IDF SOLDIER ABDUCTED AND MURDERED BY MUSLIM IN SAMARIA

A tragedy has taken place involving a Muslim illegally employed in Bat Yam:

An Israel Defense Forces soldier, Sergeant Tomer Hazan of Bat Yam, 20, was abducted Friday and murdered in Samaria by an Arab terrorist.

The victim's family has been notified.

The motive for the murder was the terrorist's plan to trade the body of his victim for the freedom of his brother, a Fatah terrorist who has been in jail in Israel for the last ten years.

The soldier's family reported Friday that he went missing and failed to make contact since the morning hours. The Shin Bet, together with the IDF and the police, began a strenuous investigation, and came up with intelligence information indicating that the soldier had taken a cab together with an Arab man who worked with him in a restaurant in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.

The Arab is named Nadal Amar, and he is a resident of the village of Bayt Amin, near Kalkilya. The two had taken the taxi toward Shaarei Tikva, which is close to that village.

Early morning Saturday, IDF forces, together with Yamam special police and Shin Bet, raided the home of Amar's family and arrested him, together with another brother. Nadal Amar confessed under interrogation that he persuaded the soldier to come to his village. He then murdered him in an open field and hid his body in a water hole.

The murder has triggered justified outrage against the restaurant that employed him:

Usually crowded on Saturday nights, “Tzachi Meats” in Bat Yam remained shuttered after Shabbat ended, and if the angry crowd outside had their way, it would stay that way for good.

Hours after it was reported that Bat Yam local Sgt. Tomer Hazan, 20, was murdered after being lured to the West Bank by a Palestinian man who he worked with at the restaurant, a crowd of a couple hundred people had gathered outside of the restaurant calling for a permanent boycott of the neighborhood institution.

“Police knew that he employed shabahim [Palestinians illegally in Israel], why didn't they check, why didn't they do something? All of our children were in danger here”, said Elinor, a mother of four boys who said she used to eat at the restaurant on a regular basis.

“It's irresponsible for him to hire shabahim at a place right here in the middle of the city. He abandoned all of us just to save a few extra shekels,” said Ravit, a mother of four standing outside the restaurant on Saturday night.

“We're all hurting with the family, but with the pain is anger. He [the murderer] could have also just set a bomb and blown up the building, killed all of us inside,” Ravit said, adding that she will never eat at the restaurant again.

And I don't want to eat there either. I don't buy the defense the owner blurted out that he didn't know he didn't have legality for the employment. Anyone who would rely on cheap labor in a case like this does not deserve to make capital on the public's dime and deserves to end up homeless for the fiasco they caused.

A PATHETIC ARGUMENT AGAINST RICHARD DAWKINS AT THE UK GUARDIAN

Somebody at the UK Guardian thinks Islam is a race instead of a religion:

Of late, a new variation of the old chestnut "I'm not racist but …" has emerged. It goes: "I've got nothing against Muslims, it's Islam I hate". Otherwise known as the "Islam is not a race" argument.

After I wrote about Richard Dawkins's snide attack on the supposed dearth of Muslim scientific and cultural achievement, some critics hit back along these lines. It is acceptable to criticise and belittle Islam because it is a religion, not an ethnic grouping – and therefore fair game.

It is acceptable to condemn Islam because it's an ideology condoning violence and child slavemongering, as seen in the Koran/Hadith chapters involving Mohammed's marriage to the 9-year-old Ayesha. What a dummy the woman who wrote this is. She even tries to justify her position by saying:

Technically, they are right – Islam is not a race. But too often, those who deploy the argument, are borrowing from the Bill Clinton school of sophistry: "I did not have racist relations with that religion".

Oh, this doesn't make any sense. (And what Clinton said was "I did not have sex with that woman".) "Technically"? No, really, it's not, any more than Christianity and Buddhism are a race, or even Judaism is a race, rather than the founding religion of the Jews. Yes, I'm serious, there is a difference, and there ought to be. Yes, the name "Jews" sounds the same, but there's still a difference there. Funny that she actually views Clinton in a negative light though, his leftism notwithstanding.

Under British law, Jewish people are classified as belonging to a race (something that Dawkins, incidentally, disagrees with) since they are deemed to have a shared culture and history that goes beyond the religious sphere. Do I share history, culture and other reference points with Muslims around the world that go beyond the practice of Islam? Definitely. But it is a loose, secular feeling.

Assuming she's being truthful about what Dawkins thinks about calling us a race, that's one point she's made honestly, because it's true, Jews/Israelis are a race. So Dawkins would be stupid to suggest we're not.

And if she's a default Muslim, the impression is that she doesn't adhere strongly to religious practice. Otherwise, what she should be saying is that she's of Arabic/Pakistani/other descent, which she hasn't done.

Does this make me immune to discrimination that Muslims face? Certainly not, given the long hours I have spent in immigration queues, undergoing extended background checks and visa processing times. So clearly, in that sense, Islam is not a race, but Muslims are. It's entirely legitimate to question and interrogate Islam as a religion. It is not fair to do so against Muslims based on their religious or cultural identity.

Okay, I've seen it all now. I guess she thinks Christianity isn't a race but Christians are too. As for Jews and Judaism, I'll admit, that's where some better distinction is needed, and one day, we'll have to work on it, if it comes in handy (maybe Israelis and Judaism?).

This poor leftist probably won't admit it, but she's just insulted entire societies of Arabs and Pakistanis by saying they have no such nationality, let alone identity. Some way to dehumanize races by putting religion over race, and not being willing to admit that an ideology can promote itself as supremacist.

