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'Missiles fired at' Russian plane with 159 passengers onboard flying over Syria
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Arabia
Eye Gouging and Paralyzing: Saudi Arabia's Tribal Justice
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 16:15 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
UK: France shows us how to deal with jihadis
Why Britain hasn't been able to deport Abu Qatada.
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 08:45 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If they deported him, he might be subjected to Sharia law...which is what he's been promoting for England.

Can't have that. Too ironic. Britain doesn't do irony, at least not intentionally.
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 04/30/2013 13:58 Comments || Top||


Telegraph's Top 10 stupidest Islamic terrorists
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/30/2013 06:16 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least they're thinning the herd by removing themselves from it...
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2013 23:15 Comments || Top||


Europe
AEP: Germany will think twice before saving France next time
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 18:12 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In the thirty or so years that I have been following EU affairs – or is it nearer 35 years now since I studied in French literature in Paris, and German philosophy in Mainz – I have never seen ties between Europe’s two great land states reduced so low.

Hey, you should have been around 73 years ago young padawan.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/30/2013 19:51 Comments || Top||

#2  The only time German-French relations were REALLY excellent was when Helmut Schmidt and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing held power.

Kohl-Mitterand was all show
Chirac-Schröder was just because the both wanted to piss off the U.S.
Sarkozy-Merkel? Meh

Hollande is certainly worse because he's incompetent. And a Socialist., although that's redundant.
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/30/2013 20:05 Comments || Top||

#3  :-D, EC.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/30/2013 21:49 Comments || Top||

#4  It's kinda funny that Mitterand forced the Euro onto Kohl, and now the socialists are reaping the results.

You'll hear denials after denials but Germany does have a plan B should (or rather when) the Euro fail.

France doesn't
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/30/2013 21:59 Comments || Top||

#5  Btw

French Franc Banknotes remained convertible up until 17 February 2012

German Mark banknotes remain convertible indefinitely. Just saying...
Posted by: European Conservative || 04/30/2013 22:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
The Truths About Terrorism, Whose Names They Dare Not Speak
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 14:01 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look. There are still people in Israel who believe that Peace with Arabs is possible. So, don't count on your nation's "progressives" waking up anytime soon.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/30/2013 14:53 Comments || Top||


Heritage’s Carafano: Obama’s ‘Head in the Sand’ on Terror
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 08:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's always depended on "what the meaning of is is" for these people.

I think Carafano may not understand what Obama would really see as victory. If you define terror as al queda and nothing but, you can go merrily about your goal of seeing MoBro installed in as many places as possible and doing all you can to grease the skids for the Jews moving to the sea.

George Orwell defined what would go on with the language years ago.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/30/2013 10:19 Comments || Top||

#2  I agree Alan. I also believe our Champ's definition of "success" is centered around a situationally adaptive approach. He is entirely comfortable taking on the mantle of fatherless Kenyan-Hawaiian, an aspiring Indonesian student, self-biographer, half-black Chicago community organizer, voting present State Senator, or transformational president. This fellow is entirely chameleon in both mindset and methods. He remains stalwart and unmoving in his social justice endgame however. To the Champ, all roads lead to utopian Obamaville, and all roads are passable.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/30/2013 10:41 Comments || Top||


Judith Miller: How to Stop Terrorists Before They Kill
The NYPD's surveillance program was designed to detect local terrorists before they strike—and it's working.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2013 05:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Need to roll it out to every mosque in the country and bill them for the surveillance.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/30/2013 6:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Funny how leftists are sure curtailing your 2nd Amendment right to own a gun will make us safer, but using the 1st Amendment to protect certain religious kooks from valid law enforcement surveillance will also make us safer. Just sayin'...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/30/2013 7:43 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Muslim apologist: The irony of Muslim terrorism
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 17:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Five takeaways from Pew’s comprehensive study on Islam
Posted by: tipper || 04/30/2013 17:05 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the high number of muslim favoring religious freedom contradicts the high number of muslims supporting sharia

maybe they should poll on whether muslims in these countries believe in the law of contradiction or in the law of cause and effect
Posted by: lord garth || 04/30/2013 19:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Taqiya(?) runs deep. Islam = sharia = theocracy = oppression of non-Muslims.

The core goal of Islam is still, as it has always been, the global caliphate. You have 3 choices: 1. convert; 2. dhimmitude; 3. death.

We will have to fight or die as this goes on.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/30/2013 20:09 Comments || Top||

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Princeton University professor Amaney Jamal, a special adviser to the Washington-based Pew Research Center, emphasized there is no one common understanding of sharia among all the world's Muslims.

“Sharia has different meanings, definitions and understandings, based on the actual experiences of countries with or without sharia,” she said

Oh, I think there are a few points of agreement out there...
Posted by: Steve White || 04/30/2013 21:12 Comments || Top||

#4  LG, no contradiction here.
They believe everyone should be free to become a muslim. Once they've given you that choice and you decline, you're fair game.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/30/2013 21:36 Comments || Top||


Government
The Coming ObamaCare Shock
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/30/2013 10:30 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How are they gonna blame the Republicans? I'm sure it'll be clever!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/30/2013 18:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Every-goddam-body who I hear complaining about Bambi-Care and how it's hurting them, I'm gonna ask, who did you vote for in the last 2 elections?

And if they say the DemonRats, I'm gonna say, as ye sow, so shall ye reap - enjoy.

And smile when I do it.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/30/2013 18:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Barbara, there is also the question of whether they put Democrats or Republicans in the House and Senate. without Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, President Obama woiuldn't have gotten his key pieces of legislation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/30/2013 23:32 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2013-04-30
  'Missiles fired at' Russian plane with 159 passengers onboard flying over Syria
Mon 2013-04-29
  Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survives assassination bid
Sun 2013-04-28
  Blasts at election offices kill eight in Pakistan
Sat 2013-04-27
  Afghan bus crash kills 30, Taliban blamed
Fri 2013-04-26
  Terror plot: Leaders jailed for Birmingham bomb plan
Thu 2013-04-25
  Clashes between police and Uighurs in China leave 21 dead
Wed 2013-04-24
  Iraq: 35 dead in clashes, bombing as tensions rise
Tue 2013-04-23
  Two men arrested over 'al-Qaeda inspired' plan to attack a Via Rail train in Toronto area
Mon 2013-04-22
  Al Qaeda intelligence chief reported killed in drone strike
Sun 2013-04-21
  Egypt Police Arrest 39 in Cairo Clashes
Sat 2013-04-20
  Got him! Dzhokhar in custody
Fri 2013-04-19
  Boston: 1 suspect dead, 2nd on loose jugged
Thu 2013-04-18
  Pakistan's Musharraf flees court to avoid arrest
Wed 2013-04-17
  Boston Bombing Suspect Identified, Arrest Made
Tue 2013-04-16
  Feds seek suspects, motive in Boston bombings


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