Day: 19 August 2009
Op Panther’s Claw, a first hand account of UK troops in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia Arrests 44 Suspected Militants
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FOX NEWS…RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi Interior Ministry says authorities have arrested 44 suspected militants who sought to recruit youths and finance their “deviant activities” through charitable donations.
In a statement carried Wednesday by the official Saudi Press Agency, the ministry says the 44 were arrested in a campaign that began July 9 and ended Aug. 2.
It says some of those arrested have received training on the use of light and heavy weapons in the kingdom and abroad. It says all but one are Saudi.
Saudi Arabia has pursued an aggressive campaign against militants since May 2003, when they first began attacks in the kingdom. The country is the birthplace of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden and home to 15 of the 19th Sept. 11 hijackers.
Swedish blood libel variant. From Tundra Tabloids.
Tundra Tabloids seems to have the best work on this issue. When one adds up a few things that seems to be happening now in the world, the picture is certainly bleak for any western standards of evidence or attempt at objectivity in reporting. Certainly bleak if you can be identified as Jewish. It would appear that methodological thought itself is under attack in favor of political correctness and fairly primitive games of imbued significance.
‘I say this Kleenex is holy. Its the Holy Kleenex of Antioch!’ If you do not treat it as I say you must, you have committed a blaspheme and you must be punished to death.’
The instinct to ask what makes it holy and why it deserves reverence seems to be fading from the worlds cultures leaving us all with dhimmitude of one form or another, at the mercy of whoever has the raw numbers to make politicians kowtow to their irrational rules and customs. Please read the article below, taken verbatim from Tundra Tabloids:
Eeyore for Vlad.
Swedish Liberal-Right Outraged Over Aftonbladet’s Jewish Blood Libel Article…….
The SDP Affiliated paper
Shows its true colors
Not all Swedes are pleased with the Aftonbladet’s recent display of anti-Semitism under the guise of criticism of Israel. The Tundra Tabloids’ Swedish source for the recent information, Reinhard, says that the Swedish blogosphere, and some of the media, are busy justifiably raking the Aftonbladet over the coals for it role in proving that, as Barry Rubin puts it: “Antisemitism Is Anti-Zionism and Is Now Acceptable.”
The Swedish paper Svenska Dagbladet, in one of its own blogs, mentions a press release issued by the Swedish Embassy in Israel, that distances the government and the Swedish people from the offensive article published in the Aftonbladet:
Swedish Embassy in Israel has today sent out a press release that points out that Aftonbladet’s culture page does not speak for all Swedes. It is strange that the Swedish Government through the embassy marks its rejection and meddles in what a Swedish newspaper chooses to publish. In Sweden, as in Israel, there is freedom of expression. And given that Israel is a tolerant and open society it is difficult to imagine that the article would provoke the same type of reactions that Muhammed cartoon made in the Arab world, is why the press release is really quite unnecessary. But it is still worth reading.
On August 17 the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published an article about alleged organ handling in Israel. “The article in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is as shocking and appalling to us Swedes, as it is to Israeli citizens. We share the dismay expressed by Israeli government representatives, media and the Israeli public. This Embassy cannot but clearly distance itself from it.
“Just as in Israel, freedom of the press prevails in Sweden,” concluded the statement. “However, freedom of the press and freedom of expression are freedoms which carry a certain responsibility. It falls on the editor-in-chief of any given newspaper.”
Elisabet Borsiin Bonnier, Ambassador
AND: Continue Reading →
Kirkuk: a businessman killed, a doctor kidnapped. Fear returns to haunt Christians
Yesterday in northern Iraq two violent episodes took place against the Christian community. A man was murdered because he tried to prevent the abduction of a Muslim child. A doctor kidnapped for money; a passer-by killed during the abduction. Local sources confirm a climate of “concern” that could cause “another mass exodus.”
Kirkuk (AsiaNews) – More murders and kidnappings targeting the Christian community in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Yesterday evening Sabah Daowd Askar, 55 years old, married and father of three children, was killed in front of his home in the district of Almas. Also yesterday, in another episode, a 50 year old doctor was abducted on his way home. AsiaNews sources in the city speak of a “climate of fear” and are afraid of a “new mass exodus” of Christians.
Sabah Daowd Askar was killed because “he tried to prevent a kidnapping.” The man, Christian, saw four people “kidnap a Muslim child.” He tried to save him, but the “criminals opened fire”. “He was a businessman – said the source, who knew the victim well – very kind and generous”. Because of his generosity he had tried to prevent the abduction of the child, “irrespective of his faith or the community he belonged to”.
