Showing posts with label Jihad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jihad. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

IMPOLITE QUESTIONS FOR TRUDEAU - DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mercy may rebound and righteousness may lead to jihad.


First of all, to equate “the plight of the Syrian refugees,” who have choices, with the plight of the Jews is an insult to decency.


The Jews who survived the Holocaust had no choices…except to be exterminated. They had no place to go. Every door was closed. Some managed to trickle in to the New World. For the Syrians an entire world awaits them, beginning with the 57 countries that make up the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.


Plus Europe, Canada and Jewish groups (see here) who have opened their arms to welcome the Syrians as they never welcomed the Jews.

Only yesterday a beaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed the first arrivals.


Nuremberg Laws. Boycotts. Round-ups. Cattle cars. Death camps. Beatings. Starvation. Genocide. That was the fate for the Jews.

Nothing like that for Syrians on the run and seeking “a better life” -- but also bringing with them sharia, jihad and anti-Semitism.


Unpleasant to say, but a fact, supported by surveys that show nearly 90 percent of them openly hostile to Jews, and Christians.


For the Jews of a generation ago it was not about seeking a better life, but seeking life, period. The few who came, came without shoes.


The Syrians appear well-fed, well-dressed, mostly men, hence likely deserters. They make demands.

Jews made no demands. They were grateful for anything.


They came with violins. They never torched the American flag, never shouted Allah Akbar or beheaded infidels.


They came. They assimilated. They worked. They won Nobel Prizes and still today there are no Jewish “no-go” zones.


This too is unpleasant to say, but today’s migrants do pose a threat.


Not all are radicalized Muslims. I have enough Muslim neighbors to know that plenty are good citizens.

But who can sort the bad from the good?


We could not sort them out in New York or in Boston and we were unable to tell them apart at Fort Hood. Paris could not sort them out, either.


Apparently that is of no concern to the tenderhearted, Canadian and American Jews among them, who’ve opened their doors, their hearts, their houses of worship to people whose allegiance is not to the Jewish or to the Christian Bible, but to the Koran, which codifies an entirely different sort of behavior.


Europe is finished. You’ve lost your continent to Islam – which, come to think of it, may be an improvement.


Trudeau of Canada is bringing in 25,000 of them like rock stars. So if they are in Canada, they are also in border-deficient United States.


Has Trudeau thought this through, the gamble he’s taking not just for Canada, but for the rest of us as well?


They can come and go as they please. Thus his generosity puts us all at risk.


They are coming to a synagogue near you, in some cases at the invitation of your rabbi. So is it impolite to ask why this does not work both ways? Where is the hospitality from the mosques, any mosque, even one, when Jews are hurting? Is there any record, any evidence of this happening today, yesterday, or ever?


These charitable hosts, Liberals all, allege that the Bible commands them to be merciful. Merciful, yes, but not stupid.


Europe is finished. You’ve lost your continent to Islam – which, come to think of it, may be an improvement.
Ecclesiastes in fact warns against being “overly righteous.”


We did not ask to be a partner to this migration. It’s been forced upon us.

They could be doctors. They could terrorists, what’s coming.


So your generosity is our peril. Your mercies may well be our consequences. Your righteousness may be the next San Bernardino.


You are too kind, my Liberal friends. Much too kind. Much too dangerous.

Thursday, December 10, 2015

FOX NEWS SUSPENDS ANGRY AMERICANS--THOUGH NOT TRUMP - DECEMBER 10, 2015

More San Bernardino fallout - Our president has taught us that Islamophobia is our biggest danger, not the Islamists themselves.



Two reliable commentators for Fox News, Ret. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters and Stacey Dash have been disciplined by the top-rated cable network for using language unsuitable for broadcast. I watched it and was not offended and the dog did not hide under the bed. But rules are rules, I guess.


They’ve been suspended two weeks for blurting out expletives that I use every day while driving.


I used the same profanities while listening to Mr. Obama when, after the murder of 14 Americans at the hands of Radical Islamists, he gives a speech warning us against Islamophobia. In fact Jews take the brunt of hate crimes ten to one over Muslims but the president NEVER says anything about THAT.


Peters and Dash had the same reaction that I did, obviously, about the speech and frankly – about everything, every damned thing.


We are fed up. For seven years we’ve been pushed around and it is not just about Radicalized Muslims.


