Somalia: French agents to face Sharia law trial

Two French security advisers were abducted by Allah's little helpers from al-Shabab on charges of spying and "conspiracy against Islam" (i.e.: working for the government), and will face a kangaroo trial, most likely followed by the execution.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Two French security advisers being held hostage in Somalia will soon be tried under Islamic law for alleged spying and "conspiracy against Islam," a senior member of a rebel group holding the men said Saturday.

The official with the insurgent group al-Shabab said no date had been set for the trial. He asked that his name not be published because he is not authorized to speak to the media on the matter.

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Russian flag set on fire in Tehran

The Iranian people are not happy with Russia's support of the mullahs.

The author of the video writes that "Russia has been the biggest supporter of the mullahs and it is widely believed that two top Russian officials have helped the revolutionary guards to set up the coup for Ahmadinejad."

He also says that during Friday prayers, preachers "ask the people to shout death to America and the usual brainwashed pigs who attend love their death to America bs."

But this past Friday, because Mousavi went to the prayers, "hundreds of thousands of normal Iranians who never go went as well, and when they asked for death to America everybody screamed death to Russia and China to piss off the officials until they stopped asking."

German Islamists heading to Pakistan training camps

Monsters and Ctitics reports on the increasing flow of homegrown jihadists from Turkish and Arab immigrant communities to training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Berlin - The flow of radical Islamists from Germany to training camps in Pakistan has doubled this year, the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported Sunday without naming any source.

German police monitor the so-called homegrown terrorists, mainly from the Turkish and Arab immigrant communities, who volunteer to fight on the Islamist side in Pakistan or Afghanistan.

'This year we have so far logged 40 Pakistan-bound departures among the German Islamist crowd,' a senior German security official was quoted saying. In the corresponding months of last year, only half as many departed for training.

The men commonly used flights via Syria, Egypt or Turkey. Many returned home to Germany after spending time in the camps.

German security forces suspect they might try pull what their brethren have pulled in Spain in 2003:

Security forces forecast earlier this month that terrorists might try to unnerve the German public in the run-up to the September 27 general election, with the intention of obtaining a German military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Bangladesh: Reporter faces death for pro-Israel view

This automatically brings to mind Obama's (in)famous claim made in his Cairo speech that "throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."

(JPost) Since 2003, Bangladeshi journalist and peace activist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury has been investigated by Bangladeshi authorities on charges of sedition, treason and insulting religious belief.

Choudhury, 44, has spent years opposing Muslim extremism through his writings, especially the Weekly Blitz which he started in 2003. He has called for interfaith dialogue and for normalizing relations between Muslim countries and Israel.

On Wednesday, Choudhury returns to court. He is accused of insulting Islam and harming the state's reputation abroad, charges which, when couched as "sedition," carry a possible death penalty.

"According to my lawyers in Bangladesh, the government is determined to conclude the trial as soon as possible," he wrote in a public letter over the weekend. "No one knows what will be the verdict. But, of course, seeing the past track record, we cannot hold any hope for a good [result] because the court is not applying its judicial mind, but trying to appease the Islamists."

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The best stimulus ad ever

The video below clearly demonstrates just why Obama can no longer blame Bush:

Work accident in Gaza

Actually, it's a tunnel accident, but this doesn't make it any less important.

(Ynet) Palestinian sources reported Sunday that one man was killed in an explosion in a fuel smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza Strip.

The report stated that several other people were hurt as well.

Al Qaeda-linked Hizb ut-Tahrir opens recruitment conference in Chicago (the Obamaland)

Don't you think Obama's Muslim outreach goes a bit too far?

(FOX News) Protesters gathered outside a Chicago area hotel Sunday as an Islamic extremist group reportedly linked to Al Qaeda held its first official conference on U.S. soil in an attempt to step up Western recruitment efforts.

Members of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — met Sunday inside a Hilton hotel to host a conference, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam."

Hizb ut-Tahrir insists it is not a terrorist organization. Well, they simply want to abolish secular system of government and to establish the worldwide Islamic Caliphate, by force is needed. Nothing terrorist about it. Right?

But some terrorism experts say it may be even more dangerous than many groups that are on the terror list.

"Hizb ut-Tahrir is one of the oldest, largest indoctrinating organizations for the ideology known as jihadism," Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told FOXNews.com.

Phares said that Hizb ut-Tahrir, rather than training members to carry out terrorist acts like Al Qaeda, focuses instead on indoctrinating youths between ages of 9 and 18 to absorb the ideology that calls for the formation of an empire — or "khilafah" — that will rule according to Islamic law and condones any means to achieve it, including militant jihad.

Hizb ut-Tahrir often says that its indoctrination "prepares the infantry" that groups like Al Qaeda take into battle, Phares said.

"It's like a middle school that prepares them to be recruited by the high school, which is Al Qaeda," he said. "One would compare them to Hitler youth. ... It's an extremely dangerous organization."

Phares said Hizb ut-Tahrir has strongholds in Western countries, including Britain, France and Spain, and clearly is looking to strengthen its base in the U.S.

"The aim of this conference is to recruit within the Muslim community in America," he said. "The Middle East governments go after them, but in the U.S. they are protected, so having a base here is going to help their cells around the world."

On Sunday, more than 100 group members gathered inside the Oak Lawn Hilton hotel just outside Chicago, blasting capitalism and calling for a rise of Islam.

"Free market, organization, capitalization — all has failed and brought disaster to America," said one of the group's speakers.

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Not that Obama calls for the rise of Islam, but he too seems to be against free market and capitalism.

The two-state solution is already in the making

The entity knows as the Palestinian Authority is drifting into two states. Even their common hatred of Jews can't bind them together.

(IsraelNN.com) Fatah-Hamas negotiations at an impasse, Abbas accused of ousting PLO veterans, January elections thus appear unlikely. Two states for one (PA) people?

Egyptian-brokered talks between Hamas and Fatah for a unified Palestinian Authority government have broken down, and some say they will not be renewed in the near future. Egypt blames both sides, though attributes more responsibility for the impasse to Fatah, led by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Egypt announced on Sunday, however, that it still hopes to have an agreement finalized by August 25.

Fatah and Hamas fought a short war in 2007, by the end of which Hamas had taken over control of Gaza. The Palestinian Authority has since then functioned as two entities from many standpoints: Hamastan in Gaza, and Fatahland in Judea/Samaria. The most recent battle between forces of the two sides resulted in six dead in the Fatah-controlled city of Kalkilye: two Hamas terrorists, three Fatah security men, and a bystander.

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"Iran and North Korea have shown no interest in the president’s outstretched hand"

With the economy in shambles, the unemployment heading for the double-digit territory (in 15 states it's already over 10%, with Michigan reporting 15.2%), and a series of spectacular failures on the international stage, "Barack Obama feels the heat".

(POLITICO) Finally, we’re starting to see him sweat.

President Barack Obama made his personal icy cool the trademark of his campaign, the tenor of his White House and the hallmark of an early run of successes at home and abroad. But as the glamour wears off and a long, frustrating summer wears on, he is being forced to improvise — stooping to respond to political foes and adjusting his tactics and demeanor for the trench warfare of a legislative agenda.