FINLAND APOLOGIZES FOR ANTI-SEMITISM DURING 1938 ATHLETES COMPETITION

It's a small but noble step:

In a small but symbolic gesture, the Finnish Amateur Athletic Association (SUL) has apologized for revoking an obvious 100 meter victory from a Jewish athlete in Helsinki in June 1938.

"Any manipulation of the results is shocking and goes against our fundamental values in sports ...On behalf of the SUL, I present my sincerest apologies to those who have suffered injustices and to their families," SUL chairman Vesa Harmaakorpi said in a statement published late Wednesday.

[...] although anti-Semitism was not a very widespread political ideology in Finland in the 1930s, there were "anti-Semitic sentiments like in most European countries", historian Oula Silvennoinen said.

He said SUL's apologies come after "repeated pressure" put on the association, and noted that Finns "were long reluctant to examine or acknowledge events that took place in Finland during the German national-socialism era".

It's not new. Plenty of Europeans failed to recognize their mistakes, and still do. This is a positive step for now. But Finland and other European countries still have a long way to go.

HONOR THIS AMERICAN HERO

(from Fix Bayonets!)


Woody Williams is the last surviving recipient of the Medal of Honor from one of the most important Pacific campaigns (Iwo Jima). He will celebrate his 90th birthday this year.

Honor this American hero by sending Mr. Williams a card in time for his birthday on 2 October 2013. Please forward the card in time to arrive before that date to:

Woody Williams, Medal of Honor
c/o Gary Alexander
1109 Hillcrest Blvd,
Gainesville, TX 76240

Additional information about Woody Williams HERE.

SAUDI "MORALITY POLICE" CHIEF SAYS BAN ON WOMEN DRIVING NOT PART OF SHARIA

Yeah, right, that's what he says:

Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters on Thursday.

Sheikh Abdulatif Al al-Sheikh stressed that he has no authority to change Saudi policy on women driving, but his comment may feed into a national discussion in Saudi Arabia, where women have in the past been arrested for defying the ban.

Even without any specific law against women driving, women who defied the prohibition have been arrested by the country's regular police department and put on trial on charges that include causing public disturbance.

"Islamic sharia does not have a text forbidding women driving," said Al al-Sheikh, who was appointed by King Abdullah last year to head the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the formal name of the religious police.

No kidding. Then how come there are texts in the Koran that condone enslavement of women, and declare that men are a "degree above them" (Sura 2:228)? This is exactly why the ban on women driving in the House of Saud, among other countries where Islam reigns supreme. They impose it as their way of ensuring women will remain subservient to men.

The head of the Saudi mutawa's arguments just fall flat on the ground.

INTEL REPORTS PREDICTED STONE THROWING AT TEMPLE MOUNT

There was a Muslim riot on the Temple Mount shortly before the beginning of the Succot holiday:

Israeli police were attacked Wednesday morning during a patrol of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The police arrived for the patrol after receiving intelligence indicating the possibility of a stone-throwing attack from one of the mosques at the holy site, according to a report by Arutz Sheva. The patrolling police force was attacked precisely in the way predicted by the intelligence report.

The police dispersed several dozen Arab youths who were throwing stones and rioting, while others ran into a nearby mosque.

Three police officers were injured in the clash. Two were treated on the spot and a third was evacuated for further treatment.

Police arrested two of the rioters on suspicion of public disorder, and a third person on suspicion of inciting public disorder.

The main culprits, naturally, are the imams who incited this chaos in the first place.

THE BLAME-GAME REPACKAGED

Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman at the Jerusalem Post wrote about how the blaming Jews mentality of the 1920s and 30s - perpetuated by monsters like Hitler and Henry Ford - is now being repackaged in the middle east by regimes like Bashar Assad's in Syria.

EITAN HABER SAYS YITZHAK RABIN DIDN'T WANT TO SHAKE ARAFAT'S HAND

One of the late leftist prime minister's former aides said the following about his former boss:

Former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin did not believe at first that the Oslo Accords would lead to peace, his close associate said on Wednesday.

Only initially? In that case, I'm skeptical he really cared at all.

Eitan Haber, who served as Rabin’s bureau chief, wrote a column in the Yediot Aharonot newspaper and described what happened in the hours that led up to the signing of the Oslo Accords on the White House lawn in 1993.

Haber wrote that Rabin felt that, despite the many celebrations of the agreement with former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, "Nothing will come of it.”

"I expressed my opinion that you cannot bridge a century of terror and bloodshed in one shot,” wrote Haber. “Rabin then replied, ‘That's just it.’”

Haber recalled that Rabin was unsure up to the last moment whether he should sign the agreement, and also loathed the thought of having to shake hands with Arafat, who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Jews.

“He wanted to avoid shaking hands with Arafat if possible,” wrote Haber, who added that moments before the trip to the White House, Rabin told his advisers that he would “take an anti-nausea pill and go.”

Rabin insisted that Arafat would not appear at the signing ceremony in his military uniform and carry a gun with him, wrote Haber. Rabin received a promise to that effect from the Americans, but in the end Arafat came to the ceremony without the gun but wearing his military uniform, he added.

Haber tried to explain in the column how it happened that Rabin, who was the number one enemy of Arab terrorist organizations, decided to hold peace talks with the PA Arabs.

“Rabin believed that a nation that has been standing on his toes for more than half a century would ultimately become tired,” he wrote. “Rabin had witnessed this tiredness from his window during the Gulf War, when half a million Israelis fled from the Gush Dan area, fearing Iraqi missiles.”

