http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-profile-of-german-salafists-in-egypt-a-888605.html A year ago, a SPIEGEL editor met a Salafist in Hanover. Following several meetings in Germany, he traveled with him to his new home in Egypt. He could not have anticipated the danger he would encounter there. It’s night in Alexandria, and I can hear the Salafist breathing in the dark. He’s tiptoeing across […]
http://www.meforum.org/3467/obama-israel-visit Why exactly is President Obama going to Israel? A variety of theories have been advanced as to why he is making the trip now and what might be accomplished. Some have suggested that Obama needs to reassure Israel, to hold their hands and tell them that the US-Israeli relationship is special. This suggests that […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/egypt-may-allow-citizens-arrest-of-western-tourists-for-blasphemy/print/
Egypt’s tourism sector was doing really badly, so the Muslim Brotherhood regime decided to finish it off. I don’t recall even the Saudis allowing freelance blasphemy arrests. And this is taking place in a country where much of the population thinks that being a member of a non-Islamic religion is blasphemy and being a Westerner means you are a spy.
So come to beautiful Egypt. If you don’t get attacked by a mob making a citizen’s arrest, you’ll get attacked by a rape mob and if you don’t encounter any of these, you get a t-shirt that says, “I Survived Egypt.”
The Egyptian prosecutor general for the Muslim Brotherhood regime (their equivalent of our Attorney General, Eric Holder) has enacted a new law permitting ordinary Egyptians to make what amounts to carte blanche arrests of foreigners in Egypt for things like suspicion of ‘spying’ or blasphemy, or pretty much anything else that goes against Egypt’s sharia based legal code:
Egypt’s Coalition to Support Tourism (CST) condemns the prosecutor-general’s decision to allow citizens’ arrests announced on Sunday, arguing it raises many worries among tourists.
Many tourism agents called the head of the CST, Ehab Moussa in alarm. He told Ahram Online that they wanted to confirm the rumour over what they feel is a strange decision.
“If a tourist rebuffed an Egyptian merchant, refusing to buy something, the merchant might accuse the tourist of spying and arrest him,” he said.
Moussa claims that tourists would then be mistreated and blackmailed in Egypt.
Only Islamist political powers, represented by the Freedom and Justice Party and Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya, welcomed the decision as an attempt to curb the security deterioration in the country.
Egypt has fallen to the lowest rank out of 140 countries in terms of safety and security, just behind Pakistan, Chad and Yemen, in the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Travel and Tourism (T&T) competitiveness index released last week.
So if you have to choose between a tourism trip to Pakistan or Egypt, jump into the ocean. It worked for the Israelites.
Iraq: Ten Years Since Removing Saddam: on The Glazov Gang
by Jamie Glazov
Shant Kenderian, Michael Walsh and Josh Brewster reflect on the ten year anniversary of our war: Did we win? Should we have gone?
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/iraq-ten-years-since-removing-saddam-on-the-glazov-gang/
http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/03/13/russian-navy-to-establish-a-permanent-presence-in-the-mediterranean/ MOSCOW — Russia, a leading ally of Syria, has decided to establish a permanent naval task force in the Mediterranean Sea. Officials said the Defense Ministry has been funding a task force to protect Russian interests in the Mediterranean. They said the force would be supplied by the Syrian port of Tartous, the only […]
http://www.worldtribune.com/ CAIRO — Israel is said to have infiltrated the massive arms smuggling network contracted to supply the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. An Egyptian daily said Israeli intelligence was believed to have penetrated Libyan arms suppliers to Hamas and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip. Al Yom Al Sabea asserted that Hamas was concerned that Israel […]
www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com
http://blogs.jpost.com/users/just-look-us-now
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Using cancer to kill cancer. Researchers at Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center have enhanced the immune system using proteins from melanoma (a severe form of skin cancer). T-cells in the immune system are stimulated to produce cytokines, which can fight other cancers in the body.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=305850
Success in trials of stem cells for blood cancer. (Thanks to Atid-EDI) Early trials of NiCord (umbilical cord stem cells) from Israel’s Gamida Cell have proved successful in maintaining the health of patients with high-risk hematological malignancies. The treatment was safe and reduced the time to recovery period.
http://www.gamida-cell.com/press_item.asp?ID=54
Colon cancer rates decrease. Israel is fourth among Western countries in the prevalence of colorectal cancer and 15th in the death rate from the tumor. However, the number of cases has declined in the last two decades – by 17 percent in men and 13 percent in women – largely due to early diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=305349
A pacemaker for the arteries. Israel’s Enopace Biomedical is developing an endovascular micro-stimulator, which reduces the strain on the heart by expanding the arteries to accept incoming blood. It is implanted by catheter in a 30-minute procedure while the patient is awake and is an alternative to a heart transplant.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000826211&fid=1725
Australia approves Israeli robotic spinal surgery. Israel’s Mazor Robotics has obtained approval from Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for the import and sale of the company’s Renaissance navigation robot for spinal surgery.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000826535&fid=1725
The missing LINC to deafness. (Thanks to NoCamels.com) Half of all hearing losses are due to genetic mutations. Tel Aviv University Professor Karen Avraham found that mutations in the LINC cells of the inner ear of an Iraqi family with a history of deafness could lead to new treatments.
