A Boycott Whose Time Has Come

(And Other Odds and Ends)

Over at The American Thinker is a post about -- of all things -- a Moslem boycott of the Glasgow Airport over its security policies, which Bashir Mann of the Muslim Council of Great Britain calls "a show of sheer discrimination, victimisation of certain sections of the community in Scotland."

As Vasco Kohlmayer notes, this luminary of the Moslem community is whining about this less than three weeks after the first anniversary of the London bombings! He goes on to note that, "There must be many who think that the boycott of the Glasgow airport is an excellent idea and wish it were extended to other points of mass travel as well."

Amen, brother!

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James Taranto deals with the contribution of our useful idiot journalists to the Islamic war efforts in the Middle East, but in a different way than I did some time ago. Whereas I focused on how our journalists frequently help make Israel look bad by focusing on children injured in the conflict, Taranto notes that this practice is probably also encouraging more child casualties.

Taranto first notes the practice of Moslems waging war against Israel to employ their healthy children as human shields and their wounded ones as propaganda. Nothing newsworthy there. Moslems, after all, always have the glory of Allah at heart.

But then he makes his point, which has needed making for quite some time.

By using civilians as shields, Hezbollah hopes to limit the Jewish state's military options. Hezbollah wins either way, since if Israeli strikes do hurt or kill civilians, the international media, including CNN, depict this as the result of Israel's, rather than Hezbollah's, brutality.

A report like Cal Perry's, in other words, provides Hezbollah with an incentive to endanger Lebanese civilians further. CNN, then, must bear some degree of moral culpability for the suffering of Lebanon's population. [bold added]

Consider the role of CNN in the carnage the next time they show you an image of an injured child in a hospital. In showing such images out of context as they do, they show that they share with Hamas, Hezbollah, et al. only a feigned concern for these poor children.

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No sooner do I learn about the female prisoners Hamas wants let out of Israeli prisons than I learn of renewed efforts by our "ally", Egypt, to help them get out!

Ibrahim Al-Naja said the factions were ready to stop the Qassam rocket fire if Israel's ceased all military moves against the Palestinian factions in Gaza. They are also ready to release Shalit in exchange for guaranteeing the future release of Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas leaders did not confirm this report on Monday, but if it is true, then this is the first time that Hamas has indicated its acceptance of the Egyptian proposal to solve the crisis.

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[Al-Naja] also said Israel must provide clear guarantees to free veteran prisoners, minors and female prisoners incarcerated in Israel.

Riiiight!

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Cox and Forkum get better and better the longer the action drags on. If Hezbollah keep it up, the two should be able to turn the Middle East into glass all by themselves in about another week. Be sure to see their roundups on (1) Lebanon's relationship with Hezbollah as well as (2) all the pro-terrorism protests by American citizens who either don't know about, don't care about, or are celebrating the fact that Hezbollah has killed hundreds of Americans in the past. And no, this cartoon is no exaggeration. Via this link from the second roundup, is this post, which shows a photo of a man holding a "Victory to Hezbollah" sign at a Boston gathering.

-- CAV