February 09, 2010

First evah!

The first ever Ivy Muslims Conference this weekend persevered despite a mid-Atlantic snowstorm Friday night. Muslims from five Ivy League schools convened at Yale Saturday and Sunday in the first conference organized by Muslim Student Association chapters across the Ivy League.

About 120 delegates from each Ivy League school attended, with 30 delegates from Yale. Attendees from the Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton chapters were absent due to the snowstorm that hit Friday night.

Turns out, my IFPS colleagues noticed Omer Bajwa at Kurt Westergaard's Yale talk. I previously mentioned Bajwa, billed as the Muslim chaplain of the Yale Muslim Student Association, for having told an Islamabad audience that"Muslims will win the final victory in the West if they conform to their beliefs and disseminate the message of Islam with wisdom and politeness." No doubt Bajwa was conforming to and disseminating Islam's message during his display at the Westergaard talk, but he did so with neither wisdom nor politeness.

First, Bajwa, whose official title is Yale's "coordinator of Muslim life for the University," made the baseless announcement that the "well-known Islamophobes Daniel Pipes and Geert Wilders" were behind Westergaard's Yale appearance.

Well-known "Islamopobes"? Remember, this is a man of the (some) cloth speaking -- the one who co-signed a letter in that same day's Yale Daily News with Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler going on about achieving a community of "true religious understanding." As Rabbi Housman would later note, "Lars Hedegaard, President of the IFPS, corrected this gentleman and remarked that neither Wilders nor Pipes were involved in any of the arrangements for Westergaard's appearance and probably did not even know of his presence in the US."

Bajwa also made another baseless declaration: namely, that he had read "in the New York Times" that the son of Kurt Westergaard had converted to islam, and what did the son think of the father's cartoon? Answer: Westergaard's son has not converted to Islam and there was no such story in the New York Times.

Mainly, the Yale article caught my eye do to the comment section and decided to further check out Bajwa:

"By Ali"
Could someone attending this conference tell us what Omar Ahmed meant when he said the following:

“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qu’ran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth.”—Omar Ahmed CAIR (Council for American Islamic Relations) Founding Chairman

Good point, Ali. Oh wait... actually, you're not very intelligent. Now I know why you couldn't make the conference. My best regards to the other lowest common denominators (or "LCDs" as we call them).

Warmly,

Johnson (pronounced "Yon-sun")

February 07, 2010

Ha!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we wi...ll have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

February 04, 2010

The Chairman of the Fatwa Committee at what is generally considered the most prestigious Sunni institution in the world, the al-Azhar University in Cairo, has issued a religious edict against Facebook. The fatwa forbids Muslims from using the social networking site claiming that to do so is a sin.

Sheikh Abdel Hamid Al-Atrash said in the fatwa that an increase in divorce rates can be attributed to a rise in the social networking website. The fatwa says that Facebook is (Googlish translation):

very dangerous to the public and people in general, especially Arab and Islamic countries

He also admits that Facebook can be used for good (such as for spreading Islam) but claims that "warding off evil takes precedence" over the possible good the website does.

The fatwa is apparently based on a research paper from the Egyptian "National Center for Social and Criminal Research" which claims that 20% of all divorces are caused by Facebook. The fatwa also claims that the increased use of Facebook is leading to the demolition of the home and the downfall of Arab and Muslim countries.

The downfall of Arab and Muslim countries, eh? If true, then I may have to change my anti-Facebook stance!

More Facebook please!!!

Thanks to Jane, who is having computer problems today.

February 03, 2010

I may be mistaken but I thought I heard the sound of ice in his hot drink cup?

February 02, 2010

Via BBC

An MP has called the wearing of burkas the religious equivalent of "going round with a paper bag over your head".

In a parliamentary debate, Conservative MP Philip Hollobone said it was "offensive" for women to cut off face-to-face contact with other people.

The Kettering MP said he had "huge sympathy" with those who wanted a ban on face-covering veils in public.

