Yesterday I reported on a monstrous rape in Washington State: Muslim rapes 12-year-old girl he claims was dressed "provocatively." What I was unaware of was -- the alleged rapist is a Hamas-CAIR member.

"CAIR-Washington Member Omar Abdelbadie Arrested for Raping Twelve-Year-Old Girl" Answering Muslims, June 20, 2013 (thanks to David Wood)

Omar Abdelbadie was born in Egypt, but has lived in the United States for the past eight years. He is currently studying Neurobiology at the University of Washington. In his free time, he volunteers with CAIR-Washington, promotes interfaith unity as Vice-President of Bridges (the University of Washington's Interfaith Council), and walks the streets looking for little girls to ply with drugs and take back to his apartment. The only silver lining to this dark cloud of perversion is Abdelbadie's unnamed friend, who called police after realizing that a sex-crime had just been committed. (If this friend happens to be Muslim, I tip my hat to him, for living a far better life than some of his Muslim brothers across the Atlantic have been living.)

Of course, perverts can come from all sorts of backgrounds. The point here, however, is that Muslim preachers keep telling us that Islam is the solution to Western immorality. With so many recent cases of Muslim pedophiles targeting little (non-Muslim) girls, I'd say that Muslim preachers have lost the right to tell us what Islam can do for the West. When a religion glorifies a man who had sex with a nine-year-old girl, allows its adherents to rape female captives, and calls anyone who rejects the religion "the worst of creatures" (Qur'an 98:6), it will never benefit societies with large populations of unbelievers.

 

     

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_{Photo from left: Tommy Robinson, Robert Spencer, Pamela Geller, and Anders Gravers in  Freedom Rally in Stockholm, Sweden , summer 2012}

NEW YORK, June 20: Human rights activists from three nations will converge in London on June 29, Armed Forces Day in England, to pay respects to Drummer Lee Rigby, the British service man who was brutally murdered in a jihad attack on May 22

 

Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer of the U.S.-based American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) will join Anders Gravers of the Denmark-based Stop Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) and Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll of the English Defense League to lay a wreath at a memorial to Rigby at 2pm on Saturday, June 29th.

Geller, AFDI’s Executive Director, said in a statement: “We call on all freedom lovers to join us. We will bring the Stars and Stripes, as well as British and Danish flags, and participate in Armed Forces Day memorial commemorations. We will pay our respects to Lee Rigby by placing a wreath at his memorial, in his memory and in memory of his service.”

Geller explained: “All Americans feel his slaughter most keenly; this wound is particularly raw, as it came on the heels of the jihad slaughter in Boston. We are glad of this opportunity to stand in solidarity with our British brothers and sisters.”

After the wreath laying, Geller, Spencer, Robinson, Carroll and Gravers will proceed to the Armed Forces memorial event at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, where Rigby served.

Geller, Spencer, Robinson, Carroll and Gravers are all members of the President’s Council of Stop Islamization of Nations (SION), an international coalition of human rights activists. SION stands for:

The freedom of speech – as opposed to Islamic prohibitions of “blasphemy” and “slander,” which are used effectively to quash honest discussion of jihad and Islamic supremacism;

The freedom of conscience – as opposed to the Islamic death penalty for apostasy;

The equality of rights of all people before the law – as opposed to Sharia’s institutionalized discrimination against women and non-Muslims.

     

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So are we now to understand that Europe is governed under the sharia? This is not Iran, Somalia, Pakistan, Egypt et al ... this is France. And while I have little interest in what Le Pen said (and yes, of course, I despise her father), I can assure you whatever she said is nothing compared to the vicious Jew-hatred and calls for the annihilation of the Jewish people coming from racist Islamic clerics.

Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing Muslims to Nazis. But it was OK for the Muslim world to align with Hitler? It was OK for the leader of the Muslim world, the Mufti al Husseini, to be responsible for the death of 400,000 Jewish women and children?

Madness has seized Europe once again.

Marine Le Pen to face prosecution for comparing Muslims to Nazis The Telegraph, June 18, 2013

Marine Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing Muslim immigration to the Nazi occupation of France after the European Parliament's legal committee recommended that the far-Right leader be stripped of her immunity.

The full parliament is now expected to formally lift her protection from prosecution as an MEP after a vote on the recommendation on July 3, clearing the way for her to face race hate charges in a French court.

Sajjad Karim, a British Tory MEP on the parliament's legal affairs committee, voted in favour Ms Le Pen losing her parliamentary immunity.

"There is a red line between freedom of speech and inciting racial hatred," he said. "I, along with many other MEPs, today voted to drop Ms Le Pen's immunity and I am confident that the majority of the European Parliament will follow our lead in July."

French prosecutors asked the EU assembly last November to lift the French National Front leader's immunity as a lawmaker so she could be prosecuted for remarks likening Islamic prayers to the Nazi occupation.

Ms Le Pen faces charges for comments she made in a speech to National Front supporters in December 2010 when she denounced the holding of Muslim prayers in the streets of France in areas where there are no mosques.

"For those who like to talk about World War II, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory. There are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation all the same and it weighs on people," she said.

"For those who like to talk about World War II, to talk about occupation, we could talk about, for once, the occupation of our territory. There are no armoured vehicles, no soldiers, but it is an occupation all the same and it weighs on people," she said.

     

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Oh yes, preach to us about tolerance, love, and that resounding piece of theater "interfaith dialague."

Islamic Extremists in Somalia Kill Christian Al Shabaab rebels publicly shoot young man for his faith. By Our East Africa Correspondent (thanks to Claude)

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 20, 2013 (Morning Star News) – Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab in Somalia earlier this month publicly shot a young man to death after identifying him as a Christian, sources said.
 
The insurgents in Jamaame district in southern Somalia had been monitoring 28-year-old Hassan Hurshe since his arrival from a Kenya in 2010 and determined that he had become a Christian while in Kenya, said area Muslim sources whose names are withheld for security reasons.
 
Al Shabaab members on June 7 brought Hurshe to a public place in the town of Jilib and shot him in the head, they said.
 
“Many people watched this horrible action, including women and children,” said a witness.
 
Another area resident independently confirmed this account of the execution. A leader of the Somali underground church in Kenya who had also heard of the murder said Hurshe converted to Christianity in 2006, married in 2008 and fathered a baby boy in 2009.

 
The family left for Jilib, a town of about 45,000 in the Middle Juba Region, in the latter part of 2010 to visit family and start a small food shop, the source said.
 
Somalis are considered Muslim by birth, and apostasy, or leaving Islam, is punishable by death. After the execution, Hurshe’s parents, widow and son fled the area, a local resident said.
 
Many Somali members of Christian fellowships in Kenya have returned to Somalia after formation of a Somali government on Aug. 20, 2012, which replaced the Transitional Federal Government. Somali government troops backed by African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces have retaken large swathes of territory from the rebels.
 
Al Shabaab, said to have ties with Al Qaeda terrorists, has vowed to rid Somalia of Christians, who meet secretly due to persecution.
 
The insurgents have lost control of several areas of Somalia since Kenyan military forces helped to dislodge them in the past year, but they are suspected in the shooting death of a Christian pharmacist on the outskirts of Kismayo in February. Two masked men killed Ahmed Ali Jimale, a 42-year-old father of four, on Feb. 18 as he stood outside his house in Alanley village (see Morning Star News, Feb. 28).
 
On Dec. 8, 2012 in Beledweyne, 206 miles (332 kilometers) north of Mogadishu, gunmen killed a Christian who had been receiving death threats for leaving Islam. Two unidentified, masked men shot Mursal Isse Siad, 55, outside his home, Muslim and Christian sources said (see Morning Star News. Dec. 14, 2012).
 
Siad and his wife, who converted to Christianity in 2000, had moved to Beledweyne from Doolow eight months before. The area was under government control and there was no indication that the killers belonged to the Al Shabaab rebels, but the Islamic extremist insurgents were present in Buulodbarde, 20 kilometers (12 miles) away, and Christians believed a few Al Shabaab rebels could have been hiding in Beledweyne.
 
In the coastal city of Barawa on Nov. 16, 2012, Al Shabaab militants killed a Christian after accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witnesses said. The extremists beheaded 25-year-old Farhan Haji Mose after monitoring his movements for six months, sources said (see “Morning Star News, Nov. 17, 2012).
 
Mose drew suspicion when he returned to Barawa, in the Lower Shebelle Region, in December 2011 after spending time in Kenya, according to underground Christians in Somalia. Kenya’s population is nearly 83 percent Christian, according to Operation World, while Somalia’s is close to 100 percent Muslim.

     

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Hey, this looks like one of my ads!

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) complains to FBI about "racism" of ad depicting Most Wanted Terrorists, because they're all Muslims Jihadwatch

As Blazing Cat Fur points out: "Someone needs to direct this idiot to the FBI's 'Most Wanted Terrorists' page. On it he'll find a list of 32 names and a link to each of their biographies, they represent a broad strata of... Muslim terrorists. A grand total of 2 are not Muslim & not affiliated with Muslim terrorist organizations. I'll let the Representative figure that out."

Congressman McDermott, like David Sirota of Salon and other Leftists who are fanatically committed to the dogma that Muslims are always the victims of evil actions, and never the perpetrators, really wishes that there were more non-Muslim terrorists. But there aren't.

And one question for Mr. McDermott: what race is jihad terror against innocent civilians again? I keep forgetting.

"Is This Ad Campaign Racist?," by Daniel Person for Seattle Weekly, June 19 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Seattle, says so.

In a letter to the FBI requesting they pull the campaign from Seattle buses, McDermott sounds off on what he says is “offensive to Muslims and ethnic minorities” and “encourages racial and religious profiling.”

The ad shows sixteen faces of wanted terrorists, all of whom appear to be from predominantly Muslim regions. McDermott calls foul, writing that the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list includes people of other races and “associations with other religions and causes.”

“But their faces are missing from this campaign,” he writes.

“The...ad will likely only serve to exacerbate the disturbing trend against Middle Eastern, South Asian and Muslim Americans.”

The ad is the work of the Puget Sound Joint Terrorism Task Force, and are part of the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program.

As downtown news blog Fifth Avenue Seattle reported on June 4, the program is offering $25 million in rewards for information leading to the terror suspects' arrests. (A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the ad campaign itself cost $25 million.)

