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January 2012

KENNETH LEVIN: THE U.S. VIEW OF ISRAEL’S JUDICIARY

The U.S. view of Israel’s Supreme Court http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1276 Much of the Israeli Left – including cultural and political leaders, journalists and academics – have in the last several months engaged in hyperbolic, defamatory claims that the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to destroy Israel’s democracy through proposed legislation, such as that aimed at […]

ATTENTION PENNSYLVANIA ALUMNS: University of Pennsylvania Hosts Conference Promoting Campaign to ‘Boycott, Divest, and Sanction’ Israel…

http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2012/01/27/penn-state-hosts-conference-promoting-campaign-to-boycott-divest-and-sanction-israel/

The University of Pennsylvania is the home of the 2012 “National Conference of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement” (BDS), whose origins lie in the actions of nations and groups including Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah. The three-day event will take place on the U Penn campus February 3-5 and feature a variety of speakers with antisemitic, extreme views, such as Ali Abunimah, who has stated, “none of the European and American leaders who constantly lecture about Holocaust denial will dare to admonish Netanyahu for his bald lies and omissions about Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.”

FROM THE SULTAN’S BLOG ON THE ELECTION AND THE MADNESS OF “COULTER-CULTURE”

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/

THIS IS FROM THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP ON “COULTER-CULTURE” AND HER JEREMIAD AGAINST NEWT…SEE THE CARTOONS…ALSO PLEASE NOTE THAT ANOTHER DUMPSTER ON GINGRICH WAS SENATOR BOB DOLE ONE OF THE WORST GOP CANDIDATES IN HISTORY WHOSE FORMER GIG WAS SHILLING ON TV FOR THE UPLIFTING MERITS OF VIAGRA……RSK

“Billing a man who called himself progressive and repeatedly disavowed the conservative label until it came in handy, who is conservative is demeanor, but has no consistent conservative record on the issues, as the most conservative candidate is a head spinner.
To seriously believe that Romney is more conservative than Santorum isn’t the worldview of a world where words have meaning, it’s a world where the word conservative has no meaning.”

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS….PART TWO

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ THERE ARE NO ATHEISTS IN FOXHOLES The trajectory of persecution is not very difficult to calculate. In the UK, Muslims outnumber Jews six to one. In France, Muslims outnumber Jews ten to one, and in Sweden by as much as twenty-five to one. These are not just numbers; they also accurately chart the trajectory […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: THE WEEK THAT WAS- A ROUNDUP PART ONE

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Friday Afternoon Roundup – Dredging the Bottom Republican primaries are like visiting embarrassing relatives, no matter how bad you think it’s going to be, it always turns out to be even worse. After months of this we’re going to have a convention where we will be asked to believe in one of these men. […]

THE ZIONIST IMPERATIVE: CAROLINE GLICK

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European and American perfidy in dealing with Iran’s nuclear weapons program apparently has no end. This week we were subject to banner headlines announcing that the EU has decided to place an oil embargo on Iran. It was only when we got past the bombast that we discovered that the embargo is only set to come into force on July 1.

Following its European colleagues, the Obama administration announced it is also ratcheting up its sanctions against Iran… in two months. Sometime in late March, the US will begin sanctioning Iran’s third largest bank.

At the same time as the Europeans and the Americans announced their phony sanctions, they reportedly dispatched their Turkish colleagues to Tehran to set up a new round of nuclear talks with the ayatollahs. If the past is any guide, we can expect for the Iranians to agree to sit down and talk just before the oil embargo is scheduled to be enforced. And the Europeans – with US support – will use the existence of talks to postpone indefinitely the implementation of the embargo.

JEFFREY LORD: ELLIOT ABRAMS CAUGHT MISLEADING ON NEWT AND REAGAN

http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/27/elliott-abrams-caught-misleadi   The Spectacle Blog  Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading on Newt By Jeffrey Lord “It does no one — least of all Elliott Abrams or Governor Romney — any good to try and say that Newt Gingrich, as loyal a friend and ally to Ronald Reagan as could be found in the day — was […]

BRACING AND BLUNT SELF-CRITICISM FROM THE ARAB WORLD: AHMAD AL-ASWANI: WHO OFFENDS THE PROPHET?…..SEE NOTE

http://www.translatingjihad.com/2012/01/egyptian-writer-who-offends-prophet-is.html

THIS IS A WONDERFUL SITE….DOES NOT SUFFER IN TRANSLATION WITH ROSE COLORED GLASSES…..SOMETHING THE MSM INCLUDING THE “FOX’Y TALKERS AVOID……RSK

It is certainly rare to see such blunt self-criticism coming from the Arab world, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that Ahmad al-Aswani had received death threats for his outspoken criticism of Islam and Muslims. He makes a lot of good points here, though the only thing I might add is that it may have been Muhammad himself who made Islam terrorist–current Muslims only follow his footsteps.

