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		<title>The Top Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes of 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2014 05:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faking “Islamophobic” hate crimes is a big business.]]></description>
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<p>On Christmas morning, a man drove up to the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno, threw rocks through the windows, and then entered the center and destroyed things inside. The local ABC outlet, KFSN, <a href="http://abc30.com/news/fresno-police-calling-islamic-cultural-center-burglary-a-hate-crime/451696/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported Friday</span></a> that “Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says it is clear the incident is a hate crime which is why the FBI is also investigating this case.” But <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">on Saturday</span></a>, it turned out that the incident was not an “anti-Muslim hate crime” at all: the vandal was <a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Asif Mohammad Khan, a Muslim</span></a>. The destruction at the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno was yet another in a long series of fake hate crimes designed to prop up the fiction that Muslims in the U.S. are routinely targets of discrimination and harassment.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/12/27/4303923_suspect-identified-in-fresno-islamic.html?rh=1">According to Khan’s sister Samia,</a></span> the vandal is (like the recent French attackers who screamed “Allahu akbar” while trying to kill infidels) mentally ill. She also said that he was a devout Muslim who prayed five times daily. Dyer revealed that Khan had in recent days written that Osama bin Laden was the most inspirational person in his life. Dyer explained that Khan’s vandalism of the mosque “was not geared towards the Islamic community, it was not geared to the Islamic faith or any of those things and was simply to get back at a few people at the center who had belittled him and in his eyes bullied him.”</p>
<p>Dyer and other law enforcement authorities were extremely unlikely to consider it as they investigated Khan’s crimes, but the Hamas-linked <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=154325C2-EF71-48FD-B33C-B5A584CFB8CF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Council on American-Islamic Relations</span></a> (CAIR) <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023204.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and</span></a> <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023150.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">other Muslims</span></a> have on many occasions in the past not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.</p>
<p>This has happened many times in 2014. Here are five of the most egregiously manipulative examples:</p>
<p><b>1. The Saleh and Akbar viral video.</b></p>
<p>In October, the Muslim bloggers Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar released a video entitled “Racial Profiling Experiment.” It showed the duo in Western clothing, coming to blows in front of an indifferent NYPD cop. In the second part of the video, they pass by the same cop in Muslim garb, arguing mildly – only to be harassed and frisked by the same policeman.</p>
<p>The video went viral. The Huffington Post hysterically proclaimed that it offered a “small glimpse into the ugly world of racial profiling.” Hamas-linked CAIR called for an investigation. But then it turned out that the whole thing had been staged. <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/NYPD-racial-profiling-hoax-video-675432"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The Smoking Gun</span></a> called the video a “cynical and duplicitous attempt to capitalize on New York City’s documented racial profiling problems.”</p>
<p><b>2. The German mosque arson.</b></p>
<p>Another “Islamophobic” hate crime took place in Germany in February, when there was an arson attack at the Central Mosque in Cologne. But in October, a Muslim who had been held in a psychiatric ward ever since he had been arrested (as the mainstream media and law enforcement officials have now apparently agreed that all Muslims who commit acts of violence are mentally ill) <a href="http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2014/10/10/mosque-arson-in-germany-turk-confesses-to-attacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confessed</span></a> to having set the fire.</p>
<p>“I wanted to make a clear sign,” the arsonist explained. “Because<b> </b>they treated me badly at the Koran school. It has always hurt me.” He also had tried to burn down two other mosques; it wasn’t reported whether or not he had been to Qur’an school and been treated badly in all three. But until he was apprehended, his arson attacks provided rich material for the “Islamophobia” mythmakers.</p>
<p><b>3. The burned Qur’ans in Dearborn.</b></p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2014/06/17/news/doc5399f810f0f03443588853.txt?viewmode=fullstory">Last June</a></span>, after three burned Qur’ans were found in front of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, the mosque’s imam, Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy met with lawyers to discuss his proposal for a statute criminalizing the desecration of holy books. “We want all of the religions to cooperate with us,” he declared, “to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah.”</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.arabamericannews.com/news/news/id_9053/Iraqi-American-man-arrested-while-burning-Quran-in-Dearborn.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as it turned out</span></a>, the Qur’an barbecuer was none other than a Muslim named Ali Hassan Al-Assadi. Al-Husainy opined that al-Assadi was (surprise, surprise) “mentally unstable.” Crazy or not, the discovery that al-Assadi had burned the Qur’ans threw a large monkey wrench into al-Husainy’s plans to use the incident as the cornerstone of his campaign against the freedom of expression.</p>
<p><b>4. The Montclair State University attack.</b></p>
<p>Combine the relentless Muslim striving for victimhood with the cult of victimhood on college campuses these days, and even non-Muslims get into the faked hate act. Last April at Montclair State University in New Jersey, a student claimed that three white men in jeans and hoodies assaulted him. They called him an “Islamic terrorist.”</p>
<p>MSU police began an investigation, only to find that the whole incident was a hoax: a student named Navjoat Aulakh had filed a false report. Aulakh may not even be a Muslim. His full name is Navjoat Singh Aulakh; “Singh” is a name closely associated with Sikhs. The Aulakhs are a Jat clan from the Punjab area, and while many Jats are Muslims, the name Singh here suggests that this young man is himself a Sikh. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/navjoat.aulakh"><span style="color: #0433ff;">His Facebook page</span></a> gives no sign that he cares about much of anything but sports and babes, but apparently he does have some significant political concerns. If he is a Sikh, this would by no means be the first time that Sikhs have served as useful idiots for the Islamic supremacist victimhood posturing enterprise. Sikhs even stood with Hamas-linked CAIR to call for the allowance of hijabs on an amusement park go-kart ride that <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/2010-muslima-dies-as-hijab-caught-in-go-kart-axle-2014-cair-demands-hijabs-on-go-karts"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had already seen one Muslima killed as her hijab was caught in the axle</span></a>.</p>
<p>In this case, a Sikh apparently tried to aid the false Muslim victimhood narrative. And failed.</p>
<p><b>5. The Shaima Alawadi murder.</b></p>
