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Also in Media: “The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money” – The Interpreter – November 22, 2014 (!)

26 Saturday Nov 2016

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The story of the 20th century was also the story of the battle against censorship. But what happens when a powerful actor systematically abuses freedom of information to spread disinformation? Uses freedom of speech in such a way as to subvert the very possibility of a debate? And does so not merely inside a country, as part of vicious election campaigns, but as part of a transnational military campaign? Since at least 2008, Kremlin military and intelligence thinkers have been talking about information not in the familiar terms of “persuasion,” “public diplomacy” or even “propaganda,” but in weaponized terms, as a tool to confuse, blackmail, demoralize, subvert and paralyze.

Like freedom of information, free dialogue between cultures is key to the liberal vision of globalization. The more cultural exchange we have, the more harmony we will have. But what should we do when the Kremlin begins to use the Russian Orthodox Church and compatriot organizations abroad as elements of a belligerent foreign policy that aims to subvert other countries?

Source: The Menace of Unreality: How the Kremlin Weaponizes Information, Culture and Money – 11/22/2014 – by Peter Pomerantsev and Michael Weiss.

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http://www.interpretermag.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PW-31.pdf

Also in Media – “Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities” « Telos Press – On Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi’s experience as the Palestinian professor who arranged appropriate field trips, one of them to Auschwitz, for both Israeli and Palestinian students

28 Wednesday Sep 2016

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As Haaretz reported, “He says the choice of Dheisheh for the Israeli students was not meant to suggest there was an equivalence or even a direct link between the Holocaust and the Nakba. They were chosen as the symbolic events that have deeply affected the psyche on both sides of the conflict.” The aim was to build mutual empathy and understanding through an appreciation of events central to the other side’s narratives and self-understanding.

None of this played well on the Palestinian street. Holocaust deniers asserted that Dajani was trying to brainwash his students by disseminating the fabrication that the Holocaust was real. He was denounced as a traitor and collaborator by students and others and warned not to enter Ramallah. The faculty union cancelled his membership.

Read more about Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities « Telos Press, September 27, 2016.

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From Correspondence — Journalism Democritized

17 Wednesday Jun 2015

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On the record?

Off the record?

Journalists exercise discretion as part of the business, but most put together stories for broadly distributed publication. The investigative types routinely pull together stories their subjects may not wish to see read anywhere.

That’s “Watergate”.

Ours is a different era.

We have the global “war on terror”; we have our wondrous Internet that wraps the world in new communications, intimate and public, trivial and history changing, friendly for the most part, on occasion discomforting; and we have information-oriented entrepreneurs of every imaginable type, all of whom self-assign and pursue eclectic projects, and they do what they would do if they were free because, in fact, and whatever the combination of funding, motivation, and time available — however they’re put together; however they put it together — they are free and can post thought in innumerable contexts.

In “information space”, you’re representative of both emerged and perhaps emerging types.

Many of my online friends routinely publish in “free press” publications and middle-media blogs sponsored by more established purveyors of news. Relatively few, if any, are picking up money on their virtual print output.

Alas, at similar levels, there are other fauna online: personalities with funny names and little background promoting through their chatyping a familiar and herding or “group-think” yackety-yack — they are the new nemeses, and they are placed everywhere. Be glad you are getting around in real space and spending time with real people . . . .

Doubtless some just “gather it all in” for hours a day.

How has New Media — it’s not so new anymore, actually — changed Everyman’s impression of the greater surrounding world?

In the inbox inside of the first 15 computer-on minutes of the day:

Local: http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/breaking/dozens-arrested-in-tri-state-area-in-connection-with-heroin/article_63db763e-143e-11e5-8517-27cfb4462c10.html

From Phyllis Chesler’s conservative feminist voice for liberation: “Op-Ed: The Truth-Teller’s Gulag: The price is high, but the cost of remaining silent far exceeds the left’s swift punishments for telling the truth.”  Arutz Sheva, June 16, 2015.

Without mentioning the Druze, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot said the authorities were preparing for a possible influx of Syrian refugees and would prevent a potential massacre at the border.

“The reality in the Golan Heights, where internal fighting is near the border with Israel, is of great concern to us, including the possibility we might have to deal with refugees from Syria arriving at the border,” Eizenkot told a parliamentary committee, his words conveyed by a spokesman.