We are trying to reach someone with the FBI to get comment on their purported dastardly-ness, but the news release announcing the program put it like this:

“Members of Seattle’s community have time and time again shown themselves to be concerned about protecting their families, their neighbors, and their freedom. Many despicable plots from illicit drug trafficking to violent acts of terrorism have come to the FBI’s attention because vigilant Seattleites came forward with a tip.”

     

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Hezbollah is apparently not content with Boko Haram slicing up Christians with machetes and burning down their churches. And apparently, neither is the EU, despite the fact that Hezb'allah was behind the bus bombing of Jewish women and children on holiday in Bulgaria last year.

Britain Fails to Get EU Backing for Hizbullah Blacklisting Justyna Pawlak
A British drive to put Hizbullah's armed wing on the EU's terror list ran into resistance on Wednesday when discussed for a second time by a special EU group. Diplomats say a majority of the 27 EU member states, including France and Germany, back the British proposal. But unanimity is needed and Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy are among EU governments that have voiced reservations. (Reuters)

Just wait until these devout Muslim groups have ....nukes.

A cache of Hezbollah weapons was recently discovered in Nigeria and a Hezbollah network was exposed. According to local security forces, the network operatives intended to attack Israeli and Western targets. Terrorism Info.org, June 19, 2013 (thanks to Bill)

Some of the weapons uncovered in the northern Nigerian city of Kano (Channelstv.com website, May 2013).

Overview
1. On May 28, 2013 , after a month-long investigation, the Nigerian security services uncovered a cache of weapons in the city of Kano, in northern Nigeria . It included anti-tank weapons, RPGs and RPG launchers, submachine guns, handguns, and a large quantity of ammunition and explosives (Bbc.co.uk website, May 30 2013). There is a large community of Lebanese businessmen in Kano.

2. According to the Nigerian security services the weapons belonged to a Hezbollah network that operated in the country , and intended to launch terrorist attacks on Israeli and Western targets . In addition, three Lebanese nationals residing in Nigeria were detained, and during interrogation admitted to having been trained by Hezbollah (Allafrica.com website, May 31, 2013). Pictures of the weapons indicated 2 090-13 that they had been poorly maintained and most of them were rusty. Some of them, like anti-tank missiles and mines, were suitable for guerilla warfare.

3. Despite the fact that an estimated 20,000 individuals of Lebanese origin live in Nigeria, this was the first time the Nigerian law enforcement authorities had uncovered direct Hezbollah activities in the country . On the two previous occasions when Shi'ite terrorist activity was uncovered, it had been carried out by Iran: The exposure of an Iranian arms shipment in October 2010 caused tension between Iran and Nigeria, and Nigeria lodged a formal complaint against Iran and in the Security Council. (Gambia severed its diplomatic relations with Iran as did Senegal, although Senegal later reinstated them.) In February 2013 an Iranian-handled terrorist network was exposed in Nigeria, headed by a Nigerian cleric who had trained in Iran (See Appendix.). For that reason Iran may now be keeping a low profile in its subversive and terrorist activity in Nigeria, and may be want to use proxy organizations such as Hezbollah.

Exposure of the Hezbollah Terrorist Network in Nigeria

4. At the end of May 2013 it was made public that the Nigerian security services had uncovered a large cache of weapons hidden in a private house in the city of Kano. According to the security services, the weapons belonged to a Hezbollah network. Exposing the network was made possible by an investigation held several months earlier by the security services in the Nigerian capital city of Abuja, which led to a number of detentions, beginning on May 6 with the detention in Abuja of a businessman (Allafrica.com website, May 31, 2013).

5. The house in which the weapons were hidden was located near police headquarters. The hiding place had been specifically constructed for the weapons, and was under the floor of a bedroom, covered with three layers of concrete. The weapons had been wrapped and placed in containers to protect them. The room also had an emergency exit (Allafrica.com website, June 10, 2013). 3 090-13 The house in Kano where the weapons were found (Channelstv.com website, May 2013)

6. The weapons included 103 packages of TNT , 76 hand grenades, anti-tank weapons, 122mm ammunition, anti-tank mines, 21 RPGs, an RPG launcher, nine hand guns, a submachine gun and two magazines, 17 AK-47 assault rifles, 44 magazines for the rifles and ammunition (Bbc.co.uk websit e, May 30; Allafrica.com website, May 31, 2013). Pictures of the weapons show that they were not well taken care of and that most of them were rusty . Some of the weapons found in the cach e (Channelstv.com website, May 2013)

     

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If you had told me that twelve years after 9/11, patriots and freedom lovers dedicated to opposing the ideology behind those attacks on the homeland (and over 21,000 deadly Islamic attacks worldwide since) would be demonized, dehumanized and the object of a campaign to get us banned from an allied nation -- I would have had you Baker-acted. It could only be the result of insanity or ....... defeat.

And yet that is exactly where we are. Robert Spencer and I are scheduled to join SION President's Council members and EDL leadership, Tommy Robinson and Kev Carroll, and SIOE leader Anders Gravers on June 29th for a Memorial for Lee Rigby in Woolwich.

Islamic supremacists and leftist thugs are strong-arming British authorities to ban us. Jihad preachers, hate-spewing imams, annihilationists and Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR travel freely to the UK. But defenders of freedom are besieged by goons.

And Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee told HuffPost UK: "...Home Secretary should consider using her discretion to ban these two speakers from entering the country." Vaz is a notorious subversive and has been promoting a vicious agenda for decades. Back in 1995:

It was reported on Channel 4 News around ten years ago that Vaz was secretly taped saying he 'wanted to create an Asian [Muslim]  colony' in an area of Leicester, and complaining that not enough Asians were moving in and not enough whites moving out. “'They (the whites) will know when to move out ... they'll get a visit from the men in grey suits, hahaha'."

He is currently serving under a cloud of ethics violations (here) and their are myriad calls for his suspension (here). The Committee on Standards and Privileges found that Mr Vaz had committed "serious breaches" of the MPs' code of conduct, as well as a contempt of the House of Commons.

Several years ago, Vaz led a march of thousands of Muslims in Leicester calling for Salman Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses to be banned. And he has called for "islamo-faux-obia" to prosecuted as a "hate crime."

This attempt by goons and fascists to have us banned is one to watch. Check out Jessica Elgot of Huffington Post UK's coverage. Notice her description of us as "far right." So now freedom is the bailiwick of the far right? Interesting how the morally inverted mind perverts and subverts reality. Actually, I consider myself a classic liberal -- freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and individual rights for all before the law -- Constitutional law. As for "anti-Islam," Elgot must be pro-jihad, because that is exactly what she is implying by smearing our work for freedom as "anti-Islam."

Elgot goes on to say, "The EDL also plan a 17-mile 'Walk of Honour' led by Robinson and deputy leader Kevin Carroll. A post about the event suggests that the two men plan to march through multicultural areas where tensions could be easily inflamed." Kowtowing to violent intimidation. Elgot blames Tommy and Kev for the violence she (and others) assume will happen of they walk down the street. Yet if any violence ensues, it is the responsibility of the ones who commit it, and no one else’s. The responsibility for one’s actions lies with the one who acts and no one else. Islamic supremacists and their allies in the mainstream media are trying to get us to accept the idea that we are responsible if Muslims riot and kill and blame what we say. Yet there is nothing you could say to me that would make me riot and kill. The responsibility is theirs, and they are the only ones who deserve condemnation.

Elgot obviously sanctions the violence and "inflammation" that would result of Tommy and Kev merely walk down the street. Elgot, a less than affable Eva Braun, is on the wrong side of history (as are most in her increasingly sordid profession). Hers is a prime example of the banality of evil.

"Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer To Speak At EDL Rally In Woolwich, Campaigners Call For UK Entry Ban" Jessica Elgot, Huffington Post, June 20, 2013

Anti-fascist campaigners have called on the home secretary to stop two far-right, anti-Islam activists from America speaking at an English Defence League rally in Woolwich, where Drummer Lee Rigby was murdered.

Atlas Shrugs' Pamela Geller and Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, two prominent bloggers who founded the 'Stop The Islamization of America' campaign, gained worldwide notoriety for their anti-Islam subway posters in New York.

Nearly all of the signs, which read, 'In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad', were vandalised.

From (l-r) Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, EDL's Kevin Carroll, Atlas Shrugs Blogger Pamela Geller and EDL leader Tommy Robinson

Labour MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee told HuffPost UK: "I am alarmed that the EDL is planning this type of march in Woolwich.

"It is clear that the location, motivation and attendees at this march will incite hatred. Adding incendiary speakers such as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer just fuels the fire.

"Before we have to pay the costs for the extra policing required for this demonstration the Home Secretary should consider using her discretion to ban these two speakers from entering the country.

"A ban should be enforced properly and physically stop people entering our borders. We cannot make the same mistake as we did with Sheikh Raed Salah.”

Hope Not Hate have sent an open letter to the home secretary with more than 2,000 signatures collected in less than 24 hours, asking for Geller and Spencer to be denied entry to the UK.

The letter reads: "We believe that their [Spencer and Geller's] ultimate objective is to incite hatred against all Muslims and the consequences of their very presence in the UK will give encouragement to racists and extremists, who seek to use the awful murder of Drummer Lee Rigby to further their hateful agenda.

"Geller and Spencer are the most prominent anti-Muslim activists in the United States and their organisation, the American Freedom Defense Initiative, is widely considered a hate organisation. It recently placed adverts on the transport systems of several cities calling Muslims 'savages'.

"We believe that there is no place for such hate in the United Kingdom."

Fascism and hate: SS-like thuggery RT @jessicaelgot: @Atlasshrugs hi, what are your thoughts on this petition? http://t.co/cWSIWzmEfH

— Pamela Geller (@pamelageller) June 20, 2013

EDL leader Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon, has long been a fan of Geller and Spencer, tweeting support for their campaign shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings.

It's at moments like this that the American people should sit up and listen to Pamela Geller and robert spencer. #jihad

— Tommy Robinson EDL (@EDLTrobinson) April 19, 2013

Geller has also asked for people to donate money to the EDL via her blog and compared the arrest of EDL members to The Night of the Long Knives purge in Nazi Germany.

The EDL plan a demonstration, with Geller and Spencer scheduled to speak along with Anders Gravers of the Danish group 'Stop the Islamisation of Europe', in Woolwich on 29 June, Armed Forces Day.

The post on their website says: "For these three pioneers of the counter-Jihad movement to congregate and speak in Woolwich is quite phenomenal. We shall give them a warm welcome. They are the voices of common sense in a world of wilful blindness."

