Egypt and Libya, which has now spread throughout the Islamic world, the White House and Hillary Clinton’s State Department blamed a barely seen video that mocked the Prophet Mohammad. While a mainly compliant media reinforced this notion, some criticism has hit the public square. In response, the […]