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Another Friday of anti-regime demonstrations throughout Syria, including one in the northwest town of Kafranbel, featuring a wonderfully sarcastic banner in English aimed the Russian government for its refusal to condemn the murderous brutality that has cost more than a thousand lives.

Forget Tex-Mex, with one of the the next big things being Mexican-Italian fusion, it appears that any cuisines can be combined. A Scottish-Cambodian restaurant would, presumably, offer deep-fried tarantulas.
What other unexpected meals have Saucers seen on their travels?

I’m no fan of Geert Wilders but I’m inclined to think it’s a good thing he was acquitted of the hate speech charges against him.  In this piece Ubaldus de Vries implies that the decision should have gone the other way:
The feeding of this fear is an attempt to increase the existing polarisation and segregation [...]

by Joseph W
By now you will be painfully familiar with Rev. Stephen Sizer.
This is what you can see on his website.
Here is Sizer sitting smugly, during his meeting with Khomeini’s daughter in Iran, in a room adorned with Hezbollah imagery glorifying suicide bombs to destroy Israel:

Stephen Sizer is the vicar who thinks Colonel Gaddafi does evil things because [...]

Introduction by Karl Pfeifer
Magdalena Marsovszky, a German citizen born in Budapest, works as an independent scholar and writer (Hungarian, German, English). She is on the board of the Villigst Research Forum on National Socialism, Racism and Anti-Semitism. Her detailed and well-documented article explains why antisemitism and anti-Ciganism (bigotry against the Roma) are rampant in Hungary, [...]

In the belief that I sometimes give the increasingly irrelevant George Galloway more attention than he deserves, I did try to resist watching Andrew Neil’s interview of Galloway on the BBC’s Daily Politics Show. I really did.

But after I read Galloway’s post at Socialist Unity complaining about the interview, I had to see for myself. [...]

Reuters reports:
An unusual coalition of Jews and Muslims filed suit on Wednesday to block a November voter referendum seeking to ban male circumcision in San Francisco.
The lawsuit says the measure should be removed from the ballot on grounds that under state law California cities cannot prohibit a “healing arts” professionals from conducting a procedure they [...]

Despite Kanellos the Greek riot dog being as dead as any dog at Mea Shearim which died of natural causes in 2008, and his resurrection being as staged as That Irishman Abroad’s interview, civil unrest on the streets of Athens continues.
On Tuesday of this week, Prime Minister George Papandreou’s Government survived a no-confidence [...]

This is a cross-post from the CST.
Inayat Bunglawala has written a predictable blogpost attacking the government’s new Prevent strategy; predictable in that he blames “Zionists” for influencing the government’s new position.
There is one line in his article which, although almost an aside, caused me to catch my breath. He writes:
As I argued in my [...]

Imagine if a person were to march purposefully into a London library – perhaps the Camden one – and accost the librarian thus:
“I cannot seem to find any books explaining the negative impact of African immigration on European Civilisation. Perhaps you could order a book called “Are Blacks Destroying Britain?”. Here are the publisher’s details.”
Now [...]