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Africa Vs. The Arab World. Excellent article from Forbes
Why does Obama treat the two so differently?
Africa Vs. The Arab World
Anne Bayefsky, 07.12.09, 01:55 PM EDT
Why does Obama treat the two so differently?
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h/t Alex A
Speaking in Ghana on Saturday President Obama lectured Africans on local repression, corruption, brutality, good governance and accountability. The startling contrast to his June speech in Cairo was revealing. Stroking Muslim and Arab nations has become the hallmark of Obama’s foreign policy.
In Egypt, he chose not to utter the words “terrorism” or “genocide.” In Egypt, there was nothing “brutal” he could conjure up, no “corruption” and no “repression”.
In Ghana, with a 70% Christian population, he mentioned “good governance” seven times and added direct calls upon his audience to “make change from the bottom up.” He praised “people taking control of their destiny” and pressed “young people” to “hold your leaders accountable.”
He made no such calls for action by the people of Arab states–despite the fact that not a single Arab country is “free,” according to the latest Freedom House global survey.
Before the Muslim world Obama donned the role of apologist-in-chief. Over and over again his examples of shortfalls in the protection of rights and freedoms were American: the “prison at Guantanamo Bay,” “rules on charitable giving [that] have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation,” impediments to the “choice” of Muslim women to shroud their bodies.
Christian Africa was to be treated to no such self-flagellation. In a rare tongue-lashing for Africans from any American president, he chastised: “It’s easy to point fingers and to pin the blame of these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict … But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy … or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants … tribalism and patronage and nepotism … and … corruption.”
He might equally have said to the Arab and Muslim world: “It’s easy to scapegoat Israel and blame your problems on the presence of Jews–albeit on a fraction of 1% of the territory inhabited by the Arab world–but Israel is not responsible for poverty, illiteracy, torture, trafficking, slavery and oppression rampant across your countries.” But he did not.
In Ghana he pointed to specific heroes that had exposed human rights abuse, singling out by name a courageous investigative reporter. In Egypt, though journalists and bloggers are routinely threatened, jailed and worse, no such brave soul came to mind.
In a Christian African nation he said, “If we are honest, for far too many Africans, conflict is a part of life, as constant as the sun. There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes.”
To the Arab and Muslim world he could have said: “Since the day of Israel’s birth Arab and Muslim countries have made conflict with Israel a part of life, warring over land and manipulating whole communities into fighting in the name of Islam to render the area Judenrein.” Continue Reading →
History distinguishes the genius from the paranoid.
I have recently come across a rather startling document listing a number of people who write under pseudonyms for the anti-jihad. This document, in fact, documents these people’s real names and approximate places of residence. It asks that certain governments disallow these individuals from being allowed entry to certain countries and it does so partially because these people make the claim that Europe is becoming so anti-freedom-of-speech that it is a cause for alarm.
To be clear, a public document has been created naming people, thereby putting their lives in danger, for the purpose of asking that they be forbidden from entering certain EU countries, as they make the claim that the EU is anti-freedom-of-speech and therefore a threat to Europe.
While I’m certain that the irony of this will be lost on the author of the published document to which I refer, this is not the point I wish to make. (I will not link to that document here as I do not wish to add to the damage the author has already done, nor do I wish to aid him in his cause.)
History is full of people who are considered larger-than-life for their ability to recognize a threat to freedom, liberty, and what is in the best interest of a given people, and to mobilize a defense against it. Winston Churchill comes to mind. He is by no means unique but is one of a dozen men which all nations and peoples have.
The refusal of the elite class to protect Western nations from Islamic terrorism is the biggest betrayal in history. It is rooted in the mindset that breeds the claim that “force is not an answer” to terrorism, that profiling is bad and open borders are good, that Islam is peaceful and the West is wicked. The upholders of such claims belong to the culture that has lost its bond with nature, history, and the supporting community. In the meantime, thanks to them, the quiet onslaught continues unabated, across the Straits of Gibraltar, through JFK and O’Hare, Heathrow and Schiphol. Far from enhancing diversity, it threatens to impose a numbing sameness and eradicate the identity of target-populations, to demolish their special character and uniqueness.
