We don't make this up: children train as homicide bombers at S. Waziristan camp
Pakistan’s top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.
A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7,000 to $14,000 - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year. Read more »
The ever-insightful John Bolton writes for the Washington Post:
With Iran’s hard-line mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unmistakably back in control, Israel’s decision of whether to use military force against Tehran’s nuclear weapons program is more urgent than ever.
Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change. That prospect seems lost for the near future or for at least as long as it will take Iran to finalise a deliverable nuclear weapons capability. Accordingly, with no other timely option, the already compelling logic for an Israeli strike is nearly inexorable. Israel is undoubtedly ratcheting forward its decision-making process. President Obama is almost certainly not. Read more »
Having not had a break for ages, we’ve decided to take advantage of the nice weather over here in the UK at the moment, packed up the Un:dhimmi-mobile and are going to the beach for a couple of days to recharge our batteries.
Even dedicated Counterjihadists need a break sometimes: no burkas, no Anjem, no whimpering Dhimmis, no Barry - just the sheer, natural beauty of the English South Coast… plus wholesome food, great beer, sunshine and lazy beaches..
Neda - The face that will haunt the thug Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs forever
Her name was Neda Salehi Agha Soltan and she was a philosophy student. But the manner of her death has turned her into an instant, global symbol of the Iranian regime’s brutality.
This innocent woman aged 26 was shot in the chest during running battles between opposition protesters and Iranian security forces in Tehran on Saturday. Since then, a grainy, 40-second video showing her final moments, blood streaming from her nose and mouth as a man implores her not to die, has ricocheted around the world on YouTube, blogs and social networking sites. Read more »
Islamists abhor our free speech, yet always seem to demand it for themselves
An excellent article from highly-regarded writer Diana West, from ‘Islam Continues to Strangle Free Speech’ - Washington Times, 12/06/09
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — I am being patted down by a female Danish security officer in the basement of the parliament building in Copenhagen and I have a thought. I have just triggered the metal detector — my heels, I’m sure — en route upstairs to the Landstingssalen, formerly the parliament’s upper house. There, I am scheduled to deliver a speech at the invitation of the Danish Free Press Society, or Trykkefrihedsselskabet. (Say that three times fast — or slow.)
Indeed, I am holding the text of my 20-minute address inside a folder in one of my hands, now rigidly outstretched as I am being searched. The speech is called “The Impact of Islam on Free Speech in the U.S.,” but as I am checked for bombs and knives and whatnot, my thought is of the impact of Islam on free society everywhere. Read more »
An update on the past day or so in Iran. The government appears to be becoming more depraved and violent the more it loses the streets. We’ll let the power of YouTube do the talking with a video post containing several pieces of evidence of the Mullahs’ callous, brutal disdain for the people of Iran (be warned: some of the following scenes are graphic and distressing):
The video above will give you some idea of the sheer size of the protests and the ‘Green Revolution’ movement Read more »
You nab some of our assets, we'll nab some of yours...
As a little in the way of light relief from the important events unfolding in Tehran, we spotted the above on the website of Press TV, the Mullahs’ media mouthpiece in Iran, earlier today.
Apparently, and as just about everything else with the current situation in Iran seems to be the fault of the Little Satan (if you believe Turban-In-Chief Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i, that is); the UK has moved to freeze some of the Mullahcracy’s assets and they’re shrieking about it on the front page.
Keen-eyed readers will note, however, that perhaps the seizure of assets has a bilateral apsect. To the left of the headline, you will note the ‘Breaking News’ globe graphic they use to illustrate the headline round-up, which actually belongs to the BBC News Channel. That’s the British Broadcasting Corporation to you, Ali. Oh the sweet irony!
Should women living in Europe have to endure this worldview?
France could bar Muslim women from wearing full veils in public, a government minister said yesterday as parliament took action over concerns about an increase in women who are wearing the niqab and burka in big cities.
The latest controversy over dress habits among France’s six million Muslims follows public differences this month between Presidents Obama and Sarkozy over the merits of legislating on religious clothing.
A group of 58 MPs from the Left and Right called on Wednesday for parliament to react to the phenomenon of women who are adopting what they called oppressive head-to-toe Islamic dress that “breaches individual freedoms”. Read more »
Isn't that Farfour the Jew-hating mouse on door duty? (AP)
‘You Really Couldn’t Make It Up’ Dept. Veiled Palestinian women are greeted by people dressed as clowns, at a children’s celebration organized by Hamas, on the beach in Jebaliya, northern of Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 18, 2009.
One of the characters greeting the women appears to be ‘Farfour’, the Mickey Mouse clone used by Hamas-controllled al-Aqsa TV to spread Jew hatred among small children in Gaza. Just how innocent is this ‘celebration’? We’re not so sure.
'Jimmah' Carter: Worst US President ever - and a whimpering Dhimmi to boot
Former US president Jimmy Carter yesterday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Gaza Strip, where he called for a lifting of Israel’s blockade, saying Palestinians are being treated “like animals.”
Following the talks, Carter called for an end of “all violence” against both Israelis and Palestinians.
“This is holy land for us all and my hope is that we can have peace. All of us are children of Abraham,” he said at a joint news conference with Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas government in the Palestinian enclave. Read more »