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Authorities "do not yet have a motive" of suspect who tried to break into American Airlines cockpit while shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
CLUE IN TURKEY:
THOUSANDS of protesters in Turkey screaming “Allahu Akbar” held a mock funeral for Osama Bin Laden.ALLAH HU AKBAR IS A PRETTY GOSH DARN GOOD CLUE.
Inside, Father Cherubim Awad said a conspiracy was the only possible explanation for the violence that had engulfed relations between Christians and Muslims in recent weeks."Five churches were attacked on the same night," he said. "From the beginning of this year we have had all these attacks in a short space of time.
"There is some hidden hand behind this, whether from inside the country or outside it."
BECAUSE JIHADISTS WANT IT, THERE WILL BE SECTARIAN WAR IN EGYPT AND IT WILL ENGULF THE NATION SOONER THAN YOU THINK.
IT MAY VERY WELL BE AS BLOODY S THE SERB/CROATIAN/BOSNIAN WARS - THOUGH PROBABLY FOUGHT ON A MUCH CRUDER MOB LEVEL.
IN IRAQ, WE WERE ABLE TO INTERVENE AND SAVE DEMOCRACY FOR IRAQIS.
WE WON'T INTERVENE IN EGYPT. EVEN OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY TURNS ITS GUNS ON THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE.
SIGH.
IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. WHO CAN STOP IT? MUBARAK KEPT IT CHECK - AS TITO DID YUGOSLAVIA.
MEANWHILE: ASSAD SLAUGHTERS HIS OWN PEOPLE AND THE IRANIANS ARE GETTING NUKES.
5/10/11 UPDATE: BARRY RUBIN AGREES THAT EGYPT IS DETERIORATING RAPIDLY...
UNDER OBAMA THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE FOR THE WEST.
Asked what government system they preferred in future, about 40 percent said they want an Islamic caliphate. In addition, 24 percent seek a system like those in Arab countries, and only 12 percent prefer one like that in European countries.I wonder if there's a good word for the opposite of nationalism, because I don't like to think nationalism is the best way to describe those who would prefer autocracy over freedom. Also worth noting is that in
While defining what an "Arab system" means is ambiguous, it is reasonable to presume that means an Arab nationalist dictatorship since at this moment virtually no Arab country is a democracy.
New Mexico has reported America's first human case of bubonic plague this year, the frightening disease once known as the Black Death.
Officials revealed an unidentified 58-year-old man is recovering after spending a week in hospital with the illness, which kills one in seven who catch it.
The man, from Santa Fe County, was treated and released, but officials would not say exactly where or when.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385127/Man-diagnosed-bubonic-plague-Americas-case-year.html#ixzz1Lt2qQ7sf
Today begins Israel's 63rd Independence Day, with the official ceremony on Mount Herzl. Here's a bit of commentary on the history involved:Israel is 63 years old.Continue reading at the link. And here's more on some of the people who were chosen to light torches on Independence Day (I can't seem to access the embed code, or I'd add the video here). They're excited at being invited to light the big candles, and this is definitely an occasion to be marveled at.
It began as an effort to do the impossible: revive the Hebrew language and resettle the Jewish People in the Holy Land, almost two millennia after the Jewish capital of Jerusalem was occupied by Roman legions and the Holy Temple burnt down.
Over the centuries, the Jews had seemed to turn into a non-nation: a multicolored world tribe of wanderers, always weeping for their lost glory, always on the run, forever fearful of the wrath of the "normal" nations within whose borders they resided.
All nations recognized the Jews' unique talent, and realized the debt that civilization owed the ancient nation. Monotheism, the precepts of Western morality, the idea of nationality that transcends time and borders, even the seven-day week and the Sabbath were passed on to the world by this Semitic-Mediterranean tribe.
As the world progressed from "Dark Ages" to modernity, all recognized the utterly disproportionate contribution that Jews made, as individuals and as a group, to the commercial, financial, scientific and political systems that defined the new world. Amazing breakthroughs in knowledge, bold artistic revolutions and earth-shaking world movements were formed and led by the progeny of Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya'akov.
