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• Am I Islamophobic?In a speech given at the National Endowment for Democracy, on October 6, 2005 President Bush said: “Many Muslim scholars have already publicly condemned terrorism, often citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran, which states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all humanity…” He most likely did not read the entire verse which states: “…whoever kills a person, unless it be for manslaughter or for mischief in the land, it is as though he had killed all men.”So it is okay according to the Quran to kill anyone who creates “mischief in the land.” It is easy to see how the Taliban can justify killing. Mischief can be translated to pretty much anything they want, such as foreigners in their country, even those who are there as aid workers."Islam is a religion of peace."OK so now that we live in the 21 Th Century why not remove the verses who call up for killing non believers,as a step in the right direction towards inter faith dialogue?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Pakistan: Christian Flood Victims Being Denied Ad Unless They Convert to Islam! The head of an organization that combats anti-Christian persecution charges that some Pakistani Christian families are being denied flood aid unless they convert to Islam.“Some Christian refugees are openly denied aid, while others are told to leave or convert to Islam,” said Carl Moeller, president and CEO of Open Doors USA. “You can imagine that terrible choice: either you abandon your faith or you cannot feed your child.”Islam a religion of tolerance?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Amnon&Jonathan.The "NY - Mosque" Riots of 2010.Gangs of New York at 9/11 Protest, Pamela Geller and Far Right SIOA Group vs. Gavrielle Gemma and Bail Out People Movement “Workers World” Communist Party.Is Pamela Geller and the SIOA Group trying to start some knid of riot simialr to the New York Five Points Riot of 1863 as seen in the movie "Gangs of New York", they brought only flags to their protest also.In the month preceding the July 1863 Civil War lottery, in a pattern similar to the 1834 anti-abolition riots, antiwar newspaper editors published inflammatory attacks on the draft law aimed at inciting the white working class. They criticized the federal government's intrusion into local affairs on behalf of the "black war." On Monday, July 13, 1863, between 6 and 7 A.M., the five days of mayhem and bloodshed that would be known as the Civil War Draft Riots began.Read the full story here.Click here for comments. 

• Islamic Human Rights Commission sees no evil in Iran. Its website, after all, urges readers not to be a “silent victim,” and to contact the organization if they have suffered anti-Muslim harassment or discrimination. One would assume, then, that the Islamic Human Rights Commission would be very concerned about the oppression, incarceration, murder, and rape of dissidents in Iran — almost all of whom, after all, are Muslims.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• US Tells Turkey – Cool it with Iran.President Obama has personally warned Turkish Premier Tayyip Erdogan in that Turkey would forfeit a major arms deal (to purchase drone aircraft) - if it did not cool its relationship with Iran and reconsider a controversial fuel swap deal brokered with Iran in May.Turkey has long sought drone techology - but its need is increasingly urgent as it anticipates border tensions with the PKK as US forces withdraw.Hmmmm "Blood Islam is thicker than water"?Read the full story here.Click for here comments.

• Thanks Barack… US Growth Rate Likely to Fall Below 1% in 2nd Half of 2010.Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The Obama-Pelosi economic plan resulted in a cumulative 7.5 million jobs deficit. By every objective measure the democrat’s Trillion dollar stimulus bomb was a complete disaster.Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi tripled the national deficit last year by nearly a trillion dollars – something unheard of in our nation’s history.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Saudis fumed over sex pill ad.(Video) Commercial broadcast on state-owned channel shows man, wife enter bedroom, promises 'up to 36 hours of stiffness'.Viewers of Saudi Arabia's Channel One expressed rage over a commercial for a drug used to treat erectile dysfunction.Channel One is state-owned and usually broadcasts conservative, family-oriented programs. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• President Obama to Announce Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways-Or how to bankrupt America completely?Idea for the plan came from here?Today in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Barack Obama will announce a comprehensive infrastructure plan to expand and renew our nation’s roads, railways and runways. This proposal is among a set of targeted initiatives that the President will outline in Cleveland on Wednesday to support our economic recovery and ensure long-term sustainable growth. The plan builds upon the infrastructure investments the President has already made through the Recovery Act, includes principles the President put forth during the campaign, and emphasizes American competitiveness and innovation.Read the full idiocy story here.More here.Click here to comment.

• Iran to link up with UAE power grid.Iran’s national grid connected to seven neighbouring countries.Iran, the nineteenth biggest producer of electricity in the world, has connected its national power grid to seven neighbouring countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, Iran’s Energy Minister Majid Namjou told the Iranian Republic News Agency (IRNA).Read the full story here.Clic here for comments.

• Indonesians protest U.S. church's plan to burn Quran.Protesters in Jakarta carried signs saying, "Jihad to protect Koran" and "You burn qu'ran you burned in hell." The protesters included members of the hard-line Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia and the pluralism care movement, a multi-faith group.Perhaps start by learning how to spell?Read the full story here.Pictures here.Click here for comments.

• Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans.The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort.Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making it harder for allied troops to carry out their mission of protecting Afghan civilians."It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," Gen. Petraeus said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. "It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.Read the full story here"You don't hear Petraeus speak up when they forbid an Colorado High School student flying an American flag on his truck Cause they're worried it Would Make Others “Feel Uncomfortable”…?Do You......?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Report Links Iran to Hamas Attacks.Iran may have orchestrated last week's brutal attacks by Hamas militants against Israeli settlers in the West Bank in an attempt to derail the Middle East peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. That is the provocative possibility raised by a recently released report by Strategic Forecasting (STRATFOR), a global intelligence company that provides news updates and analysis. STRATFOR cites unnamed sources claiming that Iran communicated directly with militants from both Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—without the consent of the leaders of either organization—and offered a substantial amount of money for attacks on specific targets.Iran's purpose for orchestrating the attacks was not only to derail the peace talks but also to demonstrate the loyalty of Hamas and the PIJ to Tehran, the STRATFOR sources suggest.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• How to Fight Them.We have to fight them, because their radical imams, mosques, and schools threaten us; they constitute an assembly line for the next generation of home-grown American jihadi killers. But we can’t ask the courts to silence them, because we want to maintain our 1st Amendment rights.How, then, do we fight? There are three basic lines of attack. The first is to openly contest their odious doctrines and practices. As Manda Ervin said here yesterday, speaking in the name of Muslim women : We want America to treat Islam like it treats Christianity and Judaism, and to stop exempting Muslims from requirements imposed on others. We want Islam to be challenged by the same questioning, criticism, and control that is applied to other religions. Please stop pampering Islam to appease the terrorists and dictators.Amazingly once again it seems only Muslim women have the guts to speak up against Islam.Is it because they suffer most by Radical Islam?Read the full story here.Click here to comments.

• HT:WeaselZippers.Video : Obama Reports America to the U.N. Claiming Difficulty in Forming a Union in This Country is a Human Rights Abuse.Click here for comments.

• Nuclear Watchdog Says Iran Boosts Nuclear Work.Iran's total production of low-enriched uranium has risen by around 15 percent since May to reach 2.8 tonnes, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report said, showing Tehran is pushing ahead with disputed work despite tougher sanctions.The confidential report, obtained by Reuters on Monday, said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remained concerned about possible activity in the Islamic Republic to develop a nuclear payload for a missile.The IAEA also voiced concern about what it called Iran's "repeated objection" to the agency's choice of inspectors working in the country, after Tehran barred two U.N. nuclear inspectors from entering in June.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Afghans protest US church's plans to burn Quran.Hundreds of Afghans railed against the United States and called for President Barack Obama's death at a rally in the capital Monday to denounce an American church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on 9/11.The crowd in Kabul, numbering as many as 500, chanted "Long live Islam" and "Death to America" as they listened to fiery speeches from members of parliament, provincial council deputies, and Islamic clerics who criticized the US and demanded the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. Some threw rocks when a US military convoy passed, but speakers shouted at them to stop and told police to arrest anyone who disobeyed.Read the full story here.Click for comments here.

• Muslims and Hispanic illegals: Can we judge the present by the past? Michigan Democrats Told Their Fake Tea Party Is Illegal Prominent Australian sportswoman uses naughty word » Muslims and Hispanic illegals: Can we judge the present by the past?It is generally true that the past is the best guide to the future that we have but that is not to say that it is always a good guide. Does anybody seriously think that (say) America of 100 years ago is the same as the America of today?So once again the complexities of reality upset the simplistic theories of the Left. Neither in the case of Muslims nor in the case of Hispanic illegals can we expect the universal assimilation of the past. Permanently hostile subgroups are instead to be expected. Americans are right to be concerned about that.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Free Palestine Movement plans to send plane to Gaza.Channel 2 reports that organization to send aid to the Strip without flying over Israeli or Egyptian airspace; group says success based on not showing threat.Read the full story here.Click here to comment.

• Iran woman may be executed after Ramadan.The adult son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said on Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the holy month of Ramadan."Ramadan is coming to an end and, according to Islamic law, executions can resume," the young man warned. The Islamic calendar varies a little around the world, but Ramadan is due to come to an end everywhere this week.Read the full story here.Click here to comment.

