Category Archives: Jewish Issues
Israel Knows Obama Has Thrown Them Under the Bus…
Israeli Official: “We Will Not Capitulate Before Obama”…
Excellent.
TEL AVIV — The state of Israel will not capitulate before President Obama, whose “naive” leadership has hurt the U.S., stated Danny Danon, deputy speaker of Israel’s Knesset.
Danon, a Knesset member from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, was reacting to the reelection of Obama.
Danon told KleinOnline: “Obama’s victory demonstrates that the state of Israel must take care of its own interests. We cannot rely on anyone but ourselves. Obama has hurt the United States by his naïve leadership in foreign policy, which prefers the Arab world over the Western world, along with Israel. The state of Israel will not capitulate before Obama.”
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
In America, We Can’t Call a Savage – A Savage – That is Uncivilized?
Wall Street Journal in support of anti-jihad ads
“Call a Terrorist a ‘Savage’? How Uncivilized”
Despite the army of sharia enforcers in the media and the Islamic supremacist thugs, the voices in support of freedom are getting louder and louder:
“Call a Terrorist a ‘Savage’? How Uncivilized” William McGurn, Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2012 10:12 pm
An anti-jihad message is ‘hate speech’ by today’s topsy-turvy standards.
“In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”
So reads an advertisement that went up a week ago in New York City subway stations. Sponsored by Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative, the ads were meant to provoke, and they did. Denunciations poured in, activists plastered “racist” and “hate speech” stickers over the ads, and an Egyptian-American activist even got herself arrested after spray-painting one poster pink.
Establishment opinion quickly rallied to a consensus. As the Washington Post put it, while the words could be read as “hateful,” “an offensive ad” nonetheless has the “right to offend.” A rabbi summed up the media orthodoxy in the headline over her column for CNN: “A right to hate speech, a duty to condemn.”
Columnist Bill McGurn on the reaction to a New York City subway ad that urges people to “support Israel” and “defeat Jihad.” (Photo: AP)
Certainly that’s one way to read this ad. Then again, most Americans probably read it the way it is written: Israel is a civilized nation under attack from people who do savage things in the name of jihad. Whatever the agenda of those behind this ad might be, the question remains: What part of that statement is not true?
Ah, but the use of the word “jihad” inherently indicts all Muslims, say the critics. There are millions of peaceful Muslims for whom jihad means only a spiritual quest. So why do so many people associate jihad with murder and brutality?
Might it be because violence is so often the jihadist’s calling card? Might it be that some of these killers even incorporate the word jihad into the name of their terror organizations, e.g., Palestinian Islamic Jihad? That may not be the exclusive meaning of jihad, but surely it is one meaning—and the one that New York subway riders are most likely to bring to the word.
The same goes for “savage.” Exhibit A is Oxford’s online dictionary, which defines a savage as “a brutal or vicious person.” There are innumerable Exhibit Bs, but let me invoke one of the most powerful.
This is a Reuters photo that ran on the New York Times front page for Sept. 1, 2004. It shows an Israeli bus after it had been blown up by a suicide bomber. Neither bloody nor gory, the photo is nonetheless deeply disturbing, because it shows the lifeless body of a young woman hanging out a window.
The Times news story added this detail about the reaction to that attack. “In Gaza,” ran the report, “thousands of supporters of Hamas celebrated in the streets, and the Associated Press reported that one of the bombers’ widows hailed the attack as ‘heroic’ and said her husband’s soul was ‘happy in heaven.’ ” What part of any of this is not savage?
Two years ago, Time magazine ran a cover photo of an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose and ears had been cut off by the Taliban. This weekend, an al Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group in Kenya threw grenades into an Anglican church, killing a 9-year-old boy attending Sunday school. In light of these atrocities, “savage” seems profoundly inadequate.
The point is that what makes someone a savage is not the religion he professes. It’s the actions he takes. Notwithstanding the many Jews and Christians who have been attacked, those bearing the brunt of this savagery are innocent Muslims who find themselves targeted—at their mosques, in their markets, at a wedding reception—simply because they belong to the wrong political party or religious tradition.The people of Libya appear to understand this better than the president of the United States. The Libyans know that a civilized society is one where the strong protect the weak. In July they voted for such a future when they rejected Islamic radicals in their first free elections since toppling the dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The Libyans’ problem is that the extremists are better armed and better organized than their elected government, which leaves the strong free to prey upon the weak.
Back home in America, amid all the gooey indignation about how the subway ads are hate speech but must be defended, the idea seems to have taken hold that the beauty of the First Amendment is that we get to insult each other’s religions. Certainly that’s sometimes the price of the First Amendment. Its glory, however, is as the cornerstone for a self-governing, free society whose citizens know that someone saying something disgusting about your faith is no excuse for murder.
What a curiosity our new political correctness has made of our public spaces. Let your sex tape loose on the Internet and be rewarded with your own TV show; photograph a crucifix in a jar of urine and our museums will vie to exhibit it; occupy someone else’s property and you will be hailed by the president for your keen social conscience.
But call people who blow up, behead and mutilate “savage”—and polite society will find you offensive.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
In Academia and Colleges Anti-semitism is In Full Display
University of California Student Association Passes Unanimous Resolution Condemning Israel As “Racist”…
Brainwashed by liberal academia.
Via Campus Reform:
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) secretly passed a resolution last month which condemned the nation of Israel of “racism.”
The resolution, passed through the student organization with unanimous support, claims there is a “wealth of scholarship and legal opinion” that exists affirming “racism” on behalf of Israel.
The resolution was in response to HR 35, a California Assembly resolution condemning anti-Semitism in higher education.
No agenda for the meeting was published in advance and UCSA did not contact Jewish organizations about the vote, despite inviting SJP to give a presentation.
Internal emails, obtained by the Daily Californian reveal that the planning of the vote was kept quiet in order to intentionally suppress dissent.
Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) member Luma Haddad, acknowledged in an e-mail to her organization’s board that the vote was kept quiet to prevent opposition.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
“We are At War…But One Wouldn’t Know It From Our Behavior”
Rabbi Shalom J. Lewis
I thought long and I thought hard on whether to deliver the sermon I am about to share. We all wish to bounce happily out of shul on the High Holidays, filled with warm fuzzies, ready to gobble up our brisket, our honey cakes and our kugel. We want to be shaken and stirred – but not too much. We want to be guilt-schlepped – but not too much. We want to be provoked but not too much. We want to be transformed but not too much.
I get it, but as a rabbi I have a compelling obligation, a responsibility to articulate what is in my heart and what I passionately believe must be said and must be heard. And so, I am guided not by what is easy to say but by what is painful to express. I am guided not by the frivolous but by the serious. I am guided not by delicacy but by urgency.
We are at war. We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious, as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn’t know it from our behaviour. During WWII we didn’t refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters. We didn’t call the Gestapo, militants. We didn’t see the attacks on our Merchant Marine as acts by rogue sailors. We did not justify the Nazis rise to power as our fault. We did not grovel before the Nazis, thumping our hearts and confessing to abusing and mistreating and humiliating the German people.
We did not apologize for Dresden, nor for The Battle of the Bulge, nor for El Alamein, nor for D-Day.
Evil – ultimate, irreconcilable, evil threatened us and Roosevelt and Churchill had moral clarity and an exquisite understanding of what was at stake. It was not just the Sudetenland, not just Tubruk, not just Vienna, not just Casablanca, It was the entire planet. Read history and be shocked at how frighteningly close Hitler came to creating a Pax Germana on every continent.
Not all Germans were Nazis – most were decent, most were revolted by the Third Reich, most were good citizens hoisting a beer, earning a living and tucking in their children at night. But, too many looked away, too many cried out in lame defence – I didn’t know.” Too many were silent. Guilt absolutely falls upon those who committed the atrocities, but responsibility and guilt falls upon those who did nothing as well. Fault was not just with the goose steppers but with those who pulled the curtains shut, said and did nothing.
In WWII we won because we got it. We understood who the enemy was and we knew that the end had to be unconditional and absolute. We did not stumble around worrying about offending the Nazis. We did not measure every word so as not to upset our foe. We built planes and tanks and battleships and went to war to win – to rid the world of malevolence.
We are at war – yet too many stubbornly and foolishly don’t put the pieces together and refuse to identify the evil doers. We are circumspect and disgracefully politically correct.
Let me mince no words in saying that from Fort Hood to Bali, from Times Square to London, from Madrid to Mumbai, from 9/11 to Gaza, the murderers, the barbarians are radical Islamists.
