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Prosecutors say 'Jihad Jane' deserves lengthy sentence

We "filthy kafir pigs" ought to sentence this Muslima to life in prison. She actively engaged in jihad activity and plotted to kill Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks (below at our September 11th  SION Freedom Congress).

Photo: September 11 SION Free Speech symposium, from left, Pamela Geller, Ashraf Ramaleh, President of Voice of the Copts, Lars Vilks, Swedish Cartoonist, and Robert Spencer. Vilks' speech here.

Prosecutors say 'Jihad Jane' deserves lengthy sentence Philadelphia Inquirer, January 3, 2014

Despite her "very significant" cooperation in terrorism investigations in the United States and abroad, a Montgomery County woman arrested in 2009 for working with terrorists under the moniker "JihadJane" remains a danger and should spend several decades behind bars, federal prosecutors say.

In documents filed before a sentencing hearing scheduled for Monday, government lawyers described Colleen LaRose, 50, as an "aggressive, hardworking" force in the online extremist community.

Her sentencing provides an opportunity to "send a strong message to other lonely, vulnerable people who might be enticed by online extremists promising fame and honor," Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Matthew F. Blue wrote.

In their filings, the lawyers cited prison letters from as recently as 2012 in which LaRose referred to Americans as "filthy kafir pigs," and described her assignment to kill a Swedish cartoonist whose work offended some Muslims as an honor.

"LaRose's sincere efforts at cooperation do not erase the harm that she has caused, nor the government's grave concern that she remains a danger," they wrote. "The world is watching, and this sentencing presents an important opportunity to send a strong message."

LaRose's attorney, Mark Wilson, did not return calls for comment Thursday. His client faces up to a life sentence after pleading guilty in 2011 to providing material support to terrorists.

With LaRose's blond hair, green eyes, and deep southern twang, the case garnered international attention and changed U.S. officials' expectations of what to fear from homegrown extremist threats, prosecutors said.

In online forums, she spewed violent anti-American vitriol and recruited other extremists for training in South Asia. She boasted of the ability her American background and looks gave her to fly beneath the radar of counterterrorism investigators.

But even prior to becoming "JihadJane," LaRose's life had traced a downward trajectory that led one U.S. official to compare it in 2010 to a "sad country music song."

Her childhood in Texas was marked by abuse and neglect. She married at 16 and quickly divorced. And she had already racked up convictions for drunken driving, criminal trespass, and passing bad checks before coming to Pennsylvania in 2002. She attempted suicide within years of arriving.

By the time she struck up relationships with Islamic extremists online, she was "a lonely and isolated woman," "bored with her life" and with "few friends," prosecutors said. Her boyfriend, a Pennsburg man whom she met while he was on a business trip to Texas, "traveled much of the time."

However, in 2009, an al-Qaeda operative in Pakistan extended the validation that investigators say LaRose so desperately craved, turning to her to help organize the assassination of the Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks. His 2007 depiction of Muhammad with a dog's body set off controversy in some parts of the Muslim world.

LaRose flew to Ireland to meet up with the group plotting the artist's slaying and took her then-boyfriend's U.S. passport in the hope it could be used by one of her terrorist associates.

She was arrested in Philadelphia soon after returning to the United States in frustration over the slow pace of the conspirators' progress.

Almost immediately, LaRose began cooperating "diligently, candidly, and tirelessly" with federal counterterrorism investigators, prosecutors said in their court filings this week. Her testimony before a grand jury in 2011 led to charges against Ali Charaf Damache, her alleged handler in Ireland, and others.

Damache remains imprisoned in Ireland, fighting extradition to the United States.

Throughout, though, she has rarely appeared remorseful, Williams wrote.

"LaRose seemed to take pleasure and even pride recounting her glory days as 'the hunter,' " she said. "Her demeanor continued to grow wistful - despite the passage of time - when speaking with government agents about some of her coconspirators and their plans."

Two of LaRose's convicted codefendants also face possible sentencing next week, including Jamie Paulin Ramirez, a Colorado mother who uprooted her young son and moved to Ireland to join LaRose's cause, and Mohammad Hassan Khalid, an 19-year-old Maryland teen who in 2012 became the youngest person ever convicted on a U.S. terrorism charges.