Arutz Sheva Staff.  “IDF Chief Promises to Protect Syria’s Druze from ‘Massacre’.” Israel & Stuff, June 17, 2015.

All day, every day, the world turns up a sea of new information online.  Glance at it, parse it, sift it, comment on it, pass it along, recompile it, even act on it, it’s moving, living, morphing before our eyes.

That’s today’s news — a deeply democratized international gabfest, some very high percentage of which involves passing words along, or in the “listening posts” within the minds of citizen journalists chatting beneath the cover of writing– every man and woman a scribe that would wish to be — swallowed, digested, and saved away for a distant later that need never arrive.

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Garland – Texted + Comments on Freedom of Speech

04 Monday May 2015

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Texted last night and this morning by one of BackChannel’s friends —

5/4/2015/0018

In the cab.  Men actually left vehicle and were on foot.  Swat told e . . . .

5/4/2015/0837

Not having fun.  Police officer shot led times two.  Bomb squad.  We have been moved to a hardened position.

The event was sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) and attended by its president and co-founder, Pamela Geller — who is also president of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA). Both are listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Jamieson, Alastair.  “‘Draw Muhammad’ Shooting in Garland: What We Know About Texas Attack.”  NBC News, May 4, 2015.

Since when has earnest and honest — not disingenuous, not libelous — speech been framed as “hate speech” — and with the speakers branded as a “hate group”?

Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&M-adorned youth, but anyone who’s spent more than five minutes in their company will know that these students are far more interested in shutting debate down than opening it up.

O’Neill, Brendan.  “Free speech is so last century.  Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’: Student unions’ ‘no platform’ policy is expanding to cover pretty much anyone whose views don’t fit prevailing groupthink.”  The Spectator, November 22, 2014.

I had been writing a series of columns in the Village Voice about certain thought police at that very paper.  I had found out that on Monday nights, when the paper went to bed, some editors and copy editors — without telling the writers — were cutting out certain words, sometimes sentences and paragraphs, that might offend the Voice’s constituencies.

Hentoff, Nat.  “Free Speech for Me — But Not for Thee: How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other.”  New York, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1992.

Where are we today?

How did this happen that comment and criticism of Islam — the same would seem much more safe and secure when the target of critical speech involves Christianity, Judaism, and every other religion expressed in the brave and free United States of America — has been framed as provocation for violence and seems to be being made to serve to excuse it?

Nigger.

Want some more?

Kike. Wop. Spic. Kraut. Dink. Jap. Mick. Honkey. Frog. Greaseball.

How’s that?

Context and intent count.

Just so no English language speaker is caught short or left behind while trading the dozens, The Racial Slur Database lists some 2,649 of these pejoratives.

Contempt, which is what epithets express, contribute to our defensive arsenal in language: they are the weapons we reach for when we are done with words and reason and, overall, ready to rumble.

Sometimes they come out when rumbling.

Oppenheim, James.  “N-Word Metonymy – Richards, Schlessinger in Context.” Oppenheim Arts & Letters, August 18, 2010.

Pamela Geller, the organizer of the Texas “Draw Muhammad” event in Garland, Texas, that ended in a terror attack on a police officer, said on national television Monday she’d do it again – that free speech is way too important to cede to Shariah law extremists.

“Clearly what happened is indicative of how needed this conference was,” said Geller, on “Fox & Friends,” in reference to the violence that came on the tail end of the cartoon drawing contest, as WND previously reported.

Pamela Geller: ‘There is a war on free speech’

Said Pamela Geller: “Inoffensive speech needs no protection; offensive speech needs protection.” (about 1:40 into the Fox video).

Ad hominem attacks and epithets may be offensive and also protected speech too, but add virtue to Geller’s so-called hate speech: considered and contemplated, well researched, respectful, clearly delineating “the terrorists”, albeit in absolute terms, while — for readers who actually care to look into this issue — recognizing Islamic humanists and reformists and other Muslims often in the path of jihadists themselves.

Related on BackChannels: Shimmer.

On the web, where most of my experience of the world arrives mediated, I have seen the development of a new global across-the-broadest-campus intelligentsia, and perhaps that soon should be the focus of a BackChannels post.

When contentious issues and conflict are worked by the public, is God like a cook watching over a simmering pot on the stove?