The root of the change is one that faces every president: Economic and international realities that resist political charm. Iran and North Korea have shown no interest in the president’s outstretched hand. The economy has delivered a double-whammy, with rising unemployment stirring voters’ concerns while sluggish growth deprives the government of tax revenues Obama would like to spend on new programs.

Health care reform, which once appeared flush with momentum from earlier congressional victories, is now on a slog through no less than five committees, which include Democrats who either aren’t sold on Obama’s expansive vision or can’t figure out how to convince voters to pay for it.

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Of course, all of Obama's spectacular failures can be blamed on Rush Limbaugh's black magic.

Israeli Cabinet Approves Revised 'Nakba' Bill

The bill underscores that public organizations promoting activities that deny the existence of the state of Israel as the state of the Jewish people, or support the armed struggle (otherwise known as acts terror) will not be permitted to spend any money received from the state on such activities.

(IsraelNN.com) The Ministerial Committee on Legislation Affairs on Sunday approved an amended "Nakba Law", named for the Arabic word for "catastrophe" that the Palestinian Authority and hostile Israeli Arabs used to describe the establishment of the modern Jewish State of Israel in 1948.

The revised bill states that public bodies receiving support from the State will not be permitted to spend any money on activities that deny the existence of the State of Israel as the state of the Jewish people or its democratic character; support an armed struggle or acts of terror by its enemies; incite to racism, violence and terror, and dishonor the State's flag or other symbols. Criminal charges for marking Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning were removed. The measure now moves to the Knesset.

Qatar sheikh funding Hamas activities in Jerusalem

The infamous supporter of Palestinian suicide bombings, Egyptian-born Sheikh Yousuf Qaradawi, allocated $21 million to a Hamas "charity" to buy land Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, for a Palestinian to sell his land or to a Jew is a criminal offense punished by death, according to the Palestinian law.

(Haaretz) Qatar-based Sheikh Yousuf Qaradawi has allocated $21 million to a charity funded by Hamas to allow the Palestinian group to buy land and set up infrastructure in Jerusalem, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said on Sunday.

Qaradawi, an 82-year-old Egyptian-born Muslim scholar with strong links to the Muslim Brotherhood, is a keen supporter of suicide bombings in Israel, which he describes as "martyrdom operations.

Abbas aide Rafiq Husseini dismissed the report. "We wish there was Arab money to buy threatened houses," he told The Associated Press, "but that's not the case." Qaradawi could not be reached for comment.

Diskin made the comments during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. He also told the ministers that the Palestinian Authority and its security forces have been working actively to thwart the sale of Palestinian land to Jews, particularly in East Jerusalem.

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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom"

You can't say it any better than that:

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give toanybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

NYC councilman and Brooklyn borough president hopeful led Gaza convoy

Charles Barron (D), a former member of the Black Panthers, an advocate for the "browning of America", a race baiter who is also (in)famous for his invitation and praise of Zimbabwe's Mugabe, was one of several high profile kooks, along with Galloway and McKinney, leading the pro-Hamas convoy into Gaza.

Gaza Strip, Gaza - Among those leading the latest attempt by international radical leftists to enter Gaza was New York City Councilman Charles Barron, who is running for Brooklyn Borough President. Barron represents the 42nd council district in Brooklyn, which includes parts of East Flatbush, Canarsie, East New York, and Brownsville.

After arriving in Egypt on July 13, the "Viva Palestina" group, which included well known radical leftists such as British MP George Galloway and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, were prevented by Egyptian authorities from entering Sinai.

The group had planned to travel from Sinai to Gaza with what they said was a convoy of medical supplies. In the past, say Israeli officials, many of these groups have attempted to smuggle in supplies that can be used by Hamas terrorists to make weapons with which to attack Israel.

The Egyptians sent them back to Cairo as they attempted to cross the Suez Canal, only to relent several days later and allow the group to enter Gaza via Sinai. While in Gaza, the group met with senior Hamas terrorists.

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Oren to Obama: Israel’s right to build in eastern Jerusalem isn’t open for discussion

Israel Rejects US Demand to Stop Building in Jerusalem.

(IsraelNN.com) The United States demanded that Israel cease construction in the Sheikh Jarakh neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem. The construction site is several yards from the National Police Headquarters.

Israel’s Ambassador in Washington, Michael Oren, was invited during the weekend to the U.S. State Department and was asked to clarify the purpose of the project. A senior political official said that Israel’s right to build in eastern Jerusalem isn’t in doubt and isn’t open for discussion. According to the official, the developer received all necessary permits from the planning committee and the government doesn’t plan to intervene.

UNIFIL Inspectors Attacked in Lebanon

The inspectors came to the village investigate the circumstances of the Hezbollah ammunition explosion but were attacked but the village "residents" and had to call the reinforcements. 14 of the inspectors were injured.

(IsraelNN.com) In southern Lebanon, 14 United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) inspectors were injured Saturday after they were attacked by residents of the village of Khirbet Selm, 12 miles north of the Lebanese-Israeli border. The inspectors came to the village to investigate the circumstances of an explosion of an ammunition depot, most likely belonging to Hizbullah terrorists.

About 100 residents of the village surrounded the inspectors and attacked them. The inspectors called for reinforcements and fired several rounds of shots in the air. According to UNIFIL, the attack was a brazen violation of U.N. Security Council Decision 1701, which ended Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon against Hizbullah. There was a previous attempt on Friday of disturbing the UNIFIL’s work. However, the Lebanese army intervened.

UK: Calling Jews 'Nazis' may be criminalized

The use of Nazi-related terms or symbols — for example intertwining the swastika with the Star of David — while negatively referring to Jews, Israel and Zionism may soon be criminalized in the UK as incitement to racial hatred.

(The Jewish Chronicle) Parliament will be asked to consider whether the use of Nazi symbols and terms in reference to Jews, Israel and Zionism is breaking the law on incitement to racial hatred.

A new report by the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (EISCA) has highlighted the increasing use of what it terms the “Nazi card” in antisemitic discourse and has called for a number of measures to try to combat its spread.

“Playing the Nazi card” has been defined in the report as the use of Nazi-related terms or symbols — for example intertwining the swastika with the Star of David — while negatively referring to Jews, Israel, Zionism or other aspects of what it calls the Jewish experience.

The report, which was jointly published by EISCA and the Department for Communities and Local Government, recommends that the Home Office, the Association of Chief Police officers (ACPO) and the Crown Prosecution Service should prepare new guidance for the police on whether this kind of terminology amounts to incitement.

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AG Holder makes a quiet visit to a mosque

Amid his high profile, well-publicized visit to Los Angeles to announce stimulus grants to help fight drug trafficking and to help the victims of domestic violence, Holder makes an unannounced visit to a mosque.

For some reason, it had to be done quietly.

Despite 100 Attacks, Unit Leaves Afghan War With No Casualties

Over the past 12 months, 65 soldiers of the Apache Troop, out of Fort Hood, Texas, came under 100 attacks in the most dangerous combat outpost, nicknamed Camp Hell, in Afghanistan, and they haven't lost a single soldier to enemy fire.

(ABC) Over the past year, the several dozen U.S. troops hunkered down in Combat Outpost Lowell have seen more firefights than any unit in Afghanistan.

The outpost is situated in rugged Afghan territory in Nuristan Province, close to the Pakistan border. Its job has been to disrupt al Qaeda and Taliban smuggling routes through the area.

