http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/09/05/latin-american-jewish-converts-converge-in-mexico-city/?intcmp=obinsite Judaism Converts Find Acceptance In Mexico City Known as conversos, or secret Jews, many Latin Americans have became Catholic in public while continuing their forbidden Jewish practices in private. They came to Mexico City from places as far flung as Colombia and Brazil. Some traveled from Guadalajara. Among their numbers were an ex-Catholic priest […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579078940387757478.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion Bashar Assad may have pulled off the most successful use of chemical weapons in history. For the two years leading up to the Aug. 21 Damascus sarin gas attack, President Obama was saying that the Syrian dictator “must go.” No longer. In one month, Assad has risen from outlaw butcher to partner in disarmament. […]
If the entire Palestinian Authority leadership lives off an international welfare check that arrives only because the conflict still exists, there isn’t much incentive for ending the conflict. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3979/unrwa-dilemma The Palestinian people, according to a recent study by the Jerusalem Institute of Justice, have received per capita, adjusted for inflation, 25 times more aid than […]
http://amilimani.com/as-obama-turns-tail-iran-gives-chase/ The civilized world witnessed in revulsion the graphic images, which emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria. The attack wiped out some 1300 people as they lay sleeping in their beds. The Obama administration claims President Bashar al-Assad’s forces launched the nerve gas attack while […]
Hint: He was not a Professor at Columbia University. He did not marry Jane Fonda. He is not a pal of President Obama. He has become a major defender of Israel. He was 35 years old at the time…and one year later the magazine this came from folded leaving its editors unemployed so they turned […]
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/358486/man-who-keeps-new-york-safe-deroy-murdock
Stoic.
That word best describes New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly. In an increasingly juvenile nation, Kelly’s granite temperament can be a tad daunting. But if you knew what Kelly knows, you might not smile much, either.
“The threat of terrorism is as great, if not greater, today than it was before the World Trade Center was destroyed,” Kelly recently said. “Do not think for a second that al-Qaeda and those who share its ideology have forgotten about New York,” he continued. “Images of the World Trade Center and scenes of the City are regularly displayed on jihadist websites and al-Qaeda publications. Its propagandists call on followers in the United States to take up the battle at home and use bombs, guns, and poison to indiscriminately kill.”
In a breakfast speech at the New York Hilton that made last Monday tougher than most, Kelly told the Association for a Better New York and the Council on Foreign Relations that America’s financial and media capital remains militant Islam’s target of choice.
“In the mind of al-Qaeda and its acolytes, New York is the symbol of all they hate about America and the West,” Kelly added. “In just the past ten months there have been several plots with a nexus to New York City.”
• Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 23, arrived from Bangladesh on a student visa. He conspired to blast Manhattan’s Federal Reserve Bank last October. On August 9, he received a 30-year prison sentence.
• Raess Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, two Pakistani-born brothers, were nabbed in Florida last November 29 after plotting to detonate theaters and restaurants in Times Square.
• NYPD undercover efforts prompted the arrest of Justin Kaliebe, 18, as he boarded a jet for Yemen, allegedly to join Ansar al-Sharia, a.k.a. al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Kelly observed, “There’s little doubt that his handlers would have sent him back here to their number-one target, New York City.”
• An unnamed, Iranian-trained al-Qaeda agent met a conspirator here. Among other objectives, they planned to attack a train between New York and Canada. So much for the myth that Sunni al-Qaeda and Shiite Iran will not cooperate to kill Americans.
• Just days after allegedly bombing the Boston Marathon last April, killing three people and wounding 264, the Tsarnaev brothers drove towards Manhattan with pipe bombs and explosive pressure cookers. Had their hostage not escaped, Kelly explained, “They would have arrived in Midtown in time to launch a devastating attack at the morning rush hour.”
“Again,” Kelly emphasized, “these all are events in the last ten months.”
Kelly has led the NYPD into becoming what Heritage Foundation national-security scholar Cully Stimson calls “the best city police department in terms of counterterrorism in the USA.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/node/358550/print Prostitution. Bribery. Blackmail. Thuggery. Hypocrisy. Those were just some of the incendiary words thrown around the U.S. Senate last week, and that doesn’t count what people said in private. The Senate may still have a reputation as a genteel club, but lawmakers seemed to abandon rules of decorum completely last week in arguments about […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/center-for-security-policy-to-honor-author-diana-west-as-recipient-of-the-mightier-pen-award?f=puball The Center for Security Policy announced today that the 2013 recipient of its Mightier Pen Award will be Diana West, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization, co-author of Shariah: The Threat to America, and most recently author of American […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/putin-upstages-obama-as-man-of-peace?f=puball I can appreciate a good joke. But Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Op-Ed in the New York Times of September 11th, “A Plea for Caution,” which I’m sure caused him to smile as he penned it, is not funny. It isn’t even a bad joke. On one hand, there is some humor in seeing President […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/remembering-9-11-how-far-have-we-come-what-still-needs-to-be-done On the twelfth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on United States soil, we reflect back on those who were lost on that fateful day. We remember the heroes and where we were. How far have we come in the journey of grief and how far must we continue to go in striving to protect […]
