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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11683/pub_detail.asp
After the lone gunman, Mohammed Merah, was shot and killed by a French sharpshooter, the details of who and what he was have started to come out, and the commentaries to pour forth to explain why he did what he did. One word stands out that makes me stop to think: rampage.

A rampage is an uncontrollable act, a rage of fury starting out almost from nowhere and concluding in an explosion of violence. But everything I have seen and heard about more than three weeks of murders—first a single soldier, then a group of paratroopers, and then the killing of three children and a rabbi at a Jewish high school—indicates something quite other than an outburst of murderous rage. In each case, the young Frenchman of Algerian background rode his stolen motor scooter to the target area, dismounted, walked up to his victims, and shot them at close range, leaving burn marks on their skin. There were many days between each of these attacks. Mohammed also told police by phone as they encircled his flat in Toulouse that he had been planning at least one further shooting and he regretted not having more victims. This is not a rampage. If not, what is it?

Does it matter? No, not to the victims or their family and friends. For them, it is cold-blooded murder, another example of racist hate, and an unbearable tragedy. But it does matter to the security forces, police, and commentators who try to prevent similar events and to protect themselves when they hunt down and try to capture the perpetrators. If these killings were the result of a murderous rage, then it would be hard to predict who among the thousands, if not millions, of disaffected, angry young men, members of minority groups disadvantaged by this society or that, will finally have had enough and race out in a fury to maim or kill individuals designated by hate speech and cultural norms as worthy of being so attacked.

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2075/French-Riot-Police-Dispatched-to-Prevent-Muslim-Women-from-Honoring-Mohamed-of-Toulouse.aspx

“We in America know the benevolence that is at the heart of Islam.” Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice said in 2005 at the United States State Department’s annual Ramadan dinner. (I don’t know why I still bother with italics as though they actually underscore something out of the ordinary, but I do.)

“Really?” I asked in The Death of the Grown-Up. “Is that what we know? Is that what history tells us? Is that what current events tell us? Rice’s speechifying … made a wicked contrast to real live Ramadan ’05 headlines,” which included a Muslim suicide bombing in Hadera that killed six Israelis, Ahmadinejad’s promise that “the stain of disgrace” — meaning Israel– would be “purged from the center of the Islamic world,” weeks of Muslim rioting in Paris, “and the news that a London Underground suicide bomber had been buried in Pakistan … at the shrine of an Islamic saint.”

This last bit came back to me on seeing this video at Vlad Tepes showing French police in riot gear lined up to prevent Muslim women in Toulouse, France from doing an act best described as satanic — laying flowers at the childhood home of the monster Mohamed Merah, who notoriously confessed to having felt unending pleasure at murdering seven people recently, including three soldiers, a rabbi and three children, among them 7-year-old Miriam Monsenego (above), who ran in terror from Merah before he grabbed her by the hair and shot her in the head. Are the women who tried to place flowers at Merah’s “extremists”? “Islamists”? “Islamo-facsists”? Have they “hijacked” a great religion? I regret to inform you that they are simply following its example.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/27/what-if-your-son-doesnt-look-l On several occasions during the course of his presidency, Barack Obama has said some unhelpful things. Let us go back to July 2009 when President Obama infamously said that the police department in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had “acted stupidly” in arresting his friend Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. despite stating moments earlier “not having […]

Dennis Kucinich, Lefty for Radical Islam Investigative Project on Terrorism http://www.danielpipes.org/10906/dennis-kucinich-radical-islam Keith Ellison and Andre Carson receive considerable attention as the first two Muslims to serve in the U.S. Congress. The novelty of their presence, however, should not obscure the fact that Congress includes other representatives, invariably on the left wing of the Democratic party, […]

  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11442 It is uncertain when the first vestiges of Jewish life in the British Isles occurred. Ancient Phoenicia, which lay along the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the north of the biblical Jewish Kingdom of Israel was a seafaring nation and its fleets may well have voyaged as far as Britain, possibly with crews that […]

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2976/olmert-abbas-peace-partner

If Abbas were really a “partner for peace,” how come he did not accept the generous offer — which even included the division of Jerusalem — he received from the Olmert government in 2008?

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is a “partner for peace.”

“No one can say to me after hundreds of hours of discussing peace with Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] that he is not a partner because he doesn’t want peace,” Olmert said in a speech at J Street’s annual conference. “He wants peace with Israel and he accepts the existence of Israel as Israel declares itself to be.”

But if Abbas were really a “partner for peace,” how come he did not accept the generous offer he received from the Olmert government in 2008?