To camouflage their identity is sedition. To excuse their deeds is contemptible. To mask their intentions is unconscionable…
We must be diligent students of history and not sit in ash cloth at the waters of Babylon weeping. We cannot be hypnotized by eloquent-sounding rhetoric that soothes our heart but endangers our soul. We cannot be lulled into inaction for fear of offending the offenders. Radical Islam is the scourge and this must be cried out from every mountain top. From sea to shining sea, we must stand tall, prideful of our stunning decency and moral resilience. Immediately after 9/11 how many mosques were destroyed in America? None. After 9/11, how many Muslims were killed in America? None. After 9/11, how many anti-Muslim rallies were held in America? None. And yet, we apologize. We grovel. We beg forgiveness…
Moral confusion is a deadly weakness and it has reached epic proportions in the West; from the Oval Office to the UN, from the BBC to Reuters to MSNBC, from the New York Times to Le Monde, from university campuses to British teachers unions, from the International Red Cross to Amnesty International, from Goldstone to Elvis Costello, from the Presbyterian Church to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
There is a message sent and consequences when our president visits Turkey and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and not Israel.
There is a message sent and consequences when free speech on campus is only for those championing Palestinian rights.
There is a message sent and consequences when the media deliberately doctors and edits film clips to demonize Israel,
There is a message sent and consequences when the UN blasts Israel relentlessly, effectively ignoring Iran, Sudan, Venezuela, North Korea, China and other noxious states.
There is a message sent and consequences when liberal churches are motivated by Liberation Theology, not historical accuracy.
There is a message sent and consequences when murderers and terrorists are defended by the obscenely transparent “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.”
John Milton warned, “Hypocrisy is the only evil that walks invisible.”…
How do we convince the world and many of our own that conciliation is not an option, that compromise is not a choice?
Everything we are. Everything we believe. Everything we treasure, is at risk.
The threat is so unbelievably clear and the enemy so unbelievably ruthless how anyone in their right mind doesn’t get it is baffling. Let’s try an analogy. If someone contracted a life-threatening infection and we not only scolded them for using antibiotics but insisted that the bacteria had a right to infect their body and that perhaps, if we gave the invading infection an arm and a few toes, the bacteria would be satisfied and stop spreading.
Anyone buy that medical advice? Well, folks, that’s our approach to the radical Islamist bacteria. It is amoral, has no conscience and will spread unless it is eradicated. There is no negotiating. Appeasement is death…
Our parents and grandparents saw the swastika and recoiled, understood the threat and destroyed the Nazis. We see the banner of Radical Islam and can do no less.
A rabbi was once asked by his students, “Rebbi. Why are your sermons so stern?” Replied the rabbi, “If a house is on fire and we chose not to wake up our children, for fear of disturbing their sleep, would that be love? Kinderlach, ‘di hoyz brent.’ Children our house is on fire and I must arouse you from your slumber.”
During WWII and the Holocaust was it business as usual for priests, ministers, rabbis? Did they deliver benign homilies and lovely sermons as Europe fell, as the Pacific fell, as North Africa fell, as the Mideast and South America tottered, as England bled? Did they ignore the demonic juggernaut and the foul breath of evil? They did not. There was clarity, courage, vision, determination, sacrifice, and we were victorious. Today it must be our finest hour as well. We dare not retreat into the banality of our routines, glance at headlines and presume that the good guys will prevail.
Democracies don’t always win.
Tyrannies don’t always lose.
My friends – the world is on fire and we must awake from our slumber. “ER KUMT.”
These are exerpts from this powerful message. Read it all at the link below.
Sermon delivered by Rabbi Shalom J. Lewis, spiritual leader of Congregation Etz Chaim of Marietta, Ga., during a recent Rosh Hashanah. It is reprinted in the Jewish Tribune with permission.
From The Jewish Tribune: http://www.jewishtribune.ca/religion/2012/09/25/we-are-at-war-with-an-enemy-as-savage-as-voracious-as-heartless-as-the-nazis-but-one-wouldnt-know-it-from-our-behaviour
Found at Blazing Cat Fur: http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/
Ok to Make Fun of Mormons, Christians, Jews – But Not islam? Hillary and All of Her Leftist, Commie Friends Think So.
Sec. State Condemns Book of Mormon Desecration, Blasphemy Against the Prophet Joseph Smith
Wait, did I say Sec. State Hilary Clinton condemned making fun of Mormons?
‘Hasa Diga Eebowai” is the hit number in Broadway’s hit musical “The Book of Mormon,” which won nine Tony awards last year. What does the phrase mean? I can’t tell you, because it’s unprintable in a family newspaper.
I can, it means “F*ck you God!”. Now imagine if the lyrics in the song had said, “F*ck you Allah!” what our government, under the current regime, would have said. There’s more:
On the other hand, if you can afford to shell out several hundred bucks for a seat, then you can watch a Mormon missionary get his holy book stuffed—well, I can’t tell you about that, either. Let’s just say it has New York City audiences roaring with laughter.
Also, I can tell you. His Book of Mormon get’s stuffed up his ass.
Now, can you imagine if the book had been the Quran?
Quran desecrated in Broadway play!
Riots surely would have ensued, and our dear leaders would have condemned the play. Possibly, Trey Parker and Matt Stone would have been pulled from their homes in the middle of the night to answer completely “unrelated” charges.
The analogy is so perfect, that I’ve been making it for some time now. So perfect, in fact, that Hilary Clinton, who went out of her way to condemn a stupid YouTube video about Islam she hasn’t seen has been silent about a stupid play about Mormonism which she has seen. This part, I didn’t know:
The “Book of Mormon”—a performance of which Hillary Clinton attended last year, without registering a complaint—comes to mind as the administration falls over itself denouncing “Innocence of Muslims.
I’d actually like to see the play. I hear it’s funny. Even Mormons think it’s funny (or some of them). But isn’t the hypocrisy here just mind blowingly obvious? Yet liberals don’t see it.
They praise anti-Mormonism. We know they do this because The Book of Mormon took home a bunch of awards, including best musical.
Yet anything you say about Islam is somehow beyond the pale. Outside reasonable discourse. Utterly despicable.
Stephens, in the article quoted above, seems to suggest that liberals do this because they are afraidof Muslims:
So let’s get this straight: In the consensus view of modern American liberalism, it is hilarious to mock Mormons and Mormonism but outrageous to mock Muslims and Islam. Why? Maybe it’s because nobody has ever been harmed, much less killed, making fun of Mormons….
The People’s Front for the Liberation of Provo will not be gunning for a theater near you
I think that might be partiallyexplanatory. On Colbert last night he had a great line about not wanting to offend Muslims by showing a clip from the video because he didn’t want to die.
But I think that for hard core liberals, lefties, and progressives that there is something more fundamental about their world view going on here. Namely, that lefties see good and bad in terms of have and have nots. Minorities without political power are good, and those with it are bad.
So, Mormons, like Jews, are the epitome of a religious minority that has succeeded despite prejudice. It’s okay to make fun of Mormons.
Muslims, however, are seen as the victims of neocolonialism. American wars of aggression. At home Muslims are “victims” of a hostile and Islamophobic society.
“Victims” = “good”.
When was the last time you heard any one — any one — in the mainstream press use the word Mormonophobia or Mormonophobe? Does the word even exist?
More telling about this double standard are the way Joseph Smith, the Mormon founding prophet, and Muhammad, Islam’s founding prophet, are referred to. It’s “the Prophet Muhammad”, as if it was a matter of indisputable fact that Muhammad was a prophet. But when was the last time you heard someone in the MSM, Democratic party leadership, or in the Obama administration refer to “the Prophet Joseph Smith”?
Hell, I even find myself sometimes referring to Muhammad as “the Prophet Muhammad”. Not because I think he is, not because I like the guy, but because you tend to repeat what you hear and nearly every one in power uses the phrase.
Do not mistake any of this for an endorsement of anti-Muslim attitudes. I am not anti-Muslim. I’m not even anti-Islam. There are a lot of Muslims who hate Islamists — those who aspire to religious control of the state — just as much as I do, or more.
I do believe there is such a thing as an irrational Islamophobia, just as I believe there is such a thing as an irrational fear of Mormons.
I believe both are very rare. Rare enough that a guy with a Muslim father and a middle name of “Hussein” was elected President. And rare enough that the most powerful man in the Senate and the next President of the United States are Mormon.
But cowtowing to Muslims who demand we respect their notions of blasphemy simply because they are endowed by the liberal elite with victim status crosses a line. It more than crosses a line, it betrays the very Constitution which our elected and appointed officers are sworn to uphold.
