By Andrew L. Jaffee

What hope is there for the Arab/Muslim world? Look at Iraq: Sunnis and Shiites are killing each other by the thousands. Muslims can’t even get along with each other — and least of all with Jews. Here’s the latest wave of anti-Jewish hysteria:

“Beware of Israeli melons infected with AIDS arriving in Saudi Arabia!” is the latest rumor being spread throughout Saudi Arabia like a wildfire.

An SMS message being sent around the country this week said, “The Saudi Interior Ministry warns its citizens of a truck loaded with AIDS infected melons that Israel brought into the country via a ‘ground corridor.’” …

The rumor, despite being denied several times, has gained so much steam in the Arab world that it made it to the front page of one of the most important Arabic language newspapers. …

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By Andrew Cochran*

Information from Lebanon indicates that members of the Lebanese Parliament are coming to Washington this week to meet with Congressmen, and among the visitors will Ghassan Moukheiber and Ibrahim Kenaan, both supporters of Michel Aoun. But over a year ago, Aoun signed a peace treaty with Hezbollah, which in effect makaes Aoun a “material supporter” of the Sh’ite terrorist group.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Remember Nick Berg? His murderers chanted “Allah Akbar!” (God is Great!) while they sawed the poor man’s head off. I’ve seen the tape. I saw and heard Berg gurgling and screaming. We knew about beheading in the name of Islam. Then we had decapitation in the name of ice cream. Isn’t beheading enough? No. Now the Islamo-fascists are using children to decapitate “infidels.” This is a culture? From the BBC:

The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US.

Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network.

The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US information which led to an air strike in which a senior Taleban commander died.

The video footage shows Mr Nabi being blindfolded with a chequered scarf and making what is said to be a confession.

The boy, wearing a camouflage jacket and wielding a large knife, denounces him as a spy and then cuts off his head. …

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

I’m not exactly NRA, but I certainly support the Second Amendment. Sure, look at what a madman did at VA Tech. But our urban centers are filled with out-of-control neighborhoods where dawgs are constantly tagin’ each other (so much for our welfare patronage). You know how many shootin’s we have per day in my hometown? Wanna spend a warm summer night listening to the gun-shots? Ya’ think the thugs get their guns legally? Normal citizens need to be able to protect themselves, their friends and families. And what if Islamo-fascists take root in some part of the country? Here’s a righteous elder who has no problem with the Second Amendment — she “sold war bonds and her picture was adorned on a B-17 that made missions over Germany in World War II:”

Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder.

Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment. Continues below…

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By Cainnech Ó Sullibhain

It’s culture and society that makes us who we are — not where we are born. That is what was truly British with regard to Britons born in India, Burma, Ceylon, and other colonies of Britain.

During the late 1950s I served for 15 years in the British Merchant Navy and was fortunate enough to travel most of the world as a young man in my 20’s. During that time I experienced many adventures and met and interacted with all kinds of people. My ships had British officers, and the crews were from India, and Pakistan, with Chinese carpenters, plus a few from other nationalities; a veritable cross section of the world’s interesting people. Mine was a journey in search of knowledge, not spent in bars, bordellos or such places, but to find out things that few people ever take the time to unearth.

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From FrontPageMagazine.com

In one of the most extensive demonstrations ever staged by American college conservatives, close to one hundred university and college campuses across the country yesterday held an “Islamo Fascism Awareness Day.” Thousands of students were involved in the event, which was coordinated by the Terrorism Awareness Project, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center whose objective is to counter college students’ lack of awareness about the War on Terror and the disinformation about it propagated by radical faculty and student groups.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

When confronted with a tragedy of epic proportions, like Cho Seung-Hui’s massacre at Virginia Tech, it is natural for people to search for a reason why such an event occurred. Perhaps people are thinking too much, looking for rational explanations where there are none, especially in the twisted, evil mind of a mass murderer. Internet surfers and bloggers have concentrated on the term, “Ismail Ax,” for which a Technorati search returns 2,400 results. The words were:

…scrawled in red ink on the arm of the Virginia Tech gunman after his shooting rampage that left him and 32 others dead. It was written on an overnight postage Seung-Hui Cho sent between the two shootings. And a variation of it appeared on a file contained in the package sent to NBC that included Cho’s rambling, hate-filled video, incoherent written messages and photos.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Mendacity! Too many people have lost a basic understanding of right versus wrong. Tonight, a morally bankrupt blogger wrote this regarding the Virginia Tech gunman (and the Columbine killers):

…I identified with them. I didn’t want to, but I did. I didn’t want to identify with Cho Seung-Hui either. But I did. Because though I didn’t know him, I knew something about him. …

It’s a story that reminds me how easily I could have been one of them. …

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by Bill Levinson

Steve Rabin, Chief Spokesman for the National Jewish Democratic Council wrote:

As NJDC Blog readers are undoubtedly aware, the Supreme Court launched an assault on choice yesterday, upholding legislation which bans third trimester abortions without offering protections for the life and health of the mother. Both of Bush’s new right wing justices voted for the ban (in a 5-4 decision).

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

As Perez Hilton puts it, “Because rape is so funny, right?” In his latest movie, Grindhouse, Quentin Tarantino appears as “Rapist Number One.” Artistic license, right? Not only is Tarantino poisoning minds through the film media, he’s released “Grindhouse Action Figures,” including a Rapist Number One doll with a gun. Also available is “a girl with an M16 as her prosthetic leg.” Reports had circulated that Toys “R” Us would be carrying these “action figures,” but the company has denied such claims (thank you). Time to rush out and get these “toys” for your kids so they can become the next Cho Seung-Hui.

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by Bill Levinson

Q: What is the difference between Tom Metzger (Aryan Nations, Ku Klux Klan, White Aryan Resistance) and Al Sharpton (National Action Network)?

A: Tom Metzger was never invited to be a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention (Kerry, 2004) or campaign with Ned Lamont. Nor did Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, and Joe Biden agree to appear at an Aryan Nations conference, as they just agreed to appear at Sharpton’s National Action Network.

Other than that, there is no practical difference between Tom Metzger and Al Sharpton. Both have used racist and anti-Semitic slurs. Both have, at least indirectly, incited racist violence in which people have been killed. Al Sharpton is simply a darker version of Tom Metzger, and racism stinks in every color.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

So the “Va. Tech shooter was picked on in school.” Well, Regan Wilder went to middle school, high school, and Virginia Tech with Cho, and reminds us that going through adolescence, just like the rest of us did, isn’t rationalization for mass murder. Wilder:

…said she was sure Cho probably was picked on in middle school, but so was everyone else. …

It is not that we should permit bullying… On the other hand, life’s a bitch, as the Buddha and many other sages have taught us. In fact, several teachers tried to reach out to Cho:

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Conflict Securities found that 86 public pension funds collectively had $91 billion invested in 93 companies active in Sudan.

- BusinessWeek

Arab paramilitary groups, backed by the Sudanese government, have been carrying out horrific atrocities against Black Africans in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. While all the high-paid diplomats at the UN sit around giving speeches and wringing their hands about the genocide in Sudan, the private sector has taken the lead. Today, one of the UK’s top companies took action:

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by Bill Levinson

The press has so far overlooked a very serious and major lesson from the mass homicide at Virginia Tech; unless our society takes decisive preventive action, it is likely to be repeated, and on a much larger scale. We are not talking about imitation by a psycho like Cho Sueng Hui aka Ismail Ax, but by Al Qaida or a similar organization. Our terrorist enemies have doubtlessly seen the news about the Virginia Tech massacre. Having seen how much damage a single crazed maniac could do with two handguns, they are doubtlessly wondering what a team of three or four “martyrs” could do with fully automatic weapons–preferably in a “gun free” zone, of course, where they are unlikely to be shot by passers-by.

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By Andrew L. Jaffee

Where did Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui get the idea for his rampage? Apparently, he was “inspired” at least partially by a “bloody South Korean movie… ‘Oldboy,’ the second film in Park’s ‘Vengeance Trilogy.’”

Let’s see… Hollywood, anyone? [Continues below…]

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