Exclusive: Making Up is Hard to Do – Jews and the Vatican Ruth King

May 14, 2009

An editorial in Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, was harshly critical of Pope Benedict’s visit to Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Memorial. “The pope never mentioned the culprits, or the German words engraved into the floor of the Hall of Remembrance at his feet: Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Majdanek, Theresienstadt. He said nothing about the church’s position on the Holocaust, or about its history of anti-Semitism, which made the Shoah possible in the first place. Instead, he confined himself to mentioning the “deep compassion” of the Catholic Church for the victims.” However, in the next sentence the authors equivocate: “His next sentence could be interpreted by the malicious – who are not in short supply – as a qualification of the uniqueness of the Shoah:

Sweden Tops Europe for Number of Rapes = Muslim Rape Jihad

TheOpinator 29 April 2009

Sweden is now experiencing the results of multiculturalism and and its facilitating of Islamization. Now Sweden leads Europe in the number of reported rapes – more specifically Rape Jihad.

“Sweden, 46 incidents of rape are reported per 100,000 residents. This figure is double as many as in the UK which reports 23 cases, and four times that of the other Nordic countries, Germany and France. The figure is up to 20 times the figure for certain countries in southern and eastern Europe……Over 5,000 rapes are reported in Sweden per annum while reports in other countries of a comparable size amounted to only a few hundred.” see below article

Zakat and Sedition

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

by Baron Bodissey

As has often been noted, jihad — violence against the infidel for the purpose of spreading Islam — is just one of the tactics used by Muslims to Islamize the infidel world. Various forms of “stealth jihad” supplement and support terrorism as a means of extending Islam’s reach.

Zakat, the religiously-mandated giving of alms, is one such supporting function. Islamic scripture and tradition require that charitable giving be used for the support of violent jihad, in addition to the more mundane eleemosynary functions.

How Islamist Lawfare tactics target free speech

Middle East Forum Legal Project | Apr 29, 2009

By Brooke Goldstein, Aaron Eitan Meyer

Are American authors who write about terrorism and its sources of financing safe? Are counter-terrorist advisors to the New York City Police department safe? Are U.S. congressmen safe when they report terrorist front groups to the FBI and CIA? Are cartoonists who parody Mohammad safe from arrest?Must a Dutch politician who produced a documentary film quoting the Koran stand trial for blasphemy of Islam in Jordan? Is anyone who speaks publicly on the threat of radical Islam safe from frivolous and malicious lawsuits designed to bankrupt, punish, and silence them? These days, the answer is no.

Lawfare is usually defined as the use of the law as a weapon of war [1], or the pursuit of strategic aims through aggressive legal maneuvers.[2] Traditionally, lawfare tactics have been used to obtain moral advantages over the enemy in the court of public opinion,3 and to intimidate heads of state from acting out of fear of prosecution for war crimes.[4] Al-Qaeda training manuals instruct its captured militants to file claims of torture or other forms of abuse so as to reposition themselves as victims against their captors.[5] The 2004 decision by the United Nation’s International Court of Justice declaring Israel’s security fence a crime against humanity, which pointedly ignored the fact that the fence contributed to a sharp decline in terror attacks, is another example of lawfare aimed at public opinion.[6]

The Third Jihad: Cultural War For Sharia

Hutton: The role of the Armed Forces in protecting national security

07:56 GMT, April 29, 2009

British Defence Secretary John Hutton gave a speech last night to the Institute for Public Policy Research in which he spoke about the role of defence in Britain’s national security.

Over a year since the launch of the National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom which identified the threats faced in the UK and brought together the agencies and departments in addressing them, Mr Hutton said that the Prime Minister has committed to publishing an update of the strategy in the summer and he added:

“At a time when there is pressure on public resources we need clarity about what adds value, a clear sense of priorities when it comes to the use of precious military resources, and a recognition about where the UK itself can best make an effective contribution.”

Speaking about the role of the British Armed Forces in protecting Britain’s national security, Mr Hutton said that a crucial part of the strategy was preventing and countering terrorist activities in failed and fragile states overseas such as Afghanistan.

More UK troops head for Afghanistan

Published: Wednesday, 29 April 2009, 1:36PM

More than 700 additional British troops will be sent to Afghanistan, the Prime Minister has confirmed.

It follows his whistle-stop tour earlier this week to Afghanistan and Pakistan when he warned the border area between the two countries is “crucible of global terrorism”.

Australian PM: Decision to increase troops may raise unpopularity

2009-04-29 15:07:30

CANBERRA, April 29 (Xinhua) — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Wednesday that he acknowledged Australia’s involvement in the war in Afghanistan will become progressively unpopular.

The troop commitment in Afghanistan will increase from 1,100 to 1,550, but there will be no additional combat troops, Rudd said in a press conference.

Ghost in the terror machine

April 12, 2009

Last week’s raids were the result of a long investigation into a wider campaign plotted by an Al-Qaeda chief before his apparent death

David Leppard

Early last Wednesday evening, Phil Harrow, a blood service courier from Toxteth, Liverpool, was sitting in front of his computer in his living room, his attention occasionally distracted by the sounds of the local children playing football on the street outside his front window on Cedar Grove.

NY man sentenced to 5 years for aiding Hezbollah

Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:39pm EDT

By Christine Kearney

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Pakistani man was sentenced in New York to more than five and a half years in prison on Thursday for broadcasting the Hezbollah television channel Al Manar and selling it to U.S. customers.

In one of U.S. prosecutors’ more unusual terrorism cases, Javed Iqbal, a 45-year-old Pakistani citizen living in New York, was charged with supporting Hezbollah in 2006. He pleaded guilty to the charges in December.