The awesome feminism of Islamic law: Iran is going to execute a woman for adultery. Only they’re not going to stone this one, they’re going to hang her. Don’t you infidels get how merciful they are? I just love hearing people tell me that Sharia law isn’t nearly as bad as we make it out to be. You know, the one that says that a woman’s opinion in court is worth half that of a man, and the one that allows men to have multiple wives but not women to have multiple husbands–awesome equality. Just breathtaking. Ask any Saudi woman.

Turkey massacres Kurdish civilians: Turkey bombed a group of civilians in northern Iraq, killing 35 of them, most of the teenagers smuggling fuel into Turkey. And not very many people care. Bet you didn’t even know they did it. Imagine the outrage if Israel had hit 35 civilians while bombing a Hamas terror target. Let’s review: Turkey violated the border of a sovereign nation to stop a terrorist group from killing its own civilians. Sound familiar? Of course it does. Will there be a world outcry? Don’t make me laugh. Double standard much? Always.

The UN: We honor dictators, too! The United Nations lowered its flags out of “respect” for Kim Jong-il’s death. I don’t know how they manage it, but they managed to lower my respect for them even more. Not that I have any left. Its sort of a “divide by infinity” thing now.

Of course they are: The Muslim Brotherhood is over the moon about their offshoot, Hamas. Why the love? Because Hamas is succeeding in getting the world to bend to its will. Watch. Soon, the EU will be demanding that Israel negotiate with the PA even if it’s made up of openly unrepentant terrorists who say, quite plainly, that they will accept a state along the 1949 Armistice lines as a first step towards taking all of “Palestine.”

Openly spouting jihad: The AP put this quote in its recent piece about Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and yet, somehow, it didn’t get very high placement in the article.

Haniyeh described Hamas as the “jihadi movement of the Brotherhood with a Palestinian face.’’ He said his visit to the Brotherhood center would confuse and frighten Israel.

That’s funny. I thought Karl Vick told us that Hamas joining the PLO meant that it would become more moderate, not less openly terrorist. Huh. Go figure. (Gee. Karl Vick is silent on the non-moderation of Hamas.)

Muslim ERA Watch: Yeah, like this is gonna stop them. The Egyptian court ordered the military to stop performing “virginity tests” on female prisoners. What an awesome, awesomely feminist religion, that Islam. I can’t wait to hear the apologists explain to me how a virginity test really is a form of feminism that Westerners just can’t understand.

Of course, a story the AP can really sink its teeth into: They don’t cover “honor” killings widely. They don’t cover the lack of equal rights for women in most Muslim countries. But of course, an extremist group of religious nuts mistreating girls in Israel? Wall-to-wall coverage, baby, including video at every link! Outraged editorials and op-eds in the New York Times in 3, 2, 1…

Not my grandfather’s religion: I don’t care what you say, rioting is not the part of Orthodox Judaism that I learned about growing up. No excuse. No excuse. NO excuse.

Why does Israel bother to keep its words when terrorists don’t keep theirs? The second part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner release deal went off as usual, with Palestinians attacking the IDF in gratitude. I’d have told them “Seeya!” and kept the terrorists in prison. Hamas doesn’t keep its word about not firing rockets. Just once, I’d like to see Israel tell them to go piss off, deal’s off. Or at least keep the ones involved in terror.

The awesomeness of the Arab Spring in one photo: This is what Arab democracy looks like. Especially for women. I would like to point out that in spite of the problems with religious Jews not wanting to sit near women on a bus, Israel has never had a state-run organization treat its women like this. Or execute them for witchcraft. Or send them back into a burning school for not having their heads covered. Yeah, that Muslim ERA Watch category is going to keep on getting bigger here.

Of course they do: The Haredi are asking religious millionaires to fund a private bus line so they don’t have to look at women when they ride the bus. Again, not the Judaism my grandfather taught me. I wonder what these guys would have done during the Exodus. Probably told Miriam to stop playing on her timbrels and the women to stop singing.

News flash: Obama and Sarkozy don’t like Bibi. Seriously? No! Really? I had no idea. Actually, Allahpundit has the bigger story: Which American reporters were there, and signed a confidentiality agreement to cover up the slams by Obama after they were made, not before? It’s more proof that our media are totally in the tank for Obama, but since I have a theme going here: Shame on them.