The above is the message that those people ‘outed’ in this document attempt to disseminate. It is also the message of us here at Vladtepesblog. We, the anti-jihad, in nearly all cases, in fact, seek to preserve classical liberalism. We are the real liberals. We believe in genuine diversity. This means fighting against Islam, which seeks to make a mono-culture. We believe in individualism over the State. This is why so many work so hard to endanger us. It was absolutely clear to the person who wrote the document of I write, that by giving the real names of well-known bloggers they were exposing them to potential danger at the hands of Muslims, as we have seen so many critics of Islam be murdered for it, or be forced to live their lives in near-prisons in order to avoid being murdered. The left stands for the State above the individual and sees Islam as its natural ally, using the language of guilt and political correctness, rather than facts and reason, which are anathema to the left today.
History ultimately will judge who are today’s geniuses and who are the small-minded, bigoted, or crazy. Silencing anyone and forbidding debate is the province of tyrants. This is an historical constant.
Eeyore for Vladtepesblog
Barbara Kay: France liberals and the Burqa
Personally I believe that Barbara Kay is right and Sarkozy is wrong. Sarkozy is attacking the symptom and not the disease. By doing so, he risks driving underground the identifying marks of the disease, Much like finding a way to stop the plague from producing pustules would be, which nearly guarantees all will die of it. Islam must be made illegal exactly as Shintoism was in WW2. Just removing the freedom to wear what you want as a token move for women’s rights is frankly worse than doing nothing. At least if you do nothing eventually the public will get fed up and angry enough to actually do something in the absence of government action on the behalf of liberal values and indigenous Western peoples.
If sarkozy’s plan is effected, people won’t know who is seething with hatred and contempt for the nations they live in. Real racism may result as people start to suspect all South Asians or Arabs of harbouring anti French sentiments as opposed to those clearly Muslim irrespective of their ethnicity tribe or pigmentation level.
Eeyore for Vlad
Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Monday, July 06, 2009
In his June speech in Cairo, U. S. President Barack Obama said that Westerners should “avoid dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear.” On the other hand, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that burkas and niqabs, both of which cover the face, are a “debasement” of women and shouldn’t be permitted in France.
So who’s right?
Sarkozy, of course. France has done a lot of dumb things vis-a-vis the Arab world, but on the “cover” issue, which has nothing to do with women’s choices in clothing and everything to do with Islamist aggression, France got it right when it banned the wearing of hi-jabs in schools in 2004.
Post columnist Jonathan Kay took Obama’s side in the debate, arguing on June 23 that it is “part of the liberal tradition to wear what you want, pray how you want and generally conduct yourself as you please — providing you don’t harm others.”
Jonathan Kay wears what he wants, but if he wanted to wear nothing at all in public, our liberal tradition would not support that choice. Although not set down in legal codes, human beings in social groups are hard-wired to find a psychological comfort zone within a spectrum of decency. Full nudity is not accepted in any society at all.
At the other end of the spectrum is full coverage. Full nudity arouses discomfort because the naked human is seen as animal-like, and therefore less than human. Full coverage arouses discomfort because the wearer is depersonalized and therefore non-human as well. No rational human being chooses full nudity in the presence of strangers. No woman, left to her own devices, would ever choose to wear a burka. Continue Reading →
Pat Condell: Be my burka baby
Pat Condell, a fair-minded, well-spoken, intelligent, atheistic, witty asset to the secular world is the near-perfect proof of the existence of God. Watch and enjoy. Agree or no, his thoughts are worthy of your attention.
H/T jdamn & ControlGFK
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The Opinionator does a good peice on media multistandards
Media Ignores Muslim Councillor Sons’ Violent HATE Attack Against British Couple: The Opinionator
Undoubtedly anyone who reads or watches the news KNOWS that if a NON muslim person were to get into any type of physical or verbal altercation with a muslim the media, politicians, police, etc etc would immediately rush to label the person “racist” and condemn the actions as a race hate attack – or an example of (the Myth of) Islamophobia.
Yet – the past has shown that when muslims attack non-muslims and the attack is obviously race motivated- Kuffarophobic (even if it occurs on the same street as the most despicable race hate crime in Scotland – the muslim gang torture and murder of 15 yr. old schoolboy Kriss Donald) – the media, etc are MUM or downplay the FACTS.
Factually just who are the largest group to be the victims of serious hate crime in the UK?