None of the three large UK parties back a ban, with ministers saying it would not be "British"to bar them.

January 29, 2010

Stupid on display at HuffPo. But I repeat myself.

Linda R. Monk, J.D.:

It is entirely possible that al Qaeda exploited the financial bubble in the global economy to trigger the catastrophe on Wall Street and the global economy in 2008. Sophisticated trades involving airline stocks accompanied the 9-11 attacks, and al Qaeda has a financial arm that the U.S. government has been trying to shut down.....

That gives President Obama a very persuasive rationale -- national security -- for immediately enacting financial reform. If legislation continues to prove difficult, the president could issue a temporary freeze on derivatives by executive order. For those who still believe that unfettered markets can do no wrong, the unregulated intersection between banks and betting might be seen as too soft a target for terrorists. Economic security and national security are inextricably linked.

But, all signs point to al Qaeda's money well being fairly shallow these days. In other words, they probably don't have the financial power to actually affect the market. And there is zero chance that they had anything to do with the financial meltdown of 2008.

Further, what the hell?

If Congress won't reform Wall Street then .... President Obama can do it himself through executive order?

Linda R. Monk, the lady writing this, is a lawyer, so presumably her underlying Constitutional theory about Presidential capacity to single-handedly regulate the economy is ..... um, WTF?!?!

Even if we grant it that the post-New Deal Court's interpretation of the Interstate Commerce clause gives the government plenary powers to regulate all things commercial, that power specifically resides with Congress.

Art. I, Sec. 8: The Congress shall have power to .... regulate Commerce .... among the several States.

I'm assuming that she wants to grant Obama this power based on Presidential prerogative in national defense, and defending the nation from "sudden attack".

But even granting that the President might have power to close markets or take extraordinary measures should al Qaeda actually attack them (or, are about to attack them) how is a hypothetical that they could/maybe attack at some unspecified time in the future justify this much power in the hands of one man now?

Because I said so, shut up!

or, more precisely:

Because it's needed, so's your face!

Also,

I'm a lawyer!

In the days following 9/11 I heard a lot of hype and hoopla about unconstitutional and unwarranted powers being exercised by President Bush. Invariably when specifics were called for, those making the accusation would point to the USA Patriot Act; which, the last time I checked, was an Act passed by Congress. You know, that branch of government given the power to, you know, make law.

The accusations were also ahistorical, as most of what was passed under the Patriot Act were actually much less onerous than the wartime measures of, say, FDR during WWII. Like the allegations of possible [maybe] intercepts of foreign communications with Americans by the Bush Administration vs the actual interception of all foreign communications during WWII under FDR.

And in dealing with those powers specifically granted to the President under the Constitution -- like, how to conduct a war-- Bush was a tyrant for detaining or possibly mistreating illegal combatants. FDR, though, was alright for, um, executing them?

And I actually think that some of the arguments against some provisions in The Patriot Act have some merit to them, but I think those can be reduced to good faith disagreements over Constitutional or historical interpretation.

But there is nothing good faith about Monk's argument. It's a policy preference in search of justification.

I can't even begin to imagine HuffPo printing the same article, but instead of arguing for plenary economic powers in the hands of The One, a case was laid out in favor of George Bush taking over Wall Street.

In fact, where was Ms. Monk when the Bush Administration was pushing for reform at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae? Would the hypothetical threat of al Qaeda interference in the home mortgage derivatives market have justified the White House single-handedly overturning Congressional legislation encouraging the two semi (but now fully owned) government backed agencies from making risky loans to under qualified buyers?

Seriously, it's not just a bad argument it's insincere to boot.

You want policy X so badly that you are willing to come up with any asanine and convenient legal theory to back up policy X -- but only when the right politician is in power.

Also, I'll note that she adds J.D. to her name. It's a resort to authority. You see, if your argument is lame then you remind people that you have some kind of academic credentials.

Why do I have visions of Tracy Morgan goofing on Star Jones by including some reference to being a lawyer in every sentence.

