US Homeland Security officials are working with groups around United States to head off any possible anti-Muslim backlash following the shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, the agency’s chief said Sunday.

The comments by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also appeared part of efforts to reassure the Arab world that US authorities were taking measures to quell anti-Islam sentiments after last week’s rampage by an American-born Muslim serving as US Army psychiatrist.

Anti-Muslim backlash incidents are famous in America, as we all know. Why, simply thousands of them were recorded after 9/11, possibly even hundreds of thousands or millions. (Most of them were covered up by the Zionist-controlled media, which is why you only heard of a few.) Muslims are afraid to show their faces in the United States, and the’ve stopped emigrating to this country because they fear the dreaded anti-Muslim backlash of me and my fellow Americans. Wait… what’s that? Attacks against Muslims have decreased since 9/11? That can’t be right. I’m backlashing! My fellow Americans are backlashing! Dammit, we want to backlash!

Napolitano said her agency is working with state and local groups to try to deflect any anti-Muslim anger after the Thursday attacks by Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim who reportedly expressed growing dismay over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The shootings left 13 people dead and 29 wounded.

“This was an individual who does not, obviously, represent the Muslim faith,” she said after meeting with a group of women university students.

Well, at least our director of homeland security knows that Americans are going to backlash against Muslims after a Muslim on jihad murdered thirteen and wounded dozens. And Muslim leaders are totally worried about “immediate reprisals.” Yeah, they should be. Because it’s obvious that there’s a need for it.

Anti-Discrimination Committee President Mary Rose Oakar called on law enforcement agencies “to provide immediate protection for all mosques, community centers, schools and any locations that may be identified or misidentified with being Arab, Muslim, South Asian or Sikh.”

While officials in other cities have stepped up security outside mosques and other Muslim institutions in the aftermath of the shootings, a police spokesman in Baltimore said the department had yet to receive any request to do so here.

“Our [intelligence] community has their ears very low to the ground when it comes to dealing with these populations,” spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. “We kind of have a good sense as to what their needs are, and we react accordingly.”

Wait—what? What are they talking about? The AP has declared that there is an immediate backlash, and Napolitano has assured Muslim nations that America will protect the Muslims within her borders from the crazy, angry mobs that are going to backlash against them because a Muslim connected to the 9/11 bombers murdered 12 soldiers and a civilian on Friday.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother’s funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Hasan’s eyes “lit up” when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki’s teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday’s horrific shooting spree.

Don’t be ridiculous. That’s not why we have to backlash. Just because he really was an anti-American Islamic jihadist doesn’t mean that we can’t backlash against the Religion of Peace™.

Come on, who’s with me! Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

Hamas authorities on Thursday asked several educational institutions in southern Gaza Strip to segregate males and females in compliance with Islamic norms.

The call appeared on a notification signed by Police General-Directorate in Rafah town, ordering private social and educational centers to sign a form demanding their commitment of Islamic and Palestinian traditions and preventing smoking.

The police threatened to impose about 1,300 U.S. dollars in fine to those who do not commit to “inform the police about suspected students or infracting decency.”

It’s okay, they’re only going to fine violaters. There won’t be any floggings.

Yet.

Previous decision included forcing lawyers and high school female students to wear long, loose uniforms with head covers and preventing women from riding behind men on motorcycles.

Gee, I really can’t argue with those Muslims who tell me how liberating Islam is for women.

A U.S. Army major opened fire on fellow soldiers Thursday in the heart of the giant Fort Hood Army base in central Texas, killing 11 people and wounding at least 31 in one of the worst incidents of soldier-on-soldier violence in military history.

The officer, Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, was later shot and killed by security personnel on the base, which is about 160 miles southwest of Dallas.

Two other soldiers were in custody, base officials said, amid indications that the attack may have been premeditated and well-organized.

Military officials said that Maj. Hasan was a psychiatrist who had been recently promoted to major and transferred to Fort Hood from Washington’s Walter Reed Medical Center. Maj. Hasan’s professional specialties included post-traumatic stress disorder, combat stress and other emotional issues common to the troops implicated in earlier incidents of military fratricide.

