Guess who missed Iran’s atrocities?
BY STEVE HUNTLEY, Chicago Sun-Times:
For months, the streets of Tehran ran red with blood. After June’s fraudulent presidential election, Iran’s security forces and paramilitary thugs arrested, beat, shot and murdered protesters whose only crime was to be fed up with dictatorial rule. Those unfortunate enough to land in prison were raped, forced to lick toilet bowls, tortured by, for example, having their fingernails ripped out, and killed, some from abuse and some from show executions. All this is common knowledge because the whole world is watching, right?
Well, not exactly. Though the horrors of a theocratic-military regime brutally crushing dissent were spread via media around the world, all that has happened in Iran seems to have escaped the notice of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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It’s not that the council doesn’t see bad actors in the world, it’s just that the bad actor nearly always turns out to be — you guessed it — Israel. More than 80 percent of its condemnatory resolutions — 27 out of 33 — have been aimed at the Jewish state. A council double-standard offers cover to Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist murderers.
The most notorious slander against Israel was the 2009 Goldstone Report, a “fact-finding” mission about last winter’s Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip. That was the response forced on Israel to combat thousands of rockets fired from Gaza in a Hamas campaign of terror.
In an unprecedented effort to limit civilian casualties, Israel used hundreds of thousands of cell phone calls and leaflets to warn innocent Palestinians of danger zones. That foreshadowed the tactics used by the United States in announcing beforehand the current military offensive in Marja in Afghanistan. Just as Americans occasionally kill civilians there, the Israeli Gaza operation inadvertently killed some civilians, but mostly it took out Hamas terrorists and their allies.
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Global Warming Fraud: The Big Picture
John Hinderaker, PowerLine:
The recent revelations of scientific errors (not to say fraud) in the U.N.’s global warming documents are important, but Fred Singer reminds us not to lose sight of the most important point: the IPCC’s fundamental conclusions, relating to the allegedly unprecedented warming of the past half-century, are based on bad surface temperature data and are contradicted by more-reliable satellite data and by our knowledge of the earth’s climate history. We know for a fact, in short, that the computer models that are the only basis for the AGW theory are wrong:
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Islamic Iran: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said “existence of Jewish Homeland is an insult to the entire humanity”
Pam Geller, Atlas Shrugs:
So Israel, the beacon of science, technology, medicine, art, music, beauty, and humanity is an “insult to the entire humanity” but the crushing brutal and violent ideology of Islam and the sharia that brutalizes, slaughters,honor kills, clitorectomizes, beheads, annihilates non-believers, imposes dhimmitude, proliferates Islamic Jew hatred, persecutes, Christians, Hinuds, Sikhs, Serbs, Zoroastrians et al demands jiyza, crushes dissent, democracy and basic human freedoms, converts or kills, commits, 9/11, 3/11, 7/7/ Mumbia, London, Bali, New York, Madrid, jihad piracy,misogyny, slavery, litigation jihad, economic jihad, academic jihad, is a ………blessing to the entire humanity“?
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When Responsibility Doesn’t Pay
Mark Steyn:
While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand-new, even-more-unsustainable entitlement at the health-care “summit,” thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen — because they’re part of the same story. It’s just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They’re at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is farther upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided instead that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe. Chapter One (the introduction of unsustainable entitlements) leads eventually to Chapter Twenty (total societal collapse): The Greeks are at Chapter Seventeen or Eighteen.
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The British Aren’t So Special to Obama
by Warner Todd Huston, BG:
Barack Obama, it was claimed, would “repair” our reputation both with our enemies and our friends. So how has he done? Let’s take Britain for example. Has he “fixed” our special relationship with the British Isles? Well, if by fixed you mean he has fastened that relationship to a negative track, well then “fixed” it is.
Let’s review some of the slights that Barack Obama delivered to our closest allies, the British.