I do it myself as a joke. It's insider ball, but I originally took on the personae of "Dr. Rusty Shackleford" when I was still in grad school and I was goofing on a buddy who the day he defended his dissertation changed all of his emails to "Dr. Leopold Stotch." Well, goofing on my buddy, and Glenn Reynolds.

But in any event the argument is a) lame b) pathetic c) I'll let this guy from Huffpo's comments have the last word:

I thought this was an Onion piece until I was partway through it.

Oh yeah, the genius went to Harvard and wrote a book on the Constitution. Did I mention she's a lawyer?

Also, I have a Ph.D.

Pilot of the aircraft, through the flight attendant, asked the passenger "should we take off?"

h/t NTA

January 28, 2010

hair of the dog hair of your body

Martyr wannabe's believe all their sins will be forgiven in the act of martyrdom. Hence the hangover. Also, most wannabe's shave all their body hair before martyrdom.

January 27, 2010

Sarah Palin's analysis of the SOTU.

My analysis below the fold.

January 26, 2010

Master Rocks!

January 24, 2010

In case any akhi is thinking twice about sploding themselves

LOVE FOR DEATH

Love for Allah is a very great thing because yearning for union with Allah is created due to this love. The man who has yearning for union with Allah is liked by Allah. Union with Allah is through death. Therefore, those who have true love for Allah, love death.

A Strange Incident of A Young man

Hazrat Zunnoon Missary says, "I was in Mina on the eve of Hajj. I saw people slaughtering sacrificial animals whereas a young man was sitting very peacefully. I began to observe him what he did. After a while, that youngman began to say, 'O Allah, all the people are busy with slaughtering animals. I also intend to offer sacrifice in Your way. O Allah please accept my sacrifice.' Saying this, he pointed to his neck with his finger and fell down. I went near him, observed him minutely and found him dead. May Allah be kind to him! Ameen!" (Kashf-ul-Mahjub)

Those who find enjoyment in Allah's rememberance, must imagine how great enjoyment there will be in union with Allah and this enjoyment is in death. By the Lord of Ka'ba, if he observes one millionth part of martyrdom, he will not like to live in this world even for a moment. Union with Allah, union with Lord and union with Dear Master! Allah-o-Akbar!

Excellent.

h/t FA

January 22, 2010

Irony: Keith Olbermann rails against corporations for purchasing the Senate, Presidency, and the Courts. Keith Olbermann works for one of the largest corporations in the U.S., General Electric.

Also, saying corporations have Constitutionally protected free speech is the same as ..... saying blacks cannot be citizens? Yes, Olbermann actually called yesterday's decision this generations Dred Scott.

January 21, 2010

He lost his sex partners.

January 20, 2010

Each and every day Kieth Olbermann sounds more and more like a Birther or a Truther.

Haiti Earthquake: After hours of work, an L.A. County urban search and rescue team pulls a woman from the rubble as crowds begin to chant "USA, USA".

h/t HA headline thingy

January 19, 2010

I'm not sure when the Blotter started going downhill, but this stupid report seems pretty close to rock bottom. They've been reporting this "exclusive" story about how some scopes used by the military have Bible verses referenced on them. And then they manufacture "concern" over the references since the DOD prohibits proselytizing and since such versus might fuel rampant conspiracy theories in the Middle East over US intentions in the region.

The way this kind of journalism works: Report a "concern" vocalized by no one. Take this "concern" to this or that government agency and ask for feedback -- usually in ways such as, "Aren't you concerned that....". Said government agency says they're "concerned" that you are "concerned" and will look into it. Report that the government agency is "concerned" since they say they will look into it.

In this case, the Marine Corps told The Blotter that they'll look into it and will sit down and discuss this with the manufacturer. They then headline the post [emph. mine]:

Marine Corps Concerned About 'Jesus Guns,' Will Meet With Trijicon

Following ABC News Report of Secret Bible Verses on Weapons Used in Muslim Lands, Marines Will Meet With Maker of Equipment

If you look at what exactly is inscribed on the scopes it's fairly laughable. Like, "JN8:12" and "2COR4:6". Wow, Christianists!

