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Cursing Yourself

By Kevin O'Neil

The Report pompously entitled "The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the Promised Land" by the Church of Scotland, in which the committee states their opinion that the Jews have no inherent right to the Holy Land, is hopelessly flawed with faulty theology and bitter prejudice. The authors must be either ignorant or deceived or both.
 
I offer the following thoughts in response.
 
The authors' method in approaching the noble study of Biblical hermeneutics, if adopted, would make nonsense of huge swathes of both the Old and New Testaments and render the surviving texts vague and unreliable for any practical purpose. With them, words don't really mean what they say, they may even mean the opposite, we just can't be sure. The rock becomes a swamp, a shifting and untrustworthy sand.  These so-called scholars appear mortified at the suggestion that some poor souls may actually believe these things to be understood literally.  They have passed on from that primitive stage, and besides, everything is subjective, the text means whatever you decide it means, if it works for you, then fine, go for it.  A far cry from the Covenanter days of 17c Scotland.

 

I pity a church and, particularly, the ordinary people who compose such a church, that would so irresponsibly misuse God's Word and fill peoples' minds with doubts and uncertainties instead of faith and confidence. This is very serious.
 
When God says that the Land, Haaretz, will be given to Abraham's descendants, as He does in all the verses on which the authors try to cast doubt, He safeguards against the danger of spiritualising this Land by instructing Abraham to physically look north, south, east and west, and that everything he could see was included in what God meant by the Land. At another time God said, get up and walk on it, that's the Land, the place you can feel under your feet! And yet another time God gives actual geographical reference points, a sort of GPS.  The Land is modern day Israel, including Judea and Samaria (the misnamed West Bank), and a whole lot more besides.
 
When God says, as He does in most of the references given, that the Land would be given forever, it seems to elude the minds of the sophisticated ones that the Almighty meant exactly what He said and that forever means forever. It's a sad fact that human beings may not always mean what they say but we may rest assured that God has more integrity than do His creatures. The Hebrew word translated forever is olam and is defined in Strong's Dictionary as follows:  Long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, and so on. What is it that the authors of the Report don't understand here?  If they doubt that olam is forever then they must doubt the eternality of God's Kingship and the Messiah's Kingdom, for the very same word is used with respect to these also, Jer.10:10, Isa.9:7, etc. Or are we to think that their reasoning only applies to God's promise of the Land to the Jews?
 
The authors' speak derisively of a literalistic interpretation of the Word of God as though we are now too sophisticated to believe it for what it says, we must treat it, as it were, with a pinch of salt. Contemptible arrogance we call it and lacking in the true fear of God, which is the very beginning of any wisdom.
 
Regarding the attitude of the Report to the people who have cleverly adopted the name of Palestinians I hardly know where to begin, the authors' ignorance beggars belief. The following brief points are all I can manage, others have done sterling work in refuting these things from a practical and logistical point of view, their work is readily available online.

A little definition of just who the Palestinians are will be useful being as they appear to be such objects of admiration to the authors.  The Palestinians were regarding themselves as Syrians as recently as 1939 and it is well-documented that they are the descendants of any number of nations including Afghani, Algerian, Arab, Bosnian, Copt, Egyptian, and so on, almost ad infinitum.  The term Palestinian was first used in 1964 in Moscow when the PLO was established and its founding document was drafted. In fact, ironically, the name is derived from a root meaning Dividers, Penetrators or Invaders. This is all fairly elementary history. But the major point is this: the name was an invention which was made with the purpose of lending these non-indigenous people a false history and a supposed link with the land once known as Palestine. And the plan has largely worked, the UN, most of the media, and these authors have swallowed it hook line and sinker.

 

I would hope that the authors are at least aware that the land known for 1400 years as Israel suddenly became known as Palestine because the Roman Emperor, Hadrian, sought to erase all Jewish/Israeli connection to the area after their revolt in 135AD. The actual name chosen was Syria Palaestina, and was a vindictive reference to that inveterate enemy of Israel, the Philistines, a sea-faring people who were of Hellenistic origin, not Arab.  So, perhaps the authors are confusing these ancient sea-peoples with the modern day Arab Palestinians and therefore attributing to them an ancient link with the land. But this is an inexcusable error from so-called scholars.  Let it be stated once and for all (if only) that today's Philistia, otherwise known as Gaza, is illegally occupied by a hybrid people who chose to call themselves Palestinian in 1964. In short, the invention of the indigenous Palestinian, constantly referred to by the authors, is pure myth and is nothing but a weapon devised by the Arab world in the hope of destroying the Jewish State of Israel.