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Christian Nihilism
By Nancy Coppock, AT:
The above-quoted high-toned twaddle is evidence enough that a culture steeped in generations of dismissal of the Great Books of Western Civilization has now accepted reeducation, with the ability to defend graffiti and defamation as reasoned thought. Christian Nihilism explains how the academic intelligentsia, mainstream media, and political hacks can be so certain of their spiritual superiority with no practicable evidence, while so equally convinced that their customers and fellow citizens are immoral idiots. This, combined with a Mao-esque sense of nihilistic benevolence, underscores their conviction that the state collection plate is never full enough to show their compassionate nature.
Read the transcript of this Democrat strategy session to understand how Christian Nihilism is practiced for political opportunism. Christian Nihilists show their piety by ensuring that others give accordingly by requiring more sacrifice from the American taxpayers while excusing themselves through tax-avoidance chicanery.
The Christian Nihilism pop culture mistakes cunning for intelligence and savvy for integrity. Severe personal development flaws are flippantly described as character. As Algore in Wonderland said, “Everything that should be up, is down, and everything that should be down, is up.” Stir in a few Alinsky/Luciferian ideas concerning the separation of church and state, and morality is turned on its head.
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Stern’s appointment to the deficit commission a mockery
Greg Halvorson, AT:
Jaw-dropping. Just when you thought it couldn’t get stranger, the White House has appointed Andy Stern, head of the S.E.I.U., to the bipartisan deficit commission.
For those unfamiliar with the S.E.I.U., it’s America’s fastest growing union, and is largely responsible for the rise of the public-sector, which has eclipsed its private counterpart in “represented” employees. Public unions, by draining budgets (in the words of Mark Levin, “That’s right, I said it!”) foster an environment in which politicians back unions which, in turn, fund campaigns.
Stern’s appointment is pay-back. Since
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A Government that doesn’t know where babies come from
Telegraph [UK]:
Teenagers know very well how babies are made, partly because they have been repeatedly instructed on the topic since they were six. They also know how to stop them. The reason Britain has such a high rate of teenage pregnancy is because we have so many teenagers who want to get pregnant: they don’t do it out of stupidity or ignorance, but knowing full well what the consequences will be.
Why is this happening? Part of the answer is painfully low ambitions and expectations. Teenage pregnancies are heavily concentrated among the least well-off. They know that having a child will damage their education and seriously hamper their chances of getting a well-paid job. But to those who do not think they have much chance of ever getting off the dole, that is not a disincentive. Aspiration is the best contraceptive: our high rate of teenage pregnancy is testament to the dismal level of ambition of many of our teenagers.
But it is also a testament to the British state’s success in reducing the penalties involved in single parenthood. It is striking that in the 1930s, during the last major depression, the fewest births out of wedlock occurred in the poorest London boroughs. At the time, there was virtually no economic support from the state for unmarried women who had babies, which must have acted as a very powerful disincentive. There were also strong social sanctions against unmarried mothers, of course, but those were just as powerful in the richer London boroughs such as Chelsea, where the illegitimacy rate was four times as high.
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Christian son of Hamas founder ‘saved Israeli president’
Telegraph [UK]:
Mr Yousef said he was not paid but his motivation was ideological and religious. He grew up steeped in the violence of the West Bank and was jailed and badly beaten by Israeli forces aged 18 when he was an Islamic student leader.
But in prison, he was appalled to see how Hamas tortured suspected collaborators and decided to accept a Shin Bet approach to become an informant. And in 1999, he turned to Christianity after a chance encounter with a British pilgrim who met him in Jerusalem’s old town and invited him to a bible class.
Although there is a sizeable Palestinian Christian community, for the son of a Hamas founder to abandon Islam was unthinkable and he kept his religious conversion as secret as his role with Shin Bet.
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The true religion of peace – faith in Christ (Yeshua Ha Mashiach), The Prince of Peace.
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Christian persecuted … world yawns
Karachi, a Christian sentenced to life imprisonment for blasphemy
Victims of Radical Islam: Christianity’s Modern-Day Martyrs
By SPIEGEL staff:
The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world. Paradoxically, their greatest hope could come from moderate political Islam.
