Copyright 2010 Weekly Blitz Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:07:34 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Weekly Blitz :: Writings http://www.weeklyblitz.net webmaster@weeklyblitz.net (Weekly Blitz) webmaster@weeklyblitz.net en-us http://www.weeklyblitz.net/981/barack-hearts-bibi Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST We have entered into a new period of U.S. policy toward Israel for the Obama Administration. Basically, President Barack Obama needs Israel, requires its cooperation, and is eager to get along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. How long this will http://www.weeklyblitz.net/980/will-you-hide-a-muslim-in-your-attic Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST There's some scary stuff happening in this nation right now. It has to do with Muslims. No, I am not afraid of Muslims. No, I do not believe that they are out to destroy our way of life. No, I do not believe that they are inherently violent people who http://www.weeklyblitz.net/979/can-it-ever-happen Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Call me a pessimist, say I have no faith in the improbable, but I have a better chance of becoming the world's first Jewish Pope before Israel and her Arab neighbors have peace. How many times have we seen this over the decades? What does it accomplish http://www.weeklyblitz.net/978/terror-attack-near-hebron Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST An isolated fragment of news, a tragic story, or just another act of terrorism? What's necessary, however, is to fit events into a broader picture and so it is with the latest attack by Hamas, killing four Israelis driving near Hebron. What does this http://www.weeklyblitz.net/977/syrias-strategic-alliance-with-hizbullah Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST President Bashar Assad of Syria this week reiterated his country's firm strategic alliance with Hizbullah. The occasion for the dictator's remarks was the latest visit by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to the Syrian capital. Assad's statement was http://www.weeklyblitz.net/976/israel-and-islamism Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Two readers asked me questions well worth answering. The first asked whether Islam itself isn't the enemy; the second, how these distinctions appear from an Israeli standpoint: Regarding the first question, I would stress that "Islam" as a religion http://www.weeklyblitz.net/975/vaccine-suspensions-and-drug-disasters Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST GlaxoSmithKline the drug giants, have spent the last few days trying to stay off the bottom of the FTSE 100, especially after the UK's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said that it's diabetes treatment Avandia should be pulled from http://www.weeklyblitz.net/974/quran-burning-draws-controversy Thu, 9 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST On the last day of Ramadan, Florida pastor Terry Jones has planned to commemorate September 11 attacks by burning copies of Quran. The church Jones founded in Germany in the 1980s is even condemning the upcoming Quran-burning at Terry's small place of http://www.weeklyblitz.net/973/america-at-risk-premiering-on-9-11 Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Citizens United, a non-government organization has made a film titled 'America At Risk', which will be launched on September 11, 2010 in Washington DC. Commenting on this movie, Lauren Fleming of Citizensunited told Weekly Blitz "In America at Risk, Newt http://www.weeklyblitz.net/972/special-supplement-dprk-politico-ideological Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was founded on September 9, 1948, some six decades ago. The founding of the DPRK was an event of historic significance as it ushered in a road of building a socialist state of unique style centred on the http://www.weeklyblitz.net/971/the-moderate-muslim-litmus-test Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST In the controversy over the "Ground Zero" mosque in New York and other issues, Muslims are often asked if they condemn terrorism, Iran, or Hamas and other revolutionary Islamist groups, along with other questions. The idea is to determine whether they http://www.weeklyblitz.net/970/pakistan-the-victim-of-suicidal-politics Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Pakistan is nowadays the centre of attraction for the whole world because of not only historical flood but also for its terrorist activities. The ever deteriorating situation and political tussle along with the deep rooted radical mind-set are taking a http://www.weeklyblitz.net/969/the-lure-of-collectivism-and-the-cycle-of-abuse Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST I read an interesting piece the other day about mass delusion and the economy. It got me to thinking about, of all things, conspiracy theories. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, the reason the powerful can get away with conspiracy, the http://www.weeklyblitz.net/968/continuous-conquest-of-jihadist-media Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST Infamous and notorious Dr. Zakir Naik's media vehicle of spreading hate speech has stepped into further expansion with the establishment of a Urdu channel named Peace TV – Urdu under the network of Peace TV, now targeting additional audience of at least http://www.weeklyblitz.net/967/michael-jacksons-last-dvd-this-november Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:00:00 EST POP legend Michael Jackson's last DVD is set to be released in November 2010. According to Rodney Jerkins, this latest and last DVD containing 10 unreleased tracks will hit the shelves in November. Rodney Jerkins, who produced 2001's 'INVINCIBLE' http://www.weeklyblitz.net/966/in-search-for-a-better-world Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Some years back Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks and I met in unobvious ways. Quasi unexpectedly. Perhaps this encounter had been in mente Dei* all the time; from my side, it couldn't have been a greater experience, a richer blending of mind and soul, considering http://www.weeklyblitz.net/965/the-ground-zero-mosque-protest-what-the-msm-chose Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Approximately a thousand