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~ WARM THANKS to them what took a moment and commented over at Binkson Meeb’s New blogsite, and even on other Binkson Steeb’s blogweb, too. A little encouragement goes a long way. Now (as I’m telling them) they have to get up to some semi-regular posting, and maybe even write back to the commenters. You’re kind out there! ~

~ THE ANCHORESS— Advent & Interregnum; Season of Transitions; Prime preaching & Poems, too! …. (theanchoressonline)

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Mark Steyn

~ HAPPY HUMAN RIGHTS DAY! …but why is Canada in breach of the UN Declaration? …. (steynonline)

~ CANADA vs FREE SPEECH: ISLAMOSPAMOPHOBIA— Mastery of the lingo- plus: More peer-reviewed scholarship from Law Is Cool …. (steynonline)

~ TEH STEYN: “Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable” …. (kennethhynek)

~ DONE WE NOW OUR VAGUE APPAREL: Seven Customer Care Representatives A-leaping …. (nrtoc)

~ DID JOURNALISM “Doctor” edit Steyn & Levant? New Poll to Freep;) – J-Source is taking nominations for “Canadian Newsperson of the year 2008”, Hmmm why were Ezra & Mark Steyn edited out? …. (fivefeetoffury, bcf)

Ezra

~ SIGNING A WRITTEN contract with separatists isn’t normal …. (ezralevant)

~ NOAM CHOMSKY: Canada’s section 13 “outrageous”, “pure hypocrisy” …. (ezralevant)

~ NEXT UP: B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to overturn election results …. (ezralevant)

~ NOBEL laureate: Internet could have stopped Hitler …. (ezralevant)

~ BOB RAE develops a taste for democracy …. (ezralevant)

~ EZRA: Who is John Milton? …. (Ez)

~ EZRA’S ANTAGONIST— “Syed “‘splains” it: Syed Soharwardy, who launched, then dropped, an infamous complaint to the Alberta Human Rights Commission re Ezra Levant, has decided to give that free speech stuff a tumble” …. (scaramouche)

FreeSpeechers

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— Give yourself my novel for Christmas; Eve of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; The Binks has given me a new name; This is a most distressing story; An important question; Happy Human Rights Day– but weep for Canada; Great Camille Paglia essay …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ THE INTERIM: An editorial on persecution at home at the hands of the human rights commissions …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ METALLIC ATOMS accidently combine with random agglomerations of organic matter to go nowhere for no particular reason …. (markshea.blog)

~ THE DISAPPEARED: New poll to freap – EZ & Steyn “Disappeared” From J-Source Nominations …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ NSCOTT— BC “human rights” tribunal beclowns itself again …. (novascotiascott)

~ DENYSE O’LEARY on Fairness: “Over at Future Tense, some of us have been blogging about the transitions that the publishing industry is facing. For example, Wendy Nelles notes that Thomas Nelson’s recent layoffs represent a 9% decline in book sales” …. (post-darwinist.blog)

~ CANADIAN PRESS accuses Tories of taking shots at Michael Ignatieff, and he isn’t even leader yet …. (dustmybroom)

~ ROGER KIMBALL: “Some things you can’t say” …. (rogerkimball)

~ FIRST THINGS: Same-Sex Marriage and the Failure of Justificatory Liberalism, By Francis J. Beckwith …. (FT)

~ THREE STRIKES yer out: Melanie Phillips does an excellent job of demolishing the “human rights” culture …. (scaramouche)

~ DAVID WARREN: “Good news: for at least till the time of filing this column, the rest of the world was still not following our constitutional crisis. As a once-proud Canadian who hopes to be proud again, eventually, I don’t want them to notice” …. (davidwarrenonline)

~ MARK SHEA ON One World Government …. (markshea.blog)

~ PRESUMED GUILTY— Hey, you’re a criminal! …. (dustmybroom)