Too cool, and the food doesn’t transform — it needs some serious heat; too hot, and the pot boils over or boils out — those conditions need some serious cool.

Additional Reference

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/2015/05/03/garland-curtis-culwell-center-swat/26848435/ 5/4/2015/0828 CDT

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20150503-breaking-gunfire-reported-at-anti-islam-event-at-garland-isd-facility.ece – 5/3/2015/0715 CDT / 5/4/2015/0830 CDT.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-shooting-organisers-of-prophet-mohamed-cartoon-contest-condemn-attack-as-war-on-free-speech-after-police-kill-two-gunmen-10223333.html – 5/4/2015/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/05/04/why-a-woman-named-pamela-geller-organized-a-prophet-muhammad-cartoon-contest/ – 5/4/2015.

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5676/free-speech-erosion#.VUZKkPjMqRo.facebook – 5/3/2015.

Addendum

Pamela Geller is a 56-year-old Jewish arch-conservative from New York, a vehement critic of radical Islam who organized a provocative $10,000 cartoon contest in this placid Dallas suburb designed to caricature the prophet Muhammad.

Elton Simpson was a 30-year-old aspiring Islamic militant from Phoenix who fantasized to an FBI informant about “doing the martyrdom operations” in Somalia and was convicted in 2010 of lying to the FBI about his plans to travel to the volatile eastern African nation.

Kaiman, Jonathan, Tina Susman, David Zucchino.  “Texas attack refocuses attention on fine line between free speech and hate speech.”  Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2015.

From the Awesome Conversation:

The “Islamists” — which noun we use to set them apart from Muslims who are not “Islamists” and have been frequently the targets of the same — have a deep investment in force of will and intimidation. Control, locus of control, need for control, motivation for sadism, etc. are more topics worth concentrating on.

Americans know — and I believe I’m within reason saying this — that Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer exercise and represent free speech in action accommodated to American constitutional principles. Ascribed to Patrick Henry: ““I may not like what a man says, but I shall defend to the death his right to say it!” That’s it.

We don’t shout down opponents; we don’t deny anyone a soapbox. We may choose not to listen to their rants; we may choose to not invite our “verbal adversaries” to our house parties. But we don’t shut them up lest we ourselves suffering being shut up.

While Geller and Spencer have been “framed” — called, described as, denoted as, accused — as “Islamophobes”, the truth is that practice will simply elicit its opposite, sooner or later, in political reaction. I’ve shared the Back-Channels concept “Shimmer” with Geller — didn’t hear back — and out of no cause or motivation not my own but solely curiosity and enthusiasm for the broadband web, I’ve made acquaintance and friends across the Islamic world.

Religious teleology adjusts to many forces across time. The Catholic Church maintained the charge of Deicide against the Jews until into the early 1960s, and the Lutheran Synod in America tooks its time ejecting, at least officially, the same. In other aspects, the Jesuits continue writing letters to Jesus and God only knows — or only God knows! — the ways in which people profess faith and integrate themselves with a spiritual program or script . . . or come to the immense opportunity to adjust and update the same in fact or emphasis.

This too is a part of Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/NewAgeIslam

Such missions (thank you for being here) have become a day to day part of global intellectual life.

Reference URL: New Age Islam.

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Reprint: “Where is Molly Norris”

09 Friday Jan 2015

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Original posted in 2010 in response to Molly Norris, a Seattle cartoon, who had encountered much of the threat visited on Charlie Hebdo (#JeSuisCharlie).  I had retrieve this piece for Facebook use before Fox got to the same thing today —

“Seattle cartoonist still in hiding following 2010 Islamist death threat.”

Also related:

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/01/08/ezra-levant-slams-medias-jesuischarlie-phonies/ – 1/8/2015.

Molly Norris is.

Molly Norris is Jesus Christ and Isis together as depicted by D. H. Lawrence.

Molly Norris is Dick Gregory, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce.

Molly Norris is every child who ever razzed authority and every adult who wished he had: Molly Norris is Bart Simpson.

Molly Norris is Howard Stern, Vladimir Nabokov, Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Dashiel Hammett and Lilian Hellman, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, and many others, challenging, politically inconvenient, transgressive.

Molly Norris is Molly Norris, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, also Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Carsten Juste, Flemming Rose, Geert Wilders, Kurt Westergaard, Lars Vilks, Olof Johansson, Roxana Saberi, and Salman Rushdie [1].

