June 07, 2006

The Black Book of Saddam Hussein: 2 Million Dead

Lorie Byrd has an interesting post about a British Leftist whose view of the Iraq war changed when he read the new book Le Livre Noir de Saddam Hussein (The Black Book of Saddam Hussein). Saddam Hussein killed over one million civilians, and the book is a firsthand account of some of those murders.

It's a biting indictment of both the Hussein regime for the countless attrocities it committed against its own citizens, and the French government's support of that regime. Next to the Soviet Union (and later, Russia), Saddam Hussein's biggest arms dealer was France.

The book is especially condemning of Jacques Chirac's cozy relationship with the tyrant. Not surprisingly, Lewis Jones reports the book has been ignored by Le Monde & other leading French publications. You can read AEI's review of the book here.

Unfortunately, the book has not yet been published in English. However, it's publisher Oh Editions, has released several excerpts in English, some of which I've republished below. While the authors clearly come from the European Left--they repeat the tired arguements that the "neo-cons" were looking for any reason to justify the war, have naive faith in the power of the U.N. and its resolutions, and repeat the lie that the Bush Administration never mentioned human rights or democracy building during the lead up to the war--they do support the end result of the war--the removal of the dictator Saddam Hussein. I eagerly look forward to the English language edition. more...

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May 30, 2006

German Suicide Bomber Intended to Blow up Her Own Child in Iraq

Do suicide bombers love their children? Apparently not. Three German women were arrested after they posted messages on Islamist websites in which they claimed that they intended to travel to Iraq to become suicide bombers. Not satisfied with blowing other people's children up, they decided it might be a good idea to murder their own children in the process. Der Spiegel:

German authorities may have thwarted suicide bomb attacks in Iraq by German women. According to intelligence sources, three women were prevented from travelling to Iraq after one of them had announced she planned to blow herself up in Iraq.

SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that German intelligence agencies have prevented three German women from travelling to Iraq in recent weeks. The women, who have close contacts to the Islamist scene in Germany and at least one whom has converted to Islam, came to the attention of intelligence agencies after one of them had announced on an Internet site that she intended to blow herself and her child up in Iraq.

After the Web posting were spotted, Germany's domestic and foreign intelligence agencies mounted an intense search for the three women. One of them was located in Berlin, the other two are believed to come from southern Germany. The Berlin woman's child was taken away from her and she has been put in a psychiatric clinic. The two other women were also prevented from leaving Germany. One of them is also believed to have a child.

Via Chad at In the Bullpen who has more.

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May 10, 2006

11 Year Old Somali Girl Gives Birth in Britain

Echo's of Aisha, Mohammed's 6 year old wife? Muslims defend Mohammed's alleged honor by pointing out that a) Aisha was 9 when Mohammed finally had sex with her, and b) back in Mohammed's day girls matured faster.

Matured faster? Right.

The third option, of course, is just to deny that Mohammed ever did this and claim the hadiths are wrong. Which would solve a lot of problems. Or, maybe Mohammed was just a pedophile, in which case......

The Sun (hat tip: Peter):

A MAN aged 37 has been arrested after an 11-year-old girl gave birth to a baby boy....

The man and the girl are thought to be visitors to the UK from Africa, possibly from Somalia.

The baby was kept at the hospital in a special care unit, and the girl was taken into the care of Hillingdon Borough Council. The man was not held immediately.

However, police arrested him in Uxbridge yesterday and he was questioned about the pregnancy. He was released on bail until July while cops investigate.

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May 08, 2006

Challenging the Misogyny of Islam: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Interview

Ayaan Hirsi Ali confronts Islam....because when people say they are oppressing you because Allah demands it, you might just want to take them seriously. Watch the video here.

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Muslims Attack Woman in Germany for Speaking Hebrew

Islam: religion of tolerance and peace alert. A woman was assaulted by a mob of Muslim women in Germany for speaking Hebrew in a predominately Muslim immigrant neighborhood.

The woman, who holds dual German-Israeli citizenship, was walking home after a party because she missed the last bus. As she walked home, she was speaking Hebrew to a friend in Israel on her cell phone. The Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin is home to a largely Muslim immigrant community.