Samir Gorgia, 50, married with two children, a boy and a girl, was abducted around 9 last night, on his way home. During the course of the abduction a passer-by was killed, also of the Christian faith. “Even in this case – the source tells AsiaNews – this is a well known person. He is a medical specialist, known and appreciated by all” for his dedication to his work.
Once again “a climate of concern and fear” reigns upon the Christian community in Kirkuk, a victim of fundamentalist and criminal violence in the past. The source says that “for some time the city has been living in a situation of instability” and a new mass exodus is feared. “Despite some attacks – the source concludes – few faithful have left the city, on the contrary, many families have recently returned. These latest episodes of violence, however, have generated a real concern for the future”.
Muslims attempt to deny any connection between Jerusalem and Jews.
This is such an egregious lie it will likely work. Just FYI, the term ‘Wailing Wall’ was coined by Christians who saw the religious Jews dipping in prayer at the properly named ‘Western Wall’ of the original temple of the old testament and as it appeared to them as if they where crying and lamenting due to the dipping. bowing and praying, they called it the ‘Wailing Wall’ and it stuck. So its funny that these Muslims accuse the Jews of calling it that to somehow make it Jewish.
H/T GAR
95 killed on Iraq’s deadliest day since U.S. handover
These terror attacks are nothing to do with trying to grab power in Iraq. They are only to punish those who do not hold the same views as the attackers. To think that al-Qaeda members can justify and celebrate the mass slaughter of fellow Muslims shows their evil knows no limit.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A series of bombings rocked Iraq’s capital within one hour Wednesday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 563 others, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
The six explosions marked the country’s deadliest day since the United States pulled its combat troops from Iraqi cities and towns nearly two months ago and left security in the hands of the Iraqis.
In one attack, a truck bomb exploded outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — a blast that blew through the front of the building, sending some vehicles flying and leaving others in mangled twists of metal.
Nearby, Iraqi security forces stood with shocked expressions as ambulances screamed past.
Another truck bomb went off outside the Ministry of Finance building.
In central Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded on Kifa Street, and another bomb exploded in the Salhiya neighborhood, where on Tuesday security forces had avoided injuries by successfully defusing a truck bomb. Wednesday’s other two bombs exploded in eastern Baghdad’s Beirut Square, officials said.
“The terrorism attacks that took place today require, without a doubt, the re-evaluation of our plans and our security mechanisms to face the challenges of terrorism,” Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a written statement.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, issued a joint statement condemning the bombings.
“The horrific injuries and loss of life witnessed in Baghdad today are terrorist attacks that serve no legitimate purpose,” they said.
The attacks “will not deter Iraqis from continuing their efforts to build a peaceful and prosperous society and engage the international community, nor will they weaken our resolve to help them in their efforts,” they added.
Two people believed to be connected to the bombings have been arrested, an official with the Iraqi army told CNN. Continue Reading →
Child ‘Brides’ in Afghanistan
Reasonable laws in Afghanistan as in Egypt which appear to protect women and/or Minorities, are honored more in the breach than in the observance. Put more simply, they are pure bullshit for foreign consumption.
The Canadian Bar Association has a crush on Omar Khadr
This column written by Ezra Levant, appears in today’s National Post. It perfectly describes the left’s ongoing love affair with Canada’s #1 poster-boy of terrorism, Omar Khadr.
Ezra Levant: The Canadian Bar Association’s Khadr fetish
Posted: August 19, 2009, 9:45 AM by NP Editor Full Comment, Ezra Levant
The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) has a crush on Omar Khadr. The left-leaning lawyers’ club held its convention in Dublin last week, but even Ireland’s charms couldn’t get their minds off the accused terrorist, still detained in Barack Obama’s prison at Guantanamo Bay.
The spark for the CBA’s latest pronouncement on the matter was a decision of the Federal Court of Appeal, ordering the Canadian government to seek Khadr’s repatriation (the government is considering an appeal). But the CBA doesn’t need a reason to talk about their favourite cause. Khadr has been the subject of more CBA press releases than everyone else on the planet combined.
The CBA is obsessed. A search of its website yields 232 items about Khadr. What about other Canadians trapped overseas, such as Huseyn Celil, a Canadian citizen currently being held on trumped-up charges by China, or William Sampson, who was held and tortured in Saudi Arabia? They are non-persons to the CBA — no press releases for them, and no mentions on its website.
Pakistan, Blasphemy and Christians.
These blasphemy laws persist because people persist in respecting them. For the love of liberty people, get Koran’s and burn them everywhere on earth as a demand for freedom of speech and freedom from irrational religious authority. They cannot kill us all at once.