http://nocamels.com/2013/03/discovering-the-missing-linc-to-deafness/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393304578358681822758600.html?mod=rss_mobile_uber_feed The hysterical crusade against fat has become a veritable witch hunt. With New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s ban on supersize sodas (now temporarily thwarted) and the first lady’s campaign to push leaves and twigs (i.e., salad) on reluctant school children—all in the name of stamping out obesity—it is fat-shaming time in America. […]
THIS QUOTE IS FROM A COLUMN BY WILLIAM KRISTOL WHICH YOU CAN READ AT THE SITE….THE QUOTE HERE IS FROM REP. TOM COTTON R.DISTRICT 4, ARKANSAS) SEE HIS SITE…..A MAN OF THE FUTURE FOR CONSERVATIVES….https://www.tomcotton.com/
‘The GOP of Old’ William Kristol
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/gop-old_707680.html
But, Cotton reminded his audience, “We’re fighting . . . a war against radical Islam and jihad.” He continued, “Our president often says 10 years of war are ending. Wars are not movies. They do not end. They are won or they are lost. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.” And Cotton pointed out the obvious: “We have the manpower to win the war. We have the matériel to win the war. The question is, do we have the most essential element to combat power? Do we have the will to win the war? Our enemies certainly have that will. They question now whether we do.”
“I know there is war weariness among the American people, just like there is war weariness among conservatives, and in this audience, no doubt,” said Tom Cotton from Yell County, Arkansas. “It’s no surprise, though, that the American people are war weary when their commander in chief is the weariest of them all.”
But, Cotton reminded his audience, “We’re fighting . . . a war against radical Islam and jihad.” He continued, “Our president often says 10 years of war are ending. Wars are not movies. They do not end. They are won or they are lost. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.” And Cotton pointed out the obvious: “We have the manpower to win the war. We have the matériel to win the war. The question is, do we have the most essential element to combat power? Do we have the will to win the war? Our enemies certainly have that will. They question now whether we do.”
Cotton is 35 years old. He’s not stale or moss-covered. A combat veteran, he understands real war weariness. But he also understands it needs to be resisted and overcome. Above all, he understands, as did the GOP of old, the GOP of Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, that while we may not be interested in war, our enemies remain interested in us.
And so, Cotton concluded his remarks, “We as conservatives must have the will to win.”
FROM MY E-PAL JANET LEVY ROSS….
America – 2013
The three stories below go a long way to portray where things currently stand for the once great United States of America.
1) A Muslim convert in Washington state stabbed two people in Starbucks. Of course he was following the Koran and doing what devout Muslims are COMMANDED to do – wage jihad or kill in the name of Allah. As has been true of most news reports of this nature since 9-11, this story will be sanitized to depict a mentally disturbed individual who “misunderstood” the tenets of Islam. Per usual, nothing Islamic to see here.
From the Columbian:
Washington state: Muslim convert who stated his “willingness to die for Islam” stabs two people after discussion of religion
“Starbucks stabbing suspect may have been motivated by religious extremism (with video): Affidavit says he made statements about ‘his willingness to die for Islam,'” by Paris Achen for The Columbian, March 12 (thanks to Answering Muslims):
A 55-year-old suspect in the stabbing of two people in a Starbucks coffee shop drive-thru at one of the busiest intersections in Clark County may have been motivated by religious extremism, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Scott C. Fandrich of Ridgefield appeared Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of two counts of first-degree assault.
Full story: http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/mar/12/starbucks-stabbing-suspect-may-have-been-motivated/
2) In order not to offend our Muslim friends, the State Department declined to intervene in the case of an American pastor imprisoned in Iran. This is in keeping with Obama’s precedent of ignoring the pleas for help by the Iranian people to overthrow the brutal Islamist regime. Of course, Muslim Brotherhood operative Huma Abedin has been well-insulated from critical attacks in Washington and her detractors will be “handled” in due course.
From Fox News:
The State Department ducked a hearing Friday that will focus on the case of imprisoned American pastor Saeed Abedini, just days after the leading U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council declined to specifically address the pastor’s case during a meeting on Iran’s human rights record.
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., chairman of the Capitol Hill commission holding the hearing, slammed the Obama administration for turning down the invitation to testify.
“It is amazing,” Wolf told FoxNews.com. “I can’t, almost, believe it.”
The hearing, which began Friday morning, focuses on the plight of religious minorities in Iran. Slated to testify are the group representing the Abedini family in the U.S. as well as Abedini’s wife, Naghmeh.
The Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission reached out to the State Department last Friday in a bid to bring in a State Department witness to speak on the lead-off panel.
A Wolf aide said despite repeated attempts they didn’t hear back from the department until Thursday, when the department said no one was available.
Wolf voiced skepticism at the excuse. “The building is loaded with people,” he said of the State Department.
“The very fact that the United States government is not speaking out sends a very powerful message,” Wolf said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/15/state-department-ducks-hearing-on-american-pastor-imprisoned-in-iran/
3) A top U.S. Commander Tells Troops to Expect to be Killed During a “rough point” in the relationship with Karzai and his Shariah regime installed thanks to U.S. efforts. The new dhimmitized U.S. Armed Forces – homosexual flaunting and soon to be feminized – will be sacrificed for the cause – advancing the “Religion of Peace.” (Note: The new uniforms for U.S. troops will be pink with an optional skirt for male and female enlistees).
From AP: The Big Story:
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan warned his troops to be ready for increased violence because of a series of anti-American statements by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, NATO said Thursday.
In an email to battlefield commanders, Gen. Joseph Dunford, said the remarks could spur more insider attacks, days after members of Afghan security forces killed two U.S. troops and a U.S. contractor in two separate shootings.
“We’re at a rough point in the relationship,” Dunford said in the email, according to a senior U.S. official, speaking anonymously to discuss the confidential communication.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-warns-afghan-leaders-comments-threaten-troops