The EDL also plan a 17-mile 'Walk of Honour' led by Robinson and deputy leader Kevin Carroll. A post about the event suggests that the two men plan to march through multicultural areas where tensions could be easily inflamed.

“The walk will follow a route that is not for the faint-hearted and has the possibility to create headline news before its conclusion in Woolwich. Tommy and Kev will be walking alone through some of the most dangerous neighbourhoods of London. A scary prospect for any man but for the two leaders of the EDL; they are brave men."

The Huffington Post UK has asked the Home Office to comment on the visit of Spencer and Geller.

UPDATE: From the recently defunded Jew-haters, TellMama:

     

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Surprised? Don't be. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.

As Robert Spencer notes: "Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that 'retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right.' However, 'not subject to retaliation' is 'a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring.' ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law. The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour 'provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.' And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that 'Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values.'"

"Jordan teens still think 'honour killings' justified: study" France 24, June 20, 2013 (thanks to TROP.com)

 Belief that so-called honour killings are justified is still common among Jordanian teenagers, a Cambridge University study revealed on Thursday.

AFP - Belief that so-called honour killings are justified is still common among Jordanian teenagers, a Cambridge University study revealed on Thursday.

The study by researchers from the university's Institute of Criminology found that almost half of boys and one in five girls interviewed in the capital, Amman, believe that killing a daughter, sister or wife who has "dishonoured" or shamed the family is justified.

"Researchers surveyed over 850 students, and found that attitudes in support of honour killing are far more likely in adolescent boys with low education backgrounds," a statement said, adding that the reesearch is published in the criminology journal Aggressive Behavior.

"Importantly, the study found that these disturbing attitudes were not connected to religious beliefs."

Between 15 and 20 women die in so-called "honour" murders each year in the Arab kingdom, despite government efforts to curb such crimes.

The main factors behind these crimes "include patriarchal and traditional worldviews, emphasis placed on female virtue and a more general belief that violence against others is morally justified," according to the study.

"We noted substantial minorities of girls, well-educated and even irreligious teenagers who consider honour killing morally right, suggesting a persisting society-wide support for the tradition," said Professor Manuel Eisner, who led the study with graduate student Lana Ghuneim.

In all, 33.4 percent of all respondents either "agreed" or "strongly agreed" with situations depicting honour killings.

"Boys were more than twice as likely to support honour killings: 46.1 percent of boys and 22.1 percent of girls agreed with at least two honour killing situations in the questionnaire."

Sixty-one percent of teenagers from the lowest level of educational background showed supportive attitudes towards "honour killing", as opposed to only 21.1 percent where at least one family member has a university degree, said the study.

And 41.5 percent of teenagers with a large number of siblings endorsed at least two "honour-killing situations", while this was only the case for 26.7 percent of teens from smaller families.

"While stricter legislation has been introduced -- despite conservative fears -- cultural support for violence against women who are seen as breaking norms has remained widespread," it added.

Murder is punishable by death in Jordan, but in "honour killings" courts can commute or reduce sentences, particularly if the victim's family asks for leniency.

     

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Obama say, "respect it!"

Police: Death Threat Prompted By Pork Dinner Smoking Gun, June 19, 2013 (thanks to Ken)

JUNE 19--A Pennsylvania man allegedly threatened to kill his mother because he believed she tried to “poison” him by serving pork, “which was against his Muslim religion," investigators report.

Joshua Lee Coffey, 25, confronted his mother Sherri last week in the family’s home in St. Marys, a central Pennsylvania city.

Coffey accused his mother of “attempting to poison him,” noting that “the meat he was given to eat was pork, which was against his Muslim religion," according to a probable cause affidavit. A criminal complaint alleges that Coffey “did threaten to kill his mother…due to his displeasure with the dinner served to him.”

During the ensuing argument, Coffey allegedly threatened to kill his mother and her boyfriend (with whom she had been eating dinner in her bedroom).

At one point, Coffey went to the kitchen and retrieved a 10-inch kitchen knife. He then returned to the bedroom and “held the knife in a threatening manner,” prompting his mother to “flee out the window of the bedroom onto the roof.” Sherri Coffey subsequently called 911 and then went to a neighbor’s home to await the arrival of officers.

According to cops, Coffey held the knife to the throat of Mark Blair, his mother’s boyfriend, and threatened to kill him if his mother called the police. When cops reached the Coffey residence, they found Joshua, carrying the knife, in the backyard. After complying with an order to drop the weapon, Coffey was arrested.

Charged with simple assault and making terroristic threats, both misdemeanors, Coffey was booked into the Elk County jail in lieu of $5000 bail. He is scheduled for a June 25 preliminary hearing in District Court. (3 pages)

     

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Thank you, Bill Clinton, for sending US troops to the Balkans in the cause of jihad. And thank you, Israeli left, for being as blind as ever to the jihadist enemies of the Jewish State

Haaretz Wants Israel to be 100th Kosovo Recognizer; Kosovo’s Mengele Commemorates Jewish Cemetery, Interrupted by Islamic Call to Prayer; Kosovo’s Expelled Jews Complain; WWII Croatians to be Honored Today in Skokie by Holocaust Museum Unfamiliar with WWII Croatian Genocide; College Kids Prepped on it All Posted by Julia Gorin, Republican Riot, June 20, 2013

On the occasion of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s recent visit to the Middle East, writer Victor Sharpe wrote a historical commentary:

Serbia and Israel: Shared Glory and Tragedy (May 13, 2013)

…It is very fitting that Serbia and Israel should have political, economic and cultural ties as the similarities between each of the embattled nations are considerable and significant in historical terms…Both continue to suffer from Islamic threats and an uncaring and, too often, a hostile world.
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The place chosen to make a stand against the Muslim Turks was at Kosovo Polje (the Field of Blackbirds) in Kosovo - the heartland of the Serbian nation. It was in June, 1389, on St. Vitus Day, (Vidovdan), that the rival forces met.
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It was not a mere military defeat but the end of Serbian independence and the beginning of 500 years of Christian suffering under the Muslim yoke. But worse still, the Serbian heartland of Kosovo was lost. For the Serbian people, the blood shed at the Battle of Kosovo in the Field of Blackbirds marks Kosovo as eternally Serbian.

Another year in history that haunts the memory of a different people, who also saw the beginning of the loss of their heartland, is the year 70 AD. It was in that terrible year that the Roman general, Titus, finally came with overwhelming force against the people of Judea and the Jewish capital city, Jerusalem.
…
Jerusalem was finally destroyed after a frightful siege in which hundreds of thousands died of disease, hunger, and the sword. Eliezer, one of the leaders of the resistance managed to escape with his followers and their families to the immense rock of Masada that overlooks the Dead Sea.

There, high upon the mountain that had been a winter palace of King Herod, the 960 Jewish men, women and children held out for three years. But in the end, with the Romans closing in, Eliezer called them together and asked them if they should surrender. Rather than be enslaved or crucified they took their lives.
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It was later, in 133 AD, that the Second Jewish Revolt against continuing Roman depredations and occupation occurred, which also was successful in the first years of the uprising, but finally led to Emperor Hadrian destroying what was left of the Jewish state in 135 AD and — in a frightful insult to the Jewish survivors — renaming the Jewish homeland, Palestina, after the hated and long extinct biblical enemies of the Jews; the Philistines.

Centuries pass but history has an almost supernatural way of repeating itself. Fast forward to the twentieth and twenty first centuries and both Serbia and the Jewish homeland are linked by eerie circumstances. Both are often demonized in the mainstream press and both are under relentless aggression from Islam.

The late 20th century’s insane rush to create Kosovo as yet another Muslim autonomous region in the heart of the Balkans, was a testament to the curse of oil. Ever ready to enrich their economies, the Europeans and, sadly, the Clinton Administration combined to appease and placate the Arab and Muslim kings, emirs, imams, mullahs, sheikhs and assorted dictators. The price demanded…[was] to pave the way for more and more Muslim influence throughout the world.

The Saudis constantly pour billions of their petrodollars into Europe and North and South America in order to build lavish mosques where often Wahhabi imams propagate the later and more incendiary Koranic texts. European and American universities hold out their begging bowls to receive Arab money and in return help facilitate the spread of anti-Israel and anti-Western falsehoods masquerading as Middle East studies.

The phenomena of the so-called sovereign funds are instruments through which European and American financial institutions receive desperately needed infusions of Arab money to bail themselves out of their own greed and monetary shortcomings. And the financial help bestowed upon them always comes with strings; thus adding yet another layer of Arab and Muslim infiltration.

Islamic influence grows with every passing day. Facts are being created on the ground, which are changing the demographics and national characteristics of one European state after another. And it was in Europe that Arab oil drove the creation of a Muslim statelet, Kosovo, that is rapidly becoming a radical Islamist Balkan beachhead threatening what is left of an erstwhile Christian Europe. In time it will inevitably become a springboard for more terror in both the United States and Russia….[it already has, repeatedly.]

Serbs, in fact, call Kosovo their “Jerusalem.”

The U.S. State Department’s Nicholas Burns some years ago had congratulated the Kosovars in obtaining their independence from Serbia. This was a betrayal of the Serbian people and has left a disfiguring scar on the United States. For the Serbian people, the province of Kosovo is their very ancestral heartland. The long suffering Serbs were forced to witness the witless and perfidious Western powers rip away Serbia’s heart while the hated ethnic Albanian and Muslim historical enemies took possession of it…

And not so “hated,” certainly not as hated as Serbs generally are by Albanians, judging by the humanitarian packages that were coming in for Kosovo Albanians from all over Yugoslavia, or judging by the number of Albanians who escaped the war into Serbia proper, or judging by this:

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Dragoljub Simic (left) with Fazlija Uko (right). Serb and Albanian. From: “Serbs and Albanians on Kosovo: The truth is out there somewhere“

And we must realize that Israel, too, is threatened by the same evil created by Arab oil. The Arabs who call themselves Palestinians demand Judaism’s eternal holy city of Jerusalem and the Jewish heartland of Judea and Samaria (known by the erroneous Jordanian Arab name - the West Bank)…[Notice how the mainstream way of calling something always defaults to the Muslim-spun term. It’s always been “Kosovo,” rather than the full name Kosovo-Metohija, which was branded (by the Muslim side) as the “Serb-nationalist” way of calling it; interesting that the word for “churches” makes the phrase “nationalist.” And soon Kosovo will be called “Kosova,” the terrorist-victor’s pronunciation.]

