by Khaled Abu Toameh More than half the 306 complaints about torture last year came from Palestinians who had been detained or imprisoned by Abbas’s security forces in the West Bank; 11 detainees died in Palestinian Authority and Hamas prisons according to a report by the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights. The EU has … Continue reading »
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Genesis of an Anti-Semitic State
This week, a Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism will gather in Jerusalem. The time has come for the Global Forum to consider the fact that a new anti-semitic state is in formation. Imagine, if you would, if any nascent nation-state, anywhere in the world, was in formation, and that it had taken on the following features: … Continue reading »
U.S. Praises Sharia Censorship
By Deborah Weiss The United States is silent as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) passes its most recent UN Resolution that unravels global consensus to support freedom of speech. From 1999-2010, the OIC succeeded in passing its “defamations of religions” resolutions, which ostensibly would protect Islam from all criticism, including true statements of fact. … Continue reading »
Obama’s Great Triumphs in Middle East Peace So Far
By Daniel Greenfield Every time Obama gives a speech about foreign policy, he inserts some obligatory mention of how he wants to negotiate peace between Israel and the “Palestinian” people. And how that will create stability in the region. The latter is a Saudi line that the parrots of the West have been taught to … Continue reading »
The Case for Drones
The Case for Drones Kenneth Anderson — June 2013 1. When Obama Embraced Drone Warfare How, exactly, did drone warfare and targeted killing become key elements in America’s counterterrorism strategy? And why should we care about them as essential national-security tools for the future? Barack Obama campaigned for his first presidential term on the platform of … Continue reading »
Is Jabhat al-Nosra breaking apart?
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment There’s been some very interesting reports about conflicts within Jabhat al-Nosra, the salafi-jihadi rebel group that has been designated an al-Qaida-connected terrorist organization by the USA and several other countries. The background If you follow Syria, you’re already familiar with the outlines of this, but here’s the very … Continue reading »
Obama’s Confused Self-Contradictory War on Terror Speech
By Daniel Greenfield If the Benghazi talking points were reduced to completely dishonest paragraphs by progressive political reviews, Obama’s End of Terror speech today looks like it was taken apart and put back together by entire committees. It’s confused, self-contradictory and lacks any coherent message except self-congratulations. The tone and content are completely inappropriate a … Continue reading »
Obama: “The best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community – which has consistently rejected terrorism”
According to Obama in his speech today, “The best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community – which has consistently rejected terrorism – to identify signs of radicalization, and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence.” The Muslim American community has consistently rejected terrorism? Four … Continue reading »
Another Display of Israel’s Strategic Value
Evelyn Gordon | @evelyng1234 The ongoing debate about whether America should intervene in Syria highlights an important point about Israel’s unique value as a U.S. ally: It is the only American ally in the Middle East willing and able to serve American interests by projecting power independently, rather than waiting for American troops to ride to … Continue reading »
Saluting Pamela Geller: a Champion of Liberty
By Amil Imani Tragically, during these times of great peril, truth is sacrificed by the politically correct, the myopic self-serving in the liberally dominated media, and the ruling class. Against this backdrop, a women of great courage and integrity labors tirelessly in speaking the truth and in the defense of liberty Pamela Geller’s work in … Continue reading »
MICHIGAN: On its way to becoming the first Islamic sharia-compliant state in America
BNI- Dearbornistan Heights Police Department now providing halal food to detained Muslims. Arab American News Local Muslim sharia proponents have welcomed the Dearborn Heights Police Department’s recent decision to provide halal food to Muslims who are detained in their custody. In recent months, members of the terror-linked CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations of Michigan) … Continue reading »
Egyptians targeted with blasphemy charges
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press/Ibrahim Zayed – Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, … Continue reading »
Media Censors London Beheader Using Koran to Justify Atrocity
By Daniel Greenfield You know that part in the video where the announcer is speaking over the Muslim killer. That’s the part where the killer is saying, “Many, many Ayah throughout the Koran that we must fight them as they fight us.” Instead the official media video cuts the Koran part out and picks up … Continue reading »
Herod’s Temple Mount Revealed in Al-Aqsa Mosque Restoration
Wooden beams from the time of Herod’s Temple Mount in secondary use in the Al-Aqsa Mosque Noah Wiener • 05/17/2013 The restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the 1930s and 1940s included the removal of dozens of wooden beams that predate the mosque’s construction. These beams may have come from buildings on Herod’s … Continue reading »
Al Jazeera reposts ‘anti-Jewish’ article after censorship backlash
Al Jazeera said it “should have done better” in handling a story by Columbia University professor Joseph Massad. (File photo: Reuters) Ben Flanagan – Al Arabiya Al Jazeera has republished a controversial article on its website after inexplicably removing it amid claims the story was “anti-Jewish”. Accusations of censorship were leveled against the Qatar-based … Continue reading »
Oman mulls ban on niqab veils for women drivers
An Oman delegate said that wearing a niqab while driving should be a traffic violation. (File Photo: Reuters) The Associated Press – A Saudi online newspaper says Oman is proposing that women be banned from wearing face veils when driving. Al-Watan said Tuesday Oman made the proposal at a meeting of Gulf Cooperation Council … Continue reading »