According to Haber, Rabin also believed that another overwhelming Israeli military victory, such as the one it had in the 1967 Six Day War, would not happen again.

Well, that says everything. What Rabin - who said "settlers" could go and "spin like propellors" really did was embrace a defeatist mindset, insulting intellects by condoning a path to suicide, suggesting that no matter what he thought at first, he finally didn't care about his own country, counting instead on the notion that he would receive little opposition since people were supposedly tired of living.

I don't see how somebody like that is worth admiring. Yet it does make me wonder what some leftists will think of Rabin now, when it's clearer that he didn't like Arafat.

A Man Needs a Penis Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle: Sex, The Gramscian Agenda, And Public Schools

If thy penis offend thee, cut it off and cast it from thee.

From the Withersoon Institute:

Two years ago, the Massachusetts legislature enacted a statute prohibiting, among other things, discrimination in public schools on the basis of “gender identity.” The law defines gender identity as “a person’s gender-related identity, appearance or behavior,” which is not determined by “the person’s physiology or assigned sex at birth.” 

On the basis of that statute, the Massachusetts Department of Education (MDOE) has now eradicated sexual distinctions from public schools. MDOE’s new directive requires schools to let children use bathrooms and play on sports teams according to the gender they personally identify as theirs, not their anatomical sex. The directive also admonishes schools to eliminate sex and gender distinctions in graduation garb, physical education, and other practices.Under Massachusetts law, the connection between gender identity and sexual distinction is now considered a historical accident, the result of arbitrary (at best) or mistaken documentation at birth. MDOE’s directive explains: 

One’s gender identity is an innate, largely inflexible characteristic of each individual’s personality that is generally established by age four, although the age at which individuals come to understand and express their gender identity may vary based on each person’s social and familial social development. As a result, the person best situated to determine a student’s gender identity is that student himself or herself. 

Because the child is solely responsible for identifying his or her own gender, the regulations require school officials to seek the student’s permission before disclosing the student’s gender identity to his or her parents. 

That’s not all. The regulations suggest that students who don’t endorse a fellow student’s gender identity may be subject to punishment. After condemning bullying, the directive endorses a memorandum that a Massachusetts school principal sent to teachers instructing them to discipline students who intentionally refer to a transgender student by his or her given name, or the pronoun corresponding to his or her anatomical sex. Such behavior “should not be tolerated.” 

MDOE justifies these regulations on pedagogical grounds: “All students need a safe and supportive school environment to progress academically and developmentally.” By “all students” MDOE must mean all students who share MDOE’s conception of sex and gender as an individual choice. 

It is not difficult to imagine who will embrace MDOE’s conception. The regulations state, “A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl” (emphasis ours). The caveat that the student might want to be treated like a boy for some purposes seems an implicit admission that gender identity is not, in fact, an inflexible characteristic, as MDOE insists, but rather can adjust over time. And the directive states that the law “does not require consistent and uniform assertion of gender identity” (emphasis original). 

While we doubt that teenage boys will take much interest in the provenance of gender personality, it’s not a stretch to suppose that they will welcome its implications for co-ed activity. 

Perhaps this is why many parents in Massachusetts find these regulations shocking. We must confess that we are not so surprised. Massachusetts lawmakers have for many years been eradicating sexual distinctions from the law. This result seems to us the logical consequence of those efforts. 

Redefining marriage to eliminate sexual complementarity as an essential characteristic doesn’t automatically commit a state to forcing girls to share locker rooms with boys. But there is a logical connection. One of the premises justifying the redefinition of marriage also grounds these new regulations, that is, the view that sexual difference is irrelevant to the practice of marriage. 

But if sexual difference is irrelevant to marriage, then how can it be relevant to any practices? Once the state has determined that sexual difference is no longer a legitimate reason to extend special recognition to man-woman monogamy, there is no reason in principle to maintain sexual distinctions in less intimate practices. If one’s anatomical reality isn’t relevant to one’s marriage, it’s even less obvious why it should be relevant to one’s bathroom choice. 

To be sure, there are prudential implications of eradicating sexual distinction from education laws. But if letting people identify their own gender is a matter of justice, then it’s the job of law to solve the practical problems of implementation. (That is a key lesson of civil rights legislation.) 

Though future practical problems might seem obvious, the law makes it far from clear that there are any. If a boy who identifies as a girl really is a girl, as the law declaims, then any perceived harms resulting from his presence in a girls’ locker room are illusory. No wonder the Commonwealth exhorts school officials to discipline students who object to the arrangement. 

There are other indications that those who perceive inherent differences between men and women will increasingly be marginalized from public life in Massachusetts. A few months ago, a federal court in Massachusetts ruled that the United States Constitution requires the Commonwealth’s Department of Corrections to pay for a sex-change surgery requested by an inmate who is serving time for murder. It is cruel and unusual punishment, the court reasoned, to force the prisoner to keep his anatomy intact while he is incarcerated.This ruling might seem unrelated to removing sexual distinctions from law, but for the court’s reasoning. The court discredited the Commonwealth’s expert witnesses, who expressed doubt that a sex-change surgery is medically necessary, and who recommended treating the prisoner’s psychological and emotional disorders instead. 

The court ruled that these recommendations are “not within the range that would be acceptable by prudent professionals.” In other words, the court decided that no prudent professional would deny sex-change surgery to a male prisoner who identifies himself as a woman. 