Kevin Ang is cautious these days. He glances around, taking a look to the left down the long row of stores, then to the right toward the square, to check that no one is nearby. Only then does the church caretaker dig out his key, unlock the gate, and enter the Metro Tabernacle Church in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.
The draft of air stirs charred Bible pages. The walls are sooty and the building smells of scorched plastic. Metro Tabernacle Church was the first of 11 churches set on fire by angry Muslims — all because of one word. “Allah,” Kevin Ang whispers.
It began with a question — should Christians here, like Muslims, be allowed to call their god “Allah,” since they don’t have any other word or language at their disposal? The Muslims claim Allah for themselves, both the word and the god, and fear that if Christians are allowed to use the same word for their own god, it could lead pious Muslims astray.
For three years there was a ban in place and the government confiscated Bibles that mentioned “Allah.” Then on Dec. 31 last year, Malaysia’s highest court reached a decision: The Christian God could also be called Allah.
Imams protested and disgruntled citizens threw Molotov cocktails at churches. Then, on top of everything, Prime Minister Najib Razak stated that he couldn’t stop people who might protest against specific developments in the country — and some took that as an invitation to violent action. First churches burned, then the other side retaliated with pigs’ heads placed in front of two mosques. Sixty percent of Malaysians are Muslims and 9 percent Christians, with the rest made up by Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs. They managed to live together well, until now.
It’s a battle over a single word, but it’s also about much more than that.
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Ask Not For Whom the Bell Tolls, MSM: It Tolls for Thee
Posted by Dr. Gina Loudon, BJ:
With a whiff of nostalgia, I can imagine the old time journalist with the smell of coffee and cigarettes wafting through the click and clang of the typewriter. Fifty years ago, a “journalist” had the ring of a dispassionate, creative, honest, fair, and trusted detective/storyteller. Fifty years ago, if you graduated from an accredited journalism school, you were presumed “unbiased.” Much as the physician takes an oath that she will “first, do no harm,” the “journalist” title meant that you were first, unbiased and balanced. Neutrality in the story was as necessary as it was assumed.
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Long, bloody road to Islam reform
By SALIM MANSUR:
Two notable Muslim leaders died late last year.
Though the deaths of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 87, of Iran, and Indonesia’s Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, were widely reported, the significance of who they were and what they represented in life was not fully appreciated in the West that is rightly bewildered with the violence tearing apart the world of Islam.
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The Internet and the Agora
By G. Murphy Donovan, AT:
The blogosphere seems to be flushing the mainstream downstream. The blowback is venomous and not a pretty sight. Media stars, especially, are fighting a vicious rearguard action against the inevitable. The rise of the internet and the fall of traditional journalism are giving hyperbole a new lease on life.
First we see Tom Friedman on Meet the Press calling the internet “an open sewer of disinformation.” Then we hear Eric Schmidt, from the heights of Mountain View, second the motion by calling the net a “cesspool.” Most recently, we have Ellen Goodman in her swansong telling us, with a straight face, that internet users will lament the loss of “fact checkers” and old school “journalists.”
Truth is not simply what you say; it is also what you don’t say. What Ms. Goodman does not say is that facts, like truths, are what we choose to believe. Unfortunately, what we believe is not necessarily true. And so it is with Goodman’s facts and analysis.
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NYT Lies about Hebron Tomb Dispute
Leo Rennert, AT:
The New York Times featured an article Friday by Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner about tensions between Palestinians and Israel over the Tomb of Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron (“Clashes Over Shrine In West Bank Persist, but Don’t Escalate” page A3.)
Here’s how Kershner describes the religious importance of this shrine:
“The Cave of the Patriarchs is revered by Jews, Muslims and Christians as the ancient burial place of Abraham, his wife Sarah and other major biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.”
That’s just plain wrong.
Why?
Muslims do NOT revere the Tomb as the burial place of half a dozen biblical patriarchs and matriarachs. They revere the Tomb solely because Abraham is buried there.