 

The briefest research would have alerted the authors' suspicions regarding the authenticity of these people because they would soon have stumbled over the fact that not only is there no specific Palestinian history or culture but neither have there been any concrete archeological finds to validate their claim to the land. The binding agent between these recently-invented people is their zeal in implementing the Koranic injunction to dominate every culture in which they come into contact and soon thereafter to re-write history to suit their purposes. This manifesto, posing as a great world religion, begins and ends with Israel, the despised Jews whom their so-called sacred literature describe as 'apes and pigs'. The 4,000 year struggle between Jacob and Esau goes on.

 

The following fact may also be unknown to the authors: Israel is about the size of Wales, much less than a third of the authors' homeland of Scotland. But unlike Scotland, Israel is not surrounded by tempestuous but otherwise indifferent seas, but by an Islamic-dominated landmass a thousand times its size, containing some 422 million people the vast majority of whom long for the day when the Jews are no more.  Yet we are expected to sympathise with supposedly dispossessed Arabs.

 

And what of the origin of the Arab Naqba, the Day of the Catastrophe to which the authors refer? 

 

Five Arab nations declared a war of annihilation in 1948 on the fledgling State of Israel promising the Arab inhabitants of the land, who were not at that time even called Palestinians, certain victory and advising them to vacate their homes until the Jews were exterminated. The Jews invited the Arabs to stay and to continue living alongside them until the war was settled, and those that did stay have children and grandchildren in the land to this very day.  However, an estimated 700,000 took the advice of their Arab 'deliverers' and vacated their homes to await the destruction of the Jews, a destruction that never came. Their descendants can be found intermarried with the other races that go to make up the inhabitants of Gaza and the so-called West Bank. The true catastrophe for them was in preferring Arab promises over that of Jewish guidance.

 

An interesting fact is that practically exactly the same amount of Jews, 700,000, were made refugees by the Arab nations at this time and yet we don't have a Jewish refugee problem, only a Palestinian refugee problem. The reason is that the Jewish State, dirt-poor at the time and struggling for survival, nonetheless welcomed their fellow Jews with open arms. It was a shame that the Arab nations didn't do the same for their brothers who had fled the land on their advice, preferring to use them as pawns in a bigger game. 

 

Space forbids us to address fully the subject of ethnic cleansing that the authors sneeringly suggest God 'apparently' instructed the Jews to carry out during Biblical times.  Suffice it to say that, if any of the Canaanite child-sacrificing tribes present in the land forsook the depressingly-named Roasting Place, Tophet, and behaved themselves like civilised people, they were permitted to remain. Modern day Israel is a testimony to this in that Christians, Copts, Muslims, Zoroastrians, Bahaists, et al, live together with the Jewish majority, untroubled by authorities. Do the authors think for one wild second that, if the land was turned over to the Arabs, all these groups would be permitted to live together?  Can pigs fly?  The notion is laughable and the Muslim-only lands of the Middle East and Africa illustrate clearly who are the ones guilty of ethnic cleansing.  In southern Sudan alone I understand that an unbelievable 7 million souls have perished by the sword of Islam in recent decades.

 

Enough said on this desolate subject.

 

One final observation, our advice to anyone who is a member of the Church of Scotland: If the overall premise of this Report is officially accepted, namely, that the Jews have no right to the Land of Israel, then we would advise you to put your trust in the God of Israel and leave the establishment. This Report is a form of curse on the descendants of Abraham and will inevitably bring a curse on those who are associated with it. 

 

They finally 'get it' when it comes to Islam

Oh for the day when we can say this about politicians and others in the United States.  Stogie at SaberPoint has an article about Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugs), excerpt below, read it all here.  My wish is that more would come to understand the truth that Islam is not a peaceful religion, it is not just a religion at all, but a political system sworn to spreading and destroying everything not Islam.

 

Today Auster would be very proud of Pamela Geller.  She finally gets it.  She has an organization now called  the "American Freedom Defense Initiative" (AFDI) and its platform for rolling back Islamic incursions into western societies is solid.  For example, it recognizes that Islam is not merely a religion, but a violent, totalitarian ideology that does not deserve to hide its nefarious activities behind a demand for "religious" freedom.  Further, AFDI calls for a stop to Islamic immigration into non-Muslim majority countries. It also calls for a prohibition of foreign funding of mosques and Islamic Studies departments at universities -- as these are a form of stealth jihad.