Molly Norris is Theo Van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn.

Molly Norris is Al-Nadr bin Al-Harith, Uqba bin Abu Muayt, Amsa bint Marwan, Abu Afak, Kab bin al-Ashraf, Ibn Sunayna, Abdullah bin Sad, Abdullah bin Katal (and one of two “singing-girls”) [2]; also Mansur Al-Hallaj; also, these associated with Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses,  Ali Dashti, Hitoshi Igarashi, Ettore Caprioli, Aziz Nesin; also Naguib Mafouz; also Taslima Nasrin, Farag Foda, Anwar Sheikh, Nasr Abu-Zaid, Rashad Khalifa, Matoub Lounes, Younis Shaikh, Robert Hussein, Nawal El-Saddaawi, Tahmineh Mini, Khalid Duran, Mahmoud Muhammed Talal [3] .

Molly Norris is Ayman Udas.

Molly Norris is every artist or writer who has ever been assaulted, banned, blacklisted, beaten, censored, intimidated, jailed, tortured, or murdered for something he expressed through language or fine art.

Molly Norris is every child who once doodled something naughty, every petulant teen who ever uttered an uncomfortable truth, every adult who for once told it like was.

Molly Norris is everyone.

So where is Molly Norris?

As everyone knows: everywhere.

Cited Reference

  1. May, Ned.  “The Hit List: Nine Infidels in the Crosshairs.”  The West, Islam and Sharia, July 22, 2010: http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/2010/07/hit-list-nine-infidels-in-crosshairs.html

  2. Arlandson, James M.  “Muhammad’s Dead Poets Society: The assassinations of satirical poets in early Islam.”  Answering-Islam, n.d., http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/dead_poets.htm; 2a. revised and expanded from initial publication as “Muhammad’s (non)assassinations of (non)victims” in American Thinker, October 12, 2004: http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/10/muhammads_nonassassinations_of.html

  3. Stephan, Susan.  “Intellectual Censorship in Islam: A Matter of Life and Death.”  Associated with http://www.faithfreedom.org, published on the web via Iranscope, n.d.: http://iranscope.ghandchi.com/Anthology/Islam/intelislam.htm

Other Reference

Archiving Early America.  “Thomas Paine’s Common Sense”: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/commonsense/

Associated Press.  “Alaska man who made hit list of enemies of Islam gets 8 years in prison on terror charges.”  Fox News, August 23, 2010: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/23/alaska-man-accused-hit-list-enemies-islam-gets-years-prison-terror-charges/

Cambronero, Francis E.  “Writers Series Event Breathes Life Into Censored Authors’ Works.”  The Harvard Crimson, April 13, 2010: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/4/13/magazine-writers-event-living/

Controversial & Banned Books (web site): http://www.banned-books.com/

Fefer, Mark D.  “On the Advice of the FBI, Cartoonist Molly Norris Disappears From View.”  Seattle Weekly News, September 15, 2010: http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-15/news/on-the-advice-of-the-fbi-cartoonist-molly-norris-disappears-from-view/

Finkelstein, Daniel.  “Protecting Ayaan Hirsi Ali.”  Comment Central, The Times Online, October 18, 2007: http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2007/10/charles-moore-w.html

Geller, Pamela.  “Pakistani Artist, Poet Murdered in Shariah ‘Honor’ Killing.”  Atlas Shrugs, April 30, 2009: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/pakistani-artist-poet-murdered-in-shariah-honor-killing.html

Geller, Pamela.  “Seven Muslims Arrested in Ireland Over Plot to Assassinate Cartoonist Lars Vilks.”  March 9, 2010: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/03/seven-muslims-arrested-ireland-over-plot-to-assassinate-cartoonist-lars-vilks.html

Gould, Terry.  Murder Without Borders: Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places.  Random House Canada, 2009.