~ BRUSSELS JOURNAL: “I marvel at the assumption of the British public, that no matter how bad things get, the country will somehow never turn into a tin pot dictatorship” …. (brusselsjournal)

~ GAY MOHAMMED Gay Nativity Set with Two Josephs! Because everything is always about homosex always, everywhere and at all times without any exceptions whatsoever and that means you, buster!  …. (ms)

~ WILLIAM GAIRDNER about the problem with liberalism …. (interim.ca)

~ AMERICAN Christian Hypocrisy on Free Speech …. (am770chqr)

~ THOMAS SOWELL: Freedom and the Left …. (townhall.com)

~ O, DECK THE HEELS With Boughs of Holly, by Mike S. Adams; Amazon is currently promoting “12 Days of Holiday.” Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas. Get over it …. (Various)

~ HABEMUS DOOFAM! Bishop Ignatieff to be acclaimed Liberal Pope …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ GOOD RIDDANCE! Coalitionista Stephane Dion has officially stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Ottawa rally because 90% didn’t vote to give separatists a veto or senate seats; These are the flyers I gave out at the rally, I like where Dion says he’s intolerant; The Wimp is Out, With a Whimper; Merry Christmas – Now Get Out …. (Various)

~ NOT MUCH OF A FEMINIST, IS HE? “Did I miss ‘Montreal Massacre Day?’” …. (kennethhynek)

~ DUST MY BROOM— “I’m Patrick from Canmore and I want to kill the prime minister” …. (dustmybroom)

Coalition cracks are showing

~ WHO SAID THIS about Christians in Nazi Germany? …. (novascotiascott)

~ ANTHONY ESOLEN: “We can never find happiness, or enjoy liberty, if we are stupid and wicked. It isn’t simply that a wicked and stupid people will lose their political freedoms. They will; but only because they have already lost their last shreds of liberty within. What good is the franchise, when we are slaves all the same?” …. (merecomments)

~ RELIGIOUS Order Returns Two Orders of Canada over “Outrage” of Award to Abortionist Henry Morgentaler …. (lsn)

~ SUSTAINED 15 Minute Hates From Gay Brownshirts Against Restaurant Manager Who Supported Prop 8 Succeed in Smashing Freedom of Political Expression …. (markshea.blog)

~ AMERICAN Professors Indoctrinating Students? Not in Our University …. (pajamasmedia)

~ ENJOY Michael Coren’s satirical letter to the prime minister complaining that he does not have the right to marry himself …. (theinterim.ca)

~ THE EDMONTON JOURNAL is kind of behind the times; in related news, post: Sign of the Times? Dead Tree Tribune Co. files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection …. (kennethhynek, blazingcatfur.blog)

~ FOLLOW THE IDEOLOGY… The First Amendment for Me, Not Thee …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “damned lies,” methinks …. (kennethhynek)

~ THE BLOGGING REVOLUTION: A Look at the Repression of Online Journalism Around the World …. (walker)

~ QUESTION PERIOD: Noam Chomsky on being censored, CHRC censorship, Ayn Rand, Robert Nozick and libertarianism …. (shotgun)

~ INDOCTRINATION, not education: “Victor Davis Hanson laments the decline of the classical university education and its replacement with the mush, sludge and cotton batten of political correctness and moral relativism” …. (scaramouche)

~ PETE VERE— Hoisted with his own Raetard; and coalition math …. (petevere.blog)

~ U.S. BROADCAST ‘Fairness’ Fouls Out, By George Will …. (jewishworldreview)

~ THE SOCIALIST PARADISE: “Roger Cohen, writing for the New York Times, describes the last gasp of Fidel’s revolution. Cuba lives in a world where things run backwards” …. (Belmont)

~ THE THING the left doesn’t yet realize about us is that we think of them simply as bad people, capable of great evil, in fact, intent on it …. (socon.ca)

~ XANTHIPPA— REAL cultural tolerance!!!; and “Dangers of online journalism” …. (xanthippa)

