My Jewish Times

A Country Without Muslims

Unity Coalition for Israel — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:10 +0000

...The most interesting thing in Japan's approach to Islam is the fact that the Japanese do not feel the need to apologize to Muslims for the negative way in which they relate to Islam. They make a clear distinction between their economic interest in resources of oil and gas from Muslim countries, which behooves Japan to maintain good relations with these countries on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Japanese nationalist viewpoints, which see Islam as something that is suitable for others, not for Japan, and therefore the Muslims must remain outside.

Because the Japanese have a gentle temperament, and project serenity and tranquility toward foreigners, foreigners tend to relate to the Japanese with politeness and respect. A Japanese diplomat would never raise his voice or speak rudely in the presence of foreigners, therefore foreigners relate to the Japanese with respect, despite their racism and discrimination against Muslims in the matter of immigration. A Japanese official who is presented with an embarrassing question regarding the way the Japanese relate to Muslims, will usually refrain from answering, because he knows that a truthful answer would arouse anger, and he is both unable and unwilling to give an answer that is not true. He will smile but not answer, and if pressed, he will ask for time so that his superiors can answer, while he knows that this answer will never come.

Japan manages to remain a country almost without a Muslim presence because Japan's negative attitude toward Islam and Muslims pervades every level of the population, from the man in the street to organizations and companies to senior officialdom. In Japan, contrary to the situation in other countries, there are no "human rights" organizations to offer support to Muslims' claims against the government's position. In Japan no one illegally smuggles Muslims into the country to earn a few yen, and almost no one gives them the legal support they would need in order to get permits for temporary or permanent residency or citizenship.

Another thing that helps the Japanese keep Muslim immigration to their shores to a minimum is the Japanese attitude toward the employee and employment. Migrant workers are perceived negatively in Japan, because they take the place of Japanese workers. A Japanese employer feels obligated to employ Japanese workers even if it costs much more than it would to employ foreign workers. The traditional connection between an employee and employer in Japan is much stronger than in the West, and the employer and employee feel a mutual commitment to each other: an employer feels obligated to give his employee a livelihood, and the employee feels obligated to give the employer the fruit of his labor. This situation does not encourage the acceptance of foreign workers, whose commitment to the employers is low....

Official PA daily: Israel’s building in State of Israel is also a ‘settlement’

Unity Coalition for Israel — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:10 +0000

...The following is the official PA daily's report calling Israeli construction in the Negev "a settlement":

"The order given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to freeze construction in West Bank settlements may pave the way to a thaw in the frozen peace process, but it does not mean that Israel has acceded to Palestinian, Arab, or international demands. Quite the opposite. It constitutes a settlement trick... At the same time the so-called 'Ministerial Committee for Legislation' approved the outlines of the 'Prawer Law' that will bring about the expropriation of hundreds of thousands of acres and the uprooting of 35,000 Arab citizens from their homes and lands in the Negev. The significance is that the Netanyahu government has not decided to freeze settlement, but has transferred it to the Negev. This will bring about an explosion and a confrontation with the Palestinians in the interior (i.e., Israeli Arabs in Israel).
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, May 8, 201

Hezbollah pledges to boot Israel from Golan

Unity Coalition for Israel — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:09 +0000

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s pledge in a recent speech to liberate Syria’s Golan Heights from Israel is adding a new dimension to existing regional tension. And it has prompted his opponents within Lebanon, the Sunni March 14 group, to demand that the Shi’ite resistance group be barred from the Lebanese cabinet.

Nasrallah’s call to action follows comments by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad about turning the Golan Heights into a “resistance front” against Israel. His declaration came following two separate Israel airstrikes on Syria in the past few weeks, ostensibly to halt what Jerusalem said were missiles being sent from Syria to the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Israel once again threatened further airstrikes against Syria if it continues providing advanced weapons to Hezbollah. Following the last Israeli airstrike two weeks ago at a military research center on the outskirts of Damascus, Syrian deputy foreign minister, Faisal Mekdad, said Syria would retaliate and called the Israeli attack a “declaration of war.”...

Syrian-Hizballah’s capture of Qusayr opens direct weapons route to Lebanon

Unity Coalition for Israel — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:07 +0000

Shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday, May 19, to maintain Israeli operations in Syria against the passage of advanced Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah, Syrian troops and their Hizballah comrades stormed Al-Qasayr, the northwestern town which commands the high road from Syrian Homs to Lebanon’s Hermel Mountains.