Hannan, Caleb.  “Molly Norris, “Draw Mohammed Day” Cartoonist, Placed on Execution Hitlist by Islamic Cleric Anwar Al-Awlaki.”  Seattle Weekly Blogs, The Daily Weekly, July 12, 2010: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/07/molly_norris_draw_mohammed_day_1.php

Human Rights Watch.  “Banned, Censored, Harassed, and Jailed: Hellman/Hammett Grants Honor 42 Writers for Courage Facing Political Persecution.”  August 4, 2010: http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/08/04/banned-censored-harassed-and-jailed

International Freedom of Expression Exchange: http://www.ifex.org/

Jonsson, Patrik.  “Cartoonist Lars Vilks attacked for showing Prophet Mohammed in gay film.”  The Christian Science Monitor, May 12, 2010: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0512/Cartoonist-Lars-Vilks-attacked-for-showing-Prophet-Mohammed-in-gay-film

Journalism and Democracy.  “Ulf Johansson gets wolf-like on freedom of speech.”  MENA – 2008 – Fojo: http://www2.fo.hik.se/mena08/subpage/ulf_johansson.html

Khattak, Daud.  “Sinter Ayman Udas ‘shot by her brothers for TV sin'”.  The Sunday Times, May 3, 2009: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6211260.ece

Lica, Mihaela.  “Bomb-in-Turban Muhammad Cartoon Artist Threatened Again.”  Everything PR, January 2, 2010: http://www.pamil-visions.net/kurt-westergaard/210080/

May, Ned.  “The Hit List: Nine Infidels in the Crosshairs.”  July 22, 2010: http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/2010/07/hit-list-nine-infidels-in-crosshairs.html

Marshall, Frank.  “The Koran Crisis: Making a Point.”  Right Side News, September 12, 2010: http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010091211607/life-and-science/culture-wars/the-koran-crisis-making-a-point.html

Militant Islam Monitor.  “Theo van Gogh’s book ‘Allah Knows Best’ – Murders of Van Gogh and Pim Fortuyn perpetrated by and for Muslims.”  November 14, 2004: http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/319

National Coalition Against Censorship (web site): http://www.ncac.org/

National Coalition Against Censorship, Blogging Censorship: http://ncacblog.wordpress.com/

Pipes, Daniel.  “‘Rushdie Rules’ reach Florida: Obama endorses privileged status for Islam.”  The Washington Times, September 20, 2010: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/20/rushdie-rules-reach-florida/

Pipes, Daniel.  “[Theo van Gogh] ‘Education By Murder’ in Holland.  Daniel Pipes (initial placement: New York Sun), November 16, 2004: http://www.danielpipes.org/2218/theo-van-gogh-and-education-by-murder-in-holland.

Rosenbaum, Ron.  “Bonfire of the Intellectuals: Paul Berman’s outraged attack on Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s attackers.”  Slate, March 25, 2010: http://www.slate.com/id/2248809/

Seccombe, Mike.  “Voices of Banned Writers Past Lend Perspective on Tense Present.”  Vineyard Gazette Online: http://www.mvgazette.com/article.php?26699

Wikipedia.  “Everybody Draw Mohammad Day”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Draw_Mohammed_Day

Wikipedia.  “List of authors banned during the Third Reich”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authors_banned_during_the_Third_Reich

Wikipedia.  “Pim Fortuyn”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn

Wikipedia.  “Piss Christ”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

Young, Gordon.  “Confronting Conformity.”  Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin, 31:4, Spring/Summer 2009: http://bulletin.kenyon.edu/x3016.xml

International Center for Journalists.  “Name a single jailed or censored writer or journalist.”  December 22, 2009: http://www.ijnet.org/ijnet/answers/name_a_single_jailed_or_censored_writer_or_journalist

Related right now:

http://www.vocativ.com/world/france-world/hostage-dramas-continue-terror-spree-paris/ – 1/10/2015.

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FTAC – Choudary’s Arrest – Lay Comment on Freedom of Speech

27 Saturday Sep 2014

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Freedom of speech is nowhere completely free. The law excludes conspiracy and incitement to commit crimes, or, as with shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater, to produce mayhem. In wartime, and a part of Islam seems committed to warring continuously with the west, democratic and open societies may also choose to outlaw seditious speech while tightening up on that traitorous speech related to spying.

As Choudary believes himself Muslim, as do the host of Brotherhood and Hezbollah elements, he speaks as if Muslim while embracing a regressive and retrograde agenda for all others. I doubt his case will produce much sympathy, if any, outside of Islamic circles.

While one may swear to defend to the death disagreeable political speech, the threat of imminent death associated with the speaker’s rant may draw the limit on that that principle and sentiment.