AFDI is definitely on the right track, and not a moment too soon.

Read more about it at this link.

Hat tip to American Power.

 

If you have any doubts about the intentions of Islam, purchase and read the new book by Frederick William Dame   THE MUSLIM DISCOVERY OF AMERICA .

 ... This book demonstrates that this assertion is important for Muslims because in conjunction with the relevant verses from the Koran and quotes from Mohammed it establishes the claim of Muslims that Allah intended America to be Islamic. The book also investigates the lives of selected Muslims in America and organizations from the eighteenth century into the twenty-first century. It reveals that there was nothing more than a continuation of typical Islamic deception and subversive jihad. It also documents the lie of the Islamic claim that hundreds of place names in the United States of America and Canada derive from Arabic-Islamic roots. Finally, the book exposes the rewriting of American history by Islamic and pro-Islamic media. This book is alarming, informative, interesting, and true  (more here)

U.S. believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria

 CNN:  The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria, two U.S. officials first told CNN.

U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials. This is the same time frame that the U.S. collected additional data showing Israel was flying a high number of warplanes over Lebanon.

One official said the United States had limited information so far and could not yet confirm those are the specific warplanes that conducted a strike. Based on initial indications, the U.S. does not believe Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace to conduct the strikes.

Both officials said there is no reason to believe Israel struck at a chemical weapons storage facilities. The Israelis have long said they would strike at any targets that prove to be the transfer of any kinds of weapons to Hezbollah or other terrorist groups, as well as at any effort to smuggle Syrian weapons into Lebanon that could threaten Israel.

The Lebanese army website listed 16 flights by Israeli warplanes penetrating Lebanon's airspace from Thursday evening through Friday afternoon local time.

The Israeli military had no comment. But a source in the Israeli defense establishment told CNN's Sara Sidner, "We will do whatever is necessary to stop the transfer of weapons from Syria to terrorist organizations. We have done it in the past and we will do it if necessary the future."

( see video at CNN )

 

Crazy Kim and the Tippy Twos

By Steve Russell at Roll Call, short excerpt below:

Kim Jong Un certainly seems crazy. But sound mind isn’t a requirement for predictable action. Tyrants often mask steady goals with wild behavior. One need only think of world pests like Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein to realize entire regions can be thrust into unwanted global crises.

Like Castro and Saddam, Kim Jong Un has made clear he’s dedicated to expanding his ability to harm America and her allies. The difference is, he has a nuclear capability, not a borrowed or boasted one. North Korea has a proven record of long-range missile development that could ultimately hit the American mainland.

North Korea can already hit our bases abroad, our trading partners and our allies. Worse still, it’s exporting this technology to other friendly loons in the Middle East.

Not to respond is dangerous. Not to understand the growing threat is disastrous. Regarding the current danger with North Korea, it comes as no surprise that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel chose to deploy the “Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance” (AN/TPY-2) radar to the Japanese mainland.

Also known as the “Tippy Two,” this radar outpost is part of a broader strategy to better protect against the growing missile threat posed by Kim Jong Un.

The Tippy Two is the most advanced mobile radar system on the planet. Numerous simulations have proven its ability to identify and track a wide variety of missiles with great precision. Tippy Two radars can also conduct “real-time discrimination” — tech speak for being able to look at a complex radar picture and determine what is a real and what isn’t. But right now, there aren’t enough Tippy Twos — a point that I and many others have been making for a while.

(continue reading at Roll Call)

 

 

Polluted Waters

 By Tabitha Korol

 

            Roger Waters of Pink Floyd raged when he testified to discredit and delegitimize the State of Israel, at the UN, aired on YouTube.  He adamantly denied the Jews their only homeland, where they’ve been a steady presence since 1300 BCE, amid proof of their monarchy, culture, ethics, morality, and religion, established by 1000 BCE.  

            Waters comes by his biases naturally.  He is from the England that blamed the Jews for the Black Plague and expelled them for 350 years; the England that established and then violated the British Mandate in capitulation to Arab pressure; the England that turned thousands of Jewish immigrants away from Palestine to their death; the England that the Manchester Guardian paper chastised for doing nothing to advance partition, and wrote, “has turned heavily against the Jews who cannot arm or train their soldiers as the Arabs have been able to do in the states bordering Palestine.”*  Add to this, the Archbishop of Canterbury who welcomed oppressive Sharia to compromise English law.

