Month: August 2010
French fast food chain expands its halal-only outlets
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor
PARIS | Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:48pm EDT
PARIS (Reuters) – A French fast food chain announced on Tuesday it would almost triple its line of halal hamburger restaurants because sales had doubled in a trial that sparked a heated debate about the integration of Muslims.
The Quick chain of 358 restaurants around France said it would boost its halal-only outlets to 22 on Wednesday after the trial in eight areas with a strong Muslim population also saw a doubling of customers and a rise in the amounts they spent.
Quick, which is a challenger to the U.S. hamburger chain McDonald’s and runs franchises in seven other countries including Belgium, Russia and Algeria, said the move was purely commercial.
“We’re in a very competitive market and we’re the challenger,” said General Manager Jacques-Edouard Charret, whose company competes against about 1,150 outlets for the U.S.-based McDonald’s.
“We are not a philanthropy or a charity,” he told a news conference. “Our ambition is to develop Quick’s turnover and create jobs. And it’s going well.”
Asked if the halal-only outlets would separate Muslims from other customers, he said: “To the contrary, this is an opening. It’s a restaurant where Muslims, Catholics and Jews can eat the same product without bothering anyone.”
Quick came in for criticism earlier this year when its trial, which sold only halal beef and replaced bacon with smoked turkey, hit national headlines. Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire said ethnic marketing like this was against French values.
The mayor of a town with a halal Quick threatened a law suit for discrimination against non-Muslims. A far-right leader accused the company of imposing an “Islamic tax” on customers because part of the meat price goes to Muslim clerics who certify it was slaughtered according to Islamic law. Continue Reading →
Four Jews Murdered in Arab Terror Attack Near Hevron
UPDATE:
From J Post: The four were two couples – one aged 25 and the other 40. One of the women was pregnant. According to eyewitness reports, the terrorists succeeded in hitting the passengers in their initial fire but then approached the car and shot them occupants at close range.
“When we arrived on the scene, all four doors of the car were open and four bodies were strewn on the road,” Magen David Adom paramedic Guy Ronen told The Jerusalem Post. “We saw that the vital organs had been struck by a very large number of bullets, and that there was no chance of saving their lives,” he added.
by Gil Ronen Israel National News:
Terrorists murdered four Jewish civilians in a shooting attack at the Bani Naim junction just south of Hevron Tuesday evening. Emergency service paramedics could do nothing to save the victims whose bodies were riddled with numerous bullets. The terrorists reportedly made sure their victims were dead by shooting them from close range after the initial fusillade.
According to report on Channel 2 television, the victims are two couples, and one of them is a pregnant woman. The IDF is combing the area, searching for the terrorists.
Initial reports said one of the victims had a license for a firearm that was suspended shortly before the attack.
Hamas and Fatah are blaming each other for the terror attack.
The terror attack is typical of Arab nationalist attacks that intentionally target civilian victims.
The attack was probably timed to coincide with the direct talks between Israel and the PA in Washington, DC, that are to begin Thursday.
The scene of the attack.
Bullets smashed through the windshield.
Australian TV hatchet job on Geert Wilders
Ottawa Citizen: The struggle against jihad
While Muslim parents pack public meetings with pronouncements that ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ their sons and daughters are being taught something else
No sooner did news of the Ottawa Terror Plot unfold on national TV, than one could predict the response of Canada’s Islamists and their organizations.
Across Canada, apologists of the terror suspects repeated the same mantra. The three men arrested were portrayed as “innocent” and the wider Muslim community was positioned as the real victims of the episode. It was as if the Islamist leadership had dusted off the speaking notes from the days of the Toronto 18 trials when leader after leader stood up to claim the young men arrested were framed, not real terrorists.
As Muslim Canadians, both of us, while asking for the due judicial process to take its course, had no hesitation in condemning the rising tide of jihadi radicalism that is sweeping like a contagious disease among Muslim youth, especially of Pakistani ancestry, across Canada. However, by and large the leadership of traditional Islamist organizations and the mosque establishment repeated the now tired and cliché-ridden depiction of Muslims as the real victims.
Not a single imam that we have heard has mustered the courage to say, “The doctrine of armed jihad is defunct and inapplicable in the 21st century.” Instead the same tired old clichés were repeated about Islam being a religion of peace and denouncing terrorism, while keeping mum about jihad. Continue Reading →
FOX: Victory Mosque imam speaks out. Blames protests on mid terms
An attempt to understand the root cause of terrorism.
