Hamas Declares War on…Male Hairstylists

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and there are new sentencing guidelines on the horizon for goat thieves;

Under the heading ‘Muslims should set up Islamic emirates in the UK’, MAC says: ‘We suggest it is time that areas with large Muslim populations declare an emirate delineating that Muslims trying to live within this area are trying to live by the sharia as much as possible with their own courts and community watch and schools and even self sufficient trade.
‘Likely areas for these projects might be Dewsbury or Bradford or Tower Hamlets to begin with.
‘In time we can envisage that the whole of the sharia might one day be implemented starting with these enclaves.’

It’s probably nothing.
h/t Shawn

Shira Applebaum Maresky is a relatively young woman who has had a lot more happen in her life than many people twice her age. L.A. writer Amy Alkon detailed the most tragic event in her life.
Maresky was in Vancouver recently and gave a short talk on her experiences as a paramedic in Israel:

The Israel-Palestine situation is an incredibly complex one to unravel, even more so for someone living within the confines of relatively safe North America. I’ve always employed the Common Sense Test: If America or Canada were in the place of Israel and the same sort of suicide bomber attacks were occurring (say from First Nations people on their reservations), would we just bow down and say, “Oh, I guess you have a point. We’ll cave in to your demands” ?
Undoubtedly some on the Far Left would like to do that now (though never giving up their own property of course). But the vast majority of citizens would demand that the police, and military if necessary, do whatever it takes to bring order and civility back to the afflicted area(s).
How anyone can have one set of “rules” for here and a completely different set for Israel is something I will never understand.

And that’s why I’m digging a fallout shelter.

Egypt’s pro-democracy activists feel their grip slipping

You don’t say!

You first, girlfriend.

With a totalitarian head-chopping party to vote for;

Hundreds of Muslim extremists surrounded a church in central Egypt and threatened to kill the local priest, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. The extremists began targeting the church in a village 7 kilometres south of the city of Minya in March after renovation work began, threatening to demolish the church.
Hundreds of Muslim extremists surrounded a church in central Egypt and threatened to kill the local priest, the Assyrian International News Agency reported. The extremists began targeting the church in a village 7 kilometres south of the city of Minya in March after renovation work began, threatening to demolish the church.

Arab spring!

Chicken Wings Comics.
h/t Bemused

Michael Totten asks Claire Berlinski; “What is going on with the Turkish government?”

They are zealots, perhaps, but not quite in the way their critics are imagining. They’re zealots of delusional optimism and overconfidence. They have sincerely convinced themselves that they will be able to befriend Iran, dissuade it from going nuclear, and profit greatly from this relationship in the process. They refuse to entertain the idea that the Iranians view them as useful idiots.

Childrens Rights Institute.
h/t Steve.

With a totalitarian party to vote for;

The liberals and secularists who formed the core of the Egyptian revolution are now scrambling to stave off political gains by the Muslim Brotherhood, a once-outlawed organization that is widely expected to become the dominant force when a new parliament is elected.

Shocker.
h/t EBD

“We all know about terrorism. This is the war you don’t know about.”

30 Minute version of The Third Jihad from Clarion Fund on Vimeo.

h/t FM

With a totalitarian party to vote for;

Although it hasn’t yet gotten wide attention, this announcement that a leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood plans to run for the presidency as an independent candidate is important. Up to now, it’s been assumed that the Brotherhood would not put up a presidential candidate, leaving Amr Moussa the likely victor in a presidential election. That, in itself, would be bad enough, given possible Islamist domination of parliament. […] Maybe further developments will show this to have been a false alarm. But it could well be a disturbing sign that the Muslim Brotherhood is within reach of controlling both parliament and the presidency in a new Egypt.

Egypt has more Christians than Israel’s entire population. There have been numerous attacks, with the latest in Cairo leaving 12 dead, 220 wounded, and two churches burned. The Western media generally attributes this to inter-religious battles. Yet Egypt’s Christians, so totally outnumbered and not having any access to the power of the state, have generally kept a low profile.
It is hard to believe that gangs of Christians go out and attack Muslims, especially when the fighting revolves around mobs attacking churches. “How can they say we started it when we are defending our church?” asked one Christian.

From the comments – And Moslems just killed two Buddhists in Thailand. Oops. I mean “Two killed in Buddhist-Muslim Violence in Thailand.”

Ryan needs help with a list.