            Scheduled to speak on April 30^th in support of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) of Israel at Manhattan’s 92St Y, financially supported by the UJA Federation, Waters then cancelled.  Did he or the Y fold to opposition, or is this a sign of conscience?  Will this four-flusher actually reconsider his position that Israel is to blame for the stagnated peace process – and much more?

            Unable to compete with modernity and modern warfare, the Muslim Brotherhood devised the strategy of keeping their brethren isolated to win global support – this is apartheid.  “To the vanquished go the spoils!”   Did the Brits welcome back the vanquished Nazis or the Argentineans to the Falklands?  Yet Israel has often returned captured land with the hope of peace, but jihadists cannot acknowledge Israel as a Jewish State.      

            Waters had been boiling at the security measures for those who travel between Israel and Gaza.  Is he oblivious to the exploding-Muslim phenomenon?  Would he have simmered with the routine questioning and searches between peaceful America and Canada?  Might he have better tolerated discovering the bodies of the Fogel family, the baby’s head virtually severed, when Israel’s security failed?

            He called the security barrier an “appalling edifice to behold,” this barricade with a mere 10% consisting of concrete, the rest wire, Israel’s protection from her lethal neighbors, yet disregards the many walls, thicker, higher, sturdier, some electrified, that exist worldwide – the latest being the 1116 miles-long edifice between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.  How about the numerous walls throughout the UK, and 44 stone-and-steel “Peace Walls” in Belfast alone? 

            Waters was also immersed in Israel’s housing developments, yet the land was legally obtained in several ways:  land purchased from absentee landlords at high prices; the formal birth of the independent, sovereign State of Israel; and winning territory in wars begun by five Arab armies.  Great Britain remained a major obstacle to Jewish self-defense, barred entry to new immigrants, refused the Jews the right to form a militia and removed weapons wherever possible, yet Brits signed a treaty with Transjordan that armed the Arabs; and the US imposed an arms embargo on the entire region. Still, the Arab war to destroy Israel failed and Arabs lost land they would have had if they’d accepted the partiion.* 

            If he esteems the Palestinians, can Waters define them?  They regarded themselves Syrians in 1939, but they are descendants of Afghans, Algerians, Arabs, Armenians, Bohemians, Bosnians, Bulgarians, Circassians, Copts, Egyptians, Georgians, Germans, Greeks, Italians, Kurds, Latins, Maronites, Persians, Ruthenians, Samaritans, Syrians, Sudanese, Tartars, Turks, and more, and they took the name in an effort to invent a link to the land where there was none before.  The Ancient Romans’political strategy was to destroy the Jewish connection to the area by calling it Syria Palestina, referencing the Aegean Philistines, the sea people of Ancient Greece, but the connection to the Philistines is mere terminology.  Today’s Gaza is occupied by an illegal population calling itself Palestinians, forsaken by a war strategy of their own making.    

            Never a distinct people, Palestinians have no specific history, language, culture, or antiquities; their commonality is the Koranic command to usurp a history and dominate the inhabitants.  In Britain, there are already 85 sharia courts and an Islamist campaign to turn several British cities into independent Islamic states, the beginning of a UK transformation, with Buckingham Palace as their Caliphate.  US Imams are already claiming that Muslims preceded Christopher Columbus and the Native Americans.  This is warfare by historic revisionism and propaganda and it feeds on the prejudiced and uninformed. Their assertions hold no water, but revisionism can deceive.  Fourteen centuries of persistence and success suggest they need not step into modernity.  Hamas is now training students to use weapons to kill Jews, and Waters and the UN will have a new generation of jihadist deaths to blame on Israel. 

            Waters also tapped into the Islamists accusation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing, but not Arabs’ ethnic cleansing of Jews!  According to his thinking, Israel, the size of, say, Wales, is appropriating land from the Islamic landmass a thousand times its size.  Is this the same Israel that is home to every national origin, race and color, including Arab Jews who fled the threat of extinction?  Israel, of which 20% of the population is Arab, with 12 Arab Knesset members?  Where is this ethnic cleansing?    

            Ethnic cleansing creates a decline in population, but the neighboring Palestinians are thriving and increasing due to Israel’s improved healthcare.  There is now longevity and a decrease in the Palestinian birth-mortality rate.  The only “cleansing” appears to be Israel’s providing cleaner, healthier environs.  The accusation doesn’t hold water.  Ethnic cleansing was Hitler’s deeds, and what the Jews are experiencing from Muslim threats of worldwide genocide, their fleeing Scandinavia, Germany and France, and constant barrage of Hamas rockets from Gaza.  And while Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was calling for Israel’s destruction, his relative was receiving life-saving heart surgery in Israel.

