Month: February 2006

Update: The Brussels Journal today defines the battle ahead.Brave Writers and Intellectuals Make a Stand Against IslamofascismAgora reports on a bold publication in the controversial leftwing French publication Charlie Hebdo coming out tomorrow:MANIFESTO:Together facing the new totalitarianismAfter having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.

Today we saw the reason why the Ad Dujail massacre was chosen for trial…A Saddam signed document showing confirmed executions was entered into evidence at the Trial of Saddam Hussein today.

These cartoons at Slapstick Politics are really just too much.

Andy at Taking Aim sends this news of a London March for Freedom at Trafalgar Square in London.A Rally in Trafalgar Square between 2:00pm and 4:00pm on Saturday March 25th 2006.Also, check out March for Free Expression blog.

HERE is a great tribute to the life of a Real American.

Hillary says that Karl Rove “obsesses” over her.The former first lady and potential presidential contender was reacting during a radio interview to a new book quoting Karl Rove as saying she will be the 2008 Democratic nominee for president,”He spends more time thinking about my political future than I do,” Clinton said, noting that Rove and other White House aides have met regularly with her possible opponents in November’s 2006 Senate race.The junior Senator from New York said she believed Rove, Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman and other Republicans are focusing on her to divert attention from Republican problems as the 2006 congressional elections approach.”Karl Rove is a brilliant strategist.

If publishing Muhammad cartoons is now out of the question in Western Civilization due to death threats, indictments and risk of business closure,…

We’ve heard this before.

The mock Human Rights Commission at the UN is not ready to give up on their disgusting little charade.Annan and Bolton Disagree on Draft for New Rights Group Do these sound like bold reform moves to you?* 47 countries instead of the commission’s 53* 96 out of 191 voting members approval; absolute majority instead of simple majority of those voting* resolution maintains the right of regional groups to put forward a slate of candidates that has enabled violators to join the panel The UN does not want to reopen negotiations on the Human Rights group:Asked about Mr.

Amarah…

Mark Steyn has another brilliant article in the Chicago Sun-Times this week explaining that the torture and death of Ilan Halimi was no fluke.

The one-party media has failed to mention this.

Update: (5:00 Sunday PM CST) The FBI just confirmed that the powdery substance found in a roll of quarters at a University of Texas dormitory was not the potentially deadly poison ricin.At least Texas kept its sense of humor during this ordeal.

Agora has recap and analysis on Turkey’s backpeddling yesterday.

New threats on the Kingdom.

Kate may have the answer to this age old question.

This great St.

With this week’s shocking details of Ilan Halami’s horrific murder in France, Dennis Nixon at Neander News is reminded of a gruesome murder in Houston back in 2003.

DJ Drummond at Polipundit gives his perspective on the UAE ports deal.I agree.”You can’t win a war against radical Islam without rewarding and supporting the moderate silent majority.”The alternative is too dangerous!One other point I did not see mentioned this week and that is…The UAE held elections this past year and has made serious steps towards democracy and improving womens rights.

Over at Athena, “Minerva” who has an intelligence community background on al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula writes a terrific open-source-based analysis on the latest attack on the Saudi oil facility.

Art historians agree that depictions of Muhammad are neither new nor rare:These portrayals of Muhammad are not big or new or common.

Relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang members who abducted Ilan Halimi, were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture.Ilan Halimi was lured to his death by a blond French woman who was dating one of the killers.The details to Ilan Halimi’s death are shocking! Solomonia had this disturbing report posted earlier today on the murder of Ilan Halimi:The killers of Ilan Halimi invited relatives over to help torture the Jew:…Investigating magistrate Corinne Goetzmann detained seven of the suspects on charges of kidnapping, sequestration, torture, acts of barbarism and premeditated murder in an organized gang.

Democrats violate ethics rules while attacking Republicans on ethics rules, AGAIN.

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Pakistani “Bounty Cleric”, Maulana Yousef Qureshi, said on Wednesday that university students had volunteered as suicide bombers to kill the blaspheming Danish cartoonists.Pakistani cleric Maulana Yousef Qureshi seen during a demonstration in Peshawar February 17, 2006.

She is posting from Pajamas Media until the situation is corrected.-Via Instupundit-

A Turkish movie featuring American actor Gary Busey as a Jewish U.S.

Didn’t William J.

A group of Australian women have been very busy doing something that has not been done before:The team from Melbourne’s Monash Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) – comprising scientists Prue Cowin, Professor Gail Risbridger and Dr Renea Taylor – are claiming a world first by growing a human prostate in a mouse using embryonic stem cells.The medical breakthrough came after three years of research, backed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Australian financial company Perpetual, which between them provided $1 million funding.Professor Risbridger said the discovery would have a significant impact on research into cancer of the prostate, the walnut-shaped gland that surrounds the urethra at the neck of the male bladder.”We will have the opportunity to study the transition of healthy prostate tissue to cancer,” Prof Risbridger said.

Christopher Hitchens is holding a protest in support of Denmark on Friday:Please be outside the Embassy of Denmark, 3200 Whitehaven Street (off Massachusetts Avenue) between noon and 1 p.m.

It’s too bad that Yu Dongyue has lost his mind from his many beatings.Reaching for the heavens…An image from Tiananmen Square, April-June 4, 1989.A Chinese journalist arrested 16 years ago for throwing paint at a portrait of Mao Zedong will be going home soon:The release of Yu Dongyue, 38, from more than 16 years in prison would leave about 70 Chinese political prisoners still serving time for their roles in the student-led demonstrations for democracy crushed by the army on June 4, 1989, the human rights watchdog Dui Hua Foundation said.

There’s one heck of a birthday bash planned this weekend!

Nigeria confirms that 35 persons were killed, 30 churches and five hotels were also burnt in violence the past three days.For the third day in a row, Nigerian Muslims rampaged through the streets leaving 13 dead on Monday in Bauchi after at least 25 reported deaths in two previous days of violence.An anti-riot police officer walks past billowing smoke from police teargas shot to disperse rioters.