Hilary Clinton and her ilk in the elite media deserve nothing but contempt.
I take that back. She does deserve more. She deserves impeachment.
From The Jawa Report:
Dope-head Obummer Has Time for Everything Except Being the President
Too Busy to Meet With Netanyahu, Yet…
In what can only be considered both a grievous insult and an appalling shirking of responsibility, Obama has refused a request to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Bibi valiantly attempts to keep the Middle East situation from spinning any further out of control.
The Empty Chair in Chief, who spends far more time golfing than attending economic meetings of any kind even as the economy staggers toward another recession, says he is too busy to meet with our only real ally in the violently unraveling Middle East. Yet on the same day he snubbed Netanyahu, he announced that he will be taking time to appear on the degenerate lowlife David Letterman’s moronic TV show. He also found time to discuss the Miami Dolphins and a rapper named Pitbull with 106.7 FM’s DJ Laz a.k.a. “the pimp with the limp.”
This degrading farce of presidency has got to end soon.
On tips from TW, Byron, Libtard, Val, G. Fox, Incitatus, J, Sam Adams, Clingtomyguns, and Shawn.
Debate Between Liberals and Conservatives Over Israel in This Election
Give me a Christian Zionist like Tom Trento any day over a left wing Jew
Mark Alan Siegel is the Chairman of the Palm Beach Democratic Party, thus a representative and ardent supporter of Barack Hussein Obama. My ‘Italian’ friend, Tom Trento, makes chopped liver out of this Judenrat traitor Siegel.
And if you think that was bad, look at how this schmuck Siegel slanders Christian supporters of Israel. As my Jewish grandmother used to say, “A meshugener zol men oyshraybn, un im araynshraybn” (Set a madman free, and lock this idiot up)
From Bare Naked Islam: http://www.barenakedislam.com/
Pro-Terrorist Mooslim – Keith Ellison. Anti-American Traitor.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim Congressman, who was sworn in on a Quran, and took money from a group (MAS) dedicated to destroying Western civilization from within, has decided to identify anyone who has a problem with Sharia law being implemented in the United States as a bigot. Interesting, coming from a member of the most bigoted group on earth – MUSLIMS!
Described as CAIR and Hamas’ man in Congress, Congressman Ellison has been a regular presence at CAIR fundraisers and at pro-Hamas rallies in the United States. As a former member of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, Ellison has enough anti-semitic and Islamist credentials to satisfy anyone, and had expressed openly anti-semitic beliefs in the past. Since Ellison got his start with CAIR , his attempt to provide support for Hamas is completely unsurprising. Both Hamas and CAIR are projects of the Muslim Brotherhood, which also helped birth Al Queda.
SHOEBAT But Ellison doesn’t mince words when asked about the Republican party’s formal proclamation that the United States is under assault from Islamic Shariah law . “It’s an expression of bigotry.” ”There has never been any legislation offered to establish Shariah law—not at the federal level, not at the state level.” (But it has been used in at least 23 cases in American courts, which is why so many states are proposing legislation against it)
ELLISON INSISTED ON BEING SWORN INTO CONGRESS ON A QURAN, THE BOOK THAT IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTIONFor Ellison, the anti-Shariah plank was part of a broader narrative of exclusion. “Why do they want to become the party of hate? They’re hating on immigrants who are from Latin America (Only the illegal ones). They’re demonstrating hatred toward Muslims (And rightly so). They’re demonstrating hostility toward women (Only abortion-loving feminazis).
“I’m sad that they have decided to go into this dark ugly place where they see the whole world as their enemy,” Ellison continued. (No, just the real enemies like Muslims) “And this is the thing: I don’t mind debating taxes and spending; we probably should. But they’re the party that is basically a bigoted party and they have now officially declared themselves against a whole segment of the American population, because if we said we were going to put a plank opposing Jewish law, or Catholic canon, it would be an outrage. (That’s because Jews and Catholics aren’t trying to replace the Constitution with sharia law)
ELLISON MEETS WITH HAMAS MEMBER IN GAZA ON A TRIP FUNDED BY U.S. TAXPAYERSSo why defend Sharia law, Mr. Ellison? Would you support its implementation if it were attempted? Have you been to Dearborn, MI? Are you aware of Christians being stoned by Muslims who are seeking furtherance of Islam and Sharia law? You see, Mr. Ellison won’t answer questions like that; he will only build straw men that he can beat with his imaginary stick.
In fact, Ellison has yet to respond to Rep. Michele Bachmann’s 16-page smack down of his 2-page response to questions raised by her and four other congressmen about Muslim Brotherhood infiltration. The ultimate irony is that Sharia law is bigoted against non-Muslims. Therefore, by not denouncing it fully, Ellison is the bigot.
Netanyahu Puts Obama in His Place Over Iran
Netanyahu Goes Nuclear On Obama
Netanyahu Goes Nuclear On Obama – Big Peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly shouted “Time has run out!” at U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro, as the two met in Israel earlier this week and discussed the Obama administration’s position on Iran.
The Jerusalem Post reported that Shapiro was in Israel for meetings with Netanyahu, and at some point the PM couldn’t hold hisfrustration with President Obama in any longer: “Instead of pressuring Iran in an effective way, Obama and his people are pressuring us not to attack the nuclear facilities.” Those present say Netanyahu then said assertively: “Time has run out!”
Shapiro responded by alleging that Netanyahu was “distorting Obama’s position.” Following this, a no-holds-barred shouting match broke out as the fuming Israeli PM let loose on the U.S. ambassador.
Republican Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI) was on the trip as well, and is reported to have watched the episode in “stunned” silence.
Shapiro served on the Obama campaign in 2008, and in that capacity helped shore up Obama’s attempts to portray himself as pro-Israel.
From The Daley Gator: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/
America Must Choose Between Good and Evil…There is No Middle Ground
“… THE MOST SCORCHING PARTS OF HELL FOR THOSE WHO TRIED TO REMAIN NEUTRAL WHEN FACED WITH A MORAL DILEMMA”
Paul Schnee, President of the ZOA, Western Division, sent this letter to the Mayor of San Francisco, the board of the SFMTA and the San Francisco Chronicle. It also went to the L.A. Times, the L.A. Jewish Journal and the Santa Monica Daily Press — media outlets that slammed our pro-Israel ads. My tiny ad campaign was a media feeding swarm. Needless to say, no one ran Mr. Schnee’s brilliant letter to craven dhimmi officials and media. Not a peep about another anti-semitic ad that just went up in San Francisco — *Bay Area Stop $30 Billion Military Aid to Israel‘ is now appearing on San Francisco buses.
Kudos to Paul for his unwavering steadfastness, goodness and conviction. If you missed his oped piece in Israel National News, go here.
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Dear Sirs,
In an unprecedented move the city of San Francisco Metro Transit Authority has decided to place a disclaimer beside this advertisement paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative which appear on 10 city buses:
“IN ANY WAR BETWEEN THE CIVILIZED MAN AND THE SAVAGE, SUPPORT THE CIVILIZED MAN. SUPPORT ISRAEL. DEFEAT JIHAD.”
The city’s disclaimer reads:
“SFMTA Policy Prohibits Discrimination Based On National Origin, Religion and Other Characteristics and Condemns Statements That Describe Any Group As Savages.” How noble but that’s not really the point now, is it? Thus the spirit of San Francisco is captured and crystallized in one revealing sentence. By attempting to remain neutral between Israel, America’s greatest ally in the Middle East, and the genocidal terrorists whose undiminished goal is her extinction the city of San Francisco has managed to align itself with Islamic supremacists who subjugate women, gleefully hang homosexuals, persecute non-Muslim minorities and glorify terrorist killers. If people who regularly commit these kinds of atrocities are not savages then what are they exactly?
In his “INFERNO” Dante reserved the most scorching parts of Hell for those who tried to remain neutral when faced with a moral dilemma. But there is no “dilemma” here for in war the status between the attackers and the defenders and the victors and the vanquished is not interchangeable. There is no moral equivalency between those who wish to destroy the state of Israel and those trying to defend her. NONE! Surely it would be best if the city of San Francisco didn’t get the two confused.
The ZOA’s Western Region calls on the city not to debase itself by placing this embarrassing disclaimer next to the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s advertisement and reminds the SFMTA of Thomas Mann’s observation that, “tolerance is a crime when applied to evil.”