The lesson is clear. If you think male and female are two distinct sexes determined by your anatomy at birth, then don’t bother serving as an expert witness in the United States District Court in Massachusetts. Nor can you in good conscience send your children to public school in the Commonwealth. A view of human nature that until very recently was understood to be obvious is becoming a source of disqualification from participating in public life.

A POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT AT THE EU

A meeting with Judea/Samaria representatives took place at the EU:

A historic conference in support of the Jewish settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria took place Tuesday inside one of the bastions of opposition to the Jewish presence in the region – the European Parliament.

The conference was organized by the Deputy Chairman of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Dr. Fiorello Provera of Italy, who became a supporter of the Jewish communities after touring Samaria (Shomron), and by senior MEP Bastiaan Belder of Holland, who has also become a friend of Samaria in recent years.

The Israeli delegation included Samaria (Shomron) Regional Council Head Gershon Mesika, Acting Council Head Yossi Dagan, and the Director of Shomron Foreign Department, Shay Atias. MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) was also a part of the delegation.

David Walzer, Israel's Ambassador to the EU, delivered an address at the conference – the first time he has done so alongside the Samaria representatives.

[...] Samaria Regional Council Head Gershon Mesika said in his speech that “the European Union needs to carry out some serious soul searching, as regards its treatment of the Jewish people throughout history, in general, and specifically in recent years. The bad old anti-Semitism is cloaked in a costume of anti-Israelism nowadays.”

Mesika's deputy, Yossi Dagan, also addressed the gathering.

“The most important thing is to come out and see things with one's own eyes. For years, we have been talking in this building about Judea and Samaria, and yet most people have not been there and have not seen the reality," he said.

Dagan also took the opportunity to call on the EU to end its funding for radical anti-Israel organizations.

"The EU must stop funding the extreme leftist organizations that are sabotaging the coexistence in the factories of Judea and Samaria. This is a great waste of money and it harms coexistence as well as relations between the EU and Israel.”

MK Shaked called for a change in the very terminology employed within the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

“It is time to say the truth: Judea and Samaria are not occupied territory, but disputed territory. That is the truth as far as international law is concerned, as well.”

The Israelis' speeches were marked by applause from the audience.

MEP Adrian Severin of Romania said that the EU needs to rethink its new policy regarding marking products from Judea and Samaria.

I'm glad Severin's made some sense. If he wants to prove his capability in mending fences, he can come take a tour here without fear of being hated by anti-Israelists. The same goes for many other Euro-delegates. And, they can cancel that marketing policy of theirs completely.

TENNESSEE SCHOOL'S PRO-ISLAMIST BIAS

The officials at a school in Hendersonville who took their students to visit a mosque sound like some of the most dishonest people I've ever heard of:

A Tennessee high school has decided to revise its field trip policy after a group of freshmen were taken to an Islamic mosque where they were given copies of the Koran and while a student who opted out of the trip was given a worksheet that alleged Muslims treated their conquered people better than the United States treated minorities.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were an ultra-abridged edition that doesn't provide any insight into the Islamic beliefs in misogyny and child marriage. And they should be absolutely ashamed of themselves for claiming Islam is more tolerant of dhimmis than US whites were of blacks.

The students were in an honors world studies class at Hendersonville High School and the field trips to the mosque as well as a Hindu temple were part of a three-week course on world religions.

But some parents objected to the trips and wondered why the school would tour a mosque but not a Christian church or a Jewish synagogue.

“If you can’t go to all five, why are you going to any?” asked parent Mike Conner. “We sent the principal an email and voiced our concerns. She sent back a reply and told us they could not afford to go to all five.”

I don't buy it. The principal sounds like a coward who can't muster the courage to clarify her positions.

“Our kids are being indoctrinated and this is being shoved in their face,” Conner told Fox News. “It tells me they are pushing other religions and they want Christianity to take a back seat. They want our children to be tolerant of everything except Christianity.”

Don't forget Judaism. The Koran already has its own hate in place for that.

A Sumner County Schools spokesman declined to answer questions about specific religious activities the children may have engaged in, but he did send a statement acknowledging there was concern about the trip.

“Our district has reviewed the practice and decided to eliminate field trips to religious venues from this class, as it does not provide equal representation to all the religions studied in the course unit,” the statement read. “This decision was made due to the fact that equal representation in regards to field trips for all religions studied in the course is not feasible.”

But it doesn't end there:

Conner told Fox News his 14-year-old stepdaughter Jessica decided not to attend the trip. So her teachers instructed her to write a paper comparing and contrasting the Christian, Hindu and Islamic faiths. That’s when his daughter noticed something strange.

“There was one page on the sayings of Jesus, two-thirds of a page on the sayings of Gandhi, and five pages on Muhammed,” Conner said.

The section about Islam was titled, “Religious Tolerance in Islam,” according to the worksheets provided to Fox News.

The author wrote that the “Prophet of Islam was prepared to live in peace with the followers of other monotheistic religions, especially Judaism and Christianity.”

The author also disputed claims that Islam is a violent religion or that conquered nations were given a choice – Islam or death.

“There is no denying that Muslims in the Middle East and Asian conquered lands of other peoples but they did not impose their religion over them,” the author wrote.

The author also stated that minorities conquered by the Muslims were treated better than minorities living in the United States.

“If we were to compare the attitude of the Muslim rulers towards the minorities living under their rule during the nineteenth century – with the attitude of the Europeans and the Americans towards their minorities, I dare to say that the record of the Muslims would be better,” the author wrote.

Conner told Fox News his daughter declined to complete what she considered to be an unfair and unbalanced assignment.