Under relentless U.S State Department pressure, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Netanyahu endure[s] the same attempt at the dismemberment of its biblical, ancestral, aboriginal, spiritual and physical Jewish heartland just as the brave and ill served Serbian people suffered with the loss of their beloved Kosovo.

Although Serbs living in enclaves within Kosovo are still holding on from being completely driven from their homes, the price of creating a Muslim Palestinian state is the expulsion — the ethnic cleansing — of all Jews from its proposed territory…And this unthinkable outrage of ethnic cleansing will be sanctioned by President Obama, the ever appeasing European Union and the immoral United Nations under cover of the misnamed peace process. Jordan is historically in possession of nearly 80% of Mandatory Palestine and its population is over 75% Palestinian. There already thus exists a de facto Palestine. [Another parallel: Kosovo’s neighbor Albania is almost 100% Albanian, and yet we must have a second Albanian state, just as we must have a second Palestinian state.]
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Kosovo was partially restored to Serbia but it was not to be for long. Judea and Samaria was liberated by Israel in its defensive 1967 Six Day War. But the world is coming against Israel and brings terrible pressure upon the Jewish state to again abandon its very biblical and ancestral heartland and give it to a terrorist and Islamic state to be called Palestine – a state that has never existed in all of recorded history.

During the late 1990s when President Clinton and his Secretary of State, Madel[e]ine Albright, launched a disgraceful war against the Serbs, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Draskovitch, said of Kosovo: “Our faith was born there, as was our language, our nationhood, our pride. It is incumbent upon us to defend Kosovo, even if we all die.”

His words were uttered as American bombers, repainted in NATO colors, bombed Serbia for several months inflicting some 3,000 civilian deaths and destroying all the bridges over the Danube River in Belgrade. This was not America’s finest hour but it is now largely dead and buried by the mainstream media.

The same mainstream media rarely, if ever, tells us about Serbia’s passion during the many centuries leading up to the present and shameful act of the West. When Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, it was the Serbs who fought alone and unaided against the German divisions during World War 2; fighting them to a standstill. No other people alone in occupied Europe achieved that remarkable and heroic feat.

Croatia allied itself with Hitler and established a Nazi state. The Croatian fascist Ustashis exterminated hundreds of thousands of Serbs and tens of thousands of Jews…

The anti-Jewish Arab Mufti of Jerusalem…Haj Amin el-Husseini, spent many days with Hitler in his Berlin bunker plotting the destruction of Mandatory Palestine’s Jewish population. He encouraged the Bosnian Muslims to form several SS divisions. They subsequently carried out mass murders and deportations of Jews to the German death camps.

Serbia emerged from the Second World War with the distinction of defeating the German invasion and inflicting severe losses on the German army. But the Serbs paid a terrible price, losing nearly 2,000,000 dead or some 12% of their population. The Serbian partisans, who included Jewish fighters, were able to save thousands of Jews from death at the hands of the Croatian, German and Bosnian murderers.

During the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, the Croatians expelled some 250,000 Serbs from their homes in the Krajina district. As soon as the Muslims in Kosovo received autonomy in 1974, they drove out 400,000 Serbs. At the same time a vast influx of ethnic Albanians fleeing Communist rule, flooded across the border to take the place of the disinherited Serbs. Albanian Muslim birth rate was so high that within 60 years the Kosovan population within Kosovo grew from 70,000 in 1947 to 2,000,000 by 2004. Similarly, the Arab Muslim population within Israel has grown from 200,000 in 1950 to some 1.5 million in 2013.

The Serbian people have been reduced to only 10% of their original population in Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing against the Serbs began long before the Western press ran their lurid stories of Serbian ethnic cleansing against the Bosnian Muslims [and Kosovo Albanians]…The lesson for Israel is that foreign powers have conspired to strip the expendable Serbs of their ancestral heartland and give it to the Muslims… As goes Serbia, so goes Israel. […]

Enter the leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz, treating us recently to an article by editor Adar Primor, titled “Israel Must Recognize Kosovo.” For Israel’s own sake, no less. ( “Israel must remain faithful to the principles of self-determination on which it was founded and be the 100th country to recognize Kosovo. Not just for Kosovo’s sake - but for its own.”) The piece reads like a cheap mirror-reversal of Sharpe’s article, rehashing the 90s-born pop platitudes, cliches and myths such as Milosevic’s “nationalist” speech which “ignited” four wars, and “national aspirations of an oppressed people [who] suffered massacres, rapes and ethnic cleansing,” plus tired and debunked designations such as “Butcher of the Balkans” and “worst war crimes in Europe since World War II.” The article is replete with the Pristina/Washington talking points: “unique case, modern-dressed girls, alcohol sold freely, and no chance of Islamization.” This autopilot is also the last guy who’s still on “quarter of a million” dead in the Balkan wars. Not surprisingly, Primor doesn’t miss the opportunity to bring in the UN vote against Israel, on which Albania abstained but Serbia did not (that sad story is explained here). He also does the usual projection of the Albanians’ uncompromising “it’s all mine” demand onto the Serbian side. But then, this is someone who still perceives “unconditional” American support for Israel.

He also credulously quotes the prime minister, Hashim the Snake Thaci giving one of his usual Washington-Pristina talking points: “[Former foreign minister Vuk] Jeremic warned against a domino effect that could undermine the stability of the Balkans, bring to the surface both ‘dormant’ and new disputes in the world…Prime Minister Hashim Thaci answered this concern… ‘Kosovo is a unique case and, as a result, its independence doesn’t set any precedent. On the contrary; its freedom will be a cornerstone of stability for the Balkans, which will enter an era of cooperation and peace.’ From the perspective of five years hence, it’s clear: Thaci was right, and Jeremic (and Israel) were mistaken.”

Because a mere five years is such a long, long time, right, providing all the hindsight on Kosovo anyone will ever need. Five years, incidentally, during which the international overseers are still there and so Kosovo is still on good behavior (compared to what’s going to be once the do-gooders leave. That’s if you don’t count a pogrom of the dead, digging up bodies and scattering the remains to mark five years of “independence”).

Primor couldn’t resist mentioning the monument that Pristina dedicated two weeks ago “to commemorate Kosovo Jews murdered in the Holocaust,” and that the authorities have been going out of their way (lately) to make Kosovo’s 56 Jews feel welcome.

This is the monument he’s talking about: Kosovo unveiling Holocaust memorial (JTA, May 23)

Kosovo is unveiling a plaque commemorating its Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was scheduled to unveil the plaque on Thursday in Pristina at the site of the country’s last synagogue, across the street from the parliament.

“This is the place where the last Synagogue of Kosovo stood until 1963,” the plaque reads in Albanian, Hebrew, English and Serbian. “This plaque is raised in memory of Kosovo Jews that perished in Nazi camps during Holocaust. People of Kosovo will never forget them.”

Among the scheduled speakers at the event are Jason Steinbaum, the chief of staff for Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)…who has been a champion of Kosovo independence. [A leading American-Jewish mouthpiece for the anti-Serb terrorists, in no small part because of his heavily Albanian constituency in the Bronx that keeps reelecting him.] Also speaking will be an Israeli representative. […]

You’ve gotta love Albanians: Two monuments unveiled this year — one for Jewish Holocaust victims, and the other for KLA terrorists. What great company we Jews are in. Thanks, Kosova, it really means a lot. As for Thaci, a modern-day Mengele, making the Holocaust plaque dedication, well I’m just speechless.

Nowhere in the JTA item above is it mentioned — nor likely was it at the unveiling — who collected Kosovo’s WWII Jews. Albanians.

Another item about the plaque dedication quotes the Israeli ambassador saying that the plaque also “expresses gratitude for the renewal of Jewish life in Kosovo, including the maintenance of the cemetery….”

One wonders if he means the cemetery that had been neglected and grown over for years, until Kosovo’s race for recognitions was on, at which point a bunch of Ivy League suckers from the Dartmouth College Hillel were invited to clean it up in June 2011?

That would be the same cemetery that — after the useful idiots’ somber Kosovo PR job was done — was desecrated with swastikas just five months later?

Albanians still remember some of their German: “On Thursday the hate graffiti ‘Jud Raus’ - a misspelling of the German ‘Juden Raus,’ which means “Jews out” - could still be seen at the foot of a memorial.”

In other words, before, the cemetery was so covered with debris that no one even knew it was there. As soon as it was visible, however, it was desecrated. (Oh, that reminds me of: “[Radmila] wished to be buried alongside her late husband in the Orthodox Christian graveyard, which has been the target of persistent attacks and vandalism since June 1999…Incidentally, the old Jewish graveyard adjacent to the Orthodox graveyard has also been vandalised.”)

An excerpt from the pathetic little June 2011 AP article about the students’ good intentions:

…Ever since the end Kosovo’s 1998-1999 war, these graves — some of them dating back to the late 19th century — lay mostly forgotten. “You could hardly even see where any of the graves were,” said Susan Matthews, 21, from Chatham, New York. “We had to essentially find and uncover the graves, take down all the brush that had grown up the hill, wash all the stones so that we could read the etchings on them again,” she said. Matthews is among students visiting Europe as part of their inquiry into genocide. [Because Jews need to learn about genocide from Kosovo Albanians.]
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Rabbi Edward S. Boraz of The Roth Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth College said the aim of the tour was to look at genocide “as a human problem not specific to any one group of people.” [Well that explains it: Kosovo can teach them that anyone can declare themselves victims of genocide, and in the process achieve a “revenge” one, plus diminish the real ones. Like, for example, the one that killed close to a million Serbs in Croatia. Or was Croatia still not a scheduled stop for genocide-learning? Did the geniuses miss that far realer — and older — European genocide? Again? Meanwhile, with Kosovo as a genocide in their minds, I’m sure they’ll recognize when the next real one is afoot. I guess we still haven’t learned the moral of The Genocide that Cried Wolf.]
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After [WWII], Kosovo’s small Jewish community dwindled. Some 300 died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany…Those that remained left for Israel and Serbia during and in the aftermath of the 1998-99 Kosovo war. Some 10,000 [sic] people died during the Kosovo war as Serbia launched a brutal crackdown on independence minded ethnic Albanians….

[That’s the Albanian AP reporter Nebi Qena keeping you on program: So that you don’t find out it was the Albanian side in the war that chased the Jews out, she inserts something that has you thinking it was all just an outgrowth of the war, the war “launched” by Serbia. But do notice that the Jews fled to Israel — and Belgrade.]
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The fate of long-neglected Jewish sites in the small, poor and newly independent country of Kosovo [The triple excuse. But “poor” doesn’t fly, since Thaci could just move the Jewish cemetery into his triple-zip-code backyard] has recently received some attention from the United States…

To mark the one-year anniversary of the clueless students’ efforts, the cemetery was vandalized again in June 2012.