Sincerely, Paul Schnee
President
Zionist Organization of America
Los Angeles
Posted by Pamela Geller From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
The Liberal, Commie, islamic Loving Left Cannot Stand the Truth about The Mooslim Savages
Atlas Exclusive: Robert Spencer: San Francisco Examiner reluctantly comes out for free speech, smears pro-Israel bus ad
by Robert Spencer
It is good, and rather surprising in today’s climate, to see the San Francisco Examiner, in an unsigned editorial, come out for Pamela Geller’s free speech rights and say that her pro-Israel ads should be allowed to run. However, the Examiner predictably enough retails Islamic supremacist talking points in branding the ad “offensive,” “bigoted,” “hateful” and even “repulsive.” Even the title of the editorial itself shows how unhappy and even embarrassed the Examiner’s editorial writer is to have to be coming out in favor of these ads running: “Hateful bus ads are free speech.”
The ad in question says: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.” The Examiner notes that “the American Freedom Defense Initiative, an organization so extreme it has been deemed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, purchased the ads.” It is no surprise that the Examiner doesn’t bother to tell its luckless readers that the SPLC is a Leftist organization devoted to demonizing conservative individuals and groups by branding them as “hate groups” and lumping them in with the likes of the Ku Klux Klan. It doesn’t specify, of course, what it thinks is hateful about AFDI’s dedication to the defense of the freedom of speech, the freedom of conscience, and equality of rights of all people before the law.
The Examiner also doesn’t bother to explain why it thinks the ad is ad “offensive,” “bigoted,” “hateful” and even “repulsive,” but objections to the ad have revolved around two related claims: that it calls everyone who sides with the “Palestinians” against Israel, or every Muslim or every Arab, a “savage,” and that the people who are opposed to Israel are not savages. The ad doesn’t actually refer to all supporters of the Palestinian jihad, or all Muslims or all Arabs, but that claim has nevertheless been widely repeated in the mainstream media. It actually refers to the Palestinian jihadis who glory in the murders of innocent civilians.
Take, for example, Ahlam Tamimi, who helped murder 16 Israelis in a pizzeria. She recently appeared on al-Aqsa TV and recounted the joy of the “Palestinians” as radio reports on the jihad attack increased the number of dead: “Two minutes later, they said on the radio that the number had increased to five. I wanted to hide my smile, but I just couldn’t. Allah be praised, it was great. As the number of dead kept increasing, the passengers were applauding.”
Is it savage to take pleasure in the mass murder of innocent civilians? Yes, it is. And it is not actually “hateful,” or “bigoted,” or “offensive” or “repulsive” to say so. Glorying in the murders of innocent human beings is hateful, offensive, and repulsive, and stems in this case from Islamic bigotry and Jew-hatred. But the Examiner wouldn’t dream of upsetting liberal pieties by noting that.
And as Pamela Geller has explained: “The rush to assure the world that the ‘Palestinian’ jihadists are not savages amazes me. The war on Israel is a war on innocent civilians. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family was savage. The Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.”
The San Francisco Examiner is covering itself with shame in its moral equivocation on this point, and its effectively running interference for these murderers and their apologists. At very least, as supposedly evenhanded journalists, the Examiner’s editorialists could have noted that some consider the ads hateful, and presented our side of the story. But that would have interfered with their propaganda line.
Covering themselves with shame also are those on the Right who are too cowardly, pusillanimous, cowed by the Left, or self-serving to speak up in defense of Pamela Geller, the freedom of speech, and these ads.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, Did Muhammad Exist?, is now available.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/#
Jesus was What? islam is not Only Evil but Delusional As Well…
So…if Moses and Jesus were both Muslims, why are Muslims trying to so hard to wipe their descendants off the face of the earth?
MUSLIM LOGIC: ‘Moses was a great Muslim who liberated Palestine From Egypt’ and ‘Jesus was not a Jew, he was the first Palestinian prophet of Islam.”
A Palestinian university lecturer taught during a recent Palestinian Authority TV program on religion that Moses, a Muslim, brought “the Muslims of the Children of Israel out of Egypt.“ He refers to the subsequent Israeli conquest of the Land of Israel as the ”first Palestinian liberation… of Palestine.”
“We must make clear to the world that David in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to David in the Quran, Solomon in the Hebrew Bible is not connected to Solomon in the Quran, and neither is Saul or Joshua son of Nun [of the Bible],” Ja’ara explained. “We have a great leader, Saul, [in the Quran] who defeated the nation of giants and killed Goliath. This is a great Muslim victory.”
As part of their ongoing attempts to invent a Palestinian history, the Palestinian Authority is trying to hitch a ride into the past by attaching themselves to Jesus. Whereas the historical Jesus was a Jew living in Judea, the PA turns him and Mary into “Palestinians par excellence.”
Is it the heat ? Or is it the rampant inbreeding that makes them so delusional?
From Bare Naked Islam: http://www.barenakedislam.com/
There Will Be No Peace With islam…
Savages
Malki Roth, 15, daughter of the writers of the piece below, was murdered in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing planned by the ever-smiling Arab media darling, Ahlam Tamimi. Help us get these ads up, donate here.Can Civilized People Let a Sociopath Like Tamimi be Adulated? Israel National News
Op-ed: The Sbarro murderess is a media star . If you don’t speak Arabic, you may not know it, nor whether the Arab world approves. It does.What might civilized people be thinking when sociopaths like Tamimi bask in adulation?
After receiving some offline comments on the Tamimi speech we publicized on our blog yesterday, we have a few further thoughts to share. The urge to do this is triggered by a sense that something deeply disturbing is going on; it’s being ignored or willfully not noticed by people who ought to be noticing.
When a politician or public figure on our side of the fence makes an ignorant or stupid, smart or incisive statement, particularly when it’s about the Arabs (you know the examples), his/her comments are greeted with near-instant analysis and frequently with condemnation from a global array of press and politicians.
The Arab media focus obsessively on such things. Outside the Arab/Islamic world, we frequently see European, American, Australian and other critics drawing wide inferences about how those specific Israeli views are going to bring on the next Black Plague or an increase in pogroms in France. The claim, at minimum, is that irreparable harm is going to be caused to the souls and DNA of innocent Israeli children, to world peace and so on.
To illustrate: when a posse of Israeli delinquents (it happens to be a very current issue here) beat up an Arab youth in a street fight, the New York Times says the event has led to “a stark national conversation about racism, violence, and how Israeli society could have come to this point” That’s an actual quote: check it out. We think the Times‘ journalist’s conclusion is overwrought nonsense, but that’s not the point. Israel is not, never has been and should never be, immune to criticism, or even object to it, and mostly doesn’t.
Now think for a moment about how Ahlam Tamimi and her hundreds of published interviews and speeches are treated by global public opinion. Pay attention in particular to how Arabs view her, since they are her principal audience.
No one – certainly not the woman herself – denies the fact that she planned and carried out a premeditated killing on a large and vicious scale, which was the whole point of doing it.
The law convicted her on the basis that she’s a murderer; she says (more or less) that she did it for the freedom and honour of her nation. The fact that she planned to kill and succeeded mightily has never been in dispute.
She does not miss an opportunity to say that it was children, and specifically Jewish children, and even more specifically orthodox Jewish children like ours, who were the target.
She regrets that she did not kill more – it’s there in yesterday’s video and in numerous other speeches and earlier videos recorded in her Jordanian freedom.
She appears on television and in front of adoring crowds (ask us if you want to view the video files) and expresses the vilest kind of racist hatred of Jews, Israelis and Zionists. She has done this many times since she unjustly got her freedom in October and her message is hugely amplified by the social media.
She is a star on YouTube, a hero on Facebook. She is globally broadcast via satellite television into every corner of the Arabic-speaking world. It’s arguable that she has the largest footprint of any ordinary murderer (ignoring “celebrities” like Hitler, Mao, Stalin et al) in human history. If that seems like an overstatement then we urge you to concede that she is in the major leagues.
The fact that most people don’t know this is largely because most people don’t speak Arabic.
She smiles warmly when she says she killed those Jews, and her god wanted her to do it. She points to how she has subsequently been rewarded with freedom, fame, a wedding that received live television coverage. The adoring crowds applaud and ululate. The encouragement (and probably the will) to emulate her actions is clear.
How many Arabic speakers are there in the world? A quick query on the web turns up these numbers: “280 million native speakers, and an extra 250 million non-native speakers” [source]. How many Arabic newspapers? Many.
Here’s our point: We have searched and have not yet found a blog, article, published speech or op-ed in her language, Arabic, which criticizes the woman or her views. So far, not one. If readers can point us to exceptions, please do.