“Because of a surplus in information on Muhammed, and a lack of complete and thorough information on Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus Christ, there is not enough true facts to properly complete a comparison and contrasting paper,” Jessica wrote on her paper.

Her parents warned her that she might be punished by her teachers for standing up for her beliefs – and she was. Jessica received a ‘zero’ for the assignment.

Conner and his wife met with school officials who refused to change their daughter’s grade or give her an assignment that was more balanced.

“They told us we were being hostile towards Islam,” Conner said. “It was a very confrontational meeting. Their attitude was, ‘I can’t believe you would question our motives with your children.’”

Conner said he hopes the school board will take action against the teachers.

“Someone needs to be held accountable,” he said. “They are our children – not theirs.”

I wonder how those disgusting teachers would act if these were members of a group for relatives of 9-11 victims? The author of the reprehensible textbook assignment given to the student should be ashamed of himself for his trutherist approach to Islam; he obviously refused to research history or made up his mind where he stood from the very beginning, and didn't provide any verses from inside the Koran either. And these are the kind of people allowed to run and dictate public schools. They have to come down off their high horses and be honest about where they stand.

WAS AARON ANDREWS SUFFERING FROM A BRAIN TUMOR BROUGHT ON BY HIS 9/11 CLEANUP EFFORTS?

Aaron Andrews himself seemed to believe the 9/11 WTC cleanup efforts had brought on PTSD, and that this PTSD was responsible for the voices in his head. Such auditory hallucinations are, sometimes, a symptom of PTSD.

But of the time, PTSD is characterized by 1) Reliving the experience, 2) Avoiding thoughts, situations, people, or places associated with the original trauma, and 3) "increased arousal", which means, heightened feelings of sadness, joy, anxiety, difficulty falling asleep, etc.

Schizophrenia and Bipolar are often characterized by auditory hallucinations, but the average age for the onset of Major Mental Illness, such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar, is usually in the early teens or early 20's.

Unfortunately, I have spent MORE than my share of time with drug addicts. Aaron Alexis does not look like a drug addict to me. While it is true that some people who are addicted to drugs are able to pass as normal, usually there are subtleties that someone like me can pick up on. He simply does not look like a coke or meth user. Heroin and other depressants would not cause auditory hallucinations. And there is no evidence that Aaron Andrews was using Hallucinogenics.

Aaron Andrews was 34 years old. And best as I can tell from the media reports, his auditory hallucination symptoms had only been presenting themselves for the last year or two, with a significant increase in the past few months. (It is true that he also exhibited anger management issues, and significantly so, as far back as 2004. But anger management is a problem for many people and ought not necessarily be conflated with the exhibition of symptoms such as voices in the head.)

This leads me to believe he may have been suffering from a brain tumor.

Hopefully, this possibility will be considered and checked into by medical authorities.

BRITISH JUDGE DOES NOT ALLOW MUSLIM CONVERT TO TESTIFY WEARING VEIL

Some good news now from the UK, in a case involving a defendant in witness intimidation:

A British court on Monday ruled that a Muslim woman facing criminal charges of witness intimidation must remove her face veil while on the stand giving evidence in court, but that she can wear it while sitting in the dock.

The ruling comes amid shifting sentiments in the UK and across Europe about how far to accept some Islamic cultural practices when they clash with a secular state.

Judge Peter Murphy, of the Blackfriars Crown Court in south London, ruled it is “crucial” for jurors to see the face of the 22-year-old woman when she testifies in her trial on charges of intimidating a witness at a London mosque in June.

The unnamed woman, who converted to Islam and started wearing the head-to-toe covering known as a niqab or full veil last year, wore a niqab last week when she pleaded not guilty to charges against her. But her plea came after the arresting female police officer identified her in a separate room. (British laws restrict publication of details of an ongoing criminal trial).

“There is a pressing need for a court to provide a clear statement of the powers trial judges have to deal with cases where a woman wearing a niqab attends the court,” Judge Murphy said. “The niqab has become the elephant in the courtroom.”

“Given the ever-increasing diversity of society in England and Wales, this is a question which may be expected to arise more and more frequently and to which an answer must be provided,” he said.

London has a generally free atmosphere for religious behavior and dress, and more women from an orthodox background are seen wearing a full length veil than in most European cities.

Yet the circumstances of a British defendant facing criminal charges who claims that religious accommodation rights trump the rights of the state court – appeared to go too far for Judge Murphy.

“No tradition or practice, whether religious or otherwise, can claim to occupy such a privileged position that the rule of law, open justice and the adversarial trial process are sacrificed to accommodate it,” he stated. “That is not discrimination against religion, it is a matter of upholding the rule of law in a democratic society.”

I congratulate the judge for his perceptive approach to the issue. That's a definite plus in a country where multiculturalism has gone overboard, and niqabs are more noticeable than in other parts of the continent. But how much longer will men of sanity like him be able to make these vital points? Unless the UK's population is going to wake up, ditto the politicians, it could all one day get to the point where the legal system will become a kangaroo court.

THEY DON'T DESERVE A STATE

Ari Lieberman wrote on Front Page Magazine about why the so-called palestinians do not deserve a state, especially considering their repulsive Islamofascist mindset and conduct:

On November 20, 2012 six Palestinian civilians, accused of collaborating with Israel, were dragged from their homes in Gaza City by Palestinian gunmen. The butchery that followed represented depravity in the extreme, even by Palestinian standards. The six were summarily executed before an approving crowd that included children and at least one was dragged through the city streets, tethered to a motorcycle. There was no trial, no jury, no judge, no defense attorney and no prosecutor, only thugs armed with AK-47s. Welcome to “Palestine,” the sweetheart of the misguided, adoring left and the neo-fascist right.

