Know thine enemy. Via FoxNews:

Nov. 4, 2009, marks the 30th anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, when militant Iranian students took 66 Americans hostage and began a 444-day standoff with the West. Fifty-two Americans were kept in captivity for nearly 15 months by forces loyal to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who established an Islamic theocracy in 1979, months before the storming of the embassy.

President Jimmy Carter ordered an ill-fated rescue attempt in April 1980 in which eight U.S. servicemen died in a mid-air collision between two aircraft flying over the Iranian desert on their way back from the aborted maneuver. The failure left a lasting mark on the Carter administration and helped sink his presidency.

Iran released the hostages on Jan. 20, 1981, 20 minutes after Ronald Reagan assumed office in Washington. The 52 embassy officials were flown from Iran to Algiers, then on to a U.S. airbase in Germany to recover. From there they flew to Newburgh, N.Y., and were bused to West Point, receiving a heroes’ welcome on U.S. soil.

On June 29, 2005, shortly after the depraved Jew-hater Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the Iranian presidential election, several major news outlets publicized allegations that he participated in the 1979–1981 Iran Hostage Crisis.

Some previous hostages have identified Ahmadinejad as the man in the military jacket on the hostage’s left side in the photo below. Several other sources, including Ahmadinejad, and other hostage takers have disputed these identifications.

Via PalestinianMediaWatch:

On the second anniversary of the Hamas military takeover of Gaza, PA (Fatah) TV broadcast a public Fatah event held in the presence of senior Fatah leaders, which focused on intense vilification of Hamas.

This included the showing of a graphic video of Hamas members brutally beating a Fatah member in Gaza. The screams of the victim can be heard in the video, along with others calling “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is Great).

The Fatah moderator introduced the video with the following words:
“Hamas’s name is written on every arm and leg which was crushed by their [Hamas's] acts of terror.”

The Hamas – Fatah hatred is very deep and this intense hate propaganda is typical of the current Fatah – Hamas relations. This animosity has led to the arrest of numerous Hamas members by the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority. This is important to note, as these arrests have been mistakenly reported in the press to be a sign that the Palestinian Authority is fighting  Palestinian terror on behalf of Israel.

Click here to view. Warning – the video contains graphic material.

Via YnetNews:

Four Palestinians from the Kalkilya area have been arrested for the murder of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, the Israel Security Agency announced Wednesday.

Yaakobi’s body was found burned in the trunk of a car near Kalkilya on July 27, 2006.

One of the suspects, Tayun Tayun, a Fatah operative, said Yaakobi had brought his car to his brother Ahmad’s garage. He said he attacked and beat him with a wrench and a stick until he died.

Sharon Tovi, Yaakobi’s son-in-law, noted that “Danny was a doctor who helped everyone, both Jewish and Arab neighbors.”

Via Guardian-UK:

The Persian Gulf remains a major source of funding for al-Qaeda and its affiliates, with millions of dollars being sent from the region to terrorist groups.

Recipients of this largesse include the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), suspected of perpetrating the recent attack in India.

LeT operatives and supporters are particularly active in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. LeT’s finance chief, Haji Muhammad Ashraf, has traveled to the Gulf to raise funds for LeT. In 2003, he helped LeT leaders in Saudi Arabia increase fundraising there.

Similarly, the Saudi-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation was designated as a terrorist-supporting entity in part because its office in Pakistan supported LeT.

Smooth Stone expresses our deepest sympathy to the nation of India on this tragic day in their history where muslim barbarians have once again chosen to kill in the name of their false god.

May the real G-d of Israel avenge the deaths of the innocents in India, Israel and the United States.  Amen.

And I want to hear from the Jew-hating pukes out there who blame Israel for terrorism.

If Israel is responsible for Muslim wrath, tell us, Muslim terrorist apologists, what Israel did to encourage Syria to swallow Lebanon, to encourage Saddam Hussein to unleash a bloodbath against Iran, to encourage Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait, to encourage Kuwait to expel hundreds of thousands of “palestinians”, to encourage the Taliban to destroy the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan, to encourage the slaughter of Black Christians in the Sudan, to encourage the bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, to encourage church bombings in Pakistan, to blow up 200 Indians on the railroad system and to blow up India today.

And you dare to accuse Israel, you filthy pukes?

Blame Islam.  Grow a set of balls and put the blame where it belongs.

Islam is nothing more than a project to demonize non-muslims. Your founder, your own historic records, and your present followers have done more than a good job on that one.

Islam is a collectivist faith. It is opposed to the expressed will of the people, and instead favors the will of Allah, as expressed in the Koran and glossed by the components — Hadith and Sira — of the Sunna. It is opposed to individual liberties. It is opposed to freedom of speech, it is opposed to freedom of speech about religion. It is opposed to full legal equality for women. It is opposed, wherever it comes to power the equal treatment of Muslims and non-Muslims. The tenets of Islam, as expressed in the Koran flatly contradict the legal and political institutions of this country, and many of its social arrangements as well.

Non-Muslims are not brought up to undo the legal, political and traditional institutions of the United States.

As for what everyone else these days think of Islam, based on their knowledge of history and often from personal experience, read John Quincy Adams, John Ledyard, William Eaton and Mordechai Noah. Read them all.