Prosecutors are seeking sentences of less than 10 years for both. Their lawyers have indicated they intend to cite the troubled psychological histories of their clients as mitigating factors.

"The government has been cavalier and irresponsible in how they have thought of Mohammad," Jeffrey Lindy, the lawyer representing the Maryland teen, said Thursday. "They treat him as an adult. He is not."

Second Bomb Blast shakes southern Beirut, Hezbollah Hit Again

More of Syria's widening war:

Blast shakes southern Beirut, Hezbollah Hit Again

Click here to watch: Blast shakes southern Beirut, Hezbollah Hit Again

At least five people have been killed and 20 hurt in a car bomb which hit a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, media and officials say. The suburb is a stronghold of the Shiite terrorist militia Hezbollah. The BBC says the bomb is not one of the biggest of the recent incidents, but its impact was considerable because it was detonated during rush-hour. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV station said the blast destroyed part of a facade of a building in a densely populated area of Haret Hreik district. The attack is the latest in a string of bombings in southern Beirut that reflect Shiite-Sunni hatred exacerbated by the Syrian civil war, in which Hezbollah has taken an active part beside Bashar Assad's government forces.

Former minister Mohamad Shattah, a Sunni critic of Hezbollah, was killed by a car bomb last Friday. Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri blamed Hezbollah for that attack but it has denied any involvement. Shattah was an adviser to Saad Hariri's father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, and a staunch critic of Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Hariri and 21 others were killed in a car bomb attack in Beirut in February 2005; the attack was blamed on Hezbollah. No-one has yet claimed responsibility for the latest blast. A November attack on the Iranian embassy, in the same part of the city as Thursday's bomb, left 23 people dead, including the cultural attaché of the embassy, Ebrahim al-Ansari. Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Rokn Abadi told al-Manar television that al-Ansari died from wounds he sustained in the attack. Majid al-Majid, the Saudi "emir" of the al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades, took credit for that attack and said that attacks would continue in Lebanon until Iranian and Hezbollah forces stopped fighting alongside government forces in Syria. He was reportedly arrested Wednesday.

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"Moderate" Malaysia: Newspaper editor accused of treason for using the word "Allah"

Preach it, brother. Once again, Muslims are teaching us what interfaith dialogue and tolerance mean.

Muslims are prosecuting Christians in Malaysia for using the word Allah for God. Muslim authorities have criminalized usage of the word Allah.

Malaysian Atlas reader Tracy gives us some background on the "Allah" brouhaha in Malaysia. Allah is used in Malay and other Malaysian indigenous languages and has been used for over 100 years, even before Malaysia was formed as a country. This might be due to Arab influence on the local languages, when traders came to the Malayan peninsula in the 1300s. In this country, Allah has been used to refer to God, whereas Tuhan, which the ruling party wants Catholics/Christians to use, is a generic term which is non specific, hence the refusal by the Malay/indigenous language speaking Catholics and Christians to budge.

Herald editor in ‘Allah’ storm accused of treason against Selangor Sultan," Malaysia Today, January 2, 2014

(MM) - Catholic priest Father Lawrence Andrew had allegedly committed treason against the Selangor Sultan by insisting on using the word “Allah”, claimed state Umno leaders.

Subang Umno chief Datuk Zein Isma Ismail said Lawrence’s recent statement was akin to going against the Selangor Sultan’s decree banning non-Muslims in the state from using the Arabic word.

“This is a penderhakaan (treason) towards the Sultan’s decree and we demand that the related quarter apologise,” Zein was quoted as saying by Sinar Harian.

Yesterday, all 22 Selangor Umno divisions reportedly lodged police reports against Father Lawrence Andrew, demanding that the editor of Catholic Church weekly Herald apologise for saying that Catholic churches in the state will continue to use the word “Allah” in their masses.

Prof Tan Sri Dr Abdul Shukor Hussin, the chairman of the National Fatwa Council, also expressed worry that apparent inaction over Andrew’s comments, including the use of the Sedition Act 1948, could see unrest ultimately arising from a challenge of Selangor’s religious edict banning the non-Muslims’ use of the Arabic word for God.

