Even at the Jihad Watch website there are those who question whether the Eurabia thesis presented by Bat Yeor is correct. I have spent a considerable amount of time checking it, and in my view, her conclusions are perfectly sound.
Louis Michel, at present a member of the European Commission, the EU's unaccountable government, told the Belgian parliament that the European Union will eventually encompass the entire Mediterranean basin, including North Africa and the Middle East. The EU is actively working towards this goal on a daily basis, and spends large amounts of money on promoting the Euro-Arab Dialogue.
The most dangerous aspect of this is how they rewrite European history books to erase any traces of the 1300 years of continuous Jihad warfare against Europe, Asia and Africa. The EU as an organization is so thoroughly corrupted by such pro-Islamic sentiments that it is simply impossible to fight the Islamization of Europe without getting rid of the EU.
Here is an example, clearly encouraged by the EU, of an Eurabian art exhibition in Rome dedicated to celebrating a common Mediterranean identity, whatever that is:
The works of twenty-one contemporary artists from around the Mediterranean basin went on display in Rome on Wednesday exploring through experimentation and tradition the identity of the region. [ ] This exhibition is an utopia, of bringing together united in dialogue the countries of the Mediterranean, with their wealth of history and culture, too often divided by tragic conflicts explained Maria Teresa Benedetti who curated the show. [ ] The language of the artists on display in central Rome is experimental and seeks to launch a message which underlines the existing historic links between the people of this region, who all face onto a sea which should serve to unite different cultures who share a common if turbulent history. [ ] There is no point in denying it, the idea of a common Mediterranean identity has been betrayed by centuries of history, of cruel wars, of tensions and fears acknowledged the president of the Lazio region Piero Marrazzo in a statement. It is certainly true that today, every day, it is betrayed by the difficulty of spreading out equitably resources and opportunities to all the citizens of the Mediterranean. Yet there is a deep bond that united us. The light of democracy and dialogue against the darkness of totalitarianism and intolerance. Building together the tools to fully express their common core will help consolidate the cultural, economic and political integration between the peoples of the Mediterranean Marrazzo said.
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Semitic Civilization formed in Mesopotamia, about 5000 years ago. Semites didn't hold land on the Mediterranean until about 1500 BC, and it was shared with Eastern European and North African peoples, from whom Baal worship originated. English speakers don't claim to be of a particular race; we shouldn't indulge race claims of those who only speak Arabic because rapist plunderers seized their lands after jihadism was concocted for Mohammed's (Pig Crap be Upon Him) revenge purposes. North African peoples are Berbers, Egyptians and Black Africans. Arabs are a desert and Indian Ocean peoples.
The EU should be encouraging non-Arabs to take up languages other than the one used by most terrorists.
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common Mediterranean identity has been betrayed by centuries of history, of cruel wars, of tensions and fears
There is that. There was that silly Trojan War back in the Bronze Age between the Akkadian Greeks and the Trojans of Asia Minor (modern day Turkey). And of course the several Carthaginian Wars between the North African (or, I suppose, Southern Meditteranean) Carthaginians and the Romans from the northern shore of that sea. The wars of Roman conquest, the battles to impose Christianity, the wars of Muslim conquest, the wars to drive out the Muslims... that's several thousand years right there, and I'm only up to the Middle Ages.
Interesting analysis. For those of you into Shadenfreude, read all the way to end.
Madness! This is how the president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, describes the fighting between rival factions in Gaza.
However, even if Abbas is right, what we witness in Gaza is madness with a method. The notion that Hamas and Fatah have suddenly jumped at each others throat for no good reason is fanciful, to say the least.
Talk of a Palestinian civil war is also premature.
Despite the savagery of the battles in recent days, and the mounting casualty figures, the current struggle concerns relatively small groups with the majority of Palestinians standing back, watching in horror. So far, Hamas has kept the bulk of its mini-army out of the conflict, while the national police and army, loyal to Fatah, have also remained on the sidelines.
The fighting has three causes: Immediate, midterm, and long-term.
The immediate cause is the desire by Hamas, which has a majority in both the Parliament and the national unity Cabinet, to bring Fatahs security apparatus in Gaza under its own control. Months of negotiations, part of which took place with the help of at least two Arab countries, failed to persuade Fatah to put its security forces in Gaza under government, which in practice means Hamas, control.
