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• Kashmir: Muslims try to burn a Christian school (only in name).On 14 September another school risked being burnt: it is the Christ School in Poonch. Only police intervention stopped the mob just 500 meters from the building.In recent days, however, some Catholic schools were affected. Among them the Good Shepherd's School of missionary Jim Borst, in Pulwama. The mob burned the main building and two other buildings were looted. Witnesses said the protesters were from villages under the influence of "Allahwales" and Devbandis "fundamentalist groups close to the Wahhabis."These people - he added –are rounded up from nearby villages and incited to attack, inflamed by religious zeal."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT.BacktoBasics.Internet Kill Switch Bill On Senate Short List.According to Moneycontrol.com, two separate bills — one pushed by Senators Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Thomas Carper (D-Del.) and another backed by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) — have been combined and are now on the Senate’s short list for passage.The new bill would give the power to shut down the Internet in case of national emergency to the Department of Homeland Security. Under the bill the Internet could be closed down for four months before Congress could review it. The bill would also require cybersecurity professionals be certified.Of course, China disconnects portions of the Internet whenever there’s civil strife, as do other totalitarian regimes. It’s done to suppress the flow of information. Elites hate the free flow of information. Rockefeller has gone so far to say he wishes the Internet had never been invented and we still communicated with paper and pencil. Senate aides told Moneycontrol.com the bill faces a number of hurdles but the goal is to get the bill passed and on President Barack Obama’s desk by the end of the year. The bill could come up in the next four weeks, or it could be much later, aides said.This bill is about one thing: The totalitarian suppression of free speech. The elites and corporate press know they have lost control of the message. This has resulted in the rise of the Tea Party and general discontent over the direction of the American political system. That frightens the fascists on both sides of the aisle.The Internet Kill Switch Bill is their effort to regain control.Read the full story here.Click here for comments

• White House Insider: 'The President Is Losing It'.It hasn't gotten much press, but a former White House insider has reportedly dished the dirt on President Obama (anonymously, of course) -- and the revelations sound plausible indeed....Obama is scared to death of Hillary. He doesn’t trust her – obsesses over her almost as much as he does Fox News... when it comes down to it, she has played the game on a far tougher level than he has, and Obama knows that......I don’t have a problem saying that the president is losing it. I don’t mean he is like losing his mind. I mean to say that he is losing whatever spark he had during the campaign. When you take away the crowds, Obama gets noticeably smaller. He shrinks up inside of himself. He just doesn’t seem to have the confidence to do the job of President, and it’s getting worse and worse. Case in point – just a few days before I left, I saw first hand the President of the United States yelling at a member of his staff. He was yelling like a spoiled child. And then he pouted for several moments after. I wish I was kidding, or exaggerating, but I am not. The President of the United States threw a temper tantrum....I am going to come right out and say it – No [, another four years of Obama would not be a good thing]. Obama is not up to the job of being president. He simply doesn’t seem to care about the work involved. You want to know what? Obama is lazy. He really is. And it is getting worse and worse. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:BreitBart.Tv.Video : Fort Hood Muslim Soldier Accuses Army Of Islamophobia.Zachari Klawonn of the U.S. Army discusses Islamophobia.Click here for comments.

• HT:TheInfidelBloggers.Undercover video: Boston public school kids pulled from mega-mosque field trip to participate in Muslim prayers, no intervention by school staff.Americans for Peace and Tolerance released a shocking video today showing 6th graders from Wellesley, MA being pulled from a field trip to a Boston mega-mosque and being induced to participate in afternoon prayers alongside Muslim men without any intervention by school authorities present or notification to parents.Yet the video reveals that the students are being blatantly mis-educated about Islam. A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to vote, while in America women only gained that right a hundred years ago. This seems to be an increasingly recurring theme in American schools – the denigration of western civilization and the glorification of Islamic history and values. In fact, just recently, the American Textbook Council revealed that the New York State high school regents exam whitewashes the atrocities that occurred during the imperialistic Islamic conquest of Christian Byzantium, Persia, the African continent, and the Indian subcontinent, even as it demonizes European colonialism in South America.The mosque spokesperson also taught the students that the only meaning of Jihad in Islam is a personal spiritual struggle, and that Jihad has historically had no relationship with holy war. As far as we know, the school has not corrected these false lessons.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US 'sees world influence declining' amid economic woe.There has been a sharp rise in the number of Americans who believe the US role as a world leader is on the decline, a survey suggests.The proportion of those saying the US is playing a less pow­erful global role than 10 years ago has risen from 17% in 2002 to 37%, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs said.Read and see the whole thing here.Click here for comments.