~ MEMO TO Anti-Prop 8 Activists: Leave the Mormons Alone! Curt Jester: Missing from scripture. Even the Devil quoted scripture …. (PJ, CJ)

~ HYPERVENTILATION, PLEASE: Homosexual Activists Protest at Vatican, Say Vatican Wants to “Exterminate” Them …. (lsn)

~ BLARING CATFOOD— Why I don’t want Jack Layton and the NDP anywhere near to power in the Government of Canada; Give Your Head a Shake; A Heartfelt Congratulations to all Dippers …. (bcj, cj)

~ IT’S ONLY MONEY! “About That — OUCH — $23 Million Ceiling for the UN “Human Rights” Chamber in Geneva” …. (claudiarosett)

VIDEO: Rally for Canada in Ottawa

And Stephen Taylor vid via this link

~ I DARE SOMEONE to file an actual HRC complaint about this …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ JUST SO DARN SEXY! “Hope ‘n’ change ‘n’ fascism ‘n’ sharia: In FrontPage magazine, David Solway shows how the left’s agenda (which aims to control an individual’s life through rigid rules of thought and behaviour, i.e. political correctness) meshes with the Islamist agenda (which aims to control every aspect of an individual’s life via rigid religious laws), and why the West’s intelligentsia finds the jihad so darn sexy” …. (scaramouche)

~ A BID TO DESPISE: Government encouraging discrimination against white men. In the name of equality! …. (blogs.news.com.au)

~ THE WAR ON TRUTH: “Progressive” Vocabulary That Doesn’t Work” …. (cjunk.blog)

~ POST-MORTEM: “Remarkable piece by elite Liberal blogger Rob Silver poses several pointed questions to “any and all Liberal MPs” regarding their support for the coalition and the man who negotiated it. Namely: where were you?”; If I were an editorial cartoonist; Oh hello, the grown-ups have showed up at last …. (Various)

~ BRASS BALLS RADIO: Coup Coup Cachoo Edition …. (girlontheright)

~ POP EVIL— “There is no stronger proof of the power of marketing to overcome reality than the posthumous reputation of Ernesto “Che” Guevara”; Theodore Dalrymple ponders terrorism, its apologists, and those most readily drawn to it …. (skepticaldoctor, dt)

~ GLORIOUS LEADER! “Rae essays Porter: To urge himself on in his hopeless quest to become the Liberal’s top chien, once and future socialist and amateur composer Bob Rae sings himself the appropriate Cole Porter number”; and “Finding humour in this constitutional puzzle” …. (scaramouche, xanthippa)

~ CAMILLE Paglia on Mombai, Sarah Palin the “street rapper”, gay brownshirts …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ ED DRISCOLL— New Silicon Graffiti Video: “Red Queen’s Race” …. (eddriscoll)

~ HUMAN RIGHTS tribunal shoots itself in the foot again …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ MERRY Bag of Cement! …. (dustmybroom)

~ YOUR DAILY DIGEST of newspaper extinction news; Newspaper CEOs rearrange deck chairs in closed-door “Crisis Summit” …. (directorblue.blog)

~ WELL DONE, THEN! “The current Toronto Party, which cannot even get a video shot properly, has managed to dispense with the advantages of a coup without gaining the legitimacy of a democratic process. Which is, one must admit, a neat trick”; The Toronto Party Gets Real …. (jaycurrie)

Spencer, Hedegaard, Geller talk free speech in NYC

~ ‘RIGHTS’? WRONG! “In an exclusive in today’s Daily Mail the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, confides that the Human Rights Act has become a serious problem” …. (spectator)

~ CELEBRATE UN Human Rights Day — buy my book for a friend …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ CHARITIES FACE grant cuts, regulatory conflict …. (walker)

~ A VERY SLOW suicide: Words associated with Christianity and British history taken out of children’s dictionary; Pace Christopher Hitchens, it is not only the DPRK using 1984 as a guide to best practice rather than a warning …. (Various)

