By Daniel Greenfield ——Bio and Archives--April 8, 2011
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Have you ever heard of a once-prosperous nation, the envy of bordering countries, where the economy suddenly soured? And then issues of immigration and nationality surfaced -- and even the birth record of a presidential candidate was questioned? "If you want to know how dangerous the birther movement is in the U.S., look at the Ivory Coast," said Daniel Balint-Kurti, an Ivory Coast expert and former resident now with the London-based Global Witness organization.Al-Jazeera began pushing the "We need to be paying more attention to the Ivory Coast" meme. And we're paying attention to make the Muslims win. As usual. Ouattara's forces massacred a 1,000 Christians with no condemnation. All under the auspices of the UN.
The International Committee for the Red Cross said its staff discovered more than 800 bodies of people who were clearly local civilians. They were mainly men who had been shot and left where they fell, the organisation said, either alone or in small groups dotted around the town, which lies at the heart of Ivory Coast’s economically crucial cocoa producing region. The charity said it had been told by locals that intercommunal violence erupted soon after Mr Ouattara’s forces took control of the town on Monday. Thousands of people left their homes to escape the fighting and an estimated 40,000 sought refuge in a nearby Roman Catholic mission’s compound. The priests who operate it are running short of food, clean water and medical equipment to treat those they say arrived with gunshot wounds. The bodies are thought to be of those who did not reach sanctuary in time. They were killed despite 200 United Nations troops operating what it said were “robust” patrols from its base on the outskirts to protect civilians in and around the church.And the body count continues to grow as Obama, Sarkozy and the UN are determined to let Ouattara turn the Ivory Coast into another Sudan.
Early reports suggested that more than 800 people, largely from the Gbagbo-supporting Gueré tribe, were killed in a single day at the sprawling Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekoue, 300 miles west of Abidjan towards the Liberian border. The attackers seem to have been largely soldiers descended from Burkina Faso immigrant Muslim families loyal to Ouattara.These atrocities are not just happening on Obama's watch-- they are orchestrated by the thugs he supports. Senator Inhofe has stepped up to the plate and called for hearings
“It is now clear, based on U.N. reports coming from Cote d’Ivoire, that mass killings have occurred at the hands of Alassane Ouattara,” Inhofe said. “This calls into question his legitimacy to lead that country. Ouattara is on a rampage, killing innocent civilians, and he must be stopped before this becomes another Rawanda. “The United States must call for an immediate ceasefire to prevent Ouattara and his rebel army from committing a mass slaughter of the Ivorians, especially the many youth with sticks and baseball bats, who are protecting Gbagbo at the presidential palace. “Based on the evidence I have seen, and having spoken with various dignitaries in Africa, I brought the issue of fraudulent elections in Cote d’Ivoire to the attention of Secretary of State Clinton on a couple of occasions spanning the past few months. I have called for the United States to support new elections there, but thus far, these efforts have received very little response or attention. Based on the news that Ouattara has murdered 1,000 people in Duekoue, I hope the U.S. will reconsider its position.The Cote D'Ivorie is only one front in a Muslim drive to Islamize Africa. And Africa is only front in a Muslim drive to Islamize the world. There's more background material here. Back to our own coast, Muslim and left wing groups are planning a major anti-war rally. The rally brings together radical leftist SEIU thugs with Islamists. The rally calls for an end to all resistance to Muslim terrorism, paying reparations to Muslim and leftist terrorists and an end to aid to Israel. The endorsee list combines the Muslim Peace Coalition, with the usual freakshows like Code Pink, SDS, Al-Awda, Ramsey Clark, 9/11 Truthers, various socialist and green parties and SEIU. Yet another shot at building a UK style monster leftist-Islamist coalition. Moving on to the roundup, Doug Ross gets inside Obama's head via his calendar. Via Boker Tov Boulder, Loretta "The Vietnamese are Stealing Our District" Sanchez continues to be a credit to the Democratic party. View from the Porch has the top 10 reasons why Libya is not Iraq Oh and remember that great bit of diplomacy with the Russians. Which is in no way turning into Khrushchev thumping his shoe while black JFK pees himself. Well it's turning into exactly that.
