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Winds of Jihad, by Sheik Yermami.

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How convenient is it to have friends in the international court of justice, The Hague, especially when you are a hamas thug.You can call The Hague when ever you need to free murderers and those who support them. Oh, and make sure that you focus on their freedom but not their intentions of killing people says hamas. The following is taken from english version of hamas controlled news website www.palestine-info.co.uk. They are propaganda machine runs at least a dozen different websites in 5 languages.

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MP Hatem Qufaisha explained that efforts should focus on the legal aspect of their detention and to form an international legal committee to follow up their case instead of leaving the deputies to political whims or the “good intentions” of occupation.
For his part, MP Ahmed Mubarak said that the people and its authority are called upon to focus their efforts on freedom of the detained lawmakers and to shun differences.
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Yes, you read it right, shun differences. Do not pay attention that hamas is officially listed as a terrorist group by the European Union itself, the host of international court of justice, just release the thugs.

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We are hiring citizen journalists!!!

Responsibilities vary depending on the position you are applying for. We are looking for creative and fun people. In case of “early departure” by hands of Amrikan, Biritish or Isreali “infidels” your name will be scratched off of the board or you can write from the “paradise” to let us know how many virgins you received. What are looking for:

Usama Bin Laden (Taken)
Adam Gadahn
Ayman Al-Zawahiri
Hamas Representative/s
Hezbollah (Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran)

A few unknown cell members “wishing” to commit suicide or be promoted to higher up positions.

Just a regular citizen journalist, posting news or good investigative reports.

Don’t be shy, if you don’t see your “favorite” member let me know, I will update the list.You will be provided with an email such as Usama@JihadPress.com for your journalistic adventures.

The payment for the job: is your freedom. and back links to your websites or blogs.

Send all the above to admin@JihadPress.com

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Osama bin laden captured Not really. But soon will be for sure .

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Now, that is a good catch MSNBC:Monopoly contest stirs up Jerusalem conflict. I am more than sure that it would pass unnoticed if not for IsraelMatzav’s and others emails.

[....]But an employee based in London decided on her own without consulting senior management to pull “Israel” from Jerusalem after hearing complaints from pro-Palestinian groups and bloggers who argue that the city is not a part of Israel, Hasbro spokesman Wayne Charness said Thursday.[....]

You can see the lame excuse they gave to IsraelMatzav here. and his letter to the agency that is running the contest here.

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If 6 out of 10 of the following is true then your are one.

10. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
9. You own a $300 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can’t afford shoes.
8. You have more wives than teeth.
7. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can’t think of anyone you HAVEN’T declared Jihad against.
5. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry hand grenades in your robe.
4. You’ve never been asked, “Does this burka make my butt look fat?”
3. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
2. You’ve never uttered the phrase, “I love what you’ve done with your cave.”
1. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon unclean.

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D. Daniel Griffith (“anything can point to Mecca, because the earth is round“) is still trying to convince the press that the Flight 93 crescent does not point to Mecca. In an email to the Park Service and the press this week, he tried to make it sound as if I am calculating the orientation of the crescent by using techniques that can be manipulated to achieve any desired result:

Based on Alec’s arguments, one could claim that the memorial is oriented toward the Vatican.

The Flight 93 crescent can indeed be seen as pointing to the Vatican, for the simple reason that the Vatican sits on the great circle line between the crash site and Mecca.

This is what Griffith represents as some concocted method for calculating the orientation of the crescent: the great circle method!

This “shortest distance” or “straight line” direction to Mecca (curving only in the over the horizon direction) is the relevant direction because this is the way that Muslims calculate the direction to Mecca. (There was a debate about it in the 1980’s and 90’s, largely settled by this nondescript looking analysis.)

Here is the great circle line from the Flight 93 crash-site to Mecca:

(Click-pic for larger image. Great circle calculator here.)

Here is the great circle line from the crash-site to the Vatican:

This calculator rounds to the nearest degree, so Mecca and the Vatican both are presented as lying on the great circle line that, from the crash site, proceeds 55° clockwise from north.

Of course a person who faces Mecca is also facing everything else that happens to lie in the direction of Mecca. When Griffith acknowledges that the crescent points to the Vatican, he is not debunking of the Mecca-orientation of the Flight 93 crescent, but confirming it.

Reductio ad Hitlerum

Griffith pulled the same trick last July, telling reporter Kirk Swauger of the Johnstown Tribune Democrat that the crescent can be seen as pointing to a Nazi concentration camp if you want:

Griffith said Rawls suggested memorial organizers would be outraged if the crescent pointed to a Nazi concentration camp instead, the professor said it actually could be done.

Of course I never suggested that anyone should care if the crescent points at a concentration camp. Is there a worldwide religion of facing Nazi concentration camps for prayer? Was Flight 93 hijacked by people who face Nazi concentration camps for prayer?

An unpublished report that Griffith wrote for the Pittsburgh Tribune Review in 2006 clarifies his concentration camp reference. It notes that there was a Nazi concentration camp (Drancy) located just outside of Paris, which as you can see on the maps above is also (like the Vatican) on the great circle line between the Flight 93 crash-site and Mecca. In his 2006 report, Griffith acknowledges that the crescent points to the Drancy camp, yet is still unwilling to acknowledge that it points to Mecca. Somehow, the crescent points to everything on the line to Mecca except Mecca.

When Griffith told Swauger that you can see the crescent as pointing to a Nazi concentration camp if you want, he was clearly trying to mislead Swauger into thinking that you can see the crescent as pointing wherever you want. This dishonest intention was made clear by another statement that Griffith made to Swauger (not reported by Swauger, but related by Swauger to me at the time). Griffith told Swauger that: “You can face anywhere to face Mecca.”

He is doing the same thing when he tells the Park Service now that the crescent can be seen as pointing to the Vatican, without being clear that this is because the Vatican sits on great circle line to Mecca.

Pecksniff

In his email, Griffith complains that I have been trying to bully him into changing his analysis. Nobody is trying to bully Griffith into changing anything. We are trying to expose him as a fraud.

Griffith is practically in tears about being called a Pecksniff (a character from Martin Chuzzlewit “who lies and cants whether he is drunk or sober”). It is the perfect epithet. Look in the dictionary under Pecksniff and you will see Daniel Griffith’s picture.

Not that anyone should bother to read Griffith’s email, but if anyone wants to, it puts front and center another astounding example of Griffith’s free-form dishonesty.

Griffith quotes my January 2006 report to the Memorial Project as saying that:

…the orientation to Mecca “take[s] a short cut over the North Pole … even though Mecca is south of Shanksville.”

From this supposed quote, Griffith goes on to construct an elaborate fantasy about how, since the great circle line between the crash-site and Mecca does not actually go over the North Pole, it was really me, not him, who started this idea that you can face different directions to face Mecca.

But my report to the Memorial Project did not say that a person facing the north pole from the crash site is facing Mecca. Rather, it includes an aside explaining why the shortest-distance line to Mecca “points in a northeasterly direction” (not due north), even though Mecca is south of Shanksville. The reason is because both are in the northern hemisphere. To illustrate, the report includes the simplest possible example: “The shortest distance between points on the opposite sides of the northern hemisphere will take a short cut over the North Pole.”

Griffith quotes only the second half of this sentence, omitting the part about connecting points “on the opposite sides of the northern hemisphere.” That allows him to pretend that the points referred to are the crash-site and Mecca. Of course Shanksville and Mecca are not on opposite sides of the hemisphere. Mecca is about 2/3rds of the way around the hemisphere from the crash-site.

Having Misrepresented me as saying, not just that a person facing into the giant crescent is facing Mecca, but also that a person facing due north from the crash site is facing Mecca, Griffith then writes:

I fail to be convinced that only 2, rather than the infinity of possible, arcs are acceptable to Muslims.

Bwahahahaha! Griffith just finished saying how wrong it is to think that a person facing north from Shanksville is facing Mecca. Then he turns around and uses this face-north-to-face-Mecca claim (misattributed to me) as justification for saying that a person facing any direction is facing Mecca. Just how much peck has this idiot been sniffing?
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