Hamas regards the Fatah security machine, led by Muhammad Dahlan, as little better than the Zionist enemy, and has been trying to break it for years. Dahlan, for his part, knows that, without his machine, he would have little chance of making his bid for the presidency when and if Mahmoud Abbas bows out. At the same time, Dahlan runs a major protection racket in Gaza covering important business interests that contribute to Fatahs funds. Kicked out of the strip, he could end up a much weaker, and poorer, figure.
Although Gaza has been Hamas principal support base for a decade, the presence of Fatahs armed units and security networks has prevented the pan-Islamist movement from reshaping it according to its ideology.
By expelling Fatah, Hamas will have exclusive control over an area that accounts for almost half of all Palestinians in the occupied territories.
The midterm reason for the fighting is Hamas desire to push the wooden nail into the heart of the Oslo accords, a Nosferatu that haunts Palestinian politics with the tantalizing but ever-elusive promise of a two-state solution.
Fatah bought into the two-state philosophy in the 1990s.
Hamas never did.
Hamas constitution commits it to striving for a single state in the entire Mandate Palestine. For Hamas, Palestine is a cause. For Fatah, it is a political project. Here we have a classical case of idealism versus realism.
By imposing its exclusive control over Gaza, Hamas hopes to forestall attempt at creating a mini-Palestinian state that, covering less than 5000-square kilometers, may prove unviable.
While Fatah regards Gaza and the West Banks as pieces of a jigsaw that, put together, would make an independent Palestinian state, Hamas sees them as bases from which the struggle for the liberation of the entire Mandate Palestine could be pursued for as long as necessary.
From the mid-1990s onward, Fatah dropped its dream of annihilating Israel in favor of a new dream: Hateful coexistence with the Jews in distinct statehood. Hamas, however, has clung to its position as a liberation movement.
The longer-term cause of the current fight must be sought in the deep ideological divisions in Palestinian society. Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamist movement dedicated to creating a single global Islamic state. For it, Palestine is no more than a small corner of the Dar Al-Islam (The House of Islam) which must one day defeat the Dar al-Kufr (The House of the Infidel) and unite mankind under its banner.
In a conversation with students at Tehran University a few months ago, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh warned Muslims against falling into the trap of nationalism which he described as a Zionist-Crusader conspiracy to divide Muslims across national lines. I looked for a suitable "Zionist-Crusader Conspiracy" photo, but struck out.
To be sure, Haniyah wants a Palestine as much as Abbas wants; but not just any old Palestine. Haniyah wants a Palestine that covers the entire 22,000-square kilometer of the old British Mandate. He also wants an Islamic Palestine in which Shariah, and not Western-style law, is in force.
This is why Hamas has launched a major drive to Islmicize Gaza, starting with forcing women to wear the hijab, and men to grow mandatory beards. It burned down the last beer factory in Gaza, and has banned the sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the strip. Bands of youths calling themselves Brigades of Enforcing the Good and Combating Evil have been raiding homes in search of alcohol, playing cards, Western videos, un-Islamic T-shirts and other sinful items. Young men and women found together in public or even in their cars are topped and searched to make sure that unmarried couples do not violate Shariah rules.
While Hamas is religious, Fatah is secular. Hamas is pan-Islamist, Fatah Palestinian nationalist. More importantly, perhaps, Hamas is optimistic while Fatah is pessimistic.
Hamas is convinced that time is running out for Israel.
Hamas is also encouraged by the fact that, for the first time in a decade, several regional powers including the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syria, the Sudan and Libya, support its one-state strategy.
Fatahs pessimistic analysis, however, is based on the assumption that the longer the two-state solution is delayed, the smaller the chances of creating a viable Palestinian state.
As things are shaping up, Gaza could end up as Hamas-land while the West Bank becomes Fatah-land. And, that, if anything, looks like a three-state scenario: A Jewish one in Israel, a secular Arab nationalist one in the West Bank, and an Islamist one in Gaza. And that could mean even greater tragedies for all concerned.
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By expelling Fatah, Hamas will have exclusive control over an area that accounts for almost half of all Palestinians in the occupied territories
thanks Amir, come back when you figure out that Gaza isn't "occupied". Even the best of Arab writers and thinkers suck
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Methinks Taheri is Iranian. But, yes, the mindset sucks.
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They are occupied. By moslems. Those were once Christian lands.
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Hamas is also encouraged by the fact that, for the first time in a decade, several regional powers including the Islamic Republic of Iran, Syria, the Sudan and Libya, support its one-state strategy.