(Note: In October 2010, the cemetery’s bad shape caught the attention of the Czech embassy: Restored Jewish Cemetery Falls into Disrepair — One year after the last vestige of Jewish Pristina was officially reopened following restoration, the graveyard has returned to its unkempt state….While it has been listed as one of the 19 protected monuments in the city, few people are aware of the unmarked Jewish cemetery hidden on this unassuming hill overlooking Kosovo’s capital…Just a year ago, the Jewish cemetery in Velania was hardly recognisable as a cemetery, most graves unidentifiable and covered in grass and garbage. A project was initiated by the Czech Embassy in Kosovo to restore the site, however, to this day it is unmarked and unguarded, and is used by local youngsters for football….”)

About the 300 Kosovo Jews mentioned in the AP article, who died at Bergen-Belsen. (No Ivy League eyebrows raised, incidentally, as to how that might have happened.) First, we’ll get the Stephen “Suleyman” Schwartz version of that answer — a Jewish Muslim who’s been shilling for the Albanians since the mid-90s, helping dupe Americans into going to war on their behalf. Naturally, he couldn’t resist seizing on the plaque dedication, and he too quotes the notorious gangster-prime-minister Thaci respectfully:

Kosovo Revives Its Jewish Heritage (June 3, 2013)

…Inauguration of the memorial was carried out with great solemnity by uniformed members of the Kosovo Guard, a ceremonial body, since the republic now has no armed forces. [At least until the end of this month, when the Kosovo “security force” is to be unleashed.] Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaci…referred to the Holocaust as an “inconceivable crime that happened in Europe and which changed the paths of our societies in the last six decades.”

Thaci pointed out that Kosovo had been a way-station for hundreds of Jewish refugees from the Balkans and other parts of Europe, who were protected in Albania…

During Thaci’s remarks the Muslim call to prayer was heard from a nearby Ottoman-era mosque. Following the prime minister, Israeli diplomat Yosef Levy commented on the coincidence as symbolic of interfaith harmony…

What a coincidence! What are the chances of the Islamic call to prayer sounding over Kosovo? Now, let’s ponder the position of this poor Jew. This little interfaith song-and-dance is suddenly interrupted by — what? Church bells? No. Hava Nagila? No. Hare Krishna tambourines? No. By — what else — a Muslim call to prayer. It’s “symbolic,” all right. Symbolic of ‘interfaith’ gatherings always seeming to have one faith in particular asserting itself. And symbolic of Kosovo’s Western-expedited increasingly Islamic character. So the Jewish diplomat is interrupted by reality, and he reaches for the go-to platitude for a positive spin on the sound that speaks to the futility of the exercise he’s engaged in. This reminds me of how during the 1999 war, Pristina’s 11 Jews “[took] charge of the 23 primary schools in the city,” Los Angeles rabbi David Wolpe wrote in December 2011. “…This tiny number, with Israeli help and support, ensured the education of the Muslim children. This is what the Jewish tradition calls a ‘chesed shel emeth’ — a true kindness, one which can expect no recompense…Such a story is not only about Jews, but about the power of religion to reach across lines and do good in the world.”

And no recompense did they get. The KLA expelled Pristina’s Jews. But back to the plaque and WWII Kosovo:

Rabbi Levi Matusof, a European Jewish leader, recited a psalm and prayed in honor of the Kosovars.

So now we’re hastily making sure to include Kosovo Albanians with what, until now, we’d only heard about Albanian Albanians doing for Jews. Gee, nothing coordinated going on here at all.

Albanian scholar Saimir Lolja, in an article titled “The Rescue of Jews in Kosovo,” published in the English-language weekly Tirana Times, described how protection of Jews from the Nazis in the Albanian lands during World War II was undertaken by Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians. One Kosovar Muslim man, Arsllan Mustafa Rezniqi, has been honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by the Holocaust memorial center at Yad Vashem in Israel. Rezniqi constructed a house on his property to shelter Jewish families.

A handful of Jews were deported from Kosovo after a Nazi-directed raid in mid-1944. [A “handful.” Half the Kosovo Jewish population doesn’t translate proportionally into a “handful” (as per the “Jewish Art & Monuments” item that immediately follows below. And notice how Schwartz deflects from the Kosovar hands-on aspect to this dirty work, by using the term “Nazi-directed.”] But most Jews who went to Kosovo and Albania were saved by local officials who provided them with false identity papers, or moved them from place to place. The Germans, who occupied Albania in 1943, demanded a list of Jews, and authorization to deport them, from the Albanian authorities, but were told that jurisdiction over the Jewish community belonged to the Albanian government alone. This action was recognized by Yad Vashem in 1998.
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Kosovo Assembly vice president Glauk Konjufca of the “Self-Determination” movement, which stands in opposition to Thaci and the current administration of the country, found it unsatisfactory that the memorial was set up in a space that is not visible to the public. [That’s an interesting point.]
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The Kosovo government has also pledged to construct a Museum of Kosovo’s Jewish Heritage. […]

Here’s the realer picture of that WWII history, from “Jewish Art & Monuments” blog, a month after the first post-Dartmouth cemetery desecration:

New Treaty Could Protect Jewish Sites in Kosovo (Jan. 28, 2012, by Samuel D. Gruber)

…Ivan Ceresnjes, former head of the Bosnia Jewish Community and now a researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been visiting Kosovo regularly for the past few decade[s] and reporting on the continued deterioration of Jewish sites. Ceresnjes, who has organized surveys of Jewish sites in Bosnia and Serbia for the U.S. Commission, is particularly concerned about the fate of the “New” Jewish cemetery in the capital city Pristina…Of Kosovo he wrote:

“There were about 500 Jews before the Second World War, of whom 250 [by other accounts 281] were handed over to the Germans by Kosovar Albanians. There were also a few examples where Kosovars killed Jews, and there was also a Kosovar SS unit. About twenty righteous gentiles helped the other 250 Jews escape to Albania where the Jews were protected. After the war, in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, a huge memorial was erected for all victims of Nazism including the partisans and the Jews. When the Serbian-Albanian fighting broke out in Kosovo in 1999, almost all names were removed….”

[No fascist connection to our ‘modern’ Albanian clients, right? Just like our modern Croatian and Bosnian ones.]

In addition to the continuing process of destruction by neglect at the New Cemetery and other sites, there has been vandalism against Jewish sites. In December 2011, shortly before the cultural heritage treaty was signed, the Old Jewish Cemetery in Pristina, which had been cleaned last June by a group of students from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and their peers from the American University in Kosovo, was vandalized and swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans were spray painted on old gravestones.

This month Ceresnjes made his fifth visit since 2002 to the [’new’] cemetery, which is located on Dragodan Hill, next to a Serbian Orthodox cemetery. From Kosovo, Ceresnjes emailed the International Survey of Jewish Monuments (ISJM), writing:

“Last time, a year ago… I tried to see what is going on with the New Cemetery since I have seen from afar the huge infrastructural works being held around it but it was impossible to approach due to flooding of the area of both cemeteries (Jewish and Serbian) with sewage. [Now] in light of recent signing of the agreement between government of USA and present government of Kosovo I am just informing all of you about the sad reality on the ground — the quick and merciless destruction and disappearance of the heritage of one of the smallest and maybe the most endangered minority in Kosovo — the Jewish one.”

(Endangered in the sense of extinction; it remains far more dangerous to be a Serb in Kosovo, as the Albanians didn’t go about pulling Jews apart with cars, or stabbing Hebrew-speakers. Just Serbs and Serbian-speakers.)

This is all of course in addition to the irony of Albanians honoring a cemetery to begin with.

The plaque dedication must have been too much to bear, finally, for some ex-Kosovo Jews. And so for the first time in 15 years — though not mentioned in any of the feel-good news items about the plaque — we heard from one of the Jews who left during the Albanian unrest in the mid to late 90s:

We were expelled, we will sue Kosovo – Jews from Pristina (Radio KiM, May 28, 2013)

On the occasion of raising a memorial plaque in the center of Pristina to Holocaust victims, representatives of the Jews expelled from Kosovo and connoisseurs of historical circumstances from the period of the Holocaust responded today, according to Radio KiM website article.

Nissan Conforti left Kosovo and went to Israel before the bombardment in 1999. Two years ago, Conforti filed a complaint, looking for restitution of five houses in the center of Pristina that belonged to his mother. Since then, he hasn’t received any answer from Pristina’s court, Radio KiM Reported.

His mother was [a] survivor of the Holocaust and he stated, in his interview to Radio KiM, that he will address [the matter] to Strasbourg court of human rights…Conforti’s own house has been burned up in riots in 1997. [A] year later, his family had to move from Kosovo to Israel.
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This memorial plaque bothers Conforti. [The] plaque says that Jews have been transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but it doesn’t say that they were held for 15 days in Albanian military facilities, according to Conforti, where his mother and her three children were also kept. Also, it doesn’t say anything about [the] Skanderbeg division, Albanian soldiers who arrested Jews and helped Nazis.

This plaque is just a try to present Kosovo as a multicultural, European community, which is, according to historian Milos Damjanovic, [a] useless effort. What’s sad, [the] plaque isn’t saying a thing about Serbian and Roma families that hid Jews from Xhaver Deva, Albanian collaborationist who helped Hitler and whose name was a synonym for Hitler among Jews. [Deva, born in Kosovska Mitrovica in 1904, recruited for the Skanderbeg division, to rid Kosovo of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.]

Indeed, all the Holocaust PR for the Balkans has benefited not the far more numerous Serb saviors of Jews [is even one identified at Yad Vashem?] but those who, as nations, sided with the Nazis. Which helps explain why in 1999, as Ceresnjes mentions, the Nazis’ victims’ names were removed from the memorial in Kosovo the moment the Albanians found their next sponsor after their Nazi “liberators” — NATO. About the Jew-saving PR, not only have the historically Axis-aligned Albanians been touting their saves, but now even the Jew-liquidating, Serb-eye-gouging Croats are touting their Jew-saves — without ever first telling the world about their genocide of Serbs and Jews:

Consider this: Like virtually every other Holocaust museum, I’m told this little Illinois number doesn’t have a Jasenovac exhibit, the war’s second- or third-deadliest camp. So, before they’ve ever even taught the public, 60 years late, the word “Jasenovac” — which defines WWII Croatia — they’re skipping right over it to divert public attention to a few good Croats. And thus Croatia’s march proceeds to the E.U. (official membership date July 1).