“Nearly half of all victims of racially motivated murders in the last decade have been white, according to official figures released by the Home Office. …. The disclosure will add to the intense debate over multiculturalism in British society. The figures also overturn the assumption that almost all racial murders are committed against ethnic minority victims.”
“……Senior police officers have admitted that ‘political correctness’ and the fear of discussing the issue have meant that race crime against white people goes under-reported. One chief constable has claimed that white, working-class men are more alienated than the Muslim community.” LINK
This is clearly the case with the below vicious and physically damaging muslim Street Jihadist gang attack which included Waqar Mohammed Younis, 20, and his brother Khawar Younis, 17. These young men, along with their thug pals, brutally beat Lianne Clayton,18 and James Ryder, also 18 – in an unprovoked attack.
According to Miss Clayton:
“Me and James were walking down the street, when a red jeep pulled up next to us and eight lads jumped out. The next thing I knew they were circling us and hitting James. I tried to pull them off him, but then I just remember being pushed back and being punched in the face, I think I was knocked out because when I woke up I was on the floor.”
Besides a huge and embarrassing gap in her front teeth, Lianne Clayton is left frightened and tramatised.
Lianne Clayton shows the gap in her teeth following the attack
While Miss Clayton and Mr. Ryder were recovering from their injuries, Waqar and Khawar Younis were busy canvassing the streets for their County Councillor father – Mohammed Younis..
“I am relieved they have pleaded guilty and that I don’t have to give evidence in court. Even seeing them in the waiting room with my family around, left me in tears and fearful. Every time I see a red car I freeze. I saw them earlier this month canvassing for their dad who has just been elected and I literally turned round and ran home.”
Apparently it also helps to quell the press when you father is a recently elected Lancashire County Councillor.
County Councillor Mohammed Younis celebrating his recent election
Miss Clayton’s further statement sums it up:
“They shouldn’t be allowed to help with an election when they can be so violent. They have never apologised.” Continue Reading →
The Crusades, Spain and the Moors, truth and fiction.
ControlGFK thank you very much for sending me these videos. Your emails are much appreciated.
Jdamn thank you for making the vids into one play list.
I am a huge fan of Robert Spencer, an intelectual and a scholar who is meticulous and unimpeachable. Spencer and Christopher Hitchens are perhaps the two great intelectual giants of our day.
There are several good articles here on Vlad about the much misunderstood facts of the Crusades. Please use the search feature on the sidebar to check them. I believe they are well researched and worth reading and understanding. Its a true pleasure to have Spencer in video form adding to this cannon of information.
Please enjoy these videos detailing important facts of history which play heavily into modern policies.
Msg to Obama: Time for a war on ‘youths’. Montreal riots
Ok. Let me add two things together justly or not before I paste this article from the Montreal Gazette. First, by definition, youths are, well young. Typically that’s what ‘youth’ mean. However in this article, EVERYONE who was arrested, and presumably participating in these riots is OVER EIGHTEEN. The article however refers to them repeatedly as “youths”.
So now the second factor in this equation:
When in fashion minorities behave in an antisocial way in Europe the media seems to be under self censorship or in some cases government instructions to refer to the perpetrators as ‘youths’ instead of say, oh Muslims if that happens to be the case. Typically, you can tell if they are Muslims if adults are arrested, an adult in this case would be over eighteen, and not named whereas if they are white Canadian you will always read the name of whoever the police bring in. If the criminals are black typically you get a name and no description. I know I am sticking my neck way out here, but I begin to think that world media uses the term ‘youth’ to mean Muslim. If I am wrong in this case, the fault lies with governments and with media organizations that deliberately execute policies which attempt to keep the general public in the dark and therefore make us have to guess at the truth and facts of events which effect us all.
If Muslims are not responsible for the various riots and anti social acts around the world then for the love of good community relations start telling us who is doing these things. I refuse to believe that the problem is youth. Especially when, as in this story, most of those people arrested are old enough to have kids of their own at school.
From The Montreal Gazette:
Nine arrested in Montreal North melee
MONTREAL – Police arrested nine people on charges of assault with a weapon, trespassing, vandalism and public mischief Tuesday night after dozens of youths gathered in a Montreal North park hurled objects at police and went on a rampage in the neighbourhood, breaking windows and damaging cars.
Those arested are all over the age of 18, police said.
