Bloodthirsty Liberal

When disaster strikes anywhere in the world—Haiti, the Philippines, Congo, Sri Lanka (Turkey declined)—Israeli aid and personnel are among the first to arrive.

Not so with others:

A report into the deaths of 63 Libyan refugees on a small boat last May said a “catalogue of errors” by coastguards and Nato meant they were never rescued.

The Council of Europe inquiry says two Nato ships close by failed to respond to distress calls, and no country launched a search and rescue mission.

Only nine people survived the 15-day Mediterranean voyage after the boat ran out of fuel and drifted back to Libya.

Nato has said it has no record of any aircraft or ship contacting the boat.

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The report by Europe’s human rights watchdog says some 1,500 people died at sea trying to reach Europe in 2011.

Many of these were trying to flee from Libya or other conflicts in North Africa.

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The nine-month inquiry concludes that there were many opportunities to rescue the migrants, who were hoping to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa:

After 18 hours at sea in a crowded boat with little fuel and water, a distress call was sent by satellite phone to an Eritrean priest living in Italy

This was passed to the Italian coastguard which used the satellite call to establish the boat’s position

The information was passed onto other ships in the area

Nato had said the area was a military zone under its control, but failed to launch a rescue operation

Within a few hours the survivors say a military helicopter hovered over them and dropped food and water, and indicated that it would return – it never did

The boat made contact with two fishing vessels which refused to help

On around the tenth day when half of those on board were already dead, a large military boat allegedly came alongside, but despite obvious distress signals it also sailed away.

Sorry, Libyans, but that’s how Europe treated Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust. It’s how they roll.

Antisemitism rising across Europe. Again.

Nearly a quarter of French citizens still show anti-Semitic attitudes, the Anti-Defamation League revealed in a new poll published on Tuesday.

The findings were released a day after the brutal murder of three children and a rabbi in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

According to the poll, “the overall level of anti-Semitism increased to 24 percent of the population, an increase from 20% in a previous ADL poll conducted in 2009.”

In addition, 45% of respondents said violence against European Jews was based on “anti-Jewish feelings,” rather than anti-Israeli sentiment, an increase from 39% in 2009.

ADL executive director Abraham H. Foxman commented on the findings, saying that “Those increases are all the more disturbing in light of the shooting attack at the Jewish school in Toulouse.”

The results were part of a larger study on anti-Semitism in Europe, which included nine other countries: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom.

Respondents in those ten countries where asked to identify whether or not they subscribed to certain statements labeled by ADL as “classical” anti-Semitism. Those questions included whether respondents felt Jews were more loyal to Israel than the European country, whether Jews have too much power in the business world or international markets and whether Jews discuss the Holocaust too often.

Nine out of ten countries showed increases in anti-Semitic attitudes, according to the poll.

The most anti-Semitic country was Hungary, the ADl found, with 63% of the population expressing anti-Semitic sentiments as compared with 47% in 2009.

Spain also showed high marks, with over half the population (53%) showing “deep-seated anti-Semitic attitudes.” Poland hovered at 48%, the same as in 2009.

The UK and Germany showed the lowest levels of anti-Semitism, at 17% and 21%, respectively.

The question that resonated the most in all countries was whether European Jews were more loyal to their European state or Israel. In none of the 10 countries did less than 45% of respondents believe Jews were more loyal to their European country, with as many as 72% in Spain and 61% in Poland and Italy questioning Jewish allegiance.

Guess what those numbers make Jewish people feel in terms of allegiance. Who would you trust to protect you – Israel or the descendents of the people who facilitated the Holocaust? That’s a no-brainer.

- Aggie

Okay, boys and girls, how many of you knew this?

As Turkey welcomes Syrians fleeing violence, the anniversary last Friday of the deaths of more than 750 Jewish refugees who were denied shelter by Turkey in World War II was a reminder of perennial tension between pragmatic and humanitarian impulses.