At about 2 a.m. she passed by a group of women who immediately confronted her after they recognized she was speaking Hebrew, when:

one of the girls suddenly walked up to the Israeli woman and slapped her in the face. The other women then joined in, pulled her hair, beat her up and kicked her. The abuse eventually stopped when the attackers thought they heard a police car approaching, and they fled the scene.


The student, who sustained injuries in the attack, received medical treatment and filed a complaint with the police.


The women's identity has not been established thus far, but they were apparently Muslim.

Apparently the dream of a Jew-free Germany lives on. Hat tip: Joel

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May 01, 2006

Dutch Woman Evicted After Islamist Death Threats.

It seems that after their threats, Hirsi AliÂ’s cowardly neighbors supported the Islamists by filing suit to have her evicted. It seems they blamed her stand against Islamic intolerance for making the neighborhood unsafe. Rather than, you know, blame the murderous bastards themselves.

Brian at Hot Air: Hirsi Ali is the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian whose outspokenness on the rights of women under Islam has made her a marked woman. Islamists have issued a fatwa calling for her death. And now sheÂ’s been evicted by court order at the request of her neighbors, who find her security concerns a nuisance.
It seems that the Dutch people are cowing to the attacks and threats by the Islamic militants there. DonÂ’t come crying to us when you reap the fruit of your cowardice. This will only embolden the Islamists and result in more attacks. The failure to take a stand will be seen as weakness, because it is.

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April 26, 2006

Spanish Left: Give Apes Human Rights

I, for one, welcome our new simian overlords! Spanish Socialists: give apes human rights. More at Barcepundit. more...

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Muslims Threaten Brothels in Germany

A brothel in Germany have been forced to remove the flags of several Muslim countries after being threatened with violence. On two occasions, groups of masked men threatened the owner of the whorehouse with knives. The owner has taken down the flags.

First they came for your brothels......

Spiegel:

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Europe's largest brothel, the Pascha in Cologne, which incidentally claims to be the world's only brothel with a money-back guarantee for dissatisfied customers, attached the flags of all 32 nations competing in the World Cup to its façade in a bid to demonstrate international flair and attract custom during the tournament this summer.

A giant poster covering the side of the seven-story, 126-apartment building showed a friendly-looking blonde woman lifting up her bra above the slogan "A Time to Make Girlfriends", in a play on the World Cup's official slogan "A Time to Make Friends." Right beneath her pink panties were posters of the flags, including those of strictly Islamic Saudi Arabia and Iran....

The campaign provoked excitement, but not the kind the management was hoping for. Men from the Muslim community came to the door complaining that showing the flags of Saudi Arabia and Iran was an insult to the Prophet Muhammad. Later, some returned in masks.

"On Friday evening we were threatened by 11 masked men who demand that we take down the Saudi Arabian flag," Lobscheid told the Kölner Express, a local newspaper. Not wanting any trouble, the brothel obliged and removed it and the Iranian one. But that still left the flags printed on the poster.

"On Saturday night there were 20 masked men armed with knives and sticks. They threatened to get violent and even bomb the place unless we black out the Iranian and Saudia Arabian flags on the poster as well," said Lobscheid.

Hat tip: Joel

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April 24, 2006

Dutch Columnist & Friend of Theo Van Gogh Attacked by Muslim Youths

ebru_umar.jpgEbru Umar has reportedly been attacked near her home by Muslim youths. Ms. Umar is a vocal critic of the treatment of women in Muslim societies, is an author of a book on the subject, and was a close friend of slain Dutch filmaker Theo Van Gogh. She is also openly critical of the failure of the Netherlands--and Europe in general--to integrate Muslims into the mainstream of society.

Zacth Ei:

Ms. Ebru Umar, who befriended the late Theo van Gogh, has been attacked near her house in Amsterdam. (She lives a couple of blocks from my house, but for obvious reasons I will not disclose her address.) The attack was allegedly carried out by two youths of Moroccan descent....

Unsurprisingly, the culprits have not yet been arrested.

Ms. Umar has used confrontational methods in the past to make her points. For instance, it is reported here that she has confronted Muslim women wearing burqas in the past.

There is precisely zero news about this in the English press. One wonders if this is because attacks by young Muslims is so common in Europe--where they have been effectively ghettoized--and therefore not big news, or because the powers that be are afraid to talk about the problem? Thanks to Ghost of a Flea for the tip.