It’s about a near-decade of scandals and cover-ups and media complicity that’s been shoved down our throats, and America is angry.


Don’t be amazed why Trump is doing so well. You don’t have to cheer everything he says. (I don’t.)

After the San Bernardino attack we needed an emotional response. Obama failed. Trump delivered. (Ban Migrant Islam.)


Assume that he goes too far and says too much, but he does not fiddle, and he has tapped into the heart of our frustration. Ditto Peters and Dash.


We’ve been waiting for SOMEBODY, anybody, to howl, “Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”

Americans are angry about waking up every morning to a country they hardly recognize.


Black lives matter, sure, and Muslims deserve tolerance and equality. Of course. But how about the rest of us, hello, do we count?


Black lives matter, sure, and Muslims deserve tolerance and equality. Of course. But how about the rest of us, hello, do we count?


Do you mind if we salute our troops and high-five our cops rather than tear them down?


Lately indeed it’s about Islam. Are we permitted to be steamed about what happened in San Bernardino? No. Our attorney general, Loretta Lynch, says that Islamophobia is her “greatest concern” and that if we don’t watch our language she is prepared to prosecute.


What country is this? It is precisely that kind of heavy-handedness that’s been crushing us over the years.


Except for the Democrats. The Left is angry against nobody except Republicans.


We are still waiting for them to be as outraged against the San Bernardino Radical Muslim killers as they are against Trump who never killed anybody.


Say this about Trump, and I make no political argument here as to the best choice for the GOP.


But at a time when the Silent Majority had no voice, he gave it a voice.


It is okay to speak up. It is all right to be fed up. That is where Trump differs and succeeds and why Peters and Dash are being lauded along social media.


For nearly a decade we’ve been getting an America we never asked for…and we sure are not asking for 25,000 to 85,000 ready-made anti-Semites to enter the country -- from Syria or from any place where they breed intolerance, death over life, mindless brutality over sanity.


They are coming for us as they keep coming for the Israelis and finally we know what it’s like to face Radical Islamic Jihad at home, at work or at play.


I keep saying that what happens in Israel does not stay in Israel. I say it here elaborately, that the Jihad that bedevils the Jewish State is the same Jihad that keeps on coming within our own borders, from Jerusalem to New York to San Bernardino.  They are the same people, the same terrorists.


Trump himself needs to rethink his position about forcing the Israelis into making further sacrifices.


Been there, done that and the Jews, we have sacrificed more than our fair share. Don’t get me started.

Get it straight who the enemy really is, what’s to be done and where to direct our indignation.


Direct it against “the dumb bastards” who pose the real threat, the Jihadists, to borrow from Gen. George S. Patton.


Pardon my French.

Friday, November 27, 2015

USA TERROR ALERT - THIS IS NOT A TEST - NOVEMBER 26, 2015

Nu? How afraid do you want us to be? And of what?


The State Department and the other US security agencies are telling us to be afraid. Not quite like that, but they’ve issued a dire“travel warning” and “terror alert.”

They overheard “chatter.” Obviously in Arabic and it wasn’t Happy Thanksgiving. Paris wasn’t enough. They want New York, again, though no place is safe.

This is the real deal. Should we be worried? Yes and no.

At a time when our president scoffs at Republicans and makes Jews and Christians feel like second-class citizens, it’s comforting to know that our national security officers (FBI, CIA) care for all of us equally. It is gratifying to know that somebody likes us and means to protect us from the barbarians who keep storming our borders.

That’s a relief, if only we knew exactly what to do about these warnings.
In Israel they don’t need “terror warnings” because the terror is with them every moment of every day.

If I’m being Islamophobic, very well, they made us that way. They made Brussels that way. The capital is on total lockdown because Islam came to town.


Leaders who can’t see the real threat to us even when it stares them in the face – they are to be feared more than all the rest.
Over here, such warnings from US intelligence are always measured on the official “afraid scale.”

The scoring goes from simply afraid, to very afraid, to terribly afraid.
This time it’s terribly afraid, I’m afraid, which is close to “run for the hills.”
But despite all that they are telling us to go about our lives and whoop it up as we normally would.

But not quite. They caution us to “avoid mixing in crowds.”
Yet everything’s a crowd – football, shopping, dining, praying, traveling, Broadway, movies…

So as it’s impossible to stay home and bolt the doors (think Paris), we are told to be “vigilant,” but they don’t tell us what this means.

