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UK: Muslim convicted of "serious terrorist offences" walks free

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:36 GMT

He is charging, predictably enough, "Islamophobia," but the Crown Office says that "Mohammed Siddique remains convicted of serious terrorist offences." "Scottish &os;terrorist&os; Mohammed Atif Siddique freed as verdict quashed," by Charlene Sweeney for the Times Online, February 9 (thanks to all who sent this in): A student described as Scotland&os;s...

So. Carolina GOP Converging with Tea Partiers

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:28 GMT

The South Carolina Republican Party apparently feels that they aren’t conservative enough yet, so they’ll be uniting with tea party groups. That ought to do it.

The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and push the GOP in a more conservative direction.

The points of contact between the state party establishment and the grass-roots will be the Greenville County Republican Party — one of the most conservative wings of the state party — and the Upstate Coalition of Conservative Organizations, an umbrella structure of state tea party groups.

The agreement, as announced by South Carolina Republicans, is designed to serve four goals: increase precinct involvement, improve communication between the state party and grass-roots groups, create liaisons between the state party and the various tea party organizations and to work “closely to make the Republican Party more conservative.”

Now there’s a winning formula.

Two years before the Fort Hood jihad murders, Army was warned about jihadist sentiments among Muslims in the ranks

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:40 GMT

A warning that was not heeded and is not being heeded. "Army warned about jihadist threat in &os;08," by Bill Gertz in The Washington Times, February 9 (thanks to Doc Washburn): Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly...

Pamela Geller Shrieks on Joy Behar

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:10 GMT

Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.”

Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own father would have thought about Sarah Palin, and rants continuously like a howler monkey on crack for the whole segment. Notice that it ends as Joy Behar tells Geller, “You have not shut up.”

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This disgraceful, obnoxious performance was a big hit on the wingnut blogs, of course.

Pamela Geller is a full-on, raving Birther. She tried to claim Barack Obama is the love child of Malcolm X, and she wasn’t kidding. She regularly uses terms like “libtard,” calls President Obama “Hussein,” and often compares him to Adolf Hitler. She promotes the neo-Nazi British National Party, and praises other fascist groups like the English Defense League and the Vlaams Belang. She doesn’t just criticize radical Islam; she’s a flat out, bigoted Muslim-hater who believes that every single Muslim is a terrorist by nature. And she has the personality of a treacherous rattlesnake.

If Joy Behar was trying to make the right wing blogosphere (and fans of Sarah Palin) look terrible, she couldn’t have picked a better person.

Bombay High Court says Islam can be criticized, but not "maliciously"

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:05 GMT

The problem with this ought to be obvious: who decides what constitutes "malicious" criticism? Islamic spokesmen in non-Muslim countries routinely characterize any and every criticism of Islam, including any accurate depiction of the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism, as malicious. It is a central element of their playbook: characterize anyone...

UK: Christian teacher "forced out" after complaining about Muslim students who praised 9/11 jihadists and shouted out their hatred for Jews and Christians

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:40 GMT

Nothing surprising in what these children were saying: we have seen adult Muslims saying similar things many, many times over the years here at Jihad Watch. Nor is there anything very surprising in the fact that in Absurd Britannia today it is this teacher who suffers for reporting this, while...

Spencer: The Railroading of Geert Wilders

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:04 GMT

In the lead story in FrontPage this morning I discuss how Geert Wilders is being denied a fair trial -- although of course the very fact that he is on trial at all indicates that it is not a fair trial. The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders "hate...

Louay Safi at Ft. Hood: a testament to willful cluelessness about jihad and national security

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:05 GMT

Here is a useful summary of Louay Safi&os;s checkered past and dubious associations, despite which he was employed as a military subcontractor to lecture on Islam. This report does not mention that, even after the Ft. Hood shootings, Safi was involved in troops&os; training, and was allowed to meet with...

Pakistani Christian sentenced to life in prison on blasphemy charges

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:07 GMT

Life behind bars, for allegedly damaging a Qur&os;an. An update on this story. "Christian sentenced to life in prison for blaspheming Islam," from Spero News, February 7: A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan, sentenced to life imprisonment Imran Masih, a young Christian, for having insulted and desecrated the Koran, according to...

The Point

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:06 GMT

Charles Taylor: Pat Robertson Was My Man in Washington

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:08 GMT

Testifying at his war crimes trial in the Hague last week, former Liberian President Charles Taylor said (paraphrasing), “Pat Robertson was my man in Washington.”

The revelations came in the midst of a U.N.-backed trial of Taylor at The Hague on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone’s 1990s civil war. Taylor is accused of directing a Sierra Leone rebel group, the United Revolutionary Front (RUF), in a campaign aimed at securing access to the country’s diamond mines. The rebel movement stands accused of committing mass atrocities in the late 1990s in the West African country, including the mutilation of thousands of civilians.

The international prosecutors contend that Taylor offered concessions to Western individuals in exchange for lobbying work aimed at enhancing his image in the United States. The prosecution maintains that Taylor also spent $2.6 million on lobbying firms and public relations outfits in the hopes of influencing the policies of former President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Under cross-examination, Taylor said that Robertson had volunteered to make Liberia’s case before U.S. administration officials, and had spoken directly to President Bush about Taylor. He also confirmed that Robertson’s company, Freedom Gold Limited, signed an agreement to exploit gold in southeastern Liberia, but that it never generated any profit.

“Mr. Taylor, indeed at one point you said that you can count on Pat Robertson to get Washington on your side,” he was asked by the lead prosecution counsel, Col. Brenda Hollis, a former U.S. Air Force officer. Taylor replied: “I don’t recall the exact words, but something to that effect.”

A spokesman for Robertson, Chris Roslan, confirmed that Robertson was awarded a gold exploration concession by the Liberian government during the 1990s. But he said that there was “no quid pro quo” to provide the government with anything in return. Roslan said the company, Freedom Gold, is no longer in operation and has never found any gold.

Monday Evening Music: Chris Thile and Mike Marshall, 'Fisher's Hornpipe'

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:03 GMT

Insanely great mandolin shredding by Chris Thile and Mike Marshall, playing “Fisher’s Hornpipe” from the album Into the Cauldron. (And here’s the iTunes Store link.)

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Somali Taliban's new envoy to U.S. is HuffPo columnist, CAIR official

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:01 GMT

Abukar Arman is the new special envoy to the U.S. for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) that leads the Somali Unity government and presided over bloody Sharia rule in Somalia in 2006. Leftist/Jihadist Alliance Alert: Abukar Arman is also a columnist for the Huffington Post. There he has said of...

Meghan McCain Blasts Tom Tancredo's 'Innate Racism'

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:28 GMT

On “The View” today, Meghan McCain called out Tom Tancredo for his shocking dog whistle racism speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House whose name is Barack Hussein Obama.’ And then he went on to say that people at the convention should have to pass literacy tests in order to be able to vote in this country, which is the same thing that happened in the 50’s to prevent African Americans from voting. It’s innate racism and I think it’s why young people are turned off by this movement. And I’m sorry, but revolutions start with young people, not with 65-year-old people talking about literacy tests and people who can’t say the word ‘vote’ in English.

Iranian Supremo promises punch that will "stun" West on February 11

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:01 GMT

I tend to think that those who can, do, and those who can&os;t, rattle sabers -- but you never know. "Iran anniversary &os;punch&os; will stun West: Khamenei," from AFP, February 8 (thanks to Syzygy): Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a...

Pakistan: Human rights activist jailed on blasphemy charge for objecting to the destruction of a church

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:19 GMT

Save My Father Hector Aleem by Mehwish Aleem At a time that the United Nations calls Switzerland&os;s ban on new minarets "clearly discriminatory and deeply divisive," and the whole world is condemning the Swiss for their vote, I would like to bring to the attention of the world my plight....

RIP, Rep. John Murtha

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:46 GMT

The news is just coming out that Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) has died at the age of 77. Our sympathies to his family.

Hamas Leader Goes to Russia, Complains

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:28 GMT

During the 2008 Presidential election one of my main concerns about Barack Obama was that he would take a soft line toward the Hamas terrorist gang. And there were reasons to be concerned; to name just a couple, Obama was closely acquainted with several well-known Palestinian advocates in the US, and the leader of his church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, published a newsletter that can only be described as virulently anti-Israel.

So far, though, I’ve been pleasantly surprised that Barack Obama has shown no sign of weakening America’s support for Israel, and no sign of weakening the US refusal to negotiate with Hamas until they recognize Israel’s right to exist.

And a reliable indicator that our policies haven’t hopenchanged: head terrorist Khaled Meshaal is in Russia, whining about it. Hamas leader says U.S. blocking Palestinian unity.

MOSCOW, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Monday accused the United States of undermining Palestinian unity efforts and said he saw no chance for peace in the Middle East under Israel’s current leadership.

Shunned in the West because his Islamist group refuses to recognise Israel — a position he said stands — Meshaal used a hospitable Russia as a platform to blame Washington and Israel’s hardline government for a lack of progress.

His remarks underscored barriers on the road to Palestinian reconciliation and to renewing Middle East peace talks.

Hamas wants a reconciliation deal with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ rival Fatah movement “as fast as possible”, Meshaal told a news conference after meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who invited him to Moscow.

“Unfortunately, there are a whole series of hurdles to a swift reconciliation, first of all external influence and concerted pressure from the United States,” he said, which he said was using “various means” to scuttle the efforts.

Meshaal did not elaborate, but said portions of an Egyptian-drafted reconciliation deal had been changed without consultation with Hamas and that the group would not sign it unless they were restored.

Dry run at Detroit airport? "Arabic man" ignores instructions from security guards, part of airport shut down

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:23 GMT

They thought maybe he didn&os;t understand English, but he did. So what was he doing? "Security scare closes airport concourse," from UPI, February 8: DETROIT, Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Part of a Detroit airport terminal was shut down Monday after an Arabic man ignored instructions from security guards, police said.......

Fitzgerald: General Petraeus and the likely effect of attacking the Islamic Republic's nuclear project

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:11 GMT

A few days ago - on February 3 - this news item appeared: TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - A military strike on Iran could have the unintended consequence of stirring nationalist sentiment to the benefit of Tehran&os;s hard-line government, U.S. General David Petraeus told Reuters.... "It&os;s possible (a strike) could be...