Hizballah plotting on U.S./Mexico border

Hizballah’s founder Hassan Nasrallah has said, “If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.” Looks as if he is going hunting. “Close to home: Hezbollah terrorists are plotting right on the U.S. border,” a New York Daily News Editorial, July…

July 11th, 2010
Topic: JW

UK Ambassador to Lebanon on dead Jew-hating jihad terrorist cleric: “The world needs more men like him”

Guy with Fadlallah: "Every woman adores a fascist" CNN’s former Mideast Editor Octavia Nasr is not alone in loving this dead jihad terrorist. “Britain pulls Hezbollah blog post by its ambassador to Lebanon,” from CNN, July 9 (thanks to Mr. Slugworth): London, England (CNN) — Britain’s foreign office yanked Friday…

July 10th, 2010
Topic: JW

The Two Christophers

Hitchen’s memoir and the importance of second thoughts.

July 7th, 2010
Topic: FPM

Three Detroit-area mosques holding service to mourn pro-jihad terror Hizballah cleric

Fadlallah, who green-lighted the 1983 barracks bombing that murdered 241 Americans, is dead. CNN’s Octavia Nasr, who is in mourning as are the people in these mosques, unwittingly reveals, in the “clarification” of her infamous tweet, why anyone who mourns this man ought to be watched very closely by law…

July 6th, 2010
Topic: JW

CNN’s Mideast editor writes on Twitter: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah … one of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot”

Her own words, in a tribute to the cleric who green-lighted Hizballah’s suicide attacks, including the 1983 barracks bombing that killed 241 Americans. “One of Hizballah’s giants,” indeed. “CNN reporter on terrorist: ‘I respect him a lot’,” by Aaron Klein for World Net Daily, July 5: TEL AVIV – CNN’s…

July 6th, 2010
Topic: JW

“Don’t be fooled” by tributes to “moderate” Hizballah cleric

Since his death, Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has been hailed as a “merciful father” by Hassan Nasrallah, and in the West as a “moderate” Muslim, largely for having expressed disapproval of the 9/11 attacks. But there is much more to Fadlallah’s story that has been so quickly forgotten. “Sheikh Fadlallah was…

July 5th, 2010
Topic: JW

New Essay on Christopher Hitchens’ Memoir: “Second Thoughts” at National Review

AUTHOR’S NOTE: I had just finished this essay when I heard the terrible news that my friend Christopher had a cancer whoseprognosis was dire. My heart and thoughts go out to him, as they would to a brother. I have known Christopher as a man of great courage and decency and have an affection for him that [...]

July 5th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Political correctness run amok in Italy: Prize for race held in honor of Madonna of Provenzano painted by Muslim, contains Qur’anic verses

The Palio di Siena is a very big deal. The prize is an image of the Virgin Mary — presented and blessed in a church — and the July 2 race began in honor of Our Lady of Provenzano. This ill-conceived “interfaith” gesture has become so problematic so quickly that…

July 4th, 2010
Topic: JW

Morocco continues purge of foreign Christians

“In April nearly 7,000 Muslim religious leaders backed the deportations by signing a document describing the work of Christians within Morocco as ‘moral rape’ and ‘religious terrorism’.” If we had a prize for ridiculous moral equivalence, that would be hard to beat. An update on this story, in which Modern,…

July 3rd, 2010
Topic: JW

Iran: Nuke talks? How about late August?

Just one question: Why is any of this being allowed to proceed on Iran’s timetable? If the goal is still to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of a state sponsor of jihadist terrorism, that approach ought to seem just a bit counterproductive. “Iran ready to resume nuclear talks…

June 28th, 2010
Topic: JW