Police quell Muslim riot on Temple Mount

Dozens of Israeli riot police were forced to storm the Temple Mount after ‘more than 100′ Arabs began hurling rocks at them.

Must be Friday. The rockets from Gaza should start up any moment now…

Arutz Sheva – Dozens of riot police were deployed to quell a Muslim riot on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday.

Israel Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said more than 100 Muslims began throwing rocks at a police location following Friday prayers, prompting the police to enter the compound.

According to reports, police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the rioters.

Police, however, said they had used only stun grenades against the demonstrators and that “dozens of people” had barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque.

“We are negotiating with the Israelis not to storm into the mosque or the Dome of the Rock and to let people out,” Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jerusalem Waqf, told AFP.

He blamed the Israeli government for the rioting and claimed they will “bear the consequences,” adding “We demand that no settlers, radicals or soldiers enter the mosque to avoid friction.”

Much of the tension follows on the heels of an uncomfirmed report published by the Al Aqsa Center earlier this week claiming Israel plans to divide the Temple Mount into separate Jewish and Muslim sections, in the same way that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hevron is divided.

Friday’s riot is only the latest in a series of clashes with police, and attacks on Jewish and Christian pilgrims, by Muslims on the Temple Mount this week

On Thursday, police arrested seven Arabs who instigated a series of confrontations with Jewish visitors on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City.

On Tuesday, Muslims on the Temple Mount hurled stones and shoes at police escorting Jewish and Christian visitors. One police officer sustained minor injuries.

Two Muslims were arrested in that incident, police said.

And on Sunday, police used tear gas to disperse Muslim rioters who were throwing stones inside the compound, arresting 18 people.

Ugh. Jeb Bush finds it “troubling” that GOP candidates are “appealing to people’s fears and emotion”

May this putz never get anywhere near the White House. These RINOs never point out the relentless and incessant fear-mongering that Democrats and their apparatchiks in the Democrat-controlled media perpetuate every single day.

Politico (h/t Weasel Zippers) – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Thursday that he found it “troubling” that the 2012 presidential candidates are “appealing to people’s fears and emotion” on the campaign trail, according to reports.

Bush expressed concern about the type of rhetoric that the candidates were using, without getting specific or naming names.

“I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I’m wondering, I don’t think I’ve changed, but it’s a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people’s fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that’s kind of where we are,” said Bush, according to Fox News.

“I think it changes when we get to the general election. I hope,” he added, reported wire service UPI.

Taliban answers Obama’s apology with – “Kill them, beat them, take them as prisoners!”

Yet, nothing the Taliban does, says, or inspires will deter the Obama regime from “peace talks”.

Afghan, angry about the burning of Qurans, gather outside an American military base during an anti-U.S. demonstration in Mehterlam, Laghman province east of Kabul

(CNSNews.com) – In the wake of President Barack Obama sending a three-page letter to Afghan President Hamid Kharzai, apologizing for U.S. forces having mistakenly burned some Qur’ans at a U.S. air base in Afghanistan, the Taliban is calling on Muslims to kill Americans or beat them and take them as prisoners.

The call for violence against U.S. troops in Afghanistan came as Muslims in South Asia and elsewhere prepared for Friday prayers–a potentially volatile time.

Islamist groups in Pakistan, meanwhile, drummed up protests against the burning of the Qur’ans, with some leaders appealing for jihad against the United States.

Echoing incendiary calls by the Taliban for Muslims to react violently to the mishandling of the religious texts, militant leaders charged that the incident was a deliberate plot against Muslims.

Two U.S. troops and at least seven Afghans have been killed in three days of rioting in Afghanistan.

“We should not be satisfied with mere protests and empty slogans but the military bases of the invaders, their military convoys and their troops should become a target of our courageous attacks,” spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement directed to Taliban fighters and the “zealous and faithful people of Afghanistan.”

“Kill them, beat them, take them as prisoners and teach them such a lesson that they never summon the courage to abuse the Holy Qur’an again,” he said.

Nigeria: Boko Haram slices throat of 79-year-old Christian woman, stick Bible under her feet

Obama seen composing letter of apology to Boko Haram for the Christian woman having dulled their blade a little.

AP (h/t Weasel Zippers) — Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: “We will get you soon,” a witness said Thursday.

The slaying raises religious tensions in Nigeria as a radical Islamist sect increasingly targets Christians in its bloody attacks. While police said they knew of no immediate suspects in the killing, witnesses blamed the attack on the sect known as Boko Haram, which has been blamed for killing at least 305 people this year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

The dead woman was identified as Shetu Haruna Malgwi, a Christian living in the city of Maiduguri in Nigeria’s Muslim north. Assailants apparently attacked Malgwi on Wednesday, a day after she returned home from receiving an eye treatment in the city of Kaduna, Borno state police spokesman Samuel Tizhe said.

Her killers slit the woman’s throat, then wrote a note with red pen they left on her chest, witness Audu Ibrahim said. Ibrahim said the woman’s family believes the message is for her son, who is a pastor of a local church where the 79-year-old sang in the choir.

