I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what Islamists do, by who they kill, by how they behead, by what they mutilate. I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what historical sites Islamists detonate, deface, or deform, or what rich and multi-layered cultural sites they wipe out, like the Bamiyan statues, Joseph’s tomb, or Rachel’s tomb, all in order to infuse their zealous, twisted belief on to the rest of the world that history renewed itself with a singular event – the birth of their Mohammad. By wiping out other culture’s pre-existing
Read More +pwned: A corruption of the word “Owned.” This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled “owned.” When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so “has been owned.”Instead, it said, so-and-so “has been pwned.”It basically means “to own” or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.The excellent satirical website, The People’s Cube, has pwned Iran’s propaganda website, Press TV, which used one of The People’s Cube’s spoof images to illustrate a “true” statement that Jews are welcome in Iran and that Western reports about
Read More +Jewish life in Iran. Via INN: Ten Iranian Jewish families – 40 Iranian Jews in all — began new lives Tuesday night when they came home to Israel. “How they were brought to Israel and information about who they are is classified information, ” Jewish Agency spokesman Michael Jankelovitch said in an exclusive interview with Israel National News. “This is a new initiative,” said Jankelovitch, “a joint project of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews headed by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein and the Jewish Agency for Israel.” A total of 200 Iranian Jews made Aliyah (immigrated to Israel) this year,
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