Located on the northern part of Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, the troops in Combat Outpost Lowell did not see any reinforcements from the U.S. surge, which has been concentrated in southern part of the country.

But the Taliban has had a surge of its own, making July the bloodiest month of the Afghan war so far for U.S. troops. Part of the Taliban offensive was a determined effort to erase Lowell from the map. The Taliban attacked the outpost nearly 100 times in the past year.

But the men of Apache Troop, out of Fort Hood, Texas, are now heading home with a basketful of medals and the best victory they can think of -- they haven't lost a single soldier to enemy fire.

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In Iran it is illegal to execute women if they are virgins. So they are raped before the execution.

Young, usually underage girls who are sentenced to death by the Iranian regime, are forcibly wedded to prison guards and raped the night before the execution.

This is the regime Obama wants to have a dialog with.

British filmmaker Ken Loach threatens to boycott Melbourne's Internationall Film Festival in protest against partial sponsorship from Israel

Ken Loach is a supporter of the Socialist Resistance organization in Britain which publishes a Marxist periodical of the same name. In July 2009 the International Socialist Group (a Trotskyist organization in Britain) merged into it, making SR the British Section of the Fourth International - the largest revolutionary socialist international group.

So with that in mind, it's easy to see why Ken Loach is against Israel and for Palestinians.

Anyway, the director of the Melbourne Film Festival said he would not meet Loach's request to reconsider sponsorship from the Jewish state.

"I wouldn't do it. The festival wouldn't. It's like submitting to blackmail," he said.

Catnapping

Israeli Muslims Raise Money to 'Fight Occupation'

Talk about a two-state solution.

(IsraelNN.com) Thousands of Arab Muslim children from Israel traveled to Jerusalem Saturday for a celebration on the Temple Mount organized by the Al-Aksa Children's Fund Initiative. The children brought money that they had raised in their communities, which came to total of approximately 3 million shekels. The money was donated to the Islamic Movement.

Islamic Movement chairman Sheikh Kamel Khatib told the children that the Al-Aksa Mosque and the Temple Mount are entirely Muslim, and that the site is occupied by Israel, “just like the whole Jerusalem, which was occupied by the IDF in 1967.” Muslims have a duty to remove Israeli occupation from the Temple Mount and Jerusalem, he said.

Obama losing some support among nervous Dems

And it's only been 6 months since he took office.

NEW YORK (AP) — Could it be that President Barack Obama's Midas touch is starting to dull a bit, even among members of his own party?

Conservative House Democrats are balking at the cost and direction of Obama's top priority, an overhaul of the nation's health care system. A key Senate Democrat, Max Baucus of Montana, complains that Obama's opposition to paying for it with a tax on health benefits "is not helping us."

Another Democrat, Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma, tells his local newspaper that Obama is too liberal and is "very unpopular" in his district.

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Three years after his "divine victory", Nasrallah still hasn't come out of his bunker

In a desperate move, fearing he is losing popularity, he sends Lebanese civilians to cross Israeli border Friday a pathetic ploy to boost his ratings.

(Ynet) Precisely three years after the Second Lebanon War, Hezbollah finds itself facing a very sensitive junction within Lebanon's political and public arena. The power struggle and circumstances that emerged over the past week prompted Nasrallah to adopt – albeit cautiously – two almost-desperate steps on Friday.

Hezbollah is in distress in the wake of its election loss. Despite the results, Nasrallah seeks to enter the Hariri-led unity government in Lebanon from a position of strength; for that reason, a lengthy and tiring process of negotiations between the sides is still ongoing.

And just at this sensitive timing, a Hezbollah arms depot exploded earlier this week in southern Lebanon. A Kuwaiti newspaper claims the site was in fact an outpost belonging to the group.

In addition, Israel publicized films showing Hezbollah setting up underground fortifications in area villages. All of the above constitute a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended the war. More importantly for Nasrallah, this contradicts the Lebanese desire to avoid another destructive conflict vis-à-vis Israel.

The last war led to the destruction of the Dahiya neighborhood in Beirut that had not yet been rebuilt; southern villages also sustained grave damages. Therefore, the arms depot explosion prompted residents of nearby villages to flee and stirred great fury in Lebanon's media.

In order to ease the pressure at this sensitive time, Hezbollah is adopting steps that can be characterized as pathetic. Two of them were carried out Friday, on the anniversary of the prisoner swap that brought Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev's bodies back to Israel.

Long-forgotten issues
The first step was to dispatch unarmed civilians, including children, to an abandoned IDF outpost in the Mount Dov region. This was meant to remind the Lebanese that their land had not yet been "liberated," and that Hezbollah defends the interests of the people and state by not renouncing what it claims to be occupied land. Nasrallah was of course careful not to prompt a border flare-up, and he knew the IDF will not fire at unarmed civilians.

Hezbollah flags were held up alongside Lebanese flags, in order to emphasize the group's "concern for everyone," even though the Lebanese Army is deployed in the south. Notably, the Mount Dov region in fact faces Syrian-Lebanese disagreements, which hinder the resolution of the border issue in the area.

The second pathetic step was Nasrallah's speech, where he referred to long-forgotten issues, claiming that Israel is still secretly holding one of the terrorists who took part in the Coastal Road terror attack that left 35 Israelis dead in 1978. Officials in Israel say the terrorist was killed in a shootout during the attack. Hezbollah's chief also charged that Israel holds the remains of group fighters.

This is a clear pretext, and Nasrallah is the first one to know it is empty of substance – yet when one faces distress, and has been talking from his bunker three years after a war that was seemingly a "divine victory," one sometimes needs to pull skeletons out of the closet.

British Teacher sacked for being a Christian

(Londonistan) Nicholas Kafouris has taught for the last 10 years at Bigland Green Primary in Tower Hamlets, East London where, according to the most recent Ofsted report, 'almost all' the 465 pupils are from ethnic minorities and a vast proportion do not speak English as a first language.

Over the past few years, Mr Kafouris has noticed how the younger Islamic generation has become much more polarized towards non-Muslims, examples of which he cites:

How children aged eight and nine in his class praised the suicide bombers in the 9/11 attacks.

Some pupils 'expressed delight' that a child had died when a wall collapsed on him in London. When asked why, he said one of the children replied: 'Because he's English.'

Or when he brushed against a boy while giving him a book. 'He said rather brusquely to me, "Don't touch me, you're a Christian".

Mr Kafouris says he completed 'Racist Incident Reporting Sheets' and notified headmistress Jill Hankey, in writing, about each incident. But he claims his concerns were ignored because she wanted to maintain the school's 'good' Ofsted rating.

It appears that after complaining about the racist nature of Islamic rug-rats, Mr Kafouris started getting victimised by the support staff (I wonder what faith they belong to). This brought on stress and depression, and he was forced to take time off work. Mr Kafouris was dismissed because of his absence on April 30 this year.

He is now taking the school, its headmistress and assistant head to an employment tribunal where he will claim he was forced out after highlighting the rise in racism among pupils.

Yes, welcome to the UK where the victims that can only be Muslims and are allowed to express their racist bigoted values on everybody else free in the knowledge that over here they have every right to do so, protected by lame arsed civil servants who CAIR more about their careers than protecting the British public from the MOORS of religious extremism. Unless of course if you are a member of the Church of England. Then they will throw the book at you for belonging to such an outdated relic of the past which simply has no place in this day and age.