~ SHOVELLING DIRT on the Coalition’s Grave; never the twain shall meet …. (am770chqr)

Separation of church & state

~ WELL DONE! BRAVO! Turkish scholars apologise for Armenian genocide …. (novascotiascott)

~ POISONING OURSELVES— “It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone.” …. (drhelen.blog)

~ DEMOCRACY is Racist! Calgary Herald Column: Beware the Conventional Wisdom …. (am770chqr)

~ TURNING THE BIBLE on its Head — Newsweek Goes for Gay Marriage …. (walker)

~ THE FEW, THE PROUD, the Damned: “One way I teach my students to work with language is by showing them how to play with it — just as a psych professor teaches future therapists and ex-wives how to play with people’s minds” …. (insidecatholic)

~ PRIVATISING Big Brother? Here’s something for libertarians and privacy lovers to chew on …. (cv)

~ BLASPHEMY— Christmas hijacked with ‘gay’ Nativity. Manger scene to feature 2 Josephs, 2 Marys at homosexual festival; The New Hollywood Blacklist …. (wnd, transfigurations.blog)

~ RIGHT GIRL: “These Shoulders of Mine” …. (girlontheright)

~ WALL STREET: Some Get It … Some Don’t; All woe the housing starts; The Fraud-eral Reserve …. (Various)

~ OUR OWN BARBARIANS— “The Guardian’s Leo Hickman shares his wisdom on today’s security breach at Stansted Airport, courtesy of activists from the environmentalist group, Plane Stupid” …. (davidthompson)

~ AN INTERVIEW with Glenn Penner of Voice of the Martyrs on the Christian persecution around the globe …. (theinterim.ca)

~ eHARMONY SHAKEDOWN: settlement erodes everyone’s freedom …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ BRAIN-DEATH in UK Schools: “Groundhog day in primary school” …. (spectator)

~ ANOTHER Mormon run over by the anti-Prop. 8 mob’s bus …. (michellemalkin)

~ EXPLORING THE HORRIFIC death of Long Island Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour, Kirsten Powers writes, “Incivility isn’t just accepted these days–from celebrity news to TV shows–it’s glorified” …. (eddriscoll)

~ THE EVIL TURTLE BAY UN=Ministry of Truth …. (reformedpastor)

~ THE REVELATION Of Moloch: “If you enjoyed how the best and the brightest who rule over us handled the recent financial meltdown, you will surely get a kick as you watch this vermin get ready to take over the US automakers. Health care is next. But these creatures are just getting started” …. (thereturnofscipio)

The MouthPiece Of Moloch

~ OH, THOSE EUTOPIANS— Are EU deaf or what? “The author of a new EU Phrasebook, launched in Brussels today, analyses European leaders’ utter inability to understand the word ‘No’” …. (spiked-online)

~ PHILL KLINE Wins Planned Parenthood Abortion Case that Media Reported he Lost …. (walker)

~ FORBIDDEN TOPICS— “The One Hundred Billion Dollar Man: The Annual Public Costs of Father Absence,” a research report by Steven L. Nock for the National Fatherhood Initiative …. (fatherhood.org)

~ CHINA DETAINS complaining citizens in psychiatric facilities …. (novascotiascott)

~ APPARENTLY, it’s Human Rights Day– I know, I know…thrilling …. (kennethhynek)

~ COPYBOOK GODS: “It was sometime mid-last week when I saw, much to my surprise, the grim visage and finger stabbing energy of Stephen Harper on BBC World” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ A WHITES-ONLY BROWSER? What could possibly be the problem? …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ WORKER’S PARADISE ALERT: Cuban activists beaten on eve of human rights anniversary …. (csmonitor)

~ SOCIALIST MONARCH Bob Rae Gets The Taste Of His Own Medicine …. (forlifeandfamily.blog)

~ BARBARA KAY: “November was Domestic Violence Awareness month. Truth in advertising suggests it should be Y-Chromosome Apartheid Month” …. (barbarakay.ca)