When commenting on the intention of the Catholic churches in Selangor to continue using the word “Allah”, Abdul Shukor said the situation could worsen if they do not comply with the state law.

“Their actions clearly challenges and breaches the fatwa (religious edict) and decree of the Selangor Sultan as the religious leader and state ruler. As religious people, this quarter (church) should understand the reality because their action will surely cause Muslims to be dissatisfied,” he was quoted as saying by Malay daily Berita Harian, without singling out Lawrence.

According to Berita Harian, Perak Mufti Tan Sri Dr Harussani Zakaria described those who oppose and insult Islam by challenging court decisions, the Federal Constitution and the country’s royal rulers as traitors.

Harussani went a step further when he reportedly called for the government to take firm action such as imprisoning and revoking the citizenships of such “traitors”, as well as banning churches that continue to use the word “Allah”.

Harussani did not, however, name those whom he alleged to have insulted Islam.

Utusan Malaysia also reported two Muslim non-government organisations as claiming that Andrew had contravened a court decision and called for contempt of court proceedings against him.

Muslim group Muafakat’s president Ismail Mina Ahmad told Utusan Malaysia: “The court had previously decided that the word is exclusive for the use of Muslims.”

“Andrew’s statement wanting to use that word goes against and insults the court’s decision, so legal action has to be taken against him,” he was quoted saying.

Ismail also claimed that Lawrence had insulted the decree of the Selangor Sultan, where the state ruler had ordered all non-Muslim residents in the state not to use the word “Allah”.

Malaysian Muslim Consumers Association leader Datuk Nadzim Johan said the Home Ministry, the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia and the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) should haul Lawrence to court, insisting that this was necessary to prevent anxiety among the Muslims and to maintain the country’s harmony.

Temperatures have risen of late over the so-called “Allah” row that remains unresolved four years after it shocked the nation and led to the worst religious strife in the country’s history.

Matters were further complicated when the Selangor Islamic Religious Department said it would begin compelling churches in the state to stop using the word “Allah”, possibly widening the effects of what has largely been an administrative ban on the word’s usage and which could have far-reaching consequences on Malaysian’s constitutional right to freedom of religion.

The ongoing legal dispute between the government and the Catholic Church over its right to print the word “Allah” in the Herald’s Bahasa Malaysia section is still pending before the Federal Court, which is set to hear arguments from both sides on February 24 before deciding on whether it will hear an appeal by the Catholic Church.

"Moderate" Malaysia: Muslim religious authorities raid Bible Society, confiscate bibles

Religious authorities of Selangor (a state closest to the capital) raided the Bible Society and confiscated 300 bibles in Malay and Iban (an indigenous language).

More interfaith dialogue and tolerance from supremacist Islamic thugs.

"Jais has no right to raid Bible Society of Malaysia premises, says council of churches," Malaysia Insider, January 2, 2014 (thanks to Tracy)

The Selangor Islamic authorities do not have the authority to raid the premises of the Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM), said the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM).

Saying they were alarmed by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department's (Jais) raid today on BSM where they confiscated over 300 Bibles in Malay and Iban, CCM general-secretary Rev Dr Hermen Shastri said that the Federal Constitution guaranteed the right of religious communities in the country to freely profess and administer their affairs.

"The Prime Minister, Selangor Menteri Besar and all Christian lawmakers should act immediately to stop such actions and further raids," he said in a statement issued more than two hours after the controversial raid.

He said the CCM believes that Islamic authorities do not have the authority in law to enter the premises of non-Muslim religious establishments for inspection, search or raid.

He also called on the churches to stay calm and pray that the rightful authorities would act with wisdom and sensitivity to protect the religious rights of all.

Christians make up about 9% of the Malaysian population, or 2.6 million. Almost two-thirds of them are Bumiputera and are largely based in Sabah and Sarawak, where they routinely use Bahasa Malaysia and indigenous languages in their religious practices, including describing God as Allah in their prayers and holy book.

Besides the Bumiputera Christians from East Malaysia, some of whom have moved to the peninsula to live and work, Orang Asli Christians in the peninsula also typically use Bahasa Malaysia in their worship.