Allah Ackba everybody...

Al Qaeda-linked Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference

The conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," and organized by the Al Qaeda-linked group which is banned in several counties, will take place in none other than Chicago — the Obamaland.

(FOX News) A group committed to establishing an international Islamic empire and reportedly linked to Al Qaeda is stepping up its Western recruitment efforts by holding its first official conference in the U.S.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Sunni network with reported ties to confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda in Iraq's onetime leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. It has operated discreetly in the U.S. for decades.

Now, it is coming out of the shadows and openly hosting a July 19 conference entitled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," at a posh Hilton hotel in a suburb of Chicago.

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How common sense has departed the UK

(UK) I sweep up outside my house on a regular basis. In fact, not only do I sweep the road and pavement outside my house and that of my immediate neighbours, I also once a week take a plastic bag and pick up the litter which the British people are renowned for dumping.

Oh, I’ve received a number of choice comments, “It's council’s job”, “I should sweep up as well”. The best one, I must admit, was during winter. I not only swept the snow clear of the pavement, I dropped road salt down in which to keep it clear. A woman who had walked up the ice encrusted pavement, duly informed me that if she slipped on my cleared path, she would sue me. You don’t really need to know how I replied. Suffice to say she shut up.

Anyway, Richard and Lynne Small who live in Hull, decided to clear up the litter infested garden of an abandoned house on their council estate. However, for their good neighbourly behaviour they were arrested by 4 policemen, taken to the police station in handcuffs and charged with attempted burglary and refusing a police drug test. (Only in the UK do they test you for taking drugs for picking litter up.)

However, today a judge threw out the case against them and lambasted the police for wasting the taxpayers money (£2,000) on such a mindless endeavour. He also awarded the couple £10 for their public spirit. Only in the UK can you get arrested, jailed and taken to court for cleaning up what the council are paid to do.

Here is a picture of the actual garden the couple were trying to clear up.

It's Friday and the Islamic holyday

On this most holy of days for Islam what have the followers of the Religion of Peace™ been up to?

(Indonesia) Well, as Watcher wrote earlier on, a couple of bombs went off in Indonesian Hotels murdering 9 people.

(Afghanistan) Allah's little helpers (no, not the bBC), the Taliban, blew up a bus murdering 11 people including 5 children. (Funny how the human rights lot never bitch when the Taliban kill folk.)

(Iran) In Tehran, the Mullahs for life had their brown shirted, jack-booted thugs assail protesters who object to their theological rule.

(Saudi Arabia) The authorities there, in reaction to the bad press the morality police have been receiving, have drawn up guidelines in which to improve the quality of recruits who wish to subscribe to a life of bullying. From now on, applicants must have long beards, Islamic attire, and a degree in Islamic Sharia law and, more puzzling, will also have to undergo English language courses and have signed an agreement with the British consulate. (Could they be the spearhead for the take over of the UK?)

(UK) Another hero of the Koran, who felt the need to turning himself into pavement pizza and covering as many people as possible with his body parts, has been found guilty in the UK of just that very act. Isa Ibrahim who, when caught, tried every trick in the book (apart from telling the truth) in which to explain just why he was making suicide vests in his bedroom. No doubt this zero will soon be appealing.

(Sudan) Finally, the hard man of Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir, has cancelled plans to travel to Uganda following speculation he could be arrested. Mr Bashir, wanted on an international arrest warrant for war crimes, had been invited to a development summit. But a Ugandan suggestion that he could be arrested made the trip less likely. It seems that those people who murder others in the name of 'Allah' and who claim to be scared of nobody bar 'Allah' aren't willing to put that view to the test by staying at home.

Are British Muslims justified in crying wolf?

(UK) On Monday, Islamic campaigners will meet at Parliament in which to launch a campaign (called Kafa) into attacks on Muslims in the UK.

It appears that the Muslim Council of Britain has got together with the likes of Project Hijab, Stop the War, George Galloway and Friends of Al Aqsa in which to fight what they claim to be "Harrassment by the police, vilification by much of the media, defamation by politicians and a growing campaign against the wearing of the veil has created the sense that Muslims in Britain are under attack on many fronts,"

In fact, they point to the recent arrests by British police against members of the far right of hoarding explosives as examples of how only Muslims in the UK can be victims.

But that’s just it, in the big scale of things Muslims in the UK are not victims. If anything, the reverse is true. The last I looked, Islam was the ideology of the idiots who blew up Pam Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 murdering 270 people. As it was the ideology of those who blew up London Underground in 2005 murdering 52 people and injuring over 700 more. The failed terrorist attacks a fortnight later, outside a disco in London and at Glasgow airport all had idiots who subscribed to the norms of Islam.

In reaction to all of those, has there been a huge backlash against the followers of Islam in the UK?

No.

Yet for the so called Islamic elites in the UK who knock up orgs in which to defend the rights of Muslims, all they can see is a vicious campaign against them.

I must admit to smirking when I saw the likes of Project Hijab, Stop the War, George Galloway and Friends of Al Aqsa. I mean, the first is all about defending the rights of women to wear the hijab. The fact that in the UK there are no laws forbidding the right of women to wear the hijab appears to have passed them by. In fact, we even allow police women to wear it if they wish. The Friends of Al Al Aqsa is an outfit which campaigns against Israel. George Galloway is the leader of an Islamic political party in the UK which hates gays. And Stop the War, well, they are against British troops full stop. All of the above, with the exception of Gorgeous George, have no remit to bitch about the UK.

Not one of those who will be joining in on this protest has bothered its arse to ask the question ‘Why’ are the police more suspicious of Muslims in the UK. Could it be that due to terrorist attacks on British soil? 300 people have been murdered by Muslims while 0 (Zero) Muslims have been murdered by right wing non-Muslim terrorists in the UK. Yet according to the above, it is Muslims who are the victims in all of this.

Yesterday, the bBC paid out £45,000 pounds in damages for hurt feelings to the MCB because in a public debate somebody accused the MCB of silently supporting terrorists who murder British troops. (The fact that the second in command of the MCB is on record of saying as much appears to have passed them by). Yet this is the same bBC which has no problem interviewing radical Islamic idiots on TV where they are allowed to express how they wouldn’t inform the police if they knew of a forthcoming terrorist attack by Muslims in the UK. The same bBC which allows hateful individuals to express why they have the right to threaten anybody who speaks out against their faith with death, pays out damages when Muslims get upset when somebody repeats what they have been saying all along. Which is, don't mess with us or we will kill you.

Yet for all this animosity by Muslims against the non-Islamic population of the UK, they are now bitching that in light of all the grandstanding they have done in which to say:

“We are so much better than you, so don’t mess”

are now complaining about how people are fearful and suspicious of them?

I’m sorry, what part of being the architects of their own misfortune don’t they understand?

Oh, and how do I know that Muslims aren’t victims in the UK?

I have brown skin, I look like a Muslim, have an Islamic name and I feel safe walking the streets of the UK.

Israel anti-missile system passes live fire test

According to the AP report, the laser-based system is scheduled to be fully-operational by the end of next year.

(JPost) The Defense Ministry conducted a series of tests of the Iron Dome missile defense system this week, successfully intercepting a number of rockets that mimicked Kassam and short-range Grad-model Katyusha rockets.