• Russia and Canada seek UN ruling on Lomonosov Ridge.Russia and Canada have said they will ask the UN to rule on their dispute over a resource-rich underwater Arctic mountain range, the Lomonosov Ridge.Both foreign ministers said after talks they were confident their respective country's claim would be upheld.Each argued that the ridge was an extension of their country's continental shelf, allowing them to exploit any mineral resources there.Arctic resources are becoming more accessible due to melting ice.The five Arctic powers - Russia, the US, Canada, Norway and Denmark - are engaged in a scramble to claim them.On Wednesday, Russia reached an agreement with Norway on demarcating their Arctic border in the Barents Sea.Russia's foreign minister also warned that Nato, of which Canada and the three other Arctic powers are members, should not become involved in settling territorial disputes in the Arctic.Unlike the Polar bear,the Russian bear is not fleeing for Global Warming?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Woman Who Dumped Newborn On Plane 'Was Raped'.A woman who gave birth to a baby on a flight from the Middle East and dumped it on the plane has said she was raped by her employer.The baby was found by in a rubbish bag that had apparently come from the bathroom on the Gulf Air flight from Bahrain.The Philippine woman said she was raped while working as a maid in Qatar and when she fell pregnant her boss's wife made her return home.She managed to hide her pregnancy and board the plane.But when she gave birth she abandoned the child because she was afraid of what her family would say, her representative, Lani Mercado, said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Poll: By a 65% – 38% Margin Texans Want Immigration-Enforcement Law Like Arizona’s.Nearly half of all Texans would repeal the constitutional promise of citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil, and nearly two-thirds would favor Arizona-style state laws allowing the police to ask about the immigration status of anyone they stop for any reason, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Carla Bruni, Michelle Obama deny 'hell' comment.In a new book released on Thursday in France, two French journalists claim that Michelle Obama told French first lady Carla Bruni that her life as the first lady of the United States is "hell," according to an account in the book cited by London’s Daily Mail. But in an e-mail on Thursday, Emmanuel Lenain, a spokesman at the French Embassy in Washington, said that Bruni "distances herself completely from the content of the book, ‘Carla and the Ambitious.’”We can feel her pain.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.The end of secular Turkey? What the US and the EU have ignored is the Turkish army's history as the bulwark of secularism and the ruling AKP party's bid - especially in the last four years - to turn Turkey into an Islamist state. I've already noted the vote's ominous implications for Israel and for Turkey's small Jewish community. But the rest of the world doesn't yet seem to understand the urgency of the situation.NATO? American and Israeli weapons systems? Do I need to continue listing the implications of an Islamist Turkey?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Amnon&Jonathan.That's the reason why Turkey is a member of NATO !Anti-Israel flotilla thriller for Turkey.An anti-Israeli movie featuring a Turkish agent avenging the killing of the nine Turks aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla in May will be shown in Turkish cinemas next month.The Valley of the Wolves - Palestine is a follow-up to the movie The Valley of the Wolves - Iraq, which three years ago showed a Turkish agent fighting the US occupation forces in Iraq. At the time, the film caused considerable tension between the US and Turkey and was seen as one reason for the growing anti-Americanism in Turkey.The new movie shows the same agent and his team pursuing the Israeli commander, "Moshe", who ordered the raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship Mavi Marmara last May. The movie also shows scenes of alleged atrocities perpetrated by the IDF in Gaza and the West Bank.The director of the film, Zubeyr Sasmaz, told reporters that the aim was to highlight the drama of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation and to help viewers realise the "savage behaviour" of the Israelis.A spokesman for the company said he did not care about Israel's reaction."We don't expect any sound judgement from them," he said.The Valley of the Wolves - Palestine a.k.a. "Blame the Jooows"!Director :Ahmadenejad ,script :Erdogan.Sound : Hezbollah an all Mullah production!Sounds completely like Ahmadenejad talking no?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Erdogan: Turkey wants to triple trade with Iran within 5 years.Turkish prime minister's statement comes at a time when sanctions are scaring off Western investors from Iran.Turkey wants to triple its trade volume with Iran within five years, Turkey's prime minister told businessmen on Thursday, at a time when sanctions are scaring off Western investors from the Islamic Republic.Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi oversaw the meeting which brought together over a hundred businessmen, including Turkish investors eager to buy into Iran's mostly government-owned textile, machinery and automotive industries.Get Turkey out of Nato ...Now!