Just say no.

Hat tip: My brother Eric.

This is not about football (soccer for some of you). The story as told by B.Ali of Kavkaz Center Letter department unfolds a new page in the sinister plot by Zionists, a “silent and soft aggression and backdoor invasion” in Afghanistan.

The gist of the diabolical enterprise is found in the paragraph:

Besides this military and political invasion, the zionists are also launch a public and social invasion. They already involved in educational and humanitarian activities over the Afghan people. They have not only hired the politicians and warlords by money, but also try to hire the people by aid and assistance.

But the details are no less enthralling. Please do not laugh when reading the quotes: it should be clear to all that B.Ali is a valiant fighter against all forms of education, and it shows.

American Jewish World Service (AJWS) is helping the educational program in Herat and Parwan province. AJWS supports two organizations Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) and Afghan Women’s Resource Center (AWRC). They work for girl and woman education and empower women. AJWS supports AWRC in empowering Afghan women through providing literacy courses and health education to 100 women and girls living in Khwaja Khel village, Parwan province.

That’s really vile, I tell you: education, women and empowerment combined are a sure recipe for trouble, as any self-respecting Muslim male knows only too well… And of course, B.Ali is well aware of it:

But we are everybody know, zionists are not good-wisher of the Muslims. They interfere in the Muslims by getting the chance of poverty and illiteracy.

But they will not hoodwink B.Ali, no, sir:

So it is out of question to oppose female education by any Muslim. We only oppose the Zionist invasion: either on male, or on female; either on adult, or on child. We only oppose the anti-Islamic education and brain-wash project of our enemy. It is our duty to protect our men and women, youths and children from being hijacked by satanic circle. We must save our integrity of family and society.

It goes without saying then, that if you are a good Muslim and have detected a sign of Zionist invasion on a male or female; either on adult, or on child - you should immediately call for the nearest Muslim Purity Vigilante Squad. Visual aids for identification of such invasion will be provided.

And the source our friend B.Ali uses for this fiery sermon gives more on the Zionist plot:

We do not blame all Women organizations. But those organizations, who oppose Islam, recognize Islam as against women rights, encourage women to sexual perversity, create difference and violence between men and women; are undoubtedly represent the Jews. It is mentionable that, Jewish’s support to the women organizations are not for helping the women, it is only for encouraging women against Islam and break our family by creating violence between men and women. … So, the enemies of Islam, either Jew, or Communist, who want to take our women to give any kind of training or education, either want to encourage them against family, society and religion, or want to enjoy them sexually.

See now? It’s all crystal clear. I only wish some good Muslim would interfere in B.Ali about his English. I am still trying to get the meaning of this:

They use the strategy of Ferawoon, who killed the men, and alive the women.

How does one alive the women and is it good for one’s skin?

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

The incomparable Aljazeera.com is bravely denouncing the US Zioimperialist strikes on the defenseless Somalia Islamists.

The article is a jumble of contradictory statements, as could be seen for these two quotes:

Somali officials confirmed the death of many people in Monday’s strike — the first overt U.S. military action in Somalia since a disastrous humanitarian mission ended in 1994.

“America wants to cause confusion as a pretext to give it reason to once again attack and destroy the Republic of Somalia,” SUPKEM chairman Abdulghafur El Busaidy said during a Press Conference.

“Once again” means that there has been another, prior attempt by US to attack and destroy the republic of Somalia. Strange, ain’t it. On the other hand it is the Islamic Courts that are doing their best to depose the current government. Go figure…

There are two other interesting angles in the article.

Days after the U.S. air strikes in Somalia, which sparked worldwide criticism and resulted in the death of many civilians, reports emerged that British passport holders were involved in the fighting.

Looks like the export of Islamic extremists becomes one of the significant items in British economy lately. Unless the air strike hit a tour bus full of old ladies from north Ipswich. Which is somewhat unlikely in the circumstances.

And regarding these “many civilians” angle: it seems that the Palestinian knack of declaring each Kalashnikov-clad terrorist (er… “freedom fighter”) a civilian as soon as his Kalashnikov and the spare magazines are passed to the next martyr-to-be, has been eagerly adopted by other freedom fighting outfits in different parts of the world.

