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DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE COLONIZATION OF THE WEST

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Once upon a time when you wanted to invade another people’s land, you built your longboats, got together some young males with few prospects at home and set sail for greener pastures. Today the longboats are jet planes and the invaded use them to ferry over their own invaders.

Colonization usually required three elements. Surplus male population, the technology to make the journey and the means to subjugate or drive off the people already living there.

Western medicine and aid have helped create and sustain a surplus population which has nowhere to go and nothing to do in its own highly stratified societies. At home they start Arab Spring like revolutions, which is one more reason for China’s One Child policy. With few economic opportunities in an oligarchy, they have to move elsewhere to get ahead.

The ability to colonize distant parts of the world usually required a certain level of sophistication. Any barbarian could walk a few miles, grip an axe and smash the heads of the equally backward people who lived there. But eventually they would either come up against a more sophisticated empire or the sea, natural barriers that they couldn’t cross without advancing further up the cultural ladder.

DANIEL GREENFIELD: TEACHING YOUR CHILD TO BE A DICTATOR’S LACKEY

Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator’s Lackey Posted By Daniel Greenfield URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/teaching-your-child-to-be-a-dictators-lackey/   Imagine your child’s school teaching him how wonderful dictatorships are by having him and his friends model their very own group of dictatorships as part of their education. Like so many other Orwellian nightmares in the American educational […]

TED BELMAN: NETANYAHU CROSSES ANOTHER RED LINE…..SEE NOTE PLEASE

Obama Holds Netanyahu at ‘Gunpoint’ Posted By Ted Belman

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/obama-holds-netanyahu-at-%e2%80%9cgunpoint%e2%80%9d/

LONG BEFORE OBAMA, NETANYAHU CAVED. WHY THE SURPRISE NOW? AT THE WYE PLANTATION MEETING DURING THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, HE GAVE IN TO THE CONSIDERABLE “CHARM” OF MADELENE ALBRIGHT AND SURRENDERED JEWISH CLAIMS TO HEBRON…THE CRADLE OF THE JEWISH FAITH. HE IS GREAT ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND TOTALLY SPINELESS ON ISRAEL’S DEFENSE AND PATRIMONY…..RSK

Reprinted from IsraPundit.com.

Before forming the present government PM Netanyahu stood for the following:– no two state solution- no Shalit trade as was then being negotiated- no construction freeze and- no presentation of an Israeli plan for its borders

Since taking office he violated all these supposed red lines. He gave a speech in which he accepted “two states for two peoples”. He made the Shalit trade he previously had opposed. He imposed a 10 month freeze for nothing in return and in many ways imposed a de facto freeze.

VERACITY, MENDACITY AND ISLAM: BRUCE BAWER

Veracity, Mendacity – and Islam Posted By Bruce Bawer

URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/veracity-mendacity-%e2%80%93-and-islam/

The recent arrival in my mail of a book entitled Islam: Critical Essays about a Political Religion has prompted a number of thoughts. Edited by Sam and Wim van Rooy and published late last year, it is a massive compendium, just under 800 pages long. It is in Dutch. (The title is actually De Islam: Kritische Essays over een Politieke Religie.) And it is richly comprehensive, with thirty-four essays on such subjects as the Islamization of Europe, Islam in India, the term “Islamophobia,” jihad in Africa, dhimmitude, apostasy, the myth of Andalusia, taqiyya, Islam and the West, sharia law, Islam’s “fellow travelers,” Jews under Islam, Christians under Islam, Islam and women, Islam and slavery, Islam and fascism, and Islam vs. democracy.

The authors are mostly Dutch and Flemish writers with considerable expertise in their subjects, plus a sprinkling of well-known international figures as Ibn Warraq and Bat Ye’or. I have not yet read every word of the book – and given my spotty Dutch I may never do so – but one thing is absolutely clear: this is most definitely not a product of the Islamic Studies propaganda factory. It is not the sort of book, in other words, in which you would be likely to find the work of John Esposito, the king of Islamic Studies in the U.S., who is a reliable apologist for Islam and whose Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University is, in fact, funded by (and named for) his good friend and benefactor, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia. Nor is this book the sort of soft-focus feel-good material churned out by popular writers like Karen Armstrong, who (it must be admitted) does a truly brilliant job of soft-pedaling the darker sides of Islam and emphasizing its warmly spiritual aspects, so that when you think of the religion you don’t picture a jihadist lopping off somebody’s head but a beautiful woman in a sensuously loose veil meditating at sundown under an olive tree while sipping coffee and nibbling on delicious figs