The level of brutality witnessed on that November day is not confined to areas controlled by Hamas nor is it an aberration. The Palestinian Authority, which is dominated by the rival Fatah gang and which controls some 40% of Judea & Samaria (the West Bank) routinely engages in systematic torture, suppression of free speech, arbitrary jailing, incitement to violence and discriminatory practices against its ever-decreasing minority Christian population. Its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is an unelected, Holocaust-denying, autocrat who is adept at deceiving Western audiences but expresses positions supportive of Hamas when addressing Arabic listeners.

David Keyes, in an insightful Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, correctly noted that how a nation abides by the treaties it signs with its neighbors can be measured by how it treats its own citizens. Judging by the Palestinian Authority’s abysmal human rights record (not to mention that of Hamas) it does not look encouraging.

[...] As the circumstances in Egypt, Syria and Iraq have taught us, the world can ill-afford the creation of yet another dysfunctional, undemocratic Arab state. The creation of such an entity will almost certainly invite regional instability. Moreover, a society that instinctively cheers as civilians are maimed and murdered and whose charter still calls for the dismantling of another U.N. member state is undeserving of statehood.

Absolutely correct. Those who live by evil don't deserve the very tools that will enable them to continue their horrors.

INCONTROVERTIBLE FACT: THE NAVY YARD MASSACRE WAS THE RESULT OF GUN CONTROL

IF THE NAY YARD WAS NOT A GUN FREE ZONE, THEN THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE THERE.

IF THE PEOPLE WORKING IN THE NAVY YARD HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO CARRY GUNS - AND MOST ARE MILITARY TRAINED IN THEIR USE  - THEN THE CRAZED GUNMAN WOULDN'T HAVE DARED ATTACKING THEM, AND IF HE HAD , THEN HE'D HAVE BEEN TAKEN DOWN BEFORE KILLING A DOZEN OF OUR BEST.

CRAZED GUNMEN LOOKING TO KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY CAN DO NOT GO TO PLACES WHERE THEY THINK THERE WILL BE ARMED GUARDS OR ARMED CITIZENS.

GUN CONTROL IS WHY WE HAVE THE MASS KILLINGS.

PUTIN, SYRIA, OBAMA AND... "STYLE POINTS"?!?!?!?

SADLY, THE TRUTH IS OBAMA IS ALL STYLE AND NO SUBSTANCE - AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN.

I DEMAND AL GORE AND THE IPCC RETURN THEIR NOBEL PRIZE...

... BECAUSE AL GORE AND THE IPCC WAS TOTALLY EFFING WRONG AND HIS CLIMATE HYSTERIA HAS HURT THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THAT HAS HURT POOR PEOPLE AND THE UNDER-DEVELOPED THIRD WORLD THE MOST.

THIS CHARTS PROVES HOW ABYSMAL THE IPCC HAS BEEN:

AND THIS PROVES AL GORE WAS WRONG ABOUT THE ARCTIC:

PEOPLE WHO STILL BELIEVE IN MAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE ARE WILLFULLY BIND OR IDIOTS.

IF WE CAN GET THE RULING CLASS AND THEIR CRONIES IN THE CROOKED ANTI-CO2 ECONOMY TO ADMIT THERE IS NO MAN-MADE CO2 PROBLEM, THEN WE CAN GET CARBON-BASED ENERGY TAXES REDUCED AND REDUCE THE COST OF ENERGY GLOBALLY AND THIS WILL SPUR GROWTH IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY - WHICH WILL HELP EVERYONE.

FASTER PLEASE!

OMFG: OBAMA EXPLICITLY ADMITS HE IS ARMING TERRORISTS

ZIP/WZ:

... Obama basically admitted he’s arming jihadists.

Via Washington Examiner:

President Obama waived a provision of federal law designed to prevent the supply of arms to terrorist groups to clear the way for the U.S. to provide military assistance to “vetted” opposition groups fighting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

ISN'T THERE ONE SINGLE SOLITARY BRAVE CONGRESSMAN WHO WILL DEMAND OBAMA BE IMPEACHED NOW!?!?!?

OSLO ACCORD ENGINEERS HAVE YET TO ISSUE AN APOLOGY

Michael Freund wrote several days ago about how the Israeli public is still awaiting an apology from the reprehensible politicians who crafted the Oslo accords that led to much horror and division among the people of Israel. And said politicians continue to be extraordinarily dishonest and vehemently refuse to admit their mistakes.

BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE CAVES, REPEALS BAN ON BURKAS

More dhimmitude in England at a university:

Britain has become engrossed in a public debate over religious expression after the Metropolitan College of Birmingham recently lifted a ban on wearing the Muslim face veil.

The college had banned wearing Muslim headdresses in class for eight years, but controversy began when a Muslim student spoke to a local newspaper claiming that their policy was institutionalized prejudice.

Those opposing the ban, who have popular support on social media networks, claim that it is a racist ruling that casts out Muslims and infringes on their freedom of religion to wear a niqab or burqa. At the height of the debate there had been rumors that the academic institution intended to ban all prayers on campus.

[...] Following days of constant public debate, including a petition against the headdress ban that got 9,000 signatures in 48 hours, the college's administration expressed on its Facebook page that it was concerned the media coverage was hurting the institution's image, and repealed the ban.

