http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11483/pub_detail.asp
Global media is reporting on comments by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh during a trip to Iran in which he said Hamas will never recognize Israel and compared the country to a “cancer.”
According to a report in the Jerusalem Post:
Rounding up a three-day visit to Iran, Haniyeh reiterates refusal to recognize, compromise with Israel. By REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh continued Monday to issue fiery statements about Israel, which he compared to a cancer that is threatening to spread to other parts of the body. Rounding up a three-day visit to Iran, Haniyeh said in an interview with an Iranian TV station that Israel remained the “main enemy” of the Arab and Islamic world.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11479/pub_detail.asp After six years of tax-funded intolerance, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is finally putting an end to the show no one watched except out of a sense of duty, Little Mosque on the Prairies. After an initial splash at the beginning of its first season, Little Mosque plummeted in the ratings over the years. Why […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11481/pub_detail.asp
On February 16, I published “Anatomy of a Global Warming Hoax” concerning the theft of the private records of The Heartland Institute’s board meeting and the creation of an alleged forged document intended to harm its reputation as a long time advocate of the real, not fake, science that has been the basis of the global warming—now called “climate change”—hoax.
The Feb 21 issue of The Wall Street Journal published an editorial, “The Not-So-Vast Conspiracy” noting that “As for ‘the largest international science conference of skeptics’ Heartland will, according to the documents, spend all of $380,000 this year on the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change. That’s against the $6.5 million that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) costs Western taxpayers annually, and the $2.6 billion the White House wants to spend next year on research into ‘global changes that have resulted primarily from global over-dependence on fossil fuels.’” (Emphasis added)
The global warming hoax has cost taxpayers billions since it was initiated and earned the purveyors of “carbon credits” millions as industry and others paid for the privilege of emitting “greenhouse gas”—primarily carbon dioxide—as part of doing business. Currently the European Union is trying to shake down the airline industry by charging them a surtax on their emissions as they fly tourists and businessmen to that beknighted continent. Most of the exchanges that sold the credits have since closed.
The infamous “Cap-and-Trade” legislation that thankfully died in Congress was part of this scam.
Santorum Is Absolutely Correct On At Least One Point By Frank Salvato
http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/4669
ONLY ONE POINT….THIS MOST UNLIKELY CANDIDATE WAS SOUNDLY DEFEATED BY A GENERALLY CONSERVATIVE AND PRO-LIFE DEMOCRAT….AND, ALAS, AS FRANK SALVATO WISELY SAYS :
“Instead, the back-biting, tit-for-tat infighting that results makes the entire field – the entire field – look petty, foolish and – most importantly – beatable.”
Earlier this week, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum hit the nail directly on the head when he addressed the disingenuousness of the mainstream media when it comes to the Republican field of candidates vying for the party’s nomination and the entirety of the so-called “debate” process. This may not be earth-shattering news to those who eat, sleep and breathe Conservative politics (or politics in general) but it is newsworthy when a politico actually stands up and presents a challenge to rank-and-file voters to do something about it.
tp://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/02/24/proper-koran-disposal-apologies-and-murdering-innocent-infidels-in-afghanistan/
Proper Koran Disposal, Apologies, and Murdering Innocent Infidels in Afghanistan
The Naval Chaplaincy School and Center (NCSC), The U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School (USACHCS), and the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Service Institute (AFCSI) were united several years ago [1] in Fort Jackson, SC to form the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center AFCC. Colonel Chet Lanious, USACHCS’ director of the Center for World Religions Chaplain Center and School, composed an erudite and ecumenical document with the self-explanatory title [2], “Handling and Disposal of Sacred Texts, Spiritual Writings and Religious Items.” Specific, religiously sanctioned recommendations for the disposal of sacred texts by numerous faiths—Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam—were elaborated. Regarding the Koran, the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center document written by Lanious includes this comment sourced to the classical 18th century Hanafi manual of Islamic law [3] Radd al-Mukhtar ala ad-Dur al-Mukhtar, “The Answer to the Baffled” over “The Exquisite Pearl”:
It is also permitted to burn and then bury it in a place that is far removed from rubbish, trash, paths and walkways. (Doing this) will safeguard it from any type of degradation and debasement, as well as a protection for the Koran so that there does not occur any confusion, distortion or dispute due to the spreading and circulation of copies of the Koran that have printing and/or publishing errors.
Moreover, just this past September 16, 2011, during a PBS interview [4], Imam Jihad Turk, Director of Religious Affairs, at the Islamic Center of Southern California, provided these pellucid, and succinct directives
When Muslims want to respectfully dispose of a text of the Koran that is no longer usable, we will burn it. So if someone, for example, in their own private collection or library had a text of the Koran that was damaged or that was in disrepair, so the binding was ruined, etc., or it got torn, they might bring it by to the Islamic Center and ask that someone here dispose of it properly if they were unsure how to do that. And what I’ll do is I’ll take it to my fireplace at home and burn it there in the fireplace. So I sort of take the pages out and then burn it to make sure that it gets thoroughly charred and is no longer recognizable as script.
http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/23/10488437-afghans-karzai-demands-public-tri
KABUL — Afghanistan wants NATO to put on public trial those who burned copies of the Quran at a NATO base, President Hamid Karzai’s office said Thursday, after a third day of bloody protests over the incident.
It said NATO had agreed to a trial, but that could not be immediately confirmed.
Karzai had earlier accused a U.S. officer of “ignorantly” burning copies of the Quran, in an incident that has deepened anti-Western sentiment in a country NATO is trying to stabilize before foreign combat troops leave by the end of 2014.
Demonstrations have drawn thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting “Death to America!” amid violence that has killed 11 people including two U.S. service personnel.