<p>Last April in El Cajon, California, an Iraqi Muslim named Kassim Alhimidi was <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/www.10news.com/news/kassim-alhimidi-found-guilty-in-beating-death-of-wife-shaima-alawadi-041714"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found guilty</span></a> of murdering his wife, Shaima Alawadi, after she had told him that she wanted a divorce.</p>
<p>Before Alhimidi was arrested, this murder was widely reported as an “Islamophobic hate crime”: a note was found by Alawadi’s body that read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” Leftists and Islamic supremacists made a great deal of this, claiming that the murder was the work of an “Islamophobe” who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.”</p>
<p>Reza Aslan, the celebrated author of <i>Zealot</i>, <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/california-muslim-guilty-of-killing-wife-whose-murder-was-blamed-on-islamophobia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bashed out a sub-literate tweet</span></a> blaming Pamela Geller and me for the murder: “If a 32 year old veiled mother is a terrorist than [sic] so am I you Islamophobic fucks Gellar [sic] Spencer et. [sic] al. Come find me.” This tweet indicated how much mileage the “Islamophobia” propaganda machine thought it could get from the Alawadi murder in its efforts to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror.</p>
<p>Yet it was another fake hate crime. And since the mainstream media remains so uncritical about Muslim claims of having been victimized, there will be many more in 2015.</p>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Rape Hoax Epidemic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why we must refuse to let the UVA rape hoax story be sent down the memory hole. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247706" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/uva-2-800-450x337.jpg" alt="uva-2-800" width="346" height="259" /></a>In response to the total implosion of Rolling Stone&#8217;s preposterous story about a fraternity gang-rape at the University of Virginia, the media have reverted to their Soviet-style reporting. They&#8217;re not even saying: We&#8217;re choosing not to talk about UVA because it&#8217;s a side show. It&#8217;s more like: UVA? That&#8217;s a school?</p>
<p>Not only did the UVA gang rape turn out to be a hoax, but then President Obama&#8217;s own Department of Justice completed a six-year study on college rape, and it turns out that instead of 1-in-5 college coeds being raped, the figure is 0.03-in-5.</p>
<p>Less than 1 percent of college students are the victim of a sexual assault &#8212; 0.6 percent to be exact &#8212; not to be confused with the 20 percent, or &#8220;one in five,&#8221; claimed by feminists and President Obama.</p>
<p>But neither the DOJ report, nor the UVA rape hoax have dissuaded Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill from pushing their idea that the nation is in the grip of a college rape epidemic.</p>
<p>This week, Gillibrand dismissed the UVA outrage, saying, &#8220;Clearly, we don&#8217;t know the facts of what did or did not happen in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, we know quite well what happened in this case. A disturbed young woman invented a fake boyfriend and a fake gang-rape to get attention, and an incompetent journalist acted as her transcriber. It was a total hoax &#8212; just like the Duke lacrosse case, the Jamie Leigh Jones case, the Tawana Brawley case, and every other claim of white men committing gang-rape.</p>
<p>Gillibrand and McCaskill: Perhaps the accusations against Dreyfus were overblown, but that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s not an epidemic of Jews selling secrets to the Germans!</p>
<p>We are truly in the middle of a rape epidemic: an epidemic of women falsely claiming to have been raped.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s said that &#8220;women never lie about rape!&#8221; But the evidence shows that women lie about rape all the time -– for attention, for revenge and for an alibi. All serious studies of the matter suggest that at least 40 percent of rape claims are false.</p>
<p>The U.S. Air Force, for example, examined more than a thousand rape allegations on military bases over the course of four years and concluded that 46 percent were false. In 27 percent of the cases, the accuser recanted. A large study of rape allegations over nine years in a small Midwestern city, by Eugene J. Kanin of Purdue University, found that 41 percent of the rape claims were false.</p>
<p>To put it in terms Kirsten Gillibrand would understand, two in five women claiming to have been raped are lying.</p>
<p>So why are we always being hectored: Only 2 percent of rape allegations are false!</p>
<p>That oft-cited number comes from Susan Brownmiller&#8217;s 1975 book, &#8220;Against Our Will&#8221; &#8212; which sourced the claim to a mimeograph of a speech by a state court judge, who made a passing remark about a New York police precinct with an all-female rape squad. Nothing more is known about whether this was an actual study, and if so, what was examined, how the information was collected or the actual results. Nor can any trace of the speech, the precinct or the data be found.</p>
<p>In Women&#8217;s Studies classes, that figure is called a &#8220;home run.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the feminists are so anxious to move on from the UVA nonsense rape story. They want to move on now so they can come back to it later, when everyone&#8217;s forgotten, and start citing UVA as their No. 1 example of the fraternity gang-rape culture.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s crucial that we get a letter in the file that says, &#8220;This was total B.S.&#8221; Otherwise, the UVA hoax will remain in an open file, marked &#8220;unresolved.&#8221;</p>
<p>All we&#8217;re hearing now is, Enough! Enough! Don&#8217;t be a bad winner. All this coverage is putting Jackie in a precarious emotional state. If you were a gentleman, you would drop the subject.</p>
<p>Then in three months, they&#8217;ll be bringing up the UVA gang rape as proof of a college rape epidemic. In six months, the case will show up in feminist textbooks.</p>
<p>Wait a minute! That was a hoax!</p>
<p>We didn&#8217;t agree it was a hoax. We conceded nothing.</p>
<p>The Duke lacrosse case proves that. In an unusual move, after that gang-rape turned out to be yet another hoax, the players refused to accept the case being dismissed for &#8220;insufficient evidence,&#8221; which is how prosecutors usually drop charges. They insisted on being declared &#8220;innocent.&#8221;</p>
<p>This, the attorney general did. He also denounced the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, and saw that he was disbarred.</p>
<p>A few years went by, and then, this year, some douchebag wrote a book that claims &#8220;something happened&#8221; in the Duke case between the players and the stripper (who has since been convicted of murder). The book got a rave review from The New York Times.</p>
<p>With feminists, either you lose or the game was rained out.</p>
<p>So before anyone moves on from UVA, we need to get it in writing that this case was a hoax. Jackie&#8217;s got to apologize to the fraternity; UVA&#8217;s president has to not only apologize, but pay restitution to the Greek system for shutting it down for an entire semester; and Rolling Stone authoress Sabrina Rubin Erdely has got to swear that she will never, ever write again.</p>
<p>She cannot be an &#8220;investigative journalist.&#8221; She cannot even write movie reviews. Remember, Sabrina: No means no.</p>
