Islamists planned attacks across Europe

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Reuters likes to call them “Islamist extremists”, but that is duplicitous term, because the word “Islamist” already implies “extremist”. Regardless, this should come as no surprise to anyone, except of course Islamists, their defenders and apologists. From Islamists planned attacks across Europe: Islamist extremists were planning attacks across Europe, especially against public transport, before their arrests in Barcelona last weekend, a Spanish paper reported on Saturday, citing a would-be attacker’s testimony. The Al Qaeda-inspired cell planned to attack the Barcelona metro and other targets in Spain, Germany, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, said the bomber turned police informant.In testimony

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The Road to Tehran

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From The Road to Tehran: The [subversive] Jose Saramago, Portugal’s Nobel Laureate in Literature in 1998, observed after a visit to Ramallah that the Israeli incursion into the city “is a crime that may be compared to Auschwitz.” Never mind that at the time Mr. Saramago visited Ramallah a total of about 1,500 Palestinians had been killed in the Intifada, whereas Jews were murdered at Auschwitz at a rate of about 2,000 a day. There are more than six million Israelis who presumably wish to live in a sovereign country called Israel. Are their wishes irrelevant? Are their national rights

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