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The problems of Gaza can (and should) be solved quite easily with the judicious application of napalm and high explosives.
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Pappy's right - Iranian, but still Islamic.
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The longer-term cause of the current fight must be sought in the deep ideological divisions in Palestinian society. Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, a pan-Islamist movement dedicated to creating a single global Islamic state. For it, Palestine is no more than a small corner of the Dar Al-Islam (The House of Islam) which must one day defeat the Dar al-Kufr (The House of the Infidel) and unite mankind under its banner.
All of which is a perfect reason to begin razing Gaza down to bedrock. Push its entire population out into the Sinai and tell their Egyptian handlers to suck it up.
Hamas has launched a major drive to Islmicize Gaza, starting with forcing women to wear the hijab, and men to grow mandatory beards. It burned down the last beer factory in Gaza, and has banned the sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the strip. Bands of youths calling themselves Brigades of Enforcing the Good and Combating Evil have been raiding homes in search of alcohol, playing cards, Western videos, un-Islamic T-shirts and other sinful items. Young men and women found together in public or even in their cars are topped and searched to make sure that unmarried couples do not violate Shariah rules.
Priceless. File under "Be Careful What You Wish For". Palestinians are about to find out just how miserable things can be when "more Islamic than thou" becomes a lifestyle. This is a sterling example of people getting the government they deserve. All that awaits is the human rights organizations pissing and moaning about Hamas violations. Given their pro-Islamic track record, I expect the usual deafening silence. If so, that would go beyond fitting and into the realm of supreme irony. Terrorists terrorizing the terrorists. Absolutely priceless.
Gaza resident speaks out against factional fighting, says situation in Gaza was better when Israel was in charge
Im afraid to say this out loud, they may execute me for it, but there are a lot of people, including myself, who think it would be better if Israel came back here. Things would be much better than they are now, said Samara (alias), a graduate of the Islamic University living in the Gaza Strip.
According to Samara, who lives nearby one of the Fatah strongholds taken over by Hamas in recent days, fear reigns in Gazas streets, and apart from gunmen and military officials, no one leaves their homes. The children are afraid all the time, Samara says. My nephews ask, Why are the Israelis shooting at us?, and we tell them its Palestinians. Then they ask, Why are Palestinians shooting at us?, and I have no answer for them.
We have no food at home. Weve been living on soups and canned food for days. There is no electricity or continuous water supply, let alone medicine or essential hygiene products, she explained.
The gun battles taking place in the streets keep all of Gazas residents in a state of constant fear. I hide in the house all day long, but even that might not be enough. Our neighbor was shot while he was inside. Men with black masks, weapons, and bags are walking around on the streets and Im afraid to leave. They could shoot me even if Im not what they are looking for, Samara said.
She blames both sides for the escalating violence. According to her, both Hamas and Fatah need to understand that they are one people. They promised us a better life, and the situation is only getting worse. Im afraid that by next week well become a Taliban state. Cause, meet effect. Effect, meet cause.
The minute Hamas takes over, it will become an Islamic state. It must be understood they were elected out of a sense of desperation. The people here are poor and desperate, and when they chose Hamas they had nothing to lose, but now it turns out they had a lot to lose. Eh, what can I say? Who did you vote in the last elections? My sympathy meter is ... broken.
Israel is not free of blame in Samaras eyes either. According to her, despite the Israeli governments desire to wash its hands of Gaza, it should have done so the right way, and left it with economic infrastructures. One word: Greenhouses. Another word: Total bullshit. (okay, that's two words, then)
When people have money, they dont turn to violence, she said. Especially valid for those chubby Hamaseen, that seem to have no problem stockpiling and expending ammo...NOT!
Samara explained that the economic boycott on the Palestinian Authority punished residents of Gaza, and not Hamas. But it's Hamas that is violent, not the residents, so riddle me this, Samara.
She called on Israel to open the Rafah crossing and allow those who could to leave Gaza. The Strip is like a jail, and we could die, she said. I won't even look at my sympathy meter. You made your bed, you fear in it.
Samara also had harsh claims against Arab states, saying they do nothing to improve the situation. Everywhere we go, even Arab states, they consider us to be terrorists, she claimed. Well, they have a point. It seems that it is not just a biased consideration, but a well know factoid.
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Hopefully, Gaza will be much like Afghanistan during the reign of terror of the Taliban. Murder everywhere, rule by whim, the law of the gun, with every man turned against his brother. Chaos and anarchy.