Authorities found a Bible placed under the woman’s feet, Ibrahim said. Police continue to investigate the killing and no arrests have been made, Tizhe said.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, is carrying out increasingly sophisticated and bloody attacks in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law and avenge Muslim killings in Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people.

Previous Muslim butchery out of Nigeria:

• Video: Meet Nigeria’s Boko Haram
• Nigeria: Islamist group Boko Haram blows up church during Christmas Mass, kills 27
• Nigeria’s Fulani Muslims slaughter 45 Christians
• Nigerian Islamists Boko Harem go on bloody rampage, burn churches, kill at least 150
• Nigerian Muslims shoot, hack to death 14 Christians
• Another 18 Christians slaughtered by Muslims Nigeria
  
• Nigerian Muslim youths hack to death Christian family of 8
  
• Another 15 Christians butchered in Nigeria
  
• Nigerian Islamists bomb another church, 3 dead, 7 critically wounded
• Nigerian Islamists blow up another beer garden, kill 10
• Nigeria: Muslims attack beer garden, kill 25 injure 30 with bombs and gunfire
• Nigerian Muslims bomb church, kill 3 children
• Nigerian Muslims blow up cathedral, kill 16 Christians
• Nigerian Muslims slaughter 17 Christians, including wife and 3 children of pastor
• Post-election rampage in Nigeria leaves heaps of charred Christian corpses
• Muslims continue to riot, burn, and slaughter in Nigeria after election loss; Christians retaliate
• Nigerian Muslims riot, burn, kill after Christian incumbent wins big in Presidential election
• Nigeria: 1000 Machete-wielding Muslims attack, torch village; elderly feared burned up in their homes
• RoP Slaughter 32 Christians and Wound 74 in Nigeria

Newt shames media over hypocrisy and their ignoring of Obama’s support for infanticide

The media is the enemy.

Sarah Palin demands Afghanistan apologize for killing of 2 US soldiers

While Barack Obama is apologizing all over himself over nothing, and Afghanistan’s Karzai is demanding Americans put on public trial, the only real man is once again Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin (Facebook) – Obama apologizes for the inadvertent Koran burning this week; now the U.S. trained and protected Afghan Army can apologize for killing two of our soldiers yesterday.

Obama’s 5 biggest energy whoppers

Obama gave a speech on energy that was filled beginning to end with typical Democrat lies about the state of energy.

HeritageFoundation on Feb 23, 2012 – During a speech on gas prices the President tried to dodge responsibility for the pain Americans are feeling at the pump. But the President and his Administration have repeatedly stated that they want higher energy prices. They want to use the pressure of higher energy costs as an excuse to force their green energy boondoggle on Americans.

IBD – The White House billed President Obama’s energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods.

Obama’s main message to struggling motorists was: It’s not my fault, so stop whining. The speech only got worse from there, recycling excuses and myths that Obama’s peddled for years. But there were some standout whoppers that deserve debunking. The five biggest:

“We’re focused on production.”

Fact: While production is up under Obama, this has nothing to do with his policies, but is the result of permits and private industry efforts that began long before Obama occupied the White House.

Obama has chosen almost always to limit production. He canceled leases on federal lands in Utah, suspended them in Montana, delayed them in Colorado and Utah, and canceled lease sales off the Virginia coast.

His administration also has been slow-walking permits in the Gulf of Mexico, approving far fewer while stretching out review times, according to the Greater New Orleans Gulf Permit Index. The Energy Dept. says Gulf oil output will be down 17% by the end of 2013, compared with the start of 2011. Swift Energy President Bruce Vincent is right to say Obama has “done nothing but restrict access and delay permitting.”

“The U.S. consumes more than a fifth of the world’s oil. But we only have 2% of the world’s oil reserves.”

Fact: Obama constantly refers to this statistic to buttress his claim that “we can’t drill our way to lower gas prices.” The argument goes that since the U.S. supply is limited, it won’t ever make a difference to world prices.

It’s bogus. New exploration and drilling technologies have uncovered vast amounts of recoverable oil.

In fact, the U.S. has a mind-boggling 1.4 trillion barrels of oil, enough to “fuel the present needs in the U.S. for around 250 years,” according to the Institute for Energy Research. The problem is the government has put most of this supply off limits.

“Because of the investments we’ve made, the use of clean, renewable energy in this country has nearly doubled.”

Fact: Production of renewable energy — biomass, wind, solar and the like — climbed just 12% between 2008 and 2011, according to the federal Energy Information Administration.

“We need to double-down on a clean energy industry that’s never been more promising.”

Fact: Renewable energy simply won’t play an important role in the country’s energy picture anytime soon, accounting for just 13% of U.S. energy production by 2035, according to the EIA.

“There are no short-term silver bullets when it comes to gas prices.”

Fact: Obama could drive down oil prices right now simply by announcing a more aggressive effort to boost domestic supplies. When President Bush lifted a moratorium in 2008, oil prices immediately fell $9 a barrel.

Obama said in his speech that Americans aren’t stupid. He’s right about that, which is why most are giving his energy policy a thumbs down.