~ 200-ISH TURN OUT for the Vancouver Rally for Canada …. (rjjago)

~ OMAR @ LAW COOL IS no likes ‘Prorogue’; and “Professional Conduct and Free Speech concerns” …. (lawiscool.com)

~ THERE WERE Once Giants In The Earth …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ A LIGHTER NOTE: Extreme Vintage TV Campiness. WARNING: The following video featuring Leonard Nimoy may cause explosive cranial decompression. Free Canuckistan is not responsible for any scars-for-life resulting from said video …. (cjunk.blog)

Obysmal

~ SCIPIO: “Obama is smoking again” …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ THE REAL BARACK OBAMA is following the whole BlagoGate/ Obama situation. Once again, we’re forced to ask, does this guy have any close friends who aren’t criminals, creeps, communists, or racketeers? …. (/therealbarackobama)

~ CLOSE ‘BAMA BUDDY Blagojevich Selling Obama’s Senate Seat? Deets: PW has Blago’s Indictment; IL Gov. Blagoevich Arrested: Name That Party Roundup …. (Various)

~ PACKWOOD— Try the stick: “An excellent reason to support the Obama administration. Assuming, that is, he means what he said” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ OBAMA CAUGHT LYING ABOUT BLAGOJEVICH— Obama and Blago go way back and have been cavorting together a long time. Blago knew who to use to get to Obama; The Chicago Candidate …. (sda, Atlas)

~ PREMATURE EXALTATION? “People believed that Obama was going to bring about a revolution. There was serious feeling that he was going to part the skies and bring Jerusalem to this our green and pleasant land. I for one have never heard of a revolution where the most passionate stalwarts ended up happy with the results” …. (shotgun)

~ GATEWAY PUNDIT— Obama & Emanuel Are So Close With Blagojevich That They Led His Campaign For Governor; Oh Brother… Obama Already Caught Lying About His Contact With Blagojevich …Update: Another One Under the Bus; “Blagojevich Arrest Shakes Obama Presidency to Its Core” …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ MEMO TO ALL Obama-crush liberals: he’s just not that into you …. (spiked-online.com)

~ DID OBAMA Have Contact with Blago or Didn’t He?; The Blagojevich Sinkhole; How Far Will The Blago Scandal Spread? …. (spectator, hh)

~ THE MESSIAH Barack Obama lays out great expectations for Canada …. (dustmybroom)

~ PUNDITA— Steve Diamond on Blagojevich’s proposal to Service Employees International Union; Sahib Obama quick but U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald quicker; The “Chinatown” taint: Try as you might, you can’t wash it off …. (pundita.blog, Scary)

~ SCOTUS rejects Obama citizenship suit …. (noapologies)

~ SIGCARLFRED— Will Obama Dance On The Head Of The Anti American Pin? …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ FORKED-TONGUE— Is Obama capable of giving a straight answer?; Obama needs to get his story straight; ‘Staggering’ Corruption by Blagojevich …. (americanthinker)

~ WHAT DOES HM Obama mean for Canada? By Paul Tuns; Barack Obama and church-going: He is a hypocrite or a liar for not going to church since being elected president, not a moral degenerate …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ MORALITY PLOYS: Big Bailouts & Culture War Manoeuvres You Can Expect, by James Hitchcock …. (touchstonemag)

~ THE ATTOURNEY Who Aided Terri Schiavo’s Husband Now Advising Barack Obama. Good news for feebs, crips, tards, veggies, and the inconvenient and disposable? …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ PROGRESSIVE bloggers approaching panic mode. What’s next? Anarchy? …. (therealbarackobama)

~ PROP 8 PROTESTERS Urge People to “Call in Gay” Wednesday …. (Wz)

~ FORMER BLACK PANTHER demands African American replace Obama …. (walker)