I mean, come on, does any body really give a crap if some coded references to Bible verses are inscribed in hard to find places on some rifle scopes? Apparently not CENTCOM who replied to the Blotters' haranguing with this:

However, a spokesperson for CentCom, the U.S. military's overall command in Iraq and Afghanistan, said he did not understand why the issue was any different from U.S. money with religious inscriptions on it.

"The perfect parallel that I see," said Maj. John Redfield, spokesperson for CentCom, told ABC News, "is between the statement that's on the back of our dollar bills, which is 'In God We Trust,' and we haven't moved away from that."

Said Redfield, "Unless the equipment that's being used that has these inscriptions proved to be less than effective for soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and military folks using it, I wouldn't see why we would stop using that." ....

On Tuesday, Redfield of CentCom told ABC News that the inscriptions did not violate the directive against proselytizing. "This does not constitute proselytizing because this equipment is not issued beyond the U.S. Defense Department personnel. It's not something we're giving away to the local folks."

"Here's something interesting: There should be a reference to a Bible verse on the base of the scope."

Damning, damning evidence.

Seriously, of all the stupid "investigations" I've seen Brian Ross' crew do this one takes the cake. Next up for The Blotter: ground breaking evidence that Marines call the Taliban "hajji" and other "racist" terms. Who knew about hajji-gate and when did they know it?

The only thing missing from the Blotter's post is a direct reference to Zionist-Crusader-Christianist occupation forces.

January 14, 2010

Click on the pic to listen to the song

H/T: Miroslaw

January 13, 2010

Humor me, I don't give up easily on Siraj Haqqani:

Update 2: What do ya'll need, boobies to get interested in this? I gotem..

This bastage group is holding one of our soldiers, their "propaganda tape":

January 08, 2010

K

NYT

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A house in Karachi where militants had appeared to be storing ammunition for a planned terrorist strike was destroyed in a deadly explosion early Friday morning, police officials said.

Seven people were killed in the blast, which rocked the working-class Baldia neighborhood on the western edge of Karachi. Amid the rubble, the police and rescue workers found a large cache of weapons including suicide vests, automatic rifles and grenades[...]

After the blast in Karachi, the police said they had detained six people, including a woman, for questioning, and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani ordered an immediate inquiry.

A deliberate smear because MSM and their ilk are skeeerd of Andrew. They can't denounce his stories so they smear. It's in their playbook.

BigGovernment

Yesterday, I made the mistake of answering the following email, addressed to Big Government editor Mike Flynn, promptly:

Hi Mr. Flynn,

I’m a reporter from the Business Insider working on a short item about the new Big Journalism site launched today. Any chance you’d have Breitbart’s email so I can get in touch with him?

Would appreciate it so much.

Best regards,

Gillian

–

Gillian Reagan

The Business Insider

XXX@businessinsider.com

XXX Fifth Avenue, 7th Fl

New York, NY 10003

646-484-XXXX

twitter: XXXXXXX

I spoke with Ms. Reagan for about ten minutes and gave her a long explanation as to why I started Big Journalism. I awoke to something so far off from what I said that I called her back and asked her specifically about the following quote that is a composite of her question, a hodge-podge of my response and flat out lies.

Let me begin with the biggest deception of all: Business Insider is a front for Gawker, the notorious leftist/media snark site. If she had been up front with me, like any sane person I never would have responded. (Go to www.Gawker.com to see why.) But she came to me under false pretenses. Read the rest

December 28, 2009

It's about time Muslims protest jihadist. I just wonder how many will show up.

The organizers of a Dearborn-area group on Facebook are calling for Muslims to protest against the actions of a Nigerian man accused of trying to attack a Northwest Airlines flight en route to Detroit Metro Airport on Friday.

Majed Moughni, a Dearborn attorney, said Sunday afternoon that Muslims need to let the world know that those who would commit terrorism do not represent Islam.