This is deeply shocking. Tamimi’s message resonates throughout the Arab and Islamic world. Her views don’t even rise to the level of controversial.
She’s simply a hero, wall to wall. She and her vile deeds, opinions and intentions appear to represent some sort of global consensus in the Arab and Islamic world. There is no outrage – not even concerning the passivity of the Kingdom of Jordan where she lives and from where a vibrant Tamimi-focused industry of online and broadcast videos sends its message of hatred and death out to the world.
Does the absence of criticism throughout the Arab world mean they support the deliberate killing of the innocent people among their enemy? Does their silence mean they support the murder of children as Tamimi certainly does, and they want to see it happen again and again as she certainly does?
What does this say about the discourse underway in the Arab world? What light does it throw on the global news media?
What does it tell us about the chances of ever making peace?
Posted by Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
One More Nail in The Coffin for The UK
More British Schools Drop Holocaust History Lessons To Avoid Offending Muslim Students…
Pathetic to say the least.
Via FSM:
In Cheshire, two students at the Alsager High School were punished by their teacher for refusing to pray to Allah as part of their religious education class.
In Scotland, 30 non-Muslim children from the Parkview Primary School recently were required to visit the Bait ur Rehman Ahmadiyya mosque in the Yorkhill district of Glasgow. At the mosque, the children were instructed to recite the shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith which states: “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his messenger.” Muslims are also demanding that Islamic preachers be sent to every school in Scotland to teach children about Islam, ostensibly in an effort to end negative attitudes about Muslims.
British schools are increasingly dropping the Jewish Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, according to a report entitled, Teaching Emotive and Controversial History, commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills.
British teachers are also reluctant to discuss the medieval Crusades, in which Christians fought Muslim armies for control of Jerusalem: lessons often contradict what is taught in local mosques.
In an effort to counter “Islamophobia” in British schools, teachers now are required to teach “key Muslim contributions such as Algebra and the number zero” in math and science courses, even though the concept of zero originated in India.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
Liberal Jews Oppose Pro-Israel Ads – Unreal…This World Really Is Upside Down
Dhimmi Jewicidals at JCRC and AJC Condemn AFDI Pro-Israel Ads
Look how tough these Jews are when it comes to going after their own who are brave enough not to hide behind the genocidal rhetoric of the annihilators. Are we to understand that these liberal Jews sanction the jihad war on innocent civilians in Israel?
Where are their knee-jerk condemnations of the vile anti-Semitism on college campuses, in the Occupy movement, and in Muslim media? Why have they never condemned the anti-semitism in the quran? It incites the Muslim world to Jewish genocide? One Jew calls out annihilationists and this is their reaction? Even the Judenrat didn’t protect and defend the Nazis’ war on the Jews. They went along, but they didn’t advance and promote it. This is just sick.
The Bay Area Jewish Community Condemns Anti-Muslim Muni Bus Ads pdf here
Statement from the Jewish Community Relations Council and the American Jewish Committee San FranciscoLast week, a new advertisement appeared on Muni buses in San Francisco, placed by the American Freedom Defense Initiative. The Bay Area’s organized Jewish community takes great offense to the ad’s inflammatory and anti-Muslim language. We are steadfast in our support of Israel and our concern about the growing threat of Islamic radicalism, and steadfast in our opposition to anti- Muslim stereotypes.
We have long been concerned that the repeated appearance of offensive anti-Israel ads would turn our local public transit system into a battleground for the Israeli-Arab conflict; we are no less concerned by offensive anti-Muslim ads. We urge all transit authorities to reassess their policies and to construct advertising policies consistent with laws governing protected speech that preserve public transit as a safe space for all passengers.
It’s a staple of enemedia coverage that these ads are “anti-Muslim,” but actually the words Islam and Muslim never appear in the ads. Nor does the ad say that all Muslims are savages — again, contrary to media myth. The premise of my ad was that a war on innocent civilians is savage. And that is a fact. As long as the Palestinian Authority continues its savage policy of fomenting violence, promoting hatred, and teaching Palestinian children to hate, the number of young Muslims willing to blow themselves up or to slit Israeli throats will continue to increase. That is savage. The Palestinian Authority propaganda of Holocaust-denial, calls for the killing of the Jews, and glorification of bloodthirsty jihadis is savage.
Tell me again why the word “savage” is inaccurate. The targeting of civilians is savage. The relentless 60-year campaign of terror against the Jewish people is savage. The torture of hostage Gilad Shalit was savage. The bloody hacking to death of the Fogel family was savage. The Munich Olympic massacre was savage. The unspeakable torture of Ehud Goldwasser was savage. The tens of thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel (into schools, homes, etc.) are savage. The vicious Jew-hatred behind this genocide is savage. The endless demonization of the Jewish people in the Palestinian and Arab media is savage. The refusal to recognize the state of Israel as a Jewish state is savage. The list is endless.
But note that this is the only press release the JCRC has issued in all of 2012. These dhimmis have nothing whatsoever to say about the genocidal rhetoric broadcast on official “Palestinian” Authority TV on a regular basis. They have nothing to say about Obama’s ongoing harassment of Israel. The increasing levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and around the world? Not a word. The only thing that has moved the JCRC to speak are defiantly and forthrightly pro-Israel ads. The JCRC and AJC are a disgrace.
Supporters of the JCRC and the AJC who genuinely support Israel and the Jewish people should withdraw their support from those organizations — and support AFDI. Help keep these ads running. Contribute here, and get the tee shirts here.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Anti-Semitism Boldly Walks Around Openly in Today’s World – Gawker Website Shills for islam
Is this the most offensive website posting in history?
Once again the left exposes its hypocrisy and anti-semitism. Funny how the anti-Jewish rhetoric in Muslim media, Islamic school textbooks, and preached in mosques doesn’t raise an eyebrow. Silence is sanction of this genocidal rhetoric. Cord Jefferson over at the uber left website, Gawker, has this (Jefferson has no such post, though, on the anti-Israel train and kiosk campaign). How’s that anti-semitism working out for ya, Cord?
Is This the Most Offensive Pro-Israel Ad in History?
Yes, it probably is.Leave it up to Pamela Geller and her dumb old anti-Islam group, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, to come up with history’s most vile anti-Palestine ad. Last month, a federal judge ruled that New York’s MTA had violated the AFDI’s First Amendment rights by rejecting the group’s ads for city bus placement. That decision prompted the Muni in San Francisco to accept the ads, despite the fact that it has a policy against political advertising. Because what’s political about a Jewish organization putting out a bus ad that tacitly calls Palestinians subhuman savages?
The premise of my ad was that a war on innocent civilians is savage. As long as the Palestinian Authority continues its savage policy of fomenting violence, promoting hatred, and teaching Palestinian children to hate, the number of young Muslims willing to blow themselves up or to slit Israeli throats will continue to increase. That is savage. The Palestinian Authority propaganda of Holocaust-denial, calls for the killing of the Jews, and glorification of bloodthirsty jihadis is savage.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Pamela Geller’s Bus Ads Stir Up The CAIR Hornet’s Nest…Of Course…It Doesn’t Take Much
AFDI Pro-Israel bus campaign: Hamas-CAIR’s sharia petition to stop the ads in accordance with the blasphemy laws
More media blowback on the bus ads. Muslim Brotherhood groups are weighing in as well.
First they were calling on followers to vandalize our bus ads; now genocidal Hamas-linked CAIR is supporting a petition to have the ads pulled (in accordance with the laws of the sharia). CAIR said, “We don’t feel comfortable boarding buses that label an entire community savage.”
“An entire community?” What community is that, CAIR? What community supports the targeting of innocent civilians? Is Hamas-CAIR saying that all Muslims support the annihilation of Israel? Very revealing, but not surprising. The first paragraph of the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
They don’t feel comfortable boarding a bus with our ads? Imagine how the Jews feel boarding a bus with homicide bombers. Which bus would you rather board?
Muni Bus Ads Call Israel’s Enemies ‘Savages’ KQED News
If you are out and about in San Francisco, you may have noticed ads on the sides of Muni buses that refer to Israel’s enemies as “savages.” The ads are raising questions about the kind of advertising public agencies can accept.
The ads read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat jihad.”
The ad has offended some San Franciscans, who have expressed their reactions on Twitter. For example:
volksmenner @volksmenner PT: A blatantly racist, pro-Israel ad by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, on SF MUNI buses. pic.twitter.com/L2c5m7az h/t @roamingradical
Pamela Geller, who purchased the ads, had been waiting for approval from Muni for months, she tells KQED’s Aarti Shahani. She says approval came the same day a federal judge ruled that New York City violated Geller’s free speech rights by refusing an identical campaign there.