Police went to Carignan Park, at the corner of Rolland Blvd. and Renoir St., around 10 p.m. after getting a call about a fight.
It was the second call of the evening about a fight at the park, Montreal police Constable Daniel Lacoursiere said.
By the time police arrived, the fight had broken up but there were 50-75 youths near the basketball courts, he said.
Police remained on the scene as a preventive measure, Lacoursiere said.
The youths then started to throw rocks and bottles at the officers, and police cleared the park.
Some of the youths took to the streets, vandalizing cars, homes and a school in the area.
One officer was slightly hurt while making an arrest, Lacoursiere said.
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
UPDATE: seven arraignments made of legal adults, NO NAMES GIVEN:
Mathilde Pagé, 22, and mother to a Montreal North pre-schooler, was still unsettled yesterday after having witnessed a rock-throwing mêlée in Carignan Park from her apartment window late Tuesday night.
“Of course, I’m worried” about how the next months will play out in the district, she said. “It isn’t even summer yet – and this happens.”
Seven men were arraigned at the Montreal courthouse yesterday on charges ranging from assault to attempted murder, in the wake of the violent confrontation at the corner of Rolland Blvd. and Renoir St. that thrust the district back into the public spotlight. Kept in detention, all are to appear in court today for bail hearings. Five are in their 20s. Two are 19-year-old twins.
Pagé, a Quebec City native, said she was attracted to the area by “nice parks, lots of children and pretty good rents.” But, she added, “the young people lack respect for the police and police also lack respect for the young people.
“We don’t want to leave our apartment after 9 (p.m.)”
The 530-student Le Carignan elementary school adjacent to the park is “in a hot zone,” said Jean-Yves Cardin, one of the school’s music teachers.
Less than 24 hours earlier, dozens of youths had hurled objects at police and gone on a rampage, breaking windows and damaging cars.
“But people have too much of a tendency to stereotype Montreal North,” Cardin said. As proof, he pointed to an ambitious musical presented last night – and again tonight at 7 p.m. – by 200 children from the school, in the Maison Culturelle communautaire de Montréal North, north of the park at 12004 Rolland. It’s next to the parking lot at Henri-Bourassa Park where Fredy Villanueva was shot and fatally wounded by a Montreal police officer last August.
Cardin’s lively stage cast of 200 youngsters (ages 6 to 11) is backed with 50 musicians and a fancy light show. The production, L’étrange grenier (The Unusual Attic), tells a tale of toys that come to life after being abandoned by a rich child, and is woven with themes on consumerism, social disparity and abandonment.
Two 15-year-old girls sitting in the park said area police treat young people differently, depending on skin colour.
“When we are two or three or four blacks or Latinos sitting together, then the cops stop and ask questions,” said Johanne Lespinasse, who is black.
“When they are white, the cops pass right by,” said her friend, Krystine D’Amato, who is white.
The two describe themselves as best friends.
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© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
Arabic Christian group sues City of Dearborn after police restrict its First Amendment rights
By Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch:
I received this email from my attorney, William Becker. It is a sad day when American law enforcement officials restrict the First Amendment rights of Americans in order to accommodate Muslims. As you know, Dearborn, Michigan, features the most highly concentrated population of Muslims in the nation. My clients, Arabic Christian Perspective (ACP), and Pastor George Saieg attend the annual Arab International street festival there every year handing out Christian material to Muslims. They do this along the public sidewalks that run along the street, where the festival is conducted. It is open to the public and admission is free. Business establishments along the street remain open during the festival. It is a bold thing to do, but in the five years ACP has been going there, it has never encountered any problems. Now, the Dearborn Police Department has asked ACP to stand on a single corner, where they will be unable to freely mingle with festival gatherers and unable to reach their intended audience. This is a violation of its First Amendment rights. The Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, has agreed to assist me in this matter. Today they filed a complaint, and sent a letter to the city attorney. I will keep you post
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Not that this is unusual or anything, but I can’t help but notice that Obama and his administration seem to be a great deal like what critics of the Bush administration claimed Bush was, but in fact he was not. That is to say, it isnt that Obama is similar to Bush, its that Obama is what his fans claimed the Bush admin was. Remember how the democrats and BDS (Bush derangement syndrome people) claimed Bush was a dictator and would end elections? Well of course that didnt happen but the Democratic party was seeking to end term limits the moment Obama was elected and before he even took office. Now we have this from the Drudge Report: (H/T GOV)
On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care -- a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!