~ WINDBAG Rev. Wright Attacks ABC, CNN, Time, Hannity, O’Reilly, Chicago Papers as ‘Gates of Hell’ …. (newsbusters)

~ HUGH HEWITT— Obama’s Interior Secretary and the ESA …. (townhall)

~ EVIL ACTS CAN BE GIVEN “an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate” …. (walker)

~ RULING BY A RADICAL (ie, Obama) …. (creepingsharia)

~ BACK TO THE TREES: “I assume the poster accompanying RBO’s Progressive Whine and Cheese Party is the work of Freedom Fairy. FF should think about bringing out a coffee table edition of her Barack Obama posters” …. (pundita.blog)

~ OBAMERICA— What is considered “rich”? …. (drhelen.blog)

~ THE REAL THREAT to Democracy: “The perils of criminalizing policy differences with the president” …. (spectator.org)

~ WILL PREZ-ELECT Obama end the embargo against Cuba? Stockwell Day pushes trade in Central and South America …. (shotgun)

~ PHARAOH OZYMANDIAS The president-elect is promising a massive public works campaign. Behold his works, ye mighty, and despair!; A business fights to live as Obama plagiarizes FDR for a Ted Stevens presidency …. (Various)

~ KATE @ SDA— “So far there is no groundswell of feminist rage in the District of Columbia.”; Suskind: “The Hillary Groping Incident And Other Signs We’re Back in 1950?; Meet Jon Favreau, obama’s Fluffer; and “Why is this picture not okay?” …. (sda)

~ THE DISASTEROUS Daschle-Obama strategy to “fix” health care …. (directorblue.blog)

~ LIBERALS ARE GROWING increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry – that President-elect Barack Obama seems to be stiffing them on Cabinet jobs and policy choices …. (cjunk)

~ PAPER: Obama’s Web presence loses its luster? …. (WaTi)

~ KUCINICH: It’s “Unfair and Insane” That Obama Hasn’t Chosen me for a Cabinet Post …. (Wz)

~ GET YOUR FREE Taxpayer Bailout Blog Widget and Stop Federal Income Taxes for 3 Months! …. (directorblue.blog)

~ FED PROBE widens to Obama’s vacant seat …. (chicagotribune)

~ COMPLAINT HITS Rezko land deal: Fired official says appraisal replaced …. (WaTi)

~ I WANT MY OTV: Memo from Obama …. (americandigest)

~ GLOBAL WEIRDOS— Obama Graced With the Goracle’s Presence, Will Discuss What Else?….”Global Warming” …. (Wz)

~ OBAMA STUCK on stupid. Still wants to “spread the wealth” …. (therealbarackobama)

~ MANDATE for What? Obama has good reason to make the left gnash their teeth …. (weeklystandard)

~ VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Mumbai reminds us that the Obama administration will be faced with tough choices. “Back to the Old 9/11 World” …. (victorhanson.com)

~ JAY CURRIE— A Boiling Caldron – a thought experiment …. (jaycurrie)

New Video: Dr. Ron Polarik on the authenticity of Obama’s COLB

~ MEANWHILE, Iowahawk is looking forward, far forward, to the next ghostwritten Obama book …. (iowahawk)

~ CHICAGO: “The Workers Seize Control in the Second City!”; Obama’s Lapdog Media; Politically Correct Toys for the Holidays …. (thepeoplescube)

~ ED DRISCOLL: The Unicorn Rider Has No Clothes …. (eddriscoll.com)

Jihad

DJ suspended for playing Busta Rhymes’ “Arab Money”

~ SHAME ON US! Canada’s government defends a Saudi policy of shunning tourists who have visited Israel …. (ghostofaflea)

~ JOLLY EID CELEBRATIONS: Dozens of Muslim inmates destroy workshops– Hey, chill out. It’s what they do. You don’t approve? …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ AQSA PARVEZ— “Dishonor” even in death: Toronto “honor killing” girl in unmarked grave; This would seem to settle the question of Aqsa Parvez …. (fivefeetoffury, bcf, Ti)