Worse yet, the thing is in Skokie, a significant place in American-Jewish history. It was the attempted neo-Nazi march there in the 70s that launched the Holocaust education movement. So to have one of these dishonest, politically manipulated museum routines there (which routinely dehumanize Serbs by excluding them as victims and designating them as villains) is that much more profane. Even more perverse, it turns out that its ceremonial opening in 2009 was done by none other than Bill Clinton, the man who had us repeat WWII in Yugoslavia.

The Albanian Jew-saving PR, meanwhile, stays on course. This past December, the latest press outfit falling victim to Albanian PR about WWII was Yeshiva World News. Notice that, as in the plaque articles, the PR for the first time is making sure to mention specifically Kosovo Albanians, since that’s the place they’re trying to legitimize in a hurry. This hadn’t been the case, at least as far as I’m aware, for the traveling road show about Albanians saving Jews.

Top Jewish Officials Pay Tribute to Albanians for Its Rescue of All Its Jews During Holocaust (Yeshiva World News, Dec. 3, 2012)

The Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington DC was the venue for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the independence of Albania…to highlight the fact that Albania is the only nation that can claim that every Jew who either lived in Albania or sought refuge there was saved during World War II. Also, few people know that the rescue in Albania could not have happened without the help of Albanians living in Nazi-occupied Kosova, [ahem: Nazi-enthusiastic Kosovo] which became an independent state in 2008.
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At the luncheon that was…hosted by the Albanian American Civic League and Albanian American Foundation under the leadership of former Congressman and founding President Joe DioGuardi and Balkan Affairs Adviser Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi…Senator Schumer introduced a resolution commending the people of Albania…Other distinguished speakers included Representative Eliot Engel….Johanna Neumann, a spokesperson for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…spoke about how her family sought refuge in Albania from Germany and subsequently survived the Holocaust. […]

One supposes that last detail might be a contributing factor explaining why Nazi Albania, Nazi Croatia, and Nazi Bosnian Muslims were left out of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, while 1990s-era Serb crimes — real, imagined, projected, inverted, or transposed — were included. And why Serb WWII victims and Jew-saviors were also excluded, while 1990s Croatian and Bosnian victims — real, imagined, or transposed — were included.

Like ants, the ethnic lobbies crafting “history” proceed on course with the big lie, utilizing a few Righteous Gentiles and a kernel of truth. No matter the obstacles that may come in their way. No matter the veritable hemorrhage of exposees about Kosovo recently — a tsunami so huge that even Americans finally learned the name of the place they waged war in 15 years ago. But it seems that only one set of opposing facts takes seed in the American mind. The easier set. And so the more entrenched set. And so our students — whether at the community college level, Ivy League, or grade school — have been getting the same lesson plan on the subject. A remedial one. Ensuring that vulnerable young minds — from a 60 I.Q. to a 140 I.Q. — get the Zero I.Q. version of Kosovo.

Dartmouth students probably fancy themselves a few notches more gifted than the Jersey kids at a school like Seton Hall or Monmouth, but when it comes to Americans and the Balkans, there are no intellectual distinctions. People really are equal. No critical thinking required. I mean, who knew that Dartmouth students could be in a ‘class’ with Monmouth students?

First, here’s Seton Hall getting in on the act:

Spring Trip to Kosovo for Students, Alumni and Friends (Feb. 29, 2012, By Tahir Ambris)

The Whitehead School will host a study seminar for all current Seton Hall students and alumni in Pristina, Kosovo from May 22- June 1, 2012…This is a great opportunity…to experience a first-hand demonstration of the reconstruction and stability of a foreign country. We will discuss the future prospects of Kosovo and the question of its future membership in the EU and NATO.

Students will visit cultural sites outside of Pristina, which may include Gracanica Serbian Orthodox monastery, constructed on the ruins of a 13th century church and a 6th century basilica; Kosovo Polje, where Slobodan Milošević was sent to calm a crowd of protestors, when he famously told them that “No one has the right to beat you … No one will beat you ever;” Camp Film City, Pristina’s NATO Headquarters; Prizren, the most culturally and ethnically heterogeneous municipality of Kosovo, and Gjakova, a predominantly Albanian city, which suffered great physical destruction, large-scale human losses and human rights abuses during the war.

Even this Albanian Fulbright scholar at University of Wisconsin didn’t learn about the “ethnic cleansing of Albanians” until she “read academic texts on the subject”: UWM grad gets Fulbright grant to study Kosovo war’s effects (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Aug. 14, 2012): “‘As a young girl, I didn’t understand what was happening,’ she said. Shabani wouldn’t learn about the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in the Serbian-controlled province of Kosovo until she read academic texts on the subject for a political science class. From then on, ‘it was in my consciousness,’” she said.

And at Brandeis, which used to be for smart kids, check out this story line by student Jordan Birnbaum: Study abroad adventures: experiences of an American in Kosovo (March 16, 2012)

…You see, during the war in Yugoslavia, Kosovo was annexed, then became a province, and then became an autonomous province, and in 1989 was declared a part of Serbia. [HUH?] In 2008 Kosovo declared independence as the Republic of Kosovo…

Prishtina, the capital, was an extremely welcoming city. The people here smile on the streets, they’re friendly and they want to help…We are, after all, talking about a city with “I love USA” posters and a statue of Bill Clinton…

During the last week we attended lectures with people from civil society in Kosovo/a…who taught us more about transitional justice and the role of the international community in Kosovo/a…I climbed a fort, had dinner in a rotating restaurant, attempted to learn some Albanian, tried some amazing food, went into a mosque for the first time, met with some brilliant leaders, took a photo with the Bill Clinton statue, played on the newborn sign and went to a few different cities…

But back to the Kosovo president, who personally came to deliver the talking points to both Dartmouth and Monmouth:

Kosovo’s President Addresses Monmouth University, Seeks Normal Relations with Serbia (Asbury Park Press, Dec. 14, 2011)

…She spoke of over a century of oppression that the Kosovo people lived under but then gained some freedom as an autonomous Serbian province under Josip Broz Tito’s rule. [Ah, so the communism that they were dubbed “freedom-fighters” against was working for them. That’s not to mention the sponsorship the separatists were getting from neighboring Stalinist Enver Hoxha. Why, then, did they remove the communist names from the WWII memorial in 1999? Certainly not because they’re hopeless fascists?]

When Slobodan Milosevic came to power in Serbia, he abolished those gained freedoms [Oh yes, he simply abolished them], committed atrocities, denied human rights and forced Albanian Muslims out of Kosovo to be replaced with Christian Serbs. [Oh yes: hand-picked Serbs from cities across Serbia proper were lined up at the Kosovo border, just waiting to get in on the peasant life! Yet another inversion by the propagandist side (which by definition accuses the target of doing exactly what he/she has done or is about to do): This “replacement” was exactly the Albanian plan, and accomplishment: a flood of Albanians replaced the displaced Serbs.]
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She appeared at the lecture with Christopher Dell, who was appointed U.S. ambassador to Kosovo in 2009, and is related to a staff member at Monmouth University.
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“Kosovo is a good news story, not a bad news story,” Dell said… “I believe she (Jahjaga) represents a future that a Muslim country can show that Islamic and western values can coexist.’’

Ah, the infidel dream that Islam and the West can coexist, which has become an ever bigger reason for selling our Serb allies down the river, and shoving these inconveniently harmless Slavs into Russia’s arms (after using them as a lever against the U.S.S.R. for decades). So that in the end we can absolve ourselves retroactively by saying: ‘Well, see? They’re with the Russians anyway!’

And you see how pat and easy it all is? The Kosovo story is one-size-fits-all. You’re not expected — or wanted — to figure it out, so even though your intelligence will be insulted, you won’t know it. From Monmouth, Atifete Goes to Dartmouth:

Kosovo president addresses students (March 7, 2012, By Erin Landau, The Dartmouth Staff)

…Jahjaga, the first woman to serve as president of a Balkan nation, [to show how progressive a thugocracy can be] discussed her experiences with the education system in Kosovo, in which students were forced to attend university in private homes to avoid punishment. She said that prior to the creation of Kosovo, a “fear of repression was attached to my desire to learn” because Serbian officers used to “break into classes to imprison teachers and stop us from being knowledgeable.”
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“Now, students can learn in a regular school environment,” she said.

[Regular school environment: Grenade Explodes in Serb Classroom in Kosovo; Albanians stab female Red Cross worker, stone school; Kosovo: Serb school attacked again; “Death to Serbs” Graffiti appears on primary school in Gnjilane; Kosovo authorities threatening Gorani over school curriculum; Bomb Explodes in Serbian School Kosovo: Schools in Serb enclaves left without water; Serb teacher in central Kosovo town notes “frequent attacks”, police inactivity; Tadic Strongly Condemns Attack On Serb Teacher — [Vuko] Danilovic was attacked by young Albanians who were hitting him in his face and stomach with their fists…He and a group of five Serb children were participating in the “Multiethnic Camp” which was organized by OSCE…]

At the end of her speech, Jahjaga presented the Mother Teresa Award for contribution in the field of humanism to James Strickler DMS ’51, who led Dartmouth’s efforts to provide resources to Kosovo and help the nation reconstruct its health education and health care systems.

The College first sent aid to Kosovo in conjunction with Dartmouth Medical School faculty who provided critical care to refugees after the war, according to College Provost Carol Folt. Dartmouth now offers opportunities for medical students, physicians and nurses to participate in exchange programs, and there have been more than 200 exchanges of medical faculty and students between Dartmouth and Kosovo. [Oh the irony! One wonders who’s teaching whom about organ-extraction. Any Serb-blooded students on the exchange had better wear armor!]
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Dartmouth and the American University in Kosovo created a partnership two years ago that includes conducting faculty and student exchange programs and supporting curriculum development. In June, a group of Dartmouth students and recent graduates traveled to Kosovo with Project Preservation and, working with American University in Kosovo students, helped restore a Jewish cemetery in Pristina, Kosovo’s capital.
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“Your efforts have been profoundly moving to me because you are bringing democracy to that region,” Folt said [addressing Jahjaga]. “The first time I visited the homeland of my ancestors, I was filled with optimism for the future.” […]

Did we just learn that the provost of Dartmouth is Albanian? There wouldn’t be anything wrong with this except that that particular ethnic loyalty has steered America down a dark and self-destructive course, which crosses the line from being inspiring examples of high-achieving immigrants to acting as plants, implanting themselves in various fields, which they then influence in furtherance, at all costs, of their own ethnic interests.