"It's very frustrating to know that these guys are using Islam and committing terror," he said. "Islam stands for peace."

This is the groups Facebook site. Looks like someone from aljazeera is interested in their protest:

Mahmoud El-Hamalawy Hello all - I'm a Producer with Aljazeera TV and wanted to speak to someone from the group about what message your trying to send. If interested (and available) please send me a message or get back to me - we're doing a feature story on this topic and will conduct a few interviews. Please let me know, thanks....

h/t Jihad Watch

December 18, 2009

Terrorists babies:

Those little ones above should be doing this:

h/t The Anchoress

December 17, 2009

No joke, inbreeding leads to male pseudohermaphrodite syndrome.

There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya, where Nadir and Ahmed live.

Dr. Jehad Abudaia, a Canadian-Palestinian pediatrician and urologist practicing in Gaza, says he has diagnosed nearly 80 cases like Nadir's and Ahmed's in the last seven years.

"It is astonishing that we have [so] many cases with this defect, which is very rare all over the world," Abudaia says. He attributes the high frequency of this birth defect to "consanguinity," or in-breeding.

"If you want to go to the root of the problem, this problem runs in families in the genes." Abudaia says. "They want to get married to cousins... they don't go to another family. This is a problem."

h/t JWF

Beings I was outed by Rusty as Ansar007 on al Mosul I would like to translate this new message from Zawahiri's old lady "Omayma Hassan Ahmed Mohammed Hassan" to the Muslima:

Sisters, is your sex life as terrible as mine? Do you find your husband prefers a goat to you? Do you wake up some days finding your husband has sploded himself or plans to? Do you secretly wish you could castrate him if only you could do it without having to use a magnifying glass?

Join me in planning the demise of our mujihadeen husbands. Send me a email and I will give you the details. My email is OHAMH@yahoo.com(the brothers have hacked this account) mrszawhiri@ymail.com

December 16, 2009

It is said that Disraeli claimed that there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Unfortunately Disraeli didn't understand statistics. Neither does al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn who claimed in his most recent video that "the Mujahideen don't target Muslims".

Jarret Brachman may have put it best:

you might not “target” them, but you sure kill a lot of them..

Nearly 100% of al Qaeda's victims are "non-Western" -- read, Muslim.

Killing Muslisms: it's just what they do.

I'm not a milblogger, but I know many of them and support their efforts.

Today, most of the prominent milbloggers I know are observing a day of silence to protest the treatment of C.J. Grisham at A Soldiers Perspective by the military command.

What's at stake here is not just Grisham, it's the ability of bloggers in the military to be honest with their readers.

You can read the entire press release here.

Thanks to Blackfive and Mrs. Greyhawk who has a list of those participating.

December 15, 2009

Matt Damon!

Here's a translation of an op ed printed in the Asharq Alawsat, one of the largest pan-Arab daily newspapers by the Deputy Foreign Minister of the State of Israel, Danny Ayalon.

I got a presser about it so I guess they want maximum exposure for the article. Who am I to go against the Zionist puppetmasters who pay the bills around here? [/sarcasm].

Plus, it's finals week around here and this is much easier than actually writing something myself.

An Open Letter to the Arab World

By Danny Ayalon

Since the reestablishment of our state, Israeli leaders have sought peace with their Arab neighbors. Our Declaration of Independence, Israel’s founding document that expressed our hopes and dreams reads, “We extend our hand to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighborliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help.” These words are as true today as when they were first written in 1948. Sadly, sixty one year later, only two nations, Jordan and Egypt, have accepted these principles and made peace with the Jewish State.

Recently the Israeli government has made significant steps to restart negotiations with the Palestinians and reach out to the Arab world. In his Bar-Ilan speech in June, Prime Minister Netanyahu clearly stated his acceptance of a Palestinians state living side by side in peace and security with the State of Israel. My government has removed hundreds of roadblocks to improve access and movement for Palestinians and has assisted the facilitation of economic developments in the West Bank, through close cooperation with international parties to expedite projects and remove bottlenecks.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, a right-wing government has, in an unprecedented move, declared it would refrain from building new settlements in the West Bank. All of these moves taken together amply demonstrate Israel’s willingness for peace.