The Bible Society of Malaysia (BSM) president Lee Min Choon, who was detained and taken to the police station today, called on the Christian community to remain calm following the raid.

A team of officers from Jais and two policemen went to the BSM offices in Damansara Kim, in Selangor, today at 1pm and carted away some 300 copies of the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia and Iban.

"The team wanted to enter the premises but my staff asked them to show their authorisation cards and search warrant, which they failed to produce," Lee said at the Damansara police station.

Lee and BSM manager Sinclair Wong were taken to the Damansara police station by Jais along with the Bibles. Jais lodged a police report over the raid.

Lee and Wong were released on police bail at 4pm, but have not been told whether they will face further action.

Lee said Jais were conducting the raid under a state enactment but did not say which one. It is believed that the state enactment being used was the Selangor Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Among Muslims) Enactment 1988.

"Over the past few years, BSM has been in regular contact with Putrajaya, including Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala," Lee said.

He said they had received assurances from Putrajaya that Malay Bibles could be imported.

"We are allowed to freely distribute the Bibles in Sabah and Sarawak without any conditions," he said.

"As for the peninsula, as long as the Bible has a cross and the words 'Christian publication' on the cover, it can be freely imported and distributed to Christians."

Lee said the legality of the Bible has been recognised by various orders issued by the home minister.

"We hope that Putrajaya and Jais will communicate with each other and resolve this issue," Lee said.

Lee is expected to meet Jais officers on January 10 in Shah Alam to discuss the matter.

Today’s raid comes after the editor of Catholic weekly, Herald, Rev Father Lawrence Andrew said that Catholic churches in Selangor would continue to use the word “Allah” in their weekend services in Bahasa Malaysia, which are primarily attended by Sabah and Sarawak folk.

The comments came following a statement from the new director of Jais Ahmad Zaharin Mohd Saad, who said the state religious authorities would draw up a list of Selangor churches before writing to ask them to comply with the Selangor Non-Islamic Religions (Control of Propagation Among Muslims) Enactment 1988.

“We will write to all the churches in Selangor to respect the law that is in force in relation to this,” he was quoted as saying.

The enactment, which was passed by the then Barisan Nasional state government, prohibits non-Muslims in Selangor from using 35 Arabic words and phrases, including “Allah”, “Nabi” (prophet), “Injil” (gospel) and “Insya'Allah” (God willing).

Andrew's statement caused an uproar among various non-governmental organisations, which among others, described his action as not only challenging the sensitivities of Muslims, but also a sign of disrespect for the law.

Meanwhile, Selangor religious exco Solehin Muhyi, when contacted, said he was not aware of the raid.

"I didn’t know anything until now," he said. – January 2, 2014.

 

The Traveling Dead: Stock Photos for Islamic Supremacist Ad Campaigns

The fast moving, traveling  dead family coming to an Islamic ad campaign near you.

Bad luck: Same family killed by Assad in Syria and by IDF bombing in Gaza (thanks to Robert Spencer)

talk about bad luck. The same family that was killed in Syria by Assad, also killed by IDF bombing Gaza few days ago. pic.twitter.com/uKVnpcEZhx

— SkepTorr (@SkepTorr) January 1, 2014

But if you doubt the atrocity tales that Islamic supremacists tell, you're a greasy Islamophobe, a genocide denier, and worse.

France: Muslims Burn Over 1,000 Cars on New Year's Eve

The number of cars torched in France was a bit down this year. Color me cynical, but I suspect that there were fewer cars, not less rage. Considering the tens of thousands of cars Muslims already set alight in France, I am sure that was the case.

Good news from France: Only 1,067 cars burned on New Year's Eve -- down 10.6% from last year! (thanks to Robert Spencer)

Al-Qaeda magazine tells jihadis how to torch cars and cause traffic accidents -- March 3, 2013

Not that the perpetrators of all these car burnings are al-Qaeda. But over the years they have overwhelmingly been what the French press euphemistically calls "youths": i.e., young Muslims.

And Manuel Valls is so blinkered as to be pleased that they torched fewer cars this year than they did last year.

