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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 06:02 AM

The Peaceful Palestinians of Peace

There was yet another Arab Israeli 'honor' killing yesterday:

A 15-year old Israeli Arab Muslim from the city of Kalansawa has admitted to murdering his 20-year-old sister. The teen said he stabbed his sister on Monday morning in a so-called “honor killing”--a killing in which the victim is accused of tarnishing family honor by violating the tenets of Islam or flouting cultural norms.

The teen and his sister fought on Sunday night. The 15-year-old strongly objected to his sister's expressed wish to leave the home more often and purchase a cell phone.

The murder took place the next morning, as the sister slept in her bed. The parents, who were out of the house at the time, returned home to discover her body.

Police were called to the scene, and found the brother covered in blood. “I murdered my sister,” he told them. The youth was arrested. His remand was extended on Monday evening.

The murder is hardly the first of its kind to take place in Israel. Several young Israeli Muslim women have been murdered in recent years for allegedly dishonoring their families.

Police believe the previous victim was 16-year-old Dalia Abu-Ghanem, who was reported missing in December of last year. The teen was allegedly murdered for leaving her abusive husband. Eight other women belonging to the 2,000-member Abu-Ghanem clan have been murdered by their male relatives in the past decade.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 06:06 AM

Peaee rallies that really are

Unlike all the pro terrorism let's exterminate the Jews rallies that have been going on, here's a rally that actually proposes Peace.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1054494.html

This is why 'dialog' with terrorist sympathizers is a complete waste of time. Might as well be trying to teach your dog to fly.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:13 AM
Original article: The perils of privilege

Yeah except that public universities prefer out of state students

In the UNC system there is a plan on the books to boost out of state enrollment to 50% of the total. Why? They pay 3x as much as instate, that's why. So right now when student loans have dried up, the state university system is blocking them out as well. Unless you're an illegal alien, then you automatically fall into the instate category.

In about 10 years, you will see a 30-40% drop in undergraduate enrollment and the era of middle class kids going off to college will be over.

But the funny thing is that when I spin on NPR, there are two types of college students: Middlebury MFA's and poor black people. They've already accepted there is no middle class.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:14 AM
Original article: Steven Chu takes the stand

What about the Pickens plan?

You can't save your way to prosperity either. We're still importing 70% of our oil.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:15 AM

Just let them loose and let them roam freely in the US

For free. Give them a house and a job for free.

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:23 AM

Royboy

The Syrian army put down a political 'rebellion' in the city of Hama in 1982. Somewhere between 7 and 30,000 people were killed. Compare that to 1970 when Yasser Arafat tried to overthrow the Jordanian King. The ensuing civil war killed about 30,000 Palestinians and Jordanians. Compare that to the 1962 Egyptian war in Yemen which has a documented history of the Egyptian army using chemical weapons on civilian populations. Compare that to the fundamentalist war in Algeria in the 1990s where upwards of 150,000 people died in the sectarian violence. Compare that to the end of the Libyan-Chad war where there is documented evidence that Libya used chemical weapons on civilian populations.

Please spare me the purported outrage and handwringing of the anarcho-terrorist sympathizers. It's all straight up fucking bullshit. Unless and until they hang a Jew for it, it doesn't exist. So fuck 'em and their agitprop.

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