This Israeli government is also committed to extend a hand to all of our Arab neighbors, its leaders and its citizens, to join together to face some of the major challenges facing us all in the coming years.

For the first time in many years, we find ourselves on the same side in seeking to quell and defeat the forces of extremism and destruction in our region. While many see the threat from Iran directed solely at Israel, we in the region know differently. Together, we understand the menace that emanates from the extremist regime in Tehran. A regime that seeks to export its extremist ideology across the region and beyond, while arming terrorist groups that seek to destabilize moderate Sunni regimes and aiming for hegemonic control of the Middle East and far beyond.

The Iranian regime has many tentacles spread out across the region sowing destruction and despair amongst the people. The enemy of the people of Lebanon is not Israel, but Hizbullah. The enemy of the Palestinian people is not Israel, but Hamas. The enemy of the Egyptian people is not Israel, but militant Islamist opposition groups. All of these groups, and many others, receive their commands from Iran, who wish to control and suppress any aspirations the region has towards freedom and advancement.

Iran seeks to hold an entire region, including its own people, to ransom and keep it engaged in conflicts orchestrated and directed from Tehran. Whether it is in Morocco, Iraq or Yemen, Iran is constantly interfering with Arab sovereignty for their own nefarious gain. Israel and its Sunni neighbors alike are in the sights of Khameini, Ahmadinejad and their minions.

If Iran is able to attain nuclear weapons, the situation becomes inexplicably and inexorably worse. The Iranian regime has demonstrated that if feels unrestricted in its ability to dominate our region, a nuclear umbrella will only embolden its acolytes to act unrestrained to the detriment of us all. Only together can we face this threat and remove it.

Another issue that entails mutual political will to overcome is the threat of climate change to our region. Many reports and organizations are pinpointing the Middle East as an area that will suffer gravely as rain falls even more infrequently and temperatures rise.

Recently, the leading international scholars on climate change met in Copenhagen and released an important report on this issue. They claimed that climate change will exacerbate conflicts and increase strains and violence among competing groups. We are already witnessing water rights and growing desertification as underlying reasons for the intensification of conflicts in our region.

“Making the desert bloom” has been a core component of the Zionist ethos and successes throughout the decades. Israel has been able to turn desert into arable land and barren landscapes into forests. We constantly share our agricultural miracles with our friends in Africa and Asia and it is for this reason that many countries of the developing world have sought partnership with Israel in addressing their own agricultural challenges.

However, as Israel’s founding fathers wrote in 1948, Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. Our partners in peace, Jordan and Egypt, and especially the Palestinian Authority, bear witness to our endeavors in this direction. Israel has actively cooperated with Egypt on the “Mubarak Project” for the establishment of an irrigation demonstration system in Nubariya and annually trains hundreds of Jordanians in Israel in fields such as sustainable eco-friendly agricultural methods.

For us to be able to face these and many other challenges, we need to break with the paradigms of the past. The Jewish People are here because of our historical, legal, moral and national rights.

Those naysayers who can not countenance a Jewish political presence in the region will doom all of us to many more decades of conflict and instability. It is time for courageous leaders to emanate from the Arab world as did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1979 and Jordan’s King Hussein in 1994 and recognize that peaceful coexistence is far better for all of our people than enduring conflict and enmity.

We recognize that the Arab Peace Initiative is an important document, and is welcomed in Israel as a crack in the denial of an Arab recognition of Israel. However, like the Palestinian Authority’s dictates to Israel on the peace process, it remains frozen in 1993.

Since the historic handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn, Israel has taken major strides both politically and strategically towards the Palestinian position.

