G-d bless these heroes. Pray for their loved ones.

SFC Terryl L. Pasker, 39, of Cedar Rapids, IA, died July 9 in Panjshir province, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire.  He was assigned to the 334th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, Cedar Rapids, IA.

SGT Steven L. Talamantez, 34, of Laredo, TX, died July 10, in Al Amarah, Iraq, of injuries suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with indirect fire.  He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX.

UPDATE 4:32 pm: SPC Rafael A. Nieves Jr., 22, of Albany, NY, died July 10 in Paktika province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his vehicle with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fires.  He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, KY.

The others........

Another nod for the Islamic supremacists who seek to desecrate the sacred ground of Ground Zero with a 15-story mega-mosque in a building destroyed in the 911 attacks.

Join us on September 11th to protest the Cordoba mosquestrosity.

Judge Rules Ex-Firefighter Cannot Sue Over Mosque NY Times

A Manhattan judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a former New York City firefighter who is trying to stop the construction of an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan.

The former firefighter, Timothy Brown, sought to overturn a decision by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to deny landmark status for a 150-year-old building on Park Place that would be demolished to make way for the center.

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In a decision issued on Friday, Justice Paul G. Feinman of State Supreme Court in Manhattan wrote that Mr. Brown was “an individual with a strong interest in preservation of the building” but added that Mr. Brown lacked any special legal standing on its fate.

The community center project was proposed by a developer, Sharif el-Gamal; the imam of a nearby mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf; and his wife, Daisy Khan. Critics of the project contended that it was wrong to place a mosque so close to where the 9/11 attack was carried out by Muslim extremists. After a hearing in March, Mr. Brown called the developers “un-American.”

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The decision removed what would appear to be the last legal challenge to the project, but the development faces other obstacles. Mr. Gamal has acknowledged, for instance, that he has not raised much of the $100 million needed to build the center.

Jack Lester, a lawyer for Mr. Brown, said on Sunday: “We believe the brave men and women who risked their lives have standing to preserve the monuments and historic buildings at ground zero.”

Mr. Gamal’s lawyer, Adam Leitman Bailey, called the decision “a victory for America” and said: “Despite the tempest of religious hatred, the judge flexed our Constitution’s muscles enforcing the very bedrock of our democracy.”

Spoken like a true stealth jihadist.

More cutting-edge teaching methods in Islamic cultures.

Taliban Training Chinese Muslim Children As Young As Five To Wage Jihad In Terror Camps… thanks to Weasel

Shocking video shows toddlers as young as five being trained as ‘martyrs’ at a secret al-Qaeda camp. They are learning how to blow up buildings and mount roadside bomb attacks.

Footage shows children cheering as a toy police car is blown to pieces by a bomb after a youngster presses a button on a mobile phone.

The anxious youngsters — some dressed in camouflage uniform — are made to stand in line before being handed the rifles.

Militants are training hundreds of them to become killers in the camp based in North Waziristan before being sent across the border to face western troops.

Yesterday I posted on the Gaza jihadists using Google earth to target and rocket Southern Israel here.

Ralph B sent me the two screen captures below of Google Earth's map of Israel and environs, complete with all their "Global Awareness" options, featuring what can only be labeled Palestinian propaganda enabled by American leftists in the "give peace Jew-hatred  a chance" mode. Or else we're wrong, and there really are Palestinian childrens' theatre groups preaching non-violence and clinics in Gaza caring for those whose mental health has been injured by the "pervasive violence." Show me where that exists in the Muslim world? That is sooooo Jewish :)

The jihad plays the perenially miserable left for the stooges they grovel to be.

Here is the propaganda website spewing "every human has rights" claptrap (not in Islam, they don't). That organization is no longer operating, but its parent groups are, including the Aspen Institute, Columbia University and the International Council on Human Rights Policy: http://www.ichrp.org/

Whitewashing the "culture" that straps homicide bombs on babies and uses children as human shields and schools to launch rockets.

The sickness of Islamic Jew-hatred infects the whole of the Muslim world. The term "moderate" appears to be a euphemism for "previously silent."

Tunisians protest against Israel ties By Fethi Belaid | AFP – 7/11/11

Around 600 people rallied in Tunis Sunday threatening to out leaders believed to support normalisation of diplomatic ties with Israel.
"Death to all Tunisians attempting to normalise relations with Israel," said Ahmed Kahlaoui, who chairs a committee opposing the restoration of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
"We will denounce them and publish their names," he said, speaking at a meeting organised at a conference hall in the Tunisian capital and attended by hundreds of people, some of them waving anti-Israeli banners.

Earlier this month, the authority in charge of political reform following the January ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years of dictatorial rule adopted a "republican pact" meant to form the basis of a new constitution.

It rules out a normalisation of ties with Israel but some members of the commission that drafted the text were reportedly in favour of leaving the issue out of the document.

"We can no longer trust this body's members, which includes academics who support normalisation with Israel and have had ties themselves" with the Jewish state, Kahlaoui said.
Songs, dances and poems were performed during the meeting and Tunisians veterans who took part in the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict gave testimonies.
The meeting was mainly attended by pan-Arab nationalist political groups and NGOs but the Islamist Ennahda party was not represented.
After several years of warming ties, the Israeli and Tunisian authorities opened interest sections in each other's countries in 1996 but Tunis broke off all relations in 2000 after the outbreak of the second intifada.

The second intifada was incited by the al dura hoax, the blood libel against Israel.

Tunisia flashback, February 2011: Muslim Attack on Tunis Synagogue

UPDATE: And of course, the women. No Islamic state would be true to the sharia without the dehumanization and degradation of women.

This should have been America [*hangng my head in shame*].

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper steps up to the plate, yet again, filling the vacuum created by the abdication of the once proud leader of the free world, America. This is not the first time Harper has done something this bold and courageous. But considering the worldwide appeasement and capitulation to the ummah, this is huge.

I said it here. And yes, I envy Canada for Harper. Look what Canada has. They have a hero at their mantle of power, we have a craven subversive. America, let's look to our northern neighbors for leadership, shall we?

Canada opposes Palestinian bid for United Nations recognition of statehood By Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press July 10