How vigilant? Very vigilant or terribly vigilant?

Vigilant against whom? Who’s coming? The Chinese? The British again? No, Islamic terrorists. Radical Islam. That’s who’s coming.

But the State Department will not spell this out, since that department is owned and operated by Mr. Obama who lawyers for “the religion of peace.”

This means that we are to be suspicious and afraid of EVERYBODY.

According to that baloney, Grandma from Toledo who brings her needlepoint on the bus is as dangerous as the man shouting Allah Akbar.

Either one could be ISIS and it’s one hell of a world when al-Qaeda and Hamas and Hezbollah are now “moderate” Islam.

At the same time, we are told…yes we are told NOT to be afraid “otherwise they win and we lose.”
I say that all things considered we’ve already lost and they’ve already won.

Above all, it’s our political leaders, worldwide, who miss the whole point.
It’s immigration jihad, silly. That’s the crisis of the moment. Instead of warding them off, we keep bringing them in.

Hollande and Merkel raise European alarms about Islamic terrorism, but keep insisting that they’ll keep welcoming the migrants, although less enthusiastically than before – migrants who may or not be terrorists, but surely anti-Semites, as I warned earlier in this column and in this book.

Obama is still enthusiastic about swarming the United States with people we don’t know. Canada is slowing down the process of the Syrian “refugees.”

But it should not be Paris and only Paris that has us frightened and on edge. Islamic terrorism does not always come with a big bang.

Israel is proof that Islamic terrorism also works its evil one day at a time, one deadly stabbing at a time.
Leaders who can’t see the real threat to us even when it stares them in the face – they are to be feared more than all the rest.

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

SYRIAN REFUGEES, HOW LUCKY THEY AREN'T JEWS - SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

During WWII, the Times put the Holocaust atrocities on page 36. The Syrians are on page one. Somehow, the Jewish refugees always had the wrong papers and were always standing in the wrong line.

The refugee tsunami coming out of Syria may well be genuine. But here’s something to ponder. “We are deliberately ignoring the issue as a strategic maneuver. If these refugees go and settle in the West then they will take with them the beacon of light that is Islam,” an official from the Saudi government said.



So whatever the result, by accident or by design, the West, beginning with Europe, is being gifted by “the beacon of light that is Islam.”


Whether from ISIS and whoever else is maneuvering from behind the scenes, this could have been the plan all along…to force millions to vacate one continent in order to subsume another continent. By hook or by crook they keep on coming and most of them are men. Where are the women?


Where are the 57 countries that make up the world’s Islamic constituency? Oh – this has just been explained, has it not?


The Islamic confederacies are “deliberately ignoring the issue” to deliver Islam into our homes. Understood.


Says the Saudi authority -- “We already have a lot of Muslims here. We don’t need any more.”

Apparently we do. We need more.



That Syrian infant washed up on shore. The world weeps. One and a half million Jewish babies never even got that far.
Lucky for these Syrians that they are indeed Muslims. If they were Jews they wouldn't stand a chance. For the Jews in the same spot only a generation ago, no tears, no hugs, no welcoming arms, no open borders, no cry to help these people – nothing. Nothing but silence, the silence of complicity.


Every door was closed. The refugee ship St. Louis tried to find an open door but was sent back.


The New York Times could not be bothered. The paper that covered the Holocaust on page 36 as part of “in other news,” today lobbies and campaigns to bring Syrians into the United States – FRONT PAGE.

That Syrian infant washed up on shore. The world weeps. One and a half million Jewish babies never even got that far.


So the Times needs more and Europe needs more and is getting more from “the beacon of light that is Islam.” Quite a bargain.


We already wrote here about Germany trading its Six Million murdered Jews for six million living and very active Muslims. Good luck with that.


But most of the good luck goes to the Syrians. They have the right papers.


The Jews in the same situation always had the wrong papers and were always standing in the wrong line. Canada’s Mackenzie King government spoke for Canada. Asked how many Jewish refugees it was willing to absorb, a high-placed official uttered these famous words – “None is too many.”


He spoke for Canada. He spoke for the world.


He is still speaking for the world. A generation later it’s the same scorn, but this time it’s for Jews who have come home to the Land of Israel.


So Dear World, spare me your tainted pieties. I can’t remember your sweet mercies when the Jews were the storm-tossed refugees.