As usual, there’s a lot of dancing toward the “combat stress” reason, but it’s really looking a whole lot like jihad here. Gateway Pundit has more.

Actor-director Mel Gibson and his girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, are the new parents of a daughter named Lucia, his spokesman confirmed to CNN.

No other details were released about the baby, who was born Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles, California.

Baby Lucia is the eighth child for Gibson, 53, and the second for Grigorieva, 39. Gibson has six sons and a daughter from his marriage to his wife of 30 years, Robyn. The couple filed for divorce in April.

Oh, and they have no plans to get married.

That’s what I like to see. A man who is so religious that he made a whole movie about Jesus, did an enormous amount of Jew-baiting to get the movie publicized, and who apparently can’t seem to follow the teachings of the guy he made the film about because he is so devout. Let’s see, as I’m not Catholic, I’m not up on my mortal sins, but aren’t adultery and fornication pretty high up there on the list?

It truly is Hypocrite Day here at Yourish.com.

Don’t worry, it won’t be determined an anti-Semitic attack: Two Jews were shot in the legs inside a synagogue in Los Angeles this morning, but I’m sure it will be determined that it wasn’t anti-Semitism. Violent attacks on Jews in America seem to always be the work of a lone, crazy gunman. I guess we should be happy this guy was not only crazy, but a lousy shot.

But he’s not a Democrat, so no one will care: Gunshots were fired at Lou Dobbs’ home while his wife was standing outside. So, someone who doesn’t like Dobbs’ stance on immigration tried to kill his wife? Nice. This is what you would call a case of domestic terrorism. The gunshot followed a series of threatening phone calls.

Religion of tolerance confiscates bibles: But yes, Islam is tolerant of other faiths. Just ask them. They’re confiscating the bibles because they referred to God as Allah. I’m trying to think if there has ever been a case where Israel confiscated bibles or korans. Hm. Thinking… no, give me a minute, I’m sure I’ll find an example… uh, no. I’m out.

Saudi Arabia joins the seventeenth century: The King had to step in and cancel a medieval punishment, but hey, those Saudis are really modernizing. They’re not going to give a woman 60 lashes with a whip for having worked on a television show where a man talked about sex. Except she had nothing to do with that show. The man, meantime, was sentenced to a prison term, plus lashes. So maybe the Saudis aren’t quite out of the fourteenth century yet. I wouldn’t know… when did Christians flog people for talking about sex in public?

“I can’t go back to my home in Israel; I can’t enter the village. The only option left for me is to hide out in a settlement, in a home that accepts me in a humane way,” said T. on Tuesday.

I think the gay community that is so stridently against Israel is working for the wrong side.

Granted, it seems like the defense forces are screwing this poor guy, and yes, things like that really do suck for the Palestinians. But the reasons for the checkpoints and the suspicion have been borne out by the many terror attacks, and even more attempted terror attacks. Just the other day, a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli soldier manning a checkpoint.

But—reverse the situation, and the gay guy dies. Gee, I wonder if Sullivan will bother to cover this story. Probably not without much hand-wringing about how evil Israel is preventing the Palestinian from getting back in.

Israeli police storm Jerusalem’s holiest site

Holy crap! Israeli police stormed the Temple Mount? Really? Let’s see what
the Israeli media have to say. First, Ynet:

Jerusalem: Temple Mount riots resume
Nine police officers were lightly injured Sunday stones and Molotov cocktails hurled at forces stationed at the Temple Mount as part of the high state of alert in the area. A female Australian reporter was lightly injured by stones in the Old City.

Forces patrolling the area also noticed oil poured on the floor, apparently in order to cause the officers to slip and make their activity in the area more difficult.

A police force entered the Temple Mount compound in order to catch the stone throwers, using shock grenades. More than 18 people were arrested on the Mount and in its surroundings, including senior Fatah member Khatem Abdel Kader, who is charge of the Jerusalem portfolio in the Palestinian organization.

