Watching the rampaging mob in Egypt setting fire to the Israeli embassy, one can only wonder if these are the same people that risked their lives in the overthrow of the previous government.

Yes! Yes, they were!

With a totalitarian party to vote for!

“The regime today is the same one that was founded in 1952. This is still the Nasserist regime. I was hoping this revolution would bring something different, that we could return to the liberal tradition that existed before Nasser destroyed it. Egypt had a historic opportunity to revive its liberal past, but the moment has passed. The military didn’t encourage that path, the Muslim Brotherhood jumped over everybody to manipulate the process, and the liberal secular forces retreated.”

You can buy a copy here.

With a supremacist party to vote for!

“They told me that if voted for John McCain… there would be round ups of black people. And they were right!”

15 people were arrested at a New York amusement park after Muslim women in hijabs were denied entrance onto rides because of safety reasons related to their headgear. Here is an explanation of what initiated the violence:

Earlier, a park cashier told a Journal News reporter that a woman wearing a hijab either pushed or hit a ride operator who forbade her from going on the ride. She said a police officer tried to restrain the woman and the woman’s husband took offense, at which point a multiple-person fight broke out.

… and the following commentary (want to bet there would be little if none about the, er, religious aspect?) had these actions been attributed to people professing Christianity?

Somalis suffer and die as Islamists ban ‘infidel’ aid
Even as drought and hunger grew to disastrous levels in Somalia this year, Islamist militants told destitute farmers to “depend on God” instead of the “infidels” at foreign relief agencies…
One farmer described how his 40 goats and 20 cattle died of starvation as al-Shabab refused to allow any help from relief agencies. “They were telling people to just depend on God and forget about depending on the agencies,” he told the human rights researchers.
Another refugee said the insurgents told him: “We don’t want the food of disbelievers.”..
In the territory under its control, the Islamist militia “continues to carry out public beheadings and floggings, forcibly recruits both adults and children into its forces, imposes onerous regulations on nearly every aspect of human behaviour and social life, and deprives inhabitants of badly needed humanitarian assistance, including food and water,”..

One gives the paper some credit for serious reporting (much though they may have been pained about this reality)–but what about the lessons to be drawn? The paper also runs this:

…
The first thing we need to understand is the all-important difference between Muslim terrorists and European terrorists like Mr. Breivik and American terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, the Unabomber and Jared Loughner (killer of six in Tucson, Arizona, attempted killer of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords). Here’s the difference: Apparently Muslim terrorists terrorize because they are Muslims and that’s what Muslims do. White, European, American and Christian terrorists terrorize because they are psychotic loners who represent nothing besides themselves…

Must have that religious equivalency, eh?

Michael Totten – The Muslim Brotherhood’s Discontents

Allahu Akbar!

Afghan President Hamid Karzai met recently with members of the country’s clerical councils to get their assistance in persuading insurgents not to hide explosives in suicide bombers’ turbans or in other religious or cultural symbols.

Via Drudge

‘The pictures – that is someone’s daughter. If someone was to look at our wife or mother or daughter with a bad intention we would not like it so we were just trying to do good.’

More pavilions at folkfest!
h/t OIld Lori

Free Speech Denier Zuhair Kashmeri wants Mark Steyn and others silenced. So “Canadian” of him, eh?!

Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
2006…

2011…

ht kakola

Jerusalem Post;

When the severed head of a wolf wrapped in women’s lingerie turned up near the city of Tabouk in northern Saudi Arabia this week, authorities knew they had another case of witchcraft on their hands, a capital offence in the ultra-conservative desert kingdom.
Agents of the country’s Anti-Witchcraft Unit were quickly dispatched and set about trying to break the spell that used the beast’s head.

Founder of the American Congress For Truth, an organization dedicated to educating the public about Islam, a 2004 interview with Duke University.
(note – spelling corrected)
h/t Cal

Drought in Somalia stretches all the way to Edmonton.

Michael Totten interviews a high-ranking member of the Muslim Brotherhood;

Esam El-Erian: Look, sir. If you don’t dare to learn the truth about 9/11, we will. We were victims of this dirty and bloody crime.
MJT: You think you’re victims because Egypt was blamed?
Esam El-Erian: All the nation. The whole Arab and Muslim nation was called terrorists. And you put these nations under dictatorship to face this ghost.
MJT: We didn’t put Egypt under dictatorship.
Esam El-Erian: Your administration did.
MJT: Mubarak was already in power.

Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes. (h/t Marina)