            Ethnic cleansing is also when Muslims kill seven million black Africans in Southern Sudan, while the UN and Waters maintain silence.  Muslims capture, enslave, brutalize and dehumanize their captives, while the world looks away.  The new Republic of South Sudan has spoken in gratitude for the safety and humanitarian aid offered the children who managed to escape to Israel.

            The Palestinians declined every chance at statehood; their raison d’etre is Israel’s destruction.  True occupation is the Palestinians in Judea (Judea = Jews) and Samaria, and Muslim control over the entire continent that was once inhabited by non-Muslims.

            Finally, the musician launched an attempt at accountancy, but battles are not waged for proportionality. He did not dispute five Arab armies’ attacking the new State of Israel or, for that matter, the Muslim multitudes raping, pillaging, killing the unarmed in Africa.  England and Germany did not war for congruence.  Arabs terrorize, and accuracy is considered inconsequential; the more dead they have, the more pity they elicit.  The UN has finally acknowledged that Hamas positions women and children as human shields at rocket sites to increase the death toll for outpourings of compassion.  Former British Army Colonel Kemp has time and again testified that the IDF operates in exemplary fashion, with more precautions to safeguard civilians than “any army in the history of warfare.”  He called to task the lies of the media, the fallacious Goldstone report, and the evil propaganda war waged by the Arabs, the media, and organized supporters.  Mr. Waters is “all wet.”

            Radical Islam is intolerant.  Over 1400 years, they extinguished Jews, Christians, Copts, Buddhists, Hindus, Pharoans, Zoroastrians, and others.  That’s ethnic cleansing. Where is his voice against this destructive "Religion of Peace"?    Where is his voice against their  inhumane treatment of even their own women and children? 

            May Roger Waters begin a true investigation and a return to honesty and integrity, and leave behind the causes of tyrannical regimes that create only misery for their people and the world.   

*See Complete Idiot’s guide to Middle East Conflict, Mitchell Bard, Ph.D.

 

Tabitha Korol

Boston’s Little-Known History of Jihad and Terrorism

 

The Boston Marathon bombings last month illustrated that the homegrown terrorist threat in this country is very real. While this was the largest and most deadly terrorist attack in Boston’s history, a new report from the Henry Jackson Society reveals that the Boston area actually has 20 years of ties to Islamic radicalism.

 

At least 26 individuals with links to Massachusetts were found to be connected to Al-Qaeda and Al-Qaeda inspired terrorism, according to the report. Residents of Massachusetts were involved with in-state fundraising, recruiting and planning for jihad, and several traveled abroad to receive extremist training.

 

The organization Care International was founded in Boston in April 1993 and for years solicited money that was funneled to terrorist causes. The cell distributed a newsletter and published information online encouraging American Muslims to abandon their jobs and families for extremist Islam. One article entitled “Boston Offers More Martyrs” highlighted a Boston recruit who left America to fight for the cause of jihad in Afghanistan.

 

The new report from the U.K.-based think tank The Henry Jackson Society also cites the case of Abdel Ghani Meskini, who moved back and forth between Boston and New York before being captured by U.S. security officials because of his involvement in trying to bomb LAX Airport on New Year’s Eve in 1999.

 

It is also noteworthy that the two flights which crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 both departed from Boston Logan International Airport, and 11 of the hijackers used the Boston area as a temporary base in the days prior to the 9/11 attacks. While there is no specific reason for Boston’s high-rates of jihadism, its proximity to New York City seem to have made the city attractive to terrorists in the run-up to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

 

This look into Massachusetts’ history of Islamic radicalism by the Henry Jackson Society comes on the heels of a February report entitled Al-Qaeda in the United States: A Complete Analysis of Terrorism Offenses. The most comprehensive study ever conducted on the topic, the report provides a full analysis of all al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda-inspired terror strikes which took place on U.S. soil between 1997 and 2011.

 

In the wake of the Boston bombings, authorities are still attempting to determine exactly what connections, if any, the Tsarnaev brothers had to al-Qaeda or other foreign terrorist organizations. In the meantime, this new report from the Henry Jackson Society sheds light on growing U.S. threat from within our own borders, and Boston’s long history of ties to al-Qaeda and homegrown terrorism.

 

 

Pope Francis To Canonize 800 Christians Who Were Killed After Refusing To Convert To Islam By Ottoman Soldiers…

Via Weasel Zippers:

Their response to the Ottoman soldiers was, “We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and for Jesus Christ we are ready to die.”