So, no penalties for the Palestinians–again: The tax transfers are back. The $200 million from the U.S. is unfrozen. Okay, the UNESCO payment freeze is still on, but the Palestinians pay nothing for doing an end run around peace negotiations. Way to go, world. Shame.

This is why there will be no bombing of Iran: Oil is nearing $100/barrel again. And apparently, even putting really strong sanctions on Iran’s central bank will force the price of oil higher. Dear wily Jew who is going to develop the alternate energy source that will end the Middle East’s stranglehold on oil: Faster, please.

The Obama Muslim Outreach strikes again! Obama talked to Turkey’s prime minister Erdogan on Tuesday about the deteriorated relations between Turkey and Israel.

“The president underscored his interest in seeing a resolution of that issue between those two countries and encouraged continuing work toward that end,” White House adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall told reporters after the meeting, saying Obama also emphasized the need to calm tensions throughout the region.

So, how’s that working out for Israel?

Turkish PM calls Cyprus, Israel drilling “madness”
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described offshore gas drilling by estranged ally Israel and Cyprus as “madness” on Wednesday, raising the stakes in a confrontation over potentially huge deposits in the eastern Mediterranean.

And the Obama touch in the world continues. It’s kind of like the Midas touch, only in reverse. There’s nothing like electing a senator with no foreign policy experience (but he gave a speech in Europe once!). You just can’t beat the way he gets the world to bide by the American lines. Sorta like how the Palestinians aren’t pushing unilaterally for a state this week. Oh. Wait.

Ransom paid: The American idiots who thought hiking in Iraq was a good thing to do, and accidentally went over (or were pulled over by the Iranians) the border to Iran, are being freed today. Several reason occur: The ransom was paid (half a million each), and Mad Mahmoud’s people got the photo op it wanted. Now Mad Mahmoud can go to the UN and tell the world what a kind, generous Jew-hater he is.

Don’t effing swear in Australia: Seriously? The Aussies have nothing better to do than craft laws forbidding swearing in public? Way to spend those public safety dollars, Australia!

Daniel Gordis schools J-Street: Read, and see a master at work. I would love to find a video of this speech just to hear the shocked reaction of the audience members at being schooled. I’m guessing they were mightily displeased. Also via Elder.

The army that learns: The Israeli Navy has been training for all kinds of scenarios for Gaza Flotilla II.

Throw the bastard in jail: Confiscate the man’s ships for the state, and throw him in jail for helping to supply Israel’s mortal enemy. An Israeli company selling Iran chemicals is a company that is working against the people and state of Israel. Even if he was just supplying fuel to Iran, it was working against Israel’s interests just as much as if he were spying for the enemy.

The dickless wonder (for real): Too funny. A Pakistani man tried to rape a woman who decided to deal with it in her own special way. He won’t be raping anyone, anywhere, ever again.

And a tech bleg: Does anyone else have Kaspersky and trouble getting to the JPost site? I had to put it in the trusted sites in order to be able to read the pages. This only just started a few days ago.

Egyptian women’s rights protest marred by hecklers

Right. “Heckled” is the headline, though the body of the story contains the facts.

Also in Egypt, Muslims torched a Coptic Christian church. Why? Because a Muslim and a Christian were dating, and the father of the Muslim refused to murder his child for dating a Christian. The Muslims murdered the father, and then attacked the Christians. Christians fought back. There are now pitched battles in Egypt between Christians and Muslims.

In Libya, Madman Gaddaffy is flattening towns where the people are rebelling against him, and also bombing oil production terminals.

In Israel, the government has postponed by several months the decision to deport children of foreign workers who are not legal citizens of Israel.

In Ramallah, the PA censored a TV show making fun of Madman Gaddaffy.

Israel is ranged number 2 globally for having women in upper management positions in corporations.

Oh, and Israeli Jews don’t murder their women for intermarrying.

But by all means, let’s vilify Israel during the annual Israeli Apartheid festivals at universities worldwide. Because that’s where the problems are in the Middle East.

There’s a really cute story in the Washington Post: Egypt women stand for equality in the square

Though the reporter was reporting from the demonstration on Friday, there was no mention of Sheikh Qaradawi’s views on gender equality. There was some really good stuff in this article, but towards the end it was priceless.

