http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/whywefight/ en-us Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:01:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520450/posts E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 11, 2005, 2:18 p.m. War & Responsibility “It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.” EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of a Veterans Day speech President George W. Bush delivered at Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Pennsylvania, as released by the White House. Thank you all very much. Thank you all for coming, please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania and I'm proud to be the first sitting President to visit Monroe County. (Applause.) I'm especially... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1520450/posts#comment Fri, 11 Nov 2005 23:01:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263800/posts TEHRAN (AFP) - – Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is seeking a second term in office, reiterated on Wednesday his anti-Israel stance by calling the Holocaust a "big deception". Ahmadinejad also said liberal democracies of the world have degraded "human values," the Iranian state television news website quoted him as saying. "The identity of the liberal democracy has been exposed to the world by its protection of the most criminal regime in the history of humanity, the Zionist regime, by using the big deception of the Holocaust." "There is no doubt that the only way to replace the liberal... Yahoo/AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263800/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259734/posts The abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of Muslim immigrants calling themselves the Barbarians shocked the whole of France in 2006. But now that the accused are on trial - silence. A French judge has ordered the latest issue of the magazine Choc ("shock") removed from the shelves. The cover showed a man with duct tape completely covering his head, except for a small opening around his nostrils. His nose is bloody. His hands are also bound with duct tape. It was a photo of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was... IsraelNationalNews.com / Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259734/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 12:17:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226535/posts BRITAIN was just “10 days from disaster’’ when police swooped on terror suspects allegedly plotting to blow up shoppers and young partygoers. Evil al-Qaida bombers were ready to unleash the UK’s bloodiest ever attack with a series of bombs near the home of Manchester United, security sources confirmed last night. The gang had targeted three shopping centres – including one close to United’s Old Trafford stadium – for a horror assault on “western hedonism”. And they planned to blow up the city’s trendy Birdcage nightclub, often packed with celebrities including the champions’ star striker Cristiano Ronaldo. Police realised the terrorists... dailystar.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226535/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205097/posts The number of ex-Guantanamo detainees who have gone back to terrorism is much larger than the government is letting on. A senior intelligence official, who has access to some of the country's top secrets, tells HUMAN EVENTS that some Pentagon analysts actually believe 102 former enemy combatants have returned to terror -- not 61 as publicly reported by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). That would mean that of 520 terrorists released from the Guantanamo Bay prison, nearly 20 percent returned to the practice of killing to achieve their radical view of Islam. The number is gaining importance in light of... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205097/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197270/posts Chad Rogers was just on the radio here and he did not know who Geert Wilders was. Couldn't pronounce his name. And objected to him addressing CPAC because he was "one of those who led us over the cliff." Huh? WGSO Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2197270/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:49:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197220/posts Some Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences folks recently went over to Iran to lend their expertise in filmmaking. “I can confirm that a group of Academy members . . . are currently in Iran” on a “completely private initiative for educational and creative exchange and with no political agenda,” Academy Communications Director Leslie Unger told the AFP. According to Unger, the Tinseltown travelers include actresses Annette Bening and Alfre Woodard, screenwriter and film director Frank Pierson (writer of “Dog Day Afternoon,” producer William Horberg (“Cold Mountain”) and former Universal Pictures Chairman Tom Pollock. The team supposedly went to... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197220/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:53:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194730/posts A man who embraced radical Islam after growing up in Worthington was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for plotting terrorist attacks against the United States. Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys recommended the sentence in June when Christopher Paul, 44, pleaded guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. attorney's office said Paul became a trusted member of al-Quida and spent more than a decade traveling to the Middle East and Europe to assist terrorists and prepare for a "holy war." He grew up as Paul Kenyatta Laws and graduated in 1983 from then-Worthington High School,... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194730/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174373/posts We have an influential and strong Fifth Column in America dedicated to our destruction and subjugation to Islamic law. Our most dangerous enemies are the Islamofascists, who want to destroy America and the West and substitute Sharia (Islamic law) for our Constitution and our laws. They are aided in this task by most of the Middle East studies departments and professors in other related departments established at our colleges and universities. Robert Spencer in his book Stealth Jihad, writes: “American universities have become propaganda centers not only for the anti-American Left, but for stealth jihadists and their allies — the... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174373/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:41:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173702/posts From today's Iran News Round Up, and translated by Ali Alfoneh, here is Ahmadinejad's message to the "Holocaust, the Holy Lie of the West" held at Sharif University in Tehran: "A brief review of the events after World War II shows that the Holocaust issue - with the dimensions they define for it - is an excuse to continue dominance and expansion of influence of the victors, especially America and Britain in the international arena. The illegal Zionist regime is one of the results of the Holocaust issue, despite the fact that many people of the world engaged in the... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173702/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:06:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167010/posts "We [conservatives] don't have any dominance in the pop culture and the pop culture is made up of braindead people in large parts." Nine minute audio at the link."So steeped are we now in their lies about our representatives, their ridicule of our commentators, their demonizing dismissal of the causes we know are just, that we’ve begun to adopt their attitudes toward ourselves! Breitbart TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167010/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:18:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165243/posts Why We Fight by Andrew Klavan This is by way of a friendly response to the estimable Jay Nordlinger, Senior Editor at the likewise estimable National Review. Jay wrote a strong column yesterday openly saying what I’ve been hearing many conservatives express tacitly ever since the election. Reflecting on the media’s disgraceful distortion of the characters of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin, he wrote: “It seems to me that the Left has won: utterly and decisively. What I mean is, the Saturday Night Live, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher mentality has prevailed. They decide what a person’s image... breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165243/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163922/posts Reporting from Tyre, Lebanon -- Hiba Qassir dreams of making movies. She's ambitious and precocious enough. At 18, she's taught herself how to edit video and sound on a computer, and has her sights set on directing gripping social and psychological dramas. But if the movie business doesn't work out, that's OK. She has other dreams: perhaps to become a cop or a pilot. Or maybe a suicide bomber. "Martyrdom is the shortest way to heaven, and the history of martyrdom is not like any history," Hiba says. "It made victory. We wouldn't have achieved victory without these martyrdoms." LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163922/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161620/posts When President Roosevelt addressed Congress after Pearl Harbor, he cited Japan fifteen times in a speech of five hundred words. When President Bush did the same after 9/11, he uttered “Islam” or “Muslim” more sparingly — just eleven times in a speech of three thousand words. And when Senators Obama and McCain spoke at the respective conventions and debates, asking to be entrusted with America’s security, not a single reference to Islam could be found. “Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about,” noted linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf. Based on the language used by Western... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161620/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159292/posts Fighting intensified on the northern outskirts of Gaza City yesterday as a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world in revenge for Israel’s devastating assault. “They have legitimised the murder of their own children by killing the children of Palestine,” Mahmoud Zahar said in a televised broadcast recorded at a secret location. “They have legitimised the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people.” Mr Zahar made his first appearance since Israel launched its offensive. Dressed in a dark suit, he declared: “Victory is coming, God willing.” As night... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159292/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150378/posts It was often said after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that everything had changed. And for a few years afterwards, indeed it had. After decades of denial, America and its allies went on the offensive against Islamic terrorism, both militarily and morally. Most importantly, there was no hesitancy to name the enemy or to condemn his inhumanity. But if the lack of outrage over the Islamic terrorist assault on Mumbai, India last month was any indication, everything has changed back. The obfuscation that characterized much of the early reporting on Mumbai is partially to blame. Watching a number... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150378/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:37:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts An article in yesterday’s New York Times by Public Editor Clark Hoyt, “Separating the Terror and the Terrorists,” is a nauseating example of the paper’s moral relativism applied to the war on terrorism. Hoyt tries to rationalize The Times’ reluctance to apply the “terrorist” label to people who take hostages, blow up bystanders and shoot 5-year-old girls in their beds. Hoyt admits “The Times is sparing in its use of ‘terrorist’” when reporting on Palestinian atrocities. In an effort to be even-handed, the paper has decided to call the murder of Jews inside the 1948 boundaries of Israel “terrorist,” but... Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147037/posts Thanks to the Indian media's inability to tell a coherent story, it is only now we understand how the top officers of the Anti-Terror Squad died. Earlier the impression given by the media was that they were killed at one of the hotels while leading the counterattack. Since two of the terrorists went to shoot up a hospital, and were killing randomly on the way, the two top Anti-Terror Squad officers plus the senior most officer responsible for South Bombay got into a van with three constables and a junior officer and rushed to the hospital. They were ambushed in... ORBAT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2147037/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:47:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142883/posts The Mumbai metropolitan area is home to an estimated 19 million people, but it took just 10 men to shut the city down. Last week's terrorist attacks involved a handful of men armed only with guns, grenades and homemade bombs. But they killed more than 170 people, closed universities and businesses, shut down India's National Stock Exchange and did incalculable economic damage to a country that boasts the world's third-largest military and internationally respected police and intelligence services -- none of which managed to prevent the attacks. Sound familiar? It should. It should remind you of 9/11, when 19 men... latimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142883/posts#comment Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:27:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140939/posts In a series of six alleged “news” stories on the Mumbai massacre, from November 27 to December 1, The New York Times (America’s newspaper which sounds like a broken record) refused to call the terrorists Muslims or Islamic extremists. The killers were variously described as “terrorists,” “gunmen,” “militants’ and “assailants,” but never Muslims. The only time readers could catch a glimpse of the terrorists’ motivation was when the paper quoted them directly - as when they complained about the treatment of Muslims in India and the Kashmir or called for the release of “mujahedeen prisoners.” The Times adamantly refuses to... Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140939/posts#comment Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:43:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140543/posts Azam Amir, the terrorist who was held by the Mumbai Police, has made some striking revelations regarding the Mumbai terror attacks. Azam has disclosed that the Pakistan Navy had trained the terrorists in boating and swimming to carry out the attacks in Mumbai. Azam was arrested on Wednesday from Girgaum Chowpatty in an encounter with the police. Ismail Khan, an accomplice of Amir, reportedly died in the gunbattle. India Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140543/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:35:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140365/posts An increasing number of counterterrorism specialists say the nature of the attack is clearly different from the South Asian norm and possibly even by any global measure. And because it is was so successful — a score of armed men holding an entire country to ransom for three days — it may become a model for the next wave of jihadi fighters. Colonel Jonathan Fighel of Israel’s International Institute for Counter-Terrorism is among those who has pointed out that the Mumbai attacks are “unusual not only for India, but also on the international scale.” The subcontinental norm has been a... Hindustan Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140365/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:38:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119725/posts Al Qaeda has finally made an official statement of policy regarding the 2008 US elections, and it is a ringing "anti-endorsement" for the Republican Party. The "anti-endorsement", posted on the jihadist forums a week before the Election Day 2008, was included towards the end of the message. The message, from Al Qaeda leader (and Bagram prison escapee) Abu Yahya al Libi, was a Khutba or sermon delivered in honor of the Eid al Fitre holiday. Unlike 2004, when Bin Laden referenced both candidates by name, but refrained from actually endorsing either, Al Libi specifically calls for the wrath of Allah... Strategic Translations http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119725/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:12:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089578/posts America is at War Though we would like to think differently, there really are evil people who spend all their time thinking and planning the destruction of American men, women and children. While Christians and Jews are primary targets, these very bad terrorists do not discriminate in their desire to kill and destroy anyone who does not believe as they do. For our enemy, this is a cultural war, this is a religious war, this is a necessary war. Radical, militant Muslims have declared war on America. https://www.watchobsession.org/ https://www.watchobsession.org/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089578/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:11:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089495/posts You Must Watch Obsession Because CAIR Doesn't Want You To Know The Truth About Radical IslamTopics: Understanding Islam Via Dan Riehl, I see that CAIR is once again "Outraged" - this time in Fla - and they want to shut down the distribution of copies of the movie, Obsession, being distributed in newspapers there. Apparently a few politically correct, highly ill informed, naive papers have refused to include the insert including one in North Carolina. Dan has the links to two videos to YouTube by CAIRtv in which the also obviously politically correct, highly ill-informed, naive newscasters play right into... hyscience http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089495/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:29:22 GMT