Via Catholic Herald:

Pope Francis is preparing to canonise an estimated 800 Italian laymen killed by Ottoman soldiers in the 15th century. The canonisation service will be on May 12 in St Peter’s Square and it will be the first carried out by the Pontiff since he was elected in early March.

The killing of the martyrs by Ottoman troops, who launched a weeks-long siege of Otranto, a small port town at the most eastern tip of southern Italy, took place in 1480.

When Otranto residents refused to surrender to the Ottoman army, the soldiers were ordered to massacre all males over the age of 15. Many were ordered to convert to Islam or die, but Blessed Antonio Primaldo, a tailor, spoke on the prisoners’ behalf. “We believe in Jesus Christ, Son of God, and for Jesus Christ we are ready to die,” he said, according to Blessed John Paul II, who visited Otranto in 1980 for the 500th anniversary of the martyrs’ deaths.

Primaldo inspired all the other townspeople to take courage, the late Pope said, and to say: “We will all die for Jesus Christ; we willingly die so as to not renounce his holy faith.” There were not “deluded” or “outdated,” Blessed John Paul continued, but “authentic, strong, decisive, consistent men” who loved their city, their families and their faith.

The skulls and other relics of the martyrs currently adorn the walls around the altar of Otranto Cathedral as a memorial to their sacrifice. According to the archdiocese’s website, popular tradition holds that when the soldiers beheaded Primaldo, his body remained standing even as the combatants tried to push him over. Legend has it that the decapitated man stood until the very last prisoner was killed, at which point Primaldo’s body collapsed next to his dead comrades.

Keep reading…

 

Saudi Arabia warns US Tsarnaev and three Pakistanis are potential jihadis

The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its government warned the U.S. about accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

However, according to the Daily Mail:

According to a highly placed source who spoke to MailOnline, the Saudis sent a written warning about Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2012. That was long before pressure-cooker blasts killed three and injured hundreds.

The official told MailOnline about a written warning from the Saudi government to the Department of Homeland Security, and said he had direct knowledge of that document.

The Saudis' warning, the official told MailOnline, was separate from the multiple red flags raised by Russian intelligence in 2011, and was based on human intelligence developed independently in Yemen.

Citing security concerns, the Saudi government also allegedly denied an entry visa to the elder Tsarnaev brother in December 2011, when he hoped to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, the source said. Tsarnaev's plans to visit Saudi Arabia have not been previously disclosed.

 

So which is it?  Did Saudi Arabia alert the United States as the high ranking official told the Daily Mail?  If so, why is the Washington Saudi embassy denying it now?   More:

The Saudis' warning to the U.S. government was also shared with the British government. 'It was very specific’ and warned that 'something was going to happen in a major U.S. city,' the Saudi official said during an extensive interview.

It 'did name Tamerlan specifically,' he added. The 'government-to-government' letter, which he said was sent to the Department of Homeland Security at the highest level, did not name Boston or suggest a date for his planned attack.

There is much, much more at the Daily Mail, video, images.  They conclude the article with this:

Tamerlan may have boasted about his plans online, the Saudi official said, offering an explanation for how Yemen-based sources first learned of him. Islamist militants have well-developed social networks that can enable news to migrate quickly across vast distances.

The Saudi government sometimes tracks such radicals by launching fake jihadi websites to attract extremists. The Ministry of Interior then tracks them electronically, often across the world, and shares information with governments it considers friendly, including the United States.

'The Saudi Arabian government is doing everything it can to wipe out these people and treat America as a true friend,' the official said.

The Saudi intelligence services have a long history of providing credible information to America and Great Britain about looming threats.

'This is the fourth time the Saudi Arabian government has given the U.S. specific intel' about a possible terror plot, the official said, citing prior warnings about Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber who repeatedly tried to light a fuse in his shoe to bring down American Airlines flight 63 bound for Miami in December 2001.

He also cited the 300-gram 'ink-cartridge bombs' planted on two cargo planes headed for the United States from Yemen in October 2010. Those explosives were intercepted in Dubai, and at an East Midlands airport in Great Britain.  (The Daily Mail UK)

Homeland Security really screwed this up.  They were quick to announce that this was a lone wolf, there were no others involved, no future attacks planned.  They were WRONG on all counts.  This is what happens when you put political cronies with absolutely NO experience or training in positions of importance to the safety of this nation.

Via Drudge:

 

'TERRORISTA #1' ARRESTED IN BOSTON...