Hopefully Egypt will seal the border, and Israel will cut off the power. And if it gets too bad, the water.
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I'll bet some of them wished they hadn't destroyed all those functioning greenhouses so they could be eating instead of waiting for the next UN/NGO handout.
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My heart pumps piss.
when they chose Hamas they had nothing to lose, but now it turns out they had a lot to lose
Finally catching on about the downside to openly declaring in favor of terrorists, are we?
Samara also had harsh claims against Arab states, saying they do nothing to improve the situation. Everywhere we go, even Arab states, they consider us to be terrorists, she claimed.
And your point is? You Palestinian assholes have puffed and strutted with your terrorist posturings for many decades now. The blood of countless victims stains your collective hands and permanently soils your reputation. Rehabilitating it is going to take a lot more than just shouting "out, damned spot!" Maybe it's time to carefully re-examine how your fellow Arabs so eagerly financed all your terrorist atrocities and now shun you for your terrorist reputation. That certainly worked out neatly, now didn't it?
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Watching this stuff happen in Gaza is like watching Shelob catch Orcs; no good guys in the picture. If all the participants were to die quickly, it would be a big improvement. Now, what Israel needs to do for the WB is pass a law stating that anyone involved in terror activities, along with their entire family, will be expelled to Gaza. That would calm the WB down considerably.
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A magnificent essay that draws comparisons between Islam, fascism, Christianity, and Judaism.
Excerpts below and much more at the link.
Amid the apologetics and invective over Islam, Paul Berman's portrait of the Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan in the June 4 New Republic stands out as a thoughtful critique. Professor Ramadan personifies the West's bafflement before Islam; widely regarded as the thinking man's Islamist and a bridge-builder between cultures, he was barred by the Homeland Security Department in 2004 from entering the United States to take up a professorship at Notre Dame University in Indiana. In a rebuke to the US, St Anthony's College, Oxford, offered him a fellowship, which he now occupies.
Berman untangles the spaghetti-strands that tie Professor Ramadan to the terrorist ambience. He has trouble, though, making sense of what it is that Ramadan actually believes. Is he a 7th-century throwback (Salafi reformist), or an Islamic adaptation of Western totalitarian movements, or something quite different? We find an intriguing solution to Berman's puzzle in the work of the great German-Jewish theologian Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), who argued that pagan society everywhere always is "totalitarian" in character, and that Islam is a form of paganism masquerading as revealed religion. I put "totalitarian" in quotation marks because Rosenzweig's sociology of paganism predates this neologism. I summarized Rosenzweig's still highly controversial view of Islam in a 2003 review of a German-language volume on the subject. [1]
Following Rosenzweig, then, we may say that what ties Ramadan and his celebrated family to 20th-century totalitarianism is not association or influence, but rather commonality of spirit. Professor Ramadan, in a word, is a pagan, just as the Nazis (for example) were pagans. That does not prove by any means that Ramadan bears the taint of Nazi influence, for the normative Islam of Mohammed al-Ghazali (1058-1111), which Ramadan embraces, represents a much earlier form of paganism. I will explain, but some background is helpful first.
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Berman seems shocked to discover that radical Islam promotes a culture of death. He writes:
There is nothing especially novel or bizarre in noticing that al-Banna displayed an eager interest in the esthetic cult of death. The classic history of the Muslim Brotherhood, The Society of the Muslim Brothers by Richard P Mitchell, which appeared in 1969, was quite lucid on this topic even then.
Al-Banna came up with a double phrase about the importance of death as a goal of jihad - "the art of death" (fann al-mawt) and "death is art" (al-mawt fann). This phrase became, in Mitchell's description, a famous part of al-Banna's legacy.
Stringing together his own paraphrases with al-Banna's words, Mitchell wrote: "The Koran has commanded people to love death more than life" (which, I might add, is a phrase that we have heard more than once in terrorist statements during the last few years, for instance in the videotape that was made by the Islamist group that attacked Madrid in 2004).
And al-Banna continued, in Mitchell's presentation: "Unless the philosophy of the Koran on death replaces the love of life which has consumed Muslims, they will reach naught. Victory can only come with the mastery of the art of death."
Paganism everywhere and always is a culture of death, for the simple reason that pagans know that their time on Earth is limited.
When Western political scientists speak of "totalitarianism", they refer to "modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior" (Wikipedia). Rosenzweig explains something deeper: the individual has no identity separate from the group and therefore cannot act in opposition to it. Arthur Koestler's broken protagonist cannot help but admit absurdly false charges at his show trial; Socrates cannot help but drink the hemlock; the Germans cannot help but follow Adolf Hitler's orders. Because the individual is merely an instrument of the totality, not an individual, there is no capacity for doubt.