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		<title>Edward Said: Oppressed Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hoax of the world’s second most famous Palestinian.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/edward-said.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-238909" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/edward-said.jpg" alt="edward-said" width="325" height="230" /></a>Edward Said was the world’s second most famous Palestinian. And much like Palestine, his biography was a fake and his culture was nothing more than the advocacy of a perpetual supremacist conflict against the indigenous Jewish inhabitants whom the colonial myth of Palestine was meant to displace.</p>
<p>The great genius of Arab and Islamic supremacism was their pretense that the Jewish story of an indigenous minority resisting their colonialism was really their own story. Having failed to destroy every culture that they had conquered, they instead appropriated their stories, painting their fallen empires as the tragic victims of the imperialism of the very people whom they had conquered and oppressed.</p>
<p>Arabs and Muslims still remained the dominant and domineering group in the Middle East repressing other cultures and religions from North Africa to the Persian Gulf, but they flipped the history books over so that the descendants of caliphs and conquerors who had ground the Jews and other indigenous peoples under their boots could reinvent themselves as the victims of Jewish oppression. The members of vast families and clans spanning the Middle East selectively embraced a Palestinian identity if they happened, at any point in their lives, to find themselves within the borders of the Jewish State.</p>
<p>That is both the larger theme of Joshua Muravchik’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Making-David-into-Goliath-Against/dp/1594037353"><em>Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel </em></a>and of its chapter on Edward Said, who helped turn the history books upside down.</p>
<p>Like many of the professionally oppressed, Edward Said came from wealth and privilege. Like Arafat, the world’s most famous Palestinian, Said, the world’s second most famous Palestinian came out of Cairo.</p>
<p>His childhood in “Palestine” was as much of a fiction as Palestine itself. Instead his mother had traveled to give birth in Jerusalem to take advantage of Jewish medical expertise. From that tiny act of occupation came the vast cultural appropriation that the newly baptized “Palestinian” would go on to inflict on the indigenous inhabitants of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Edward Said’s career trajectory took him deep within academia where he denounced rival scholars for constructing simplistic stereotypes of the Middle East by constructing a simplistic stereotype of them as “Orientalists” who were “othering” the east.</p>
<p>In a typically tribal display of hypocrisy, Edward Said was othering the very people he was accusing of othering his own people.</p>
<p>What Edward Said lacked in scholarship (he thought that the Islamic conquest of what is today Turkey had taken place before the conquest of North Africa) and honesty (he claimed that the PLO rejected terrorism) he more than made up for in manufactured outrage, as Joshua Muravchik documents.</p>
<p>Edward Said transformed the Muslim and Arab colonists into the oppressed indigenous peoples pitted against European colonizers. The complex nuanced realities of legitimate scholars who recognized that Europeans and Arabs had both been imperialists and colonizers in their time were swept aside by Said’s nationalistic polemics.</p>
<p>By damning legitimate scholars as racist colonialist Orientalists, Edward Said was able to impose his own racist and colonialist revisionist history on academia.</p>
<p>The New Left had made Third World nationalism into its new creed. Said’s support of the PLO made him a voice for justice no matter how many lies he told or how his botched scholarship perverted history. Third World nationalists could legitimately call on Western guilt and act as moral voices on campus at the behest of a left that glibly assumed that only political terror would end the cycle of oppression.</p>
<p>The unfortunate truth of human affairs is that everyone is oppressing someone else. The great question that the left has been unwilling to address is who their designated victims are oppressing.</p>
<p>By treating the likes of Edward Said as reservoirs of unchallenged morality, the left had become complicit in the oppression of others. The old lessons of the USSR and the French Revolution, the danger of handing unlimited moral authority to outraged fanatics with an agenda, had not been learned. Instead class made way for race. The elites who had claimed to speak for the workers in France and Russia were dismissed. The new elites were wealthy prep school grads like Edward Said who claimed to speak for a non-existent people in an imaginary country based on three vacations he had taken there.</p>
<p>It was not only a breathtakingly impudent act of colonialism, but one that had severe consequences for the intellectual integrity of academia. Edward Said had staked out his place in the academic revolution by denouncing just about everyone else for their Orientalism. Facts were his weak point, but his tactics were Stalinist. Denouncing potential opponents as a class allowed him to turn his own Orientalism into the Lysenkoism of his field. It was not the quality of his scholarship that won him influence, but the broadness of his denunciation. Said’s work was not inclusive, it was exclusive. It came to bar the door.</p>
<p>In <em>Making David Into Goliath, </em>Joshua Muravchik dissects many of the myths and frauds that Edward Said built up around himself. And yet the myths can never be entirely destroyed because of the crucial role that he played in the alliance between the New Left and Third World nationalists. His ideas helped assign intellectual credibility to the intertwining of two reactionary totalitarian movements struggling to remain relevant by denouncing every newer system of government and thought.</p>
<p>Like many racists, Edward Said’s denunciations of others were really expressions of his own limitations. Said condemned his academic enemies for failing to see the diversity of the east, when it was Said who refused to see the diversity of the west. Edward Said reduced his opponents to crude stereotypes while accusing them of reducing Arabs and Muslims to crude stereotypes.</p>
<p>Edward Said accused his opponents of constructing colonialist myths, but his obsession with Israel led him to promote a colonialist myth in which his imperialist ancestors were the true indigenous people and the Jews, the majority of whom were Middle Eastern refugees, were foreign usurpers.</p>
<p>Edward Said tainted scholarship with this revisionist nationalist history. His defense of Arab and Islamic colonialism in an era in which academia no longer looked kindly on conquerors required him to turn history on its head and manufacture a narrative of oppressed colonizers suffering at the hands of the newly liberated indigenous people whom they had oppressed.</p>
<p>This local perversion of history fitted into the larger global perversion of Orientalism which indicted Middle Eastern scholarship for its intellectual colonialism as part of Said’s effort to colonize the study of the Middle East with his own tribal nationalism. Like a thief who pretends to be a policeman to scare away the other competing thieves he imagines are lurking nearby, Edward Said disguised the imperialism and colonialism of his agenda by dressing it up as anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism.</p>
<p>From his biography to his ideas, from his head to his toes, Edward Said was a fraud. Neither a great scholar not a great thinker, Said’s private nationalism played into a larger intellectual debate taking place within the culture. His work lives on because of grants from Saudi princes and because it serves as a pillar of a post-American academia in which political indictments have taken the place of research.</p>
