Morning (J)Blog Roundup - 2006-09-20
* One of the most popular Palestinian music videos is about a martyr going up to heaven where he's greeted by all of the hot virgins that he gets for dying gloriously in the cause for Allah. They're all wearing identical long white gowns and frolicking in water. Which should be hot, but somehow isn't. Because it's about death. And they're all wearing white robes that cover their entire body. These people are so pathetic.
* Lynn covers the TIME Ahmadinejad interview.
* Dave Bender has a video of terrorist bloopers. Just because they're trying to commit mass murder doesn't mean that they don't have a sense of humor.
* Looks like Jesus is here/back. He says that he's got some "business" to "take care of" before he can usher in a new age where lions lie with lambs. One of his people leaked the list to the press, and it includes: Tehran, Cairo, Mecca, the US State Department, Damascus, Tehran again, south Lebanon, Gaza, the inner city of Paris, Sudan, Tehran a third time, Amman, and Islamabad. Weird that the thinks that Amman is a problem.
* You know how you've heard that Hezbollah wasn't near Qana? Of course they were near Qana.
* Why haven't we been reading the Brussels Journal, and why have none of you told us about it?
*Iraq the Model: turns out, not only is jihad sometimes violent but Islam was at one time spread by the sword! Who knew? Someone should tell Juan Cole:
With regard to the Pope's allegations concerning holy war in Islam, Khamenei said, it is the height of unfairness for someone to misunderstand jihad in Islam and to incorrectly describe it. He said, "Islamic holy war [jihad] is not for the purpose of imposing a belief on others." He said it is for freeing people from the shackles of injustice.
Only Cole would defend Khamnei as the reasonable, non-hateful one in a debate between the guy who thinks that we need more Aristotle in the world and the guy who thinks that Jews are pigs and apes.
* Somebody named Mobius was complaining about this picture. Judith doesn't actually call Mobius what Meryl called the Brits, but if you look it's kind of between the lines. We clicked through, and apparently Mobius is concerned that images of "Sheikh Nasrallah’s severed head dripping blood" being held in the palm of a bad-ass Israeli soldier will make "militancy and even 'evil' itself attractive to [Israel's] youth". Which we think we can all agree is everyone's biggest concern right now.
* Soccer Dad: "There is nothing noble in ignoring Jews as canaries while simultaneously feeding them to the alligators". That's not the way the expression goes, is it?
* Pamela's got the Papal Jihad roundup.
* The Jewish religious right is celebrating because this smartass 14 year old settler chick got let out of jail after she refused to recognize the right of the Israeli court system to judge her (because it wasn't a religious court). Maybe they shouldn't have thrown her in pirson (whatever Israel's equivalent to juvi jail would've been better), but come on. You don't get to unilaterally decide that you're not going to to obey Israel's civil authority. That's not how we play this game.
* Eh. This probably can't hurt:
On the evening of March 28, 2002, a Hamas gunman, armed with an automatic rifle, infiltrated the Gavish's house in the community of Alon Moreh and opened fire on its inhabitants. The terrorist immediately killed Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83 before being killed himself by neighbors. The remaining six children, ages 15 to 22, managed to escape out of a second floor window. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has filed suit againt Hamas in Jerusalem. If she wins, Hamas will be bankrupt, and all the European Union funds will go to the victims instead of the terrorists. God bless her.
That's nice and everything, but we don't think that Hamas is going to actually hand over their funds. And we're quite sure that the EU won't either. But still, a nice gesture all around.
* Lynn covers the TIME Ahmadinejad interview.
* Dave Bender has a video of terrorist bloopers. Just because they're trying to commit mass murder doesn't mean that they don't have a sense of humor.
* Looks like Jesus is here/back. He says that he's got some "business" to "take care of" before he can usher in a new age where lions lie with lambs. One of his people leaked the list to the press, and it includes: Tehran, Cairo, Mecca, the US State Department, Damascus, Tehran again, south Lebanon, Gaza, the inner city of Paris, Sudan, Tehran a third time, Amman, and Islamabad. Weird that the thinks that Amman is a problem.
* You know how you've heard that Hezbollah wasn't near Qana? Of course they were near Qana.
* Why haven't we been reading the Brussels Journal, and why have none of you told us about it?
*Iraq the Model: turns out, not only is jihad sometimes violent but Islam was at one time spread by the sword! Who knew? Someone should tell Juan Cole:
With regard to the Pope's allegations concerning holy war in Islam, Khamenei said, it is the height of unfairness for someone to misunderstand jihad in Islam and to incorrectly describe it. He said, "Islamic holy war [jihad] is not for the purpose of imposing a belief on others." He said it is for freeing people from the shackles of injustice.
Only Cole would defend Khamnei as the reasonable, non-hateful one in a debate between the guy who thinks that we need more Aristotle in the world and the guy who thinks that Jews are pigs and apes.
* Somebody named Mobius was complaining about this picture. Judith doesn't actually call Mobius what Meryl called the Brits, but if you look it's kind of between the lines. We clicked through, and apparently Mobius is concerned that images of "Sheikh Nasrallah’s severed head dripping blood" being held in the palm of a bad-ass Israeli soldier will make "militancy and even 'evil' itself attractive to [Israel's] youth". Which we think we can all agree is everyone's biggest concern right now.
* Soccer Dad: "There is nothing noble in ignoring Jews as canaries while simultaneously feeding them to the alligators". That's not the way the expression goes, is it?
* Pamela's got the Papal Jihad roundup.
* The Jewish religious right is celebrating because this smartass 14 year old settler chick got let out of jail after she refused to recognize the right of the Israeli court system to judge her (because it wasn't a religious court). Maybe they shouldn't have thrown her in pirson (whatever Israel's equivalent to juvi jail would've been better), but come on. You don't get to unilaterally decide that you're not going to to obey Israel's civil authority. That's not how we play this game.
* Eh. This probably can't hurt:
On the evening of March 28, 2002, a Hamas gunman, armed with an automatic rifle, infiltrated the Gavish's house in the community of Alon Moreh and opened fire on its inhabitants. The terrorist immediately killed Rachel and David Gavish, 50, their son Avraham Gavish, 20, and Rachel's father Yitzhak Kanner, 83 before being killed himself by neighbors. The remaining six children, ages 15 to 22, managed to escape out of a second floor window. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has filed suit againt Hamas in Jerusalem. If she wins, Hamas will be bankrupt, and all the European Union funds will go to the victims instead of the terrorists. God bless her.
That's nice and everything, but we don't think that Hamas is going to actually hand over their funds. And we're quite sure that the EU won't either. But still, a nice gesture all around.