Both in 2000 at Camp David and in 2008 during the Annapolis process, Israeli prime ministers offered the Palestinians everything possible for peace and on both occasions the Palestinian leadership rejected these offers. The Palestinian Authority, like the Arab Peace Initiative, is still holding to its maximalist positions and has not moved an inch towards Israel since 1993. These positions are obviously untenable for peace and reflect a worldview that ignores Israel’s significant gestures and seeks to enforce a solution that will mean the end of the Jewish State. Recent Palestinian and Arab League declarations only enforce this view.

It is surely time to look to the future and break with former intransigencies to create a better future for all the people of the region. Israel has gone very far and is prepared to do its part, but we must be met by a willing partner. Without this, the region is doomed to more conflict and will negate the unity of purpose in the Middle East that is necessary to face the mounting challenges from without and within.

Danny Ayalon is the Israel Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

December 14, 2009

From the forums, no English translation yet. Bumming them out so gasp one of the akhi's used a kaffir website to copy and paste for more information.......blasphemer!!!

al shala inshalla shala mohammad inshallah shalalalalalala allah allah allah blahlashallah alalalalalalala

From Ynet

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has accused President Barack Obama of cheating the Arab world by failing to advance Middle East peace talks.

In a new Internet posting, Ayman Al-Zawahri also scoffs at key American allies in the region - the Egyptian president and the Jordanian king - for making peace with Israel

The 25-minute audio message focuses on Obama.

Al-Zawahri says the US president's Mideast policy is "another cycle in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to enslave and humiliate us."

The bumb on his forehead is getting reading to splode....inshallah

December 12, 2009

A akhi on one of the forums is sharing this with everyone.

Godamn must be getting nervous that some are questioning the indiscriminate killing of innocent Muslims by the Mujihadeen.

Blah, blah, blah

December 10, 2009

Like I said in the comments section yesterday, I saw something similar once when I was a kid. I even thought it was a UFO. Freaked me out. But eventually the Air Force announce that they had been testing a missile out of Vandenberg over the Pacific Ocean.

So, this post by Closing Velocity makes a lot of sense. The failure of the rocket would explain why the Russians were denying it was one of theirs.

December 08, 2009

Christian hotel owners Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang are in deep dodo for allegedly describing Mohammed as a warlord. Adding insult to injury they described the burqa as bondage.

Oh the horror

Seriously, they are on trial for this. Follow link to read the rest.

December 01, 2009

Wow. It reads like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.

If you sent money to Osama bin Laden, you might be a terrorist.

Yes, it's that obvious. Here's a taste:

TEN KEY INDICATORS OF POTENTIAL TERRORIST ASSOCIATED INSIDER THREATS TO THE ARMY.

2.(U) ADVOCATING SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS OR OBJECTIVES. ...

3.(U) PROVIDING FINANCIAL OR OTHER MATERIAL SUPPORT TO A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION OR TO SOMEONE SUSPECTED OF BEING A TERRORIST.

Argghhh has more.

Now excuse me I need to go watch Obama tell us why he's smarter than the architects of our victory in Iraq.

November 19, 2009

James and Hannah went to L.A. and actually found the only ACORN employee they encountered in their travels who was honest and turned them away (he was given ACORN employee of the year award by James) when they commented their prostitute business would involved underage girls. You will see him in the beginning of video #1 below.

Last week they put out a teaser video with only him in it. This is the rest of the story via Big Government

heh...

Obama is really smert and dupelomatic.

New Delhi: US president Barack Obama ruffled Indian feathers on Tuesday. The next day, the American ambassador to India spent considerable time in soothing the offended sentiments. Timothy Roemer almost ran out of adjectives to describe the state of India-US ties, even as the ministry of external affairs expressed displeasure at Obama's statement with Chinese president Hu Jintao, which seemed to project China as the prime mover for peace and stability in South Asia.....

A joint-statement by the US and China on Tuesday had said: "The two sides are ready to strengthen communication, dialogue and cooperation on issues related to South Asia and work together to promote peace and development in that region." This is being interpreted as Obama bowing deeper to Beijing than to the emperor of Japan, and involving China in Indo-Pak ties.

heh...