The below comes from someone who listened to the “lecture”:

The INCREDIBLE irony of all this is that Kosovo universities demanded to conduct classes in ALBANIAN ONLY throughout the 1980s and 1990s, even though Serbo-Croatian was the language of Yugoslavia, and even though Kosovo was a province of Yugoslavia, NOT a province of Albania.

This is such a joke. What would happen if a state in the U.S. suddenly insisted that ALL classes in public schools and universities had to be conducted in Spanish or Swahili or Hebrew, and refused to allow classes to be taught in English? Would those students, trained only in those languages, be prepared to land jobs in an English-speaking nation? Would that foster common ground, or separatism?
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She keeps talking about the Serbs living in Kosovo who do not accept the authority of the Republic of Kosovo — a state illegally declared, in violation of national and international laws…She talks about how few Serbs live there — without explaining how that disproportionate number came about.

…She blames the Serbs there for “illegal parallel structures?” What the heck was the entire separation of Kosovo? Don’t choke too hard when you hear about the refugees at the end, that this was NATO’s “most useful, successful mission,” or that Kosovo is a multinational country where tolerance is a great success. Sure, that’s why they destroyed or desecrated more than 400 churches, raped nuns and citizens, killed Serbs living in their own ancestral homes for 600 years.

Interesting that Dartmouth didn’t want to allow questions at the end, and set up NO microphones for the students…This slimy propaganda was a disgrace and insult to higher education.

Indeed, in her “lecture,” she covered all the standard stuff, expressing her no-brainer position that she’s against partition or land exchange. As we know, the Albanians WANT IT ALL. And so the Serbs are called “uncompromising.”

Dartmouth Physician and Dean Honored by Kosovo President at Public Lecture (Dartmouth Now, By Susan J. Boutwell, March 6, 2012)

…To a packed audience in the Hopkins Center’s Moore Theater, Jahjaga said her four-year-old nation has emerged from war a better place. [???!!!]

“The goal is to build a functioning democracy, a just society where the rule of law is established and values such as human rights and equality of all people regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion are restored,” she said… [???!!!]

She came to Dartmouth at the invitation of Provost Carol Folt, who is also an environmental scientist and had visited Kosovo this past fall, lecturing there. Folt told the Moore Hall auditorium that her trip allowed her to see the roots of her own Albanian heritage for the first time…

Former Dartmouth Medical School Dean Dr. James Strickler ’50, DMS ’51, has been creating and implementing health programs overseas for more than three decades, including activities in Kosovo…Strickler has been awarded the Humanitarian Medal of Mother Teresa, an award given by the president of the Republic of Kosovo to citizens and foreigners who contribute to the field of humanism. [Just when you thought your eyes couldn’t roll any farther into the back of your head, this comes from a woman representing a state run by human-vivisecters, and partly owing its birth to funds from stolen organs — not to mention that today it reigns supreme in human-trafficking.]
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Folt said Dartmouth will this summer welcome its first exchange student from American University in Kosovo. Additionally, there are two Kosovar students studying at Dartmouth Medical School. [Great!]
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In her lecture, she told students that her college days had been much different than theirs. She and her peers studied in safe houses, fearing discovery by police who would imprison teachers and “stop knowledge.” […]

A response to that particular charge came from author Bill Dorich, who wrote the following letter to the student paper:

The remark that there was “fear of repression in the desire to learn” is not just insulting, it is moronic considering that Albanians were permitted to be educated in their own language. For the past 30 years Pristina University in Kosovo had more than 95% Albanian enrollment. I suggest that Ms. Jahjaga stop pissing on our leg and convincing us that it is raining.

Over the past three decades Albanians in Kosovo had numerous ethnic newspapers, radio and television stations and their freedom of speech was never oppressed. But what was cleverly omitted from her presentation was any mention that Albanians for decades received a form of welfare from the Tito regime, unheard of in any Communist system in the world. I also remind the naive students at Dartmouth that the Serbs ranked in 4th place in the communist system of the late Tito regime and the ambassadorships and positions of power were held by Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and Albanians, not Serbs.

…I also remind your students that during the Tito regime when he gave the Albanians “autonomy” without a single vote of the Yugoslav parliament, the Albanians fired every Serb from their jobs including doctors, teachers, college professors, policemen and judges. Apparently your ignorant student body also needs reminding that during the Second World War over 160,000 Serbs were cleansed from Kosovo and after the war Tito forbade their return, giving their land to the Nazi Albanians, who supported his communist efforts. During the autonomy of the 1970s another 120,000 Serbs were forced from Kosovo during a campaign of terror that included the burning of over 500 Serbian farms, the rape of Serbian nuns and Serbian girls and the burning of 3 Serbian monasteries and 2 major Serbian libraries. Albanian officials burned over 2 million Serbian books including priceless manuscripts. How compelling that your college would invite such morons to your college and allow them to spew their anti Serb hatred…Yet your naive students applauded this hypocrite who, through KLA violence, has amputated sovereign Serbian territory.

Since the arrival of 17,000 NATO troops in 1999, the Albanians have destroyed [hundreds of] ancient Serbian Orthodox Christian churches as your student body remained silent…

Bill Dorich

The letter naturally went unpublished, nor did Mr. Dorich even hear back from the student paper.

Jahjaga’s stop at Dartmouth was part of her whirlwind U.S. tour last year. Two days later she was an invited attendee at one of those fluffy girl-power events called “Women in the World,” organized by Newsweek and The Daily Beast, where “Jahjaga met the former U.S. Secretary of State Mrs. Madeleine Albright….[who] shared with the participants her experience of childhood as a refugee of World War II by comparing it with the exodus of refugees during the war in Kosovo and other countries of former Yugoslavia,” M-Magazine reported at the time. Jahjaga’s introduction to American idiots — hyphenated Americans and not — inspired a misplaced mention of her in this list:

10 Muslim Women Every Person Should Know (Huffington Post, March 24, 2012, Fazeela Siddiqui)

…[T]he current President of Kosovo, Atife Jahjaga, is the world’s youngest female president, as well as her country’s first female Muslim president. In honor of Women’s History Month, I present 10 Muslim women, from the seventh century until today, that every Muslim (and everyone else) should know about…The following 10 extraordinary Muslim women have been shattering cement, glass and orbital ceilings with panache.

Jahjaga with the Obamas in September 2011, when she also attended a reception by Bill Clinton and met with Frank Wisner, U.S. envoy to Kosovo during the Ahtisaari status talks. [Frank Wisner Sr. had recruited Albanian Fascists for the CIA after WWII in “Operation Mocking Bird” but eventually had the decency to kill himself for one reason or another. His son, on the other hand — like the rest of our political establishment — is still active in reversing the WWII victory.]

Students are being fed a made-for-Americans pabulum, a watered-down version of the watered-down Kool-Aid that the rest of the country drank. Here’s the standard whitewash Kosovo lesson the Dartmouth kids got from a boob named Jason Steinbaum, chief of stuff for NY Rep. Eliot Engel. Just before the trip on which the kids were allowed to clean up only the Jewish cemetery (and not any of the hundreds of Orthodox ones lying in ruins), Steinbaum was dispatched to tell the wiz kids all they’d need to know about Kosovo:

Jason Steinbaum, “expert”; senior foreign affairs committee staffer for Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y.

“Kosovo expert calls for sovereignty” [What else!]

By Matthew Mc Nierney, The Dartmouth Staff, May 17, 2011

Kosovar independence was instrumental to ending genocide in the region [interesting chronology there], and international recognition of Kosovo’s sovereignty is essential to the country’s future stability, according to Jason Steinbaum….[I]n a lecture entitled “Free Cold Soda to Free Kosovo: From Ethnic Cleansing to Independence”…Steinbaum said he first began studying the region with Engel after joining his staff in November 1993. When Engel was elected in 1998, a group of Albanian-Americans drew Engel’s attention to the “quiet ethnic cleansing” orchestrated by Serbians living in Kosovo. The group brought Engel to a rally, where the participants’ heavy accents led Engel to think they were chanting “free cold soda” instead of “free Kosovo,” Steinbaum said.

[The cute anecdote that’s required in any speech. All together now: Awww, they’re just cute little harmless immigrants who are being killed in their native land for their cuteness. Meanwhile, according to the above, five years into his staff studying the region, Engel didn’t even recognize the word Kosovo (or, more likely, Kosova). Until he was fed “information” from the Albanian spoon.]

Congressional response to the Kosovar conflict was much quicker than many Americans believe is possible from their government, according to Steinbaum. [Oh, Congress moves pretty darned fast if there’s some Serb-killin’ to be done.] “If anyone ever tells you that members of Congress don’t listen to their constituents, I can tell you that after 20 years of doing this, they do listen,” he said…
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As Steinbaum traced the history of the region, he urged audience members to support the Kosovar independence movement. [Because that one and only allowable position doesn’t have enough support.] The violence began when Slobodan Milosevic, who served as the president of Serbia at the time, delivered a speech calling Serbians to regain their “national heritage,” which led to the treatment of Albanians as second-class citizens and began the widespread genocide, according to Steinbaum.

The “widespread genocide” that was dropped from all Kosovo indictments at the Hague years ago, by virtue of its not existing. So the violence “began” in 1989? And not with the decades of clan-ordered violence against non-Albanians that was pushing the latter out of the province? The 1981 race riots weren’t violent? Or the 1968 ones, for that matter? As for “second-class citizens,” the Albanians were an oppressing minority, not an oppressed one, which may have made them less than well-liked. As for discrimination by a host society in general (though in the case of Serbs and Albanians, that was a two-way street), one can only answer, “Welcome to Europe.” But, as one commentator asked: Should the U.S. be in the business of telling Europe which of its oppressed minorities deserve to get their own state?

The Albanians, led by a pacifist president, responded to the genocide by creating their own “parallel system,” including a separate government, schools and health clinics, according to Steinbaum. [Wait, so the 1999 “genocide” happened in the 1980s? And notice that the Albanians’ parallel system is OK, unlike the Serbs’ “illegal parallel structures” mentioned by Jahjaga.] Serbia could have ended the conflict at this point but instead chose not to compromise, Steinbaum said. [Huh?]