This was a major victory: Iranian arms for Hizballah can now go through from Syria to destination unobstructed.

In more than two years of battling the Assad regime, this was one of the rebels’ most devastating losses after three weeks of bitter fighting and the last of a whole row of recent setbacks....

Is There an Interfaith Movement in the Muslim World?

Unity Coalition for Israel — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:06 +0000

...A report was released on May 7th by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). It revealed that out of 15 nations which were the worst offenders against religious freedom, 10 were Muslim/Islamic nations.

In these Islamic/Muslim countries, non-Muslims are persecuted, imprisoned and killed for their non-Islamic religious beliefs. This isn't surprising since such persecution is written into Islam itself. That is, under sharia law all non-Muslims have a dhimmi status at best; at worst they are persecuted and often killed. The Koran itself has countless passages of hate towards "unbelievers" and the hadiths are often even worse.

Since most Muslims in the UK are either Pakistani or of Pakistani heritage, let's start with Pakistan.

In Pakistan there is a controversial blasphemy law. That will also explain why many British-Pakistani Muslims are agitating for blasphemy law here in the UK. Of course they don't use those words -- "sharia blasphemy law". Instead they talk about "hate crimes", "Islamophobia", "racism" and whatnot. In fact Muslims in the UK have been so successful of fusing the criticism of Islam with racism that we've now got the Religious and Racial Hatred Act of 2006....

Annual UJA-Federation Awards Focus On Sandy Relief Efforts

fishmanl — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:24:22 +0000

UJA-Federation of New York held its annual breakfast awards ceremony this weekend, and this year all awards were given to those who have helped victims of Hurricane...►

Annual UJA-Federation Awards Focus On Sandy Relief Efforts

fishmanl — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:24:22 +0000

UJA-Federation of New York held its annual breakfast awards ceremony this weekend, and this year all awards were given to those who have helped victims of Hurricane...►

UJA-Federation of New York’s Real Estate & Allied Trades Division honored Burton P. Resnick

fishmanl — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:33:50 +0000

UJA-Federation of New York’s Real Estate & Allied Trades Division honored Burton P. Resnick, chairman and chief executive officer of Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc., with the Jack D. Weiler Award at its annual Real Estate Luncheon on Monday, May 13, 2013, at Cipriani 42nd Street, in New York...►

‘Expect Israeli strikes on Russian arms shipment to Syria-Hezbollah’

Unity Coalition for Israel — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:52:51 +0000

U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that another round of Israeli airstrikes could target a new Russian transfer of advanced anti-ship missiles in the near future. Israeli and Western intelligence services believe the Yakhont missiles, which have been sold by Russia to Syria in recent years, could be transferred to Hezbollah within days, the newspaper reported on its website Friday.

At the same time, The New York Times reported Friday that the Yakhont missiles have already been delivered to Syria’s armed forces. Israel has repeatedly reinforced, with words and actions, its stated red line: that it will not allow the transfer of “game-changing” weaponry to Islamic terror groups such as Hezbollah. Israel has also relayed messages that it is not seeking a confrontation with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, but will act against transfers of weaponry through his territory.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s last-minute trip to Russia on Tuesday apparently did not change the Russians’ intentions to also deliver the advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Syria. According to the Journal, U.S. officials believe that Russia is moving more quickly than previously thought to deliver S-300 surface-to-air defense systems to Syria. U.S. officials told the paper that the S-300 system, which is capable of shooting down guided missiles and could make it more risky for any warplanes to enter Syrian airspace, could leave Russia for Syrian port of Tartus by the end of May....

Muslim Brotherhood Inside American Colleges

Unity Coalition for Israel — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:52:50 +0000

In 1988, an FBI informant inside the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network warned that it had a front called the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). The IIIT leadership, the source reported, said they were in the first of six phases to “institute the Islamic Revolution in the United States.” Their current objective was to “peacefully get inside the United States government and also American universities." And they have.

The source warned that the Muslim Brotherhood in America has “unlimited funds” and has “set up political action front groups with no traceable ties to the IIIT or its various Muslim groups.” The source’s identification of IIIT as a front is verified in a 1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo. The Brotherhood itself lists IIIT as number 28 of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends,” working toward the Brotherhood’s self-defined goal, which it says is a “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

IIT’s Director of Academic Outreach from 1984 to 1994 was Sayyid Syeed, a founder and former secretary-general of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Footage from 2006 shows him saying, “Our job is to change the Constitution of America” (you can view it in The Grand Deception)....