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• The Constitution Trumps Islamic Law.When reading stories about that formerly obscure Florida preacher behind the Quran burning controversy, bear in mind that the only law he would have broken in doing so would have been Islamic law. With this in mind, it should become clear that the extraordinary global campaign against this stunt is yet another concerted effort, aided by an army’s worth of useful fools, to bring our constitutional republic into conformance with Islamic law.This same demand also manifests itself in the society-level assumption that Islam should somehow exist in a state of exaltation that no Western society grants any belief system, or any God. This assumption is increasingly becoming consensus among non-Muslims. Why?One answer is because people who do not believe in Allah, from Sarah Palin to Gen. David Petraeus to assorted ministers and rabbis, have succumbed to a specifically Islamic brand of blackmail (the “or else” of violence or other outbreaks of “extremism”), thus accommodating and even lobbying for the uniquely Islamic prohibitions against written, pictorial or symbolic criticism. In so doing, they have also succumbed to the Islamic narrative. That narrative, or rationale, tells us that burning a Quran causes murder and mayhem, putting our troops, our citizens, our cities, and our interests at increased risk. In this narrative, the actual bad actors are absolved of both volition and blame. Similarly, drawing cartoons of Muhammad (Kurt Westergaard, Lars Vilks) — or not drawing cartoons of Muhammad (”South Park”) — sermonizing about violence within Islam (the Pope), and critiquing Islam (Geert Wilders’ “Fitna”) are increasingly viewed as unacceptably “insensitive” and “disrespectful” provocations in Western society, regardless of their free-speech protections.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Teledoc: Wilders, the movie.Full movie in Dutch.Read and see the whole thing here.Click here for comments.

• HT:American thinker.Obama Flunks the Leadership Test.The U.S. Marine Corps' 14 Leadership Traits serve as a standard against which to compare President Obama's actions in his 19 months in office. By this standard, he is not simply an unqualified leader, but the antithesis of a good leader: an "un-leader."It is often difficult for us to prove things which are self-evident. Anecdotes and examples are not without merit, but in a vacuum, these alone often fall short. Without some set standard, it can always be argued that one's position is arbitrary and subjective, determined only by a pre-existing bias.These are a small but representative sampling of this president in action over these last 19 months. One, two, or three categories are certainly not enough to judge an individual's leadership qualities. But what here emerges, and what is truly troubling, is an overall picture of not simply a lack of leadership qualities, but an individual who is in every way the antithesis of a principled and effective leader - an un-leader.This, as even a blind man can see, is having monumentally negative effects in our economy, national security, and liberty. We can ill afford to allow this un-leader to go unchecked for much longer. We can ill afford, as a people and as a Republic, to repeat this mistake and to ever again hand such an un-leader the keys to power in this nation.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran clerics vow death for Koran-defilers.Two top Iranian clerics said anyone desecrating the Koran must be killed, Fars news agency reported, as hundreds of people protested on Monday outside the Swiss embassy in Tehran."From the point of view of Islamic jurisprudence, strong objection to such thoughts is mandatory and necessary and killing the people who have committed this act is compulsory," Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani was quoted as saying by Fars.His view was echoed by Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi who added that such a response must be taken after consulting a "religious judge.""The blood of the person who burns the Koran can undoubtedly be shed. But in this issue, no action should be taken without the permission of a religious judge," Makarem Shirazi told Fars.Skip the part of innocent till proven guilty,jump to kill?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Scotland Yard sting foils Muslim plot to 'sell virginities' of young girls for £50,000 to wealthy Arabs.A Muslim prostitution ring plotted to make up to £50,000 by selling the 'virginities' of young girls to wealthy Arabs, it can be revealed tonight.A 14-year-old girl was used as bait by the gang who sent her photograph and email to a potential customer ahead of an illicit meeting at a central London hotel.The trafficking ring transported six women aged between 17 and 22 from the North West to the capital last September to provide sexual services.Mahrookh Jamali, 41, and Sara Bordbar, 43, both of north-west London, Fatima Haghengal, 24, and Rasoul Gholampour, 30, both of Wigan, admitted the conspiracy.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• The prez's new 150,000-jobs killer.The president and many in Congress are using this year's catastrophe in the Gulf to push for sweeping, unrelated measures that would punish not only the US oil and gas industry but the American economy as a whole.Just last week, President Obama explicitly targeted the industry for two massive tax hikes. First, he'd ban oil and gas companies from using the "Section 199" tax credit, a measure for domestic manufacturers enacted in 2004 to boost US employment.(The Senate is set to vote this week on its version of the ban.) Second, he wants to end "dual capacity" protection for US energy firms.Yet, by the federal government's own economic model, these tax hikes would lead to huge, immediate job losses. I ran the numbers through the Commerce Department's RIMS II model; it shows, under the proposed changes to Section 199 and dual capacity, Americans would almost immediately lose more than 150,000 stable, private-sector jobs.