In any case, apparently the AlJazeera.com folks like that picture of the C-130 gunship in all its glory. Just make sure you don’t find yourself on its business end, comrades.

Cross-posted on SimplyJews

Kenneth Stein spoke about his decision to quit the Carter Center after publication of the odious “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” The LA Times has an in-depth article of what Stein told an audience at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.

In his first detailed public comments since his resignation last month, Kenneth W. Stein, who was the center’s first executive director, told a Los Angeles audience Thursday that his concerns grew out of what he called Carter’s “gross inventions, intentional falsehoods and irresponsible remarks.”

[...] But it was in his account of a 1990 meeting with Assad that Carter made his most egregious error, Stein said. Carter wrote that Assad had said that he was willing to negotiate with Israel on the status of the Golan Heights, which Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967.

But Stein said his own notes of the Damascus meeting show that Assad, in response to a question from Carter, replied that Syria could not accept a demilitarized Golan without “sacrificing our sovereignty.”

Stein also disputed Carter’s statement in the book that Assad expressed willingness to move Syria’s troops farther from the border than Israel should be required to do. “Why does Carter do that?” Stein asked his audience. “To make Israel appear intransigent.” Carter also wrote of his attempts to report on his talks with Assad and other Middle Eastern leaders to White House staffers who were preoccupied with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. However, Stein said the White House briefings occurred in the spring of 1990 and the invasion was not until August.

Read it all. And if you’re not registered, go to Bugmenot to get around the Times’ registration process.

In this week’s Magazine.

The attitude is one of condescension towards Foxman and the ADL.

With anti-Semitism apparently waning, the A.D.L. might well have moved away from its original identity in favor of either promoting tolerance and diversity or leading the nonsectarian fight against extremism. But for Foxman, fighting anti-Semitism was always the core of the mission.

I’m sorry, but this line alone portrays perfectly the author’s bias. Gee, anti-Semitism isn’t as bad as it used to be, so why don’t we use the organization that was set up to defend against anti-Semitism to, I don’t know, do something else?

Traub’s conclusion: Foxman is an anachronism. Apparently, anti-Semitism is going to up and die any day now, and we won’t have to guard against it ever again. And that’s when there will be fairies on bluebells, and lions lying down with lambs, and Jews will return to their homes in Arab and European countries, and everyone will welcome them with open arms!

Foxman is an anachronism. The demographic of which he is a member — Holocaust survivor — is rapidly disappearing. Younger people don’t know quite what to make of him. In a recent column in The Jewish Journal, David A. Lehrer, formerly the head of the A.D.L.’s Los Angeles office, observed that Jews are now the most widely admired religious group in America, as well as the most successful, and lamented that Jewish leaders — Foxman specifically — continue to harp on Jewish “insecurity” and the threat of anti-Semitism. Lehrer says that when he raised his view that the A.D.L. had to learn to speak to this new, confident but less affiliated generation of Jews, Foxman dismissed it out of hand. The generational question does not interest him. “It’s not my job to judge whether they should feel beleaguered or not,” Foxman snapped when I raised the subject. “I do feel. And I’ve got news for you: Every one of them, in their maturing process, will experience this.”

Puh-leeze. Leave it to the New York Times to declare anti-Semitism on its deathbed, even as it is rising all over the world. Jews make up the overwhelming majority of victims of religious hate crimes in America. But yes, Abe Foxman is an anachronism.

He has been declared so by the Times. And the Times is never wrong about Jewish issues, right? The Times, remember, is the Jewish-owned newspaper that refused to publish stories of the Holocaust as it was happening.

Batting oh-for-two here, as far as I can tell.

I totally want to see this movie.

No, really.

(P.S.: I’m starting to cater to my international readers by scheduling posts to show up when I’m sound asleep. Because here at yourish.com, it’s all about YOU. Get it? YOUrish.com.)

(P.P.S.: It is so not about you. It’s about me. Me. MEryl. Not YOUrish.)

(P.P.P.S.: Damn. And I’m stone cold sober, and it’s only 12:30 a.m.)