Doc's Talk: Apocalypse Denial Now: A Week of Islam in the News

Monday, November 08, 2010

Apocalypse Denial Now: A Week of Islam in the News

Stella Paul

Just for laughs, I collected a week of headlines about Islam around the globe. (Admittedly, the laughs are heavy on black humor.) The week I randomly chose began on October 4, 2010 and turned out to be the typical apocalyptic nightmare that most weeks are now, in this golden age of hope and change.

Last Monday kicked off with a terror scare across all of Europe -- a super-duper mega-scare that we've already utterly forgotten. Once upon a time, a headline like, "Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace among terror targets" might have managed to make an impression that lasted longer than three days; now, we shrug and philosophically move on to exploding planes from Yemen. As the week progressed (hmm..."progressed" doesn't seem quite the right word), Geert Wilders went on trial in Amsterdam for hate speech against Muslims, the Times Square bomber ranted jihadi threats in New York as he was sentenced to life, a British hostage was killed in Afghanistan during a NATO rescue attempt, and a Seattle cartoonist scurried underground in fear of her life. And the week was just getting warmed up.

Reading the headlines as a sort of surreal poem, I'm staggered by the global reach of Islamic aggression. All of Europe trembles in its grip; across America, Atlanta bus stations and Amtrak train lines shiver with vulnerability; in Africa, murdered Christians fall in bloody heaps to the ground; in Canada, Russia, Indonesia, and the Maldives, turmoil and trouble abound; and the entire Middle East reeks of carnage.

The Islamists' movement is tiny, almost undetectable -- a house in Iceland is purchased for a mosque -- and also unimaginably epic -- Iran readies its nuclear bomb.

Striking, too, is the feckless buffoonery of the Western response. Look at these headlines and savor the marvelous displays of cowardice, confusion, and outright collaboration which is mostly what we've managed to summon up so far.

From British television churning out Taliban propaganda by helpfully "imagining" Prince Harry as a kidnap victim to the knock-kneed Washington Post pulling a cartoon that doesn't even show Mohammed, the media spent the week proudly polishing its Best Dhimmi prizes.

And you don't have to be a lawyer to see the aging transvestite the Western legal system has become: pretending to be Lady Justice while stomping to dust the few brave truth-tellers in Europe and French-kissing the terrorists in Guantánamo.

As for the giants of our age, check out their marquee appearances and wonder not why we're in such a perverse pickle. It was a week that saw the former German youth leader and current pope cozy up to the Islamist Nazi Ahmadinejad; a former American president unleash clever sophistry to help ram through the Ground Zero Mosque; and a former British prime minister, whose sister-in-law just converted to Islam, wanly whine that we're being outmaneuvered by radical Muslims. Yeah, you got that right, pal.

What gets my vote for most important story of the week? Oddly, it never made it into a newspaper. I found it on Creeping Shariah, a website that uncovers the silent slither of Western accommodation with Islamic barbarity: "Ogilvy & Mather keynoting Muslim consumer conference with unindicted co-conspirator Islamic Society of North America." Yes, our corporations and advertising agencies are now married to jihad fanatics. What could go wrong?

Ladies and gentlemen, grab your strongest nausea medicine and start reading.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2010

5 EU Airports Targeted for ‘Commando-Like Attack'
Drudge Report
‘Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace among terror targets'
Jerusalem Post
German-based cell in latest European jihad plot recruited from same Hamburg mosque where 9/11 plotters met
Jihad Watch
EXCLUSIVE: Witnesses in Defense Dept. Report Suggest Cover-Up of 9/11 Findings
Fox News
Ground Zero Mosque: Our family has received death threats, says wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
New York Daily News
Hundreds of activists from Muslim countries planning new Gaza-bound flotilla
AP
Pakistani woman killed in Italy over arranged marriage
Telegraph [U.K.]

The British Muslim schools where EVERY pupil is forced to wear the veil - and Ofsted inspectors have approved them
Daily Mail, UK

Child Bride Horrors Last a Lifetime
CNN

Dutch politician on trial on hate speech charges
AP

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2010

Muslim Cleric: ‘The Flag of Islam Will One Day Fly Over the White House'
ABC
A nation of immigrants must include Muslims
Boston Globe
U.S. Plans Law Enforcement 'Surge' On Trains
Stepped-Up Security on Amtrak Trains; 11 Suspects Arrested in France
ABC News
A U.S. Cartoonist in Hiding: The Molly Norris Precedent
Scripps Howard News Service
Mayor Bloomberg begs Ground Zero responders to take 9/11 settlement
New York Daily News
New Jersey Muslim who worked in nuke plants spoke openly of jihad warfare
Jihad Watch
Campbell's Soup goes halal with approval from Hamas-linked ISNA
Jihad Watch
US Textbooks: Muslims Discovered America
CBN.com

British terror suspect 'was head of The Islamic Army of Great Britain'
Telegraph [U.K.]