"Crimes, car burnings, accidents this New Year's Eve," from Gallia Watch, January 1:

Good news from Le Figaro:

Manuel Valls has announced that only 1,067 cars were burned on New Year's Eve, a 10.6% reduction over last year. The figures cover the period from 6:00 p.m. December 31 to 6:00 a.m. January 1.

The minister spoke of "positive results" for the overnight period. "We must feel encouraged by these results."

In addition, there were 322 persons arrested, with 217 held in custody. And five policemen and gendarmes were wounded....

 

Jihad in Central African Republic: Muslims Beheading Children

This is how savages outdo each other.

These monstrous displays of savagery sink to ever new lows in barbarity ,and should be part of the otherwise dishonest museum exhibits illustrating Islamic contributions to civilization. 

The self-enforcing sharia media go to extraordinary lengths to avoid motive and ideology. For your information, Muslim fighters are referred to as "Seleka" in the media, and Christians are called  "anti-balaka". Balaka means sword or machete.  The name makes perfect sense. The two symbols of Islam are the sword and the quran.

Last February, Obama lifted the ban on child soldiers. Another gift from the colluder in the White House.

The whole region is under siege by jihadists. Is it any wonder that Kenya, Tanzania, Sudan, Ethiopia, et al .... Angola are fighting to keep the jihadists out?

CAR conflict: Unicef says children ‘beheaded’ in Bangui," BBC, January 2, 2014 (thanks to Claude)

At least two children have been beheaded in the Central African Republic's capital as violence sinks to a "vicious new low", the UN has said.

About 16 children had been killed in Bangui since 5 December and an increasing number of them are being recruited into armed groups, it added.

The violence has mostly pitted Christian and Muslim militias against each other.

The UN said children were being directly targeted in revenge attacks.

The CAR is ruled by Muslim ex-rebel leader Michel Djotodia, who seized power in March forcing then-President Francois Bozize, who came from the majority Christian population, to flee into exile.

'Atrocious attacks'

About 1,000 people have been killed in tit-for-tat clashes in Bangui in December and about 370,000 people, nearly half the city's population, have been displaced, aid agencies say.

There were "unprecedented levels" of violence against children, the UN children's agency, Unicef, said in a statement.

One of the children who had been beheaded had also been mutilated, while another 60 had been injured in fighting since 5 December, it said.

"More and more children are being recruited into armed groups, and they are also being directly targeted in atrocious revenge attacks," said Souleymane Diabate, Unicef's CAR representative.

"Targeted attacks against children are a violation of international humanitarian and human rights law and must stop immediately. Concrete action is needed now to prevent violence against children."

Last month, the UN said the number of child soldiers in CAR had more than doubled to 6,000 as fighting escalated.

Many Muslim fighters belong to the former rebel group, Seleka, and Christians to militias called "anti-balaka", named after the local Sango language word for machete.

The African Union has sent nearly 4,000 troops to CAR while France, the former colonial power, has also deployed 1,600 soldiers there in an attempt to quell violence.

Many foreign governments have been evacuating their citizens from CAR

 

Pamela Geller, Jerusalem Post: "Jews for Jihad"

Read my column here in today's Jerusalem Post on the execrable Carolyn Karcher, who maliciously flaunts her Jewish birth in a LA Times article to provide cover for her unbridled anti-semitism and vicious hatred of Israel. Truth be told, had she not identified herself as a Jew (which she does almost immediately), the unsuspecting reader might think her a member of a neo-Nazi or jihadi group.

You'll notice that I never mention Karcher's name in the piece. This was at the request of editors who were worried about legal troubles. I understand that, although everything I say in this piece is true and accurate. But it is interesting that Karcher can feel free to libel Israel, but Israel's defenders have to be extra careful, in today's political climate, when responding to such libels.

 

"Jews for JIhad", Pamela Geller, The Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2014

Stockholm Syndrome reared its head last Friday, when an academic who identifies herself as Jewish published op-ed in the Los Angeles Times explaining why she voted for the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israeli universities, about which I wrote recently in the Jerusalem Post.

The Times piece said that the writer had just returned from a trip to Israel and “Palestine” sponsored by Interfaith Peace-Builders, a group that subtly propagandizes for the Palestinian jihad. She was easily taken in. “Palestinian students of all ages,” she claimed, “endure harassment at military checkpoints, frequent school closures, unprovoked arrests, imprisonment and sometimes death at the hands of trigger-happy soldiers.” 