Geller said she bought the ads in response to advertising that called for ending U.S. aid to Israel. “I wanted to counter that message,” she said.
Why the word “savage?”
Here’s Geller’s explanation:
Because any targeting of innocent civilians is savagery. Mothers and children on a bus are targeted, and that is savagery. Kidnapping and murdering is savagery. The U.S. does not conduct war that way, and neither does Israel. Now, there is sometimes the accidental death of civilians, which is far different than the targeting of innocent civilians.
The ads are scheduled to run through the end of the month. But some people would like to stop them sooner.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is supporting a petition to stop the ads. CAIR’s San Francisco executive director told Aarti Shahani that she would like Muni to formulate a policy prohibiting hate speech:
We’re hearing from members of the community, both Arabs and Muslims and otherwise, like interfaith and civil rights alike, saying, ‘We don’t feel comfortable boarding buses that label an entire community savage.’
Manhattan district judge Paul A. Engelmayer’s decision to allow the ads in New York does not end the possibility of banning such ads, Shahani says, because Engelmayer did not say all such ads must automatically be allowed. Instead he ruled that the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s policy was unconstitutional because it appeared to ban speech that impugned some groups and not others.
According to the New York Times:
(H)e even offered examples, like “Southerners are bigots,” “Upper West Siders are elitist snobs,” “Fat people are slobs,” “Blondes are bimbos” and “Lawyers are sleazebags.”
Aarti says the MTC is appealing Engelmayer’s decision.
Update at 4:10 p.m: Muni spokesman Paul Rose told Aarti the agency has gotten some complaints about the ad campaign, but that’s not unusual. It has never removed ads before the contract to display them ended. Will this be a first?
We understand how this ad might be offensive, but we are limited in what we can do… We’re exploring options in light of First Amendment issues, our ad policy and our contractual obligations.
According to CAIR, truth is hate speech. But the United States of America has the first amendment to protect us against you.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Another Rare Politician: Adam Hasner – A Man Not Afraid to Speak the Truth
GOOD NEWS FLORIDA District 22: Allen West-type candidate running for Allen West’s seat in the US House
Because of redistricting, former state Rep. Adam Hasner is running for the 22nd Congressional District seat now held by Allen West in South Florida (who is running in District 18), and has been named an honorary chairman of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s national ‘Jewish Americans for Romney’ coalition.
ADAM HASNER FOR CONGRESS: WEBSITE
Allen West has endorsed Hasner for his old seat. Even better, the Leftists seem to hate Adam Hasner as much as they hate Allen West. From SALON, we are pleased to read, “Congress’s anti-Islam caucus will likely grow in November, and Florida’s Adam Hasner may be its worst new member.”
After redistricting made West’s 22nd Florida congressional district slightly more liberal, he moved to the 18th. Running in his place is Adam Hasner, the former Florida House majority leader. Hasner has already earned top-flight endorsers, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and West himself, as well as several major conservative organizations.
As the Florida Independent noted in September of last year, Hasner has been involved in a “long-time crusade against the threat of Sharia law in the U.S.” In 2009, he appeared on a panel in D.C. with Pamela Geller and Frank Gaffney, who both have endorsed Hasner. Robert Spencer, another key figure in the Islamophobia cottage industry, called Hasner a “fearless truth teller.”
Before that, Hasner invited notorious Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders to Florida. “When I invited Geert Wilders to join me for a Free Speech conference in Palm Beach County, not only did the hotel cancel its plans to have him come in, but I was the one who was asked by the Hamas front group, CAIR, the Council on Anti-American Islamic Relations, to resign from the Florida House of Representatives, because I was an Islamophobe and a hater,” he said in the Fort Lauderdale speech. Wilders has made crusading against Islam his top priority.
When Hasner caught flak for the invitation, he was unperturbed. “These are the same people who have been attacking me all session. This isn’t about being anti-Islam, this is all about the right to free speech and they are trying to stifle it,” he casually told the St. Petersburg Times in April 2009. Wilders personally thanked Hasner in his speech, saying, “We need strong leaders like we have here today, Allen West and Adam Hasner. We need strong men like that.”
Within just a few days of the Wilders speech, it was an event that Hasner did not attend that raised eyebrows. He boycotted an imam’s opening prayers at the state Legislature.
In 2008, Hasner helped found an anti-Shariah group called Florida Security Council with an activist named Tom Trento. While Hasner was never an official member, he touted his involvement with the organization, which later changed its name to the United West. “You cannot fight an enemy when you will not acknowledge that an enemy even exists, and that enemy has a name, and that is Shariah-compliant Islam,” Hasner told a local conservative group in March of last year. “We cannot allow political correctness and multiculturalism or appeasement to cripple our defenses at home or abroad.”
Nezar Hamze, South Florida executive director of CAIR, who was cut down to size by Allen West at a Town Hall meeting last year, gives his opinion of Hasner and West.
IOC Did Hold a Moment of Silence for Bosnian mooslims But Will Not for Jews Killed at Munich
IOC did hold a moment of silence for Bosnian Muslims, but won’t do it for Jews murdered by Muslim terrorists
So they held a memorial for the Bosnian Muslims and not the Israeli athletes slaughtered in cold blood at the Munich ’72 Olympics. Bosnian Muslims? What about the Serbian Christians who were slaughtered by the Bosnian Muslims? These elderly women are appealing to you.
IOC president Jacques Rogg, what about a memorial to the 1.5 million Christian victims of the Armenian genocide? These spineless, amoral miscreants make my skin crawl.
“Craven Silence on Munich at the Olympics” Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest
The Obama administration supports it. So does Mitt Romney. The “it” in question is a moment of silence for the Israeli victims of a Palestinian terrorist organization called Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Eleven members of the Israeli team were murdered. An online petition calling for a minute of silence also exists.
But IOC president Jacques Rogge sees it differently. He’s adamantly resisting a formal moment of silence at the opening ceremony of the London Games this Friday: “We feel that the opening ceremony is an atmosphere that is not fit to remember such a tragic incident.” When it comes to the Jews, the IOC curls into a fetal ball—as the Boston Globe points out, it has not resisted ceremonies for Bosnia or the victims of 9/11. But Munich is taboo.
[...]
The Olympics has a moral obligation to do better. It more than blotted its escutcheon with the 1936 games in Berlin, which the Nazis exploited to present a friendlier face to the world. The head of the American Olympic Committee was Avery Brundage who later became head of the IOC. Brundage successfully opposed an American boycott. Here is what the Holocaust Museum has to say about Brundage’s stance:
He wrote in the AOC’s pamphlet “Fair Play for American Athletes” that American athletes should not become involved in the present “Jew-Nazi altercation.” As the Olympics controversy heated up in 1935, Brundage alleged the existence of a “Jewish-Communist conspiracy” to keep the United States out of the Games.
He thought Hitler was a great fellow and that the 1936 Olympics one of the greatest ever. The Brundage mindset was on display in 1972 as well, his last as IOC president. The games were suspended for thirty-six hours. “The Games must go on,” chairman Brundage declared. So they did.
So the Olympics doesn’t have a lot to live up to. It has a lot to live down. This year, the IOC isn’t doing a very good job of it. It want to remain silent, in other words, about the importance of silence.
***There’s [also] this RFE/RL photo gallery regarding Bosnia and the Olympics (11th of 14 photos…) Julia Gorin writes:
The photo concerning Bosnia was taken at the 1992 summer Olympics when Yugoslavia (then consisting of Serbia and Montenegro) was hypocritically kept out of that Olympiad. With some understandable disgust, Serbs and Montenegrins saw a Croat team take silver in men’s basketball, with the US finishing first. During this period, Yugoslavia appeared to have the second best men’s basketball team after the US. At the 1992 summer Olympics, Yugoslav teams were banned and individual Yugoslav athletes were made to compete as independent participants, not representing their country. The reason for this was quite hypocritical. Yugoslavia was accused of aiding Serb forces in the Bosnian Civil War, at a time when Croatia was doing the same for their brethren. In addition, the Bosnian Muslim nationalists were the recipients of foreign aid (military and otherwise) from abroad.One wonders how multiethnic was the 1992 summer Olympic Bosnian delegation? At the time, I recall the Bosnian UN delegation being almost exclusively Muslim.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Who are These Terrible Monsters? Why Jews…of Course.
US-Funded Palestinian TV Depicts Jews As Monsters Bayoneting And Eating Children…
Our tax dollars pay for this.