~ FJORDMAN ESSAY: A History of Optics, part 1– The latest from Fjordman explores the development of optics in the West and in the Islamic world …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ I AM ISLAMOPHOBIC: The untold story of a Queen’s University student’s acute fear of religious radicals …. (shotgun)

~ IS GLOBAL Just Around the Corner?; No Details Yet On Bringing Somalia Into The Fold …. (cjunk.blog, sda)

~ IT MUST BE WEDNESDAY: Riot after Christian alleged to have offended Islam …. (novascotiascott)

~ ANDREW BOSTOM— “Isaac Bashevis Singer (and Joseph D’Aleo) on Anthropogenic Global Warming” …. (andrewbostom.org)

~ A SERIOUS setback to human rights”.. In “A Modern-day Islamist Inquisition?” at The American Thinker …. (jihadwatch)

~ IF ONLY THOSE PESKY Jews would just die, already …. (Ti)

~ ORTHODOX Church in Saudi Arabia for Mosque in Moscow …. (orthodoxytoday)

~ WITH FORKED TONGUES— A clash of meanings: FrontPage Magazine has a useful glossary of terms which mean one thing to us and something else entirely to Islamist …. (scaramouche)

~ BOSTOM— Mohamed El-Baradei Clouseau Admits His Failure to “Harness” Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Quest …. (andrewbostom.org)

~ BOOK— Recommendation: Stealth Jihad by Robert Spencer; Spencer on the Stealth Jihad at Restoration Weekend …. (weaselzippers, jihadwatch)

~ FUN WITH HATE-MOBS— Mecca: Iranian Pilgrims Chant “Death to America, Death to Israel” During Haj …. (Wz)

~ BOLTON: “Iran is going to get nuclear weapons” …. (creepingsharia)

~ MATTEL COVER-UP; SCRUBBING DAWAH DOLLIE, “ISLAM IS THE LIGHT”– Smelly. Very smelly. Mattel is guilty as sin, and if not why scrub their site …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ THE TIMES OF INDIA reports that US policy makers are having second thoughts about whether Pakistan is in the main, friend and not foe …. (pajamasmedia)

~ PAKISTAN’S Jihad: In the war on terror, Islamabad is both with us and against us, by Bill Roggio & Thomas Joscelyn …. (weeklystandard)

~ SHARIA enters the classroom …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ GERMANY: Berlin’s Center for Research on Anti-Semitism now Concentrating on the “new Enemies of Islam”…Compares it to Nazi’s Anti-Jew Fury …. (Wz)

Debate: Islam — Threat or Not?

~ CHRISTIANITY effectively outlawed in Comoros …. (novascotiascott)

~ EN FRANCAIS: “ONU – Diffamation des religions: L’Organisation des Nations Islamistes Unies, par Supna Zaidi. Les assauts contre Mumbai et les menaces contre le métro de New York ont encore une fois rappelé la nécessité d’un front uni contre le terrorisme mondial. Or, l’ONU se préoccupe plutôt de ne pas offenser les extrémistes islamistes. En novembre, l’ONU a adopté un projet de résolution contre la diffamation des religions qui exhorte tous les pays membres à se doter d’un arsenal législatif répressif contre le blasphème. Une version finale de la résolution sera mise au vote ce mois-ci. L’ONU attaque la liberté d’expression et les droits humains, trahissant sa mission d’édification de sociétés démocratiques tolérantes. 6 décembre, par Annie Lessard, Marc Lebuis ” …. (pointdebasculecanada.ca)

~ ISLAM positioned to win: That’s the holy rollah’s triumphalist message on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage …. (scaramouche)

~ THOMAS SOWELL: Once suicidal fanatics have nuclear bombs, that is the point of no return. “Soul Survivors” …. (nationalreview.com)

~ UK: MPACUK Announces They Will No Longer Condemn Islamic Terrorism …. (wZ)