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Turkey may bar Greek Orthodox mass at Hagia Sophia.About 200 Greek Orthodox Christians want to travel to Istanbul to try to hold mass at the former basilica of Hagia Sophia, defying Turkish law that bars religious services in what is now a museum.Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Ankara could stop the group from entering Turkey if they pose a security threat.Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's government has lifted curbs on Christian worship at other sites under a EU-inspired drive to improve human rights. It has ruled out services at Hagia Sophia.Ok..... so much for the pretending of "Religious tolerance"that's all folks.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran, Syria says IAEA must focus on Israel.Western powers pressed Syria to give UN inspectors access to the remains of a suspected nuclear site in the desert, but Damascus and its ally Iran said the focus should be on Israel, which bombed it to rubble.The US envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaking during a debate on Syria at its governing board that began on Wednesday, said Washington would back the agency's use of "all tools" at its disposal to advance the probe.It has been over two years since the IAEA was allowed to inspect the Dair Alzour site, destroyed by Israel in 2007.Arab states, backed by Iran, also want the IAEA to focus attention on Israel's presumed nuclear arsenal. They are expected next week to seek backing for an IAEA assembly resolution calling on Israel to sign an anti-nuclear arms pact.Who's willing to bet that Turkey And the US will also be demanding this?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Israel: Hamas fired phosphorous to harm peace.Letter sent to UN chief asks him to condemn rocket attacks that 'deliberately targeted civilians in south'. Israel's new ambassador to the UN, Meron Reuben, sent a letter of complaint to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regarding the white phosphorous rockets launched from Gaza Wednesday. The letter was also sent to the current Security Council President Ertuğrul Apakan."Such terrorism coupled with Hamas’ total rejection of any negotiated settlement reinforces Israel’s decision to exercise its right of self-defense against Hamas and all other groups that threaten and endanger Israeli citizens."A letter to a Turkish Security Council President,can't wait for the results of that action.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Philosemitism.Belgian NGO incites children to shoot at Israeli soldiers at the Ghent Fair.At the famous and very popular Ghent Festivities, which took place in July, a Flemish NGO had an anti-Israel stand where the big attraction was aimed at children. Young children were invited to shoot at figurines representing Israeli soldiers placed on boats floating in a small aquarium. The weapon for shooting/killing Israelis was a coin and the money thus raised will serve to fund a new hate flotilla.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• White House Science Czar Says He Would Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop the United States’.“De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation,” Holdren and the Ehrlichs wrote.Holdren responded: “What we meant by that was stopping the kinds of activities that are destroying the environment and replacing them with activities that would produce both prosperity and environmental quality. Thanks a lot.”CNSNews.com then asked: “And how do you plan on implementing that?”“Through the free market economy,” Holdren said.Read the full How to destroy America story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.Joseph's tomb to be reopened.It's been ten years since an IDF soldier bled to death trying to defend Joseph's tomb. When the IDF was ordered to abandon the tomb by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak - after he forced the soldiers to cower inside for hours - the tomb was abandoned and destroyed by the 'Palestinians.' For the last ten years, Jews have only visited the tomb (which, under the terms of the Oslo Accords, is supposed to be under Israeli control) in the dark of night under heavy IDF protection.Now a new dome has been built atop the tomb - but by a 'Palestinian' contractor. The Jews in the area would like a constant Jewish presence at the tomb, and would like to be able to visit the tomb whenever they want. It doesn't look like it's happening.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• ObamaNomics: U.S. Poverty Rate Jumps to 14.3%, Highest in 16 Years.The number of people in poverty rose to the highest level on record in 2009, the Census Bureau reported Thursday, pegging the U.S. poverty rate at 14.3 percent. The national rate is the highest since 1994 and among the working-age poor the highest level since the 1960s. The Census Bureau says that about 43.6 million people, or 1 in 7, were in poverty last year. That's up from 39.8 million, or 13.2 percent, in 2008, and the largest number since poverty estimates were first recorded in 1959 -- the U.S. population has also grown by more than 130 million in that time.The statistics released Thursday cover President Obama's first year in office, when unemployment topped 10 percent in the months after the financial meltdown. The report comes at a sensitive time with the midterm congressional elections just weeks away and lawmakers trying to show their efforts have helped drag the economy out of a rut.