El Nuevo Herald has obtained a copy of a contract (link in Spanish) signed in 2010 by Asdrúbal Chávez, Hugo Chávez cousin, by which the Venezuelan government contracted Iranian Offshore Engineering & Construction Company (IOEC) to enlarge the Astinave shipbuilding facility in the state Falcón which had previously been seized by Chávez’s government. (My translation: … Continue reading »
Posted in June 2012 …
Iranian pair face death penalty after third alcohol offence
Iranian Kurdish men smuggle alcohol from Iraq to Iran, where liquor is banned. Photograph: Julie Jacobson/AP Two Iranians have been sentenced to death for persistent consumption of alcohol under the country’s Islamic Sharia law, which forbids the use, manufacturing and trading of all types of alcoholic drinks. The two, who have not been named by … Continue reading »
Major Nidal Hasan’s Beard
This week military judge Gregory Gross barred Major Nidal Malik Hasan from appearing in court because he has refused to shave a beard he reportedly grew as a badge of his deep Islamic faith. The beard, judge Gross said, was a violation of Army policy. As it happens, so were Hasan’s actions in November of … Continue reading »
Stolen Kremlin documents show Soviet involvement in Arab strategy
(EoZ)An amazing article by Claire Berlinski at Tablet: Russian exile Pavel Stroilov argues in his forthcoming book, Behind the Desert Storm, “It was the Soviet Empire—not the British Empire—that was responsible for the instability in the Middle East.” Stroilov, a historian now living in London, fled Russia in 2003 after stealing 50,000 top-secret Kremlin documents from the … Continue reading »
Shariaphobia
In a recent article in NRO, Matthew Schmitz, the deputy editor of First Things, argues that the anti-sharia laws recently adopted or under review in many state legislatures are not only unnecessary, but harmful. Mr. Schmitz argues that there is no need for states to adopt laws stating that in court cases, U.S. law trumps … Continue reading »
Reinvigorated Islam
Trauma, viruses, or bacteria cause the death of a biological entity. Viruses and bacteria are major killers of human beings and present great challenges to medicine. They can be deadly and have the uncanny ability to mutate. Yet they are there for their mission of ending life. Life exists due to balance: body and soul, … Continue reading »
The Obama Retreat
Last week, we wrote on this page that given the Obama administration’s lack of leadership on Iran in this “period of consequences,” Congress should step in to fill the void. As our editorial went to press, a bipartisan group of 44 senators began to do just that. In a letter organized by Senators Robert Menendez … Continue reading »
Mali: Students flee Sharia in northern schools
The fleeing students must have fallen under the influence of greasy Islamophobes who somehow convinced them that Sharia was not as benign and compatible with Western notions of human rights as Imam Rauf would have us believe. “Mali: Students Flee Sharia in Northern Schools,” from AllAfrica.com, June 22 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): Bamako … Continue reading »
One million invisible people.
As the sixth day of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip upon one million civilians living in the south of Israel comes to a close, with a school (fortunately empty) hit today and a factory worker suffering injuries from shrapnel in his neck, it is interesting to note the images chosen by the Guardian in … Continue reading »
A Dark and Vengeful God
At the beginning of Sweeney Todd, the chorus of his murdered victims sings, “He served a dark and a vengeful god.” In Egypt, an Islamic Sweeney butchered his wife after an argument, cut her up and sold her mutilated body as lamb chops. Around the same time as Mohammed Sweeney was selling pieces of his … Continue reading »
Sharia’s Sinister Smiles
The totalitarian nature of Sharia law can only be grasped when one appreciates how thoroughly it permeates and dictates everything in a believer’s life—including when and to whom a Muslim may smile. Sheikh Muhammad Hassan Popular Islamic TV preacher Sheikh Muhammad Hassan appears in this video clip asserting that, according to Sharia, it is “not … Continue reading »
Brotherhood to make concessions to revolutionary groups to overcome crisis
Well tomorrow is the day the election results from Egypt are released.. The brotherhood has riled the country up by declaring a win within hours and demanding that if they dont get the presidency it must be fraud. And Obama is backing them. Now that the results are coming out Saturday they are making big … Continue reading »
A World Without America
Here we go again. Even as Syria, Iran, Russia and China planned one of the biggest war games in Middle Eastern history, including 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft, and 1,000 tanks, the Obama administration was busily leaking more confidential information to the press endangering Israel’s national security. According to the Washington Post, “Western officials with knowledge” … Continue reading »
‘South Park’ Death Threats End with Jail Time
A convert to Islam who helped promote death threats against the producers of the animated television show “South Park” after it featured a character representing the prophet Mohammad will serve eleven-and-a-half years in prison, a federal judge ordered Friday. Jesse Morton pleaded guilty in February to conspiracy and two counts related to issuing threats in … Continue reading »
The Perils of Tough Talk
For many years now the issue of Iran’s nuclear program has been at or near the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. For the most part the issue has been debated in strategic terms: Will deterrence and extended deterrence work on an Iranian nuclear weapons capability or not? What are the proliferation implications … Continue reading »
After ‘Palestine’: Conflict, terrorism, international law
Once formally established, a new state of Palestine would quickly become a staging area for expanding conflict and terror against Israel. This is hardly a secret. Such preparations would also take place while Hezbollah mounted its own expanding rocket operations against Israel, from Lebanon. Forced by this growing and synergistic violence to undertake defensive operations, … Continue reading »
