1. There seems to be interesting hearings taking place on the Benghazi debacle. The scandal that should bring the Obama admin down, but is drowned out by ludicrous accusations and distractions about Obama’s legitimacy, thereby scrubbing much real horror by that administration.

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2. California’s Brownshirt Anti-Semitism Comes to Vassar

(An interesting analysis of growing antisemitism on US campuses from public to ivy league)

3. Cleric Omar Bakri ‘on the run’ in Lebanon
Omar Bakri is banned from entering the UK after living there for 20 years

Omar Bakri Mohammad is on the run in Lebanon, officials say, after his house was raided as part of an operation to end the sectarian violence in Tripoli.

The Sunni Muslim cleric is among 200 individuals wanted in connection with their alleged role in clashes that have left 30 people dead in recent weeks.

4. Nigeria suicide attack ‘kills 21’ near Maiduguri
The army presence in Maiduguri has been strengthened since a state of emergency was declared last year

Nigeria under attack

At least 15 civilians have been killed in a suicide bombing by suspected Islamist militants in north-east Nigeria, officials say.

Six of the attackers also died in the explosion, which took place on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri, a defence ministry spokesman said.

5. CDC report on Ebola 

6. Nigel Farage answers question about international influence and the ‘importance’ of the EU (Farage rocks the podium)

7. Jordanian Court: Women Without Hijab are ‘Sluts’ Unfit to Testify

An Amman appellate court announced last week that a woman who does not cover up or wear a hijab is considered a “slut” and shouldn’t be allowed to testify in court, reportsAlbawada.

The Amman Sharia Court of Appeals accepted a lawyer’s objection to a female witness testifying because she was not wearing a hijab, which the court said would affect the fairness and honesty in her testimony. The court is the highest in Jordan’s religious judiciary.

Thank you Wrath of Khan, M, Fjordman, Yucki, Richard and all. The leaders debate in the UK has taken a turn for the sinister. It seems that UKIP won it hands down and it almost appears that as a consequence, the entire debate, which BBC made available immediately afterwards last week, is strangely appearing slowly and piecemeal. Curiouser and curiouser. More in the next post about that.

1. Synagogue attacked in Muslim dominated Malmø, Sweden
An original translation by Nicolai Sennels

From AVPixlat

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has issued travel advisory for Jews going to Malmø. Via 10news.dk, translated from Swedish Avpixlat:

“Five people whose ancestry and religious affiliation are not reported in the media, tried imposing themselves on Thursday in the Jewish community center’s premises at Kamrergatan in multicultural Malmö where they shouted anti-Semitic slogans. …  

After previous unwelcome visits at the premises, the building is equipped with a security gate. This stopped the five men from getting further into the premises. Instead, they shouted insults about Jews. They also photographed and filmed. Spokesman Fred Kahn is concerned and takes the incident seriously. Earlier this year, there have been stones thrown at the synagogue and windows have been smashed. Malmo’s Jews has been subjected to an increasing number of anti-Semitic crimes and attacks, almost all performed by people with Muslim Middle East Immigrant Background.”

 2. Does the NSA mine your metadata to determine your personality, and therefore, a kind of ‘pre-crime’ determinism?

 

3. UK: Now TWELVE schools are being investigated by Ofsted amid claims hard-line Muslims are trying to indoctrinate pupils

Extremist Muslims are trying to indoctrinate pupils at a dozen state schools in Birmingham, it has been claimed. Local MP Khalid Mahmood warned of the risk posed by religious radicals as it emerged that education authorities had widened their investigation into the allegations to include more than 12 different schools.

In some schools non-Muslim teachers are reported to have been sidelined by Islamic extremists, who have allegedly imposed halal food in canteens and abolished sex education classes.

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 4. Remember that Palestinian ’embassy’ which had the major explosion in the Czech Republic not long ago? Yes, it was explosives illegally stored at the residence of the Pali ambassador 

 

5. David Cameron orders inquiry into activities of Muslim Brotherhood

A young boy holds a photo of Mohamed Morsi at a London protest in support of the Brotherhood. Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty Images

David Cameron has ordered Whitehall officials to launch an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood – drawing on assessments by MI5 and MI6.

A Downing Street source confirmed that the review would examine allegations that the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the murder of three tourists on a bus in Egypt in February and that it planned extremist activities from Britain.

