
| Guardian | ROP: Woolwich killing: universities crack down on the preachers of hate |
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| Ryan Lizza | Disturbing: How Prosecutors Fought to Keep Rosen’s Warrant Secret |
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| NJ Online | Ick: Rubbing alcohol as scotch? N.J. officials release details of ‘Operation Swill’ |
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**Posted by Phineas UPDATE: I’m sticking this at the top because the story’s important enough to warrant it. Now we have a “Saudi official” saying there was a letter, and their embassy in Washington saying no, there wasn’t. So, who’s lying, and why? (via Toby Harnden) The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its [...]
**Posted by Phineas I’m not the greatest fan of Glenn Beck (1), but I do think he’s asking some good questions about the Saudi national who, on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing, was held as a “person of interest,” but then declared a nobody but, hey, we’re going to deport him anyway: Background [...]
**Posted by Phineas It’s that Religion of Peace-thing, you know: Islamic leaders continue to portray the popular protests against President Morsi and his recently passed Sharia-heavy constitution as products of Egypt’s Christians. Recently, Muslim Brotherhood leader Safwat Hegazy said in an open rally, as captured on video: “A message to the church of Egypt, from an [...]
**Posted by Phineas But don’t you dare say Islam doesn’t respect women: As of last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together. Saudi women’s rights activist Manal al-Sherif, who last year urged women to [...]
**Posted by Phineas The Saudi muttawa are the kingdom’s religious police, there to promote virtue and prevent vice — as defined by totalitarian, repressive, misogynistic Sharia law. It’s such a wonderful organization that, in order to preserve the virtue of young girls not properly dressed, they prevented their escape from a burning building, letting them [...]
**Posted by Phineas On the one hand, this is great news: We infiltrated Al Qaeda’s Arabian subsidiary [AQAP] and kept a lot of people from being killed, while at the same time delivering flaming justice to one of the masterminds of the attack on the USS Cole: The CIA takedown of an Al Qaeda plot [...]
**Posted by Phineas We approach the end of 2011 with perhaps the best news headline of the year, courtesy of the UK’s Daily Mail: Saudis fear there will be ‘no more virgins’ and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in [...]
**Posted by Phineas Or, it would, if we had an administration with the spine of a Warner Bros. cartoon character. ABC broke the news yesterday of an Iranian assassination plot foiled by the FBI and the DEA: The new case, called Operation Red Coalition, began in May when an Iranian-American from Corpus Christi, Texas, approached [...]
**Posted by Phineas No, this isn’t a round of Illuminati, but horrifying reality: according to Saudi journalist Fahd ‘Amr Al-Ahmadi, Switzerland is a Jewish plot! “In Europe, there have been dozens of brutal wars. Napoleon and Hitler invaded most of the continent, and two world wars burned up most of the countries. Nevertheless, no one attacked [...]
**Posted by Phineas After all, Muhammad married Aisha (his favorite wife) when she was six. But, lest you think him a lech, he did at least wait until she was nine before consummating the marriage. From Saudi Arabia’s Iqra TV, listen as cleric Muhammad al-Arifi assures us that there is no minimum age for marriage [...]