~ NIGERIA: Supreme Sharia Council Outraged Over Plans to Field Woman Candidate, “Islam Forbids Female Leadership” …. (wZ)

~ ISRAEL: Olmert Grants Amnesty to 45 Known Terrorists, All Members of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades …. (wZ)

~ THERE’S a global war by terror, like it or not …. (creepingsharia)

~ REST ASSURED one and all, Santa ain’t no Quisling …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ RANT, SNORT, TREMBLE— “Where’s the haj?: A Toronto Star reader is greatly affronted by the paper’s purported slight to one of the five pillars of his faith” …. (scaramouche)

~ CONTROVERSIAL Boston mosque tied to Muslim Brotherhood’s “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within” …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ THE MEDIA likes to ignore the Islamic character of Mumbai attack …. (vladtepesblog)

Father Zakaria Botros

~ THE MIGHTY Zakaria Botros: 2008 Daniel of the Year …. (novascotiascott)

~ PAKISTAN “Honor” Killing: Young Girl Clubbed to Death by Uncle for Having “Illicit Relations” …. (wZ)

~ OH, WHAT A TANGLE— Texas Terrorism Trial Ties Boston Mosque Leaders to Extremist Network …. (creepingsharia)

~ UPPITY Female doctor from London beaten, held captive by relatives in Bangladesh for forced marriage …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ ENOUGH of radical Islam. Ben Shapiro …. (vladtepesblog)

~ GOOD CHEER from Gitmo: “Ramzi bin al Shibh, “I Hope the Jihad Continues and Strikes the Heart of America With Weapons of Mass Destruction….and Happy Eid to the Muslim World” …. (WZ)

~ LIFE IMITATES art, or vice versa: Claudia Rosett writes about another UN endeavour gone horribly wrong …. (scaramouche)

~ ACTION DINO: “And any other individual, group, or organization totally devoid of moral scruples” …. (MAD)

~ IRAQIS RESCUE Mentally Disabled Child Bomber …. (gatewaypundit.blog)

~ ‘HONOUR KILLING’ sentence against Pakistani upheld …. (blogfreeworld)

~ NEW BUILDING in Ottawa to be ‘bridge’ of Islam to the west …. (vladtepesblog)

~ DARFUR: Anonymous “gunmen” beat aid workers in accordance to sharia …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ RJAGO: Qui sont la “Gang des Granolas” (et Islamistes)? …. (rjjago)

~ INDIA VS. The Religion Of Peace …. (SDA)

~ DON’T Forget To Support BrickArms! …. (directorblue.blog)

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~ NITWITTERY! “Nuclear watchkitty’s priorities: Never mind about those nuclear mullahs, sez Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mo ElBee, how about finding a cure for AIDS?” …. (scaramouche)

~ OBASMS— Possible Obama speech in “major Muslim city” leads to Muslim euphoria …. (dhimmiwatch)

~ A NEW FILM— An Interview With Muhammed …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ BREAKENRIDGE— On Censorship: Overcoming the Fatwa’s Legacy …. (am770chqr)

~ HOLOCAUST musical closes in London: I guess that “Arbeit Macht Frei” production number really was a show-stopper …. (scaramouche)

~ GETTING THE SKINNY on Satan; and don’t forget the tight trousers and high boots …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ WEARY of Islam …. (girlontheright)

The Third Jihad

~ PAKISTAN ARRESTS Suspect in Mumbai Attacks – NYTimes.com …. (blogfreeworld)

~ SPENCER— “The fury of the new enemies of Islam is similar to the older rage of anti-Semites against the Jews” …. (jihadwatch.org)

~ SORRY, BUT THE ELVES & ST. NCIK ARE CHRISTIANS— A Saudi businessman has donated $2.78 million for the construction of the first mosque at the North Pole …. (Wz)

~ A MUSLIM scholar’s advice on sex education …. (vladtepesblog)

Sunday Propaganda Film: Convert, Obama!