 
The entire piece is just Islamic propaganda. The boycott, which is only the latest and most glaring manifestation of the ASA’s rabid antisemitism, now becomes an opportunity for major mainstream media organs like the Los Angeles Times to run a venomous libel against the Jewish state – written by a Jew, of course, in order to mask the viciousness of the attack. This is a blood libel couched as a “reasoned argument” and set out with sophisticated rhetoric. But we know what attacks like this really is, and where it leads. 
 

The ASA has rightly been damaged by its Nazi-like anti-Jew resolution: it has lost members, a competing organization has been launched, and there has even been a challenge to its 501c3 status. American universities rejecting the boycott include Boston University, Brown, Cornell, Duke, George Washington University, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York University, Northwestern, Princeton, Purdue, Stanford, Tufts, Tulane, the University of California-Irvine, the University of California-San Diego, University of Chicago, the University of Southern California, Wesleyan, Yale, and many others.
 
Still, the resolution itself has also done enormous damage. That ill-used useful idiots and  self-loathing Jews would be given major platforms to spread such poison is astonishing. The writer of the Los Angeles Times piece declares herself a Jew two sentences into her piece. Yes, she’d have to, or the unsuspecting reader might think her a member of a neo-Nazi or jihadi group. She aligns with the worst Jew-haters in the world and yet cloaks herself in self-righteousness, while traipsing off to Gaza to speak of how “profoundly shaken” she was by the “brutality” she saw Israelis display “toward Palestinians.” What brutality did she see? She never says -- of course.
 
Instead, the Times dusts off every Jew-hating bullet point in the “Palestinian” arsenal, including “harassment at military checkpoints.” What would the Times have the Israelis do? Give unfettered access to homicide bombers? Suicide bombings were a daily, yes, daily occurrence before the security fence and the construction of those checkpoints that devastate her fragile sensibilities.
 
The Times also libels Israeli soldiers as “trigger-happy.” How dare they? Is there any army in the world that has shown as much self-restraint as the Israeli army? What other country quietly suffers rocket attacks at homes, schools, and hospitals without taking much-needed action? And when they do finally take action, they warn the Jew-haters that they will be removing the rocket launchers from their living rooms. What other army drops leaflets warning the population in advance that armaments and rocket launchers will be removed? 
 
As a people, we revere life as our highest value -- precious life. Does The Los Angeles Times think that the Jews want to fight? Do they think that Jewish parents want to send their children off to war? The Islamic narrative is one big fat lie, and they are carrying water for these annihilationists. Israelis leave their schools, their workplaces, and their families because they get drafted into the reserve, in order to stop people from going into Jewish homes and cutting their children’s throats. The Times’s silence on the Jew-hatred that fuels the whole of the war on Israel exposes their vicious op-ed for what it is.
 
The Times writer makes it up as she goes along, citing examples of “blacklisting or denial of tenure, promotion or academic positions” to opponents of Israel – incidents that she says “go unreported.” If they aren’t reported, how does she know that they happened at all. She lustily supports the 21st century version of Kristallnacht -- the BDS movement’s boycotting of the Jews -- and does so with an odious braggadocio. 
 
The Los Angeles Times appears to know nothing of the history of the war against the Jews, and worse still, doesn’t seem to want to know. The piece equates Israeli policy with the vile Jim Crow south. It does this in defense of the “Palestinians” who have declared numerous times that all of “Palestine” will be Jew-free. Israel, where “Palestinians” live free (freer than in most Muslim countries), run for government office and are free to rail against Israel from the floor of the Knesset. 
 
When the history books are written, the Los Angeles Times will be reviled for giving space to trolls who aided and abetted the second holocaust. Children will shake their heads, asking mommy how Jew-hatred could have been sanctioned in the twenty-first century, and not been relegated to the absolute fringe of decent society. It is because the Los Angeles Times runs this evil propaganda -- but its pages are never open to supporters of Israel like me and my colleagues. 
 
It make my skin crawl. We have seen all this before. Our history is riddled with miserable traitors who have tried to separate their lies against the Jewish state from the Jews. It is one and the same. Methinks the Los Angeles Times dost protest too much.
 

Pamela Geller is the President of the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), publisher of AtlasShrugs.com and author of The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America and Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Follow her onTwitter here.

 
 

Czech police find cache of weapons at "Palestinian" mission after "Palestinian" Ambassador Killed by Own Explosives

In the wake of the "Palestinian" Ambassador who was killed by explosives at the "Palestinian mission" in Czechoslovakia (the Palis still haven't gotten their story straight on that one yet), Czech investigators found a cache of unregistered weapons at the mission.

More Islamic weapons of diplomacy. How long before they blame the Jews? 3..2...1

Czech police find weapons at Palestinian mission," Reuters, January 2, 2014 (thanks to Gerard)

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech investigators found unregistered weapons at the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Prague, police said on Thursday, a day after the ambassador was killed in a mysterious explosion after opening a safe.

"We have gathered many pieces of evidence, we secured weapons that will be subject to expert evaluation," Prague police chief Martin Vondrasek said on Czech Radio.

"We can say the weapons have not gone through a registration process in the Czech Republic," he said, without revealing the quantity and type.

Police reiterated they believed the blast that killed ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on New Year's Day may have been caused by mishandling an explosive that could have been securing the safe. They have said they are not treating it as an attack or a terrorist incident.

Jamal suffered lethal injuries to his head, chest and abdomen. He had been in Prague only since October.

Embassy spokesman Nabil el-Fahel said the safe was being used on a daily basis to store cash for the mission.

The mission is in the process of moving into a new embassy and residence, which share the same compound. Jamal was killed at the new residence.

Fahel's account contradicted Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, who said the safe had not been used for two decades or more, possibly going back to the time when the Palestine Liberation Organisation maintained a mission in Prague.

STAFF UNAWARE

Some safes can be fitted with small charges to destroy secret documents in the event of the lock being tampered with. But Fahel said embassy staff were not aware that any explosive mechanism was attached to the safe that Jamal opened.

He later said on Czech Television he had no information on weapons being seized by police. But a Palestinian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the mission's staff in Prague had submitted the weapons to Czech authorities.

He did not elaborate on the type of weapons involved, but said they had been retrieved from an old sack and had been untouched since Cold War times.

The Vienna Convention, which covers diplomatic relations between states, does not set out arrangements for diplomats holding weapons.

The Czech Foreign Ministry said diplomats' weapons were subject to local laws on arms, which require registration and licensing. This suggests that if the weapons were unregistered, they were illegal.

The ministry said it was not changing its position on the Palestinian mission in the country. "We can hardly draw any conclusions from partial results and findings," spokeswoman Johana Grohova said.

Communist Czechoslovakia maintained friendly relations with the PLO in the 1980s, but the Czech Republic, an EU and NATO member country, has been supportive of Israel.

 

Denmark: Muslim Apostate Faces Hate Speech Charges

Islamic supremacists invoke the freedom of speech to kill the freedom of speeech. As preposterous as it all is -- it's working for them.

"Danish Muslim Apostate Faces Hate Speech Charges," By Andrew Harrod, January 2, 2014 (thanks to Claude)

“Muslims love to take advantage of” free speech, Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan says, “and as soon as there is someone else saying something critical against them, they want to restrict it.”  In an action previously indicated by this writer, Hassan is now personally facing this double standard in Danish “hate speech” charges for his anti-Islam comments.

Following Danish-Iranian artist Firoozeh Bazrafkan’s conviction under Danish Penal Code Section 266b (in Danish here) for condemning Islam as misogynist, a local Muslim Aarhus politician demanded a similar prosecution of Hassan.  His poetry “says that everybody in the ghettos like Vollsmose and Gellerup steal, don’t pay taxes and cheat themselves to pensions,” the Somali-Dane Mohamed Suleban stated after reporting Hassan to the police on November 27. “Those are highly generalizing statements and they offend me and many other people.”  Authorities are currently considering Section 266b charges for, according to one English translation, any public “communication by which a group of persons are threatened, insulted or denigrated due to their race, skin color, national or ethnic origin, religion or sexual orientation."