I can’t remember your hugs, your, smiles, your warm embrace when the few of us, the remnants, made it to shore as we told it in this memoir.


Our bad timing, it must have been, that we failed to arrive as Arabs. Yes, lucky them, doubly so because these Syrian men who left their women behind and pushed their children forward, only yesterday weren’t they stomping the American flag and shouting death to Christians and Jews?

Tomorrow, once settled in and comfy in their European jihadist no go zones, won’t it be the same thing all over again, with raping your wives and daughters as an added feature, a specialty of the beacon of light that is Islam? It’s already there, but there’s more coming.


Tomorrow, It’s already there, but there’s more coming.


So spare me your superior compassion because some of us fail to weep as loudly as you do for Syrian infants. We are dry of tears after weeping for Jewish toddlers in Israel who were stoned, knifed, firebombed and shot by Palestinian jihadists who share Syrian kinship.


They are brothers and lucky for them to find you so hospitable. The Jews --we had no such luck. None was too many.


For you, Dear Europe, there is no stopping “the beacon of light that is Islam.” That’s called justice.


New York-based Novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. His latest work is “The Bathsheba Deadline,” a newsroom thriller that features legendary editor Jay Garfield and his heroic stand against media bias and Islam’s clash against the West.  Website:www.jackengelhard.com




































Wednesday, July 1, 2015

JERUSALEM DOUBLE CROSS - JUNE 10, 2015

Jerusalem Double Cross

Says the clueless publisher to the writer in a famous New Yorker cartoon, “So what was it, the best of times or the worst of times, Mr. Dickens?”

Not so funny today. It’s been a rough week. Make that a rough month, even a rough year. Would you believe a rough century?

But lately, if you’re Jewish, it’s been especially hard. It’s been one damned thing after another, and now, as if it couldn’t get any worse, they tried to wipe Jerusalem off the Jewish map. The Supreme Court, to refresh, ruled that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel, or any part of the Jewish State.

Jerusalem was always the prize. Read this, especially pages 280 to 281 to see how the double cross gets done.

The voting ran 6 to 3, and the three Jewish Justices sided with the majority. Proof once again that the phrase “Court Jew” is no compliment.

The nightmare (for me) began with a phone call from Israel: “Did you hear what the Supreme Court did?”

Can’t trust the three Jewish judges, but two Italians tried to come to Jerusalem’s rescue – but failed.
“Don’t tell me.”

But he told me and my first response went like this: “Figures. You guys have got to do something about your High Court. They’re a bunch of…”

“No! Your High Court. The Supreme Court of the United States, for crying out loud.”

This also figures. They usually cave for Obama, as they did for his national healthcare program.

For Jerusalem, the three who dissented were Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Alito and Scalia.
Can’t trust the three Jewish judges, but two Italians tried to come to Jerusalem’s rescue – but failed.

So they’re still dancing in Ramallah, whooping it up at The New York Times and wherever anti-Semites can be found.

It was a good day to be Mahmoud Abbas or Mahmoud anybody.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told the press that Mr. Obama was happy with the Court’s decision.

Jerusalem, first established by King David as Israel’s capital 3,000 years ago, is ripe for the taking as long as you’re not Jewish, like David.

Hamas is welcome to it, as is Fatah, Islamic Jihad, and Islamic State – though nobody says it quite that way.

But some of us are not stupid. We do not need everything spelled out.

So the Supreme Court of the Unites States declared Jerusalem an orphan, no father, no mother, and, to their thinking, what else is beside the point?

That history begins with the Hebrew Bible, the Torah, and that both Christianity and Islam were birthed from Jewish Scriptures, which places Jerusalem as the undivided, eternal capital of Israel. They may try to delete history but it can’t be done. Their liturgy repeatedly bequeaths Jewish preeminence over Jerusalem.

Their books are taken from our Book and even our prophets they can’t deny. The paperwork’s been done.

Nor can they deny the prophecies that place Jerusalem in Jewish hands. To begrudge Israel’s full rights to Jerusalem is to forget that today’s shekel is the same currency Bathsheba used to buy 

Solomon a new pair of shoes when she went shopping for her young son in the City her husband built.


