
| CNN | 0 | |
| Mark H’way | Update: IRS’s Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC |
0 |
| NYT | Liberal Icons: Apple’s Web of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions, Panel Finds |
0 |
| Buzz Feed | #FacePalm: Obama Went Off Script To Address Gay Grads Directly At Morehouse College |
0 |
| KFOR | Prayers: LIVE OKC UPDATES: Crews switch to recovery at Plaza Towers elementary |
0 |
**Posted by Phineas The Islamic World sent its regards on the anniversary of September 11th: Looks like President Obama’s much-touted Arab Spring has become the Arab Autumn. Tuesday Muslim militants stormed the American Embassy in Cairo, tore down the U.S. flag and raised their own banner. In Libya, militants stormed an American consulate, set it [...]
**Posted by Phineas Via Raymond Ibrahim: According to today’s issue of El Fegr, “Elements of terrorist, jihadi organizations distributed leaflets today inciting for the killing of Copts in Suez, Ismailia, and Upper Egypt, promising them [Copts] a tragic end if they do not return to the truth.” An image of a copy of the letter [...]
**Posted by Phineas Maybe, but the web site of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president and that of the preacher himself are doing their best to scrub the news from their sites. Via Raymond Ibrahim, behold another consequence of Obama “Smart Power” diplomacy in Egypt: Wagdi Ghoneim, the Islamic cleric whose many terrorist-connections and activities got him [...]
**Posted by Phineas Last year it was CBS’ Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted by a gang of hundreds of Egyptian men while covering the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Tahrir Square. This year, it’s independent journalist Natasha Smith, attacked while she was walking with friends across a bridge during celebrations of the Muslim Brotherhood’s electoral victory: [...]
**Posted by Phineas And they wonder why we laugh and point sometimes: A Salafist group called the Popular Egyptian Islamic Association has come under fire after sending out a warning on Facebook urging its followers not to eat tomatoes because the vegetable (or fruit) is a Christian food. The group posted a photo on its [...]
**Posted by Phineas From Barry Rubin at PJM: The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court has just invalidated the parliamentary election there. The parliament, 75 percent of whose members were Islamists, is being dissolved. The military junta has taken over total authority. The presidential election is still scheduled for a few dozen hours from now. In short, [...]
**Posted by Phineas I’ll bet the Arab liberals, such as Wael Ghonim, who naively thought they could work with the Islamic supremacists are feeling like idiots right about now. …a shadowy organization calling itself the “Jihad Group to Cleanse the Country” is threatening On TV (1), one of the nation’s leading liberal media stations, which [...]
**Posted by Phineas The Arab Spring is turning into a horror movie: Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to [...]
**Posted by Phineas Don’t look at me like I’m nuts! I heard it on Egyptian TV! It must be true!! And here’s a sample from the transcript: Whoever does not believe me can look at The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This is no book of poetry or stories. The Protocols of the Elders [...]
I read/see horrific stories/pictures/video like this about brutal crackdowns on opposition marchers in Middle Eastern countries and, of course, become enraged. Then I think about how both the pampered college-aged & middle-aged hippies equate their “struggles” to that of militant countries like Egypt and the like just because they’ve been (gasp!) pepper-sprayed to prevent them [...]