Highlights on the agenda:
ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.
The network plans a primetime special -- 'Prescription for America' -- originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.
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Late Monday night, Republican National Committee Chief of Staff Ken McKay fired off a complaint to the head of ABCNEWS:
Dear Mr. Westin:
As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC's astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.
Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party's views to those of the President's to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party's opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.
In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.
Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff
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ABCNEWS Senior Vice President Kerry Smith on Tuesday responded to the RNC complaint, saying it contained 'false premises':
"ABCNEWS prides itself on covering all sides of important issues and asking direct questions of all newsmakers -- of all political persuasions -- even when others have taken a more partisan approach and even in the face of criticism from extremes on both ends of the political spectrum. ABCNEWS is looking for the most thoughtful and diverse voices on this issue.
"ABCNEWS alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience."
Developing...
Christian Man Raped, Murdered for Refusing to Convert to Islam, Family Says
Now if the main-stream media would only start reporting on the hundreds or thousands of cases of forced convertion that happen in Islamic society all under the nose of police and government officials. I’m sure some of this will be addressed in Obamas next speech to his Muslim brothers and sisters.
Convert or Die. Infidel
FOX NEWS
A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim’s brother and minister told FOXNews.com.Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq “Litto” Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times.
“They have sexually abuse him, torture him with a knife on his testicle and genitals,” Ghauri’s brother, 24-year-old Salman Nabil Ghauri, said. “They have tortured him very badly, and after that they have stabbed five times with a knife and killed him.”
The family believes Litto Ghauri was murdered by the brothers of his Muslim girlfriend, Shazi Cheema, after they found him in a compromising sexual position with their sister.
The Rev. Haroon Bhatti, a Christian clergyman in the village and a friend of the Ghauri family, said Cheema’s three brothers came to Litto Ghauri’s house on May 11 and gave him an ultimatum: Marry their sister and convert to Islam.“On that farmhouse — four days there — we all, Christians and family, were searching for him,” the Rev. Bhatti said. “I was with him. I was searching for him.”
After police discovered the body, Ghauri’s death was declared a homicide and the family filed paperwork with the Atta Shaheed police station in their small village, Adda 44SB. But Ghauri’s brother said police still have not arrested the alleged killers and have refused to meet with his family. Continue Reading →
Global Warming Activist Laurie David Fined for Wetlands Violations—Oh, Never Mind
From Big Hollywood:
by Pam Meister
News broke last week that Laurie David, former wife of Larry David (of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm fame), was fined for wetlands violations at her Martha’s Vineyard home – and it wasn’t the first time, either:
The property owned by Ms. David off North Road was the subject of a series of wetlands violations in 2005, when construction of a stone fire pit, barbecue grill area and wooden stage for a children’s theatre with seating was begun in a wetland without a permit.
Ms. David, as you may recall, produced the Goracle’s epic documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. She also wrote The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming for children (doing her part to convince one in three frightened children that the earth will implode before they grow up), and went on a much ballyhooed bus tour with fellow greenie Sheryl “One Sheet” Crow in order to help Save The Earth™ a couple of years back. How riding around the country in an exhaust-spewing bus and using up oodles of electricity for Sheryl’s musical stylings was supposed to “help” is beyond me. But wait, the bus was powered by vegetable oil instead of that dastardly fossil fuel, and pal Sheryl is committed to being green by driving a hybrid and using cold water to wash her clothes. Forgive my cynicism; I’m convinced.
Fortunately for Ms. David, her contractor was fully prepared to take the heat:
The new infractions occurred during the construction of a tennis court. Workers installed a makeshift road with boards and stones and drove heavy machinery across the resources area making a path to the tennis court site. Attempts to reach Ms. David were unsuccessful but Bart Thorpe, who said he is the contractor on the job, took full responsibility for the violations yesterday.
“She’s obviously a very busy person and she trusted the contractor, just like last time,” he said. “And I inadvertently made a mistake. It’s something she had no knowledge of and had nothing to do with, and it’s a minor thing.”
