http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/29/israel-gaza-militants_n_1065272.html….Read it all below JAN POLLER RESPONDS: The fact that Jihad Islami started the battle only appears in the next to last paragraph and does not explicitly say that Jihad Islami: On Wednesday, militants fired a long-range Katyusha rocket that exploded near Ashdod in the south of Israel. Sirens also went off in the central […]
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2545/totalitarian-britain
The breathtaking contempt at the heart of the British government for its own people and for democracy was showcased by its Conservative-Liberal Democrats coalition on October 24. Prompted by popular sentiment, a non-binding motion on Britain and the European Union was scheduled to be debated by MPs. The motion proposed holding a referendum, giving the public a chance to express their opinion on whether the country should withdraw from the EU, or remain a part of the EU, perhaps with the intention of negotiating some powers back from Brussels.
With three parties virtually indistinguishable on every major issue, and largely unresponsive to public opinion, faith in the democratic process in Britain has been seriously shaken over the last decade. Nevertheless, there has been reason to hope: The UK Government has a public website for petitions that can potentially raise the concerns of the public. Any British citizen can create a new petition, and members of the public can sign their names to it. If a petition that gets more than 100,000 signatures, it can be debated in the House of Commons.
http://www.hudson-ny.org/2546/marseille-mosque
A French court has annulled the construction permit for a mega-mosque in the southern city of Marseille, home to the largest Muslim community in France.
The court ruling represents a major setback for proponents of the mosque, which has long been touted as the biggest and most potent symbol of Islam’s growing place in France — and Europe.
The move comes as a French newspaper published the contents of a leaked intelligence report about the rise of Islam in Marseille. The document states that “even if the number of individuals who have been radicalized to the point of supporting the Jihadists is relatively low, Islamic fundamentalism has progressed to the point where it has won over the majority of the Muslim population” who live in the city and who now number over 250,000.
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GENEVA – Afghan women’s rights hero Dr. Massouda Jalal visited UN Watch headquarters today as part of a Europe-wide campaign to warn the international community not to legitimize the Taliban at an upcoming December summit in Bonn of 90 governments on the future of Afghanistan.
Dr. Jalal, a pediatrician who was Minister of Women’s Affairs and Afghanistan’s first woman to run for president, heads a delegation of Afghan women activists lobbying policymakers in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and Geneva.
“The Taliban are gaining power,” she told UN Watch today, “and there is great danger for educated women.”
The Taliban and religious extremism are being supported by the Iranian regime, which is increasing its influence in the region, said Jalal.
URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/31/pino-jihada/
For those of us old enough to be AARP members, the name “Kent State” conjures up memories of the killings of 4 Kent State students on May 4, 1970 in an over-reaction by Ohio State Guardsmen positioned on the campus during anti-war protests.
This past week Kent State gained a new basis for international notoriety and for a different sort of death, this time of academic standards and decency. Kent State is home to one of the worst tenured jihadists and pseudo-academic barbarians on the planet.
Julio Pino is a tenured pseudo-academic, teaching Latin American history at Kent State. He was born in Cuba in 1960 and is a proud Fidelista, although he seems to prefer the option of having three square meals to eat in the heartland of American capitalism to living in the workers’ paradise. In 2000 he converted to Islam and adopted the new name, Assad Jibril Pino. Since then he has been a professional anti-Semite and rabble rouser against Israel. He routinely denounces Israel for perpetuating “genocide” and Nazi-like crimes. (He evidently has never found any crimes in Cuba committed by the communists there, nor any human rights abuses of Muslims in Muslim regimes.) He proudly admits to being a full-time indoctrinator of his students at Kent State. He has referred to his students at Kent State as his “little jihadists” and his “beloved Taliban.” He insists that the United States is “rapidly descending toward Christian fascism, we need more Ward Churchills.” In September 2000, Pino declared a fatwa on the moderator of the “Marxism List,” proclaiming that those who dared to disagree with him were “hereby sentenced to death.” He routinely celebrates mass murderers and suicide bombers, including the al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked the US on 9-11. The Kent State student paper has had some biting satire to say about all this.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ There is no understanding environmentalism without also understanding the function of religion as a means of infusing spirituality into the material. The politicization of consumerism is an attempt to mimic the religious dimension of life without a guiding deity. Environmentalism provides the believer with the grandiosity of a human centered existence, in which the […]
SO MANY SOFT CORE SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL HAILED THE WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA AS A GREAT THING….A PROSPECT FOR PEACE…..SOME JEWISH PHILANTHROPISTS ACTUALLY BOUGHT FARMS, HOMES AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE ARABS….EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE SEEDS WAS TRASHED. ….YOU WERE ALL SO WRONG. HIGH TIME TO SAY SO…AND STOP BEATING THE DRUMS FOR MORE ISRAELI WITHDRAWALS AND CONCESSIONS…RSK
Israel’s unilateral disengagement plan also known as the “Disengagement plan”, “Gaza expulsion plan”, and “Hitnatkut”, was adopted by the government on June 6, 2004 and enacted in August 2005, to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank.
