European Court of Human Rights, the de facto highest court in the EU : Criticism of Islam will not be tolerated.

Posted on October 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

REASON
European Court: Woman’s Defamation of Muhammad Doesn’t Count as Free Expression
by Joe Setyon
October 25, 2018

An Austrian woman accused of defaming the Prophet Muhammad is not protected by the right to freedom of expression, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled today. Her statements represent “an abusive attack on the Prophet of Islam which could stir up prejudice and threaten religious peace,” the court declared. The woman, identified only as E.S., led what she billed as informational seminars on Islam back in 2009. At one of those seminars, she called Muhammad a pedophile because of his marriage to a girl named Aisha, who was just 6 years old at the time. READ MORE

WASHINGTON POST European court rejects Austrian’s case over prophet slur The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech.

AMERICAN THINKER In Europe, feelings of Muslims now officially trump freedom of speech According to the European Court of Human Rights, the feelings of Muslims are more important than liberty.  A critique of the Religion of Peace can be deemed a threat to “religious peace.”

Aayan Hirsi Ali Tweet This is the most corrupt, disgusting and barbaric ruling of our time! It sets back all the great work Muslims and non-Muslim minorities have done to advance Free Speech. No wonder citizens in Europe have lost faith in institutions like this one!

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CNN: “In an audio recording of Marc Lamont Hill’s remarks there, he can be heard using his anti-Israel propaganda to advocate for violence”

Posted on October 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
Marc Lamont Hill Moves from Justifying Terrorism to Promoting it
by Ricki Hollander
October 22, 2018

Several months ago, CAMERA wrote about the self-promoting CNN commentator and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill, pointing out his bigoted anti-Israel disinformation campaign and defense of Palestinian terrorists. The Investigative Project on Terrorism provides new evidence that Lamont Hill has progressed from being a radical, anti-Israel propagandist and justifier of terrorism to one who directly promotes Palestinian violence and terrorism against Israelis. Lamont Hill was one of the advertised speakers at a conference by a leading BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) group that was held on September 28-30, 2018. . READ MORE

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“Iran was closer to developing nuclear weapons than previously thought, according to a think tank report issued late Tuesday”

Posted on October 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Think Tank: Iran was closer to nukes than we thought
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
October 24, 2018

A report by the Institute for Science and International Security said that combining new information produced by the Mossad during its January raid on a Tehran warehouse along with satellite imagery “conclusively shows that the Parchin site did house high explosive chambers capable for use in nuclear weapons research and development.” While the focus of the report is Iran’s activities up until 2003, the premise of the report and of the documents which the Mossad appropriated from a site in Tehran (which had not been disclosed to the IAEA) is that the tests performed mean Iran could be capable of building a weapon faster than previously thought. READ MORE

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“Amid speculation Muscat would take a greater role in Israel-Palestinian peace talks, analysts say it’s more likely Jerusalem using the Gulf nation to send a message to Tehran”

Posted on October 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Does Iran lurk behind Netanyahu’s historic visit to Oman?
by Staff
October 26, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a surprise visit to Oman on Friday, boosting his claim to be leading Israel into a new era in ties with Arab nations and prompting speculation about what lay behind the rare public interaction between Israel and a Gulf state with which it no longer has diplomatic relations. There were few concrete details on his talks with Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said beyond a joint statement saying the two sides “discussed ways to advance the Middle East peace process and discussed a number of issues of mutual interest to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East.” READ MORE

REUTERS Oman says time to accept Israel in region, offers help for peace Oman described Israel as an accepted Middle East state on Saturday, a day after hosting a surprise visit by its prime minister that Washington said could help regional peace efforts. Oman is offering ideas to help Israel and the Palestinians to come together but is not acting as mediator, Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, the sultanate’s minister responsible for foreign affairs, told a security summit in Bahrain. “Israel is a state present in the region, and we all understand this,” bin Alawi said. 

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“Erdogan is a pragmatist, and will likely be looking to maximize both diplomatic and monetary rewards for the evidence he possesses, real or presumed”

Posted on October 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE GLOBALIST
The Khashoggi Murder and Erdogan’s Naked Truth
by Aykan Erdemir
October 25, 2018

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s much-anticipated speech before his party group on October 23 was the weeks-long culmination of “must-see TV.” After Turkish officials had drip-fed both real and fabricated leaks to the media and deliberately created a confused and emotionally charged atmosphere, Erdogan had promised to reveal to the world the “naked truth” behind the grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Erdogan’s failure to deliver the promised details prompted The Washington Post to argue that Erdogan appeared “less interested in revealing what really happened to the Saudi journalist than in leveraging the murder for political gain.” READ MORE

WASHINGTON TIMES Clifford May: Killing Khashoggi Eighteen Saudis have now been arrested and five top officials fired in connection with the killing. Bookies will give odds that they are being set up to fall on their swords for MbS. But it’s also possible to imagine that they were involved in an abduction that went sideways, and was followed by a clumsy cover-up that has led to a diplomatic crisis.