Quite different in some ways from France and Holland, where public opinion achieved much better results. The grave problem in Britain is that on the one hand, you have organized Muslim movements enjoying protection from the dhimmis, and on the other, the dhimmis are opposed to even organized resistance like the EDL. Exactly what's sending the country on the road to ruin.

NANNY STATE UNREINED

It appears that there is now an investigation of NYC dinner parties because some of these parties are not being regulated.

From CBS 2 in NYC (hat tip to Western Hero):

CBS 2 Investigation: Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties

As you sit down to dinner, this story illustrates eating out like you have never experienced before. We are talking about super-secret, illegal dining experiences hosted in homes.

CBS 2 investigative reporter Tamara Leitner went undercover to see firsthand how this underground world works.

It may look like a dinner party, but it’s really an underground supper club.

The diners are a mix of New Yorkers and tourists. CBS 2’s undercover cameras captured one experience — eight people who didn’t know each other eating a meal in a stranger’s home....

Someone's PRIVATE home.

Think about that. SOMEONE'S PRIVATE HOME!

All are consenting adults — participating in an activity outside the boundaries of Nanny State regulations.

MUSLIM MOTHER HONOR MURDERS MENTALLY IMPAIRED DAUGHTER IN RAMALLAH

Another case of unfeminine Muslim mothers has struck in the worst of ways:

A Palestinian mother turned herself in to police and admitted to beating and hanging her mentally disabled daughter, authorities said.

The mother killed her daughter after discovering that she was pregnant, the Gulf News reported.

The 21-year-old victim's body was taken to the hospital for an autopsy, and police said they have begun an investigation.

The victim's father and brother disappeared after the crime, and police said they are searching for them.

Gulf News said the crime was an honor killing, committed due to the victim bring shame or dishonor upon the family.

Activists have denounced honor killings.

"This phenomenon should come to an end with immediate effect," activist Maysoon Qawasmeh said. "Such killers should be tried under premeditated murder charges to enable justice for women in Palestine."

And the activist denouncing this is no better, because she's furthering the palestine lie. Doing that is a perfect way of legitimizing the grounds on which Islamisogynists can ply their trade. If Qawasmeh is a Muslim, then he/she (I can't figure out the gender) has no business denouncing what's part and parcel of the Koran.

JEWISH HOME AND LIKUD MKS SEND NETANYAHU A MESSAGE AGAINST GIVING UP ANY MORE LAND

The Knesset members of Naftali Bennett's party and the Likud have begun to put some much needed pressure on Netanyahu:

Knesset members on the right began pressuring Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday to minimize the number of concessions he authorizes in diplomatic negotiations with the PLO.

The MKs said they were concerned that US Secretary of State John Kerry would pressure Netanyahu to make more concessions and therefore found it necessary to counteract Kerry’s demands with pressure of their own. To that end, 16 MKs in the coalition wrote the prime minister as he was meeting with Kerry.

“Tell the secretary of state that Israel has no intention of returning to the parameters of the Oslo Accords or relinquishing any more of Israel’s homeland to the Palestinian Authority,” they wrote.

Among the MKs were legislators from Likud Beytenu and Bayit Yehudi, including deputy ministers Ze’ev Elkin (Foreign Ministry), Tzipi Hotovely (Transportation), Eli Ben- Dahan (Religious Services), Avraham Wortzman (Education) and Ophir Akunis (Knesset Liaison).

I've already lost respect for Netanyahu for releasing jihadists from prison, which was an insult to the memory of his brother Jonathan.

Update: extra report here.

PHOTO: PUTIN AND HIS BITCH

Seriously: it was never a fair fight: a former KGB colonel against a community organizer? Obama is out of his league. Or on the other team. Who won? Putin, Assad and Iran. As they've been doing since the day Obama took the oath.

Hundreds Unaccounted for in Colorado Floods - Clearly, Obama Doesn't Care About White People

Uh yeah,

NO!

A natural disaster is a natural disaster.

After Hurricane Katrina, black people all over the country claimed George Bush was a racist because of his slow response in New Orleans. Never mind that the black mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, never bothered to encourage people to leave.

Kanye West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

George Bush called this "the worst moment of my Presidency."

There was even a protest song claiming Bush didn't care about black people, just abandoned them to die in the mud.

Now, flash floods in Colorado, a predominantly white area of the country, have made hundreds disappear.

You won't hear anyone claiming any of this has anything to do with Obama.

And, that is not merely because of the bias of the media. NO ONE thinks this has anything to do with Obama.

Natural disasters happen. And, just as they happen under Bush, they happened under Obama. Natural disasters are not motivated by race. And no white person who ever claimed there was a racial element to the deaths in a natural disaster would ever be afforded any respect were he to voice such an idiotic opinion in public.

The difference is, white culture is not a victim culture. We do not thrive on our victimhood.

Black culture largely defines itself by it's victimhood. While there are some good historical reasons for this having been true, it is clear that for the most part, black people are not subject to the same historical forces that made them victims in the past.

Yet our culture tolerates and even vaunts the Cult of Black Victimhood.

Frankly, this is because certain segments of our society really are racist. There are several streams of racism that come together to put forward this racist meme in our society,

1) The "soft bigotry of low expectations": There are many in the (biased leftward) MSM who really believe we can't expect anything more of black people than to make stupid comments like "George Bush doesn't care about white people." They think we need to tolerate the stupidity of this form of black culture. They even believe that most black people think this way, so we have to help them voice their concerns. I do not believe most black people are as stupid as Kanye West. I think the racists in the MSM help perpetuate the myth of the victimized black person, and this does a great disservice to the preponderance of real black people out there who are trying to create good lives for themselves, instead of bitterly clinging to their victimhood status.

