The club of tyranny’s Falked tongue

11:19am

 

The UN has appointed a man to investigate Israel’s behaviour who is incapable of telling the difference between genocide and the attempt to defend a people from becoming its victims, and accuses those defenders instead of being the perpetrators of genocide despite the demonstrable evidence to the contrary. Professor Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories (whose remit, however, will not include reporting on the Palestinians!) has compared Israel’s behaviour in Gaza to the Nazis. He tells the BBC he is unrepentant about this comparison because he

wanted to shake the American public from its torpor.

Isn’t it time the American public was shaken from its torpor over the fact that the UN now stands for the abandonment of free societies, the demonisation of their defenders and the extinction of truth...

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Flame of shame

11:10am

As several have now pointed out, the most shocking aspect of the farcical progress of the Olympic torch through London and Paris was the presence and behaviour of the squad of blue-tracksuited Chinese goons who formed a menacing phalanx between the torch and the British police trotting alongside. Lord Coe has called them ‘thugs’ and Konnie Huq, who carried the torch, provided some vivid and alarming details:

Miss Huq, one of 80 torchbearers said: ‘The men in blue perplexed everyone. Nobody seemed to know who they were officially or what their title was. They were very robotic, very full on, and I noticed them having skirmishes with our own police and the Olympic authorities before our leg of the relay, which was confusing. ‘They were barking orders at me, like “Run! Stop!” and I

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The killer of the innocent

7:37am

In case anyone should be labouring under the delusion that al Qaeda’s murderous hatred of Jews is confined to Israel, its second-in-command Ayman al Zawahiri has just helpfully issued this blood-curdling elaboration:

 

We promise our Muslim brothers that we will do the best we can to harm Jews in Israel and the world over, with Allah's help and according to his command,’ Zawahri said in an audiotape released online.

Another notable feature of this Nazi-style rant is the way he insists that al Qaeda doesn’t kill innocents. That’s because the people it does kill,

 

the Americans and Jews and their allies and agents

are by definition not innocent because they are

 

the senior criminals.

This definition is also used by Islamists in the west who, when asked to condemn terrorism, carefully condemn the killing of the innocent. Since they don’t regard...

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Jihad with money

10:53pm

Alex Alexiev on National Review Online sets out the reasons why sharia finance — described by Sheikh Yusuf al Qaradawi as ‘jihad with money’ — is a serious threat to the west:

 

The legitimization of sharia in the West and its gradual imposition in Muslim communities and beyond is a key objective of sharia finance, and there is no doubt it has already made huge strides. …

Notably, for those Muslims who cannot engage in physical jihad using force of arms, sharia requires that they support jihad financially. This is what sharia finance is all about.

Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive

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Israel’s pilgerite tendency

2:30pm

    Last month, I wrote here about this piece by James Hider in the Times which reported claims that

Jewish settler groups are digging an extensive tunnel network under Muslim areas of Jerusalem’s Old City [from Silwan to the Western Wall] while building a ring of settlements around it to bolster their claim to the disputed city in any future peace deal.

I pointed out that the real story was the deliberate destruction by the Arabs, in the building of another mosque in Temple Mount, of countless priceless artefacts dating back to the time of the first Jewish Temple, in an attempt to destroy the evidence of the ancient Jewish claim to Jerusalem. But now read on here…

Hussein Siyam, the Mukhtar of Silwan, is the tribal leader of the two largest clans in the valley

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The club of tyranny

2:23pm

  The UN has once again negated any claim it can make to representing freedom and justice in the world and protecting human rights. Last week, the whimsically named UN Human Rights Council turned freedom of expression into its extinction and in so doing removed the last vestiges of its own credibility. As the International Herald Tribune reported, the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), a 57-member bloc of mainly African and Asian nations which effectively acts as a jihadi front and whose influence at the UN appears to be growing all the time, put forward a motion initiated by Egypt and Pakistan, which was passed 32-0, to get the UN’s expert on free speech police individuals and news media for negative comments on Islam and report to the council on all instances in which individuals...

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