The Iron Dome, under development by Rafael Defense Systems, is slated to become operational sometime in 2010 and to be capable of intercepting short-range Kassam and Katyusha rockets fired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hizbullah in Southern Lebanon.

The Iron Dome uses an advanced radar that locates and tracks the rocket that is then intercepted by a kinetic missile interceptor.

Terror attacks in Indonesia: 6 dead, 36 wounded

11 of the 36 wounded are foreigners.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Police and hospital officials say six people have been killed and at least 36 injured in a pair of powerful blasts in downtown Jakarta.

Dr. Cahyonod at the Jakarta Hospital said six people were killed in explosions at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels Friday morning.

South Jakarta police Col. Firman Bundi earlier said that four of the dead were foreigners.

At the Metropolitan Medical Center, a list was posted with the names of 36 people wounded. An official at the registration office said 11 were foreigners. She declined to give her name because she was not authorized to speak to the media.

The Marriott hotel was attacked in 2003, when 12 died, but it has been more than three years since a major terrorist attack in Indonesia.

Media monitor: 7 photographers detained in Iran

Meanwhile, Obama feels ready for diplomatic talks with Iran.

PARIS (AP) — Media monitor Reporters Without Borders says seven photographers and a cameraman have been detained in Iran, most of them over the past week.

The Paris-based group listed five Iranian photographers seized Saturday, nearly a month after the June 12 presidential elections that prompted a wave of opposition protests. It says French-Iranian cameraman Said Movahedi was detained July 9.

The reason for the arrests is unclear.

Reporters Without Borders said in a statement Thursday that "The Iranian government fears images" of the protests.

The group says at least five other photographers or cameramen have been injured by police or militias during the crackdown on opposition protesters. It says 41 journalists are behind bars in Iran.

Taliban gun down UN official helping Pakistan's refugees

Taliban were trying to kidnap a UN staff member, but when their attempt had failed, they shot him dead.

(The Australian) A UN official working in a camp for displaced civilians in Peshawar has been shot dead in a failed kidnapping as Pakistan's military seeks to reassure refugees returning to the war-scarred Swat Valley.

The Pakistani official, who worked for the UN refugee agency, was rushed to hospital, where he died yesterday.

"A national staff (member) of UNHCR at the Kutcha Gari camp has been a victim of a kidnapping attempt that turned into a shooting," UN spokesman Janos Tisovszky said.

UN spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker confirmed the official had been shot in the chest.

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Ahmadinejad: Iran will "bring down" Western foes

Obama's kissing up to the mullahs is netting results.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Newly re-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday his next government "would bring down the global arrogance," signaling a tougher approach by Tehran toward the West after last month's disputed election.

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Looks like someone needs an attitude adjustment.

The term "occupation" and its unique application to Israel

An excerpt from a mighty interesting analysis, "Why Is Israel’s Presence in the Territories Still Called “Occupation”?" [pdf]

The term "occupation" is often employed politically, without regard for its general or legal meaning. The use of the term "occupation" in political rhetoric reduces complex situations of competing claims and rights to predefined categories of right and wrong. The term "occupation" is also employed in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to advance the argument that Israel bears ultimate responsibility for the welfare of the Palestinians, while limiting or denying Israel's right to defend itself against Palestinian terror, and relieving the Palestinian side of responsibility for its own actions and their consequences. The term is also employed as part of a general assault upon Israel's legitimacy, in the context of a geopolitical narrative that has little to do with Israel's status as an occupier under international law.

I highly recommend to read the whole thing.

"Israel to Hit Iran 'as Part of Deal including Yesha Evictions'"

It appears that Israel has reached an agreement with and secured the backing of the EU and the Arab countries, who are interested in hitting Iran no less that Israel does, on striking Iran.

(IsraelNN.com) As two Israeli missile-class warships joined a navy submarine in the Red Sea, an Israeli defense source made it clear that the moves are intended as a threatening message to Iran.

“This is preparation that should be taken seriously,” the unnamed source told the London Times. “Israel is investing time in preparing itself for the complexity of an attack on Iran.”

“These maneuvers are a message to Iran that Israel will follow up on its threats,” he emphasized.

The exercises “come at a time when Western diplomats are offering support for an Israeli strike on Iran in return for Israeli concessions on the formation of a Palestinian state,” the Times said. It quoted an anonymous British official as saying that if the deal completed, it would make an Israeli strike on Iran realistic “within the year.”

Diplomats said that Israel had offered concessions “on settlement policy, Palestinian land claims and issues with neighboring Arab states, to facilitate a possible strike on Iran." A senior European diplomat, also unnamed, said that “Israel has chosen to place the Iranian threat over its settlements.”

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Only against the West can you protest about such injustices

(Afghanistan) Bagram Prison is a major holding facility for terrorists in Afghanistan. For years now the Left have been shedding tears over how the place is a center for torture and thus should be closed down.

Today it has been revealed that inmates at the prison have given up their family visits, their video phone calls and their outside recreation time in which to protest about their lack of rights.

Can anybody else point me in the direction of another cesspit of human rights abuses which allows family visits, video phone calls and outside recreational time?

Anybody else find it strange that the very people who are up-in-arms have no problem denying family visits, outside recreational time and video phone calls to the people they deem as the enemy (be it children, women, Afghan police or even UN aid workers)?

But hey, get caught and arrested by the West, and you are automatically a victim.

Just Another Hateful Bigoted Imam

(US) Warith Deen Umar is a nasty piece of work. A convert to Islam, the former Black Panther is a disgrace to the human race. Prior to 9/11 (20 years) this odious thing was employed as the head Muslim chaplain for state prisons, and after the events of that ugly day he proclaimed the idiots who carried out that infamous deed as 'Martyrs'.

In 2004 he gave a speech which showed his cards to everybody:

"Brothers, be prepared to fight, be prepared to die, be prepared to kill. It's a part of the deen, and this ain't your brother just saying this, this is history, this is Quran, nobody can deny it. and we need to let the enemies know....Rise up and fight. And fight them until turmoil is no more and strike terror into their hearts. You think there is no terror in Quran? It's called [word unclear] read it in the 56th surah of the Quran. There's no lack of translation, there's no mistranslation There's not one Sheikh says one thing, no, it's very clear. "When you fight, you strike terror into the heart of the disbeliever.'"

In 2006 this thing was arrested for poking a shotgun in a neighbor's face. On his subsequent arrest he bitched:

(They were) using this as a pretext to try to frighten the Muslims, to try to intimidate us, to try to take whatever material they think they can find,"

Anyway, the other day, the Islamic Council of North America held a convention in New York and -- surprise, surprise -- Warith Deen Umar was given a spot as a speaker. This time he just blamed the Jew for his bad attitude towards non-Muslims:

The Holocaust happened to the Jews “because they were serially disobedient to Allah”, and a small handful of Jews around President Obama “control the world.”

Of course, this being America, the ICNA posted an apology of sorts on its website. Unlike any other NGOs, it didn't name the offender, strike him from its books or even offer an apology to the Jews. Instead, it just stated that it stood for peace.