November 17, 2009

With KSM possibly being tried in New York they must feel they had better clean up the mess.

Disbarred radical lawyer Lynne Stewart is going to jail - maybe for a lot longer than she thought.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld her conviction for smuggling messages to her jailed terrorist client (blind sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman), and said she deserves more than the 28 months she got because she may have lied at her trial

Stewart, 70, is to surrender to U.S. Marshals immediately. The Brooklyn resident has been free on bail since 2006.

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October 29, 2009

Two pictures. At the top is a vidcap of the recent al Qaeda/as Sahab video showing a person that some are speculating is Osama bin Laden. Click it for slighly larger image. This vidcap and others were posted over at Wired's Danger Room.

Below that are several vidcaps from al Qaeda/as Sahab videos showing Osama bin Laden.

Notice in the alleged image of bin Laden that his grey beard has a dark streak down the middle of it. Look closely.

Now look at all of these images of bin Laden below. Notice that it is a dark beard with a grey streak down the middle of it.

Okay, so is it possible that this is Osama bin Laden? Yes, but only if he has died his beard to make it appear to be colored in the exact opposite of its natural color. It would be kind of like Mr. T trying to disguise himself by shaving the middle of his head!

Also, I think that this would entail dying his beard twice. First, dark dye to cover up what is presumably an increasingly grey beard. And then a second layer to cover up the dark parts of the beard with grey! (Or reverse the order)

Possible? Sure. Likely? I don't think so.

We do have one video showing a person claiming to be bin Laden in which the beard is obviously died. But a lot of people are skeptical that this is even him, and if it is him you'll notice his pretty pathetic die job.

If bin Laden isn't dead then he's nowhere near Abu Yahya al-Libi, the star of the video on which he allegedly secretly appears. Al Libi is way too public and high value of a target for bin Laden to appear with him out of doors and risk his precious life in a Predator strike.

I don't know who Roggio's source is, but I think he's wrong. The super-reverse-dye-job theory seems to be nothing more than grasping at straws.

Verdict: Not Osama bin Laden.

October 06, 2009

Scare up some more white coats and hurry.

Hat Tip: Ronin.

September 17, 2009

Remember that time when Time magazine asked if Keith Olbermann was bad for America? They didn't answer the question, nor were they being partisan hacks, but, ya know, they were just asking questions.

Wait. It didn't happen you say? Yet they do ask if Beck is bad for America. No double standard there.

Hmmm, but I wonder who else Time has just asked the important questions about?

No liberal media bias.

None.

What.

So.

Ever.

I actually don't watch Glenn Beck. I also never listen to his radio show (does he still have one?). But, come on, I've heard some of the nutty stuff he's talked about and he's got nothing on Keith Olbermann.

Not. A. Thing.

And unlike Olbermann, he's actually done some real journalism. You know, like exposing Obama's Czars and ACORN.

What has Olbermann ever done other than ruin the NFL?

Thanks to Hot Air's link thing.

UPDATE: Um, so, CJ has a post up about how nutty Glenn Beck can be. He uses a video analyzing the symbolism of hammer and sickle at NBC headquarters.

A bit nutty, granted.

But CJ says that the story, "should have been enough to thoroughly discredit Beck to any sane person."

So, drawing conclusions based only on similar uses of symbols is nutty?

Um, CJ, didn't you just do a post last week in which you tried to discredit the entire Tea Party movement based on this symbol?

Tea Party Logo: Lifted From Communist Designs

I'm not sure I see the distinction between Beck seeing a Communist conspiracy in a symbol, and CJ seeing an extremist and dangerous movement based on .... a symbol?

To me, both notions are kind of nutty.

And yet, here I am willing to link both CJ and Glenn Beck. Calling them both out when they're wrong, and supporting them when they're right.

Maybe that makes me some sort of a kook. Or a fascist.

I always thought that just made me an adult.