For instance, when an Islamic state does not acknowledge a Muslim's conversion to another faith - this can range from a refusal to alter a convert's identity documents (which invariably identifies the owner's religious creed) all the way to imprisonment and/or execution as an apostate.
by Rana Fil
Murder can have unforeseen consequences. Syria's leaders ought to know that by now. A prime example is the car-bomb assassination of the billionaire Lebanese-independence champion Rafik Hariri.
Almost faster than Damascus could deny responsibility for it, his killing launched the Cedar Revolution, a massive Lebanese nationalist uprising that accomplished what Hariri had only dreamed of doing while he lived. Within weeks his death had brought down the pro-Syria puppet government in Beirut. Damascus was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, after 29 years of military occupation.
And yet the killingsand Syria's denials of involvement in any of themcontinue. Since Hariri's death, seven anti-Syrian political figures have been killed in Lebanon, including three members of Parliament. The most recent was Walid Eido, 65. Late on the afternoon of June 13, a bomb ripped through his black Mercedes on a side street in Beirut, killing the legislator along with his 35-year-old son, two bodyguards and six passers-by. The death of Eido reduced the Lebanese Parliament's anti-Damascus majority to 68 seats in a total 128actually a total of 126, since there was one vacancy even before this killing created another. President Emile Lahoud, a holdover from before the Cedar Revolution, has blocked efforts to fill the seat that was held by cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel until he was gunned down in a road ambush last November. The pro-Syrian president's successor is to be chosen in September, and in Lebanon it's the Parliament that does the choosing. Now there's one fewer vote for the anti-Damascus side.
But violence against the Lebanese government has moved beyond assassinations to armed conflict. A small but heavily armed jihadist group calling itself Fatah al-Islam has been battling the Lebanese Army in and around Tripoli since the third weekend in May. The fighting, centered on Nahr el-Baredthe Palestinian refugee camp closest to Syria's bordererupted three days after the United States, France and Great Britain began circulating a draft U.N. resolution for creation of a tribunal for suspects in the Hariri assassination. As always, the Syrians deny any part in the violence, but many Lebanese say the connection is obvious. "Nahr el-Bared is the implementation of Syrian official talk of turning Lebanon into hell if the international tribunal moves ahead," says parliamentarian Elias Atallah, in a comment echoed by others in his bloc.
Fatah al-Islam has an estimated 350 jihadists from all over the Arab world, including Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Tunisia and Morocco. Lebanese police say many of the group's fighters spent time in Iraq before infiltrating into Lebanon via Syria. Hariri's son, Saad Hariri, the Parliament's majority leader, is unwavering in his conviction that Syria is behind Fatah al-Islam. "I would understand if two or three of them arrive at the Damascus Airport and slip through immigration," says Hariri. "But when we're talking of so many, including Syrians, there is a huge question mark on how and why the Syrian intelligence did not intercept them."
Many Fatah al-Islam leaders are said to have spent time in Syrian jails before arriving in Lebanon, according to Gen. Ashraf Rifi, the head of Lebanon's internal security forces. "They were released from Syrian jails by special amnesty,'' Rifi says. Lebanese officials believe the former prisoners got their freedom on condition that they begin working for Syria's intelligence services. The group's leader, a Palestinian named Shaker Absi, served three years behind bars in Syria on weapons charges. In 2004 a Jordanian military court sentenced him in absentia to death for the October 2002 murder of U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in Amman, but Syria refused to send its prisoner to Jordan. (One of Absis codefendants was Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the bloodthirsty Jordanian-born jihadist who founded and led Al Qaeda in Iraq until his death in an American air strike in 2006.)
Senior Lebanese officials say Fatah al-Islam began as Fatah al-Intifada, a Syrian-aligned group established in the 1980s as an offshoot of Yasir Arafat's Fatah organization. In the summer of 2006, amid the chaos of Israel's war on Hezbollah, Absi showed up in Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps and Fatah al-Intifada began to grow, according to Ahmad Fatfat, then-acting Interior minister. The new militants worried other camp residents, who wanted no bloodshed around their homes. Nevertheless, fighting finally broke out in September 2006 between Fatah al-Intifada and people in Beddawi, a camp outside Tripoli. After one Palestinian died, Beddawi residents apprehended two Fatah al-Intifada militants and handed them over to Lebanese authorities.
