Month: August 2010
BBC propaganda answered. The Crusades.
Frankly, to properly answer all the misinformation, disinformation and outright lies of the BBC propaganda video about the crusades and middle ages, I would need a month at least and the result would be absurd as I would have to stop the video every 90 frames and cut in with what is wrong. So I had to content myself with addressing some of the worst outright lies of this video and one major ‘oversight’.
I am hoping Fjordman is going to send me more specifics about how this deception is being put upon the British public sometime this week which I will publish here, but in the meantime I strongly suggest a decent book on the crusades such as The New Concise History of the Crusades which is an excellent book and actually factual and good history methodologically speaking.
Meanwhile. here is the best I could do with the BBC propaganda in a couple of days. One thing I can say for it, it certainly proves Bat Ye’or correct when she describes the deal many western nations and specifically England made with the Arab world.
Below is a rather interesting bit of PR from our side.
Another religious psycho curses ‘unbelievers’ except this time its a Jew
I’m sad to report that irrational religious authority in Israel can be as hate filled, venomous and counter peace when they are Jewish as they are when they are Muslim. Not as often certainly and not genocidaly so, but nonetheless this is repugnant.
From Israel Matzav:
Rabbi Yosef curses the ‘Palestinians’
Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, the Shas party’s spiritual leader who once advocated ‘land for peace,’ cursed ‘moderate‘ ‘Palestinian‘ President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen and the ‘Palestinians’ in his Saturday night Torah class.
Senior Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in his weekly lecture on Saturday night, said that he hope Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and the people he represents would disappear. “May Abu Mazen and all those evil people be utterly destroyed. May G-d strike them, and the evil Palestinians, with a plague,” he said.
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Shas veteran Yehuda Avidan responded by saying that anyone who knows Yosef knows that there is no one who wants and seeks peace more than him. Avidan explained that the rabbi sees the Palestinians as Israel’s enemies but wants there to be peace.
Until now Yosef has steered clear of commenting on anything related to diplomatic negotiations. At the end of the 1980s Yosef ruled that the country should seek peace, even at the price of painful concessions, given the supremacy of the Jewish value of ‘pikuakh nefesh’ (saving of life).
I don’t believe that the Rabbi needs defending. I believe that he is being quite sensible.
Teenager beaten by gang of four in Batley
Teenager beaten by gang of four in Batley
Aug 27 2010 by Sam Casey, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
A TEENAGER was assaulted by an Asian gang as he cycled home from the supermarket with his girlfriend.
The 18-year old was on his bike after leaving Tesco in Batley with his 16-year-old girlfriend when a Peugeot 306 car pulled up at the junction of Bradford Road and Centenary Way.
Four Asian men got out and shouted abuse at the couple, who are white. They then beat him up, leaving him with minor injuries.
The gang got back in the car and drove off in the W-registered car towards Carlinghow.
They were all between 5ft 7ins to 5ft 9ins tall and 18 to 20 years old.
One was muscular with black spiky hair and wearing a brown top and jeans.
Another was skinny, had short black hair and was wearing a white top with a black logo and black tracksuit bottoms.
The third was skinny with short black hair and was wearing a white and grey top, black tracksuit bottoms and square-framed glasses.
The fourth was skinny and wearing dark clothing.
Anyone with information should contact Pc Joanne Harris at Batley police via 0845 6060606.
Project Samossa: Did Canada get a wakeup call on Homegrown Islamic terrorism?
From the New English Review:
Ottawa police on Project Samossa Counterterrorism raids
A tip of the hat to Canadian lawyer and intelligence expert David Harris in Ottawa for this latest episode of home grown terrorism north of the border.
In a series of sweeps in Canada’s capital of Ottawa on Wednesday, an RCMP national security investigation resulted in the arrests of three Muslim Canadian suspects. They are Hiva Alizadeh , Misbahuddin Ahmed and James Lara. They were allegedly involved in a plot to create improvised explosive devices for possible attacks on government offices and Canadian Coalition forces in Afghanistan. The RCMP uncovered evidence including sophisticated computer circuitry and materials for remote bomb making.