PAPER: Saudi Arabia warned USA in writing about Tamerlan...

Rejected application for entry visa to visit Mecca...

Boston Manhunt 'Missed the Boat' as Police Skip Street...

Just Thinking Number 57

Frederick William Dame

(Exercising freedom of speech … as long as it still exists.)

 

Just Thinking

 

Number 57

 

 

JT:  A friend of mine has been having an unusual dream.  Every morning at about 4 AM she dreams that she's hiking with a backpack of provisions and fresh water.  She sees a man lying on the ground, face down.  She knows that the man is alive, but she can't turn him over.  She speaks to him and asks him who he is.  Then my friend wakes up.  She's had I've had the dream five nights in a row.  Last night, the sixth night, she had the same dream and came to the situation where she shakes the man and asks who he is.  The man turns over and says, "I'm Barack Hussein Obama, your president.  I need some water, some water, please, I need a drink of water, otherwise I won't live to see another day."  The dream was over and my friend woke up with this morning with this question in her mind:  Why should I contaminate my water? 

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Commenting on the bombing at the Boston Marathon on Monday, 15 April 2013, Barack Hussein Obama said the following:  “We still do not know who did this or why, and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before we have all the facts. But, make no mistake, we will get to the bottom of this, and we will find out who did this, we’ll find out why they did this. Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice.”  (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/white-house-dc-nyc-boost-security-boston-90085.html?hp=t1)  

 

JT:  Where and when and how often have I heard this or similar statements from Barack Hussein Obama before?  I'm still waiting for true answers.

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JT:  I'm reposting this in its entirety with this added question.  Barack Hussein Obama!  How long will we have to wait for the true answers?

 

Boston Marathon Bombing: How did this image make it to a jihad portal?

Source:  http://tammyswofford.blogspot.de/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-how-did-this.html.

Yes, I have violated my own policy to avoid graphic images. Two things caused me to consider posting this image. A print media organization chose to photo-shop injuries to make them look benign and palatable to readers. Acts of terror are committed by individuals with malignant ideologies. Malignant images should not be softened. *Is this one of the images taken by Carlos Arredondo? If so, how did it end up on a jihad portal? Has it passed from person to person? Or did "our side" post it to elicit information? Regardless, the concern for me is the "Ha ha" comment on the site. This is not a "Ha ha" moment. Sane people never laugh in the face of immense tragedy. I apologize for the horrific image. But it seems very, very important that Americans understand the true medical outcomes of explosions activated within corridors with a dense population demographic. Reading about "amputations" and "dismemberment" is one thing. Seeing it, is completely different. I contend that it is not the Time Magazine cover with a child with a blood streak on the face which is the image which shows the horrific nature of this attack. It is the image of a man with dismemberment which defines this act. This is the image. View it quickly and then let it sink into your psyche. Stop for a moment, and imagine the PTSD for the surgeons and nurses who had to receive these injuries into the operating room. Can they sleep now? I cannot sleep. Pray. Pray for our nation. Pray that the forensic evidence will lead to an arrest. Pray that when an arrest is made, we will react as Americans: with fortitude, patience, and the wisdom to examine the situation with clarity. Fall on your knees. Pray for the families involved. Now that you have viewed the image, put a guard on your own heart. Evil exists. We have seen it in full. We reject it. Tammy Swofford

 

JT:  Barack Hussein Obama!  Look in a mirror!

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The Two Faces Of Death

By Kevin O'Neil

 

Why was the fiercest invective of that paragon of beings, the Man of Nazareth, reserved for the religious hypocrites of His day? Not for the blatant criminals but for the falsely religious, the pretenders.

 
While not excusing the sin of those who practiced the oldest profession in the world, or the transgressions of those engaged in, arguably, the second oldest profession, tax collecting, His condemnation was focused not on them but on the hypocrites, the dissemblers, the con artists and frauds who posed in long-fringed clerical robes on street corners pronouncing lengthy prayers. This was the evidence of their superior morality. Or not. 

 
The ghost of Hamlet's father lamented his most seeming-virtuous Queen, who had appeared one thing and, in truth, been something quite different, oh so different.  Antony, in speaking of the multitude of wounds inflicted on the body of Caesar, identified that of his apparent friend, Brutus, as the most unkindest cut of all. Betrayal, if it is to succeed, must be accompanied with pretense. In both cases the victim learned this too late.

 

The diabolic art of seeming to be  one thing when you are quite something else.  A horrible thing.  Spies are despised the world over, the names of Quisling and Lord Haw Haw are dirt.