Perhaps, as “the boss,” the buck should stop with Ms. David. But it’s all in a day’s work for the “do as I say” celebrity set. David’s in good company with folks like Arianna Huffington for her penchant for flying on corporate jets while decrying the evils of SUVs and the like. Continue Reading →
Compare and contrast media coverage: Muslim killing in US, Christian one
Taken word by infuriating word from the esteemed Gates of Vienna
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The American Press: The Unbearable Lightness of Treason
by Baron Bodissey
Below is a guest-post from Takuan Seiyo about the pack mentality and poisonous leftism of the American mainstream media.
The American Press: The Unbearable Lightness of Treason
by Takuan Seiyo
This is the WaPo front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:
Killing Reignites Abortion Debate — Fatal shooting of prominent later-term abortion provider raises fears on both sides of the issue.
This is the NY Times front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:
Seeking Clues on Suspect in Shooting of Doctor
This is the LA Times front page, June 2, 2009. Bottom left, you will find this:
Suspect in Kansas abortion doctor’s slaying reportedly belonged to anti-government militia
This is The Chicago Tribune front page, June 2, 2009. Center right, you will find this story:
Tiller slaying suspect linked to militias
This is the Dallas Morning News front page, June 2, 2009. Bottom left, you will find this story:
Abortion doctor shot, killed at Kansas church
This is the front page of the Arizona Daily Star, on June 2, 2009. In the column “AP Breaking News” you’ll find:
Defendant in doc’s killing railed against abortion
In the column “Most Commented Stories for June 1, 2009” you will find:
Kansas abortion doctor is fatally shot in church — 267 Comments
What’s wrong with this coverage? Only this:
On Monday, June 1, one day after the abortionist’s shooting and a day before the editions quoted above, a black American Muslim convert, Carlos Bledsoe, aka Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, pulled up in his car at 10:30 a.m. in front of an Army-Navy recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas. Muhammad opened fire at the military personnel there. He killed one soldier, William Long, 24, and wounded another, Quinton Ezeagwula, 18.
Per USA Today, Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings said in a phone interview, “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular, and that’s why he did what he did.”
A short time later Muhammad’s car was stopped on the freeway and he was arrested. An assault rifle and other weapons were found in his car. Here is Muhammad, being taken away:
You will not find a mention of any of this on the front pages of America’s newspapers, if any mention at all. It’s not newsworthy, is it?
Who are these people? No, I don’t mean the respective killers. I mean the editors of America’s newspapers who trumpet the killing of a late-term abortionist who made a living at crushing and dismembering little humans, and deign not to notice an American jihadi, a convert to the Religion of Peace, who murders American soldiers in a shopping center in Arkansas in broad daylight.
Who are they? Do they get their marching orders from the same pasha in Washington so that they all make the same editorial choices? Or was the same chip implanted in their contemptible skulls sometime during college?
More blatant UN-HRC hypocracy than usual
Different rules for Israel
National Post Published: Saturday, May 30, 2009
H/T Fred at GAR
If more proof were needed that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a feckless, biased, intellectually corrupt haven for dictators and Islamofascists, the evidence was clearly on display this week. The UNHRC voted to affirm Sri Lanka’s right, justifiably, to self-defence from terror attacks launched against its citizens and territory by the Tamil Tigers. Indeed, the council went further, “condemning all attacks that the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) launched on the civilian population and its practice of using civilians as human shields.” Sri Lanka had every right to protect itself, the council concluded, even at the cost of an estimated 20,000 civilian Tamil lives since the beginning of May alone.
Why, then, when Israel seeks to do the same — protect its citizens and territory from rocket and terror attacks launched from Gaza — does the very same council accuse Israel of being a “genocidal empire?” No quarter is given for the way Hamas –every bit as much a terror organization as the LTTE — hides its rocket bases and ammunition caches in schools, apartments and hospitals and launches its attacks on Israel from behind innocent human targets so that if the Israel Defense Forces wish to retaliate it is impossible for them to do so without taking civilian lives.
We are not disagreeing with the UNHRC’s assessment of Sri Lanka’s actions. Even more than Hamas and its jihadi brothers-in-arms, the Tigers were enthusiastic suicide bombers, targeting shops, public squares and Sri Lankan government offices. So proficient had they become, the Black Tigers — the LTTE’s suicide squads — could calculate how many Sri Lankans would die in their initial blasts and how many more would be cut down by flying glass and debris. After nearly three decades of fighting and at least 70,000 deaths on both sides, we sympathize with the Colombo government’s desire to bring their civil war to an end, once and for all.