We have every damn right to deconstruct the propaganda that Islam is peaceful and that the Israeli “occupation” is the cause of all the strife in the world.

Sorry, muzbots, but 9/11 is still with us every day. As we witness muslims striking out in detestable behavior in more that 25 conflicts around the world: in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, East Timor, India, Indonesia (2 provinces), Kashmir, Kazakastan, Kosovo, Kurdistan, Macedonia, the Middle East, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Sudan, Russia-Chechnya, Tajikistan, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan, it is clear that extremist Islam is the norm and normal Islam is extremely rare.

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Hamas, all by itself, is singularly responsible for creating its widows and orphans.  Via DallasNews:

Prosecutor Barry Jonas began his closing argument in the Holy Land Foundation trial Monday by telling jurors that their job is to determine if five defendants broke U.S. law by funneling more than $12 million to Hamas. He reminded jurors that since 1995, U.S. law has prohibited any support of Hamas, including humanitarian aid. The government contends that Holy Land sent money to specific Palestinian charity groups in Hamas’ social services wing that provides aid to relatives of suicide bombers.

Jonas re-played several videos of Holy Land fundraisers in the U.S., some featuring songs with lyrics praising martyrdom, jihad and glorifying Hamas founders. “If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck,” Jonas said.

“This was a Hamas rally. Who are we kidding?” Jonas addressed defense arguments that praising Hamas is protected by the First Amendment.

“They have every right to say they support of Hamas, but when they start giving money to Hamas, what they said can and will be used against them.”

“They were part of a larger plan to eliminate the State of Israel and take over their land,” he said.

“By supporting Hamas, they helped create widows and orphans.”

Spain is being vigilant.  Spanish police said they have arrested 12 suspected Islamist extremists in a series of raids in Barcelona, Madrid and Cadiz. The raids targeted networks suspected of hiding and aiding the escape of al-Qaeda members, including some linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800. Earlier this month, the High Court charged 11 Islamist suspects with plotting attacks on public transport in Barcelona.

More cover-ups by the MSM. I didn’t hear about this one, did you?

German police commandos seized two terrorist suspects Friday from a Dutch airliner just before it was due to leave Cologne for Amsterdam, media reports said.

Police said a 23-year-old Somali national and a 24-year-old German citizen born in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, were overpowered on the KLM flight 1804 at 6:55 am (0455 GMT) local time.

A KLM spokeswoman said police boarded the plane when it was at its “point of departure,” and seized the two suspects. She said everyone was then forced to disembark and there was a baggage inspection to see who the bags belonged to.

Police said “farewell” letters had been found from the men that led them to suspect they were intending to carry out terror attacks. It was not revealed where the letters were found or how long the two suspects had been under observation. Some reports said the two had been under observation for months, and a suicide note was found in their apartment saying that they wanted to die for the “jihad” or “Muslim holy war”.

Via MESI:

Muslim extremists have held a meeting at the heart of the area where the liquid bombers lived in which they warned of a British September 11.

One speaker at the meeting, held on the anniversary of the attacks in America, told the assembled crowd that the West should “listen to the warnings.”

The meeting, in front of a 100-strong crowd at a community centre on the Lea Bridge Road in Walthamstow, east London, was also addressed by the exiled preacher Omar Bakri Mohammed via video link from the Lebanon.

Walthamstow was home to two of the three members of a gang found guilty of conspiracy to murder. They face a retrial over allegations they were targeting trans-Atlantic flights.

Among the speakers were a number of former members of the banned group al-Muhajiroun, once led by Bakri from his council home in Edmonton, North London.

The most incendiary speech was delivered by Saiful Islam, from Luton, Bedfordshire, who praised Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda for their “courage” in retaliating against the “dictatorship and oppression” of the West.

“Wake up. Withdraw. Listen to the warnings. Muslims will stand side to side, not just al Qaeda. The actions of the British and Americans have given prominence to al Qaeda. All of us have a part to play in stopping the violence or the next 9/11 will take place in Britain, the next 7/7 could take place locally,” he added.

Omar Bakri Muhammad, in an interview that appeared in The Sunday Express of London, is the one who warned Paul McCartney to not perform in Israel. Bakri said, “If he values his life, Mr. McCartney must not come to Israel,” He also said: “He will not be safe there. The sacrifice operatives will be waiting for him.”

Paul McCartney has refused to cancel his concert in Israel, despite threats from bloated, vascular-diseased, syphlitic Islamic blowhards.

Mr. McCartney said: “I was approached by different groups and political bodies who asked me not to come here. I refused. I do what I think, and I have many friends who support Israel.”

The concert is scheduled for Sept. 25 in Tel Aviv.

Via Reuters:

Separatist militants shot dead and beheaded a Buddhist state official in Thailand’s Muslim south on Tuesday, police said, the latest death in 57 months of insurgency in which more than 3,100 people have died. Police found 29 spent M-16 bullets around the pickup truck of the victim, identified as 26-year-old Attapong Gonlom, after at least two gunmen opened fire on him at a school in Pattani, one of four southern provinces hit by the violence.

“After the attack, the gunmen dragged his body out of the truck and chopped his head off, to the horror of students and teachers,” a police incident report said.

The incident pushed the number of people decapitated in the Malay-speaking region to 34, a Reuters calculation based on police data and newspaper reports showed.