 

And don't ever forget the Biblical warning about the wolf that is clad in sheep's clothing.

 

How would we answer this question: What is worse, ugly reality or moral pretense?  A bloody corpse or a whitewashed sepulchre?

 

The evil Kermit Gosnell, may his name be blotted out, has thrust into our minds images of jars of human parts, serum-slippery floors, bloody scissors and inhumanity relishing the power it wields over undefended innocence. Images of cruelty and heartlessness that will not and should not be forgotten quickly, if ever. We can safely assume that no abattoir could generate anywhere nearly as much revulsion in us than would a visit to this house of horrors.  

 

Yet Gosnell has given us the ugly reality of what we have come to euphemistically call abortion. The word derives from the Latin and means to miscarry and with no sense of willful intent as far as I can see.  So then our modern use of the word to describe a miscarriage, which is purposely induced, is really a misuse of the term. A convenient misuse, because if we were to call it what it is we should have to use terms such as pre-meditated murder or killing or even sacrifice, and that would undoubtedly offend somebody's tender conscience, and a tender conscience must be protected from ugly reality at all costs.

 

We pay people good money to perform hygienic killings of tiny babies who have not yet cut their first tooth; in the antiseptic rooms of clinics we murder them humanely. That is to say, it's largely out of sight and the doctors who perform it look not like Gosnell but fine, decent men and women who have been highly trained in our best colleges.  So that's all OK, then.  But, as far as the baby's concerned, dead is dead.  Gosnell's victims were not more dead than these victims.

 

Gosnell's crime was that  he didn't do it nicely, as prescribed; he was callous, vicious and cruel. If he hadn't been like that, but more like the fine chaps in the clinics of Planned Parenthood (Unparenthood), many people wouldn't have turned a hair. But the babies would still be dying. I understand that they had a record year 2011-12, a full 333,964 successful killings, business is booming and the abortion President blushed coyly because of his success, promising full support in the future.  

 

But the cat's out the bag.  Gosnell is the real face of abortion wherever it's carried out, with or without air conditioning.  And people are sick of it and of a President who summons God to bless the enterprise. If God weeps, and I believe He does, He weeps now.

 

So, what is worse, ugly reality or moral pretense? A corpse bloodied or a sepulchre whitewashed? For sheer horror, the blood and filth of Gosnell's workshop takes the prize.  But for the danger that it presents to Western society, the Brave New World of Planned Parenthood Clinics is by far the gravest peril.  It has all to do with a betrayal cloaked in a pretense.

 

What could the Boston bomber story have in common with this?  Everything, it's the same pattern.

 

The Boston bombers were another manifestation of evil that quite rightly horrified us.  Catastrophes and natural disasters with a hundred times the destructive effect don't shock us nearly as much as this one did. Why is this? For one thing there is the malignant will behind such an act, this horrifies us. Then there is the scene itself, not a battlefield but a family event, a happy gathering of smiling people transformed in a second into a bloody nightmare. The impression of evil is overwhelming. Shakespeare's deed without a name.

 

Weren't the Boston bombers muslims? Wasn't the Fort Hood killer a muslim?  The London underground bombing and the Madrid bombing? Weren't the World Trade Centre and Pentagon attacks committed by muslims?  And since that fateful day we call 9/11 hasn't there been an average of 5 terrorist attacks by muslims every single day throughout the world, making a grand total of 20,755?

 

Like Gosnell, this is relatively easy to deal with, a bloody, nasty nightmare but even the President rushes to be numbered among the decriers of such atrocities, even he doesn't blush with modesty at the news of muslim devilry in Boston.

 

But the Islam of which he and too many others do approve is the one which seems to be composed of people almost like you or me, loving families who run small businesses and just appear to want a peaceful life. And maybe they do, but the bosses of the mosques have very different ideas, for they believe the Koran, they seriously believe that Mohammed's life of rape, murder, and enslavement is the life of perfection, the life to emulate, the life that allah wants reproduced in every muslim. And the bosses are preaching old fashioned American pie stuff like this: The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...  Why? Because Islam is not just a religion which you can believe in or not, it is a complete political and totalitarian system similar to Nazism or Communism, which will never rest until the host society is dominated and every aspect of freedom riveted down and submitted.

 

Wake up, West!  The mosques are just the friendly facades, the pretense that surrounds a betrayal in waiting.

 

"The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim." - Marco Polo

 

We had better come to our senses soon because they are both just two different faces of the same thing, Death.