If this was a Christian priest, a Jewish rabbi speaking out about Muslims, then I'm sure a very public campaign would be in progress naming and shaming the guilty bigot. A simple "We stand for peace" would not suffice to the hoards of peaceful Muslims in America who really do CAIR about how they are portrayed to the world media.

How non-committal to peace a Religion of Peace™ can get.

IDF Video: Hizbullah Resumes Terror Activities in Violation of UN Resolution 1701

These two IDF aerial videos show how Hezbollah has been violating UN Reoslution 1701 in southern Lebanon:

Clip 1: This burnt-out building located in Hirbet Salim in Southern Lebanon, approximately 7 km from the Israeli border, exploded on 14 July 2009 at 0730 exposing the large quantity of munitions stored in the building. The many holes on the roof and walls attest to the destructive power of the weapons being stored and accumulated by the Iran-backed Hizbullah in Southern Lebanon. This is a clear and blatant violation of UN Resolution 1701, which prohibits the use and storage of weaponry south of the Litani River in Lebanon.

Clip 2: Footage from seven months ago shows Hizbullah militants enter and exit an underground facility used for terror activity in direct violation of UN Resolution 1701 in Southern Lebanon. Facilities similar to this were used by the Iran-backed terror organization during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Hizbullah continues to rearm itself and build its military capacity despite a UN resolution explicitly forbidding such.

Video: Hamas MP and Cleric on Swine Flu and "the Brothers of Apes and Pigs"

This is as backwards as it can be. Good stuff though.

Has al Qaeda been hit by the recession? Bin Laden's deputy asks Pakistanis to fund fight against the U.S.

It appears that al Qaeda is in desperate need of a bailout.

(Daily Mail) Osama bin Laden's number two appealed for money today in a sign that the economic crisis is even taking its toll on terrorism.

Stressing the need for funds, Ayman al-Zawahri called on Muslims to rise up against the United States – or at least donate some cash for the cause.

His appeal echoes one made by Mustafa Abu al-Yazeed, al Qaeda’s top commander in Afghanistan, who complained that militants in the region were hampered by a lack of equipment and money.

Al-Zawahri’s plea was particularly aimed at Pakistan, where public opinion appears to be swinging against Al Qaeda to support army offensives to root the fundamentalist fighters out of strongholds along the border with Afghanistan.

‘It is the individual duty of every Muslim in Pakistan to join the Mujahedeen, or at the very least, to support the Jihad in Pakistan and Afghanistan with money,’ he said.

He warned that without help ‘we shall not only contribute to the destruction of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but we shall also deserve the painful punishment of Almighty Allah.’

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Funny he has to ask dirt poor Pakistanis for money and not the "Almighty Allah".

Is this the reason why...

(UK) Thousands and thousands of migrants bypass as many countries as possible risking life and limb in which to get to the UK:

"Failed asylum seekers in Wales who have been told they cannot stay in Britain can now have access to free NHS care."

And I, as a tax-payer, cannot find an NHS dentist, so I have to fund my dental treatment on top of what I pay into the NHS. Yet an immigrant who most likely hates everything I stand for can not only have his teeth done, his wife can get fertility treatment in which to get pregnant so that they can stay in the country once baby Ahmed is born.

And the MPs wonder why the people are flocking to the odious British Nazi Party.

Nokia phones don't work in Iran

(Iran) In a country wide expression of soft power, Nokia the mobile phone company has found itself blacklisted by the Iranian population when it came out in the wash that it supplied the Iranian regime with equipment which allows them to monitor mobile phone communications.

So acute is this silent protest that TCI (the Iranian Government telecoms provider) has seen revenues plummet as first customers and now advertisers are boycotting them.

There are signs that this protest is growing as people are removing money from state banks and placing them in private banks. Also hit has been revenue for the state broadcaster as companies pull their adverts in fear of being linked to the government.

The first signs of how this public embargo is hitting the government have sublimed into higher phone costs at TCI in which to make up for lost revenue.

So much for doing as 'the Man says'.

How the bBC promotes antisemitism

(UK) The Middle East roughly encompasses everything between Egypt to Iran and totals a population of around 196 million people. Israel accounts for around 7 million of that total, or roughly 3.5%. So based on those fact and figures, the news coming out of Israel should account for around 4%.

Here is a snap-shot of the current bBC news web page for the Middle East.

Out of the 39 headlines on that webpage, 9 are directly about Israel while 3 others have negative comments about Israel. 12 stories in total, I should add, which all paint a negative picture of Israel. I quote:

1) Story about how Israel ships transiting the Suez canal are on their way to attack Iran. Really 3 ships, 3 very small ships at that. I don’t think even the American would dream of doing the same with 3 carrier groups.
2) Story about how a map used on the London underground dared to show Gaza and the West Bank as part of Israel. What Al Beeb forgets to mention is not only was the story in May of this year, but the poster was pulled at that time as well. But hey, the bBC's Islamic masters (as quoted in the story) were very upset.
3) A few Israel soldiers speak out about how they were told to keep safe, and that while they told not to be unbecoming towards Hamas terrorists, some people did and thus it constitutes as human rights abuse.
4) More of the same but this time the unsubstantiated allegations have become war crimes.
5) Nazis found in Israel.
6) A Jew charged over bus deaths (actually it was an accident due to dangerous driving but the headline doesn’t say that).
7) Road signs in Israel (not the West bank or Gaza) rewritten in Hebrew. bBC finds somebody who objects.
8) Britain stops selling weapons to Israel due to war crimes.
9) Southern Israel struggles but guess what, it's all the fault of the Israeli government. And according to the bBC, the invasion of Gaza in Dec was heavy handed and condemned by human rights groups.
10) Oh yes, a Hezb-allah arms cache explodes and the locals were fearful as they presumed it was an Israeli attack.
11) The views of 3 victims of Gaza. Guess what, they all blame Israel.
12) Finally, how Fatah have closed down Al-Jazeera because they have been accused of collaborating with Israel.

Roughly a third of the news content of the Middle East is about Israel. Not one is positive. In fact, the way the bBC writes up its articles, everyone can be viewed in a negative light. Not bad for a population of 7 million people. And people wonder why the biggest growth industry in the UK is hating the Jew.

I don’t have to wonder, I just have to follow what the bBC tries to pass as the news in which to see how the bBC regurgitates what its Islamic Mullah unzips at morning prayers to see that the bBC makes Al Jazeera look impartial.

I mean, have a look at that story about human rights in Syria. Guess who the bBC paints as being the biggest victims in that country. I quote:

"There is a continuous deterioration in the human rights situation in Syria," says lawyer and head of Syrian Human Rights Organization Mohannad al-Hassani. But the worst situation is suffered by the Islamists."

As I said, smiling with anticipation at what the bBC Mullah unzips at morning prayers.

Palestinians suspend Al-Jazeera in West Bank for "incitement"

The fallout of the Kaddoumi's accusation of Abbas of plotting to assassinate Arafat continues.

(Ynet) Ramallah officials infuriated by interview with senior Fatah member, who accuses Abbas of plotting to assassinate Arafat together with Ariel Sharon and Mohammed Dahlan. Network's activity in West Bank suspended

The Palestinian Authority is following in Israel's footsteps and boycotting the al-Jazeera news network: The PA on Wednesday ordered the suspension of the al-Jazeera network's activity in the West Bank.