PA TV host: “Artist Abd Al-Hai Msallam has been dealing with the Palestinian nation’s problems, such as the Gaza massacres. What have you been working on lately? This painting is about the Gaza massacre.”
Artist Abd Al-Hai Msallam: “Here I show the people, the children, and the Zionist enemy’s cruelty and savagery.”
[The painting shows a monster impaling children on his bayonet and eating them one by one. On the lower right, dead children are piled up to be eaten and two baby monsters are also shown eating children. The three monsters wear skull caps with a Star of David. The scene takes place in the monster's underground lair, just under cacti that are growing on the surface. A Star of David is also painted on the lock of the lair.]
HT: JD
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Mooslim Kindergarten – For Junior Terrorists – Fun for Everyone – “Killing Jews” Especially Fun
Islamic child abuse: Gaza’s kindergarten jihadist toddlers
Israel, out of the goodness of her heart, wrongly left Gaza and gave it to the relentless, violent Muslims buying into the “we want a state” narrative (as opposed to the true root cause of the conflict, Islamic Jew-hatred). So they got one. And what did the industrious, creative, inventive Muslims in Gaza do with their state? They turned it into a jihadi military base.
“Gaza’s kindergarten jihadist wannabes” Elder of Zyon
Islamic Jihad’s website Saraya has a photo essay on Gaza kindergarten graduation ceremonies:
But don’t worry – some of the kindergarteners played Jews too:
The article goes on to say that they are “infusing the culture of resistance in the hearts and minds of the children in the Gaza Strip” and that “their lives are continuously in the role of resistance in all areas, hoping to be volunteers in the future.”
A teacher at the school said “In every year’s kindergarten graduation ceremonies we focus on the children to represent the role of struggling and resistance in the way of Allah, in order to establish this path, and grow up to love the resistance, and for it to have a prominent role in their lives to serve the cause of Palestine and Holy Jihad, as well as to make them leaders and fighters to defend the holy soil of Palestine.”
One child, Hamza, wearing the uniform of the Al Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad and carrying a wooden weapon, said “I love the resistance and the martyrs and Palestine, and I want to blow up he most Zionists in a process of martyrdom and kill them.”
In other news, Hamas summer camps are starting, but they are downplaying the paramilitary parts in their publicity photos.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Pamela Geller Denied The Right to Speak at a “Jewish” Center in LA – They Bow to Shariah Law and CAIR!
Breitbart: “Los Angeles Jewish Federation Enforces Shariah Law”
Laura Rubenfeld, former Terrorism Analyst for Steven Emerson at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, has an excellent take-down of the dhimmis at the LA Jewish Federation who canceled my speech on Islamic Jew-hatred, caving to pressure from Muslim Brotherhood-tied groups.
“Los Angeles Jewish Federation Enforces Shariah Law” Breitbart, July 7, 2012On the morning of June 24th, author, blogger, speaker, executive director, and co-founder with Robert Spencer of Stop the Islamization of America (SIOA), Pamela Geller was denied her First Amendment Constitutional right of freedom of speech by The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles – just hours before she was scheduled to speak at an event organized by the Zionist Organization of America – West (ZOA). The Jewish Federation cited security concerns as reason for the virtually last minute cancellation. The Jewish Federation caved in to a so called “interfaith coalition,” including Islamist and radical leftist Israel- bashing groups: Council on American-Islamic Relations – Greater Los Angeles, (CAIR-LA), Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP), Islamic Circle of North America – Southern California (ICNA), Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, Jewish Voice for Peace – Los Angeles (JVP-L.A.), L.A. Jews for Peace, Muslim American Society – Greater Los Angeles (MAS-LA), Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Muslim Ummah of North America, Southern California (MUNA), and Progressive Christians Uniting (PCU).The night before Geller was scheduled to speak, CAIR and MPAC sent out simultaneous nationwide emails from this interfaith coalition stating the following:
We are extremely shocked and alarmed to see a mainstream Jewish organization associating itself with one of the nation’s leading Islamophobes…Religious leaders and institutions have an increased and urgent responsibility to promote tolerance and mutual understanding among all Americans, instead of giving aid and comfort to fear-mongers like Geller.
On Sunday morning, the very morning of the event, after promising ZOA the use of a meeting room for the purpose of Pamela Geller’s presentation – after permitting ZOA to sell tickets – The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles retracted permission for the use of the room.
The Jewish Federation permitted itself to be used as an enforcer of Islamic Shari’ah Law. Under Shari’ah law, slander forbids the mere criticism of Islam. In Reliance of the Traveller: A Classical Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, slander is defined as follows:
Slander (ghiba) means to mention anything concerning a person that he would dislike, whether about his body, religion, everyday life, self, disposition, property, son, father, wife, servant, turban, garment, gait, movements, smiling, dissoluteness, frowning, cheerfulness, or anything else connected with him.
Note that this statement is diametrically opposed to the U.S. definition of slander. In Shari’ah Law, a statement is considered slander if it is critical of Islam, regardless of whether it is true or false. Under U.S. law only false statements are considered slander. From Black’s Law Dictionary:
Slander, n: 1. A defamatory statement…
Defamation. 1) The act of harming the reputation of another by making a false statement to a third person. If the alleged defamation involves a matter if public concern, the plaintiff is constitutionally required to prove both the statement’s falsity and the defendants fault. 2) A false written or oral statement that damages another’s reputation.
This is not a secret. Islamists state it openly. From the site, IslamHelpline:
One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:
Dear Brother Assalaamualaikum
I would like guidance on how I should view the Hadith quoted as under_
Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4349
Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.
I am sure it can be explained in and with proper context.
Please help me.
Jazak Allah Khairan.
Answer:
Kill one who abuses reviles Prophet (saws)
Examples of the enforcement of Shari’ah Law include:
Gillian Gibbons, threatened with death for calling a bear “Mohammed:”
Teacher charged in teddy bear case
KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) — British teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear “Mohammed“has been charged by authorities with offending religion, British officials say.
‘I was terrified that the guards would come in and teach me a lesson’
Speaking for the first time of her ordeal, Gillian Gibbons, the woman jailed for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, tells Elizabeth Day of her eight days of fear in a Sudan cell as angry mobs demanded her death for ‘blasphemy.’
Many people in Pakistan murdered for miscellaneous Shari’ah Law crimes of “blasphemy”:
Blasphemy killings: 15 of 34 murdered were Muslims
LAHORE: A total of 34 people were killed extra judicially in Pakistan during 1990-2010 following charges of blasphemy, The Express Tribune has learnt.
The information obtained by the Tribune revealed that 15 of those killed were Muslims and 31 were killed in the Punjab.
16 of the murdered people were Christians, 15 Muslims, two Ahmadis and one a Hindu. All these people accused, of crimes under the blasphemy laws, were either killed extra judicially or found dead in prison under dubious circumstances.
Salman Rushdie, threatened for criticizing Islam in his book, “The Satanic Verses.”
Rushdie cancels India visit after death threat warning
Our constitution guarantees freedom of speech to every one of us here in America. The Islamists in this country want to take it away from us. Shari’ah Law has no place in a free country – a country for which heroic, red-blooded-American soldiers fight to uphold our Constitution – many paying the ultimate price. We who are not in uniform have to defend that right ourselves through the courageous use of our freedom of speech.
The Jewish Federation of Los Angeles has disgraced itself by opposing freedom of speech in order to appease those who have precisely the goal of denying us the use of that right.
Go. Read Rubenfeld’s whole article here.
Previously: American Zionists Clash with Jewish Federation over Pamela Geller’s ‘Islamic Jew Hatred’ Speech
Victory! LA Jewish Federation apologizes for cancelling Geller talk
Hamas-CAIR and LA Jewish Federation make common cause against Zionists
Proud Zionists Defeat LA Jewish Federation
Jewish surrender: LA Jewish Federation submits to Hamas-linked Muslim groups, cancels Geller event
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
islam and All mooslims Are Committed To The Destruction of Israel – They Have to Be – Their Prophet Told Them So.
Covering Up Islamic Anti-Semitism
By Robert Spencer
When the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles canceled Pamela Geller’s scheduled talk on Islamic Jew-hatred on June 24, it handed a major victory to the virulently anti-Semitic Islamic supremacist foes of Israel. Even worse, the mainstream media, as always taking its talking points from those same Islamic supremacist groups, aided and abetted their campaign to rule honest discussion about Islamic jihad, Islamic supremacism, and Islamic anti-Semitism beyond the bounds of acceptable public discourse.