This is not a quaint tribal custom here or a page out of National Geographic. This is one group attempting to subject all other people on earth to its values on pain of torture and death. Get a Koran and burn it, tear it apart and perhaps use it in art involving secretions as is so fashionable with Christian revered texts. As an aside, I would urge also to get a Gita and Bible but these groups simply are not threatening us if we do not give them respect they have not earned.
Speech on religious killings in Pakistan
August 10, 2009 Press Conference of Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) and others calling for the end of Pakistan blasphemy laws, the end of religious discrimination, and recognizing August 11, 2009 and “Black Day.”
Preacher threatened with arrest for reading out extracts from the Bible in public
h/t Grace @ vladtepesblog article from The Telegraph
A street preacher is at the centre of a row over freedom of speech after police threatened to arrest him for reading the Bible in public
By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter
Published: 9:00PM BST 15 Aug 2009
Street preacher accused of inciting religious and racial hatred Photo: GETTY
Lawyers acting for Miguel Hayworth, 29, have demanded an explanation over the alleged intimidation and abuse of power by three officers.
Andrea Minichiello Williams, the director of the Christian Legal Centre, has written to Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, over the incident.
She claims that Mr Hayworth and his father, John, 55, were unlawfully and unfairly treated as they preached Christianity in the city at the end of July.
“They were clearly told that reading the Bible and preaching can be offensive and that they could be arrested,” she wrote.
“Furthermore, they were subjected to abuse and intimidation. They were told that they were being monitored and filmed,” she wrote. Continue Reading →
Canadian officials feared backlash to film on Islam: reports
Stewart Bell, National Post Published: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Zainal Abd Halim/REUTERS Members of Parti Islam se-Malaysia shout slogans and carry posters outside the Netherlands Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on April 4, 2008, to condemn the production and the broadcast of the anti-Islam film …
Canadian security officials closely monitored last year’s release of a Dutch film about Islam, fearing it could spark violent protests, documents released under the Access to Information Act show.
The National Post has obtained copies of seven intelligence reports, circulated by Ottawa last year, that warn of a possible backlash against the documentary Fitna and Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.
“There are concerns that reprinting of the cartoons and the release of the movie could provoke the kind of violent reaction which occurred within some Muslim communities overseas when the cartoons were originally published,” one of the reports says. Continue Reading →
Bosnia: Muslim spiritual leader urges more Sharia law
Religion adnkronos:
Bosnia: Muslim spiritual leader urges more Sharia law
Sarajevo, 17 August (AKI) – Bosnia’s Muslim spiritual leader, Reiss-ul-Ulema Mustafa Ceric, has drawn strong criticism from moderate Muslims and from Bosnian Serbs, after he called for Islamic Sharia law to be incorporated into the Bosnian constitution.
Ceric made the controversial suggestion when he conducted Bosnia’s first Sharia mass wedding on Saturday in the central city of Zenica. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi reportedly paid for the weddings for the 20 couples and some 500 guests.
“In this exceptional place, in the exceptional city of Zenica, we are witnessing a magnificent event,” Ceric said. “I hope this is only the beginning and that we will have many such occasions in the years to come,” he added.
Ceric is no stranger to controversy, and his pronouncements often trigger a heated reaction.
In May, while visiting a Muslim community in Serbia’s Muslim-majority Sandzak region bordering Montenegro, Ceric said “no force could separate” Muslims in Serbia from those in Bosnia, which he has described as a homeland for Muslims.
Strict Sharia law drastically reduces the rights of women, allows polygamy for men, forbids marrying non-Muslims and sanctions cruel penalties including stoning.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik reacted angrily to Ceric’s remarks, saying he was deliberately ignoring the presence of Serbs and Croats in Muslim-majority Bosnia.
Serbs are mainly Orthdox while Croats are Catholic Christians.
Ceric’s pronouncement concealed a Muslim drive to dominate the whole country, Dodik claimed.
Ceric’s statements drew sharp criticism from moderate Muslims.
One commentator on the daily 24 hours website wrote: “Nothing else could be expected from Ceric.”
He is known for glorifying the Ottoman invaders who ruled the Balkans for six centuries, converting local population to Islam.
During 50 years of Communist rule, Bosnian Muslims practised a moderate form of Islam, or declared themselves atheists.
But radical forms of Islam began to take root in the country after thousands of fighters from Muslim countries, especially North Africa, arrived to fight on the side of local Muslims in the 1992-1995 civil war.
Guy getting to know modern technology: FAIL
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