Which brings us to an uncomfortable moment. Yes, Obama was pleased with the Supreme Court’s decision. What about the Prime Minister of Israel? Surely Benjamin Netanyahu was not pleased. In speech after speech he avows Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital. Nice words.
Meanwhile, however, since 2013 the Netanyahu government has imposed a construction freeze upon eastern Jerusalem.

No Jewish homes may be built in the vicinity where Solomon built the Temple and where David wrote the Book of Psalms…in Hebrew.

So, we have no choice but to assume that Israel’s leadership itself doubts its jurisdiction over its own capital.

How then can anyone expect the United States Supreme Court to think and act differently?

Until Israel’s leaders proclaim decisively and universally that it’s Jerusalem or bust, the losing streak will continue.

To keep Jerusalem safe, it’s time for Israel to forget the kindness of strangers. Israel’s acting foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely has it right.

It’s time to speak up resolutely for Biblical Jerusalem and erase any weakness or doubt.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com

Thursday, February 26, 2015

A Baffling Question: Women Attracted To ISIS - Op-Eds - Arutz Sheva

Again this morning the BBC carried as its top story the question of why three homegrown women left England to join ISIS in Syria.

They volunteered themselves for overseas Jihad, and the English are perturbed over the loss of their daughters – three of them.

But when 1,400-plus English girls were being raped by Pakistani Muslims in England itself, in the town of Rotherham, over a period of two decades, the BBC could hardly be bothered. No one in England seemed to notice or to care, and even Rotherham’s townsfolk kept mum so as not to arouse Islamic sensibilities.

What a strange obsession about this but not that and I sure can’t figure it out. It’s getting so that nothing makes sense.

Because it is a fact that more than three of the world’s daughters are falling voluntarily into the arms of ISIS -- this plague of barbarism scorching the Middle East and beyond. Thousands, from all over and even from America, are leaving the comforts of home to join the savages. That boys and men find Jihadist butchery so attractive; that is one sickness. (Three radicalized men arrested only today, two in New York, one in Florida.)

But women?

If it’s true that Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, ISIS is hardly the place.
I assume that this urge to hook up is something biological – gravitation to the strongest male in the herd.

Daughters of the Western World need to have a talk with their fathers. Dads trust no neighborhood boys over the age of 15, so just imagine.They’d learn that these Jihadi bums are not Super Heroes. Nor are they a new Race of Giants. They’re good at taunting the world. They tower over their helpless victims to induce submission.

Is that the come-on? This is not like “Fifty Shades of Grey.” With these bums every Jihadi Bride is a sex slave and every sex slave is for keeps. Sadism, bondage and discipline are what they practice on their women whether their women like it or not. More on all that here.

They do not share our manners and dating rituals and they do not stop at the word NO.
Mockery is another one of their tricks and on this they do have the upper hand to our everlasting shame. The civilized world’s lack of response, starting with Obama, has us stricken with global Stockholm Syndrome. We’re buying what they’re selling but that should not include our damsels serving as useful carnal idiots.

The Jihadists appear to be invincible, if that’s the attraction, to breed with the winners, let’s remember that they plunder people who have no boots.

Today it’s Christians and Kurds mostly in Syria and Iraq but they have bigger plans.
Women go for this? Well, apparently we live in a world where more and more people are seduced by the temptation of mindless brute force. 


To the strong man goes the girl. It’s in all the movies. It’s in the comic books,,,
To the strong man goes the girl. It’s in all the movies. It’s in the comic books. It’s the Law of BMOC…the allure for the big man on campus.
Infatuation is a strange business.

Henry Kissinger drew women in his heyday. “Power,” he found, “is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

Power, yes, and I would add, fame…even fame of the most disgusting sort.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gained an all-girl cult following after he was charged and arrested for his part in the murderous Boston Marathon attack. He received hundreds of loving tweets and even at this moment, standing trial, the girls are outside with banners weeping for his acquittal. He’s cute and that’s all that counts.
Women flock with marriage proposals to men on death row. What is this!

We need to hear from Gloria Steinem and her fellow feminists how this happens. This needs to be explained. Does anybody know? The mystery escaped Freud as he asked this question: “What does woman want?”

Still baffling.

Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. The new thriller from the New York-based novelist, The Bathsheba Deadline, a heroic editor’s singlehanded war on terror and against media bias. Engelhard wrote the int’l bestseller Indecent Proposal that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a Paramount motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. Website: www.jackengelhard.com