The SS Struma, whose passengers fled Romania and docked in Istanbul, was denied entry to Palestinian territory by colonial power Britain. On February 23, 1942, Turkey towed the vessel to the Black Sea and set it adrift. A Soviet torpedo sank it the next morning, and only one person survived.

Excuse my ignorance if this is old news to you.

This comes from an article on the diplomatic tensions between Israel and Turkey, but I’m more taken by the behavior of Britain and, of course, the Soviet Union.

While the full horrors of the Holocaust were probably unknown in early 1942, everyone knew—ev-ery-one—knew the plight of Jews in Europe. Turkey’s actions were no better and no worse then the others’.

And everyone behaved so typically! Britain: bloodless and officious. Turkey: senseless and cruel. The Soviets: well, just Soviet.

I was once in a conversation about the Cold War with friends and family, and I asked more rhetorically than anything else why the Russians (not merely the Soviets, the Russians themselves) induced such dread in other Europeans. I had temporarily forgotten that one of the group had grown up in central Europe, and all she said was “you just knew”. There was something in her voice that dissuaded you from asking more. There must be countless other acts of inhuman cruelty in their history.

This is telling in so many ways:

Norway’s security authorities have ruled that Israel is a dangerous place and as such, the country’s national shooting team has cancelled its trip to Israel next month. The Norwegian Shooting Association informed the Israeli Shooting Association of the decision last weekend.

The Norwegians were to take part in a training camp that is scheduled to take place in early March at the Olympic shooting range in Herzliya. Also scheduled to take part in the training is the Russian national shooting team.

The message that the Norwegians sent to the Israeli Shooting Association did not explain the reason for the cancellation. It was only when the Israeli association’s chairman, Yair Davidovich, met with the head of the Norwegian delegation at the European Shooting Championships in Finland that he was he informed that the cancellation is a result of an instruction by local security authorities, who determined that Israel is a dangerous place.

Israel, dangerous? Compared to Davenport, Iowa, maybe, but I’d feel safer anywhere in Israel than in Malmo, Sweden, say, or even Amsterdam. Heck, maybe even Helsinki, Norway. And do they mention what the perceived danger is? Roving bands of rabbis looking to knock heads together? Curiously, they do not say.

But the other sadly comic (unless I mean comically sad) point is how European nations respond to dangers they perceive (but never identify). They won’t even send their shooting teams—well armed and better trained—to vaguely determined “dangerous places”. (Does that go for military and police, too?) The effeteness of Europe could not be better defined. Shooting is all fun and games until someone actually has to shoot.

I. Am. Speechless.

Data collected by an early-warning NATO radar system in Turkey will not be transferred to Israel, both Turkish and NATO officials confirmed Feb. 17, underlining that the missile defense project was designed to protect NATO territories and populations.

“Data is shared within our allies, among our allies. It’s a defensive system to protect the populations of NATO allies,” Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told reporters at a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Ahmet DavutoÄŸlu on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Turkey’s membership in the alliance.

Following insistent questions from Turkish media and lawmakers, Rasmussen had to repeat several times that “it was a NATO system and the data within the system will not be shared with third countries.”

However, DavutoÄŸlu was firmer in singling out Israel from “third countries” when he said, “Especially if it’s about Israel, our view is clear.”

Not only would Turkey allow untold numbers of Jews to be annihilated, so would NATO—of which, last I checked, the US of A was a member.

But that’s okay, Israel. You’re still a partner:

Turkey is a valuable ally and Israel is a valuable partner,” Rasmussen said, adding that NATO was willing to see a speedy reconciliation between its ally and partner.

Feel better?

I understand that Australia is one of the most racist societies in the Western world. (Digression: The majority was originally from Europe, and Europe is hung-up on color. They aren’t the only group that has problems with skin color for sure…) But today Australia has one of the most “progressive” governments in the world.

Doesn’t matter. As Reverend Wright famously said: They’re chickens are coming home to roost.

