Europe

Janet Daley | The Telegraph   The Lib Dem peer Jenny Tonge has done it again. Appearing at an Israel Apartheid Week event (the basic premise of which was that Israel is an “apartheid state”) in which a fellow-speaker spewed forth a tirade attacking Jews who did not condemn Israel, she predicted that the “Israel lobby” – sometimes known as the “Jewish lobby” – in the United States would soon be told by Americans in no uncertain terms that “enough was enough”. Baroness Tonge, while sarcastically welcoming reporters from the Jewish Chronicle to the gathering, insisted that she was not anti-Semitic. Well, enough certainly was enough for her party leader – and the leaders of all the other parties too, for that matter, who denounced her most recent outburst. Nick Clegg told her that she must apologise or he would take away the party whip. Needless to say, she didn’t and he has. To which one can only ask: what on earth took him so long? This woman has repeatedly made offensive attacks on the continued existence of…

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  –Bruce Bawr, Front Page Magazine The news came three days before Christmas: The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that the Department of Defense will now allow Muslim and Sikh students participating in Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) to wear headscarves and turbans while in uniform. When I read this, the first thing I thought was: What?! And the second was: Since when does CAIR make announcements on behalf of the Department of Defense? The background was as follows: a Muslim girl in Tennessee was told by her JROTC commanding officer that she could not wear her headscarf, or hijab, in a homecoming parade.  She contacted CAIR, which in turn contacted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, asking for a change in policy.  And instead of informing CAIR that the Department of Defense does not take its marching orders from fronts for terrorist organizations, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army Larry Stubblefield fell right into line, writing a…

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