As a report in the Ottawa Citizen noted the individuals arrested harbored Jihadist hatred of Canadian values and were educated leaders in the Muslim community:
Two of the accused men are professionals — a doctor (and father of three) and an x-ray technician.
The third studied to be an electrical engineer. All are apparently intellectually mature individuals rooted in Canadian life. One even appeared on the reality program Canadian Idol. [See the Vlad Tepes blog Canadian Idol video of fourth suspect Dr. Khurram Sher, here]. While much is still to be learned about them, poverty, deprivation and social alienation do not appear to have been part their alleged descent to homicidal hatred.
“This group posed a real and serious threat to the citizens of National Capital Region and Canada’s national security,” said RCMP Chief Supt. Serge Therriault, head of criminal operations for the capital region, told an Ottawa news conference Thursday.
[Vlad Tepes blog has an edited English language video of RCMP Supt. Therriault’s news conference here].
He said an RCMP-led national security investigation employing about 100 joint-forces officers for the past year was forced to move on the suspects this week to prevent “financial support” going to international terrorists for weapons to attack western coalition forces.
Raids on two west Ottawa addresses Wednesday uncovered more than 50 circuit boards police believe were intended to remotely trigger detonators for improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Also seized was what police described as a “vast quantity” of schematics, videos, drawings, instruction books and electronic components for IEDs. Investigators believe the suspects are part of a domestic terrorist group with links to international terrorism. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service was the first to begin investigating the individuals, though no details have been released.
Religion of Peace, also religion of Cooperation
Montreal Muslim News instructs Canadian_Muslims not to cooperate with authorities in terror probe. Thanks to Grace and to Blazing Cat Fur for bringing this to my attention.
From Blazing Cat Fur:
Ottawa Terror Muslims Update: Let the Muslim Backlash Begin! MontrealMuslims.ca instructs members in non-cooperation with authorities
A reader, who shall remain nameless lest he be “Muslim Backlashed”, received this e-mail instructional from montrealmuslims.ca. Read it carefully, unless I missed something this is not an appeal for cooperation with authorities nor is it a denunciation of jihadi terror. It is in fact a call to the Muslim Community to circle the wagons and act according to a specific agenda that speaks more to a cover up than cooperation.
Salam Alaikum,
Ater speaking to representatives of 2 of the accused in the case they have given this instruction.
1.Do not speak to the media. Refer them to the lawyers of the defendants
2.Do not talk about the case or the defendants in detail even in private. It is more than likely that some people are under surveillance and anything could be used against the defendants. This is of CRITICAL importance. Do not send emails, post on facebook, twitter etc… about the defendants.
3.If at any point our support is needed we will be informed but for now we must sit tight.
4.Make Du’a
5.There will be some letters circulated asking to ensure the case is fair and transparent – you can act up on these letters.This is of the utmost importance please try to respect these rules.
Salam,
MontrealMuslims.ca Continue Reading →
Globalization: Why its good for the world
Coming August 31: ‘Direct Access’ Stimulus Grants for the Muslim Brotherhood
From Christine Brimm @ Big Peace
Posted by Christine Brim Aug 29th 2010 at 4:55 am in Culture/Art, Economy, Espionage, Featured Story, Israel, Justice/Legal, Media Criticism, Obama, Politics, Strategy, ground zero mosque, sharia | Comments (17)
Think of it as ACORN reborn, with a slice of Jihad on the side.
On August 31, this coming Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood-associated “Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations” (CCMO) will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and U.S. Government agencies (Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services etc.) to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.” The workshop will apparently provide special access for these Muslim Brotherhood organizations: the organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Government and Muslim groups will hold an Iftar dinner (breaking the fast of Ramadan) after the workshop.