Save the Children appeal to the Norwegian and Swedish ministers take up the issue with their Saudi counterparts, and asks private companies to take up the exploitation of children when they hit their business.- I am not surprised by the information about the existence of such traffic to Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region, particularly in light of that marriage with children is widespread and accepted, "said Sannah Johnson, regional director of the Middle East for the Swedish Save the Children.A well-organized network of traffickers supplying the Arab market with child brides from the North African country of Mauritania, says U.S. diplomats.Retrieved as sex slaves in their thousands from Yemen, in addition to that there is an extensive sex industry in Yemen offering sex with minors to rich men from the Gulf states, the Wikileaks documents and Aftenposten Bergens Tidende has access to.
A German city funded and hosted a pro-Hamas “The Return Generation Knows the Way” conference Saturday, complete with Nazi terminology and incitement for suicide bombings.I'm still wondering why anybody wastes their time with any of Germany's exports, if this is how their politicians, and especially society, are going to run their business.
The Hamas-linked anti-Israel Palestine Return Center in London, which has become a de facto center for Hamas and other radical Muslim groups, hosted the confab that in the words of the American Jewish Committee, has the single aim of “the denial of the existence of the State of Israel.” [...]
The Hamas conference in the city of Wuppertal also has adapted the Nazi slogan of the “final solution,” which referred to the death machine that gassed, butchered and starved 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, and has twisted it around to promote a “final solution” for foreign Arabs allegedly claiming Israel as home.
"The conference unites extremist forces throughout Europe with well-meaning but naïve supporters of the peace process who turn a blind eye to the profoundly anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic nature of the previous eight conferences." according to Deidre Berger, Director of the AJC Berlin Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations.
Similiar conferences, which are held primarily in Arabic, attract thousands of participants. Speakers at the conferences, including videotaped messages from Hamas officials, deny Israel’s right to existence, reject peace negotiations and glorify suicide bombings.
“German officials send mixed signals when they declare support for the government of Israel but allow conferences to take place on German soil with speakers who openly deny Israel’s right to existence,” said Berger.
Even by conventional standards, Hollis had a far from unblemished record. From the Forties to the Sixties, the security services were hit with a series of disasters, from the case of the atomic traitor Klaus Fuchs, to the security catastrophe that was the Profumo scandal, and the defections of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby, all of whom escaped to the Eastern Bloc with ease. Throughout this period, the methods used by Hollis and his curious unwillingness to take action were the cause of consternation among many of his colleagues. The serial failings seemed to indicate that deep within the service there was an active Soviet mole who was aiding Russia and hindering Britain. Even today, thanks to the help of the Russian historian Dr Svetlana Chervonnaya, I am unearthing fresh revelations. We can now prove, for example, that such a double agent did indeed exist. Intelligence messages and a crucial Russian document provided by the former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev showed that a GRU agent codenamed Elli worked inside British intelligence...Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384646/Red-Sonia-Christine-Keeler-final-damning-evidence-Britains-biggest-traitor.html#ixzz1LnrpUUTu
Many find it hard to believe that Hollis, who was the son of a bishop, could have become a Soviet agent. Born in Wells in 1905, as a teenager Hollis was an assiduous worker. But he led a rumbustious life at Oxford, drinking heavily, and he left the university before taking his degree. Later, he would say he left Oxford of his own choice, but he never gave a satisfactory explanation of why his next move was to seek his fortune in China.
An armed gang shot dead ten Syrian civilian workers on their way back from Lebanon in a bus ambush near the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, the official state news agency said.ASSAD'S ORCS.
U.S. Seeks to Question Bin Laden’s Widows
Thomas E. Donilon, the White House national security adviser, wants Pakistan to grant access to the three women. Above, Pakistanis protested Bin Laden’s killing.
THEN WHY DIDN'T THEY TAKE HER WITH THEM INSTEAD OF LEAVING HERE!?!?
SOUNDS LIKE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BLEW IT ON THIS, TOO.