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Prosecuted for Saving a Girl’s Life
By Pamela Geller, AT
A girl flees from her home in fear for her life — and law enforcement goes after the people who helped her. That’s the situation in the Rifqa Bary case. The Columbus Dispatch reported this about Rifqa’s friend Brian Williams: “An Ohio minister accused of driving a teenage runaway to a bus station last year has retained a lawyer as police say they’re investigating whether anyone broke the law in helping the Christian convert leave home for Florida.” And why did she flee to Florida? Because, she says, when her devout Muslim father found out she had become a Christian, he said to her, “I will kill you.” And with Islam’s death penalty for apostates, she had to take that seriously. But Rifqa’s father is not in danger of being prosecuted. Brian Williams is.
Law enforcement, in a perverse twist of reality, continues persecuting the Christians in Ohio who helped a teenage apostate escape the death threat (in line with sharia law) made by her family.
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Christian Persecution In India
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Physicists’ memo to Parliament blasts AGW “science”
by Ed Morrissey:
The British Parliament has begun an investigation into the meaning of the East Anglia CRU e-mails, and part of that process is a form of peer review, in a sense. Their Science and Technology committee has welcomed commentary from the scientific community, and among those members is the non-profit charity, the Institute of Physics. In their submission, the IoP says that the UEA CRU e-mails don’t just indict East Anglia, but the entire AGW industry — and that “science” wasn’t what they were doing at all (via Watts Up With That and Mike Ross, emphases mine):
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Welcome to the New World Order
By James Delingpole, Telegraph [UK]:
Climategates, Glaciergates, Amazongates, Pachaurigates and Africagates may come and go, but as far as the UN is concerned the caravan must roll on regardless.
Just have a look at this terrifying document unearthed by George Russell at Fox News – the one which paves the way for the New World Order destined to be imposed on us in the name of ecological righteousness.
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Obama Welcomes Atheists (2.26.10)
What a joke. Evangelicals? Rick Warren! These dupes bootlicked to Obama and are a disgrace. They are false teachers.
Glenn Beck Show – February 26, 2010 – Pt 1 of 7
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Free speech victory in Whatcott v. Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal
Canadian Constitution Foundation:
CALGARY: The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) today responded to the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision in Whatcott v. Saskatchewan Human Rights Tribunal, a case in which the CCF had intervened in support of free expression.
In a decision released February 25, the 3-member court ruled that William Whatcott did not violate section 14(1)(b) of the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code by distributing flyers to oppose the teaching of homosexuality in Saskatoon’s public schools.
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Palin v. Obama: ‘Real’ American v. the ‘Citizen of the World’
Posted by Kyle-Anne Shiver, BJ:
Perhaps never before in American history have two individuals so captured the hearts, minds and imaginations of such a wide proportion of the citizenry as have Sarah Palin and Barack Obama. Both are charismatic, charming in their own ways, in dramatic, stand-above-the-crowd fashion. Both have written best-selling autobiographies, which have mesmerized large swaths of the American public.
There, however, the similarities end.
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How to Stifle Speech
Clifford D. May, NRO:
Generation after generation must have the courage to defend what we used to call, without embarrassment, “the blessings of liberty.”
That means recognizing that a war is being waged against what we used to call, also without embarrassment, the Free World. This war is being waged by an enemy many are reluctant to name: Islamists. They are fighting not only with AK-47s and I.E.D.s in such places as Afghanistan and Somalia. They also are fighting with actions, ideas, and laws in such places as Europe and America. They are fighting a pitched battle against freedom of speech — the right without which other rights cannot be protected.
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First reactions to Pim Fortuyn’s murder in Holland
By Eeyore, Vlad Tepes:
I cannot thank V.H. and Baron Bodessey enough for this recent string of videos showing the progression of events leading up to the murder of Dutch liberal politician, Pim Fortuyn. His demonization by the government and the press, I do not know how much the press is owned or controlled by the government but if it is anything like Canada or England, it’s nearly entirely so, certainly is what inspired the leftist, sympathetic to Islam, to murder Mr. Fortuyn. The press mis-characterize him as “far right wing” exactly as they label Geert Wilders. Yet Pim Fortuyn was well known as, to quote Mark Steyn, a gay hedonist. About as far from right wing as you can get.
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