In between loud chants of Allahu Akbar (God is great), the leaders of the now infamous flotilla ship Mavi Marmara were quite clearly planning a showdown with Israeli commandos.

The continued condemnation of Israel over this incident by morons in America and elsewhere in the world is driven by a hatred of Jews rather than facts or evidence.

Deborah Soloman of The NY Times conducted a disgraceful interview with author and critic of radical Islam Brigitte Gabriel a few days ago.

In her book “They Must Be Stopped,” Gabriel is critical of the way Islamic fundamentalists are trying to burrow there way into American society. Gabriel is a Christian who was born and raised in Lebanon and speaks from experience about the dangers of allowing Islam to spread unchecked.

Deborah Soloman like her radical left-wing colleagues at the NY Times believes that it’s Gabriel that’s the real problem not the insane Muslim killers.

Here’s a few gems from the interview:

As a Lebanese-Christian immigrant who spent her girlhood amid the bloody devastation of the Lebanese civil war, you have lately emerged as one of the most vehement critics of radical Islam in this country. Are you concerned that your new book, “They Must Be Stopped,” will feed animosity toward Muslims? I do not think I am feeding animosity. I am bringing an issue to light. I disapprove of any religion that calls for the killing of other people. If Christianity called for that, I would condemn it.

What about all the moderate Muslims who represent our hope for the future? Why don’t you write about them? The moderate Muslims at this point are truly irrelevant. I grew up in the Paris of the Middle East, and because we refused to read the writing on the wall, we lost our country to Hezbollah and the radicals who are now controlling it.

In your new book, you write about the Muslim presence in America and bemoan the rise of Islamic day schools and jihad summer camp. Is there really such a thing? Yes. Instead of taking lessons on swimming and gymnastics, the kids are listening to speakers give lectures titled “Preparation for Death” and “The Life in the Grave.”…

Here’s the best part:

Are your parents still in Lebanon? I became an orphan at the age of 23. Both my parents are buried in Israel, on Mount Zion, with Oskar Schindler.

Why did you bury them in Israel? I wanted to honor my parents. After all, it is the Holy Land. And I wanted to ensure that both my children will know where my loyalty lies — with Israel, because Israel for me represents democracy, respect and human rights, something that no other country in the Arabic world offers.

Are you an agent of the U.S. government? No.

Are you underwritten by the C.I.A.? No. Are you kidding? In 2000, I voted for Al Gore.

But I see that R. James Woolsey, a former director of the C.I.A., serves on the board of American Congress for Truth, your educational foundation. We also have John Loftus, a staunch Democrat and former Justice Department prosecutor. We are not Red or Blue.

Where do you live? I do not share that information because of the death threats I receive.

Threats from anyone we know? Al Qaeda mentioned my name on their top Internet sites and recently sent a press release about my work.

If you are worried about death threats, why would you put a glamorous photograph of yourself on the cover of your new book? In Lebanon, we were raised to be glamorous, feminine and sensual. It’s the only good thing we inherited from the French.

It really shows you just how far off the reservation The NY Times has gone. This nutty left-winger thinks anyone who hates radical Islam and loves Israel must be a C.I.A. plant. She simply cannot conceive of anyone holding such normal (and completely accurate) viewpoints. I don’t think that last question about where she lives was an accident either. The sickos on the left would love it if an Islamic militant tracked down Ms. Gabriel and wore her head as a hat.

(hat tip NewsBusters)

Twin car bombs near United Nations offices and an Algerian government building killed at least 45 people in the deadliest attack in the capital, Algiers, in more than a decade.

Many of the dead were students aboard a bus that was en route to a university when it was struck by the second car bomb.

The bomb near the United Nations building exploded around 9:30 a.m. on narrow Emile Payen Street, collapsing much of the Development Program’s white multistory building and hurling chunks of rubble across the street.

The blast blew out doors and windows of the buildings facing the Development Program building, including one housing the United Nations refugee agency. At least one staff member was killed there.

It was the first time that a recent bombing campaign by Islamist militants had touched the area, a quiet residential quarter of Hydra, which is home of many embassies and their diplomats on the so-called heights of Algiers.

Hundreds of Islamic militants seized a town in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after outnumbered security forces laid down their arms, militants and police said.

About two dozen police officers and several troops offered no resistance to militants who seized three police stations and a military post in and around Matta, a town in the Swat valley.

Swat has been a focus of a wave of militant violence in Pakistan that began in July and has left more than 1,000 people dead, many of them in suicide attacks and army offensives.

Once a popular tourist destination because of its mountain scenery, Swat is also an example of how Islamic militants are trying to extend their control of areas near the Afghan border.

A large conflict may be looming as terrorists expand their control in Pakistan. Militants who once primarily controlled the lawless tribal belt on the Afghan/Pakistan border region are now in control of vast portions of Northern Pakistan.

The increased influence of the Islamic radicals was highlighted this week by intense fighting between local gunmen and government troops. The government said about 180 people have been killed, mostly militants, in violence including bombings, abductions and shootouts.

Taliban and al-Qaida were pushed back after the U.S. and its Afghan allies toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in late 2001. Today, residents say Arabs, Uzbeks and Tajiks have rejoined the ranks of the local radicals, mostly Pashtuns, the same ethnic group as the Taliban across the border in Afghanistan.

Terrorists now control Swat, which is a 4,000 square mile province in Northern Pakistan. Pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah has set up a virtual mini-state in Swat, a province of 4,000 square miles. He uses an FM radio station to help spread fundamentalist Islam in an area once known to tourists as the “Switzerland of Asia” for its stunning, snow-covered mountains.

Fazlullah and his followers have imposed strict Sharia law in Swat just as the Taliban did in Afghanistan. They have bombed girls schools and blown up video and CD shops. They drilled holes into the face of a 20-foot- tall stone Buddha, obliterating the features of the 1,300-year-old sculpture.

One of the biggest problems the Pakistani government faces is corruption within the military, Police, and intelligence service. Many within these organizations are at the very least sympathetic or at the worst actively assisting the terrorists.

Sooner or later the U.S. military is going to have to go into Northern Pakistan and clean out the terrorists. They now have a base of operations there just as they did in Afghanistan. If President Bush is serious about denying a safe haven for terrorists to plan attacks from then something must be done.

I believe President Musharraf is trying to help us as much as he can. The extremists are as much a threat to him and his government as they are to the West. I think it speaks volumes that Musharraf doesn’t have a single Pakistani in his personal security detail. He uses third country mercenaries with no personal or political ties to Pakistan.

At this moment there is no greater threat to the U.S. and its interests than extremist elements within Pakistan. If President Bush chooses to ignore this gathering danger or allows politics to get in the way, he is doing so at our peril.

-Chris Jones
The Hot Joints

Treason is the first thing that came to mind when I watched this video. It’s an Al-Jazeera news report from Somalia and several Al-Qaeda fighters are interviewed at a training camp. Among them is a white American citizen that speaks perfect English.

The report claims that not only his he an Al-Qaeda fighter, but he’s also a “military instructor.” Then it shows him putting together a bomb and detonating it after dark.

-Chris Jones