Our question is merely: Why such a double standard when it comes to Israel?
Following Israel’s offensive against Gaza earlier this year, members of the council accused the Jewish state of genocide. The UNHRC struck a investigative panel that examined only Israel’s role in the fighting; it ignored the many thousands of provocative rocket attacks launched by Gazans against civilian targets in Southern Israel over the past eight years. It was silent on Hamas’s repeated use of its own people as shields against Israeli counterattacks. What the council praises Sri Lanka for doing, it roundly criticized Israel for.
Council members Cuba, Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, China and others — all states with their own spotty records on human rights — voted for both the resolution condemning Israel and the one praising Sri Lanka. Cuba — that paragon of rights defence — even moved to stop EU amendments to the Sri Lankan resolution that would have at least called on Colombo to permit relief workers into the Tamil war zone and pressured both sides to end their violence.
Earlier this year, the UNHRC expressed its solidarity with the Palestinian people and denounced Israel as the “occupying power,” even though Israel had no troops in Gaza in the three years before the most recent incursion.
Accusing Israel of human rights violations, though, seems to be the foremost reason many countries seek seats on the council — that and using their positions to shield their own human rights records from scrutiny.
This week, many Arab member-states wanted the council to go further and accuse Israel of crimes against humanity for killing 600 to 900 Palestinian civilians. We suppose the fact that they were unsuccessful is some kind of ray of hope. Still, the even-more-blatant-than-usual bias of the council, as evidenced by their different approaches toward the very similar situations in Sri Lanka and Israel, shows that neither the council nor the greater UN can be trusted when it comes to the Middle East in particular and human rights in general.
France asks for more violent anti semitism by covering up what is already there
The Halimi Cover-Up
by Pamela Geller
Israel National News h/t Jdamn
Death in an Islamic “homemade concentration camp”.
Warning! The following contains descriptions of extreme brutality.
The abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of Muslim immigrants calling themselves the Barbarians shocked the whole of France in 2006. But now that the accused are on trial – silence.
A French judge has ordered the latest issue of the magazine Choc (“shock”) removed from the shelves. The cover showed a man with duct tape completely covering his head, except for a small opening around his nostrils. His His hands are also bound with duct tape.
It was a photo of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was kidnapped and tortured for 24 days by the Barbarians. His captors took the picture and sent it to his family. A lawyer for Halimi’s family had complained about the magazine, but Choc’s editor-in-chief Paul Payan responded: “Of course, we understand the anguish of the parents and, of course, we share their anguish…. But what’s so harrowing is not the publication of this photo. What’s harrowing is what it represents, And it gets worse. The New York Times reported last week that “in the two and a half weeks since 27 people went on trial [in Paris] for the brutal 2006 kidnapping, torture and killing of a young Jewish man, little has filtered out about the proceedings.” Worse still, the little that has emerged indicates that French government and law enforcement have done everything in their power to obscure the Islamic Jew-hatred that led these Muslims to commit this crime.
The corrupt media, aligned with the jihad forces, has long blacked out the truth about Halimi’s homemade concentration camp and the inconceivable horrors that were suffered by this French Jew, chosen by Islam’s soldiers for unimaginable torture. They covered up the religious aspects of this depraved barbarity. Law enforcement did as well.
No one said anything about the Koran’s statement that the Jews are the Muslims’ worst enemies. No one referenced Muhammad’s words: “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'” Never was there heard anything about the Islamic tradition that says: “When judgment day arrives, Allah will give every Muslim a Jew or Christian to kill, so that the Muslim will not enter into hell fire.”
Ilan’s uncle, Rafi Halimi, reported that “the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Koran, while Ilan’s tortured screams could be heard in the background.”
Three weeks of unimaginable torture. Three weeks. So many clues. So many guilty animals partaking in the continuing torture in their “homemade concentration camp.” Twenty-three people participated in torturing Ilan. Another twenty were involved indirectly. The custodian of the building gave them the key to an apartment where they said they wanted to “keep someone.” French journalist Guy Millière reported that “the screams must have been loud because the torture was especially atrocious: the thugs cut bits off the flesh of the young man, they cut his fingers and ears, they burned him with acid, and in the end poured flammable liquid on him and set him on fire.” Continue Reading →