The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) crowed in a press release: “A Southern California interfaith coalition today commended the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles for having the courage to stand up to bigotry by canceling an event featuring the leader of a notorious anti-Muslim hate group.” The Islamic supremacist Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), a deceptive group that counsels Muslims on how to avoid cooperating with law enforcement, tweeted: “MPAC Applauds Jewish Federation For Putting Kibosh on Extremist #PamelaGeller.”
The mainstream media happily played along. The Los Angeles Times approvingly quoted Hussam Ayloush of Hamas-linked CAIR smearing Geller, without bothering to notify its readers of CAIR’s ties to Hamas, unindicted co-conspirator status in a terror funding case, and jihad terror convictions of several of its officials. Haaretz ran a front-page piece entitled “No hatred is pro-Jewish. No bigotry is pro-Israel. Case in point: Pamela Geller.”
Pamela Geller’s pro-Israel, pro-freedom message is only “bigotry” or “extremist” to those who wish to enable the victory of Islamic supremacists in the United States, but aside from these smears, the central claim of the Islamic supremacist groups and their media lackeys isn’t even true: the Federation didn’t cancel Geller’s speech because of its content, but because of fears of violent Muslim protests. Algemeiner reported: “Citing security concerns that the building might be stormed by Muslim activists, the Federation informed the Zionist Organization of America – which was hosting the event – that the speech would be called off.”
The Federation demonstrated cowardice in not standing up to violent intimidation, and although it did not initially repudiate Geller’s message, it later announced that in light of this incident it would frame guidelines as to what events would be “appropriate” to host on its premises. Los Angeles Jewish Federation Board Chairman Richard Sandler said: “You learn from every situation, and because this happened, it is good that we will be able to put processes in place to make sure it does not happen again.” Hamas-linked CAIR and the media ran with this, portraying the cancellation as a rejection of Geller’s message. They are happy to use the Federation for its own purposes, crowing that even a mainstream Jewish organization like the Federation is unwilling to discuss Islamic anti-Semitism and jihad – which Geller correctly identifies as the root cause of the Israel/“Palestinian” conflict. CAIR is thrilled about this: the more ignorant and complacent Americans are about the Jew-hatred that is deeply rooted within Islam, and the Islamic texts and teachings that exhort Muslims to wage war against and subjugate Jews and other non-Muslims, the happier Hamas-linked CAIR and its cohorts are.
And indeed, the reality is quite ugly. The Qur’an says that the Jews are “the most hostile of men to the believers” (5:82), and are under the curse of Allah (2:89; 9:30). “O believers,” the Qur’an says to Muslims, “take not Jews and Christians as friends; they are friends of each other. Whoso of you makes them his friends is one of them. God guides not the people of the evildoers” (5:51).
In a hadith, Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, says that “the last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him” (Sahih Muslim 6985). Islamic doctrine holds that all land that has once belonged to the House of Islam belongs by right to the Muslims forever, and that no non-Muslim state has any legitimacy upon such land; consequently, the idea of a Jewish State in the Middle East is absolutely unacceptable to Muslims on theological grounds. No negotiated agreement or concessions from Israel will mitigate these doctrines, which amount to an imperative to destroy Israel entirely.
This was the substance of Pamela Geller’s message on June 24, and it is also the message of freedom fighters and defenders of Israel across the world. To declare this message to constitute “bigotry” and as such to be outside the realm of acceptable public speech is unconscionable and, ultimately, suicidal for free societies. This is no time for acts of cowardice, and events are moving far too quickly to excuse complacency, ignorance, and trimming in the service of narrow self-interest. All defenders of freedom must stand up and criticize Islamic anti-Semitism strongly and without apology, as Pamela Geller has done, and stand with her to call upon Muslim groups to renounce and repudiate these noxious and belligerent doctrines that foreclose any possibility of peace in the Middle East and in the world at large.
It is, of course, virtually inconceivable that mainstream Muslim groups will renounce, reject or reform Qur’anic anti-Semitism, and so for non-Muslims today, it is crucial to be forewarned, informed, and resolute in defense of freedom. In other words, it is crucial for all free people to reject the cowardice and dishonesty that has characterized the actions of so many during this episode. The stakes are simply too high for anything less than that.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book, Did Muhammad Exist?, is now available.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Mooslim Mindset: Wipe Christianity and Judaism off of The Earth – Any More Questions?
Islamist Group Vows To “Wipe Christianity From The Face Of The Earth”…
They’re so cute when they act tough.
A Muslim group has released its plan to “wipe Christianity from the face of the earth,” Islamize the West and establish an Islamic system of world government — placing those who resist “under a police state.”
The 23-page booklet, “The Global Islamic Civilization: The Power of a Nation Revived,” is the brainchild of the United Muslim Nations International, a group led by Sheik Farook al-Mohammedi. The document outlines a plan for Muslim world domination and the re-establishment of the Caliphate.
Al-Mohammedi leaves no doubt about his view of Christianity.
“Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth,” al-Mohammedi said. “It is an evil demonic and Anti-Christ system, all Christians are in complete Ignorance.”
The sheik includes a veiled threat in his remarks.
“Islamic Power has returned upon the face of the earth and the Revived Global Caliphate has set eyes on the West to once and for all rid the world of Christianity and there is nothing you can do about it,” al-Mohammedi said.
He makes his objective clear.
“I have pledged and made a firm promise to the Caliphate of the United Muslim Nations International organization that I will do my utmost to Islamize all of the West within a short period of time,” al-Mohammedi said.
Al-Mohammedi’s views are reflected in the book, which calls on all Muslims to, “listen attentively (to the teaching in the booklet) so they may be able to feel the spirituality of an Islamic revival within themselves and they will be able to achieve the much needed upliftment (sic) and also a means in gaining the closeness of Allah Subahanhu wa-ta’ ala.”
The document is a clear statement on the organization’s objective. Page 2 explains that the emergence of an Islamic Caliphate is the ultimate goal of all Muslims.
“Firstly we will deal with the matter of the Global Islamic Civilization, its honored status, the unrivaled Universal Brotherhood and Sisterhood of the Muslim Ummah,” the document states.
“Islam the only true religion enjoins upon mankind Total Submission to the will of Allah, which means that you are to live a life that is Totally Devoted to the Almighty Allah by serving Him in the manner which He has prescribed for us through the example of the Holy Prophet Mohammed Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam,” the booklet said.
Al-Mohammedi declares that Western resistance to the worldwide Islamic movement is futile.
“Today as I breathe the air of our newly found Islamic State of America before my trip this week to Eurabia I leave behind me an Internationalist Islamic Ideology which will be the future of America and Europe Inshallah,” he said.
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
These are Some of The Cowardly Christian Pansies Wild Bill Was Talking About
U.S. Presbyterian Church Pandering To Radical Leftists, Will Vote On Plan To Divest From Companies That Do Business With Israel…
Pathetic.
(The Blaze/AP) — Once again, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) finds itself at the center of controversy over a potential anti-Israeli move the church may plan to make. The denomination, the largest Presbyterian group in the United States, is considering divesting from three companies over the Israeli military use of their products in the Palestinian territories.
The proposal before the PC(USA) has outraged many Jewish groups who sent representatives to the church’s national assembly in Pittsburgh this week to lobby against the measure. Divestment supporters say the targeted companies — Caterpillar Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Motorola — are profiting from Palestinian suffering. The American Jewish Committee, a public policy group, has said the proposal demonizes Israel and threatens Christian-Jewish relations.
Last week, the U.S. investment firm MSCI Inc. announced it had removed Caterpillar from three of its popular indexes that track socially responsible investments, citing concerns about the Israeli military’s use of company bulldozers in the Palestinian territories. The MSCI decision led mutual fund giant TIAA-CREF to divest $72 million in Caterpillar stock.
From Weasel Zippers: http://weaselzippers.us/
It is Suicide to Bow to The Demands of islam…Thank God Some Refuse…Will You?
VIDEO: PAMELA GELLER ON ABC’S ‘UP CLOSE’ SUBWAY AD DEBATE
I appeared on ‘Up Close’ with Diana Williams, WABC-TV’s public affairs show. I debated Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, who is launching his own ad campaign on the subways, “hitting back” at ours. It’s a pity that Rev. Jim Wallis didn’t get his group together to stand up when Christians, Hindus, and so many others were facing vicious persecution in Muslim countries. Where is Sojourners when Christians are victimized by jihad? Wallis is standing up for those who oppress and kill Christians.
Watch the dhimmi debate. Rioting, vandalism, and assault are legitimate responses to freedom of speech.
UPDATE: Robert Spencer says this: