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I'll get right on releasing all of them... As soon as I can figure out what a "detenus" is:

Activists of the Jammu and Kashmir People's Freedom League (JKPFL) hold a placard during a protest in Srinagar February 16, 2009. Dozens of activists of the JKPFL took to the streets in protest on Monday to demand the release of all political separatist leaders kept in different Indian jails, the protesters said. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR)

See how many Islamic solidarity headscarfs you can spot in this picture of anti-Nazis protesters.



Question: Would any of these Einsteins really know the difference between Hitler and Muhammad?

Answer: Hitler burned people in ovens. Muhammad burned people in their own homes.




Gateway Pundit has video of the protests.

(Cross-posted at Al Salibiyyah)

With faces like these, it's best to keep in mind that "Jihad" means "peaceful inner study."

Supporters of the Jamaat-e-Islami chant slogans as they take part in a protest to show their solidarity with Kashmiris during an anti-India rally to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day, in Karachi, February 5, 2009. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)

Update: Ah, it looks like I'm not the only one who noticed this protest. How adorable!

Update: What's that? You want useful information?

Sure thing. I think I can do that.

"Kashmir Day" is a holiday that is celebrated across the world (by which I mean: People in Pakistan and Srinagar and other terrorist states). The entire purpose of this holiday, much like any other holiday, is to subvert the sovereignty of the Indian government.

Quite jolly, ain't it?

It evokes touching images of children waking up in the morning, gleefully opening their Kashmir Day presents. Loading bullets into the clip. Chambering a round. Screaming for jihad.

The world couldn't possibly get any more civilized than this glorious day, wouldn't you agree?

(For those of you who prefer to live sarcasm-free, jump here.)

Don't look at me—It was them who said it.

Supporters of the Pakistani Islamist party Jamat-e-Islami protest in Karachi, January 25, 2009. The protest was organised by Jamat-e-Islami party against the military operations and drone attacks in the tribal areas. U.S. drones fired missiles into Pakistan late on Friday killing 17 people, intelligence officials and residents said, in the first such strike since Barack Obama became U.S. President. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN)

LGF brings about this post from one of its operatives. Take note the love and harmony expressed by this Peaceful Religion and the moonbats in Los Angeles. Guess the lefties and muslim radicals have something in common... "allahu akbar".
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It would appear that the kind folks of Latvia have something of a problem. Reuters explains the situation thusly:

RIGA (Reuters) – Hundreds of youths destroyed police vehicles, smashed windows and looted stores in Latvia's capital Tuesday when an anti-government protest turned into a riot.

The violence, after a peaceful protest [Ed.:—How many times must I hear this canard?] by thousands calling for early elections in a country which last year had to seek a multi-billion economic rescue deal, was the worst seen since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991.

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"There was a nice event and then when it finished people decided to go and express their anger and destroy the parliament and then it all spread through Old Riga," said Anna Gulbe, 19, referring to the picturesque historic part of the capital city.

Once police had control of the area around parliament, a large group of rioters began roaming through the city center, smashing storefronts and office windows with cobblestones dug up from the streets. Windows at the Finance Ministry and several other buildings were shattered.

This really is a tragic event—Riga is perhaps one of the most beautiful cities on the entire planet, and the Latvians are, to an American tourist such as myself, some of the friendliest.

Of course, not being one to make such a statement without backing it up, I will now proceed to post some of my best photos from Riga below the fold, just to prove it to you. (And heavens no, I wouldn't even think of doing this just to prove that Snapped Shot is a photo blog! Besides, that contest is over already... ) Continue reading »

Have a look at this picture and notice the composition:

Turkish women chant Islamic slogans whilst holding up blood covered dolls during an anti-Israeli protest in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, [surprise mystery date]. Hundreds of pro-Islamic demonstrators gathered in Istanbul's Beyazit square following the annual Friday prayers to protest recent Israeli military operations against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

Holding up blood-covered dolls? This is obviously a picture from this week's massive anti-Israeli (Oops! I mean pro-Palestinian) protests, right?

Click here to find out when the picture was actually taken. While you're sitting there in amazement, ask yourself this:—Do these Islamic "activists" always have piles and piles of bloody dolls laying around their house, ready to whip out for the nearest Israel-hating event?

Of course, our wire photographers (and the agency editors that enable them) treat each protest as a totally isolated event, as equally as valid an expression as anything else that happens to be going on in the world. But, given the fact that these recurring photo-ops happen pretty much constantly, are we really being presented with a true picture of how the Islamic world views this issue?

It seems to me to be more likely that our lazy press is merely baiting us with the same old scripted protests, time and time again.

With the West's chronic short attention span, can we really blame them?

The international Left becomes more insane with each passing hour:

Demonstrators fake the death of three children during a protest in downtown Madrid January 11, 2009 against Israel's attacks on Gaza. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN)

The international Left has not looked this utterly stupid in decades.

A masked demonstrator takes part in a protest against Israel's offensive on Gaza in downtown Madrid January 11, 2009. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN)

Yes, this genius of unequaled stature is protesting for peace by supporting terrorists with rockets.

If this isn't proof enough that our Universities have completely failed us, what is?

And wouldn't you know it, she hates the Jews today not one iota less than she did on Wednesday:

[Photo: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.]

Of course, no matter how ridiculous this genius of socialist thought might be, it's still even more ridiculous that the wire services think that her manufactured outrage is newsworthy enough that we need a dozen pictures of her every time she's around.

It's almost as if they're not content with merely enabling her attention-seeking—it's like these wire service editors feel compelled to make us suffer, too.

The scoundrels they are.

Spotted over at Atlas Shrugged, a peaceful and tolerant protester in Vienna:

I'd like for you to take a good, hard look at this picture and tell me that it is based on some kind of rational thought.

Because, from where I'm sitting, it really looks to me like this guy would be in the mood to hate Israel, no matter what the occasion happened to be. And I'm not exactly sure what, if anything, Israel can do to actually appease his ill-conceived hatred.

(As an aside, be sure to pay real close attention to his hand gesture. After that, bask in the appreciation that he's probably calling Israel fascist.) Continue reading »

A wire service photo of a protester holding up a printout of a wire service photo that contains a wire service photo?

M. C. Escher would be so proud.

These Sudanese demonstrators couldn't possibly be trying to distract us from another pressing human rights issue, now could they?

And those rockets couldn't mean in the least that these innocent "activists" are supporting jihad against Israel, either.

Update: Verbal Caricature has some related thoughts on other pictures of the same protest.