I would like to dedicate this video to the Obama administration, and to all the Muslims who phone in to CFRA RADIO OTTAWA
ISLAMIC INSTITUTIONALIZED BOY RAPE AND BOY SEX IN AFGHANISTAN: THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR?
Round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness.
And round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls.
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it–
therein is wondrous pleasure.
Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate.
A lad whom all can see girt with sword
and belt not like your whore who has
to go veiled.
Make for smooth-faced boys and do your
very best to mount them, for women are
the mounts of the devils
Two on United Flight Arrested on Terror Charges in Amsterdam
H/T TL
Suspects Had Been Cleared Sunday by TSA in Chicago, Birmingham Despite Security Concerns
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By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CHRISTINE BROUWER and BRIAN ROSS
Aug. 30, 2010
Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” U.S. law enforcement officials tell ABC News.
Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi, left, and Hezem al Murisi, were taken off a United Airlines flight in the Netherlands and have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,” according to a U.S. law enforcement official.
(ABC News)
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4th Ottawa terror suspect arrested Friday
From CTV News.
as an aside, there HAS to be SOMETHING all these guys have in common. The haircuts maybe?
Former UK MP George Galloway caught fundraising for Hamas in US mosque
What is that thing Gomer Pile used to say all the time?
War on History: Another ancient site paved over for Mosque
To quote the fine people at Tundra Tabloids:
“A friendly reminder that the destruction of the Buddha statues in Afghanistan was not merely a one off”
2000-year-old Parthian Anahita temple in Hamadan destroyed to built an Islamic prayer-place
A. Mohammadi for CAIS
Erich Friedrich Schmidt, a German-American archaeologist from the Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago, during his visit to the site in 1937 visited the site (two last pictures, courtesy of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
LONDON, (CAIS) — Remains of a Parthian dynastic edifice located on the hilltop of Mosalla tappeh (archaeological mound) was flattened to prepare the ground for the construction of a Mosalla[1].
The news of the destruction of Iranian heritage has angered the nation, particularly the cultural figures and heritage enthusiasts. Continue Reading →
JDL event Toronto: Israel’s rights under international law
*Tomorrow* Tues. Aug 31st – “Israel’s Legal Rights According to International Law” – 7pm @ Toronto Zionist Centre
*JDL* Canada Program
What Everyone Should Know …
Israel’s Legal Rights
in a world of Insanity
Presented by: Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR)
Where: Toronto Zionist Centre, 788 Marlee Avenue
Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm.
The objective of this presentation is to inform the uninformed — but keen to learn — general public about the FACTS of Israel’s legal rights under International law, enabling them to confront the overwhelmingly destructive messages being disseminated by the Media, Politicians, Policy Markers, Academics, etc.
The LEGAL RIGHTS OF ISRAEL- has been developed by Salomon Benzimra, who compiled widespread information and facts based on the findings of top experts in the field.
He will give a one-hour talk excerpting the programme, including some compelling questions on the recent distortions of International law, following the flotilla saga.
…If you cannot attend, and wish to acquaint yourself with the subject, you can book a date with CILR for a subsequent presentation.
Contact: Goldi Steiner
Email: in**@ci**.org" target="_blank">in**@ci**.org
Tel: 416 782 7021
Website: www.cilr.org
Fourth man arrested in Canadian terror probe re-arrested after being bailed
From The Ottawa Citizen
Fourth man arrested in terror probe re-arrested after granted bail
Justice of peace grants bail to suspect; police re-arrest man minutes later
By Chris Cobb, The Ottawa Citizen August 29, 2010
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Awso Peshdary appeared in court on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Ottawa police charged him with assault and uttering a threat. Minutes after he was granted bail by a justice of the peace, police arrested him and laid a new threat charge against him.
Photograph by: Illustration by Greg Banning, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — The investigation into Ottawa’s alleged terror cell took a bizarre twist Saturday when a 20-year-old man arrested early Friday by the RCMP appeared in court on two unrelated charges.
Awso Peshdary was released by the RCMP Friday evening after what sources say was a six-hour “interview” at Ottawa police headquarters on Elgin Street.
He was then handed over to Ottawa police who immediately charged him on one count of assault and another of uttering a threat.
The slightly-built bearded man, dressed in an open-neck pale yellow shirt, was granted bail by Justice of the Peace Ray Switzer but re-arrested again barely 10 minutes later in the Ottawa courthouse cells. Peshdary will appear in court again today on a new threat charge and his lawyer Richard Morris said he will reapply for bail.
A police spokesman said the investigation is ongoing and evidence had emerged that led to the new charge. Continue Reading →