This could be good news. A Somalilander friend has sent an email to tell me about this article: http://somalilandpress.com/11628/israel-says-ready-to-recognize-somaliland/ The government of Israel is ready to restore the de jure recognition it has offered to Somaliland in 1960 as it eyes the Red Sea and the Horn, an Israeli spokesman says. ... Many analysts believe Israel has growing national interest in the Red Sea region, a key shipping route. According to well-infor...

A young man shouts "Slaughter the Jews". It happens. But these days it is difficult to tell if the young man is an anti-Semite or merely a critic of Israeli policies. Before you check the article linked to below, make up your mind. Is "Slaughter the Jews" 1. An anti-Semitic slur shouted by a racist neo-Nazi and and representative for an ideology that is the root cause of war and violence? or 2. A valid criticism of Israeli policies shouted by completely non-anti-Semitic peace a...

Iraqi MP Ayad Jamal Al-Din: Iraqi Political Process Made Possible Solely by U.S.; Iraq Better Off with U.S.-Sponsored Democracy Ayad Jamal Al-Din: "The entire political process in Iraq was made possible solely by American efforts. It was the U.S. that entered Baghdad, toppled Saddam, and ruled Iraq for a while, through Ambassador Bremer, and what ensued is known to all. "The U.S. is not a bunch of teenagers or children, whose political conduct is reckless, like the conduct of Sa...

In 1948 eight Arab countries declares war on Israel after Israel accepted the UN partition plan and called, in her declaration of independence (from Britain) for a peaceful together with her neighbours. Between 1948 and 1967 those same Arab countries continually attacked and sponsored attacks against Israel while Israel. In 1967 Egypt, Jordan and Syria finally lost Sinai, Gaza, the West-Bank and the Golan heights to Israel. Israel immediately offered to return those lands in exchange fo...

Quoted verbatim from campaign site: This March 8th, in memory of Neda, symbol of people of Iran’s struggle against the Islamic Republic of Iran Manifesto of Liberation of Women in Iran The very existence of the Islamic regime of Iran is incompatible with freedom of women. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a misogynist state, architect of gender apartheid and perpetrator of three decades of the most odious forms of abuse, discrimination and violence against women in Iran. A socie...

Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who has been accused of Islamophobia, faces trial in his own country for inciting hatred. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7314636.stm   You have probably already heard of Dutch politician Geert Wilders who has been accused of "Islamophobia" (which is apparently now a crime in Europe) and is currently on trial for his opinions. Wilder's politial opinions are "libertarian" as he calls it but also ahve room for a public healthcare system and social services...

Dos and Donts for the modern humanist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saeky9I5T9c I sometimes wonder why "peace activists" accept the Nazis as evil. After all, they demonized European Jews (who are not better than middle-eastern Jews), called for a boycott of their businesses, and tried to murder them (and succeeded). Those same acts today are considered "resistance" and the groups that pursue them are called "peace partners" and their demands are seen as justified.  

This German article tells the story of the orthodontist who refused to treat a 16-year old because his first name was "Jihad": http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/Aerztin-verweigert-Behandlung-article713542.html When I read this I thought what a stupid reason to deny treatment. After all, the boy didn't name himself and nor does "Jihad" necessarily mean or imply violent war. So I figured the orthodontist was an idiot which she probably was. The medical association also confirmed that a doc...

This article is about the situation in Canada, but it's really the same in the US and especially in Europe. The scholar interviewed, Mr Khaleel Mohammed, is a traditional Muslim (i.e. he actually reads the Quran and follows it). Foreign-born imams who don't speak English, and who have little understanding of the Canadian way of life, are a threat to Canada, says a leading Muslim scholar "They should be familiar with the Canadian outlook and understand the cultural values of Canada," ...

"Palestinian" resistance fighters ever struggling for liberty have identified the source of the oppression: Jewish beachgoers. It is still unclear whether the oppression is caused by their Jewishness or the fact that they are beachgoers. Perhaps a supporter of the "Palestinian Cause" can explain the complete mechanism? Two barrels of explosives were discovered on Israeli beaches on Monday, which were dispatched into the sea as part of a large-scale Palestinian terror attack against Israeli...

Hat tip: Israellycool   Member of Knesset Ayoub Kara said on Monday that he got the feeling from his meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican last week that the Catholic Church was behind the pontiff on behalf of the Jewish people. Speaking on Arutz Sheva's Hebrew journal, the deputy minister for development of the Negev and the Galilee said that the pope's speech on International Holocaust Day showed that he knew what happened in the concentration camps. Kara said tha...

Last year in Lebanon, a left-wing American journalist tried to convince me that I’ve been too hard on Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, that I might like what I heard if I’d just listen more open-mindedly. “He’s trying to raise awareness of global warming,” he said to me earnestly over lunch. “Don’t you think that’s interesting?” I told him, no, I did not find it interesting, but the truth is I think it’s fascinati...

The "United Nations", founded the be a forum for _nations_ to speak has over the decades since her founding become a forum that defends dictatorial rule over nations and prevents nations from asserting their independence. I wrote about this issue before. Now Ban Ki-moon, completely ignoring the Nilo-Saharan (African) tribes' right of self-determination which the United Nations are meant to uphold has decided that the United Nations, the forum, ought to take sides. And, surprisingly enoug...

From Memri: http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2347.htm Iyad Jamal Al-Din says in an interview: The political parties that are friends with Iran must realize that there is one country called Iraq and another called Iran. Their relations with Iran must not come at the expense of the interests and stability of Iraq. Unfortunately, we did not see an [Iraqi] response on the scale of the Iranian [seizure of the Fakkah oil well]. On the contrary, some Iraqi politicians have volunte...

http://www.tawfikhamid.com/pdfs/MrTolerance.pdf Note that the author of this cartoon is a Muslim, or as he so excellently puts it "a Muslim by faith... Christian by the spirit... a Jew by heart... and above all [...] a human being". Images of Muhammed were never illegal according to traditional Islam but are illegal according to the new Islam developed by people like Bin Laden. Images of Bin Laden, despite his belief that he stands above G-d, are still legal. http://www.tawfikhamid.c...