people turned up at Park Place on August 22, to demonstrate against the proposed construction of a 15-storey Islamic center to be located two blocks from Ground Zero. Packed tightly into little more than one street block, http://www.weeklyblitz.net/964/malaysian-palm-oil-council-selling-waste-cooking Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Malaysian Palm Oil Council has its huge office in Bangladesh, selling thousands of tons of edible oil to the country. This office is the regional office of Malaysian Palm Oil Council, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia which was previously known as Malaysian Palm http://www.weeklyblitz.net/963/islamist-militancy-and-south-asia Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Bayeezid Khan Panni aka Selim Panni, founder and kingpin of notorious Islamist militancy group Hizbut Towhid [HuT] believes in theory of hate speech and poisoning the minds of innocent people with his self-made imaginary statements and stories, which are http://www.weeklyblitz.net/962/india-halt-vaccine-programmes-after-the-deaths Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Vaccine programmes grind to a halt in India once more, when four children died after they received the measles vaccination in Lucknow. The four children were reported to have fainted soon after they were vaccinated and witnesses reported seeing the http://www.weeklyblitz.net/961/competing-world-views-tear-a-peace-process Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The U.S. announcement inviting Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) for direct talks shows quite clearly, though unintentionally, why the talks will fail. Special Envoy George Mitchell explains: "We are all well aware that there remains mistrust http://www.weeklyblitz.net/960/i-wanted-to-help-eradicate-the-slums-tasmiha-khan Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Tasmiha Khan, an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in The United States, went to Bangladesh and offered her time and service to the poor and needy. She hopes to return to continue her project to help the underprivileged. For more info, contact Tasmiha http://www.weeklyblitz.net/959/proposition-8-and-democracy Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The gay marriage debate is playing out in California. There, the majority of people have spoken. They don't believe that gay people should be allowed to be married. They think that marriage should be defined as one man and one woman. They think that the http://www.weeklyblitz.net/958/government-control-of-the-masses Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST On March 23, 2010 Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), defended ObamaCare on WJR's Paul W. Smith radio show out of Detroit. In response to a question posed by Smith, Dingell stated: "Let me remind you this [Americans allegedly dying because of lack of universal http://www.weeklyblitz.net/957/islam-islamism-or-western-sins Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The current debate over the roots of Islamist revolution, clashes in the Middle East, and conflicts between forces in that region and the West involves two critical issues of interpretation: First, is there a threat to the West from groups whose members http://www.weeklyblitz.net/956/politics-and-illegal-occupations Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST A group of activists calling themselves Fort Hood Disobeys recently tried to block the deployment of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq from Fort Hood. The activists were labeled anti war protestors by another media outlet, which is okay by me. http://www.weeklyblitz.net/955/sometimes-even-a-conference-can-teach-vivid Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST I'm not a big fan of conferences. There's nothing more repetitive than sitting in a panel where the presentations have interesting titles but are otherwise disappointing. Or listening to a speaker who may be very good but says absolutely nothing you http://www.weeklyblitz.net/954/irs-sued-for-discrimination-against-organizations Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Z STREET, a pro-Israel non-profit corporation, filed a lawsuit in federal court charging that the IRS violated the organization's First Amendment rights. The suit was filed after Z STREET was told by an IRS official that its application for tax-exempt http://www.weeklyblitz.net/953/daily-online-newspaper-frontline Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Blitz Publications, publishers of Weekly Blitz and Weekly Jamjamat is getting prepared to launch its daily online newspaper named FRONTLINE from December this year. This will be the first ever anti-Jihadist, anti-terror and anti-militancy newspaper in http://www.weeklyblitz.net/952/fighting-against-traitors-in-nepal Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Nepal is a landlocked nation. It borders China in the north and India in the south. Defending its sovereign identity from these two giant nations is Nepal's nationalistic strategy. But the most unfortunate fact is that majority of our political leaders http://www.weeklyblitz.net/951/pakistans-battle-fatal-floodwaters Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Ahead of preparing to visit Lahore for the seventh time in three years, my mind was occupied with frightening wave of terror attacks experienced during the previous tour in October-November 2009. Quite a good number of tempestuous terror attacks had http://www.weeklyblitz.net/950/be-a-part-of-anti-jihadist-effort-please Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Since 2003, when we first started the only anti-Jihadist and pro-Israel newspaper in the Muslim world, we really were facing series of adversities from the critics, enemies of peace, anti-Semitists, palls of Jihadists, clergies etc etc etc. A leading http://www.weeklyblitz.net/949/dr-sin-hang-lee-joins-forces-with-sane-vax-inc-in Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST August 11th 2010, saw the launch of S.A.N.E. VAX Inc. which stands for Safe, Affordable, Necessary & Effective Vaccines. The professionals and parents behind S.A.N.E. VAX feel it is time to make the world a safer place, claiming that the drug companies