The Thomas Chronicles

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This video has very, very graphic images. This video may truly disturb you. I could barely stomach this myself.

So, we’re going to stick our heads in the sand, are we? With the distribution of of these videos it would be very hard for anyone to plead the I-don’t-know-I-never-heard-it schtick.

Neither immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan nor surrender is an option. That is, unless you submit to Islam…

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Well, it shouldn’t come as any surprise to you by now that the Jihadists have successfully shut down LIVELEAK.com’s broadcast of FITNA. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone following the thuggish chicanery of the Jihadists since it their modus operandi to censor, intimidate, or otherwise kill those who don’t agree with them. They have done just the former two to LIVELEAK.com and haven’t resorted to the latter just yet.

The Muslims protested this movie by calling it anti-Muslim and that it’s spreading lies and stirring up hatred. The movie said that Islam is a violent religion that condones hatred, lies and violence.

So, what did the Muslims do to protest?

Spewed hatred, violence and lies… A burnt effigy of a person they dislike is now acceptable TV entertainment, I suppose.

Now, everyone, please go back to sleep.

In another one of those Blair Government original degenerative acts back in July 2007, the British government has deleted Winston Churchill from the school history syllabus. Since modern Britain can’t refute their greatest Prime Minister, they’ve simply deleted any reference to him.

And why not? I’ve read recently that a sizable portion of the British people already believe that Winston Churchill, that eternal figure with a cigar and square-ish hat, was actually a myth and not the reality of the heroic leader who navigated Britain through the worst conflagration in her long history.

Perhaps Britain has become too educated laud courage and valor and too lazy to hold dear their former glory.

But I, an immigrant to these American shores, am not too blind to see greatness when see it. I am sure many “pacifist” Americans would like to also delete Churchill from memory, since we have no other figure in the English speaking world to pronounce the case for action and national patriotism in a clearer manner than Sir Winston Churchill.

And no, this rot is not because of subversive homosexual, weak-kneed surrender artists as many on the Right would accuse. But perhaps it’s because the course our country’s forefathers took demanded much of them, and they asked so very little of their country.

As many of my fellow countrymen mull over the anxiety of conflict and war in the Middle East and our manifold threats worldwide, they would do well to remember the spirit and the words of this great man.

In this speech, think on our war with Islamofascism and see if his argument against the Nazis could be applied it…

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In light of the recent terrorist attack in Glasgow and the attempted attack in central London, Cal Thomas made remarks some view as Islamophobic. The Council on American-Islamic Relations placed Thomas’ remarks under their action list.

Action: Contact WTOP-FM About Thomas’ Islamophobia

ACTION REQUESTED:

Please call or e-mail WTOP to express your concerns about the Islamophobic attitudes expressed in this commentary. As always, be POLITE.

CAIR drew particular attention to Thomas’ remark that when he compared Islamofascists to a “slow spreading cancer”.

The problem is, Islamofascists are, well, evil and they do want to kill us Americans.

Either we’re at war or we’re not. C’mon folks.

Here are his statements in full. Is he a racist, or is this another instance of “I’ll beat you down in the name of Tolerance?” You decide.

(hat tip: Drudge Report)

After sifting through much of the news on the recent car bombing at Glasgow International Airport, I think there’s a critical question not being asked, and I don’t know if it’s deliberate or not. Just days before the Glasgow car bombing, two car bombs were found outside nightclubs in central London. It is clear that both of these attacks were linked and authorities are afraid that another attack is well under way.

We have been given information that the some of the suspects associated with these attacks are doctors.

The fast-moving investigation into failed car bombings in Glasgow and London has swept up at least five physicians and a medical student, officials said Tuesday, including a doctor seized at an Australian airport with a one-way ticket. Many of the men had roots outside Britain—with ties to Iraq, Jordan and India—and worked together at hospitals in Scotland or England, officials said.

None of the plotters arrested so far is named on U.S. terror watch lists that identify potential suspects, according to a senior American counterterror official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

When you think of doctors, you don’t think of explosive gas cylinders strapped to a car. At least I don’t. While infamous al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri was a doctor, I don’t remember him acting in concert with a four other doctors in a coordinated attack. Even Zawahiri displayed a methodical mind in his brutality.

But the question we are not asking is: Why are professionally trained doctors using crude such methods of attack?

Why would these people attack others by methods outside their competencies?

