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Archive for January, 2011

A Friendly Approach to Extremists

Here is a video of a Hizb ut-Tahrir meeting in London. It is typical of the extremist party.

Note in particular what Qasim Ali says about Pakistan from 19:45 minutes in:
My brothers and sisters, it is the Islamic government, if you work with Hizb ut-Tahrir to establish it, that will protect our nuclear assets, that [...]

Commandment 614: Learning about the Holocaust may not be fun

This is a cross post by Dr Andre Oboler of his guest post at the Jerusalem Post’s Blog. It was first posted yesterday.
Late last year reports surfaced in the media that Maxim Genis , an Israeli Jew born in Ukrainian, had cancelled the release of a computer game he spent four years building [...]

Mubarak Blocks Internet, Phone Messaging, Facebook, Twitter

Our thoughts are with our friends who are in Egypt.

Iran: Marking Holocaust Memorial Day With Holocaust Denial

This is a cross post by Mark Gardner from the CST Blog. It was first posted yesterday
On 27 January 1945, the largest Nazi killing camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated.
Today, 27 January 2011, is Holocaust Memorial Day.
On 25 January 2011, an excellent website entitled “The Holocaust Explained” waslaunched at the Foreign Office by Sir Andrew Burns (UK envoy for post-Holocaust issues) and Michael [...]

Jewish nose is world’s most desired nose

by Joseph W

For all the history of anti-Semitic caricatures of Jews with horrible noses, this is deliciously ironic!
Via the Daily Telegraph:

The most sought after body parts of the rich and famous were revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons.
Dr Richard Fleming and Dr Toby Mayer carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture [...]

Is Assad getting nervous too?

Recent events in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen seem to be making the Syrian regime nervous, Reuters reports:
Syrian authorities have banned programmes that allow access to Facebook Chat from cellphones, tightening already severe restrictions on the Internet in the wake of the unrest in Tunisia, users said on Wednesday.
Nimbuzz and eBuddy, two programmes that allow access [...]

If Matthias Rath Were a Defence Contractor…

… he would promote the ADE-651.
Until now, the only conceivable candidate for the ‘Clueless Ex-Coppers’ tag on HP has been Bob Lambert. Now it also can apply to Jim McCormick, a former officer in the Merseyside Police whose company, ATSC Ltd had been distributing the glorified dowsing rod which the the ADE-651 ‘bomb detector’.
One [...]

Abu Zubair’s Monkey Business

Earlier this month Usama Hasan, an imam at the Tawhid mosque in Leyton, East London, defended the theory of evolution at a meeting in the mosque.
A medieval tirade has been his reward.
Meet ”Abu Zubair”, one of the people behind Islamic Awakening. It’s an internet gathering point for extremists. Its most popular forum topic [...]

A New Link in Farr’s Pro-Extremist Network?

This is a cross-post by Andy Lambert
Last year, the FCO found itself under scrutiny after a senior British diplomat was dragged through the courts after he was said to have been seen yelling ‘Fucking Jews’ in the gym.
More recently the OSCT was found to have recruited a hardline Salafi (and, like Abu Hamza, a former nightclub [...]

DynCorp: Picking-Up Where Harry Paget Flashman Left-Off

Kathyrn Bolkovac – to be portrayed by Rachel Weiss in The Whistleblower – is interviewed on BBC Hard Talk (written interview also with The Guardian) about her role in reporting staff of the UN’s International Police Taskforce (IPTF) in Bosnia for involvement in sexual trafficking.
When I working at a certain supermarket in Edinburgh, there were [...]