C-SPAN has been playing tapes of the Muslim Public Affairs Council convention that took place last month. I’ve now heard from three speakers, all of whom have gone on about how much 9/11 damaged the image of Muslims in the United States. Over and over again, the theme is: We’re being victimized because we are Muslims. Wah, wah, wah, blah, blah, blah.

Yet during the “State of the Union” speech by Edina Lekovic (I’m guessing she’s a convert) we get this factoid: 56% of American Muslims felt no conflict between American and Muslim identities.

Gee. Good to know that only 44% of American Muslims don’t feel very American.

Guess what, bubelah? I feel zero conflict between my American and Jewish identities, because I’m an American Jew.

Another factoid: 70% say they noticed hostility from the general American public. Yeah, y’know, when you have a conference where speaker after speaker talks about the hostility towards Muslims after 9/11, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Interestingly, she did point out one thing: That most of the “extremists” are immigrants. Yeah, we know. They’re the ones the government is keeping an eye on.

And that’s what pisses off MPAC and CAIR the most.

Winston Churchill on what to do with captured mass murderers:

The documents also chart other Cabinet discussions from 1942-45 over how to deal with senior members of Hitler’s Nazi party if they were caught.

“Contemplate that if Hitler falls into our hands we shall certainly put him to death,” Churchill said at a Cabinet meeting in December 1942, according to notes taken by Deputy Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook.

“This man is the mainspring of evil.”

In April 1945, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison said a “mock trial” for Nazi leaders would be objectionable: “Better to declare that we shall put them to death,” he said.

Churchill agreed that a trial for Hitler would be “a farce.”

Later, Churchill proposed that Britain negotiate what to do with Nazi leaders such as Gestapo head Heinrich Himmler - who had already sought secret peace talks with Britain - and then “bump him off later.”

Too bad he wasn’t in charge when they brought in Milosevic and Hussein.

Some truce. Margot Dudkevitch writes that there were 2,990 attacks during the so-called truce:

According to the report, motivation among all the terror groups to attack Israel remains high with the number of monthly terror alerts averaging 57.

There was a significant decrease in the number of Israeli fatalities stemming from terror attacks in 2005 with 45 Israelis killed, a 60 percent reduction from the 117 Israelis killed in such attacks in 2004. Twenty-three of the fatalities in 2005 were killed in seven suicide bomb attacks. There was also a 30% decrease in the number of Israeli casualties in attacks during 2005 with 406 Israelis wounded compared with 589 the previous year.

Yet, in 2005 there was a significant increase in Kassam rocket attacks on Israel with 377 recorded, compared with 309 in the previous year. At the same time there was a decrease in mortar shellings with 848 launched in 2005 compared with 1,231 in 2004. There was also a drop in bombing attacks with 199 recorded in 2005 compared with 592 in 2004. A total of 1,133 shooting attacks were carried out by terror groups in 2005 compared with 1,621 in 2004.

Reuters and the AP call it a “shaky” truce. This is not a truce. In a truce, there are no terror attacks.