Bin Laden Given Religious Funeral Prior to Sea BurialI WISH!
Published May 02, 2011
Osama bin Laden was given a religious funeral prior to his burial at sea, senior military officials told Fox News.
Religious rites were conducted on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier at about 1:10 a.m. Monday in the Persian Gulf.
In accordance with Islamic practice, bin Laden was washed and wrapped In a white sheet before buried at sea at 2 a.m. local time, senior U.S. military and intelligence officials said.
Then, "In accordance with common US Navy SEAL practice, the Team pissed on him, stuck a pulled pork sandwich in his mouth and a kosher hot dog up his ass, and pushed the Mother Fucker overboard with the other garbage," a senior SEAL officer said.
The radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir organized a demonstration yesterday in Amsterdam to support the protesters in Syria. In an unusual move, the organizers separated male and female demonstrators, in accordance with strict Islamic law.
If there were any doubt that the Salafist groups were involved in the “Arab Spring” uprisings, yesterday’s event would remove them. Hizb ut-Tahrir’s support for the Syrian protesters indicates a substantial Salafist presence among the regime’s opponents.
Our Dutch correspondent Bolleke has compiled a report on what happened yesterday in Amsterdam.
In response to the report, Frank van Dalen, member of the city council of Amsterdam for the VVD, said:Read the rest here:
"That could be so. But if these people were to do the same as what they did in our free country now in Syria and quite a few other countries, the result would not be this column, but a bullet in their heads.
It is an effrontery to preach what they preached, and to measure up the West as they did and at the same time taunting our freedom, our values of equal rights, as they did.
The ribbons of the garlands of commemoration day fluttered gaily in the wind in the face of this bizarre demonstration."
"Navy Military Funerals, (pp. 34-35)" a protocol developed by the Navy, describes in explicit detail what transpires during a Muslim sea burial:The body must have been washed and wrapped "as required for the bodies of Muslims," which refers to ceremonial cleanings that must be done by another Muslim. Those who have gathered to pray at the burial -- ostensibly crewmembers since family is not allowed at sea burials -- must face Mecca.
But the most shocking details Green has uncovered concern the formal funeral prayers which must be uttered -- as specified by the Navy -- during the segment of the burial ceremony in which supplication for the Muslim decedent is made. The requisite prayer includes the following statements:"O Allah, forgive him, have mercy on him, pardon him, grant him security, provide him a nice place and spacious lodgings, wash him (off from his sins) with water, snow and ice, purify him from his sins as a white garment is cleansed from dirt, replace his present abode with a better one, replace his present family with a better one, replace his present partner with a better one, make him enter paradise and save him from the trials of grave [sic] and the punishment of hell."
I HOPE JUDICIAL WATCH SUES THE D.O.D. AND GETS WHATEVER WAS SAID OVER OSAMA'S CORPSE REVEALED.There is more than ample reason that the Navy Military Funerals protocol was indeed followed -- a logical inference, which at any rate should be confirmed or denied by release of the reported video footage of Bin Laden's "ceremonial burial" -- because as Anneke Green notes:According to the Pentagon, "prepared religious remarks" were read at bin Laden's funeral, but when asked whether his burial was performed according to Navy Military Funeral protocol, they had "no additional operational details or comments to make." Mr. Brennan, however, in his Monday briefing on the bin Laden operation, reassured reporters that, "Burial at sea takes place on a regular basis. The U.S. military has the ability to ensure that that burial is done in a manner that is, again, consistent with Islamic law, as well as consistent with what the requirements are for a burial at sea. And so that burial was done appropriately."
The grotesque dhimmitude in these apparent details -- so destructive of our nation's soul, in accord with the fundamental goal of Islamic supremacism -- defies speech, and demands a thorough public airing for all Americans, first and foremost those whose family members were slaughtered during the 9/11/2001 acts of jihad terrorism.
Thomas Lifson adds:
Since the Navy is likely to be reluctant to go into details, and Obama administration officials equally reticent about the specifics, a House investigation is called for into the funeral rites performed over and honors accorded America's worst enemy of the century.
