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• History textbooks promoting Islam "Whatever 'adverse reflection' is, such a mandate may be conceptually at odds with historical and geopolitical actuality," the study said. "None of this is accidental. Islamic organizations, willing to [provide] misinformation, are active in curriculum politics. These activists are eager to expunge any critical thought about Islam from textbook and all public discourse. They are succeeding, assisted by partisan scholars and associations... It is alarming that so many individuals with the power to shape the curriculum are willfully blind to or openly sympathetic to these efforts," the report said.
• Some anonymous person threatens a student's dog: Somalis in St. Cloud, Minnesota Yes, we have to respect the Somalis' right to taunt a dog. Why don't they just tell the Muslim students that in America we do not tolerate mistreatment of dogs or of dog owners? Oh, that wouldn't be sensitive.
• Israel's 'doom' could also be Europe's The joke, of course, is that Israel, despite its demographic challenge, still enjoys a birth rate twice that of the European average. All the reasons for Israel's doom apply to Europe with bells on. And, unlike much of the rest of the West, Israel has the advantage of living on the front line of the existential challenge. "I have a premonition that will not leave me," wrote Eric Hoffer, America's great longshoreman philosopher, after the 1967 war. "As it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us."
• As many as 700 arrested in Iowa illegal immigration raid mmigration officials told aides to Rep. Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, that they expect 600 to 700 arrests. About 1,000 to 1,050 people work at the plant, according to Iowa Workforce Development, the state's employment services agency.
• Iran Curses X-Vision The U.S. will provide Israel with a mobile X-band radar that will enable it to detect incoming ballistic missiles father away. Currently, the Israeli Green Pine radar would only detect a ballistic missile fired from Iran when the missile warhead is about two minutes from hitting a target in Israel. The X-band radar would allow the Iranian missile to be spotted when it was 5-6 minutes away, enabling the Israeli Arrow anti-missile missile to hit the Iranian warhead farther away and with greater certainty.
• The Greatest Enemy of Moslems is Saudi Arabia n the heat of the moment, Iran appears to many to be our worst enemy in the Middle East. While the nut house government in Tehran is a deadly problem, it's ultimately one of lesser scale. Our greatest enemy, anywhere, is Saudi Arabia, the cradle of terror.
• Lebanese army says will intervene from Tuesday "What has been happening is negotiations by fire," a political source said. "Now everyone is waiting for the Arab committee to come for the political negotiations to start." Britain and Germany issued statements backing the Arab League mediation and endorsing Siniora's government. So far such Western and Saudi support has done nothing to deter Hezbollah from exposing the military weakness of its foes, such as Sunni leader Saad al-Hariri and Druze chief Walid Jumblatt, whose mountain fiefdom was attacked on Sunday.
• U.K. High court orders release of radical preacher Abu Qatada: 'bin Laden's Ambassador to Europe' Abu Qatada was born in Bethlehem and arrived in Britain in 1993 on a forged United Arab Emirates passport to claim asylum. He has been convicted in his absence in Jordan of involvement with terror attacks in 1998. He had links with shoe bomber Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, the "20th hijacker" in the September 11 plot. Tapes of his sermons were found in a Hamburg flat used by some of the September 11 hijackers. When new laws were passed in December 2001 allowing terror suspects to be detained without charge or trial, Qatada went on the run and avoided capture for 10 months. Qatada, whose real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman, was finally arrested in an armed raid on a council house in south London in October 2002 and held in Long Lartin prison.
• The Jihad in Plain Sight Jihad, however, is very unlikely to go away. There are too many Muslims who believe in it, and there would be no Muslim world without it. When it comes to jihad, authenticity is simplicity, and, simply stated, jihad is and has always been about forcible conquest.
• It's 3 A.M. In Beirut Our success in Iraq cannot be viewed in a vacuum. It's part of a global chess game in which only our enemies seem to be thinking more than one move ahead. Iran's support of insurgents in Iraq and Hezbollah in Lebanon begins in the same training camps that former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton suggests we take out. This is why we can't withdraw from Iraq or from the Middle East. The problems the West faces will not be solved in Baghdad or Beirut, but rather in Damascus and Tehran, and not by "aggressive" personal diplomacy by Barack Obama or anyone else. We should stop treating the symptoms and remove the cancer.