The Russians have a new demand for Obama as part of the START treaty. They want 'red button' rights - joint command on how, when and if it is used - to the proposed new US-backed missile defense system for Europe! Sergey Ivanov, Russia's deputy prime minister, made the demand during his last visit to the United States where he met with top officials including Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State. "We insist on only one thing," he said of the nascent US-backed missile defence shield. "That we are an equal part of it." "In practical terms, that means that our office will sit for example in Brussels and agree on a red-button push to launch an interceptor missile, regardless of whether the missile is launched from Poland, Russia or the UK."You know if Obama hadn't done so many other awful things-- we would be paying more attention to this. Commentary from Joshuapundit
Caving in to that demand would, of course, render any missile defense system useless. What would happen if Russia's friends in Iran decided to launch a missile against London or Paris and the Russians said 'Nyet'? What would happen if Russia decided the Poles or Czechs weren't being servile enough and decided to make an example of them?And remember that Brazil Muslim school shooter... well he's not the only Muslim killer in Brazil. Far from it.
Report: Hamas, Hezbollah operatives in Brazil are planning attacks abroad Operatives from Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaida are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading Brazilian news magazine reported on Saturday. The report renews prior concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for Islamic militants. Veja magazine, in its online edition, reported that at least 20 people affiliated with al Qaida as well as the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah, the Palestinian group Hamas and two other organizations have been hiding out in the South American country.Of course don't look for any real action from Dilma Rousseff, Lula DeSilva's mini-me. That might alienate Iran and Chavez. Yankee Mom is outraged over troops being treated as non-essential
Just think about that 19 year old kid who gave up being home with his/her family and friends, to face a murdering enemy who plays by no rules and uses women and children as shields. “Non-essential”. Think about the mil-spouses at home with one, two, three or more kids, living from paycheck to paycheck, some on foodstamps (because we pay our boots on the ground so much! *snort*), who has enough to worry about with their loved one in harm’s way. “Non-essential” Hell, deployed Troops aren’t even guaranteed getting their votes counted.Obama has made it very clear that he will use US soldiers as human shields in a government shutdown. Finally Edward Cline at Rule of Reason highlights some of the implications of Koran outrage
What it will all lead up to is a kind of selective censorship that will insulate Islam from any criticism. Politicians, generals and pundits do not become overwrought about the burning of bibles, Torahs, or other religious documents. Only about Korans. This is because Islam is always in the news, in some form or another, and that is because Muslims are always being “provoked” by the least criticism of them and their creed to throw bloody tantrums. Islam is another “culture,” another religion, another “way of life,” and by the criteria of political correctness and an affinity for dhimmitude, it must be protected from all forms of offense. And that selective, privilege-granting censorship will serve as a precedent and lead to other brands of censorship, including prohibiting the kind of writing you are reading here. Calm, reasoned, and deserved criticism of Islam must sooner or later be classified as a “hate crime,” as “injurious,” “hurtful,” and “bigoted” as burning a Koran. Observe the intellectual and moral stature of Americans who attempt to establish a causal relationship between the Afghan riots and Jones’s publicity stunt-cum-protest.Now consider Time Magazine's Bobby Ghosh's comments that the Koran is holy and the Bible is not. If anyone had gone on TV and said that the Bible is holy and that the Koran isn't and can be burned... can you imagine the reaction? Not just from Muslims, but liberals. The double standard is set. It was Ghosh who had written Time Magazine's infamous "Is America Islamophobic" story. And the narrative behind it is a very dangerous one. It is the same one that is justifying massacres in the Ivory Coast, Israel and all around the world. The idea of Muslims as a religious Herrenvolk with a special status that makes them above criticism and immune to the challenges of free speech.
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Daniel Greenfield is a New York City writer and columnist. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and his articles appears at its Front Page Magazine site.