I am not shocked at the allure that this fascist ideology has over people, even physicians. Fanatic ideologies warp and twist the human mind into shapes we can hardly identify regardless of their levels of intellect. That is beyond doubt.

Maybe I’m giving these terrorists doctors too much credit, but it just seems that their method of attack was sloppy and… well, just plain stupid.

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Mrs. Michelle Malkin, as on top of it as usual.
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… if this Palestinian Civil War spills outside of the Gaza Strip, that is. And such a calamity would not just be a hypothetical possibility either.

Just so that we can have a valid frame of reference toward understanding the level of hostility in Palestine, I’ve heard accounts of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip wanting Israel, the enemy of their blood, to invade. This is on par with us inviting al-Qaeda to invade California because the situation there has become so awful. And lacking an Israeli invasion at the moment, it was just reported today that Gazans are fleeing the Gaza Strip toward Israel.

For the moment at least, it seems both the Fatah faction and the Hamas faction has slowed down hostilities in favor of consolidating their power. Hamas in the Gaza Strip can’t influence Fatah in the West Bank, and vice-a-versa, but the situation is far from stable.

People forget that next door is the Kingdom of Jordan, a key US ally. About half of their population is Palestinian, and many of the ones inside refugee camps support Hamas.

As odd as this sounds, one almost pines for the return of the Fatah Party to the Gaza Strip because, as bad as Yasser Arafat’s Fatah party and their cronies were, they never really had the level of state sponsorship that Hamas enjoys. Hamas is armed and funded by the Iranians, whose President has said on numerous occasions that he’ll “wipe Israel off the face of the map.”

Reports are spreading since late Saturday that the Israeli government is drawing up plans to invade Gaza.

ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there.

According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in days.

The raid would be triggered by Hamas rocket attacks against Israel or a resumption of suicide bombings.

Barak, who is expected to become defence minister tomorrow, has already demanded detailed plans to deploy two armoured divisions and an infantry division, accompanied by assault drones and F-16 jets, against Hamas.

The Israeli forces would expect to be confronted by about 12,000 Hamas fighters with arms confiscated from the Fatah faction that they defeated in last week’s three-day civil war in Gaza.

Details of the plan emerged as Fatah forces in the West Bank stormed Hamas-run buildings, including the parliament in Ramallah, where they tried to seize the deputy speaker.

Israeli officials believe their forces would face even tougher resistance in Gaza than they encountered during last summer’s war against Hezbollah in south Lebanon.

A source close to Barak said that Israel could not tolerate an aggressive “Hamastan” on its border and an attack seemed unavoidable.

“The question is not if but how and when,” he said.

It is clear that a Hamas dominated Gaza Strip is intolerable for Israeli national security, yet simultaneously, Israel’s invasion can spark a larger regional war. In a separate but perhaps not unrelated event, rockets are being fired from Southern Lebanon into Israel.

ADAYSSEH: Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers were on full alert in Southern Lebanon Monday, a day after rockets were fired into northern Israel for the first time since the August 14, 2006, UN-brokered cease-fire that ended the summer war. Armored vehicles from both the Lebanese Army and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrolled the road running parallel to the border with Israel.

The army and police also set up snap checkpoints in the border zone a day after unidentified militants fired two rockets into northern Israel, causing no injuries and minor damage in Kiryat Shmona.

The attack, the first since Israel’s devastating invasion last year, raised tensions in Lebanon, which since May 20 has suffered a string of deadly bombings and further shaken by battles with Islamist forces in the North.

One day after the rocket-fire, Southerners voiced concerns about the renewal of violence with Israel, which forced hundreds of thousands from their homes last summer.

Fatmeh Sheet, a resident of the border town of Kfar Kila, said she was worried because the source of the rocket fire still had not been identified. The attack was a “negative development because now all of us Southerners will be accused,” she added.

Another Kfar Kila resident, Zeinab Bazzi, said she was not particularly worried, “as the army is now deployed in the South and we fully trust it to protect us and our land.”

Lebanese security sources told The Daily Star the incident was “extremely dangerous,” adding that it carried “internal as well as external messages.”

“Those responsible for the incident wanted the Lebanese to [believe] that the launching of rockets on Israel was tightly connected with bombings in Beirut and battles between the Lebanese Army and Fatah al-Islam militant group at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in the North,” one of the sources said.

UNIFIL spokeswoman Yasmine Bouziane described the incident as a “serious breach” of a nearly year-long truce and urged all parties to exercise restraint.