The 18-year-old Hassan’s eponymous debut book contains about 150 poems, “many of which are severely critical of the religious environment he grew up in” according to Wall Street Journal reporters Clemens Bomsdorf and Ellen Emmerentze Jervell.  Written in all capital letters, Hassan’s poems treat “issues like the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, child abuse, and the interplay between violence and religion” with “[p]rofanity and vivid analogies.”  Yahya Hassan has sold 80,000 copies following an October 17 release in the comparatively small Danish market and is expected to exceed 100,000 copies by Christmas.  Hassan’s publisher Gyldendal reports that Danish poetry books are fortunate to sell 500 copies.  A recent book forum honored Hassan as the debut author of the year and an English translation of his poetry is underway.

Hassan first became prominent with an October 5 Danish newspaper interview entitled “I F**king Hate My Parents’ Generation.”  In it he blamed poor Muslim parenting for the juvenile delinquency and social maladjustment experienced by many Danish Muslim youth such as Hassan himself.  With more than 85,000 social media shares, the interview became the most shared Politiken article of the year.

Days thereafter Hassan recited from his “LANGDIGT” or “LONG POEM” before his book’s release on the Danish news program Deadline.  Extract:  “between the Friday prayers and the Ramadans/you want to carry a knife in your pocket/you want to go and ask people if they have a problem/although the only problem is you.”  Such verses brought Hassan more death threats than any other previous Deadline guest.  Hassan has subsequently reported 27 Facebook threats against him, of which the police investigated six as serious and pressed charges in one case of a 15-year old boy.  A subsequent assault against Hassan occurred on November 18 in Copenhagen Central Station by a 24-year old Palestinian-Danish Muslim who had previously received a seven-year terrorism sentence.

Hassan now wears a bulletproof vest and receives protection from Denmark’s domestic intelligence agency PET at speaking engagements.  A November 26 reading by Hassan from his book in a school in the Danish town of Odense, moreover, required an estimated one million kroner in security costs, more than the amount spent on a high-risk soccer game.  Several hundred policemen had observed the school for two days before the event occurred with road checkpoints, a bomb sweep, and a five kilometer no-fly zone around the school.

Police safety concerns had forced the cancellation of an earlier, sold-out reading at a public library in Odense’s troubled district of Vollsmose.  Along with Hassan, Culture Minister Marianne Jelved and several other Danish politicians criticized the Vollmose cancellation as “completely unacceptable.”  Jelved demanded that police in Vollmose “make the necessary precautions” in order “to hold on to what democracy is, or otherwise we reduce it day by day.”

Yet Suleban’s charges might succeed in silencing Hassan where violence has failed.  Jacob Mchangama, legal affairs director at Denmark’s liberal think-tank Cepos, sees a “strong case” against Hassan, particularly given a “range of similar preceding cases” like Bazrafkan’s.  Hassan’s media attention and public popularity, though, might make conviction difficult, as “his poems are important social commentary.”  Hassan’s acquittal “for making statements similar to what other people have been convicted for,” Mchangama nonetheless observed, “will expose a random legislation where no-one can be sure of what is legal to say.”

Calling for Section 266b’s abolition, Mchangama further questions the law’s “arbitrary limits.” What “is sufficiently degrading” and why should, for example, homosexuals receive protection, but not disabled people.  Mchangama also sees no “good science” correlating speech laws with “less hate crimes.”  Other commentators, moreover, have argued that speech trials simply bring more attention to the offending statements.

Hassan’s case presents speech codes functioning not just as a de facto blasphemy, but also as a de facto apostasy law protecting Islam.  How, after all, can an atheist like Hassan, who says that there is “something wrong with Islam,” decide upon his religious views without rigorous testing of all faiths?  For that matter, how could anyone answer Hassan’s call for a “reformation” in an Islam that “refuses to renew itself” without similar scrutiny?  Such questions aside, Hassan remains committed to his criticisms, stating that he does not “care about getting convicted of racism.” Muslims threatening violence can likewise “all come and get me if they want.  I don’t give a s**t about these morons.”  “I know these people,” Hassan adds, “They can’t handle criticism…they’re not interested in dialogue.”