JPost:

9 cops, reporter lightly hurt in J’lem
Nine police officers and a foreign reporter were lightly hurt Sunday in clashes between security forces and Arab rioters in the capital.

Police were forced to storm the Temple Mount twice during the the day of fierce rioting, and were met by a hail of rocks and a firebomb.

And Ha’aretz, the Israeli paper most quoted by the New York Times:

Israel Police battle Arab rioters on Temple Mount; PA official arrested
Stone-throwing Arab youths wounded three policemen on the Temple Mount on Sunday as Jerusalem police, firing water cannons and stun grenades, raided the holy site in a bid to quell repeated bouts of rioting. At least 18 Palestinians were wounded over the course of the day.

Police stormed the compound twice; the first time was in response to Arab youths who pelted officers with rocks and poured oil on them.

Later Sunday morning, about 100 Arab youths renewed rioting at the Temple Mount, after which Border Police and regular policemen raided the site again, using stun grenades to disperse the rioters.

In other words, Arabs rioted on the Temple Mount and were throwing stones below at Jews, a life-threatening action. Israeli police moved in to stop the stone-throwing and rioting. And how does the AP portray this?

Israeli forces stormed Jerusalem’s holiest shrine Sunday, firing stun grenades to disperse hundreds of stone-throwing Palestinian protesters in a fresh eruption of violence at the most volatile spot in the country.

A wall of Israeli riot police behind plexiglass shields closed in on the crowd, sending many protesters – overwhelmingly young men – running for cover into the black-domed Al-Aqsa mosque. The mosque is one part of the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

After several rounds of clashes, dozens of protesters were still holed up inside the mosque at midafternoon, occasionally opening shuttered doors to throw objects at police. The Israeli forces did not enter the building and police said they had no plans to do so. There were no serious injuries.

You know what you didn’t see in the AP? Any stories leading up to the events that happened today. It was all over the Israeli press that Arabs were calling for rioting at the Temple Mount again. But the AP puts none of these facts into its article.

The Jerusalem Police will bolster deployment throughout the Old City, east Jerusalem and Temple Mount compound Sunday, following recent calls by both Arab and Jewish elements to arrive at the compound on Sunday.

The Islamic Movement announced it will make buses available for worshipers who wish to arrive at the mosque Sunday.

The movement’s spokesman Zahy Nujeidat said the flyer calling Arabs to protect the area was issued “in response to those who try and desecrate al-Aqsa.”

Instead, the AP puts this as the fourth paragraph:

Israel’s national police chief, David Cohen, accused a small group of Muslim extremists of trying to foment violence – echoing a charge made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu two weeks ago.

Note the attempt to blame it on Netanyahu and make it seem like a false accusation, when it is absolutely true. Also notice that the lead calls them Palestinian “protesters,” when, in fact, they are rioters. What are they protesting? Are there signs? Is there a cause? No. They are responding to the lies that Jews are going to “attack” al-Aqsa. It is incitement—not the “charge” of incitement. But those facts would affect the narrative, and so, they don’t wind up in the story.

Typical. That’s why I have an entire category titled “AP Media Bias.”

The Jews’ role in Jerusalem? Well, that’s been played down by the two child religions since, well, since they grabbed a foothold in the area. Oh, you have people like Jimmy Carter referring to Israel as “the Holy Land,” paying lip service to the fact that his religion grew out of Judaism, but when push comes to shove, he jumps on the Palestinian bandwagon regarding the “Judaization” of Jerusalem. The 3,000-year history of Jews in Jerusalem? Meaningless, because the Jews left. Or at least, the Palestinians took it over. Or something. Jordan annexed it in 1949? Hey, nobody actually objected to the Jordanian destruction of Jewish synagogues, holy sites, and cemeteries. The eastern part of Jerusalem has been proclaimed “Arab east Jersulem” by all and sundry, in spite of the fact that the Jewish Quarter lies smack inside of “Arab” east Jerusalem. And now, the wire services are helping the Palestinians call for the Islamization of Jerusalem by denying the Jewish history of the city.

The Palestinian statement also took aim at controversy over Jerusalem, and condemned what it called a plan by Jews to “perform religious rituals” in a compound containing the al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site.

“The Palestinian cabinet calls on all international, Arab and Muslim elements to take responsibility for the developments in Israel and force it to put off its attempts to take over Jerusalem and Judaize it,” the statement read.

Reuters can barely bring itself to mention that Jerusalem houses Judaism’s Holy of Holies, or that it is the site of the First and Second Temples, or that it is the physical heart of Judaism, always was, and always will be. This is how Reuters describes Jews’ connection to Jerusalem:

Palestinians have warned that the tensions flaring over access to a holy compound housing the al-Aqsa mosque, an area also revered by Jews as the site of an ancient temple, could, on the background of stalled peace talks, ignite a third uprising.

And this:

Violence in Jerusalem flared on Sunday after Israel briefly shut gates leading to the compound around al-Aqsa, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, citing concerns for possible violence as hundreds of Jews held holiday prayers at the adjacent Western Wall.

The riots in Jerusalem over the last few days happened because Jews were exercising their right to pray at the Western Wall, and Palestinians decided that was cause to try to kill Jews. The Palestinians use the pretext of religious freedom by saying that they are prevented from praying at Al-Aqsa. But what they don’t mention are facts like these:

Earlier Monday, Jerusalem police explained their decision to allow only worshipers over the age of 50 into the Temple Mount, revealing that wheelbarrows filled with rocks had been discovered throughout the Aksa Mosque compound on Sunday.

Palestinians had filled the wheelbarrows with stones and bricks in preparation for riots in the Old City, police assessed.

The discovery of the wheelbarrows, in addition to intelligence information and the call on Palestinians to “come and defend” Al-Aksa, led the police to restrict entrance to the Temple Mount.

When you read about wheelbarrows full of stones, please don’t make the mistake of thinking these are gravel-sized rocks. They are brick-sized rocks, big enough to kill, and remember that the Arabs launch them from above, down on the Jews worshipping below. The missiles are potentially lethal.

And remember, if you will, why the Muslims are rioting: Because Jews dared to pray on their holy sites in Jerusalem. The Muslim narrative denies all Jewish ties to Jerusalem.

“No one has rights to the Al-Aqsa Mosque other than the Muslims. The mosque compound is Muslim, Palestinian and Arab, and Israel has no rights to the mosque or East Jerusalem,” he said

Archeological evidence notwithstanding, you’d think the morons would at least acknowledge that Islam is an offshoot of Judaism. But of course, that would be too much for Ra’ad Salah’s tiny little brain to handle.

I think Israel has the right leader, at the right time, for what is happening today. And then, of course, there’s the backing of a Certain Someone who is a bit more powerful than even the world media. I have three words for the Muslims: Am Yisrael chai.

Deal with it.

Update: Linked by Yahoo! News, 31 comments pending in the queue, and only 12 of them are anti-Jewish or anti-Israel. Must be a slow Jew-hate day.

Update two: I’m approving most of the comments, but I should like to point out to the stupidest of my commenters that when Yahoo! News links to something with the heading “Blogs about this story,” that means you’re on a blog. Not a newspaper. Not a magazine. I am not a journalist, nor do I play one on TV, so those of you whining that I’m not objective, let me ask you something my brother used to ask as a child: Are you dumb, stupid, or all three?

Update three: This is my favorite comment so far. You rock, Yectla. And are hereby designated an Apprentice of Juvenile Scorn.

This will be the last blog post until tomorrow night, after I break my fast. I am as crabby as a three-year-old when I get really hungry. You don’t want to be around me until I’ve eaten. Trust me on that one.

If I have offended or wronged anyone in the last year, I apologize, and ask your forgiveness.