Steinbaum helped advise the Albanians to settle for autonomy rather than independence, a provision they correctly guessed the Serbians would not grant them. As a result, Albanians appeared willing to compromise in the eyes of the international community, causing NATO to begin bombing Serbian forces [and civilians], he said.

Despite the prolonged fighting, the war did not end Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo, Steinbaum said. When three Albanian children were found drowned in the Ibar River, the Albanians quickly blamed the Serbians and proceeded to burn hundreds of Orthodox churches, according to Steinbaum. [Was anyone able to follow the thought process: Serbian sovereignty didn’t end in 1999; there was an anti-Serb pogrom in 2004.]

When the Albanians began to commit atrocities against the Serbians [”began”? No way that could have been happening all along, before his boss Engel learned that Kosovo wasn’t the same thing as cold soda], Steinbaum said he and other government officials realized that Kosovar independence was the only long-term solution to the problem. [Because Albanians are so very compromising. And look: violence pays.] Although Kosovo declared independence on Feb. 18, 2008 [sic: Feb. 17], Steinbaum said more countries need to recognize Kosovar sovereignty and the international community needs to aid Kosovo in solving its internal economic and corruption problems.

After that lovely assessment, and given the recurrence of Kosovo in the student paper, in April 2012 I sent the following email to Emily Fletcher and Branko Cerny, publisher and editor at the time:

I’m writing to ask whether you guys ever accept a guest column from outside the student body. The reason your paper has come to my attention is that my focus is on the Clintons’ unfinished war in Kosovo, and over the summer members of the Dartmouth Hillel went there to restore a Jewish cemetery. The planned trip was covered in the paper…but since that trip on which Dartmouth students cleaned up the graveyard, it was vandalized. The fact is, there is some deep and troubling historical background about Kosovo that has not made it to the student body, which — like the rest of America — has been given only the pro-independence perspective. Not only in The Dartmouth, but also in the talks given to Dartmouth students by both the president of Kosovo and Jason Steinbaum of Rep. Eliot Engel’s office (which caters to a huge Albanian constituency in the Bronx).
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To anyone who has been following the aftermath of America’s last pre-9/11 war — Kosovo — it is jaw-dropping to hear the inversions being peddled to our brilliant students. It might interest you to know that this remedial, propagandistic level of “information” is the same whether it’s being delivered at Dartmouth or at Monmouth College in New Jersey. Similarly, when Kosovo president Atifete Jahjaga (whom Ambassador Christopher Dell literally forced onto an infuriated Kosovo parliament), was making her rounds in the U.S. at the start of the year, there was no difference between the puff pieces that emerged in the pages of Washington Times and those of The Huffington Post. I’m sure you’ll agree these two publications otherwise have some rather stark differences between them, on virtually every other issue. But again, unlike every other issue — on which viewpoints split between Left and Right — there is only one allowable side of the Kosovo story. And it happens to coincide with U.S. policy, which is feverishly working for full Kosovo independence. It may seem like a small and obscure matter to Americans, whose disinterest makes suppression of the story almost redundant, but believe me when I tell you that the U.S government trembles over this seemingly small and insignificant region. As I outlined for The Washington Times in 2010 (documented version here), our pro-Albanian, anti-Serb policy has remained in place even after the Clinton administration sensed something wasn’t right [in 2000], and even after 9/11, precisely because of the threat of Albanian violence. A fact that the very same pro-independence officials here openly state as the reason for speedy independence. It’s all moved merrily along in the shadows, with nary a media spotlight shone on what Washington has been up to in the Balkans. It all leads one to seriously question the independence of our presses…

As in 1999, Jews are again being targeted by Albanian propaganda, in the hopes of a politically important recognition from Israel, which has so far vowed to not recognize Kosovo independence…[T]he Hillel club at your otherwise reputable university fell victim to that grand scheme. I’d like to give some background for your students about this troubled land that has made an appearance in your paper more than once recently, and to — for once — present the other side of a difficult story that has been made all too simple so far. But it would take a bit of journalistic courage on your parts, as you would be venturing beyond the realm of “controversial” journalism and into the realm of disallowed journalism. So you’d have to put on your thick skins and be prepared for the consequences.

Best,
Julia Gorin

Perhaps that last line scared them off and sealed the outcome of my not hearing back. Though more likely it just gave them an excuse to hit the “delete” key. (Incidentally, to make sure my email was received I also addressed it generally to editor@thedartmouth.com and to publisher@thedartmouth.com. So chances are that Emily Fletcher and Branko Cerny — among others — saw the letter. And didn’t want to give equal time (or, as usual, any time) nor even address why that’s not ‘possible.’) Being Class of ‘13, Branko and Emily have moved merrily along into the world, where they will do just fine, as they know what to block out. But by their silence, they’ve made themselves part of the suppression. So much for the future generation. And future generation of journalists.

The wiz kids shill for the whiz kids
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Appendix

A few months before Jahjaga’s student-duping tour in March 2012, she was on another propaganda tour through the U.S., this time targeting newspapers. No longer wanting to be left out of the sucker club, the Washington Times editorial board invited her to serve them up her mush, and then fed it to their readership:

Kosovar leader speaks softly, carries big hope, Insists separatism set no precedent (Dec. 18, 2011, By Guy Taylor)

Atifete Jahjaga, president of Kosovo, is eager for her new country to join the European Union. She talked Thursday with editors and reporters at The Washington Times.

The president of Kosovo is troubled when her 3-year-old nation is compared to other regions with separatist movements…. “Kosovo does not set a precedent,” President Atifete Jahjaga told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. “I don’t like to see comparisons with any other case, or any other circumstances, or any other country. We are a case on our own.”

[But she’s not troubled to be shilling for the murderers and mobsters who run the joint. It’s “unique,” all right.]

Mrs. Jahjaga is the first woman to rise to the highest office of a Balkan nation, and she is only 36. These facts have inspired headlines as well as audiences during her U.S. visit…

Mrs. Jahjaga, a Muslim and ethnic Albanian, has taken an unyielding stance on the issue of Kosovo-Serb land disputes since she was elected in April by parliamentary vote. [It’s called “unyielding” when it’s the Albanian side, and written about positively, but it’s called “uncompromising” when writing about the perpetually yielding Serb side.]

She has publicly rejected the notion that Kosovo’s predominantly ethnic-Serb north could ever rejoin Serbia, and she has accused Serbia of provoking anarchy in the area. [Because Albanians are violent.]

Serb leaders in northern Kosovo recently circulated a draft peace initiative calling for political dialogue from both sides to ease tensions in the region.

Mrs. Jahjaga, who has trained at the FBI National Academy…emphasized the opening of a “new chapter” for Kosovo during the decade since Serbian forces violently pushed through the region, violating human rights and displacing some 800,000 ethnic Albanians. [Hmm, Washington Times was a bit more skeptical about all that in 1999.]

“We have to forget the past,” Mrs. Jahjaga said. “History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. [Forget the past? Forgetting the past is the entire foundation upon which her “country’s” ‘unique’ case rests.]
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Mrs. Jahjaga talked in a voice so soft that she was hard to hear even to those sitting close to her. [Maybe she’s not 100% comfortable lying to your face.] However, her optimism spoke loudly, reflecting a forward-thinking generation of postwar Balkan politicians. [Forward-thinking mafia kingpins and terrorists whom this woman answers to.]

She added that her election represented a “historical moment, not only for Kosovo, but for all of the Balkans.”

Because it was the first time that the West threatened Kosovo’s masters, instead of the other way around? After all, that is how she came to be president in the “parliamentary vote”:

Kosovo: New president handpicked by Americans, predecessor says

But Washington Times prefers not to know anything about how Kosovo really works, opting instead to be yet another passive prey when the simple Washington-Pristina-spun narrative makes its rounds. As with every other newspaper of every stripe, there is no Balkans beat, much less a Kosovo beat, despite that being the site of our most recent pre-9/11 war and last war of the 20th century and, just as significant, the first NATO war. One in which we helped mostly secular al Qaeda-assisted Muslims. Despite ample blowback, Washington Times joins the ranks of every other paper in not bothering to investigate the false premises of the war, much less the primitive Albanian war crimes that birthed this “state” (including vivisection, quartering by car, and drowning elderly women in bathtubs). Thanks to which these continue to be swept under the rug and actively covered up with help from Washington.

No, better to not know any more than anyone else, and to flaunt their ignorance, joining the bipartisan cheering section of the victory for gangsterism, violence, terror, might-makes-right, and greater Islam as it conquers Europe via the prized Balkans that Americans so love to ignore. No interest, and no courage, to find out the real story for itself.

And so I had to write the following, much too nice, letter in May of last year to then editorial page editor Brett Decker (and also a copy to a long-time staffer named Frank Perley):

Dear Brett,

I was wondering whether The Times had an Ombudsman-type figure. Like The Post does. There, one can write a Letter to the Ombudsman that will sometimes get published, if it’s in regard to a general problem or ongoing coverage style of an issue.

The reason I ask is that The Times, while being a more decent and conservative paper than the rest, occasionally exhibits symptoms of an epidemic that one could call Balkans amnesia. That is, despite the paper’s good skepticism about the KLA in the late 90s…and despite the paper printing my article in 2010 “The Blackmail of America,” lo and behold the editorial board happily subjects itself to a meeting with the “president” of “Kosova” during her back-to-back propaganda tours late last year and early this year. A woman who represents [terrifying] ghouls, and who only became president when Ambassador Christopher Dell threatened the KLA government with removing our support if they didn’t install her. (In what was a rare reversal of roles, since the latter are usually the ones threatening us; such is the “eternal” and “unshakable” friendship [official Albanian terms] that developed from our having bombed their ethnic rivals who had never been a threat to us but an ally in WWII while the Albanians chose Germany.)

I learned of the editorial board meeting with President Jahjaga when, to my dismay, a standard puff piece came out in The Times in late December — indistinguishable from the others that were coming out…simply lauding this young, female president of Kosovo and implicitly approving of this mafia state-in-the-making on land that was won through terror…The multiple attacks and attempted attacks emanating from our Great Islamic Hope of Kosovo and Bosnia just get swept under the rug, and no one puts two and two together.
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Brett, I’m beside myself. Everyone — everyone — eventually becomes part of the Kosovo cover story. Please, not The Times too. Is there any forum of the paper for which I could write about this ongoing problem?

Yours,
Julia

Naturally, I didn’t hear back. And these are men I’ve actually worked with on previous articles.

     

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