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#CreepyLine documentary explores the very dark sides of #Google and #Facebook

Posted on October 25, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CHRISTIAN POST
‘Creepy Line’ Film Examines Facebook, Google’s Influence; Director Talks ‘Scary’ Way They Use Censorship
by Michael Gryboski
October 3, 2018

A new documentary examines the way in which sites like Google and Facebook can influence people’s thoughts through their control of private information. Titled “The Creepy Line,” the film takes its name from a remark former Google CEO Eric Schmidt made years ago about concerns some had regarding his company’s handling of private information. “There’s what I call the ‘creepy line,’ and the Google policy about a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it,” Schmidt said at the time. READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘The Facebook Dilemma’ Review: A Message That Can’t Be Ignored An unrelenting ‘Frontline’ documentary wants you to know that Facebook is not your friend.

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“In order to reclaim those liberal and progressive causes, liberal American Jews must force a total rejection of the anti-Zionism and anti-Zionists within the political left”

Posted on October 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
The real rift: how the left is driving liberal Jews away from Israel
by Bruce Portnoy
October 20, 2018

…Let’s be clear: There is a rift, but it isn’t between Israel and American Jewry. Fights over religious coercion and pluralism have been going on for decades, making these latest eruptions nothing new in Israel. What has changed is the position of Zionism on the political left in America. Suddenly being a liberal and a Zionist or a progressive and a Zionist in America isn’t so comfortable. What has emerged, then, is the real rift — between liberal Jews and the American left. And the greatest danger to Israel and to American Jewry is the almost total silence to reverse it. READ MORE

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Illinois Pro-Israel community concerned Kwame Raoul would weaken anti-BDS legislation

Posted on October 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Illinois’ Anti-BDS Efforts in Jeopardy as Key Opponent Leads Polls in Attorney General Race
by Adam Kredo
October 22, 2018

…Kwame Raoul, a veteran Illinois state legislator who replaced President Barack Obama in the legislative body when he moved into the Senate, is running to become the next Illinois attorney general, a position that would give him leverage to weaken the state’s landmark legislation blocking partnerships with any company that supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. Raoul was a chief opponent of the legislation, which was enacted in 2015, and has come under fire from the pro-Israel community for anti-Israel remarks, which include comparing the Holocaust to slavery in America. READ MORE

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“The Jewish state needs a strong Saudi Arabia to help confront Iran, but does not want to be seen as a mouthpiece for a regime that kills journalists”

Posted on October 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Khashoggi disliked Israel, but his brutal murder puts Jerusalem in tough spot
by Raphael Ahren
October 23, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was brutally murdered in Istanbul earlier this month, was not fond of Israel, to say the least. “The Jews are without history in Palestine. Therefore, they invented the Wailing Wall, which is a Mamluk structure,” he tweeted in 2015. Khashoggi also opposed Saudi Arabia’s covert cooperation with Israel, arguing that Riyadh did not need it and that any ties with the the Jewish state would unnecessarily tarnish his country’s reputation in the wider Arab world, according to Professor Joshua Teitelbaum, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Bar-Ilan University who knew Khashoggi well. READ MORE

ATLANTIC Jonathan Schanzer: The Experts Were Wrong About the Middle East  There is a rare and growing bipartisan consensus in Congress about the need to smack Saudi Arabia with human-rights sanctions, or perhaps even tougher penalties…Sanctions seem inevitable. The only problem is that many of the same experts pushing for sanctions against Saudi Arabia have previously argued, in other contexts, that sanctions don’t work. 

NEW YORK POST Tony Badran and Michael Doran: Why the Saudis despised Jamal Khashoggi With the likelihood growing that the Saudi government was behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, pressure has built for severe, swift action. As President Trump awaits more answers and contemplates a response, it’s worth considering who Khashoggi actually was, what he stood for and why the regime might have wanted him dead. This is not to suggest that the killing of Khashoggi is justified. It is, however, meant to observe that characterizations of him in the media are not fully accurate.

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Brooke Goldstein on Canary Mission: “Why do we have to be afraid to publicly expose those who are rabidly anti-Semitic? Have we learned nothing from our tragic past?”

Posted on October 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Students support Canary Mission fight against ‘institutionalized, tolerated anti-Semitism’
by Jackson Richman and Alex Traiman
October 22, 2018

The controversial Canary Mission—an anonymous campus watchdog group that exposes organizations, academics and activists that demonize Israel on college campuses—recently came under fire when the San Francisco Jewish Federation indicated that it would no longer facilitate private-donor funding of the group. Articles in The Forward blasted the organization as “shadowy” for refusing to identify its leadership and sources of funding. Yet for pro-Israel student activists who are actively fighting against intensifying bigotry and intimidation on universities throughout North America, the work of Canary Mission provides useful tools in the war against campus anti-Semitism. READ MORE

CANARY MISSION #Twitter “locks” #CanaryMission for exposing #JewHatred 2 things you can do to help 1) Text TWITTER support: “I am appalled that you have locked the account of @canarymission, and denied their appeal three times. Canary Mission’s sole purpose is to expose hatred and bigotry! Their account is a vital service to the public, please reinstate it fully immediately. Thank you” 2) Tweet @Twitter in support of @CanaryMission and against their decision to lock the account.

DAILY BRUIN US Rep. Brad Sherman, Chancellor Block exchange letters on SJP and free speech Chancellor Gene Block said in a letter addressed to U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman that the university would not cancel a national conference the congressman finds exclusionary and anti-Semitic. Sherman, who represents the eastern San Fernando Valley and Western Simi Hills, wrote a letter to Block urging him to cancel a national conference for Students for Justice in Palestine branches from universities across the country. 

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