PERRY WILL MAKE HIS TAX RETURNS PUBLIC…URGES OTHER CANDIDATES TO DO SO:KATRINA TRINKO

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/281653 Romney, Perry, and Tax Returns Never mind their taxation plans, what about their personal tax histories? When Mitt Romney and Rick Perry aren’t berating each other on the debate stage, with body language more befitting a bar fight, their campaigns are busy lobbing highly charged attacks back and forth: “Ponzi scheme,” “Romneycare,” “no heart” […]

UK: PRO-ISRAEL M.P. MIKE FREER THREATENED, HARASSED AND CALLED “JEWISH HOMOSEXUAL PIG” BY MUSLIMS

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An MP has described how he waited for police behind a locked door during a constituency surgery(meeting) after he was threatened by a group of men.

Mike Freer said it happened at North Finchley mosque in north London as he met constituents on Friday afternoon.

Mr Freer said about 12 people forced their way inside, with one of them calling him a “Jewish homosexual pig”.

The trouble began after messages on the Muslims Against Crusades website urged supporters to target him, he said.

Mr Freer said a message posted ahead of the incident on the group’s website made reference to Labour MP Stephen Timms, who was stabbed while holding a surgery in east London last year.

It warned the attack on Mr Timms should serve as a “piercing reminder” to politicians that “their presence is no longer welcome in any Muslim area”.

CLAUDIA ROSETT: HALLOWEEN BOO TO UNICEF

A Halloween Boo to UNICEF Posted By Claudia Rosett URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/a-halloween-boo-to-unicef/ With Halloween upon us, what could be sweeter than urging your kids to skip the candy and instead collect coins for UNICEF? It’s a grand old tradition, and  many of us did it as kids. Even among UN critics, UNICEF — the […]

DIANA WEST: WELCOME TO SURREALISTAN

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1937/Welcome-to-Surreal-istan.aspx An Afghan National Army soldier opened fire and murdered three and wounded seven members of an Australian military training team in southern Afghanistan.yesterday. The ANA soldier attacked his own Mentoring Task Force 3 just as they ended a regular weekly parade at a forward operating base at Shah Wali Kot in Kandahar province. To […]

FOX FAMILY MATTERS: DIANA WEST

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The ethical and legal failings of the Murdoch clan have made headlines for months with Lachlan Murdoch kicking up the most dirt in the British phone hacking scandals, much to the discomfort of the News Corp. board and shareeholders.

But what are even unconsionable, unlawful breaches of privacy next to putting bounties on the heads of Israeli soldiers to encourage their kidnappings? A close family member of another major New Corp. player has done exactly that.

From Haaretz:

“Saudi royal offers $900,000 for capture of Israeli soldiers”

A Saudi royal offered a $900,000 reward to anyone who captures an Israeli soldier, on Saturday. Prince Khaled bin Talal, the brother of business tycoon Walid bin Talal, told the Saudi-based broadcaster Al Daleel that the captive would then be released in exchange for Arabs held in Israeli prisons.

Khaled’s offer comes days after the prominent Saudi cleric, Awad al-Qarni, put $100,000 on the head of every Israeli soldier.

That makes it one million bucks per Israeli head.

Al-Qarni’s statement – posted on Facebook – was severely criticized, and messages posted online even warned of death threats.

Khaled told the broadcaster: “My offer also comes in response to the threats made against Sheikh al-Qarni.”

The Saudi offers follows the recent deal between the Israeli government and Hamas, when Israel agreed to release 1,027 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit.

Will this story about Talal’s brother be reported on Fox? Will such a report include a statement from Talal repudiating his brother’s malignancy and criminality? What about Rupert and Lachlan? How about the News Corp. board? Does terrorist incitement to kidnapping count as “fair and balanced”?

UK: MOSLEM GROUP PLANS “HELL FOR HEROES” DEMONSTRATION ON “HELP FOR HEROES” CAMPAIGN

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055365/Poppy-burning-Muslims-plan-new-hell-heroes-demonstration-November-11.html#ixzz1cLpLZAb0 Poppy-burning Muslims plan new ‘Hell for Heroes’ demonstration on November 11 An extreme Muslim group which caused outrage by burning a poppy last Remembrance Sunday is planning further disruption on November 11, with a twisted ‘Hell for Heroes’ campaign. The demo, which mocks the charity for injured soldiers Help for Heroes, is […]