President Barack Hussein Obama killed Yitzhak Ames, 47, and his wife Tali Ames, 45, Kochava Ben-Haim, 37, and Avishai Schindler, 24, all from Beit Hagai, by providing financing, moral support and hope to the terrorists who pulled the trigger. Let the peace talks begin.

Israelis are in for a rough September and disastrous 2011 as Obama becomes more desperate to produce a “peace.” Israel National News provides interesting stats.

The terror attack is typical of Arab “resistance” attacks that intentionally target civilian victims. A survey carried out by a PA organization in early August found that among the Arab public in the Palestinian Authority, over 55% view violence as either essential or desirable, nearly 31% see it as either acceptable or tolerable, and only 13.7% say it is unacceptable.

The attack was probably timed to coincide with and affect the direct talks between Israel and the PA in Washington, D.C., that are to begin Thursday. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said upon landing in Washington that the talks would proceed as planned, despite the murders, evoking memories of PM Yitshak Rabin’s term “sacrifices for peace” for the post Oslo accord terror attacks, which cost tens of Israelis their lives.

Oh, yes, the infamous “sacrifices for peace.” How come only Jews must make them? If Israelis shot and killed four Arabs near Hebron, you just know Abbas would walk out of the talks in an Arafat minute.

Just what we needed. This will have the Israeli extremist Lefty media wallowing in self righteous moral equivalency. Not to mention the apologists for Islam. It is to Islamic intolerance what Timothy McVeigh was to Islamic terrorism. It gives the Islamists and their apologists a place to hide.

‘Sinner’ singer given 39 lashes by rabbis

Punishment for performance in front of “mixed audience.”

A singer who performed in front of a “mixed audience” of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him “repent,” after a ruling by a self-described rabbinic court on Wednesday.

Rabbi Amnon Yitzhak, founder of the Shofar organization aimed at bringing Jews “back to religion” (hazara betshuva), has made it his recent mission to fight against musical performances for both men and women.

His “judicial panel,” with Rabbi Ben Zion Mutsafi and another member, sentenced Erez Yechiel to 39 lashes in order to “rid him of his sins.”

In a video clip of the court posted on the Shofar Web site, Ben Zion said that those who make others sin (mahtiei rabim), such as artists who make men and women attend performances or dance together, have no place in the world to come.

He displayed a leather strip he said was made by his father from ass and bull skin, with which Yechiel was to have been whipped.

Yechiel, who said, “I accept upon myself the lashing for my sins,” was ordered to stand by a wooden poll with his head facing north (“from whence the evil inclination comes”), his hands tied with a azure-colored rope (“a symbol of mercy”), and served his “sentence.”

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society… then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”
— Karl Popper

According to Qur’an 3:167, Muslims who refuse to fight in the name of Allah are hypocrites. Believers answer the call of Jihad to fight in Allah’s cause. Muhammad, Islam’s only Prophet, labels non-believers “infidels” – enemies of Allah. He orders Muslims to fight, murder and enslave them until the whole world surrenders to Islam. The order to fight infidels is clear, open ended and retractable only by Allah.

Qur’an 8:039 – And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah.

Qur’an 9:005 – Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush.

No mere present day Imam can abrogate these commandments. In view of the severe consequences, to us, is it not prudent to ask whether Christians and Jews qualify as infidels?

At least one Tea Party activist at Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally seems to believe that Muslims indeed want to kill us because we are infidels. Where did he get such an idea? Can you say 9/11?

For insight into what makes a good Muslim, written by a former good Muslim, read our 2008/1/22 post:

Does the Koran Command Muslims to Fight and Kill Infidels?

Diana West writes about the Ground Zero Mosque and tolerating the intolerant. Read more >

Boy, Republicans are going to have fun over the next two months. Check out these ads.

Even Democrats prefer to run as … hmmm … something other than Democrats.

Kristi Noem fact checks Herseth Sandlins ad.

 Tom Emmer is trailing Mark Dayton in the contest to become the next governor of Minnesota, but this is a great ad.

CNN’s John King tries to induce Rev. Franklin Graham to testify to Imam Obama’s Christianity.

Graham sticks to the “he acts like a Muslim, but says he’s a Christian” line. Good for him!