Abdel Ibrahim Hassan, a man who came to Tahrir Square on Friday to celebrate the revolution with untold thousands of his fellow citizens, argued that women have an enviable standing already and that Western prejudices should not assume they need change.

“Islam respected the role of women before any other culture,” said Hassan, a math teacher. “Before Islam women were bought and sold. But men and women are not equal, a woman is a weak creature. She cannot bear arms.”

His wife, Samah, bearing an Egyptian flag and wearing a black niqab covering her face with only small slits for her eyes, spoke up – strongly. “I’m hoping our young people will be able to develop a democracy,” she said, as she photographed the square with a sleek cellphone. “Men and women will play an important part in the elections.”

Their 15-year-old daughter, Sarah, her face and hands the only parts of her body visible from her enveloping black garments, interrupted.

“We demand seats in parliament for young people,” she said, “men and women. Women will play an important role in society after participating in the revolution of January 25th.”

Does the reporter, Kathy Lally, realize how absurd this sounds? First to have a husband claim women are respected then to describe how completely his wife and daughter are covered?

Though Qaradawi’s views on gender equality are not discussed there, I did find a fatwa that is very revealing. (No pun intended.)

Concerning the point on hijab, a woman can put on a hat or anything else to cover her hair. Even when necessary, she may take off her hijab in order to carry out the operation, for she is going to die in the cause of Allah and not to show off her beauty or uncover her hair. I don’t see any problem in her taking off hijab in this case.

Women are allowed to reveal their hair when they are about to murder infidels. How enlightened!

No doubt Sarah will be able to serve in Parliament, as long as she remembers her place.

However, the prime minister made it clear that no apology is forthcoming, and added that Israel demands that Ankara annul all legal proceedings and lawsuits against the IDF launched in the wake of the raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla.

Shorter Bibi: Hey, Erdogan! Bite me.

The awesome power of Zionists strikes again: Now the Mossad-slash-Zionists are responsible for cutting the undersea cables that knocked out Egypt’s internet. Bow to our mighty awesomeness1!111! ZOMG!

Um… what? Julian Assange could possibly get creepier, but I’m not sure how. I mean, I have to tell you, if I was alone with him and there was a sharp, pointed object within reach, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be walking out of the room and I would. Because he is super-creepy. But WTF is this supposed to mean?

Mr Assange regards himself as a victim of radicalism. “Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism,” he said. “I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.”

Is he seriously comparing radical feminists with the scumbags in Saudi Arabia who demand that grown women get their husband’s or father’s permission to so much as go to the effing mall? Is he trying to say that Swedish feminists are like the Saudi Islamists? Because both comparisons are detestable and loathsome, just like—creepy Julian. (Actually, if he was alone with me and got all creepy, I’d just shoot him. I have guns.)

So does this mean the Garden of Eden was in Israel? Geez, they have to stop confusing me. Just when I’ve pretty much wrapped my brain around Adam and Eve somewhere in what is now Iraq, they go and find a bunch of teeth in Israel that are older than any other human remains on record. Or so they say. It remains to be seen if the remains are human. Betcha five bucks the Palestinians will insist this is proof that Palestinians were there before Israelis.

Fatah to Israel: How’d you like a new version of the Three No’s? No negotiation (without a building freeze), no land swaps, and no recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Yep, that’s the Three No’s of Fatah, signed on by Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s “partner in peace.” Barack Obama is not just dreaming if he thinks he can get a peace deal during his term—he’s on drugs. By the way, is there a sign of this conference in the mainstream media? Can you find an AP version of this report? I can’t. Found a UPI report that carried the refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, but that conveniently leaves out the “no land swaps” part regarding settlements. But outside the Jewish press? Nada. Report the truth? Shyeah.

Muslim ERA Watch: The Saudis, who are now on the UN’s Women’s Rights Council, are currently undergoing an interesting set of lawsuits. Women are suing their guardians for refusing to allow them to marry. The joke that is the UN is letting this medieval society sit in judgment on adherence to women’s rights by other nations. You can’t make this up. Money quote from the article?

“A Saudi woman can’t even buy a phone without the guardian’s permission,” said al-Hawaidar, who has been banned from writing or appearing on Saudi television networks because of her vocal support of women’s rights.

Hey, Israeli women: How many phones have you each bought in the last ten years? (I’ve bought new landline phones, extra handsets, and four cell phones in the past ten years.) The UN is an utter joke.