Security officers escorted Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of a Canberra restaurant Thursday after an angry mob of protesters surrounded the building during a luncheon ceremony, police said.

Gillard and federal opposition leader Tony Abbott were taken out of the building after a group of between 50 and 100 protesters from a nearby ceremony gathered around the building, bashing windows and brandishing sticks and rocks, according to federal police.

The prime minister was presenting medals to emergency service workers during an Australia Day celebration. In a nearby venue, a spontaneous protest erupted with an Aboriginal rights group. The group was commemorating the 40th anniversary of an Aboriginal “tent embassy.”

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported the protesters were chanting “shame” and “racist” as they banged on the restaurant’s three glass sides.

Gillard and Abbott were taken out a side door, the ABC said. At least 50 police were called to help escort them from the restaurant.

Local media reported Gillard was visibly shaken, and stumbled during the encounter.

Photographs showed her being dragged to a waiting vehicle by a group of at least seven security officers, losing a shoe in the process.

Video showed her being hustled into the vehicle, surrounded by security officers, some carrying shields, as protesters shouted, “Shame on you.”

The shoe was collected by protesters, who proclaimed it a trophy. On the tent embassy’s Facebook page, according to the ABC, there was a picture of Gillard losing her shoe with the caption: “What is losing a shoe compared to losing an entire continent?”

Terrified Australian PM, Julia Gillard, is escorted away from the mob.

I get it! White Australia is an Occupation, an Illegal Occupation! Perhaps they should move back to Britain? Even better, perhaps all of the descendents of European Colonialists should be evacuated from the continents that they have called home for centuries, relocated to Europe? Britain, France, and Belgium will certainly fill up with former Canadians, Americans, Aussies, Afrikaners, etc. (If you’re wondering, the Jews would presumably be returned to greater Israel, a land mass much larger than today’s Israel.) The US, Canada, Australia, etc. would be pretty empty. Because it’s all about race, isn’t it?

And the good news is that all the descendents of the colonialists now get to retire at age 52!!! Score!!!!!!!

- Aggie

They really do:

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Egyptian cleric Salem Abu Al-Futuh, which aired on Al-Nas TV on January 6, 2012:

They are doing all kinds of things so that people keep suffering. They send Christian missionaries in the form of doctors and nurses, who caress and embrace the child, like they do in the West.

They give him a very beautiful toy, and all of a sudden, they snatch it away from him. When the child screams: “Where is my toy?!”, they say to him: “Muhammad stole it from you.” Thus, from infancy, they make the child hate Muhammad. That’s what they do in Spain.

That’s okay. Muhammad will get the last laugh (unless laughing is forbidden in Islam, and to suggest that the Prophet would even crack a smile is a base insult—in which case, my apologies):

Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Egyptian cleric Ali Abu Al-Hasan, which aired on Al-Hekma TV on January 6, 2012:

With the [Muslim] emigration [to Europe], and the unwillingness to get married and have children [among the Europeans]… A hundred of people there are succeeded by eighty, and ten years later, those eighty will be succeeded by sixty, and those sixty will later be succeeded by forty, and those forty will become ten a decade later, and twenty years later, not a single one of them will be left!

Europe has realized this. After a while, Europe will become a single Islamic state, which will know nothing but “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His Messenger.” This will happen whether they like it or not. This is the decree of Allah. Islam is coming!

Has this guy been reading his Mark Steyn, or what?!

The Invertebrated States of Europe:

A European Union embargo on Iranian crude oil imports could take a few months to come into effect because of a push by some EU capitals for a delay that they say is necessary to shield their debt-stricken economies, EU diplomats said on Friday.

EU capitals have agreed in principle to an embargo on Iranian oil, part of Western efforts to ratchet up pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program. Details of how the ban would be imposed are under discussion in Brussels, with the goal of having a final decision by the end of the month.

Diplomats said EU capitals have proposed what’s being called a ‘grace period’ on existing contracts of one to 12 months. Greece, which depends heavily on Iranian crude, is pushing for the longest delay, they said.

Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany want a maximum grace period of three months, the diplomats said.

“There is a range of ideas from one month to one year with countries who are more dependent on Iranian oil pushing for more time,” one EU diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

As Roosevelt said after Pearl Harbor, it was a “grace period that will live in infamy.” Churchill after Dunkirk: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall not surrender “from one month to one year”.

From Latma: [Hat tip: Yerushalimey]

Effing Belgium, man. What’s up with that?

Following are excerpts from a statement by Belgian Islamist Sheik Abu Imran opposite the Atomium Monument in Brussels, which was posted on the Internet on December 11, 2011:

In the name of Allah, the Merciful the Compassionate. Praise be to Allah, and prayers upon the Prophet, his family, his companions, and his followers. This is a short message to the King of Belgium, the Belgian government, the Belgian people, and specifically to the Muslims in Belgium. This is the flag that, Allah willing, will soon be flying on top of that building over there. There you see the flag of the Taghut, of the infidels, and soon, the flag of “there is no god but Allah” will be flying there, on top of that palace…

Demonstrator: Say: Allah Akbar.

Crowd: Allah Akbar.

Abu Imran: …and on top of all the other palaces in Europe, until, Allah willing, we reach the White House. We will not rest, despite the lawsuits and intimidations, and despite the war they wage against the Islamic nation. We swear by Allah, the one and only God, that we will not rest, we will not stop, until this flag flies on top of that building.

Demonstrator: Say: Allah Akbar.

Crowd: Allah Akbar.

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Abu Imran: We can see nowadays how people are taking photos, and how people from Brussels and from all over Europe come here for what is called “tourism,” and take photos of this monument. They hold on to this monument. Allah be praised. On top, you can see the Belgian flag. This monument is a symbol of Belgium. They have put this symbol on the euro, and they have printed it on banknotes. This is a symbol of the state of Belgium. Soon, Belgium will fall apart. May Allah disperse them and their country.

Crowd: Amen.

Abu Imran: Then this symbol will be useless to them. Look how people view this monument as their Taghut, their idol.

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Between 1995 and 2001, Mullah Omar, may Allah protect him, destroyed the symbols of idolatry [in Afghanistan], so we too should destroy these monuments. How can we demonstrate that we are Muslims? When we see that in Egypt, people hold on to pyramids, to the Sphinx… They have become places for tourists, for millions of businesses, and they even make little souvenirs for tourists, just like they have done with this monument here, the Atomium. They make little models of it for tourists, and sell them in souvenir shops. That is why we must free ourselves from this idolatry, and why we call upon everyone to stay away from idols and idolatry.

One of these idols is this Taghut here behind us, with the flag of the Taghut government on top of it, a symbol of the Taghut regime, the Taghut system, ruling this country. But Allah willing, Belgium will soon be freed from polytheism and idolatry. Belgium will be freed from the system of idolatry. We promise to clean Belgium of the system of idolatry, as well as of the idols themselves. Then we will demolish this symbol, this monument. Andy why? Not because of hatred.

I know people will try to twist my words, in order to prove that I call to destroy things. So why? Simply because the Belgian community could better use all the millions spent on renovating this monument, spent on electricity, spent on tourism.

That is why we say: We do not need these things. What we do need is free water, electricity, and gas for the Belgian people. We need to ensure the safety of Belgian Muslims and non-Muslims in the Islamic state that will replace this Taghut. Allah willing, the more Muslims who participate, the faster we will reach our goal of freeing Belgium from injustice, from tyranny, and from idolatry, and of implementing the purest form of Tawheed in our lives.

Demonstrator: Say: Allah Akbar.

Crowd: Allah Akbar.

Abu Imran: Let us live in an Islamic state, in which there is no idolatry, and there is only “There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His Prophet.”

Title reads: “Support our troops”

“http://www.shariah4belgium.com”

Take Belgium already, it’s yours! Nobody will miss it. Just shut up. God, what noise.