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April 21, 2006

No Proof of CIA Renditions in Europe

I'm convinced this report will not get much exposure by the mainstream media.

From SeattleTimes.com:

(Brussels, Belgium) Investigations into reports that U.S. agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers have produced no evidence of illegal CIA activities, the European Union's anti-terror coordinator said Thursday.

The investigations also have not turned up any proof of secret renditions of terror suspects on EU territory, Gijs de Vries told a European Parliament committee investigating the allegations.

The European Parliament's inquiry and a similar one by the continent's leading human-rights watchdog are looking into whether U.S. intelligence agents interrogated al-Qaida suspects at secret prisons in Eastern Europe and transported some on secret flights through Europe.

The left will likely experience chafing. Of course, the seriousness of the charges always trumps their veracity.

From Interested-Participant.

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March 27, 2006

Zeropa, Zeropa

John Hawkins interviews Claire Berlinski, author of Menace In Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too.

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Dutchland Uber Alles

The Netherlands is outraged at the gall of comparing their proposed eugenics program as Nazi-like.

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March 15, 2006

Immigrants Required to Tolerate 'Bad Gay' Film in Netherlands

New immigrants to the Netherlands will be required to view a film which shows men kissing and topless women on the beach as a test of tolerance. Swap the two guys kissing for two hot chicks, and I might emmigrate! AP:

The camera focuses on two gay men kissing in a park. Later, a topless woman emerges from the sea and walks onto a crowded beach. For would-be immigrants to the Netherlands, this film is a test of their readiness to participate in the liberal Dutch culture.

If they canÂ’t stomach it, no need to apply.

Despite whether they find the film offensive, applicants must buy a copy and watch it if they hope to pass the NetherlandsÂ’ new entrance examination.

Hat tip: Bill Dauterieve

Now that's a great idea for weeding out those that would threaten out liberties without actually saying 'radical Muslims need not apply'!

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Death Threats Against Anit-Islamist Manifesto Signers

I hope this counts as a fatwa since I was one of the first bloggers to get on board the manifesto after Peter at Agora gave me the heads up. Agora:

According to one of the signers, the French writer Caroline Fourest, the threat was made this Saturday on the website ummah.net. It mentions a whoÂ’s who guide and a list of targets scheduled for termination.

The group urges its adherents to take their time but says it should happen soon. It adds that it isnÂ’t necessary to first have a Fatwa from a religious leader, such as the one Ayatollah Khomeini issued in 1989 against Salman RushdieÂ’s life for having offended the religion.

“The threat is simply not acceptable. Our Manifesto urges to resistance by means of ideas. But the Islamists have answered with threats of violence. A proof - if such was necessary - of their rejection of democratic debate and of their totalitarianism,” Caroline Fourest says.

She adds that the Manifesto isnÂ’t against Islam but against Islamism and the IslamistsÂ’ using the religion politically to oppress, for example, Freedom of Speech. She emphasises that the signers will not be subdued by threats.

As always, read the rest here.

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March 14, 2006

Islamic Scholar: "Osama bin Laden Should Lead Islamic State"

I always dig it when people misunderstand Huntington's Clash of Civilizations hypothesis. People often believe that Huntington--and now the neocons--want a Clash of Civilizations. That this clash is their goal. In fact, Huntington and others are not arguing that a Clash of Civilizations should happen, but that it is happening.

An amazingly honest response from a leading Islamist in Norway continued below. Agora: more...

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March 07, 2006

Why Is The Champs D'Elysee Lined With Trees?

So the Islamotards can march in the shade.

Of course!

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March 02, 2006

Soviets Behind Pope Assassination Plot

Last year, we brought you news that it was the Soviets who were behind the failed assassination plot to kill Pope John Paul II. More confirmation today as Italy is about to officially point the finger at the Soviets.

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Germany helped in Iraq war

Lots of mixed signals on this one, but new files seem to indicate that the highest levels of the German government approved the transfer of intelligence on possible bombing targets to the U.S..

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February 28, 2006

A Manifesto Against Islamofascism

Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have signed this letter. more...

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February 22, 2006

Forced Abortions for Black People Proposed in Netherlands

I'm sure this won't ever become public policy, but it's scary to think that any one even considered forcing black people to have abortions in the Netherlands.

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