No matter how you look at this, from which angle, when you scratch bare the surface of these events you’re going to see Iran standing there at the side.

Israel is almost fully bracketed by Iran now. Iranian-backed Hezbollah is directly north of them in Southern Lebanon. To the Northeast of the them is Iran’s staunch military ally, Syria. To the direct east of them are all the Palestinians in the Kingdom of Jordan who support Hamas.

Buckle up your seatbelts, ladies and gents. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

For more coverage, you can check out these commentaries here and here and here and here and here and here.

Here’s something to ponder when we think about the vitriolic hatred Arabs have toward Israelis.

One might say that our current troubles in the Mideast could be traced to a single, seemingly insignificant event in history. Thousands of years ago, before nation-states existed and the wars fought between humans were fought with rocks and pointy sticks, there lived a righteous man called Abraham to whom God chose to make His Covenant. Abraham had a wife, named Sarah, and he had two sons: Ishmael and Issac.

The problem was that Ishmael was not Sarah’s son. He was actually the son of Sarah’s Egyptian handmaiden, Hagar.

Without getting into the details of this tragic story, Sarah eventually drove Hagar and Ishmael from Abraham’s tent and into the wilderness. Little did she know that Ishmael would be the father of all the Arab nations, and the bane of the Jews to this day. In fact, when you ask Arab Muslims why they are anti-Semitic, they would protest the question.

They would say they are Semitic. They share the same father as all the nations of Israel… Abraham.

And so, the ripple effects that one act of injustice thousands of years ago continue on today. Of course, I’m not saying that the Arab Muslims are justified in their actions. Not in the least. I just find it ironic, in a dark sort of way, that the conflict between two half-brothers and their descendants might cause the eruption of the world thousands of years after the actual injury .

Somehow I don’t think telling the Arab Muslims to get over it will help. I don’t think telling them they’re mad to hold such a vehement grudge for thousands of years will help either.

I don’t think there is much we can do to abate their hatred. I think the string is just going to play itself out, but there is no moral equivalence. As far as I’m concerned, Israel has been extremely benign to their neighbors, despite their neighbors fictitious propaganda about Israeli atrocities and their incessant attacks upon Israel.

(Let’s get rid of one fiction now. After the 1967 war, they invited all the displaced Palestinians back to their homes. When they refused to return, the Israeli government paid for every piece of land they “conquered” by depositing the market-value sum into individual Palestinian bank accounts. Isn’t ironic that the most affluent, educated Arab Muslims are the Palestinians that did return to their homes and are still living peacefully in Israel?)

I don’t think Israel has infinite patience for the seemingly infinite temper tantrums of their neighbors. We all know what we would do if such attacks showered on us for the better part of forty years…

Battle between Turks and Christians by Tintoretto


Debbie Schlussel reported a couple of week’s ago that Imam Husham Al-Husainy, the imam who lead the Democratic Party in prayer, was a supporter of the Hezbollah and terrorism. (Of course, it was an imam and not a Christian minister. If it was a Christian minister, perhaps the ACLU would have been involved in a legal separation of church and state wrangle.) I also chimed in and gave my two cent about the matter and allowed it to end there.

I was informed the other day, however, as to what Al-Husainy meant by “oppression and occupation”. It is hard for Americans to wrap their minds around this but whenever an Muslim imam refers to “oppression and occupation”, they usually refer to the Jewish people, not our troops in Iraq (though they occasionally accuse us of it also). For instance, they would refer to the Jews in Palestine as “occupiers” and “oppressors”. They would also refer to the “oppression and occupation” in New York City, in Los Angeles, in Houston, etc.

This obviously offends our liberal vanities, but they make themselves absolutely clear. It is a point of fact that al-Quaeda’s first article in their terms for peace with us is for us to hand over all the Jews to them, or else kill them ourselves. For al-Quaeda, this is non-negotiable. Of course, there are the further articles such as our treatment of women and for us to all convert to Islam, etc. etc.

Clearly, we are going to do no such thing. Oddly enough, since 9/11, we’ve been trying rigorously to rationalize their demands and declare that “Islam is peace” when we have very little evidence of any such thing. One of the terrible things of modern era is our lack of moral courage and our inability to name things for what they are for fear of offending someone’s feelings. Political correctness has disabled all our defenses and has left us hostage to the “feelings” of others.