1. Daniel Greenfield points out that the journalist beheaded by the Islamic State was actually a high fan of theirs. Somewhat like Daniel Pearl if memory serves.
James Foley was one of a new breed of activists calling themselves journalists. He didn’t travel to report on a story, but to promote an agenda. And the agenda was obvious from his Twitter feed.
2. George Igler on antisemitism in the U.K.
According to a report published in July by the Community Security Trust, a charity established to ensure the safety of the Jewish community in 1994, even though four out of every five anti-Semitic attacks usually take place “in the main Jewish centers of Greater London and Greater Manchester,” violent assaults against Jews and symbols of Judaism are also now taking place nationwide.
Qaiser Malik, 19, and Balawal Sultan, 18, both from Newcastle, currently await trial for a racially motivated assault on a Rabbi on Saturday, July 19th. In Belfast, on the same Sabbath, Northern Ireland’s only synagogue was attacked twice. And in England, much as in France, synagogues have been a particularly favored target of Jew-hatred. This trend extends from Liverpool in the north, where those attending temple were greeted with shouts of “baby killers,” down to Brighton in the south.
(Jewish people in Western nations may find that the time to reevaluate their views on self defense and defense of individual rights may be at hand. George recommends this article as well)
3. Is the US arming ISIS? Did they do so via Benghazi?
4. Another Ebola scare in the US. Sacramento Ca.
(US President Obama. Defending Americans from reality since 2008)
6. New York Times: Who will stand up for the Christians?
Thank you Richard, M., Yucki, Wrath of Khan and everyone.
Lots and lots of horror. The bar for what qualifies as news keeps moving in the direction of the kind of horror that was the stuff of fairytales and history we used to find nearly comical in its unlikeliness not that long ago. Are massive bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan news worthy? If not how long till we feel that way about massive bombings in Montreal and New York? What are we ready to do to preserve the kind of unprecedented peace and prosperity we have known since WW2?
Has the West made the next Gaza war inevitable?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4626/next-gaza-war
Lots of articles like this. Another blamed the war on the “Peace Process” — I was reduced to puns ~ ‘prosecuting pieces’ ~ because we know all this. Phooey.
We don’t need to be told. And those who do won’t believe it or have already discounted it.
#3 This is a very real possiblity.
#6 I can’t believe that is Times headline
#7 He is right.
3/ Yes. In fact we’re arming both sides.
Everyone but those who want to be our friends.
Too true!
Ebola crisis: Liberian troops impose slum quarantine (BBC, Aug 20, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28865632
“Security forces in Liberia’s capital Monrovia have deployed to enforce a quarantine in a large slum area in order to contain the spread of Ebola. The move set off protests from angry residents in West Point and people gathered at roadblocks to complain.
The president has also ordered a countrywide night-time curfew as part of new anti-Ebola measures. Since the beginning of the year, 1350 people have died of the virus in four West African countries.
A top Lagos doctor has just died of the virus, bringing the number of people who have died of Ebola in Nigeria to five, the health ministry said….”
Syrian conflict: Untold misery of child brides (BBC, Aug 20, 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-28250471
“There is an alarming rise in the number of Syrian refugee girls in Jordan being forced into early marriages, according to the new figures from the United Nations. As Orla Guerin reports from Zaatari refugee camp, poverty is forcing some families to effectively sell their daughters to much older men, and there is now an organised trade in young girls….
It involves Syrian brokers and men – mainly from the Gulf States – who present themselves as donors, but are actually shopping for brides. They prey on refugee families, living in rented accommodation, who are struggling to get by. Local sources say the going rate for a bride is between 2,000 and 10,000 Jordanian dinars ($2,800/£1,635 to $14,000/£8,180) with another 1,000 ($1,400/£818) going to the broker. “These guys from the Gulf know there are families in need here,” said Amal, a refugee, and mother of four. “They offer money to the family and the first thing they ask is ‘do you have girls?’ They like the young ones, around 14 and 15.”
Some men want even younger children like 13-year-old Ghazal, a slight but spirited girl with blue nail varnish. A 30-year-old Saudi man proposed to her, but she turned him down – against her family’s wishes. She told us she was determined to continue her studies, but it is unclear how long she can defy her parents….”
Parents: Sell your little girls to filthy lechers? You deserve this wretched end.
Saudis: You just lap it up while you can. Soon you’ll get the chop. You’ll meet your Maker in hell.