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Study: Lefty, Islamic Terrorism Soars With Welfare State, Safety Net Pull Back.Where’s the study backing President Obama’s opinion that his bad economy morphed conservatives into racist bigots?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Indian forces kill at least 13 protesters in Kashmir; 1 police officer also dies in clashes.Indian forces killed 13 protesters and wounded scores of others Monday in confrontations across Kashmir fueled in part by a report that a Quran was desecrated in the United States, police said. A police officer was also killed.Despite a rigid curfew clamped across the region, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets, throwing rocks, torching government buildings and chanting, “Go India, go back. We want freedom.”A policeman was also killed during the protests in Budgam after he was hit by a vehicle that then sped away, the officer said.Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a key separatist leader, said lifting the security laws would not satisfy Kashmiris. “We want end to Indian occupation here and have already laid out our proposal for initiating a dialogue,” he said.So the Koran burning is just a lame excuse.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iranian diplomats defect in Finland, Belgium.Iranian opposition members say another Iranian diplomat has defected in Europe — this time in Belgium.The announcement comes just hours after the No. 2 man at the Iran mission in Helsinki said he would seek asylum in Finland.The Europe-based Green Wave opposition movement said Farzad Farhangian, press attache at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels, walked out Friday and flew to Oslo."There are a lot of pro-Green movement diplomats" who had set up a network of "Green embassies" that keep up in contact with opposition members, he said."Ahmadinejad is not any more the Iranian leader and he doesn't represent Iran," Alizadeh said. "Do not take him seriously. He (does) not have any popularity among the Iranians."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Amnon and Jonathan.Let's go wild !Radical Muslims threaten to crucify a Christian.It is amazing what the lame stream media reports. Some moron nobody pastor threatens to burn the Koran and doesn't do it. That gets worldwide coverage and there are burning of Churches and riots by jihadi supporters. This gets no coverage at all.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Salman Rushdie backs Ground Zero mosque but attacks Pastor Terry Jones for threatened Koran-burning.Praising the U.S. First Amendment rights which guarantee freedom of religious belief, he also criticised Pastor Terry Jones for threatening to burn the Koran.He said: 'I'm not in favour of burning books.'Sir Salman became a global hate figure for Muslims after writing The Satanic Verses, deemed to be insulting to the Islamic Faith.Copies of the book were burned by protesters and the issuing of a fatwa meant he faced assassination by extremists.'9/11 was an inside job' claims associate of Ground Zero mosque imam.a close associate of Rauf has claimed the 9/11 terrorist attacks were an 'inside job'.Faiz Khan is a founder member of an organisation run by imam Feisal Abdul Rauf promoting a better understanding of Islam.However, he courted controversy by leaving internet postings on a 9/11 'truth' website which perpetuates conspiracy theories about the devastating attacks.On the website of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, Khan wrote that 'the inescapable fact (is) that 9/11 was an inside job,' according to the New York Post.He added: 'The prime factor for the success of the criminal mission known as 9/11 did not come from the quarter known as "militant Islam," although the phenomenon known as "militant Islamic networks" may have played a partial role, or even a less than partial role - perhaps the role of patsy and scapegoat.''For someone who claims he wants the mosque project near Ground Zero to help build bridges and heal the wounds from 9/11, it's odd that one of Feisal Rauf's fellow bridge builders is someone who thinks the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people were an 'inside job' by the U.S. government.'Maybe this is what they are planning to broadcast in 50 years from the ground zero mosque?That the US deliberately blew up the twin towers in order to blame Islam?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program.The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.CNSNews.com asked both Coates and NIMH the following question: “The Census Bureau says the median household income in the United States is $52,000. How would you explain to the average American mom and dad -- who make $52,000 per year -- that taxing them to pay for this grant was justified?”This should "Stimulate "the economy for sure!Read the full scandal story here.Click here for comments.

• Revealed: Obama hired media expert to monitor 'negative' coverage of BP oil spill.The U.S. government paid an expert $18,000 to assess whether news stories about the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, it was revealed today.And it awarded a $216,625 no-bid contract for a survey of seabirds to an environmental group that has criticised what it calls the 'extreme anti-conservation record' of Sarah Palin.The contracts were among hundreds revealed by The Associated Press as the government provided the first glimpse of federal spending since the disaster in April.A White House spokesman, Ben LaBolt, declined to comment on the contracts.But critics are likely to focus on the decision to pay $9,000 per month for two months to John Brooks Rice, an on-call worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under a no-bid contract to monitor media coverage from late May through July.Read the full story here.click here for comments.