The event was announced in an email newsletter sent August 27 by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial, long associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamist network (great backgrounder here from Hudson Institute). Here are three key paragraphs from the email (the entire article on the August 31 event from the ISNA email is pasted below this post as reference):
This year, a phenomenal next step has been made where government iftars become coupled with workshops to provide resources and benefit the Muslim community. The US Department of Agriculture (DOA) and the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations (CCMO) have paired the first of such events, scheduled for August 31, 2010.
…Leaders from Muslim organizations around the nation, particularly social service organizations, are invited to a workshop with representatives from the DOA, Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Health and Human Services, the White House, Department of Education, the Department of Homeland Security, and more. Twenty five to thirty Muslim leaders representing 20 Muslim organizations are expected to attend the workshop.
According to a representative of CCMO, this workshop is designed to clarify how Muslim nonprofits, mosques, Islamic centers, and social service organizations can strengthen their communities through more direct access to opportunities provided to social service agencies at the Federal level. “It will hopefully help cut through some of the red tape and shine light on the many opportunities for funding, government assistance, and resources that we just don’t know about at the local level,” said Elsanousi. Continue Reading →
The stunning stupidity of Islam attributed to Neil Armstrong
Careful, only watch once. Clearly insanity is contagious. H/T to CorporalNym
Version 6: Canadian terror auditions
Banned political add from Sweden:
punchy, too the point, and very very accurate…
‘EU a disaster, illegal state built on false principles’
Bottles, stones and smoke bomb hurled during English Defence League demonstration in Bradford
By Daily Mail Reporter Daily Mail:
Last updated at 2:34 PM on 28th August 2010
Bottles, stones and a smoke bomb were thrown during demonstrations by supporters of the English Defence League and opponents from Unite Against Fascism in Bradford.
Police had erected a temporary barricade around the city’s Urban Gardens, where the EDL is meeting.
There is only one entrance open to the Gardens and protesters have to pass through metal detectors to gain entry.
Flash point: EDL supporters gather in Bradford ahead of the demonstration which descended into violence
A heavy police presence was also on duty. But trouble flared around 2pm.
EDL supporters began throwing bottles, cans and stones over the barricade towards opponents gathered opposite the Urban Gardens. Continue Reading →
Andrew Bostom on the Victory Mosque
Obama halts prosecution of USS Cole mastermind
By Peter Finn
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 26, 2010; 8:47 PM
The Obama administration has shelved the planned prosecution of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, according to a court filing.
The decision at least temporarily scuttles what was supposed to be the signature trial of a major al-Qaeda figure under a reformed system of military commissions. And it comes practically on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the attack, which killed 17 sailors and wounded dozens when a boat packed with explosives ripped a hole in the side of the warship in the port of Aden.
In a filing this week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Justice Department said that “no charges are either pending or contemplated with respect to al-Nashiri in the near future.”
The statement, tucked into a motion to dismiss a petition by Nashiri’s attorneys, suggests that the prospect of further military trials for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has all but ground to a halt, much as the administration’s plan to try the accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in federal court has stalled.
(Photos: Inside the prison camps at Guantanamo)
Only two cases are moving forward at Guantanamo Bay, and both were sworn and referred for trial by the time Obama took office. In January 2009, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates directed the Convening Authority for Military Commissions to stop referring cases for trial, an order that 20 months later has not been rescinded.
Military officials said a team of prosecutors in the Nashiri case has been ready go to trial for some time. And several months ago, military officials seemed confident that Nashiri would be arraigned this summer.
“It’s politics at this point,” said one military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss policy. He said he thinks the administration does not want to proceed against a high-value detainee without some prospect of civilian trials for other major figures at Guantanamo Bay.
A White House official disputed that.
“We are confident that the reformed military commissions are a lawful, fair and effective prosecutorial forum and that the Department of Defense will handle the referrals in an appropriate manner consistent with the interests of justice,” said the official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity.
(More: A graphic timeline of the USS Cole case)
The Defense Department issued a statement Thursday saying the case is not stalled. “Prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions are actively investigating the case against Mr. al-Nashiri and are developing charges against him,” the statement said.