The PA has decided to take legal action against the Qatar-based television network following its coverage of statements made Tuesday by senior Fatah member Farouk Kaddoumi, who accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of attempting to assassinate former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.

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Pakistani troops kill 13 Taliban in Swat as refugees return

Security forces were tipped off about the Taliban hideout by the residents.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani troops killed 13 militants in the latest clashes in the Swat Valley, the army said Wednesday, underscoring the region's fragile security even as refugees displaced by fighting return home.

One clash occurred near Kabal town, which lies across the river from Mingora, the Swat Valley's main city. Kabal has been considered a likely hide-out of the Swat Taliban's leadership.

Acting on a tip from residents, security forces raided a house in the town late Tuesday night where militants were believed to be hiding, said Sajjad Kasi, an army spokesman. The insurgents opened fire on the troops as they entered the building, and six militants were killed in the ensuing battle, Kasi said.

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Israel to test Arrow system off US coast

While Iran keeps yapping about wiping Israel off the map, Israel quietly works on counter measures to neutralize the threat.

(JPost) Israel and the US will hold a joint test of the Arrow missile over the Pacific Ocean in what will be the first trial of the system with a target with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, further than the test sites over the Mediterranean could allow.

According to a US defense official quoted by Reuters, the test, which will take place sometime in the coming days off of the coast of central California, will be the third trial of the Arrow conducted by Israel in the United States. He said the Federal Aviation Administration had warned aircraft to stay clear of the area.

Israel is "limited to the range of the missile they can test in the eastern Mediterranean. There's a safety issue," US Army Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly, the director of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, was quoted by Reuters as saying. "That's the primary purpose of them coming to the United States to use our test range."

O'Rielly added that the test would also afford "the opportunity to have the Patriot system, the THAAD system and the Aegis system all interacting with the Arrow system so that we're demonstrating full interoperability as we execute this test."

Formal Fatah Chairman: Mahmoud Abbas Helped Kill Arafat

This is beautiful: not only is the unity between Fatah and Hamas nowhere on the horizon, there is none within Fatah itself.

(IsraelNN.com) Farouk al-Kaddoumi, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization leader, claims that Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas was directly involved in the murder of former PA chairman and terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. Fatah leaders in the PA said the charges were politically motivated lies.

Kaddoumi, the head of the PLO's political office and the formal chairman of Fatah, told a press conference on Monday that he had protocols from a 2004 meeting between Israeli, American and PA representatives that clearly indicate a plan to poison Arafat. According to Kaddoumi, it was not only Abbas who was involved from the PA side, but former Gaza strongman Muhammad Dahlan as well. Before the Hamas takeover of Gaza, Dahlan served as the head of the PA's secret police and preventative security forces in the Gaza region.

Arafat died in November 2004 after a brief but intense illness, during which he was transported to France for emergency treatment. The cause of his death was never made public, but speculation ranged from assassination to liver failure to AIDS.

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Update: The PLO on Tuesday condemned Kaddoumi as "deranged" and vowed to expel him from the organization, adding that the veteran PLO official had "lost his political and psychological balance." It said that Kaddoumi was a man suffering from a "sick mind".

French "youths" burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers in a single night

"Disaffected youths from bleak suburban housing projects" (which is a euphemism for Muslims) had their own Bastille Day celebration.

PARIS (AFP) — French youths burned 317 cars and wounded 13 police officers overnight during the now traditional bout of street violence on the eve of the Bastille Day national holiday, police said.

As French troops and their guests of honour from the Indian army made last minute preparations for the July 14 parade on the Champs Elysees in Paris, the suburbs of major cities were contemplating another clean-up operation.

By 6:00 am (0400 GMT), police headquarters in Paris had recorded 317 burnt out cars -- up 6.7 percent on 2008 -- and 240 arrests, almost double the total for the same period last year.

These numbers were expected to increase as fresh reports came in.

The injured officers, 12 members of the police and one gendarme, were mainly suffering from hearing difficulties after being targeted by youths throwing fireworks and small-scale home-made explosives.

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Galloway heads to Gaza for further visit

The George Galloway circus goes on its second Gaza tour.

(Haaretz) A convoy led by British MP George Galloway was due to arrive at the Rafah border crossing to the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon, a pro-Hamas committee in the coastal territory said.

Hamdi Shaath, a spokesman for the Palestinian governmental committee against the Israeli blockade of Gaza, said that the "Artery of Life" convoy passed through the Egyptian city of Ismailiya Monday on its way to the Rafah border crossing.

"In addition to Galloway, the humanitarian convoy will include 225 activists, including a former U.S. Congresswoman [McKinney?], four Jewish anti-Zionist Rabbis [obviously Neturei Karta] and a retired general in the U.S. Army who served in Iraq, [huh?]" said Shaath.

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Israeli Warships Sail Through Suez Canal

This is the second crossing of the Suez canal by Israeli warships in the short period of time in a show of Arab-Israeli cooperation against Iranian threat.

(IsraelNN.com) Two Israeli warships reportedly passed through the Suez Canal Tuesday in what is seen as an unusual show of cooperation between Egypt and the Jewish State, according to Arab news media.

The report has not been officially confirmed by the IDF. However, in what appeared to be confirmation by Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Ghet told journalists that the crossings were legitimate in accordance with an agreement between the countries.

The Hanit and the Eilat, both Sa’ar-5 class Navy torpedo boats, traveled from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, allegedly to beef up Israel’s military presence there.

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Report: Hamas accuses Israel of dumping 'aphrodisiac' gum on Gaza

According to he Hamas "police" report, evil Zionists are corrupting young Gaza Arabs with chewing gum and some mysterious "drops".

I suggest the UN Security Council get on this case ASAP.

(Haaretz) A Hamas official on Tuesday accused Israel of exporting to the Gaza Strip chewing gum laced with an aphrodisiac to "corrupt the young," according to a report in AFP.

"We have discovered two types of stimulants that were introduced into the Gaza Strip from Israeli border crossings," a Hamas police spokesman told the French news agency. "The first type is presented in the form of chewing gum and the second in the form of drops."

According to the report, the coastal territory's Hamas rulers claim to have detained several members of a gang involved in the import over the last two years who "admitted during the investigation they were linked to the Zionist intelligence services."

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Work accident: Suspected Hezbollah arms depot in Lebanon explodes

Unfortunately, no "workers" were around at that time.

BEIRUT (AFP) — An arms cache exploded in a village in southern Lebanon on Tuesday in an area considered to be a Hezbollah stronghold, an army spokesman told AFP, adding that no casualties were reported.

Local television reported the depot contained rockets, automatic weapons and ammunition belonging to the Shiite militant group.

"The blast occurred in an abandoned house in the village of Khirbet Selm," 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the border with Israel, the spokesman said.

Along with much of south Lebanon, the village is considered to be Hezbollah country. The Lebanese army cordoned off the area and did not allow reporters access to the site.

"This weapons depot dates back to the July War," the army spokesman told AFP on condition of anonymity. "There was no one but Hezbollah in this area."

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Thou shalt not love thy prophet too much for it might land thee in jail

An Iranian artist gets a 5-year jail term for musical Koran.

Tehran, 13 July (AKI) - An Iranian artist has been sentenced to five years in prison for having put the Koran to music. According to 'Fardanews', the Iranian authorities considered the move "offensive to Islamic morality".