<p>Arafat hijacked planes in the name of a phony nationalism, but Edward Said hijacked academia. These two Cairo natives had briefly lived in Israel as children and built careers around their imperialist efforts to colonize Israel with myths and violence, with lies and terror, pretending to be the oppressed when they were actually the oppressors.</p>
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		<title>The Al Dura Hoax and Europe’s Media Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the persecution of hero Philippe Karsenty says about the future of European free speech.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Philippe-Karsenty.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208731" alt="Philippe-Karsenty" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Philippe-Karsenty-450x296.jpg" width="315" height="207" /></a>On June 26<sup>th</sup>, the Paris Court of Appeal ruled against Philippe Karsenty, deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in the <em>France 2 vs. Karsenty</em> case. According to the court’s decision, Mr. Karsenty received a fine of €10 0001 for his involvement in the Al Dura affair and his statements in regard to Charles Enderlin. The verdict emerged as a major setback in Mr. Karsenty’s drive to expose the misinformation resulting from the accident that took place on September 30<sup>th</sup> 2000 in the Gaza strip and involved Mohammed Al Dura.</p>
<p>In the French socio-political climate, the drive to expose the truth concerning the Al Dura affair represents a critical point in unveiling a major obstacle to the citizens’ right to information. While single media outlets may have their specific tendencies and private agendas, the Al Dura issue highlights the fact that the French political class as a whole is ready to abandon the requirements of transparency and objectivity for the purpose of serving a certain set of interests. Since the beginning of the Al Dura affair, few in France or Europe have fully grasped the true nature of Mr. Karsenty’s fight to expose the hoax that falsely portrayed Mohammed Al Dura as the victim of Israeli aggression.</p>
<p>The relative indifference with which the June 26<sup>th</sup> ruling was met by the general public is instrumental in highlighting how the French political system has successfully imposed the official version of the story within the country’s borders. According to the great majority, Philippe Karsenty’s arguments and the Israeli report on the incident issued on May 13<sup>th</sup> are irrelevant even though they embody rational proofs contradicting France 2 and the government’s position. Sound arguments no longer appeal to those who have already been conditioned by a gradual demonization of the State of Israel.</p>
<p>In this sense, the Al Dura affair represents a case study helping to understand the way French and European societies lost their critical thinking in regard to events involving Israeli interests. This reality has been made possible by a wave of media bias spreading throughout the Old Continent and successfully limiting the local populations’ ability to rationally analyze the situation in the Middle East. These obstacles can be defined by the three following issues.</p>
<p>The first point underpins the inability or unwillingness of European mainstream media to present an event in a way which does not portray Israel in a negative light, regardless of the situation. The confusing syntax permeating written pieces and the images used in video reports, such as the Al Dura one, serve as tools enabling such a distorted representation of the reality on the ground.</p>
<p>The second point emphasizes the fact that the European socio-academic sphere is successfully marginalizing all discourses pertaining to Israel. The intellectual reactions to events happening in Israel are depicted as fields of thought confined to Jewish communities. For this, Mr. Karsenty’s drive to expose the truth about the Al Dura affair is viewed by many as a confessional fight, which deprives it of its essential democratic nature.</p>
<p>The third point involves the influence of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli organizations. May it be on university campuses or in the media, activists belonging to such groups repeatedly diffuse their irrational messages based on propaganda rather than objective information. The Al Dura affair has become a dogma for those openly opposing Israel and benefitting from a preferred position in television shows and newspaper interviews. As it was in the case during the time of the inquisition, it is difficult to question the official version of the Al Dura affair not simply because of the first two points but also because it means opposing a generally accepted dogma.</p>
<p>This situation is highly dangerous as it represents a major threat to the freedom of speech in Europe and the protection of rational thinking. While the June 26<sup>th</sup> court decision has unveiled the shortcomings of the French legal system in the fight for preserving the democratic values on which the country is built, it also gave much needed impetus to international actors, motivating them to enter the debate. On September 30<sup>th</sup>, Daniel Pipes&#8217; Middle East Forum effectively took side with Philippe Karsenty in the Al Dura affair. The Middle East Forum issued a statement evoking the global risks posed by France’s inability and unwillingness to protect the integrity of public information and to counter pro-Palestinian propaganda. The Philadelphia based think-tank offered to pay the entirety of Mr. Karsenty’s fine and to further support him in his fight for the truth.</p>
<p>This decision made by an American institution represents an essential turning point in the affair, as it finally confirmed that the French and the European media bias against Israel can no longer be safeguarded against within the Old Continent’s borders. The Middle East Forum’s stance highlights the global nature of the question. Al Qaeda terrorists used the images recorded by France 2 to justify their terrorist attacks, which means that the Al Dura affair cannot be considered as a French or Jewish question only. The Arab and Muslim nations have used Mohammed Al Dura as a martyr image in their fight against Israel. That is why Philippe Karsenty’s strife for truth should not only be seen as a dispute between a man and a television channel but as a battle between democratic values and irrational hate.  The fact that the Middle East Forum took a position in such a strong and direct way in the Al Dura affair embodies an essential step forward for all those concerned with the gradual degradation of free speech in Europe and its possible impacts on peace and security in the Old Continent, Israel and the whole Middle Eastern region.</p>
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		<title>Hate Messages at Oberlin Revealed to be Hoax by Obama-Supporting Leftist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The perpetrators of a series of alleged bias incidents at Oberlin College have been caught.]]></description>
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<p><b>Top Stories:</b></p>
<p>• The perpetrators of a series of <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/22/meet-the-privileged-obama-supporting-white-kids-who-perpetrated-cruel-oberlin-race-hoax/#ixzz2d2Zs6BY2">alleged bias incidents</a> at Oberlin College have been caught—and one of them is a fervent leftist who helped organize a voting drive for President Obama and is a member of a group called Ithaca White Allies Against Structural Racism. The incidents, which included posting racist, anti-Semitic and antigay messages and graffiti around the campus and harassing a female student, sparked a one-day cancellation of classes so that students could attend a teach-in on the evils of racism and homophobia.</p>
<p>• Administrators at the University of Denver <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/24/daniel-boone-like-mascot-for-denver-college-deemed-too-offense-by-administration/#ixzz2d2gx1hy7">have refused calls</a> by students and alumni to reinstate “Denver Boone,” a Daniel Boone-like figure who wears a coon-skin cap, as the University mascot on grounds that he doesn’t adequately represent the diverse student body at UD. “Boone was a polarizing figure that did not reflect the growing diversity of the UD community, but rather was an image that many women, persons of color, international students and faculty members found difficult to relate to as defining the pioneering spirit,” Chancellor Robert Coombe stated in a letter to the university community.</p>
<p>• Harvard University <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4979">has hired</a> former democratic mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, as a “visiting fellow” for the upcoming fall semester, despite numerous scandals surrounding Villaraigosa’s campaigns and time in office.  Among these blots on his record are the 31 ethics violations alleged by the Los Angeles Ethics Commission during his 2003 bid for City Council and his use of nearly half a million dollars in federal stimulus funds to refit the mayoral yacht.</p>
<p>• The president of Biola University, a private Christian school in Southern California, has <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/14404/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+isi%2Fgxaj+%28CN+Newslink%29&amp;utm_content=FeedBurner">issued an apology</a> to pro-life nursing student Diana Jimenez who faced threats from a campus security guard when she attempted to display an image of an aborted fetus on campus.  The security guard had ordered Jimenez to leave campus grounds and stated that he could prevent her from attending her graduation the following week if she did not comply.</p>
<p><b>Further news from the campuses: </b></p>
<p><b>How Oberlin Manufactured the Hate-Crime Hoax of the Year</b><br />
[Michelle Malkin]</p>
<p>Busted. Stone-cold busted. Just as I suspected, “progressive” pranksters at Oberlin College have been definitively <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/22/see-i-told-you-so-oberlin-hoax-confirmed/">unmasked</a> as the perpetrators of phony campus “hate crimes” that scored international headlines in March. The blabbermouth academic administrators who helped fuel the hysteria are now running for cover.</p>
<p><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/23/how-oberlin-manufactured-the-hate-crime-hoax-of-the-year/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Coastal Carolina University Bans the Local Alternative Newspaper from Campus </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>It is generally accepted wisdom that colleges and universities stopped acting in loco parentis (in the place of parents) in the 1960s. But I’m beginning to wonder about that, given the latest campus attack on the First Amendment ostensibly to protect college students from bad influences.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/torch/#16138">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Conservative Professor Writes Devastating Response to Liberal Hater </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington recently received a note from a student informing him that he is “the biggest embarrassment to higher education in America.” Adams’s response is, well, quite an entertaining read.</p>
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<p><b>Furor at U. of Sydney Over Photos of Student Vulvas</b> [InsideHigherEd.com]</p>
<p>The University of Sydney is debating the censorship of the cover of a student newspaper &#8212; <i>Honi Soit</i> &#8212; which was forced to place black bars over portions of 18 photographs of students&#8217; vulvas. The Student Representative Council, which publishes the paper, ordered the addition of the black bars, citing Australian laws on obscenity, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-uni-newspaper-taken-off-shelves-over-female-genitalia-cover-20130821-2sbcb.html"><i>The Sydney Morning Herald</i></a><i> </i>reported.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/08/22/furor-u-sydney-over-photos-student-vulvas#ixzz2d2qhyTKs">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Queer Feminism: White Supremacy, Colonialism, Contributed to Trayvon Martin Killing, Says Prof </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>Capitalism and white supremacy both played roles in the killing of Trayvon Martin, a public university professor said last Thursday.</p>
<p>Dr. Erica R. Meiners, a professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at Northeastern Illinois University, made the remarks while speaking on a panel of self-described “queer feminist scholars.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=5012">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Five Pillars of Islam Display Removed From Elementary School After Viral Photo Resulted in Nationwide Backlash </b>[TheBlaze.com]</p>
<p>School administrators have removed a large, controversial illustration of the Five Pillars of Islam, after a picture of the display went viral over the weekend and drew unwanted attention to the school.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/20/five-pillars-of-islam-display-removed-from-elementary-school-after-viral-photo-resulted-in-nationwide-backlash/">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>North Carolina Becomes First State to Guarantee College Students&#8217; Right to Attorney </b>[TheFire.org]</p>
<p>RALEIGH, N.C., August 23, 2013—Today, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory <a href="http://thefire.org/article/16132.html">signed a bill</a> granting public university students in the state facing non-academic disciplinary charges the right to an attorney. The law, which is the first of its kind nationwide, ensures that students attending the state’s public colleges and universities possess rights similar to those already enjoyed by North Carolina’s K–12 students under state law.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefire.org/article/16141.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>NAACP, Dartmouth Administrators, to Regulate Future Frat Party Themes </b>[CampusReform.org]</p>
<p>The National Association of Colored People (NAACP), Dartmouth College student groups, and administrators are working to implement policies that will prevent students from throwing parties with offensive themes.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4998">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Daniel Boone-Like Mascot for Denver College Deemed Offensive by Administration </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>Is a cartoon-like college mascot reminiscent of Daniel Boone &#8212; right down to the legendary coonskin cap &#8212; racist, sexist or otherwise offensive?<br />
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/24/daniel-boone-like-mascot-for-denver-college-deemed-too-offense-by-administration/#ixzz2d2ghFoLc">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Colleges Shouldn&#8217;t Suppress Students&#8217; Speech, Thought </b>[The Post Crescent]</p>
<p>The purpose of an educational institution is to cultivate thought, reason and the knowledge necessary to be a productive part of society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20130825/APC06/308250087/Colleges-shouldn-t-suppress-students-speech-thought?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Calif. Governor Signs Transgender Bathroom Bill </b>[FoxNews.com]</p>
<p>California has become the first state in the nation to allow boys and girls access to the bathrooms and locker rooms of their choice — regardless of their gender.</p>
<p><a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/calif-governor-says-boys-can-use-girls-bathrooms.html">Read more</a></p>
<p><b>Professor Refuses Mandatory Sexual Harrassment Training </b>[The College Fix]</p>
<p>Walter Williams, an economics professor at George Mason University, rebuked his campus and all academic elite on college campuses in his latest syndicated column.</p>
<p>As usual, he did it with style and flair, explaining why he plans to refuse to submit to his school’s reportedly mandatory in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures training.</p>
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		<title>Al Jazeera Airs Fake Morsi Supporter Killing</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While Al Jazeera’s pro-Islamist lies and propaganda have been exposed numerous times — lies and propaganda being <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">doctrinally permissible through taqiyya</a> — consider the following video recently aired live by the terrorist supporting TV network.  A near hysterical woman is heard lambasting the Egyptian military for supposedly killing peaceful Brotherhood protesters, while the Al Jazeera crew videotapes a man who appears to be either unconscious or dead — a supposed victim of the military.  His hand rests on his torso; his shirt under his hand is covered with blood, implying there is a bullet wound in that spot. However, when the unsuspecting doctor treating him tries to lift the man’s shirt,  this supposedly unconscious or slain man — with his eyes still shut and his facial expression unmoved — subtly lifts his left leg both to push the doctor’s hand away and block his unharmed and blood-free torso from being taped by Al Jazeera. Of course, the person videotaping instantly stopped — but not before enough of this shameful episode was recorded, proving Al Jazeera’s nonstop pro-Brotherhood propaganda campaign, one naively or intentionally followed by most of the Western media.</p>
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<p>[Note: The scene in question plays from :08-:14, and then is followed by Arabic text from the person who taped and posted it on YouTube, and then replays again several times from :23-36.]</p>
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		<title>Islam’s Insanities: All Just a ‘Hoax’?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 04:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Westerners refuse to believe the stunning news reports emanating from the Muslim world. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/islams-insanities-all-just-a-hoax/picture-14-11/" rel="attachment wp-att-147841"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-147841" title="Picture-14" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Picture-14.gif" alt="" width="315" height="254" /></a>You read something immensely disturbing concerning the Muslim world—say, that some Muslims seek to <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11952/egypt-sex-slave-marriage">legalize sex-slavery</a> or <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11973/calls-to-destroy-egypt-great-pyramids-begin">destroy Egypt’s Pyramids</a> or approve of <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11985/sodomy-for-the-sake-of-islam">sodomy-suicide-missions</a> or <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12131/muslim-brotherhood-crucifies-opponents-attacks">crucify infidels</a>.  Your mind—exclaiming “tell me this is a joke!”—finds it difficult to accept such news. Then, somewhere from the bowels of the Internet, relief arrives.</p>
<p>The much welcomed word “Hoax!” appears, reconfirming your worldview.  All is well again.</p>
<p>But is it?  Are such accounts mere hoaxes?  Or is this just another strategy by those who apologize for Islam’s insanities—a strategy that relies exclusively on the fact that the Western mindset cannot fathom such news, anyway, and thus is all too willing to accept the hoax charge without a second thought?</p>
<p>Recall the news that Salafi parliamentarians in Egypt were pushing for a law legalizing necrophilia.  This information first appeared in Egypt’s most circulated newspaper, <em>Al Ahram</em>, followed by <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html">Al Arabiya</a>.  The news went viral, prompting Western dismay.  But then a cutesy <em>Christian Science Monitor </em>article titled “Egypt ‘necrophilia law’? Hooey, utter hooey” tried to return us to the status quo.  Its author, one Dan Murphy, admonished the many websites that disseminated the necrophilia story: “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet, kids. At least until there’s like, you know, some proof.”</p>
<p>And his “proof” that it was a hoax?  Nothing.  He even confirmed that “there was a Moroccan cleric a few years back who apparently did issue a religious ruling saying that husbands remained married to their wives in the first six hours after death and, so, well, you know [i.e., he permitted necrophilia].  But that guy is far, far out on the nutty fringe.”</p>
<p>Aside from Murphy’s immature tone—“so, well, you know” <em>what</em>?—one fails to see how characterizing a cleric as a “nut” means that his religious ruling is a “hoax”—that it never existed?  Likewise, when it comes to fatwas, it matters not which nation they hail from, so that Egyptians can easily uphold the fatwa of a Moroccan, or vice-versa, because in Islam there is no “national” distinction, only the <em>umma</em>.</p>
<p>And yet, no matter how shallow or lacking in evidence, the hoax charges resonate well, simply because the mainstream Western mentality instinctively rejects, in this case, the idea of codifying necrophilia.</p>
<p>Much of this is exacerbated by the fact that most Westerners, including reporters, cannot independently verify such stories, as they usually originate in Middle Eastern languages.  Which leads to my familiarity with this matter: I get most of my news directly from the Arabic media—knowing that it is better to get my information directly “from the horse’s mouth” than to get it from the limited and filtered Western media.</p>
<p>Accordingly, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/oct/2/picket-white-house-middle-east-foreign-policy-mess/">I am often first to expose</a> stories that go unreported in the West—for instance, the fact that the U.S. embassy in Cairo was being threatened days before the Muhammad movie became a convenient excuse to riot and destroy (the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/2012/09/jihadis-threaten-to-burn-us-embassy-in-cairo">original reason</a> was to coerce the U.S. to free the Blind Sheikh and others).</p>
<p>However, those who prefer to keep such stories suppressed have learned to cry “hoax”—taking advantage of the fact that most Americans cannot read Arabic or verify these accounts for themselves.</p>
<p>Thus, when I documented the indisputable fact that several Islamists were calling for the destruction of Egypt’s Pyramids, the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12037/huffington-post-msm-facilitate-destruction"><em>New York Times</em> and Huffington Post cried “hoax”</a>; when I shed light on an obscure “sodomy fatwa” which helped explain the role of intention in Islam (or <em>niyya</em>), Muslims and others cried hoax, including by <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11992/islam-sodomy-hoax">lying and distorting</a>; and when I reported on how Muslim Brotherhood supporters crucified their opponents, the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12226/crucifixions-not-fictions">National Post and others cried hoax</a>.</p>
<p>And yet, none of these naysayers offered any meaningful evidence.  Instead, they banked on the fact that it is simply too hard to believe these stories in the first place.</p>
<p>So what should the objective Western reader do—who is stuck in the middle, does not read Arabic, and cannot independently verify anything—when confronted with absurd news emanating from the Islamic world?</p>