Those Israeli citizens who refused to accept government compensation packages and voluntarily vacate their homes prior to the August 15, 2005 deadline, were evicted by Israeli security forces over a period of several days. The eviction of all residents, demolition of the residential buildings and evacuation of associated security personnel from the Gaza Strip was completed by September 12, 2005. The eviction and dismantlement of the four settlements in the northern West Bank was completed ten days later.
TODAY’S HEADLINES:
“Gaza militants continue to fire rockets at Israel, amid reports of cease-fireIron Dome missile defense system successfully intercepts a Grad rocket launched at Ashdod early Sunday; 11 rockets and mortar shells launched into Israel overnight, after man succumbs to shrapnel wounds from day before.”
“Gazan militants continued to launch rockets into Israel early Sunday morning, despite a report on Ma’an News Agency claiming that an Egyptian-mediated cease-fire would take effect at 3:00 A.M. A total of 31 rockets have been fired from Gaza since the beginning of the weekend.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/aboriginal_rights_of_the_jewish_people.html
HERE WE GO AGAIN…HERTZ LAYS OUT THE HISTORY AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF JEWS IN PALESTINE…BUT THEN ENDS HIS WELL CRAFTED ESSAY WITH THE USUAL CRAPOLA ABOUT THE NEED FOR A PALARAB STATE IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA….WITH THE USUAL BLAH, BLAH BLAH ABOUT SECURITY AND GUARANTEE ETC……RSK
“The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland,” said U.S. President Barack Obama in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on September 21, 2011. This theme of “people” and “historic homeland” has for centuries resonated with most Jews round the world. However, the president’s words were even more welcome, because our own time witnesses an increasingly bitter controversy over the Jewish people’s right to political self-determination in a part of its aboriginal homeland.
That fierce debate inevitably revolves around the political and legal doctrine of the self-determination of peoples. There is also the companion doctrine of aboriginal rights, because the Jewish people is a small indigenous minority in the Arab Middle East, which in turn is an important part of the greater Muslim world that also includes key countries like Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia. To speak of aboriginal rights suggests that there is significant moral and legal weight to the circumstance that the Jews — periodically persecuted and perennial victims of discrimination — nonetheless for more than twenty-five centuries kept some demographic and cultural ties to their aboriginal homeland. And is there not added moral and legal weight where that particular people’s aboriginal rights have already been explicitly recognized in the relevant treaties, which are the highest source of international law?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/10/iran_syria_plotting_to_blunt_turkey.html
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. He is a senior fellow with EMPact America and the author of A Time to Betray, a book about his double-life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, published by Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster, April 2010. A Time to Betray was the winner of the 2010 National Best Book Award and the 2011 International Best Book Award.
PLEASE ALSO READ:
Reza Kahlili’s “A Time to Betray”an exclusive interview and review by Ruth King http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.10609/pub_detail.asp
Two of the Middle East’s dictators, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, want to form a united front against NATO ally Turkey for what they see as dangerous meddling in regional affairs.
Believing that it has blunted Saudi Arabia’s influence in the Middle East, Iran is now turning its focus on Turkey in an effort to establish Iranian hegemony in the region.
Iranian officials in recent weeks have stepped up their attacks against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for allowing NATO to station an early-warning radar in Turkey as part of NATO’s missile defense system aimed at countering ballistic missile threats from neighboring Iran. But the Iranians are also furious about Turkey’s continuous support of Syrian opposition forces, who are suffering a brutal crackdown from the Assad regime.
http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-royal-ups-bounty-israeli-soldier-1mn-102128131.html
HE’S THE BROTHER OF ALWALEED BIN TALAL WHOSE “MUNIFICENCE” FUNDS ALL THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS AT MAJOR AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES….NICE HUH?…..RSK
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family has increased to $1 million a reward offered to anyone who captures an Israeli soldier to swap him for Palestinian prisoners.
Prince Khaled bin Talal, brother of billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, told kingdom’s al-Daleel TV station by telephone Saturday that his offer was in retaliation for alleged Israeli threats to Sheik Awadh al-Qarani, a prominent Saudi cleric who promised $100,000 for capturing an Israeli soldier.
The Saudi offers follow in the wake of the release of Israeli soldier Sgt. Gilad Schalit, who was held by Hamas in Gaza for more than five years. Israel has agreed to free over 1,000 prisoners in exchange.
