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Another Islamist Assault, Another Western Cringe  

by Daniel Pipes, The Boston Herald

Attacks on Tuesday against American missions in Cairo and Benghazi fit into a familiar pattern of Islamist intimidation and Western appeasement that goes back to the Salman Rushdie affair in 1989. The Obama administration’s supine response to the murder of American diplomats increases the likelihood of further such assaults.

The Rushdie crisis suddenly erupted when the ruler of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, put a death edict on a novelist for having written a magical realist novel, The Satanic Verses, declaring that the book was “against Islam, the Prophet, and the Koran.” That incident was then followed by a long list of similar assaults – concerning a U.S. Supreme Court frieze in 1997, American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell in 2002, Newsweek in 2005, the Danish cartoons in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI also in 2006, Florida preacher Terry Jones in 2010, and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan early in 2012. In each of these cases, the perceived insult to Islam led to acts of violence, sometimes against Westerners but more often among Muslims themselves. (Read more…)

 

The guilty men behind the Arab Winter  

For those who aren’t aware, Melanie Phillips lives in London part time and Jerusalem part time. As it happens a number of us bloggers including Melanie had dinner together last night. Others there included Omri Ceren, Richard Landes, and Lenn ben-David. Ted Belman

Melanie’s blog

So now we can see the terrible results of western liberal hubris, the so-called Arab Spring so credulously and stupidly brought into being by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy. In Libya, the American ambassador and three colleagues have been murdered. In Egypt, the embassy has been sacked. In Yemen, the mob inflamed by Muslim Brotherhood incitement has today stormed the US embassythere.
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Sens. Graham, Lieberman and McCain  

Graham, Lieberman and McCain turn me off with their liberalism. They always issue press releases together and in my opinion are invariably wrong. How could it be otherwise, they support humanitarian intervention. They did it in Serbia and Libya and are now advocating it in Syria. McCain didn’t try to lay a glove on Obama in the last election. He was too gentile for that or perhaps shared his view too much. Ted Belman

Three Men and a Couch

by: Diana West

From a joint statement by Sens. Graham, Lieberman and McCain on the burning of the US consulate in Benghazi and murders of the US ambassador and three staffers.
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How Obama Engineered Mideast Radicalization  

Investors Daily Business

The Obama Record: After angry Egyptians pelted her motorcade with shoes, chanting “Leave!,” Secretary of State Clinton insisted the U.S. wasn’t there to take sides. Too late.

‘I want to be clear that the United States is not in the business, in Egypt, of choosing winners and losers, even if we could, which of course we cannot,” Hillary Clinton intoned earlier this week.

Of course, the administration could, and it did, picking and even colluding with the Muslim Brotherhood. And one of its hard-liners, Mohammed Morsi, now sits in the presidential palace, where he refused to shake unveiled Clinton’s hand.
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Blame Islamic supremacism  

By Andrew McCarthy, NRO

I could not more vigorously disagree with my friend Daniel Pipes, who disappointingly lays fault for yesterday’s carnage at the feet of Reverend Terry Jones. In essence, Daniel — like much of the progressive, bipartisan U.S. ruling class — adopts the reasoning of Muslim Brotherhood jurist Yusuf Qaradawi, who admonishes that women who fail to conform to fundamentalist Islam’s restrictive sartorial standards have only themselves to blame when they get raped.
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Sarah doesn’t have to grow a pair  

By Ted Belman

The last sentence of Sarah Palin’s Facebook entry is getting a lot of attention:

” We already know that President Obama likes to “speak softly” to our enemies. If he doesn’t have a “big stick” to carry, maybe it’s time for him to grow one.”

Gulp.

Politico covered her interview the night before on OReilly:
Sarah Palin says Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign should be “severely aggressive” in attacking President Barack Obama as “incompetent” and a “socialist.”
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Romney critics defend Islam  

By Ted Belman

I have had a chance to read up on the attacks on Rommey for what he said and have concluded that the criticisms are not well founded.

Romney said, before all the news was out, ““It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.” I agree with this 100%.

But not everyone in his party backed him up. And the Democrats and the main stream media saw an opening to bring Romney down and piled on.

The Washington Post titled their attack, “Mr. Romney’s rhetoric on embassy attacks is a discredit to his campaign”
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“Bacile”, the movie maker, isn’t Jewish and isn’t Israeli  

WaPo

LOS ANGELES — The search for those behind the provocative, anti-Muslim film implicated in violent protests in Egypt and Libya led Wednesday to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial crimes who acknowledged his role in managing and providing logistics for the production.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, told The Associated Press in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced “Innocence of Muslims,” which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad and may have caused inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film.
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Badass of the Week: Poland’s Winged Hussars  

September 12 was the anniversary of the Battle of Vienna (1683), where the Poles routed a militant Islamic horde
Posted by Bill Levinson

Badass of the Week: The Winged Hussars

While they have a long and illustrious string of asskickings under their heavyweight championship belts, the Winged Hussars’ finest hour came during the epic Battle of Vienna in 1683, when the Ottoman Turkish armies were busting nuts across Eastern Europe looking to conquer all of Christendom. With the main body of the Holy Roman Imperial army completely surrounded and besieged by over 200,000 Turkish warriors, the badass Polish King Jan Sobieski led the single hugest and most balls-out cavalry charge in history. Their wings fluttering and zipping like creepy, spear-flinging birds of prey, three thousand Winged Hussars plowed into the Turkish force, driving them back, plundering their supply train, and driving the Turks from the field. It would be the furthest West the Ottoman Empire would ever advance, and it was the Poles who had finally stuffed them like Shaq blocking a layup attempt by Verne Troyer.

Jonathan Netanyahu is on the list, but there is no detailed entry for him.

Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel