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		<description>The New English Review - A monthly political/cultural magazine with a literary slant. The Iconoclast is a group blog featuring Hugh Fitzgerald, Mary Jackson, Rebecca Bynum, Theodore Dalrymple, Jerry Gordon, Norman Berdichevsky, Christina McIntosh, John M. Joyce and Esmerelda Weatherwax.</description>
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		<title><![CDATA[ "At Your Service, Zeinab" Or, Good News From Syria ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From The Wall Street Journal:
Fighters, Flowing to Syria, Guard Shiites
Battling Beside Assad Forces, Iraqis and Lebanese Answer Calls to Protect Shrines and Counter Sunnis

	
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By SAM DAGHER
SEYDA ZEINAB, Syria&amp;mdash;This town on Damascus&amp;#39;s southern fringe, with a shimmering golden-domed shrine at its center and a heavily patrolled perimeter of berms and concrete barriers, has become the first stop for many foreign fighters entering Syria to battle alongside President Bashar al-Assad&amp;#39;s forces.

Shiite fighters, primarily from Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, are now flowing into Syria in greater numbers to bolster government forces, say Syrians familiar with them. They are arriving to defend Mr. Assad&amp;#39;s regime, but more fundamentally to protect the Shiite faith from what they see as a regional Sunni onslaught, say people in Seyda Zeinab and the fighters&amp;#39; hometowns.

	
		
			
				
					
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:08:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Schools burn on fifth night of Stockholm riots ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the Swedish edition of The Local
At least two schools, a police station, and 15 cars were set ablaze in Stockholm on Thursday night as riots in the suburbs of the Swedish capital continued for the fifth straight night.
In Rinkeby a predominantly immigrant district in northern Stockholm, firefighters rushed to put out flames that engulfed six cars parked alongside each other. Three more cars were torched in the southern suburb of Norsborg, and a police station in &amp;Auml;lvsj&amp;ouml;, also on the city&amp;#39;s south side, was set on fire but quickly extinguished, police said.
Eight people were arrested in &amp;Auml;lvsj&amp;ouml;, while four arrests were made in Norsborg.
Firefighters also reported a school in Tensta, another north Stockholm suburb, was set ablaze but quickly extinguished, while a Montessori school in the neighbouring Kista suburb was also on fire.
Meanwhile, police in S&amp;ouml;dert&amp;auml;lje, a town south of Stockholm, said rioters threw stones at them as they responded to rep... ]]></description>
		<category><![CDATA[ Esmerelda Weatherwax ]]></category>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Woolwich murder: suspects both went to Greenwich university and 'plotted attack in Adebowale s flat' ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the London Evening Standard
	The second suspect in the killing of drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich was today identified as a former London schoolboy who attended the same university as his accomplice.&amp;nbsp;Michael Adebowale, 22, was shot by police along with his accomplice Michael Adebolajo, 28, during the attack outside the Army barracks on Wednesday.


	
		The pair are throught to have plotted the attack in Adebowale&amp;rsquo;s flat in Greenwich which was raided by up to 20 heavily armed police yesterday. Neighbours said both men were regularly seen at the address where Adebowale was living with his mother Juliet.
		He and Adebolajo - said to have also been a drug dealer and robber - both attended Greenwich University, though it is not known how they met.
		A man and a woman, both 29, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder during a series of raids on six addresses in London, Essex and Lincolnshire yesterday.
		It came as MI5 also faced continued questions over whet... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 08:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Two arrested after RAF diverts Pakistan jet to Stansted ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ The two men were arrested by police on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. An RAF typhoon jet was launched after an incident on board the Pakistani passenger aircraft within UK airspace.
Manchester Airport said the aircraft was a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane which was flying from Lahore to Manchester.&amp;nbsp;
The incident is understood to have happened around 10 minutes before the plane, flight number PK709, was due to land in Manchester at 2pm. The plane has now landed at Stansted Airport in Essex and is in an isolated stand, away from passenger areas. The Essex airport is the UK&amp;#39;s anti-terrorism base, where planes can be safely isolated.
Channel 4 News understands that Essex police are now carrying out security checks on the aircraft.
And from Sky News: A witness speaking in Urdu to Pakistani station Geo TV, said that two men over 6 feet tall tried to enter the pilot&amp;#39;s cabin.
Mashood Takwar, from Pakistan International Airlines, told Sky News that 25 m... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:13:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Usual Nonsense Offered Up To Explain Muslim Rioters In Sweden ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ &amp;nbsp;NBC news misleadingly identifies the Muslims riotiing in Sweden and destroying property both of individuals and the state as &amp;quot;immigrants&amp;#39; or as &amp;quot;youths&amp;quot; but never as Muslims. But these &amp;quot;youths&amp;quot; are not just any &amp;quot;youths&amp;quot; of all ethnicities and religions. And these&amp;nbsp; &amp;quot;immigrants&amp;quot; are not a representative sampling of immigrants -- there&amp;#39;s not a single Chinese or Hindu among them, but Muslims, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, the same Muslims whose Qur&amp;#39;an teaches them that they are the best of peoples, that they should not take Christians and Jews as friends, that when the holy months pass, they should make war on the Infidels, that the Infidels owe them support -- the Jizyah which, in lands where Muslims do not yet rule, should be taken by Muslims in the form of seizure -- theft -- or inveigling -- massive exploitation, through fraud, of whatever benfits the generous states of the Western world so trustingly offer.
What is never aske... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:03:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ And Calpensian Cocotte Molly Bloom Will Kick Out The First Ball ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Gibraltar given full Uefa membership 
BBC Sport-2 hours ago
Gibraltar has been accepted as a full member membership of Uefa, European football&amp;#39;s governing body. Their application was approved on a ...
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ A Musical Interlude: He Hadn't Up Till Yesterday (Sophie Tucker) ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Listen here. ... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:54:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Philippe Karsenty On The Al-Dura Hoax ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the Jerusalem Post:


Photo by: Moshe Milner/GPO
Thanks to Kuperwasser al-Dura report, truth is on its way
By PHILIPPE KARSENTY
	22/05/2013
I strongly recommend that the State of Israel establish another investigative committee to determine the problems which led to this situation.
For over 10 years, I&amp;rsquo;ve been fighting, along with many friends, to get out the truth about the al-Dura blood libel.
	
	For many years, the strongest argument of our opponents has been the silence of the State of Israel when my efforts were sometimes undermined by Israeli diplomats. So getting the support of Israeli public diplomacy was an important objective.
	
	On Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu received Moshe Ya&amp;rsquo;alon&amp;rsquo;s and Yossi Kuperwasser&amp;rsquo;s report, which confirms my accusation against French public TV.
	
	It&amp;rsquo;s a milestone on the way to the truth.
	
	Yesterday, a French court of appeals was expected to release its verdict on another episode of m... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ UKIP And Others: Do Do Something ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49200</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Come after Cameron and Clegg hammer and tongs, for their sickening statements on Islam (see, at NER, below).
But do do something.
... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ How The Chinese Hold The Votaries Of Islam In Check ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From World Policy Institute:
Red Tape: Chinese Government Regulation of Uyghur Religious Freedom
May 20, 2013 - 10:12am&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;admin

	
		
	

By&amp;nbsp;Henryk Szadziewski
It is Ramadan. The Chinese government has mandated all restaurants remain open for business during fasting hours. Regulations stipulate that state workplaces provide free lunches for their employees, and non-Muslims wait to see if their Muslim co-workers will sit down to eat with them. Schools tell students under the age of 18 that they cannot go to the mosque and pray during the holy month, or indeed at any time. The state has proscribed the communal and private religious education of children to the extent that affinities to Islam are becoming diluted. Imams, all of whom have undergone political education classes, sermonize to the only people eligible to enter the mosque, that is, men aged over 18 not employed by the government. Every Koran in public use is state approved. Any outward expression of faith... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:02:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ "International Community"-- WHO -- Condemns The One Country Providing Succor To Those Wounded In Syria ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49194</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From Commentary:
Israel Treats Palestinians and Syrians&amp;ndash;over PA and Syria&amp;rsquo;s Objections

	Evelyn Gordon |&amp;nbsp;@evelyng1234   05.24.2013 

You couldn&amp;rsquo;t make this up: As thousands of people in large swathes of the planet, including war-torn Syria, are dying daily for lack of adequate medical care, the one geographic area whose &amp;ldquo;health conditions&amp;rdquo; are slated for condemnation at the World Health Organization&amp;rsquo;s annual conference is, naturally, &amp;ldquo;the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan.&amp;rdquo; What makes this surreal isn&amp;rsquo;t just that the above areas enjoy far better &amp;ldquo;health conditions&amp;rdquo; than much of the rest of the world. It&amp;rsquo;s that the Palestinian Authority (Israel&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;peace partner&amp;rdquo;), together with Syria and other Arab countries, is seeking to condemn Israel at a time when it is actively providing medical services to both Palestinians and Syrians.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 10:14:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Truth In Stockholm: "They Don't Want To Integrate" ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49196</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Report, wiith nearly 400 comments, at RT, here. ... ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Nick Clegg Says Murder Of Drummer Lee Rigby 'Flies In The Face Of The Peace And Love That Islam Teaches" ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ &amp;ldquo;Over the last few days London has shown itself at its best: an unbreakable city once again refusing to bow to hatred and violence. Of all the groups and faiths represented here today, I would like to pay special tribute to London&amp;#39;s Muslim community.

	&amp;ldquo;An unspeakable act has been conducted in their name. Yet while this has provoked feelings of frustration and anger - it flies in the face of the peace and love that Islam teaches - Muslim organisations, Mosques, Imams and community leaders have responded with a call for unity and calm. They have set an example for us all.&amp;rdquo;
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:36:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Basta ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49198</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ &amp;quot;This was not just an attack on Britain &amp;ndash; and on our British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam &amp;ndash; and of the Muslim communities who are give so much to our country.
&amp;#39;There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act. 
&amp;#39;We will defeat violent extremism by standing together, by backing our police and security services and above all by challenging the poisonous narrative of extremism on which this violence feeds.
&amp;#39;Britain works with our international partners to make the world safe from terrorism. Terrorism that has taken more Muslim lives than any other religion.
&amp;#39;It is an utter perversion of the truth to pretend anything different. That is why there is absolutely no justification for these acts and the fault for them lies solely and purely with the sickening individuals who carried out this appalling attack.&amp;quot; 
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ EXCLUSIVE: Woolwich suspects were 'hunting soldiers' in weeks before attack, claims neighbour ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the London Evening Standard
	The Woolwich suspects were &amp;ldquo;hunting for soldiers&amp;rdquo; in the weeks leading up to the atrocity in which drummer Lee Rigby was killed, it was claimed today.


	
		Neighbour Paul Ramsamy, 46, claimed the pair confronted him after apparently mistaking him for a squaddie because he was wearing combat trousers and boots.
		The father of two said Michael Adebowale, 22, and Michael Adebolajo, 28, had followed him in the street in Greenwich as he walked home.
		He claimed: &amp;quot;They followed me for about 50 metres and approached me together. They looked very serious, like they meant business. They looked at my camouflage trousers and boots. I then thought they just wanted me to buzz them into the flat block but that was obviously not the case.
		&amp;quot;When I saw what happened in Woolwich I recognised them and realised how lucky I have been. They must have been hunting for soldiers to attack when they followed me.
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:16:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Tommy Robinson on top form ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tommy Robinson of the English Defence League doesn&amp;#39;t always do himself any favours. He needs to stay off the booze, at least in public. But watch him here (thanks to Gates of Vienna) at his most articulate. And compare and contrast the mealy mouthed appeasement of our so-called leaders Cameron and Clegg.

Of course many on the Left will discount Tommy Robinson&amp;#39;s arguments because of his accent, for there is no snob like a Socialist snob.
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		<category><![CDATA[ Mary Jackson ]]></category>
		<author>mjackson@newenglishreview.org (Mary Jackson)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:26:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Fanatical Muslims Attack International Aid Group in Kabul ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49203</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Just when you thought the religion of peace couldn&amp;#39;t get any more wonderful, this comes in from the LATimes:
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban gunmen launched a coordinated attack on an international aid group&amp;rsquo;s guesthouse in an upscale Kabul neighborhood Friday, setting off a furious firefight that lasted several hours and renewing fears of the insurgents&amp;rsquo; ability to strike virtually at will in the heart of the capital.

	The late-afternoon attack took place in Kabul&amp;rsquo;s Shar-e-Naw district, home to numerous heavily fortified compounds housing international aid groups and Afghan governmental and security entities.
	The assault began with a powerful car bomb detonated at the gates of the guesthouse used by workers for the International Organization for Migration, an inter-governmental group based in Geneva. Insurgents then raided the compound, throwing hand grenades and severely burning an Italian woman working for the organization, said IOM spokesman Chris Lom.
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		<category><![CDATA[ Rebecca Bynum ]]></category>
		<author>info@newenglishreview.org (Rebecca Bynum)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 15:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Hezbollah And The Sunni Rebels Of Qusayr ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49205</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From Al-Shofra.com:
Hizbullah leading the fight in Qusayr: Syrian activists
2013-05-24 By Jamal Mouin in Beirut

	
		Syrian opposition fighters gather in Qusayr. [Trad Zehouri/Al-Shorfa]
	


	
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	Since the beginning of the week, funerals have been held daily across the Bekaa and southern Lebanon for Hizbullah fighters killed in battles in Qusayr in Syria&amp;#39;s Homs province.
	
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					Opposition fighters in Qusayr take up position. [Trad Zehouri/Al-Shorfa]
				
			
		
	
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Muslims Extend Their Rioting Beyond Stockholm ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49206</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Brisbane Times

Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital 
Reuters-18 minutes ago
... away at benefits, while some communities have struggled to cope with the heavy wave of immigration they are seeing from Syria and other war-torn countries.
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:25:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Jabhat Al-Nusra Against "Rafidite Dogs "(Hezbollah, Iranians, Alawites) In Qusayr ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49207</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Pray for the battle of Qusayr to go on and on, and may both sides show their maniacal mettle.
From TIME:
The Battle for Qusayr: What Victory in Syria&amp;rsquo;s Latest Front Means for the War
By Aryn BakerMay 23, 201317 Comments

	
		
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		Syrian troops take control of the village of Western Dumayna, some 7 km north of the rebel-held city of Qusayr on May 13, 2013
		
	
		
			
		
	
	Fighting continued for a fifth straight day in the strategic Syrian city of Qusayr, as opposition forces fighting the regime of President Bashar Assad sought desperately to maintain their slipping grip in a battle that could dictate the direction of the war. As government tanks, artillery and warplanes pounded rebel positions throughout the city, fighters engaged in sniper attacks and small forays against government ground troops seeking to take terrain. Rebel fighters are calling it one of the worst ground battles of the war.
	&amp;ldquo;In some areas the fight is wit... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:32:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ What Bob Carr, Australian Foreign Minister, Says "Would Be A Huge Tragedy" ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49208</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ From a news report:
&amp;quot;On a visit to Baalbek on Thursday, Australia&amp;#39;s foreign minister, Bob Carr, said the week&amp;#39;s events had marked a groundshift in Syria&amp;#39;s war. The deteriorating situation there, he said, &amp;quot;could become a sectarian civil war across the region. The prospect of it being a Shia, Sunni war across more than one country and this would be a huge tragedy.&amp;quot;

What do you think?
Do you think the Iran-Iraq War, that kept both the Khomeni regime, and Saddam Hussein&amp;#39;s regime, busy with their mutual bloodletting for eight years, was &amp;quot;a huge tragedy&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; for the world&amp;#39;s non-Muslims?
Do you think that watching the members of Jabhat Al-Nusra (including all those Muslims who come from Australia, from Germany and France and England, but who are sufficiently fanatical in their faith to have rushed to Syria to fight) fight, and engage in some mutual takfiring (declaring others to be Infidels) with the members of Hezbollah, in Qusayr is a &amp;qu... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ The Nonsense About Muslim Cooperation With The Authorities, And Just One More Lie From Mehdi Hasan Of Huffington Post UK ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49211</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ &amp;quot;The best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community &amp;ndash; which has consistently rejected terrorism &amp;ndash; to identify signs of radicalization, and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence.&amp;quot; Also sprach Obama yesterday.
&amp;quot;Remember: the Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was thrown out of his local mosque after lashing out at the imam for praising Martin Luther King in his Friday sermon&amp;quot; -- Mehdi Hasan in a Guardian article .

And this crazed idea has been echoed by Cameron and by Clegg, in the general despairing degringolade all over the Western world where, confronted with the millions of Muslims -- busily procreating, tirelessly proselytizing, limitlessly clever in presenting themselves as victims and as worthy of support in every possible Infidel way -- they simply don&amp;#39;t know what to do, but above all want to keep pretending that somehow if they say Islam is peaceful and non-violent an... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Meanwhile, In Yemen ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yemen&amp;#39;s main oil export pipeline sabotaged, crude flow halted
	&amp;nbsp;May 24, 2013
	


	Unknown attackers have blown up Yemen&amp;rsquo;s main oil export pipeline in the central province of Ma&amp;rsquo;rib, halting the flow of crude oil, government and industry sources say.
	
	
	Yemen&amp;rsquo;s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday that the pipeline in Serwah was exploded by &amp;ldquo;subversive elements.&amp;rdquo;
	
	The key pipeline, which carries oil to an export terminal on the Red Sea shore, had been pumping around 125,000 barrels per day (bpd), Reuters quoted an industry source as saying.
	
	Oil revenues make up more than 70 percent of Yemen&amp;rsquo;s state budget. Oil and gas products also account for over 90 percent of Yemen&amp;#39;s exports.
	
	Insurgents and tribesmen have repeatedly attacked oil and gas pipelines in Yemen over the past two years in a bid to win concessions from the central government, causing fuel shortages and slashing export earnings in the impoveris... ]]></description>
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:44:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Can We Stop Refugee Jihadi Terrorists from Entering the US? ]]></title> 
		<link>http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/49213</link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibrigrim Todashev
Steve Amundsen, a colleague in The United West, who hails from Southern California, sent me an Investors Business Daily editorial, entitled, &amp;ldquo;Stop Importing Terrorists&amp;rdquo;. &amp;nbsp;The byline was &amp;ldquo;restrict visas issued to hostile Muslim countries.&amp;rdquo; &amp;nbsp;This came at the conclusion of a bizarre and ghastly week, with the slaughter in London of British Soldier Lee Rigby by two British home grown jihadis , one a second generation and the other a third generation of Nigerian Christian origin, who converted to Islam while at university.&amp;nbsp; The other troubling event was the shooting death by FBI agents in Orlando, Florida of Chechen refugee, Ibrigrim Todashev. He attempted to stab one of the agents during an interrogation in his Florida apartment concerning a triple murder allegedly perpetrated by him and the late Tamerlan Tsardaev on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 in Waltham, Massachusetts.&amp;nbsp;
Ann Corcoran of Refugee Resettl... ]]></description>
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		<author>jerry_gordon38@yahoo.com (Jerry Gordon)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:35:00 EST</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ Douglas Murray On Immigration ]]></title> 
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		<description><![CDATA[ Islam isn&amp;#39;t mentioned. But that&amp;#39;s for another day. Other, more general,&amp;nbsp; points are made, and made well.
Here. 
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		<author>hughfitzgerald@msn.com (Hugh Fitzgerald)</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:59:00 EST</pubDate>
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