http://www.weeklyblitz.net/948/the-legal-infirmities-of-the-international-crimes Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The International Crimes (Tribunal) Act, 1973 was enacted by the legislature to try and reprimand the offences of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under International law as disclosed in the preamble. To understand any http://www.weeklyblitz.net/947/the-ny-times-tries-and-fails-to-explain Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Forget about The Onion, The National Lampoon, Mad Magazine, and Saturday Night Live (sorry for all those American cultural references). When it comes to satire nobody can beat a New York Times editorial! Well, this one is funny because the Times is--sort http://www.weeklyblitz.net/946/stop-enabling-stealth-jihad-and-creeping-sharia Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST On September 17, 2001, just six days after the worst attack on American soil, President Bush gave a speech at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. Below is the end of that speech, in which he stated: "These acts of violence against innocents violate http://www.weeklyblitz.net/945/why-all-middle-eastern-politics-cant-be-reduced Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST I simply cannot comprehend why so many in the West refuse to see that Arabs can be revolutionaries. It is remarkable that so many who claim to be experts don't incorporate the idea that Arabs, like other peoples, might dislike their existing societies or http://www.weeklyblitz.net/944/open-letter-to-imam-faisal-regarding-ground-zero Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Background information: On September 11, 2001, the day Islamist terrorists flew two passenger airplanes into the World Trade Center, a plane's landing gear crashed through the roof of the 152 year old Burlington Coat Factory's five-story building at http://www.weeklyblitz.net/943/temple-forcibly-occupied-in-bangladesh Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST "Sree Sree Radhakanta Janardhan Jew Temple" located at 222 South Mousundi under Sutrapur Police Station in Dhaka has been forcefully occupied by some influential perpetrators backed by ruling party leaders, on 12th August, 2010. It is alleged that those http://www.weeklyblitz.net/941/haf-commends-bangladesh-government Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST The Hindu American Foundation [HAF] commended the Awami League-led Bangladesh government for setting up an International Crimes Tribunal in an attempt to bring justice to the nearly three million people killed, the majority of them Hindu, during http://www.weeklyblitz.net/940/muslim-obama-controversy Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST US President Barack Obama is comparatively much popular in the Muslim world, in comparing to his predecessors. Muslim leaders and press will always avoid criticizing Obama; because of the fact that, many Muslim strongly believes that Obama in fact is http://www.weeklyblitz.net/939/brutality-on-ahmadiyas-in-bangladesh Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Approximately forty members of Ahmadiya religious minority group were seriously injured by Islamists in an attack on August 7, 2010 at Chantara village in Gathail under Tangail district in Bangladesh. Attackers ransacked residential houses, mosques and http://www.weeklyblitz.net/938/the-defender-of-ground-zero-mosque Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Barack Hussain Obama has finally shown to the world that as President of United States, his main agenda is to do everything to further strengthen the spread of militant or radical Islam in that country. Since Obama became the President, words such as http://www.weeklyblitz.net/937/israels-cooperation-with-the-us Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST In one of his out-of-control anti-Israel rants, Andrew Sullivan included in his list of alleged evils that Israel had repeatedly "defied" the United States. That point stuck in my mind and made me reflect how demonstrably untrue is that charge contrary http://www.weeklyblitz.net/936/wikileaks-exposing-the-ugly-reality-of-modern Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST I watched a show called "Freedom Watch" with Judge Andrew Napolitano not long ago. He was discussing the recent release of documents by an organization known as Wikileaks. I'm sure most of you know the story, but for those who may not, Wikileaks was http://www.weeklyblitz.net/935/false-issue-in-arab-israeli-conflict Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST As the waitress whose family had come from Ethiopia put the pizza on the table at the Tel Aviv restaurant, I contemplated the ridiculous misuse of "race" as a factor in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Regardless of skin color, we belong not only to the same http://www.weeklyblitz.net/934/perverting-the-english-language Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST I might not know much about anything, but I do know a little about the English language. I was born in the Midwest of the United States where it is the spoken language of the vast majority. I also actually studied it in college and, yes, we did actually http://www.weeklyblitz.net/933/the-shocking-reality-of-arab-public-opinion Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST This is one of those stories about the Middle East that is totally amazing but not the least bit surprising. What, you ask, do I mean? From the standpoint of the way the region is portrayed in the West this information is incredible but if you understand http://www.weeklyblitz.net/932/a-conspiracy-to-transform-indias-heaven-into-hell Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST Kashmir, popularly called Heaven on Indian Earth, is nowadays burning. Though the problem of Kashmir is six decades old, but many times it gets so violent and disturbing that the Indian government finds it very difficult to handle. Two years ago similar http://www.weeklyblitz.net/931/inside-the-administrations-web-of-deceit Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST On June 22, 2010 the administration announced the appointments of the Class of White House Fellows 2010-2011. One of the 13 Fellows named is Samar Ali. Let's look at some history and see if we can connect the dots, shall we? In March 2009, the Obama