By Bill Levinson

J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Two Towers features an evil counselor named Grima Wormtongue, who reminds us of individuals like Rosie O’Donnell, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Michael Lerner, Jewish Voice for Peace, and similar vocal opponents of the war against Islamo-fascism.

For those who have not read the book or seen the movie, the country of Rohan–a Germanic or Scandinavian nation of farmers and horse breeders–is under attack by the evil wizard Saruman and his Orcs. As depicted in the movie, there is little difference between Orcs and militant “Muslims,” noting the Orcs’ total contempt not only for human life but also their own kind. During the attack on Helm’s Deep, a Palestinian Orc does an Olympic torch run to set off an explosive charge, thus blowing himself up along with the walls of the fortress. (Most sappers and pioneers lay fuzes so they can get away before the charges go off, but this Orc selected the militant “Islamic” method.)

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Instead of speaking of reform, Muslims are once again frantically denying, perhaps attempting to cover up, the fact that their religion has been taken over by ultra-violent, radical extremists. This happened during the Danish cartoon controversy. Canadian Muslims refused to believe that their young people plotted to blow up Toronto. British Muslims blamed the UK’s policies for a plot to bomb airliners. Mohammed Atta’s father, whose son was a 9/11 ring-leader, displayed the same willful ignorance, projection, and denial. What’s the beef this time? Some Muslims are angry because Fox’s popular series “24″ features Islamic terrorists. Talk about denial: 3,709 Iraqis were killed in Sunni vs. Shiite sectarian attacks during October 2006 alone. Just why shouldn’t we see Muslims as terrorists?

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By Center for Immigration Studies

SAN DIEGO (January 2007) — Discussion of U.S.-Mexico relations seldom acknowledges the longstanding and systemic conditions that foster the illegal out migration of hundreds of thousands of Mexican nationals each year. Neither Washington politicians nor the State Department want to publicly address the decades-long instability in Mexico for which no Mexican politicians are ever held accountable. Can any significant policy discussion of America’s border crisis with Mexico continue to ignore the basic conditions of America’s neighbor to the south?

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By Join the Boycott

Founder of The Body Shop and now a consultant to it, Anita Roddick, signed and promoted a letter of an extremist, anti-Israel coalition that said Israel had “no justification” for its actions in Lebanon and did not even mention Hezbollah (see dispatch, letter). That same coalition now accuses Israel of “barbarism” in Gaza and ignores PLO rocket attacks on Israeli civilians (see coalition). We urge you to shop elsewhere and, if you have not yet done so, please sign The Body Shop Petition.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

So once again we’re discussing whether Pakistani President Musharraf is engaged in an “awkward balancing act” between the terrorist forces of Islamism within his own country and his “alliance” with the West. Let’s look at whether the positives of having Musharraf as an ally outweigh the negatives.

Muhammad Hanif, a now former Taliban spokesman, was captured by Afghan security agents and confessed that Mullah Omar is hiding in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Remember that Omar headed Taliban rule in Afghanistan until the U.S. invasion of 2002. Some imply that Hanif’s confession may have been forced, but consider that another Taliban “spokesman,” Latifullah Hakimi, was captured in Quetta in October 2005. Yes, Quetta.

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by Igor Khrestin and John Elliott*

Where does Moscow stand in the fight against Islamism and the global war against terror? Facing the Chechen threat at home, the Russian government might be sympathetic to U.S. and even Israeli concerns. Not so. Despite U.S. declarations that Washington and Moscow were “increasingly united by common values” and that Russia was “a partner in the war on terror,”[1] examination of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s policy toward the Middle East suggests that Moscow has become an impediment both to the fight against Islamist terror and Washington’s desire to promote democracy in the Middle East. The 2006 U.S. National Security Strategy reinforces that U.S. policymakers should not only “encourage Russia to respect the values of freedom and democracy at home” but also cease “imped[ing] the cause of freedom and democracy” in regions vital to the war on terror.[2] While Russian officials denounce U.S. criticism, the Kremlin’s coddling of Iranian hard-liners, its reaction to the “cartoon jihad,” its invitation to Hamas to Moscow, and its flawed Chechen policy all cast doubt on Moscow’s motivations.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Is Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki getting serious about putting an end to sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites? Maliki is a Shiite, and Shiite death squads have been going full tilt since the Sunni bombing of the Samarra mosque. Iraq’s Shiites showed enormous restraint while Sunni terrorists were killing them en masse — that is, until Samarra. The Sunni strategy of inflaming religious tensions worked. Now Iraq has to deal with Sunni death squads and Shiite death squads. Today, Maliki announced that “400 fighters from a key backer of the Shiite-led government have been arrested.” Guess who the “key backer” is? None other than Muqtada al-Sadr, who was the only real Shiite threat to Iraq’s stability before Samarra. If he is a “key backer” of Maliki, do we want anything to do with this prime minister? Let’s hope Maliki is starting the process of distancing himself from Shiite death squads and pro-Iranian influences.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Remember CSNY’s, “Teach Your Children,” a mainstay tune of the 60’s hippie revolution? Well, Australia’s ninemsn reported today that, “Sydney’s most influential radical Muslim cleric has been reportedly caught on film calling Jews pigs and urging children to die for Allah.” What a wide gulf there is between the tolerance of Western ideals and the ugly backwardness of radical Islam (Islamism). Great liberal democracies — Australia — welcome people like the above-mentioned “cleric” with open arms, and are repaid with hatred. Here’s what this “cleric” is teaching children:

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by Daniel Pipes*

Question asked of Jerusalem Post columnists: “Do you believe the road map is still relevant? Is there a need for a new plan?” For all replies, see “Burning Issues #21 Is the road map still relevant?“

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By Andrew Whitehead

In a curious series of statements, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spokesman Bill Carter said this when questioned by Fred Lucas of CNS News about contacts between the FBI and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR):

“Law enforcement doesn’t operate in a vacuum. The FBI works with them to investigate civil rights matters and to ask for their cooperation in fighting the war on terror at home. There are elements in any group that might be a concern. You could say that about every group. Just because some are criminals doesn’t mean everyone is a criminal.”

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“throwing homosexuals from mountains,” crucifixion of “apostates,” and hostility to “kaffirs.”

Koran says women are “deficient” “If she doesn’t wear the hijab, we hit her.” “Go out and perform the jihad.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MSFbhIG-sk&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoi5DWt3b0w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TjzCcTkE8

The first video also calls for militant Muslims to establish a “state within a state” until they can “take over.”

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

I’m not sure what the West is willing to do about Iran’s maniacal President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But there were two notable events today, upping to pressure on Ahmadinejad, from the U.S. Congress, and another from within his own constituency. First, from the JTA:

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by Or Honig*

Between 1948 and 1993, Israel relied on a policy of strategic deterrence to ensure peace and security. If Israel was attacked from beyond its borders, it responded with disproportionate force. For example, on October 1, 1985, Israeli air force fighter planes bombed the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Tunisia, killing fifty-six Palestinian terrorists, in response to the PLO murder of three Israeli tourists in Cyprus.[1] However, after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo accords in 1993, Israel adopted a policy of strategic restraint. But rather than bring peace, the shift to a policy of restraint furthered insecurity. On July 12, 2006, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert returned Israel to a policy of strategic deterrence when he ordered massive retaliation against Lebanon for a Hezbollah cross-border attack and kidnapping earlier that day. While many Israeli analysts and politicians criticize the Israeli military performance in Lebanon,[2] the return to a policy of deterrence was necessary for Israel’s long-term peace and security.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction… The chain reaction of evil — hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars — must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you asked most of the Hollywood big-wigs, “Who was the greatest civil rights leader?,” I’d bet you that nine out of ten would say, “Martin Luther King, Jr.” Talking the talk, but not walking the walk. If Hollywood is so “liberal” and so enamored with the hallowed civil rights movement, then why is it producing perverted filth like “Saw,” acclaimed by Rue Morgue as a movie which “will make your skin crawl right off your bones!,” where the protagonist “decides to crush the bones in his foot with the toilet’s tank cover, so that he can slip out of the ankle cuff.” How about “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - The Beginning”, which treats viewers to a very graphic “night of sheer terror at the hands of a family of cannibalistic, inbred psychopaths?” Would you want your kids playing the video game “Grand Theft Auto” where “you play an evil criminal who kills random folks for dishonorable people?” Even commercials are violent now, like Capital One’s barbarian-starred credit card ads. My point: Can people derive “entertainment” from indulging in violence without being touched by violence? And in no way am I advocating censorship. Let me explain.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Is this a first? The word “collaborator” is being applied to traitors who helped the Russians/Soviets oppress millions of Eastern Europeans. The context involves a Polish bishop, Stanislaw Wielgus, who “confessed to collaborating with the communist police.” This is a start, but when will there be a Nuremberg-style tribunal to try all the Soviet murderers and their indigenous collaborators?

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