2) The Left-wing of the Democrat Party has set up all sorts of government scams by which the party and it's cronies profit on the cult of black victimhood. Most obviously, there are Obamaphones and Food Stamps, but there are also free school lunches, Public Housing, and many other government handouts. which only serve to increase the power of the Leftists as they wind up controlling the departments which administer the large amounts of "government money", which in truth is YOUR MONEY. Black culture is not responsible for the stupid things the Leftists do to serve black culture. But "The Soft Bigotry" crowd is responsible in that they have helped perpetuate the myth that we can expect no more of black people than to waste away on food stamps and Obamaphones. Thus, The Soft Bigotry crowd in the MSM helps keep the Leftist scam-artists in power by perpetuating the myth of black victimhood.

3) "Black Leaders" like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, and the Black Caucus do not represent the mainstream of black America, but they do represent the mainstream of the cult of Black Victimhood. The black people of America never elected Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson as leaders. The MSM did. These "Black Leaders" are a necessary tool of the two streams of racism above, and they also serve to continue to reinforce the myth of Black Victimhood.

This is a cruel and terrible cycle of racism, built like a malevolent wheel into the works of our permanent political system.

Until this wheel is removed from the works of our political system, it will continue to serve a very real inequality in our culture. Not the inequality between the races, which is an old, tired, and sick idea, not the inequality of black victims of racism, but the very real inequality of a mainstream of American culture (made up of white people, Asians, Hispanics, Indians, Arabs, etc.) who all look at the Cult of Black Victimhood and believe in it to varying degrees, and thus look at black people as pains in the ass who constantly cry, moan, and wail for more, more, more to make up for the supposed less, less, less that is their lives.

Remember, America is made up of immigrants. Many of these immigrants came here fleeing from terrible oppression of one form or another, they came here with nothing, and they have made something great of their lives with the opportunities afforded them by the American system.

How do you think these people feel when they observe the seemingly permanent class of "Black Victims" in American culture?

This is the real inequality that exists for black people. The disrespect that comes to a culture which is defined by victimhood.

BRITAIN'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SMALLER THAN IT WAS BEFORE

The UK Observer wrote about the state of Britain's Jewish population, which is less than I'd once figured it to be. It once stood at something like 500,000 Jews, but now?

...the significance of – and, according to its founders, the need for – JW3 is that the Jewish community of Britain has changed seismically in recent years.

For one thing, it has grown much smaller. The numbers have shrunk by nearly half since its high-water mark immediately after the second world war, with tens of thousands of Jews marrying out, or just opting out, of the faith, while others emigrated to the new state of Israel.

Despite their major impact in areas such as the professions, science, culture and the arts, the Jews of Britain now comprise a grand total of some 260,000 souls – less than 0.5% of the population. Outwardly, they are more self-confident, especially younger Jews who have grown up in an increasingly multicultural Britain.

But you need only to have visited any synagogue for Saturday's Yom Kippur observance – with young security volunteers checking each arrival and patrolling the exterior – to be aware of an abiding, post-9/11 concern over the possibility of anti-Jewish vandalism, or worse.

Amid the controversy surrounding Israel's stalled peace process with the Palestinians, some Jews, especially university students, have also found campaigns such as the push for an academic boycott increasingly unsettling. Whatever their own views on Israeli policies, for many Jews on British campuses, "anti-Israel" invective has sometimes come to feel not a lot different from antisemitism.

So the population went down by nearly half of what it used to be a decade or so ago. They've given some good ideas why. In a country like France, while not without filthy scum around, they've got more common sense and realization what the real dangers are. In Britain, while the EDL is a great bunch to have around, I sadly suspect there's not enough folks who can get the hang of things, and with the communist-style policies running rampant there - much worse than in France - it's a disaster even for Jews. I do wonder though if the Satmar and Neturei Karta will end up becoming the majority of Jews living there, if they think the UK's policies are to their liking?

So obviously, Britain's Jewish population went down because the country's mindset was not welcoming to them, something that's not so new, recalling what Dickens' Oliver Twist was first like in its depiction of Fagin.

PHILLIPPINE MILITARY TAKING BACK COASTAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM JIHADISTS

The Filipino army has run an offensive against the Muslim terrorists clogging up the coastal arteries in the south of the Phillippines:

Nearly 100 Muslim guerrillas who have held scores of people hostage for a week in a southern Philippine city have been killed or captured in an offensive to retake rebel-held coastal communities, officials said Sunday.

Army troops and police special forces have regained rebel-held grounds and are pressing an assault deeper into communities in the coastal outskirts of Zamboanga city, where more than 100 Moro National Liberation Front guerrillas are holding an unspecified number of hostages, military spokesman Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said.

"We're gaining ground, we're pushing forward," he said.

Troops are calibrating their firepower to avoid harming civilians, Zagala said.

At least 51 rebels have been killed and 42 others captured, most while trying to escape along the coast after discarding their camouflage uniforms for ordinary clothes, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas said, adding that the gunmen would face criminal charges.

It was a huge, greivous error for the government to make any deals with the terrorists, and now, they'll be doing the right to cancel that deal once and for all.

EGYPT WARNS ISLAMOFASCIST PROTESTORS NOT TO BLOCK ROADS AND TRAFFIC

The current Egyptian government warned the Muslim Brotherhood sympathisers not to intercept traffic with their pointless protests.

Why not confiscate all their Islamist propaganda tools and materials altogether, including the mosques where they incite against the civilized society?