DAVID “SPENGLER” GOLDMAN: GOP SHOULD DENOUNCE OBAMA FOR FUNDING EGYPTIAN TERRORISTS

Republicans Should Denounce Obama for Funding EgyptianTerrorists http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/01/26/republicans-should-denounce-obama-for-funding-egyptianterrorists/ It is a disgrace that the US government has held direct talks with the Muslim Brotherhood, and an outrage that that America is accelerating aid payments to Egypt to support a government dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood and other pro-terrorist, anti-American extremists. The Brotherhood won 47% of […]

THE THIRD JIHAD PRODUCERS RESPOND TO ANTI-ISLAM CLAIM

‘The Third Jihad’ Producers Respond to Anti-Islam Claims

Film narrated by devout American Muslim; Features top national security experts; Received praise from leading policy makers

The producers of The Third Jihad: Radical Islam’s Vision for America have a direct response to media outlets that have referred to the critically-acclaimed documentary as an “anti-Islam” or “hateful” film.

Claims that The Third Jihad is an anti-Islam film are ignorant and misinformed,” says Raphael Shore, Producer of The Third Jihad. “These claims are meant simply to defame the filmmakers and prevent the public from judging the film for themselves.”
The film opens with the following frame in bold letters for all viewers to read: “This is not a film about Islam. It is about the threat of radical Islam. Only a small percentage of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims are radical.”

The film’s message urges the Muslim community to look within itself to root out the indoctrination that affects a minority of Muslims.

Narrator Dr. Zuhdi Jasser

“The New York Times and other media outlets are conveniently choosing to overlook the fact that the film isolates a small sector of the Muslim community, and more importantly that the film is narrated by Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, the founder and president of the American-Islamic Forum for Democracy,” Shore added.

Dr. Jasser is a devout Muslim and a full-time physician and has served the United States of America admirably as medical officer in the US Navy and as an attending physician to the US Congress.

The documentary is founded on credible evidence presented by the FBI of a ‘Manifesto’ published by radicals calling for the implementation of extremist ideology-both violent and politicized-within the United States.

Yet the media are blasting the film’s usage by the New York Police Department in their counterterrorism training.

“There is a very good reason the NYPD selected to show The Third Jihad to nearly 1,500 police officers, and other law enforcement agencies have done the same,” Shore said. “The film deals with the very real process of radicalization and indoctrination of anti-American ideology taking place in some sectors of the Muslim community today.

While many media outlets are presently taking a noticeably negative stance-before even watching the film-the film has been spotlighted in over 100 interviews since its release in 2009.

The film’s narrator, Zuhdi Jasser, has consistently appeared in mainstream media outlets including MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, and has published Op-Eds in numerous mainstream publications including the Wall Street Journal to point out concerning trends within the Muslim community.

Experts

Jasser is not the only credible expert to appear in The Third Jihad, nor is NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

The film’s producers conducted exclusive interviews with:

Former Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge,
Former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey
Former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
Former Associate Director of the FBI
Former FBI Asst. Dir. of Public Affairs John Miller
Senator Joseph Lieberman
Professor Bernard Lewis
New York Times Best-selling Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Former CIA Officer Clare Lopez
Former CIA Officer Wayne Simmons
New York Times Best-selling Author Mark Steyn
And more (http://tinyurl.com/about3J)

Screenings

Since its release in 2009, The Third Jihad has screened and continues to be screened at several hundred locations across the United States including at the Library of Congress, Museum of Tolerance, Directors’ Screen Guild, and the National Press Club.

The film previously aired on cable television’s AmericanLife TV Network, and is currently available on Netflix and Amazon OnDemand.

Praise

The film has also received notable praise from some of the nation’s leading policy makers.

“It is imperative that The Third Jihad reaches a mass audience in the U.S. so that the urgency of this threat becomes clear to the American public,” declared US Rep. Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Chairwoman of the House Foreign Relations Committee.

Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (AZ) said, “The Third Jihad alerts Americans to the dangers of Islamic radicalization in our own communities. Zuhdi Jasser is sounding the alarm before it is too late.”

Rudy Giuliani called the film, “a wake up call for America.”

“Those that have blasted the film are attempting to stifle an important debate about the internal state of the Muslim community in America, and whether politicized Islam and indoctrination pose tangible security threats,” Shore added.

“We hope that the general public will consider the sensitive content in the film, and will not simply accept the baseless innuendos being made in the media. We invite the general public to watch and judge the documentary for themselves.”

The Third Jihad is now available for free viewing online at http://www.thethirdjihad.com.

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