Absi and his followers soon changed their group's name to Fatah al-Islam. Lebanon's Communications minister, Marwan Hamadeh himself the target of an assassination attempt just months before Hariri was killedsays the renaming came after Lebanese authorities received intelligence that Damascus had begun sending "the same suicide bombers it sends to Iraq" to Lebanon. "They wanted to make it look as if it was a pure Al Qaeda operation," he said. "Some of the elements probably believe they work for Al Qaeda but the command is under Syrian control." Captured Fatah al-Islam fighters have allegedly confessed to receiving military training at bases run by the pro-Syrian radical Palestinian group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. "We have no ties with Fatah al-Islam," says Ramez Mostafa, the PFLP-GC's top man in Lebanon. "The [Lebanese] government is using those events to aim at our weapons."
Syria's parliamentary friends accuse Hariri of having his own militant connections, particularly in the south Lebanon town of Taamir, where the group Jund al-Sham ("Soldiers of Damascus") is based. Hariri says he has given money in Taamirto help the poor, not the militants. He says he built roads and clinics there to give the inhabitants an alternative to joining the militants. "We worked hard to give people dignity and responsibility in this neighborhood where people live in desperate poverty," he says. "If you give them hope, they see that there is a way out."
Meanwhile, the fighting in the north may actually be helping to bring the people of Lebanon together. Many Palestinians have distanced themselves from the militants, according to Sultan Abu al-Aynayn, the commander of Fatah in Lebanon. And Jihad Zein, opinion editor at an-Nahar newspaper, believes the violence has actually increased support for the army across the Lebanese political spectrum. "Even the nuanced position of Hezbollah does not represent the Shiite public mood, which has traditionally been with the army," he said in an interview. Many observers regard that development as a sign of major progress. "An army is the first building block of a state," says Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "The reappearance of the national army means the reappearance of the cornerstone of a potential sovereign Lebanese state." Somewhere, Rafik Hariri may be smiling.
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In Sweden, saying that Muslim Albanians are behind much of the drug traffic in Europe (a fact) is considered racism and a crime. Making derogatory statements about the native Christian population, however, is just fine.
Dahn Pettersson, a local politician in Sweden, has been fined 18,000 kronor for writing that 95 percent of all heroin brought in comes via Kosovo. It is never ethnic groups that commit crimes. It is individuals or groups of individuals, prosecutor Mats Svensson told the court. The court found Pettersson guilty of Agitation Against a Minority Group.
When in 2004 Joanna Rytel, a Swedish feminist, wrote an article called I Will Never Give Birth to a White Man, the authorities refused to indict her. Prosecutor Göran Lambertz explained why: The purpose behind the law against incitement of ethnic hatred was to ensure legal protection for minority groups of different compositions and followers of different religions. Cases where people express themselves in a critical or derogatory way about men of ethnic Swedish background were not intended to be included in this law.
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I suspect this isn't going to stop until whites threaten, and then use, violence as often as the currently "protected" groups. I have little doubt but that such a response won't be too much longer in coming; the steam is building and there's no safety valve.
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Legally protected reverse discrimination. As always, Europe is herding its indigenous poulation towards some extremely violent counter-measures. Why am I having so much difficulty summoning any concern for European Muslims?
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Legally protected reverse discrimination. As always, Europe is herding its indigenous population towards some extremely violent counter-measures.
And you can expect the same thing to happen here after the Amnesty bill is passed. That is if it makes it through the House. The is a concerted effort underway to destroy the white race and Western civilization.
Don't believe it? Just look around you!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Despite the savagery of the battles in recent days, and the mounting casualty figures, the current struggle concerns relatively small groups with the majority of Palestinians standing back, watching in horror. So far, Hamas has kept the bulk of its mini-army out of the conflict, while the national police and army, loyal to Fatah, have also remained on the sidelines.
Although Gaza has been Hamas principal support base for a decade, the presence of Fatahs armed units and security networks has prevented the pan-Islamist movement from reshaping it according to its ideology.
From the mid-1990s onward, Fatah dropped its dream of annihilating Israel in favor of a new dream: Hateful coexistence with the Jews in distinct statehood. Hamas, however, has clung to its position as a liberation movement.
Fatahs pessimistic analysis, however, is based on the assumption that the longer the two-state solution is delayed, the smaller the chances of creating a viable Palestinian state.