6. Former American hostage Barry Rosen, held by student extremists at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year, said Monday it would be an “outrage” and “disgrace” if Washington gave a visa to one of the militants recently named by Iran as its new U.N. ambassador.

(I would have to say I agree with that whole heartedly)

7. UK: Muslim prisoner tried to start Islamic uprising in prison after jihad murder of Lee Rigby

“Milton Keynes killer tried to start jailhouse Jihad after Lee Rigby murder,” from the Milton Keynes Citizen, March 31:

A killer from Milton Keynes who attempted to stage a jailhouse Jihad at one of Britain’s highest security prisons is facing extra time behind bars.

Fuad Awale, who was jailed for life in 2013 for the murders of two teenagers shot in a “drug turf” dispute in Fishermead, and fellow prisoner Feroz Khan tried to take over HMP Full Sutton, near York, after an iman [sic] dared to offer his condolences to the family of murdered soldier Lee Rigby.

1. Trojan horse aid convoys. Your tax dollars bringing European muslims to wage jihad in Syria. (And frankly, I can’t think of a better use of your tax dollars. What is better? Paying out of your cheque from a week of hard work every week to keep these people in homes and food and gas, often living better than those who work to support them, while they spread hatred against you in the mosques and islamic centers? Or helping them get to Syria where hopefully an experienced army put them down like dogs but with a lot less weeping. The only thing we don’t do right is that we still let them back in. Once they go, that should be it for them.

2. Femen doing that thing they do in Turkey protesting Erdogan, I think. Hard to tell.

3. ‘Britain’s jails turning into breeding ground for terrorists’: Figures reveal 42% of inmates at one high-security prison are Muslim and bosses fear inmates could be radicalised

Fears are growing that Britain’s jails are becoming a hotbed of extremism after it was revealed today that nearly half the inmates of one top security prison are Muslim.

Some 42 per cent of those housed at Category A Whitemoor jail – and more than a quarter of those in London prisons – consider themselves to be of Islamic faith.

Experts now fear large numbers are being radicalised on the inside, where they say the spread of Jihadist ideas is rife.

Figures show more than a quarter of inmates in London jails are Muslim, with one Category A jail revealing 42 per cent of its convicts follow the Islamic faith

4. Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

1. YouTube ban: How Turkish officials conspired to stage Syria attack to provoke war

“I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey.” This leaked conversation is coming back to haunt the highest echelons of the Turkish government as it plans a provocation in Syria, while scrambling to contain social media internally.

The leaked audiotapes that reveal Turkey’s highest ministers staging an anti-Assad military intervention in Syria, have already caused YouTube to be shut down in the country, as well as leading to fevered accusations of treachery and betrayal of Turkey’s political interests – “a declaration of war,” as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu put it. […] (transcript of conversation at link)

2. Anti-Israel academic boycott turns ugly at Vassar

What transpired was anti-Israel vitriol directed at Professors and students taking a course that involved travel to Israel and the West Bank, an intimidating protest outside a classroom, and a campus forum in which the Professors and Jewish students were belittled, heckled and mocked in such crude ways that it left even critics of Israel shaken.  Yet the Vassar administration has done little in response, and would not comment for this report.

The bigger story is that these events at Vassar reflect how the American Studies Association academic boycott of Israel has emboldened anti-Israel students to cross previous lines of academic respect and freedom.  The “anti-colonial” and other rhetoric focusing on Israel’s supposed European roots, inaccurately used by the boycott movement to demonize Israel, has injected a racial context to the protests (as at U. Michigan) which is boiling over but only in one direction — towards supporters of Israel.

3. The Return Of Ethnic Nationalism— Is Europe Cracking Up?

By Patrick J. Buchanan on March 24, 2014 at 8:45pm

Though the FN of Marine Le Pen, daughter of party founder Jean Marie Le Pen, did not field candidates in many cities, it won the mayoral race outright in Henin-Beaumont and ran first or second in a dozen medium-sized cities, qualifying for run-off elections on March 30.

“The National Front has arrived as a major independent force—a political force both at the national and local levels,” declared Le Pen.

No one is arguing the point. Indeed, a measure of panic has set in for the socialist party of Francois Hollande, which is calling on all parties to unite against FN candidates.

4. FBI: Syria Is ‘Metastasizing’ Terrorist Threats Against U.S.

The FBI warned Congress on Wednesday that Syria is quickly becoming a haven for terrorists looking to do harm to the U.S. and its allies.