Mohsen Namju is accused of having ridiculed the Koran, "reciting it in a western and anti-Islamic style".

One of the major experts on recitation of the the Koran in Iran, Abbas Salimi, reported the musician to the Islamic court in Tehran.

The court found the artist guilty for having breached "Islamic morality".

After the sentence, Abbas Salimi was reportedly "very satisfied" and underlined the importance of "defending the sacredness of god's book".

Under Islamic law, music is allowed if it does not result in provoking the faithful.

Combining the recitation of the Koran and popular songs, like the Iranian artist, is not tolerated under Islamic Sharia law.

Iraq: UN calls for more protection for Christians

Baghdad, 14 July (AKI) - The top United Nations envoy to Iraq has called for more efforts to protect the country’s Christians, as well as other minority communities. The secretary general's special representative for Iraq, Ad Melkert, said that those responsible for the attacks were trying to terrorise small groups making it more difficult to coexist peacefully.

Ah, yes... This brings to mind Obama's (in)famous claim made in his Cairo speech that "throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."

Melkert was speaking as the northern Iraqi city of Mosul ended a temporary curfew in its Christian neighbourhoods, imposed on Monday, following bomb attacks against churches in Baghdad at the weekend.

“This campaign is aimed at terrorising vulnerable groups and preventing the peaceful coexistence of different religious groups in what is one of the world’s cradles of religious and ethnic diversity,” said Melkert.

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Pakistan: 13 Al-Qaeda suspects arrested in tribal area

13 Allah's little helpers, all foreigners from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Afghanistan, were on a business trip to Punjab to carry out suicide attacks.

Islamabad, 14 July (AKI/DAWN) - Pakistani security forces on Monday arrested at least 13 suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the tribal region of Balochistan near the Afghan border. Soldiers intercepted a bus travelling to Multan from Quetta after receiving information about the movement of militants.

They detained three Turks, two Saudis, two Kuwaitis and five Afghan nationals and a Pakistani in the vehicle which was stopped near Dera Murad Jamali.

The suspects were carrying five suicide vests and an 11-kilogramme bomb in their baggage.

They were also carrying currency including 4,240 US dollars, 694,000 Pakistani rupees, 50,000 Iranian tumans and more than 100,000 Afghanis.

Security officials did not announce the names of the arrested Al-Qaeda suspects.

"They were going to Multan for carrying out suicide attacks in southern Punjab," sources said.

Why are white supremacists so stupid?

(Israel) Micky Louis Mayon is an American white supremacist. You know, the sort that loves wearing leather, presumes that Hitler was a god and that sporting Nazi tattoos makes you hard. (No, it makes you look like a prick.)

Anyway, KKK member Micky came to the conclusion that wearing a soiled bedsheet offered no protection from the American police who had an arrest warrant on him, so he did a runner. So where do you think bugger lugs went to?

Argentina, Chile Russia, South Africa? Nah, numb nuts who subscribes to the norm that the Jew is behind all the ills of the earth went and burrowed himself in Israel, and was kind of shocked when the police picked him up.

Gosh, they really should do something in the States about allowing blood related marriages.

This is going to be fun: Turkey (TURKEY!) accuses China of genocide

(China) It seems that Turkey, which has no problem getting all upset whenever anybody points the finger of genocide at it, doesn’t have that same problem when it points the finger of genocide at others.

Last week it decided that even though the vast majority of victims in China's little gang fest were Hun Chinese, it still felt the urge to accuse China of genocide.

Well, it appears the Chinese have taken a leaf out of the Turkish handbook of diplomacy as they have reacted exactly as Turkey did when America, France and Switzerland accused Turkey of genocide. They have demanded a retraction.

The strange thing here is, while the Turks murdered over 1.5 million Armenians for being Christian, the so called genocide in China killed around 150, of whom 75% were Han Chinese and not Uighurs who are Muslims of Turkish decent.

But hey, what’s new with claims of genocide from the local mosque?

Sudan and Weapons of Muslim Destruction

(Sudan) While the Human rights lot applaud the UK for taking the moral high ground over Israel over how it killed around 1400 people over a 3 week period at the start of the year, they remain somewhat silent on the people who are selling weapons to peace-loving Sudan. Yup, the people, who remain very quiet on the hundreds of thousands of people (mostly Muslims) who have been murdered by the racially bigoted regime in Khartoum, don’t seem to be protesting at all over how a country which, while the largest recipient of UN food aid, is spending 75% of its oil revenue on weapons of Islamic destruction.

The irony here is that having spent so much time and effort in getting the likes of the British government to try and get rid of its multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) because they could, if used, hurt somebody, the do-gooders failed to spread that message of love, and cheer to the Sudanese who, it transpires, have purchased a large number of the latest Chinese MLRS in which to help them plant seeds in Darfur.

Yup, so potent is this latest purchase that it can hit its targets from a distance of 200 km. But not to worry, I am sure the human rights crowd will find a story about Israel which will have the British Foreign Office up in arms in which to levy a few more trade bans.

Oh, and right on cue, here it is.

Nothing worse than a moral, righteous Jew

(UK) The UK has a strange sense of justice. The guilty are rewarded and the innocent punished.

Why, just today, the courts in the UK, after listening to an appeal by the Stockwell Strangler, have quashed his conviction (he murdered 7 people) for murder and reduced it to manslaughter. No doubt some expert will find him fit to be released into the community, like so many other murderers, and then, after he has killed somebody else, the very same experts will come out with “lessons will be learnt from this”.

Which brings me to the British Government. You see, yesterday, after listening to experts at the local mosque, they decided to slap a partial arms ban on Israel who, after turning the other cheek for the best part of 3 years to the terrorists next door, decided enough was enough and bitch slapped them. The thing is, the PC experts at the mosque this British government frequents took acceptation to the term bitch, as it wasn’t covered up by brackets, and insisted their dhimmis at the foreign office slap those nasty Jews for doing so.

But here’s the catch: you see, the very people who have campaigned for the UK to take the moral high ground over British exports to Israel are the very same ones who are campaigning that Britain furnish our troops in Afghanistan with better equipment (well, it fits in with how they appear to care and thus substantiate their stance on pull our troops out).

To that end, I wonder how they would react when they find out that one of the major companies which deals with up-armouring our vehicles happens to be based in Israel. That the company which designed the LITENING targeting pod is based in Israel. Why, the latest British UAV is - wait for it - designed and built in Israel.

All of the above help save British lives, and how does this present British government repay the country which helps save British lives? They slap a trade ban on a country which has helped the UK far more than any Islamic country.

But then I am talking about a government which, while using the pretext of forbidding arms sales to countries which misuse our so called weapons systems, has no problem selling weapons to Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan which, as we all know, are champions of human rights and would never dream of murdering their own. Countries, I should add, whose biggest exports to the UK are hordes of their people who come to the UK seeking asylum and whom this government has no problem feeding and clothing at our expense.

But as I pointed out at the beginning, this government has a strange idea of justice. Which kind of explains why 99% of all gun crimes in London are committed by non-white people. (Hey, I’m non-white myself) And any attempt in which to target those who carry out such attacks would be deemed racist and against their human rights. Far better to blame the victim.

But here's the best part: David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary who slapped on that ban, is a Jew.

Which sums up socialist Britain to a tee.