At that time, Olmert presented Abbas with a map that would have given the Palestinians control over most of the West Bank, and that also included the transfer of 327 square kilometers of territory from inside Israel to the Palestinians. In return, Israel would have annexed 6.3% of the West Bank to Israel.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11676/pub_detail.asp
To France’s Islamist Terrorist: “For What Reason Did You Kill Me?”
It was eventually bound to happen in a nation home to the largest Muslim population in Western Europe that has largely been spared terrorist activity linked to fanatical Islam. At some point, it was destined to feel its sting. A 24- year-old French national of Algerian origin and self-proclaimed Islamist militant, Mohammed Merah, who had trained at a Taliban camp in Afghanistan, callously murdered three French paratroopers, a rabbi and three French-Israeli children. He was close enough to his victims in each case that his .45-caliber pistol left powder burns on them. Clearly, each victim was an intended target.

Ironically, the soldier who was Merah’s first victim, on March 11, was Muslim as well. As Merah fired his weapon, he was heard to exclaim, “You kill my brothers, so I am killing you.”
Eleven days later, as French police surrounded Merah’s Toulouse apartment, communicating with him through a barricaded doorway in a 31-hour standoff, he voiced his regrets—not for the killings but that he had been found before he could launch another killing spree planned for later that day. The loss of seven lives meant nothing to him as he had every intention of adding to his tally.

http://euobserver.com/24/115675 EU to blacklist Assad’s wife, mother and sister

European Union foreign ministers are set to impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s British-born wife, Asma al-Assad, today. The move comes after a cache of what appear to be private emails from the Syrian president, his wife and other members of their inner circle, obtained by the Guardian showed her busy buying luxury goods from London and Paris, including jewellery, a £2,650 vase and £10,000 worth of candlesticks, tables and chandeliers during the regime’s brutal crackdown on internal dissent. The EU’s sanctions are also likely to be extended to other individuals, including the Syrian president’s, mother, sister and sister-in-law and institutions. European companies could also be banned from doing business with two more Syrian entities, diplomats say.

BRUSSELS – The EU is to add the Syrian leader’s wife, mother, sister and sister-in-law to its blacklist at a foreign minister’s meeting in Brussels on Friday (23 March).The new visa ban and asset freeze also covers eight members of President Bashar Assad’s government and two oil firms.

Opposition groups, such as the Syrian National Council (SNC), want much more.

SNC spokesman, Radwan Ziadeh, told EUobserver that Nato should launch air-strikes against Assad’s tanks, enforce a no-fly zone and create humanitarian safe havens. “What is happening [in Syria] is a new Sarajevo, a new Bosnia,” he said, referring to Balkan massacres in the 1990s.
There is no chance of that, however.

The military option would rely on Nato member and Syria neighbour Turkey. But Turkey’s current message to Syria’s Sunni Muslim opposition is: get Christians and other minorities, who support Assad out of fear of Sunni rule, on your side first.

“Unfortunately, this is the world in which Israel must survive today–one filled with Chomskys in the Ivory Tower, Baroness Ashtons in leading world organizations, and numerous versions of hypocritical airheads like Asma al-Asad in Hollywood and elsewhere.” No sooner had a young Jewish girl been run down while at school by a rabid beast who […]

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=263693

‘Manipulating Israel’s judicial system – using the Supreme Court, the State Prosecutor and Civil Administration against the rights of Jews to live in Judea and Samaria – undermines democracy, Zionism and the rule of law. Allowing this pseudo-judicial travesty to continue pollutes our entire system of government.”

Once again former chief justice Dorit Beinisch and a few of her colleagues have usurped the role and powers of the legislature and sought to create new law.

In a ruling last week, Beinisch and a panel that included Justices Edna Arbel and Miriam Naor, vehement opponents of settlements, held that Michael Lessans, a Jewish plumber who lives in Kedumim, in the Shomron, must evacuate 45 dunams (approx. 11 acres) of land on which he had planted 1,300 trees because Arabs claimed this area belonged to them.

The court ordered Lessans to remove the trees immediately and compensate the Arab claimants and the Civil Administration. The court ruled that Jews, unlike Arabs, could not claim land by chazaka (acquired right of possession) – an Ottoman statute under which working the land for three to 10 years could be a basis for claiming ownership.

Lessans, who immigrated from Baltimore 40 years ago, planted the area with wheat, corn and barley in 1996, and in 2006 planted olive trees. A year later Arabs objected and in 2009 – assisted and represented by Peace Now and Yesh Din – filed a petition against Lessans. The land was never registered in tabu and the Arab claimants offered no proof of ownership.

According to Lessans, a document from the Ottoman period presented by the Arab claimants refers to the right to rent “a place” in the area – but no precise location is specified and the alleged owner is not listed. Therefore, it is impossible to know if Lessans’ orchard is “the place,” or not. Although the lower court rejected Arab claims of ownership, Peace Now and Yesh Din went directly to the Supreme Court, where they knew they could win on politics, rather than law.

In his appearance before the Supreme Court, Lessans offered to give the entire orchard to the Arabs if they could prove ownership. The court refused the deal. If the Arabs can’t prove they own the land, however, why did the court order the trees removed and likely destroyed? These crucial facts were not reported in the media, which accepted the court’s decision without question.