A recent flood of militants into the country poses a “serious challenge” for counterterrorism officials, who are increasingly concerned that Westerners in the country could be trained to plan and carry out attacks around the world, FBI Director James Comey said.

“It’s one of the things that I meant by the metastasizing threat,” said Comey, appearing before a House Appropriations subcommittee. “We’re very worried about people who [travel] there, who travel out to the E.U. and then can come to the U.S. without a visa, or our citizens who travel back and forth directly.”

5. Brampton courthouse locked down after Peel police officer shot, shooter dead

(This is a highly enriched area of Toronto)

Victor Biro / The Canadian PressPeel Region Paramedics rush a Peel Region police officer to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Friday, March 28, 2014 after he was shot at a Brampton courthouse

BRAMPTON — One of Canada’s busiest court houses erupted in pandemonium Friday morning as a man armed with a gun shot a police officer at the security screening area and forced his way to nearby elevators before police shot the man dead.

The wounded officer, Const. Mike Klarenbeek, a 29-year veteran of the force, was rushed to Sunnybrook hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Hamza Khan, a defendant on the way to his trial, had just boarded the elevator when shots rang out behind him.

Thank you LCC, DP111, Fjordman, Grace,

1. US forces set to redefine roles for last remaining effective combat troops. (I don’t really understand what the admin is saying, but it smacks of ‘community organizing’)

2. Bill Warner speaks on how churches may be the best bulwark against encroaching islam.

3. Kenya restricts Somali refugees to camps

(What does Kenya know that we don’t seem to be willing to admit to knowing?)
Some half a million Somalis live in the Dadaab refugee camp

Kenya has ordered all urban-based Somali refugees to move into designated camps in a bid to end attacks by militant Islamists.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the directive had been issued because of the “emergency security challenges” facing Kenya.

A refugee group condemned the decision as illegal.

Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group has carried out a spate of attacks in Kenya in recent years.

4. Leader of Egyptian Military announces candidacy for president of Egypt.

(Whats that thing Gomer Pyle always used to say?)

5. US response to Egyptian trial verdict.

(She isn’t entirely wrong but it may be entirely necessary)

6. Hate crime hoax at US university. Woman who reported anti-black graffiti wrote it herself. Meanwhile, this could very well be a real hate crime. But as the victims are not described we can’t know for sure. All the attackers are black and there is nowhere in the report where it lists what they said if anything, or what the victims look like. Read it and offer your best guess. One thing is for sure. The girl did not bash her own teeth out with a brick while walking home from school.

7. He’s the only hate preacher in the village: Firebrand Muslim cleric buys church hall in heart of Midsomer Murder country to broadcast vile rants to Middle East

(If memory serves, Henry II  had something wise to say about  turbulent clerics)

Sheikh Yasser al-Habib spent £2million buying a disused hall in Fulmer and turning it into a mosque which is also the base for his controversial satellite TV channel.

Last week, Ofcom revealed it was powerless to stop the cleric’s incendiary broadcasts, which are said to stir up conflict between al-Habib’s Shia sect and rival Sunni Muslims.

Now locals in the small village – favoured by celebrities such as Vernon Kay and Ozzy Osbourne – are concerned that Fulmer will become the unlikely setting for a vicious war of words between the two sects

8. After 44 Years, This European Country Is Finally Getting Its First Mosque

(Yeah cause you know, we are the intolerant ones)

Like Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina has a significant Islamic population with its own cultural and religious touchstones. The Ottoman conquest reached almost to the eastern gates of Vienna in the 16th century, and Slovenia, south of Austria between Italy and Hungary, remained a holdout. As a result, she says, “there is still that idea of Islam as totally other, as dangerous, you know, with all these stereotypical ideas and images.”

9. BDS Movement Targets Rolling Stones

Well, that didn’t take long.

Yesterday, after months of speculation, the iconic British rock group, the Rolling Stones, confirmed their forthcoming trip to Israel, performing on June 4th at Tel Aviv’s legendary HaYarkon Park.

Not even a full 24 hours later, unfortunately, the campaign for them to cancel is already in full force.

(To the BDS protesters. Might I suggest the following?)

Thank you Richard, M, Fjordman, KitmanTV, UK Pete, LinaN, and of course, Keith, Mick, Ronnie Bill and Charlie Watts.