• Michael Barone.Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare."There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases."as Ignagni, the recipient of the letter, says, "It's a basic law of economics that additional benefits incur additional costs." "Congress shall make no law," reads the First Amendment, "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."Sebelius' approach is different: "zero tolerance" for dissent.The threat to use government regulation to destroy or harm someone's business because they disagree with government officials is thuggery. Like the Obama administration's transfer of money from Chrysler bondholders to its political allies in the United Auto Workers, it is a form of gangster government."The rule of law, or the rule of men (women)?" economist Tyler Cowen asks on his marginalrevolution.com blog. As he notes, "Nowhere is it stated that these rate hikes are against the law (even if you think they should be), nor can this 'misinformation' be against the law."The secretary goes on: "It is my hope we can work together to stop misinformation and misleading marketing from the start." In other words, shut your members up and play team ball -- or my guys with the baseball bats and Tommy guns are going to get busy. As Cowen puts it, "worse than I had been expecting."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:ShalomLife.Former Iranian Double Agent Speaks in Toronto.Iran, the chief exporter of terror throughout the Middle East and the rest of the world, is the greatest global threat today - a threat that increases with the imminent possibility of Iran becoming a nuclear power.This was the grim message delivered by a heavily disguised Reza Kahlili, (not his real name) to a hushed audience the evening before Erev Rosh Hashanah.As a member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, Kahlili spied for the CIA as a double agent.“I knew the regime would see Obama’s entreaties as a sign of weakness and that this would embolden them to take radical steps.” Avi Benlolo, CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Canada who sponsored the lecture, urged people to lobby the Canadian government to charge Iran with incitement to commit genocide. “It would be the first time that genocide would be prevented.”Kahlili ends A Time to Betray with a faint ray of hope. “While the regime is standing tough, I truly believe their iron rule over Iran is coming to an end. The Iranian people have announced to the entire world that they want the liberties that are their birthright.They are not going to accept anything less.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• 9/12: America’s monumental shame.Ground has been broken. A few surrounding buildings and a little placeholder replica of the Freedom Tower have been erected. Ceremonial beams of light have been displayed where the Twin Towers once loomed.But as the Bergen (NJ) Record put it: “We are supposed to be pleased that One World Trade Center is rising, that work on that national Sept. 11 memorial is well under way, as is the transportation hub and one of three additional commercial towers. And we are pleased that these projects are moving along. But it has been nine years. Nine years and nothing is completed.”Let me repeat that: Nine years and nothing is completed.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Muslim Men from Ilford, Forest Gate, and Tottenhamam, sentenced after 'thuggish' attack on Muslim sisters in Finchley.A GANG of “thugs” who acted like “a pack of animals” when they attacked two Muslim sisters in their car have been sentenced.Judge Darling added the group had shown “little or no remorse” following the attack and told the men he was “just persuaded” not to pass jail sentences on them.Persuaded by whom?If this is how they "Respect" their Muslim sisters one can imagine how they respect Non believers.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Fun Fact of the Day: America’s Debt is More Than All The Money in The World Combined.I have argued that the real national debt is about $130 trillion. Let’s say I’m being pessimistic. Forbes, in a 2008 article, came up with a lower number: $70 trillion. Let’s say the sunny optimists at Forbes got it right and I got it wrong.For perspective: At the time that 2008 article was written, the entire supply of money in the world (“broad money,” i.e., global M3, meaning cash, consumer-account deposits, checkable accounts, CDs, long-term deposits, travelers’ checks, money-market funds, the whole enchilada) was estimated to be just under $60 trillion. Which is to say: The optimistic view is that our outstanding obligations amount to more than all of the money in the world.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:LogisticsMonster.Police Raids To S.510: The Battle Over Food Safety Begins.Nothing surprises me anymore; nothing. I had to stop writing the ‘Are You Freakin’ Kidding Me?‘ articles because the depth and breadth of the under-the-radar fascist takeover of America is almost complete. The globalists have the Federal Reserve Mafia, Obamacare, Codex Alimentarius, nationalized industries (etc.), and now they want to push through S. 510 to make the moos safe from themselves to give Big Agra an even bigger boost than just allowing them to run freakin’ wild and pollute the world with genetically modified organisms.When it comes to the actions of the four armed policemen in the following video,Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk. I want to know when the military and law enforcement are going to remember their oaths to the Constitution and stop acting like the Gestapo when treating every single American, their pets, and their frakkin’ produce like criminals? WHEN?On the other hand you can still buy freely raw milk in all the ex - Sovjet republics food for thought?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Vladtepesblog.Assault from the Bosporus?Great power politics from Erdogan"Turks of all countries unite!We are now the world power Turkey!"Doesn't sound like i want to join Europe more like i will invade Europe!In spite of the Islamic fundamentalist Turkish regime's positive economic policies, it still nonetheless represents very bad news for Europe. They are highly motivated to place Europe firmly within the house of Islam, if you don't believe me, believe the Turkish PM himself as he demonstrates his willingness to repeatedly stick his nose in German domestic political affairs, while encouraging ethnic Turks in Germany to remain loyal to the Turkish state.Read and see the full story here!Click here for comments

• Jon Voight Slams Time Magazine as Anti-Semitic for Its ‘Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace’ Cover.Voight charged that there must be anti-Semitism at Time magazine if such a cover could be devised. Voight:Listen, if Israel falls we all fall. Did you see the Time magazine, did you guys see the Time magazine cover? Cover? It was amazing. Here's a cover with a Star of David on it, and it says Israel doesn't care about peace. ... But this is anti-Semitism. This is, who are the anti-Semites who are running Time magazine? And their prior cover, you know, they alluded to the Islamophobia, they're calling America Islamophobic.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Hariri tribunal: Nasrallah's a liar.You will recall that a month ago, Hezbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah made a dramatic speech on Lebanese television in which he accused Israel of being behind the murder of Lebanese President Rafik Hariri, the father of the current Lebanese President Sa'ad Hariri. This actually comes as a little bit of a surprise to me: The special tribunal looking into Hariri's murder doesn't believe Nasrallah.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Video : Gingrich: Obama Spoke Out Against Koran Burning, He Should Speak Out Against Mosque.

