5:10pm
Shiraz Maher is a courageous British Muslim of moral integrity who supports Israel’s right to defend itself against annihilation. In Standpoint magazine’s blog, he writes an extremely sharp article -- marking the fall of the Berlin wall -- which lists the many ‘security walls’ in the Muslim world but which are totally ignored in the frenzy over Israel’s separation fence:
Built in response to the Palestinian intifada which claimed more than 900 lives since September 2000, the fence has dramatically halted the number of terrorist attacks inside the country. Excuse the pun -- but from the wall-to-wall coverage it received you could be mistaken for thinking that Israel's decision to defend itself in this was unprecedented. Yet, not only is this wrong but, ironically, a lot of the physical barriers currently in place are located in the ‘Muslim
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3:47pm
Last week, Israeli naval commandos seized a huge haul of armaments shipped from Iran and destined for Syria and thence, Israel says, for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The haul, seized from a cargo ship flying the flag of Antigua, south of Cyprus, contained thirty-six shipping containers with 500 tons of weaponry -- about 9,000 mortar bombs, 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets, 3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over a half million rounds of small arms ammunition.
This seizure was of considerable significance. It demonstrated that Iran is arming terrorists in Lebanon (where Hezbollah is now ‘sharing power’ in – ie, exercising power over -- the government). It showed how Iran is busting the UN arms embargo. It exposed the extent of Syria’s collusion with Iran. And it showed the extent of the threat to Israel from Iran in Lebanon working through...
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6:48pm
It seems scarcely credible even by the standards of his administration, but Obama has now appointed to the senior Iran desk at the State Department a man who is in hock to the Iranian regime. Ed Lasky at American Thinker reports that the new official, John Limbert, serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC):
The Council is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America. It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels ‘patience’ regarding Iran's stance towards its nuclear program. The NIAC has been at the forefront of lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society. To top it off, the NIAC has reportedly received funding from anti-Israel advocate
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11:55pm
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In the Sunday Telegraph, Alasdair Palmer nails the sacked former government drugs adviser Professor David Nutt and the ludicrous idea that he represents ‘science’ against ‘prejudice’:
For instance, he recognises that ‘cannabis is associated with an increased experience of psychotic disorders’, which include schizophrenia, but he then minimises the significance, claiming that ‘schizophrenia seems to be disappearing, even though cannabis use has increased markedly in the last 30 years’. But there is no consensus at all that schizophrenia is disappearing: on the contrary, most psychiatrists and psychologists think the incidence of the illness is increasing, or at least constant. Furthermore, the best study on the relationship between cannabis and psychotic disorders, from Dunedin in New Zealand, found that teenagers who use cannabis
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11:29pm
More evidence of America’s Jihad Denial Derangement Syndrome. It turns out that fellow students of the army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who murdered 13 and wounded dozens more in a jihadi attack on Fort Hood had complained to the faculty about his anti-American propaganda – but were too afraid to file a formal complaint for fear of being accused of prejudice:
However, classmate Finnell said that Hasan made a presentation during their studies ‘that justified suicide bombing’ and spewed ‘anti-American propaganda’ as he argued the war on terror was ‘a war against Islam.’ Finnell said he and at least one other student complained about Hasan, surprised that someone with ‘this type of vile ideology’ would be allowed to wear an officer’s uniform. But Finnell said no one filed a formal, written complaint about Hasan's comments out of fear
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1:09pm
After the 7/7 London transport bombings woke at least some people up to the phenomenon of British ‘sleeper’ Islamic terrorism – and, equally important, to the way this was continuing to be denied by the British establishment – the reaction across the pond was, to say the least, complacent. What on earth had happened to the British lion? Americans asked, scratching their heads in amazement at how a country which had once stood united in determination to fight the enemies of democracy on the beaches was now apparently indifferent to the spread of jihadi fanaticism and support for religiously inspired violence amongst its own citizens. Americans were particularly astounded that Islamists were even being recruited to serve in the British police and other parts of the establishment.
The fact was, however, as I have written and said on a number...
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