<p>Along with evaluating the evidence as best they can, I suggest they learn to connect-the-dots.  The fact is, there is no end of bizarre anecdotes emanating from the Islamic world.  Saudi Arabia’s highest Islamic authority until he died in 1999, Sheikh Bin Baz—hardly someone to be dismissed as being “far, far out on the nutty fringe”—<a href="http://www.economist.com/node/207229">insisted</a> that the earth was flat and that all scientific evidence otherwise is a Western conspiracy.</p>
<p>In 2007, Egypt’s second highest Islamic authority, Sheikh Ali Gomaa—the same “moderate” Grand Mufti who <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10608/top-muslim-declares-christians-infidels">deems all Christians “infidels”</a>—decreed that drinking the urine of Muhammad was a great blessing.  Likewise, a few weeks ago in Egypt it was revealed that there is now a clinic “healing” people by giving them <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12356/sharia-medicine">camel urine to drink</a>—because Muhammad once advised it.</p>
<p>Then there are the notorious breastfeeding fatwas: <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11535/islam-fatwa-breastfeeding">Several Islamic clerics</a>—including Dr. Izzat Atiya, of Egypt’s Al Azhar University—advised Muslim female workers to “breastfeed” their male co-workers in order to be in each other’s company (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/7570/fatwa-men-drink-breast-milk">more “moderate” clerics</a> say it is not necessary for the man to drink the milk directly from the teat but may use a cup).</p>
<p>The list goes on and on: <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11952/egypt-sex-slave-marriage">Several</a> <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/9685/raped-and-ransacked-in-the-muslim-world">Muslims</a>, including prominent ones, are calling for the reinstitution of sex-slavery, whereby “infidel” women can be bought and sold in markets.   One <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/9734/islam-sex-slavery">female Kuwaiti politician</a> even recommends that Russian women seized during the Chechnya jihad be sold as sex-slaves on Muslim markets.</p>
<p>Other prominent clerics insist that Islam allows men to get <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/9956/new-saudi-fatwa-defends-pedophilia-as-marriage">“married” to baby girls still in the cradle</a>, having sex with them once these children are “capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.”</p>
<p>How does one explain these absurd and vile teachings—teachings advocated, not from radicals nor clerics “far, far out on the nutty fringe”—but often from its highest authorities?  Simple: Islamic jurisprudence, which is responsible for defining what is right and wrong in Islam, is fundamentally based on the words of a 7<sup>th</sup> century Arab whom Muslims venerate as a prophet.  And this man said and did many things that defy modern day sensibilities.</p>
<p>Indeed, he said and did many things that defied the sensibilities of his contemporaries—such as <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11630/islam-death-sex-necrophilia">stripping naked and lying with a dead woman</a> to the surprise of her gravediggers (which, incidentally, is cited by the necrophilia fatwas).  Likewise, it was the prophet who first ordered a woman to “breastfeed” a man in order to be in his company.</p>
<p>Here, then, is the rule of thumb: When it comes to determining whether a story from the Muslim world is a hoax or not, first determine whether it is it <em>Islamic</em> or not—whether it has doctrinal or historic support; whether it has some backing in the Quran and/or the hadith.</p>
<p>As it happens, destroying pyramids and pre-Islamic antiquities is very Islamic with a long paper trail; engaging in forbidden acts like sodomy or suicide or lying in order to empower Islam is legitimate according to the Islamic notion of <em>niyya</em> (or intention); crucifying the opponents of Islam is prescribed in the Quran—just as is sex-slavery and pedophilia; drinking urine—whether camels’ or Muhammad’s—is lauded in the hadith.</p>
<p>In short, the true test of whether an Islam-related story is a hoax or not, is <em>not</em> whether it accords with our sensibilities, but whether it accords with Islam’s teachings, many of which are strange if not downright bizarre by Western standards.</p>
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		<title>Egypt Crucifixions, No Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 04:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refuting the Sharia apologist. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/crucifixion.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142774" title="crucifixion" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/crucifixion.gif" alt="" width="375" height="256" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3735/guest-column-crucifixions-not-fictions">Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>.</em></p>
<p>I recently wrote an article based on Arabic reports <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12131/muslim-brotherhood-crucifies-opponents-attacks">that Muslim Brotherhood supporters had crucified Morsi&#8217;s opponents</a>.  Because it was picked up by several websites and disseminated far and wide, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12037/huffington-post-msm-facilitate-destruction">as </a><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11992/islam-sodomy-hoax">usual</a>, Islam&#8217;s apologists and others claimed &#8220;hoax.&#8221;</p>
<p>Readers sent me a couple of these articles which, upon further investigation, seem to be based on a National Post article titled &#8220;<a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/08/22/jonathan-kay-how-egypts-crucifixion-hoax-became-a-classic-internet-urban-legend/">Egypt&#8217;s &#8216;crucifixion&#8217; hoax becomes an instant Internet myth</a>&#8221; by one Jonathan Kay.  He characterizes the crucifixion account as &#8220;a story worth dissecting—not because it&#8217;s true (it isn&#8217;t), but because it is a textbook example of how the Internet, once thought to be the perfect medium of truth-seeking, has been co-opted by culture warriors as a weapon to fire up the naïve masses with lies and urban legends.&#8221;</p>
<p>Alternatively, dissecting Kay&#8217;s claims is useful as it is a textbook example of how the Western mindset tries to rationalize away whatever does not fit its intellectual boundaries.</p>
<p>First, after mentioning the several websites that carried or quoted my article, Kay wondered how none of the &#8220;sources supply the original Sky reporting that purportedly outlines the facts.&#8221;  Then, he offers the following sentence as its own paragraph, apparently as something of an eye-opening revelation:</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s because there is no Sky report on the subject.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, this big &#8220;aha&#8221; moment was made earlier and by someone else—me, in my original article.  After posting the names of several Arabic websites that carried the same verbatim quote from Sky News, I pointed out that Sky removed its original report.  I did not have to make this point, or mention Sky News at all, since other reports—including El Balad, a much higher trafficked Arabic website which I also quoted—independently mentions the crucifixions in original language and further adds that two people died. And that report, as of now, <a href="http://www.el-balad.com/237197">is still up</a>.</p>
<p>Kay then quotes a Sky News official who supposedly told him that the crucifixion claim</p>