• Why is anti-gun Mayor Bloomberg backing Harry Reid?"Bloomberg Further Disgraces Himself In Latest Anti-Gun Pitch," NRA-ILA informs us in a Friday press release, detailing how the anti-gun mayor is expanding his pitch beyond New York City and using the "Mexican crime gun" excuse to persuade Congress to enact further federal citizen disarmament legislation.One day not long ago in an democratic land ,a president who doesn't act on Mexican violant border gangs and doesn't like guns invites a anti-gun Mayor for golf,how does this story going to end?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:JihadWatch.Iraqi Shi'ite leader accuses Saudis of duplicity in fighting terrorism.Surprise, surprise. And the duplicity doesn't extend just to the Shias. "Iraqi Head of the Shia endowment accuses Saudi Arabia of duplicity over fighting terrorism."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Islam in Europe: Denmark: Mystery bomber reading religious literature (Update: Belgian passport stolen).The man, described as being between 25 and 35 years of age, 169 cm. tall and seemingly of central or southern European of origin, speaks fluent French, English with a French accent and German and is thought to have used several aliases, among which are the names Raoul Foltz, David Francois J. de Vicq de Cumptich and Hans Veller. He has a false lower right leg He removed the serial number from his artificial leg (an expensive type which was made in Western Europe)and bears the mark of having had a broken nose.Latest information (1 p.m.) from the police is that the man they have in custody says he is a vegetarian and has asked for religious literature from various religious persuasions.It's starting to get obvious that this mystery man might be a big fish.My bet he's of French libyan nationality.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• India forces battle Kashmiri protesters. 14 killed.Indian forces killed 13 protesters and wounded scores of others Monday in confrontations across Kashmir fueled in part by a report that a Quran was desecrated in the United States, a police official said. A police officer was also killed.The protesters chanted "Down with Quran desecrators," and protest leaders denounced the alleged desecration in speeches to the crowds.There were also shouts of "Down with America" and "Down with Israel" - rarely heard in Kashmir, where anger is normally only directed at India.In New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said India was searching for a peaceful resolution to the summer of conflict."We are willing to talk to every person or group which abjures violence, within the framework of our constitution," Singh said in a speech to top army commanders.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Those nasty Chinese anti-ship missiles.Naval War College Review does its job and parses out the bubbling issue of the long-range MIRV'd Chinese anti-ship missiles. Here's the Chinese Communist Party's take: "China will never abuse its anti-ship missile capacity and launch strikes against foreign carriers without a justified reason." Feel better now?And AEI, the think tank that never saw a war it didn't like, approves of the Obama administration's emerging China policy. Hmmm -- who thinks that is a good sign?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Borat's Return, Kazakh-Style.Yes, we know Borat's movie," says 31-year-old Kazakh journalist Rysbek Darei. "He shot it to insult Kazakhs."Now, four years later, one Kazakh filmmaker says his new movie will put Borat in his place."But many people here in Kazakhstan took it personally and became angry, saying, 'It's not true, it's not the real Kazakhstan.' I don't think that's the right attitude," he continues. "He did what he wanted, and it's good. And he became world-famous. I would do the same if I had such a great idea."The 25-year-old Kazakh actor says that if the shooting is any indication, everyone's in for a laugh when they see the film. He describes one of his favorite scenes so far, one reminiscent of the notorious naked bed-fight scene in "Borat."Read and see the whole story here.Click here for comments.