Hilariously, the media elites are disgusted by the stupidity of the American people. How can 18% of Americans believe that Barack HUSSEIN Obama is a Muslim? Even worse, though no one speaks of it in public, when asked about Obama’s religion, 43% of the people say they don’t know (see Pew Poll). In other words, 61% don’t think the President is a Christian. Apparently, only 34% believe that listening to Jeremiah Wright’s sermons for 20 years or befriending the terrorist Bill Ayers qualifies one for salvation. Pretty dumb, eh?

Why would people doubt Obama’s faith? Here are a few possible reasons. Read more >

Yosef Robinson who was shot and killed in a Liquor store robbery in Brooklyn

Not my usual cynical stuff, and on a different target. But I found the following story in the NY Daily News very moving. But first, take a look of the photo of the victim on the left. That is right, dressed evidently in Lubavitch garb, the victim is a black Jamaican Jew, probably a convert (although that is not made clear in the story).

I guess I found the story touching in part for this reason. If indeed he was a Chabadnik, he may well have moved to Israel, where he would be denounced by leftist anti-Semites all over the world and also in the Israeli seditious far Left for being a racist Zionist and a perpetuator of apartheid Zionism. He might have joined the IDF paratroopers, bashed in some terrorist skulls, kicked leftist butt near Bil’in at the security fence, thrown a pie into the faces of some tenured traitors. All the while being denounced for being a racist Jew. If he had lived.

Full story: Read more >

Islam and the Judeo-Christian world are rival civilizations. How difficult is that to understand? Apparently, very difficult. Pundits, Liberal and Conservative, when asked to comment on the latest Muslim to blow up in public behind infidel lines, all start their reply with “of course, not all Muslims…” or “of course, most Muslims…” or some other inane homage to the gods of political correctness.

Even Conservative icons like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck back-paddle rapidly when accused of “Islamophobia” in public. They don’t exactly apologize, but they resort to accusing the accuser of playing the race card. Liberals do love to play the guilt game. “Do you hate all Muslims?” or “You are against Islam!” Oh, what we wouldn’t pay to just once hear Sean Hannity respond with “Of course I am against Islam. I am a devout Catholic. Islam is a rival civilization hell-bent on conquering the world for Allah. How could I be for it? How can you be for it? Aren’t you Jewish/Christian?”

But alas, he was asked and he squirmed and he had no answer.

Thank G-d for the creative minds who get what Islam is all about and who can express it so well.

It shouldn’t take courage to be black and conservative in America. Unfortunately, the drive-by media’s malicious ignorance requires heroism of informed blacks who want to speak out. Democrat party apparatchiks, lefty academics and pompous “journalists” see every economic, social or political event through race colored glasses. Intentionally, they stir up racial angst to spread their fascist world view. In a way, they act on the same principles as the Stealth Jihadis. Thankfully, Tea Party activists know the truth and are not intimidated.

You just got to love this guy. Very impressive! If he manages to get elected in November, he is headed for greatness. It’s almost like listening to Ronald Reagan’s radio talks in the late 70s. Unfortunately, Colonel West is running against a Jewish incumbent in a heavily Jewish district. It would be tragic if he loses. You can help. Go to Allen West for Congress and donate.

Of course, Pat Condell is right. It would be totally insane to allow the enemy to run a victory lap on the graves of our friends. With the public overwhelmingly opposed to a mosque rising from the 9/11 ashes, it is surprising that New York politicians are not jumping on the bandwagon.

Carl Paladino, a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, is the only one to come out against the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero.

“As Governor,” Paladino said Wednesday in a radio ad, “I will use the power of eminent domain to stop this mosque and make the site a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our country.”

I like this guy. I really like this guy. If the Supreme Court could rule, in the notorious 2005 decision Kelo v. City of New London, that the government could seize private property for a private developer and then never develop the property, surely Americans should be able to use eminent domain to designate the Burlington Coat Factory building a war memorial.

That building is a war memorial since part of one of the 9/11 airplanes crashed into it, causing severe damage. That makes the building a war memorial, no less than Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor. There should be no mosque there, and nothing there but a memorial to the people that America lost to that heinous Islamic jihad attack on September 11, 2001.

READ: The Man Who Would Stop the Ground Zero Mosque