• HT:IsraelMatzav.38 years since the Munich Olympic massacre.Sunday was 38 years since the Munich Olympic massacre. Here is part of ABC News' nightly news broadcast from September 6, 1972, which dealt almost completely with the Olympics (ABC had the broadcast rights to the Olympics).Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Single Iraqi women over 30: the hidden victims of war.In Iraq's conservative society, women are expected to be married in their teens or early 20s. However, seven years of bloody turmoil have made marriage more difficult for Iraqi women.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Ramadan.Three near-certainties accompany the Muslim holy month of Ramadan: in Islamic countries, the stock market climbs; in Jerusalem, the already amplified pre-dawn adhān, or call to prayer, becomes even more piercing than usual; and there is a steep rise in Muslim bloodletting.But no amount of ecumenical goodwill can change the fact that Ramadan is a blood-soaked period. What can be done about that? Only the Muslim faithful themselves can challenge Islamists bent on brutality. There is a glimmer of hope that this is beginning to happen, but it will take a thorough political and theological reformation before the bloodletting is taken out of Ramadan.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Anti-Israel boycott by Muslim shops goes Scotland-wide.A nationwide boycott of Israeli goods is being launched across Scotland this weekend as activists target Muslim-owned shops in an attempt to stop them selling produce from the Jewish state.“The pressure we bring to bear is moral. We use the threat of publicity. There is no threat of strong-arming.Hmmmm.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Great Lakes oil drilling - Americans seek to give Canada monopoly.Conservation and environmental organizations are lining up in attempts to get Michigan's top 3 law makers, all lame ducks, to pass legislation to prohibit drilling for oil in the Great Lakes. Opponents point out that such a move would give Canada a monopoly on the rich oil reserves under the lakes.Canada is on record as having no desire to ban drilling in the world's largest fresh water reserves. They already have more than 500 gas wells in their portion of Lake Erie. They also have parts of Lake Superior, Lake Huron, and Lake Ontario in which they can legally drill.Michigan has the longest coastline of all 48 continental United States with over 3,000 miles of sodium-free waters of the Great Lakes. Only Lake Ontario is not part of Michigan's coast line.Polluting the Great Lakes will also affect the rivers in the US.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:Islam in Europe: Paris: Is your child allowed to eat pork?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• The Ground Zero mosque - what US could learn from Israel.Life in our region has taught us that the first necessary step to defending yourself is acknowledging that someone is out to destroy you.In its basic form, the Ground Zero mosque debate boils down to a conflict between two competing values – American freedom of religion versus the sensitivities of the families of the victims of 9/11.The freedom-of-religion argument suggests that if Jews sought to build a synagogue at Ground Zero (or anywhere else, for that matter), they would be within their rights. That’s the American way. The opposing view suggests that while not every Catholic was guilty in the Holocaust, and not every Muslim perpetrated the crimes of 9/11, sensitivities still matter. Pope John Paul II had the decency to force the Carmelite nuns out of Auschwitz, and Muslim leaders, too, ought to relocate their project. Read the full story here.Click here to comment.

• HT:AmericanThinker.Our Dying Constitution.I do not know what is worse -- that a federal judge unilaterally redefined the several millennia old definition of marriage or that constitutional "experts" from both sides of the marriage argument agree that this issue will inevitably be "settled" by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Thus, one judge (one man) may get to tell over 300 million people how they are to order (or re-order) the very basis of their society. How did it come to this?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• HT:AmericanThinker.The Schools Scandal!American spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money?The average math and reading scores of American 17-year-olds have not improved since the early 1970s, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress long-term trend assessment.Twice the money. Zero progress.Yet students in other countries have been improving their test scores.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Video:While Netanyahu and Abbas meet in Washington to humor the clueless American foreign policy decider-in-chief ... Muslim radicals and their diehard leftie supporters (i.e., Code Pinko) gather in Washington to call for the elimination of the Jewish State of Israel.Click here for comments.

• HT:JWF.Hmm: Ground Zero Mosque Building Was on Market for $18 Million, Sold for $4.5 Million.It's a shame we have an absentee New York Attorney General (he's busy running for Governor), otherwise he might be inclined to look at all this shady business. We long ago gave up on the U.S. Attorney General. He's busy waging war on Arizona to even bother investigating any of these slippery operators. Let's face it though: Even in a down economy, how does a building on the market for 18 million wind up being sold for a fraction of that?Perhaps a question of how much is your life worth?Read the whole story here.Click here for comments.

• 3 people killed, 17 wounded after troops open fire on anti-India protesters in Kashmir.SRINAGAR, India — Government forces fired on protesters hurling stones at them in Indian Kashmir on Monday, killing three people and wounding at least 17 other demonstrators, police said.For the last three months, the mostly Muslim Kashmir region has been roiled by demonstrations and clashes between protesters opposed to Indian rule and government forces. The deaths bring to 68 the number of people killed in the civil unrest.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

• Chinese women prisoners participate in fashion show.More than 120 inmates walked the ramp in Zhengzhou city, the capital of Henan province, showcasing diverse outfits made of plastic bags and other recyclable waste.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.