NATO officials, in response to a request for the trial and punishment of the perpetrators … promised this crime will brought to court as soon as possible,” Karzai’s office said in a statement.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/americas-full-blown-dhimmitude/
I’ve got it.
After all these years of official stumbling over what to call the mission the United States has spearheaded in the Islamic world in response to the 9/11 attacks, I’ve come up with a name – not to brag or anything – that I believe brings much-needed clarity to our cause.
We’ve come a long way since the days of the Global War on Terror. Frankly, the GWOT – whatever that was supposed to mean (how do you fight against a tactic?) – is so 10 years ago. “Terror,” meanwhile, has morphed into “extremism,” but that’s only made things more unclear. We still don’t know what it’s all supposed to be about.
Until today.
Mr. and Mrs. America, boys and girls, welcome to the Global War on Quran-Burning, as led by the United States Masochists To Make the World Safe for Shariah (Islamic law).
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=259171
All the assumptions on which Israeli policies were founded have proved groundless; all the concessions, worse than useless.
Syria is not lost. Assad is Western educated and is not a religious man. He can still join a moderate grouping – Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, Haaretz, November 13, 2009
I fear that the appalling brutality we are witnessing in Homs, with heavy weapons firing into civilian neighborhoods, is a grim harbinger of things to come – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, February 9, 2012
Seen against the backdrop of the carnage being perpetrated across Syria by the Assad regime, the magnitude of the misjudgment made by Gabi Ashkenazi, then the IDF’s chief of staff, is enough to make any self-respecting Israeli cringe with embarrassment.
None so blind
Askhenazi is not the only senior Israeli leader to articulate an appallingly inaccurate assessment of Israel’s adversaries, but in many ways his is a particularly interesting and instructive example. After all, before his appointment as chief of staff, much of his 40-year military career was spent in the IDF’s Northern Command, including as its commander. One must, therefore, presume that a large portion of his time was devoted to evaluating the Syrian threat, and to familiarizing himself with nature of the Syrian military dictatorship.
Just as a followup to yesterday’s item on why Marc H. Ellis, the
fraudulent pseudo-academic anti-Semite at Baylor University, should
get canned.It now turns out that the move at Baylor to fire Ellis has nothing to
do with Ellis’ (lack of) academic credentials or his anti-Semitic
political views.
It has to do with sexual misbehavior. Yes, at this Baptist
University, they do not take kindly to professors manhandling the
females. Groping women may just be another example of the “Prophetic
Ethics” that Ellis always claims he practices. You know, the TIKKUN
version he learned from Mikey Lerner.
The full story was broken by JTA, see this
http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2012/02/10/3091610/why-is-marc-ellis-on-the-outs-at-baylor-university
The initiative to fire Ellis is because of alleged sexual misconduct!!
Meanwhile the radical Left continues to campaign for Ellis – see this
petition to support him and note how the top signature is by Osama bin
Laden: http://www.change.org/petitions/ken-starr-president-of-baylor-university-stop-persecution-against-prof-marc-ellis#
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,816491,00.html
PHILOSOPHER? NOT EXACTLY…..ALWAYS POSING AS THE POSTER BOY FOR PALARAB “MODERATION” HE TAKES A NEW TACK NOW…..LEADING TO A ONE STATE SOLUTION WITH BAND-AIDS COVERING THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF MAKING IT A ONE ARAB STATE SOLUTION……RSK
‘The Pursuit of a Two-State Solution Is a Fantasy’
Prominent Palestinian philosopher Sari Nusseibeh believes it is too late for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict. In a SPIEGEL interview, he outlines his vision for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation and why he mistrusts the new moderate stance taken by the Islamic militant group Hamas.
SPIEGEL: Mr Nusseibeh, in your new book you claim that it is too late for a Palestinian state. Why?
Nusseibeh: You are sitting in my office in Beit Hanina in a place called East Jerusalem. Now, you look to the west from here and you see parts of this Arab neighborhood that are severed from us. If you look to the east over there, you find Pisgat Zeev, an enormous Israeli settlement which is part of Jerusalem. Further east there is Maale Adumim, an even larger settlement of Israelis in what is called East Jerusalem. There is no East Jerusalem any more. East Jerusalem has already become a misnomer. But a Palestinian state without East Jerusalem as its capital is a no-no.
SPIEGEL: Do you want to give up the 1967 borders which have been the basis of all the peace plans?
Nusseibeh: It is extremely hard for the most imaginative of us to see how to work out a redrawing of the map in order to give us, the Palestinians, East Jerusalem as capital. But secondly, there are the Israeli settlers. Can you take away half a million people? No, you cannot. Nothing is impossible, mathematically speaking. But we are talking about politics, and in politics not everything is always possible.
SPIEGEL: So we should admit to ourselves that the two-state solution is dead?
Nusseibeh: Mathematically speaking, a two-state solution is an excellent solution. It causes minimum pain and it is accepted by a majority on both sides. Because of this, we should have brought it into existence a long time ago. But we did not manage to do so.
SPIEGEL: Who is to blame for that?
Nusseibeh: First of all, it took Israel a long time to accept that there is a Palestinian people. It took us, the Palestinians, a long time to accept that we should recognize Israel as a state. The problem is that history runs faster than ideas. By the time the world woke up to the fact that the two-state solution is the best solution, we had hundreds of thousands Israelis living beyond the Green Line (ed’s note: the 1949 Armistice Line that forms the boundary between Israel and the West Bank). There is a growing fanaticism on both sides. Today, the pursuit of a two-state solution looks like the pursuit of something inside a fantasy bubble.
