The Blind Sheik Is Dead and Gone But His U.S. Network Lives On

Oh, those captivating, charismatic jihadi clerics, like, say the recently defunct blind sheik (see also Anwar al-Awlaki): they continue to inspire scads of followers, some of 'em brand spanking new recruits, even once the "holy" man is in a state of decomposition.

Trump Is Right. Sweden's No Eden

Sure, Trump may have screwed up the timeline (and is now being mercilessly "mocked" because of it), but make no mistake--something bad is definitely happening in Sweden (even if the Swedes and the likes of the WaPo and New York Times are in denial about it).

Some testy locals torch an infidel flag--but it didn't happen "last night."

Update: Sweden sucks--big time--in another significant way, too:

Sweden is to appoint a special envoy to the Israel-Palestine peace process, Foreign Minister Margot Wallström announced during the presentation of her foreign policy vision in parliament.  

Wallström presented the ruling centre-left Social Democrat-Green coalition government's foreign policy declaration for the year in the Riksdag on Wednesday morning, continuing an annual tradition. 

One of the key points is that the government will appoint a diplomat to work full-time on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The special envoy is to establish contacts and represent Sweden in international talks about the conflict. 

"This year marks 50 years of the occupation of Palestine. Sweden continues to work for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and will appoint a special envoy,” Wallström told the Riksdag. 

"When I visited Palestine in December it was noticeable that hope can turn to despair, and this features heavily in the consultations that Sweden is holding with almost 150 Israeli and Palestinian civil society organizations," she added. 

Sweden's relationship with Israel has been increasingly frosty in the past few years. In 2014 it recognized Palestine as a state, and Israeli officials have routinely refused to meet Wallström after she called for investigations into "extrajudicial" killings of Palestinian assailants by Israeli forces...

I say that instead of mocking Trump for "baffling" the Swedes we mock the Swedes for their baffling Palestinianophilia.

Update: And let's not forget about Malmo, which is now largely Judenrein, and the fact that Sweden bears the dubious distinction of being the "rape capital of the West."

"J Street Remains a Magnet to the Anti-Zionist Chic"--So Why Is the Shalom Hartman Institute Embracing It?

In a 2013 column in the JPost, Issi Leibler tells you practically everything you need to know about faux-Zionist lobby group J Street. (The above-quoted phrase is his).

Despite the racket's weasely leanings, the Shalom Hartman Institute appears to be all for it. In fact, Yehuda Kurtzer, head of Hartman's North American branch, will be speaking at the next J Street confab, an appearance that Hartman NA's website is delighted to trumpet.

Might that be a sign that, rather than being apolitical and "pluralistic"--SHI's favorite self-descriptor-- the institute is really a hotbed of egregiously squishy leftism?

You betcha!

Update: Yehuda Kurtzer, who is seriously into schmoozing with Muslims, explains why he's a "no litmus test" kind of guy.

In the True North Strong and Free, "Islamophobia" Is a Sin But Islamic Hate Speech Is Okey-Dokey

This is our country today: the MP sponsoring that "anti-Islamophobia" bill makes the outrageous claim that "more than one million Canadian Muslims"--to be clear, that's all the Muslims in Canada--"suffer because of Islamophobia" and "are victimized on a daily basis."

If that's really so--and, clearly, it's a load of crapola--then why would any Muslim want to live here?

Meanwhile, a handful of "Islamophobes" protested outside a Toronto mosque, prompting complaints to police (who, initially, were inclined to investigate the incident) and eliciting much hand-wringing and support for the mosque-goers.

Something that is not--that won't--be investigated: the sort of prayers being recited inside this mosque. Stuff like this:

[O Allah!] Give us victory over the disbelieving people…

O Allah! Give victory to Islam and raise the standing of the Muslims

And humiliate the polytheism and polytheists

O Allah! Give victory (help) to your slaves who believe in the oneness of Allah, O the Lord of the Worlds!

O Allah! Give them victory over the criminal people

O Allah! Destroy anyone who killed Muslims

O Allah! Destroy anyone who displaced the sons of the Muslims

O Allah! Count their number; slay them one by one and spare not one of them

O Allah! Purify Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews!