Religious intolerance rising among Indonesian Muslims
AsiaNews

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6

US could absorb a terror attack and bounce back: official
AFP
Times Square bomber's vile rant as he gets life in jail
New York Post

(Bill) Clinton: Mosque Should Be Dedicated To Muslims Killed On 9-11
VERTEX News
First civilian trial of a Guantanamo Bay detainee halted
Guardian UK
Wilders's Anti - Islam Film Screened In Dutch Court
Reuters
Man appeals 'jihad book' conviction
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
Muslims Force Expat Christian Teacher to Flee Maldives
Crosswalk.com
Channel 4 to show drama imagining Prince Harry's capture by Taliban
Telegraph UK
Iran says ‘western plot' to blame for computer worm
Jerusalem Post
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010

Barack Obama accused of exaggerating terror threat for political gain
Guardian.co.uk
The West is being 'outmanoeuvred' by violent Islamist extremists: Tony Blair
Telegraph, UK
Ground Zero Mosque Developers: Fox News is "Hypocritical," Has Ties to "Truthers"
PunditPress
CAIR, Academic Scheme to Inflate Book Sales
IPT News (Investigative Project on Terrorism)

'Why would we walk on eggshells when it comes to Islam or the Prophet?'
National Post, Canada

(London) Tube driver ‘planned to take part in jihad'
Times of Malta
Real Estate Collapse Spells Havoc in Dubai
New York Times
Turkey's Protestants complain of state discrimination
Agence France-Presse
Saudis arrest Filipino Catholics at mass-report
Agence France-Presse
Iran president thanks Pope for condemning Koran threat
BBC
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
Year After Obama Won Nobel, World Looks for Signs of Peace
Increased Fighting in Afghanistan, Stalled Negotiations in Middle East
ABC
Top House Dem warns U.S. 'unprepared' for dirty-bomb attack
The Hill
Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America; Will America Notice?
The Rubin Report
Hamas Fundraising in Orlando Mosque
CBN
Ogilvy & Mather keynoting Muslim (consumer) conference with unindicted co-conspirator ISNA
Creeping Shariah
U.S. Embassy sponsors Irish Muslim business conference
Imam calls for Sharia Law in all business dealings
IrishCentral.com
'Women Unfit to Lead' Says Acehnese District Council Chairman
Jakarta Globe

U.S. giving away too much, too early in Mideast peace talks, some say
Los Angeles Times
Far-right Belgian could face massive fine for Mecca slur
AFP
Dutch deliver banned nuclear equipment to Iranian group
Jerusalem Post

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010

US Army Gen. Petraeus to Pakistan: Stop collaborating with Taliban
New York Daily News
Washington Calls on Americans to Avoid Traveling to Lebanon
Naharnet
Counter-terror Operation Targets Bus Station
WSBTV - Atlanta, Georgia
Bill Maher Applauds Osama Bin Laden for His Stance on Global Warming
Newsbusters
DOJ drops charges against bin Laden brother-in-law as requested by CAIR
Creeping Shariah, via UPI.com
Dearborn schools settle with coach who claimed he lost his job over Christian beliefs
AP
Kidnapped Aid Worker Killed In Rescue Attempt

A NATO raid to rescue Linda Norgrove, a British woman taken hostage in Afghanistan last month, ends in tragedy.
AOL News

How radical Islam seduced the academics
The Guardian, UK

Two women caned by sharia police for selling rice during Ramadan
(Indonesia) Newsrealblog

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2010

Washington Post bows to Islamic violent intimidation, pulls cartoon that mentions Muhammad but doesn't even depict him
Jihad Watch

School system to get Muslim holiday
Boston Globe

Torture victims sue Obama administration over ‘Kafkaesque nightmare'
McClatchy Newspapers

Afghanistan must embrace women's rights
Laura Bush, Washington Post

Iraqi Christians fear escalating persecution as US forces withdraw
Deutsche Welle

Muslim militia attacks Ethiopian Christians
One News Now

State leader wants Germany to close doors to Muslim immigrants
Deutsche Welle

How Moscow's War on Islamist Revels is Backfiring
Newsweek

Chicken McHalal: McDonald's denied using halal meat...now it admits meat IS in one of its most popular meals
Daily Mail, UK

House purchased for private Reyjkavik mosque
Icenews

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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