All the men were held on suspicion of being a member of, or backing a banned terrorist group and supporting terrorism. The alleged offences, which come under two counter- terrorism acts, carry a maximum penalty of seven years’ imprisonment.

Choudary was arrested at an unknown location after fleeing his home two weeks ago in the middle of the night in the wake of threats from far-Right groups.

Just hours before he was held, he posted a burst of nine inflammatory messages on Twitter, branding the US bombing raids as a ‘rallying call for Muslims’ and labelling the actions of Western governments in Muslim countries as ‘terrorism’.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2769098/BREAKING-NEWS-Nine-men-arrested-counter-terror-police-London-suspicion-encouraging-terrorism.html#ixzz3EY4XhUYo – 9/25/2014.

We will probably hear in relation to Choudary’s arrest the same sociopathic cant reserved for Aafia Siddiqui, by temperament a different kind of plotter but with much the same destruction, hate, and mayhem in mind.

Update: How Dangerous Can He Be?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/26/anjem-choudary-released-on-bail – 9/26/2014.

Not to make light of court decisions made between fair modern British law and a feudal demagogue and rabble-rouser, perhaps the Crown has done right by treating Choudary no differently than anyone else.

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25 Monday Aug 2014

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Without reporters and cameras there to document the carnage, the blood that Hamas compels Gazans to shed on its behalf would be wasted. Hamas thus needs reporters in Gaza. But the last thing it wants is a press corps reporting both sides of the conflict—documenting not just the result of Israeli airstrikes but also the Hamas rockets and missiles that drew Israeli fire in the first place.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/hamas-s-media-strategy_803523.html – 9/1/2014

Ho Hum – Islamists Burning Libraries

05 Sunday Jan 2014

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However, Ashraf Rifi, former head of the Internal Security Forces, told AP the attack had nothing to do with a pamphlet and was, in fact, triggered by speculation that Father Surouj had written a study on the internet that insulted Islam.

Thousands of books, manuscripts torched in fire at historic Lebanese library (PHOTOS) — RT News – 1/4/2014.

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Speaking by phone, city mayor Ousmane Halle said: ‘They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people.’

Timbuktu treasures destroyed by Islamists as French move in | Mail Online – 1/28/2013.

▶ Islamist Fighters Destroy Timbuktu Tombs – YouTube – Posted 7/1/2012

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Reports from Afghanistan Reveal Kabul Libraries Devastated | American Libraries Magazine 2/4/2002

The burning of libraries – Irish atheist (liberal-right, anti-jihad, pro-west, pro-Israel) writer Mark Humphrys gores everyone’s ox, not only Muslim, but the page is worth a look in light of today’s expansion of the Syrian Civil War and Jihad  into Lebanon.

Libya Islamists destroy Sufi shrines, library: military | Reuters – 8/25/2012.  I looked for libraries on this fast glance, but cultural artifacts may be brought down too.  The destructive point is not to redress grievance but to annihilate and subdue all cultures foreign in space or time itself.  Antiquities are of no value before the delusional onslaught of Islamozombies.

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▶ LIBYA Sufi Sites Razed By Heavily Armed Salafis, Cops Attacked, Burn Library, Destroy Graves 8.26.12 – YouTube – Posted 9/17/2012

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The Description of Egypt is likely burned beyond repair. Its home, the two-story historic institute near Tahrir Square, is now in danger of collapsing after the roof caved in.

“The burning of such a rich building means a large part of Egyptian history has ended,” the director of the institute, Mohammed al-Sharbouni, told state television over the weekend. The building was managed by a local non-governmental organization.

Thousands Of Rare Books, Journals, Writings Burned At Institute d’Egypt In Cairo – 12/19/2011.

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Egypt’s richest library goes up in smoke (VIDEO, PHOTOS) — RT Art & culture – 12/20/2011.

▶ Egyptian Institute – YouTube – Posted 12/18/2011

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There seem too complaints of underhanded reconstruction underwritten by the Saudi state. To address the repair of Balkan Islamic monuments, Jolyon Naegele suggests the wholesale bulldozing of the same has been to replace that heritage with architecture more favoring the Saudi Wahhabi vision.

Annihilation, One Cultural Artifact, One Memory, At a Time – Oppenheim Arts & Letters – 9/8/2008.

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