O Allah! Purify Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews!

Right off the bat, police said the protesters may have crossed the "'fine line' between freedom of expression and [a]criminal act": upon further consideration, however, the cops have decided to drop the "investigation."

Of course, there is no discussion of investigating the mosque's hateful spewage (because here in Canada, as long as the Islamic supremacism and "the filth of the Jews" palaver is chanted inside the premises, it's purely religious, and is therefore protected).

This Is How Submission Works

Our national broadcaster offers its bully pulpit to an Islamist shill (she toils for NCCM, the entity formerly known as CAIR-CAN). She advises us not to "quibble" about "semantics" and to wholeheartedly embrace the Trudeau government's "anti-Islamophobia motion" (which is being framed as an anti-hate measure but which would effectively criminalize any/all criticism of problematic Islamic doctrine). 

Update: Even Irwin Cotler, a loyal Liberal to the end, is wise to the "anti-Islamophobia" scam.

Update: Canada's so-called anti-Islamophobia motion is nothing but trouble and will target moderate Muslims.

Update: Soon to be considered a "hate crime" in Canada?

Don't Make Us Open "Pandora's Box," Warns Grandiose Ayatollah Flunky

A rather odd way to characterize a total global nuclear meltdown, no?

A Tad Premature, No?

Historians rank Obama 12th best president: survey

And Speaking of Political Nobodies--Al Gore Flogs a Dead Horse at NYC's Temple Emanu-El!

Still hyping the same old climate change hysteria, is Fat Albert:

It has been a decade since “An Inconvenient Truth” brought national attention to climate change. Today, the debate rattles on more dramatically than ever: rogue NASA experts tweet statistics anonymously, diehard deniers cite conspiracy theories that place blame on globalization and rival economies, and environmentalism is used to sell Kia hybrids during the Super Bowl. The former Vice-President and longtime climate advocate Al Gore takes stock of the situation at this presentation, where he’ll use the latest available data to examine our progress, gauge how much damage may have already been done, and propose possible solutions.

Even with the "diehard deniers" conspiracy shtick, it's hard to reinvigorate the beast.

Haaretz/WaPo Pull a "Gotcha" on Netanyahu for Supposedly Spurning a "Regional Peace Initiative"

It's a non-gotcha, really, because it should be obvious to any sentient person that any "peace" initiative--be it "regional," local, international or even interplanetary--brokered by faux-patrician doofus/Obama factotum John Kerry was never going to fly.

So what is the failed Sec'y of State, the man who thought to salve French wounds in the wake of a jihadi terrorist attack by bringing James Taylor to sing them "You've Got a Friend," doing now that he's a political nobody?

Let's just say that, undeservedly, he's doing very well.

Yes, very well, indeed.

An Unseemly Sight: Rex Murphy Sits on the Fence Re "Islamphobia"

Rex really blows it with this one. Here's the letter that, jet-lagged as I am, I dashed off in response:

The usually astute and redoubtable Rex Murphy lets us down when he relativizes both sides in the "Islamphobia" debate, accusing all participants of the sin of "virtue signaling"--a function, I think, of his misconstruing the meaning of the word itself.

I would encourage him to seek out its origin, which as it happens is not a matter of a difference of opinion, some believing it betokens a hatred of Muslims, others claiming it's a fraud being perpetrated by Islamists. According to a 2011 article on the subject in The New Republic:

At the end of the 1970s, Iranian fundamentalists invented the term "Islamophobia" formed in analogy to "xenophobia". The aim of this word was to declare Islam inviolate. Whoever crosses this border is deemed a racist.

Given that, I suppose one could describe it as "virtue signaling": the Ayatollah Khomenei signaling the "virtues" of messianic Shia supremacism--a line of thinking that currently threatens America and Israel, along with every Arab nation--to his followers and the rest of the world.

Ding Dong the Sheik Is Dead

Which old sheik?

The sightless sheik. (He's gone where the goblins go--below, below, below.)

Such a handsome devil!