--Child poverty rose from 19 percent to 20.7 percent.Beginning next year, the government plans to publish new, supplemental poverty figures that are expected to show even higher numbers of people in poverty than previously known. The figures will incorporate rising costs of medical care, transportation and child care, a change analysts believe will add to the ranks of both seniors and working-age people in poverty.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Imam Rauf’s Cordoba House: Inter-Faith Symbol Or Icon For The Muslim World? here is an excerpt from a transcript of Feisal Abdul Rauf’s radio interview in Egypt with Radio Hurytna published on February 5th, 2010, in which he cast Cordoba House in a rather different light:It will be praise be to Allah a structure that will be an icon and the Muslim community will be proud of, not only in America Muslim community in New York but in the entire Muslim world.Icon? Why did he choose a term that in a religious context is associated with Eastern Orthodox churches and is defined in the dictionary as ”a sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr?”Why is Imam Rauf telling his Muslim audience in Egypt that the Ground Zero mosque/community center will be an icon that Muslims can be proud of rather than say that it will be a symbol of understanding and mutual tolerance that people of all faiths can be proud of?Imam Rauf, the leader of the Cordoba House initiative to build a 13 story “icon” for the Muslim world two blocks from Ground Zero, is looking to create institutions here in the United States that will help “ensure Islamic law and remove any that contradict with Shariah.”Expressing concern and skepticism about all of this is just old-fashioned American-style common sense, not intolerance.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Nightclub forced to change its name from Mecca after threats from Muslim extremists.A popular Spanish nightclub has been forced to change its name from Mecca after sparking a furious reaction around the Islamic world.Intelligence chiefs warned owners they were being targeted by extremists who claim the disco is insulting to their religion.Hackers broke into the nightclub's website and posted a video threatening 'a great war between Spain and the people of Islam' if the venue did not change its name.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran Protests Cancelled Koran Burning by Asking Artists to Submit Cartoons Showing the Koran Being Desecrated.As Iran continues to react angrily over desecration of the Quran, it is turning to cartoons as an outlet for its outrage over perceived “Islamophobia.”An institution in Tehran is inviting caricaturists from around the world to submit cartoons for an online exhibition in response to Florida Pastor Terry Jones’s threat to burn copies of the Quran to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.Suggested themes are “Devil against Holly [sic] Books,” “Burning Quran,” and “Devil against Human Nature.” Jones is the author of a book entitled “Islam is of the Devil.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Iran forces 'raid' office of opposition leader Mousavi.Iranian security forces have raided the office of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, his website has reported.Agents entered the premises late on Wednesday and took away computers and some of his belongings, it said.The statement described the attack as a "new phase of restrictions". The Iranian government has not commented.Mr Mousavi lost last year's presidential election to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a vote that he and other opposition figures say was rigged."With the attack by plainclothes security agents on the office of Mr Mousavi, it seems that another phase of restrictions has started," the statement on Kaleme.com said.Read the full story here.More on this story here.Click here for comments.

• African Big Brother slammed as man slaps a woman during foul-mouthed row... and is allowed to remain in the house.A heavily-built Big Brother contestant avoided punishment after he pushed and then slapped a woman live on TV in a new low for the programme.Producers of the African version of the show were accused of condoning domestic violence after the female contestant was assaulted, watched by viewers from 14 countries.Ugandan Hannington Kuteesa, 24, thumped South African Lerato Sengadi, 26, during the Endemol-produced show, the same firm behind Britain's version.Read and see the whole story here.Click here for comments.

• Democrats spend on anti-health-reform advertisements.Democratic candidates are spending three times more advertising against the health reform law than they are in support of it.Since the beginning of Congress’s August recess, Democratic candidates have poured $930,000 into ads deriding the health overhaul but just $300,000 in pro-reform spots, according to Evan Tracey at Kantar Media.Hmmm does dear leader know this?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.