<blockquote><p>began on social media. It started getting pick-up from there and eventually reached us [Sky News].  Our reporters came across reports of the alleged crucifixions and a story very briefly appeared on the Sky News Arabia website.  The story—which was taken down within minutes—was based on third-party reports and I am not aware that any of our reporters said or confirmed anything along the lines of what is quoted in the article… none of our correspondents confirmed this issue or commented on it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Several points here:</p>
<p>First, Sky News admits to having published a story about crucifixions. Likewise, though it admits to taking it down, it never states that the crucifixion accounts are a &#8220;hoax&#8221; or even false.  It simply offers no comment.  This is not proof that the story is a hoax.</p>
<p>As for the claim that the report was &#8220;taken down within minutes,&#8221; in fact, someone forwarded me the Sky News link almost two days before I actually clicked it, and the article was still up and written exactly like a report.  Investigative reporter Patrick Poole sent me a clear snapshot of the webpage before it was removed, which is before me.</p>
<p>The title, &#8220;Protesters Crucified in Front of Presidential Palace in Egypt,&#8221; is followed by the following standard reporting information: &#8220;Thursday, August 9, 3:19 am Abu Dhabi time; 11:19 pm Greenwich; Samir Umar [reporter], Cairo, Sky News Arabic,&#8221; followed by the portion I originally translated: &#8220;A Sky News Arabic correspondent in Cairo confirmed that protestors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moreover, the photo of the page shows 286 face book likes: one doubts that a report on a modestly trafficked website would reach that number if it was only up for mere minutes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pierre Rehov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Enderlin on the attack against those who debunked his blood libel against Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_65230899.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-131862" title="image_65230899" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/image_65230899.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Editor&#8217;s note: The following is an open letter to French journalist Charles Enderlin who helped publicize the infamous and discredited video of the supposed shooting death of Palestinian Muhammad al-Durrah, which fanned the flames of the Second Intifada against Israel. The author of this letter, Pierre Rehov, is a French filmmaker and novelist who, along with French journalist Philippe Karsenty, was at the fore of the effort to debunk the al-Durrah video.  </em></p>
<p>Charles,</p>
<p>In our previous discussions we had taken the habit of addressing each other in an informal way, so I will not adopt a pseudo-official tone to speak to you publicly.</p>
<p>The open letter you have published against Philippe Karsenty has put me in such a rage after years of silence on this matter, I have to intervene or to speak in a familiar way, to add &#8220;my two cents.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reasons for this anger? The underlying bad faith in each of your sentences makes me feel ashamed for the special correspondent I used to respect &#8230; once upon a time.</p>
<p>You probably already know I was the very first, with the support of the Bn&#8217;ai Brith, to be revolted against the deadly false report that your TV channel and yourself released in September 2000. My disbelief in the face of such images, the certainty that there was rigging, manipulation, or at best, misinterpretation of facts led me at the time to involve myself body and soul into the conflict and, without you, and the phony images of your activist cameraman, I would probably not have embarked on this career of independent documentary filmmaker, which launched me in your line of work. But quite obviously not on the same track.</p>
<p>Between September 2000 and January 2001, I traveled to Israel four times and once to Gaza to meet most of the participants, some politicians, and the Druze soldiers of Magen Shaloch accused of the &#8220;murder&#8221; of al-Dura, whom you, as you yourself said in your open letter, have never even approached.</p>
<p>During this same period, I hired a lawyer, Maître Julien, to file a complaint against France 2 &#8220;for spreading false news causing a disturbance of public order.&#8221; Had it not been shouted &#8220;death to Jews&#8221; on the streets of Paris the next day? In the complaint, I added a folder which you can still find traces on the net today: <a href="http://www.debriefing.org/A-Dura">debriefing.org/A-Dura</a>.</p>
<p>Strangely enough, the case was dismissed by the prosecutor in less time than it takes for an Arab propagandist to convince his audience of the monstrosity of Israel. My attorney, who specializes in defamation cases, could not believe it.</p>
<p>I was hoping that thanks to our exchanges I would perceive some form of regret on your part, because I was convinced that you had been manipulated and that somehow you were now defending your honor the best you could. I had come to feel compassion for you. Indeed, what a burden it must be for a Jew to know he has been indirectly, unintentionally and out of clumsiness, responsible for the deaths of so many innocents. Innocents on both sides, Charles!</p>
<p>As, if instead of preparing his Al Aqsa Intifada for two years, Arafat had not refused the proposal of Barak, if he had accepted the truce proposed by Bill Clinton after Ariel Sharon went on Temple Mount, if Mr Chirac had not meddled with it with all the arrogance and all the smugness that characterize French politics towards Israel, and if, finally, you had not been fooled,if you had not had wool pulled over your eyes by the nephew of one of the founders of the PLO, I mean your beloved Talal, thousands of lives would have been spared on both sides and, perhaps, today, the Arabs living in the disputed territories (I do confirm, this is official language, rooted in international law) would have a country by now, provided they are able to have one, without foreign help and that of Israel.</p>
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		<title>Michael Fumento: Where did all the warming go? &#8211; Washington Times</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s the science scandal of the year. A thousand e-mails and 2,000 other documents were swiped from the server of Britain&#8217;s Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University and posted on the Web. Many were truly embarrassing to the writers, while others have been quoted out of context and falsely used as &#8220;proof&#8221; global warming is &#8220;a hoax.&#8221;</p>
<p>But in one e-mail a top &#8220;warmist&#8221; researcher does admit it&#8217;s a &#8220;travesty&#8221; that &#8220;we can&#8217;t account for the lack of warming at the moment.&#8221; Further, &#8220;any consideration of geoengineering [is] quite hopeless as we will never be able to tell if it is successful or not!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Geoengineering&#8221; &#8211; as in the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and that the conservative Heritage Foundation estimates will lop $9.4 trillion off the economy? Geoengineering such as that to which President Obama hopes to commit us to at this week&#8217;s U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen? Yes, that kind of &#8220;geoengineering.&#8221;</p>
<p>And as it happens, the writer of that October 2009 e-mail &#8211; Kevin Trenberth, a lead author of the warmist bible, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) &#8211; report told Congress two years ago evidence for man-made warming is &#8220;unequivocal.&#8221; He claimed &#8220;the planet is running a &#8216;fever&#8217; and the prognosis is that it is apt to get much worse.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/07/where-did-all-the-warming-go/">Where did all the warming go? &#8211; Washington Times</a>.</p>
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