Chabad synagogue in Miami torched

The following are excerpts of “Chabad synagogue in Miami torched” from “Ynetnews – Ynetnews.com“, which I think might be of interest.

Published: 04.23.08

By Neta Sela

Unknown individuals set fire to a Chabad synagogue in Miami Beach, Florida on Tuesday, burning the Torah books inside.

Ze’ev Katz, the synagogue’s head rabbi, recounted the event on one of Chabad’s internet websites, saying that a number of individuals broke into the empty synagogue, took the Torah books from the cabinet, tore them to pieces, and set them on fire.

The Psychoanalytic Roots Of Islamic Terrorism

Despite enormous and continuing denial on the part of left and liberal ideologues and the media, we are facing an exceedingly pathological strain of Islamofascist terrorism. So a crucial question must be asked: from a psychological and anthropological point of view, what kind of culture produces human bombs, glorifies mass murderers, and supports humiliation-based revenge?

According to Minnesota based psychoanalyst and Arabist, Dr. Nancy Kobrin, it is a culture in which shame and honor play decisive roles and in which the debasement of women is paramount. In an utterly fascinating and as-yet unpublished book, which I will be introducing, the Sheik’s New Clothes: the Psychoanalytic Roots of Islamic Suicide Terrorism, Kobrin, and her Israeli co-author, counter-terrorism expert Yoram Schweitzer, describe barbarous family and clan dynamics in which children, both boys and girls, are routinely orally and anally raped by male relatives; infant males are sometimes sadistically over-stimulated by being masturbated; boys between the ages of 7-12 are publicly and traumatically circumcised; many girls are clitoridectomized; and women are seen as the source of all shame and dishonor and treated accordingly: very, very badly.

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Another al-Qaeda Call for International Jihad Against Jews, US

By Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of the international al Qaeda terrorist organization, called for attacks on Jews and Americans in a speech broadcast on the al-Qaeda as-Sahab news network Sunday.

In his “Rush to Support Our People in Gaza” speech Zawahiri exhorted Muslims around the world to “monitor the targets, collect the money, bring the equipment, plan accurately and then – while depending on Allah – storm, seeking martyrdom and paradise.”

While Cheney was warning Abbas that attacks on Israel from Gaza were eroding the chances for a final status agreement and an independent PA state within Israel’s current borders, Zawahiri was telling Islamic extremists to attack Jews and Americans.

“Muslims, today is your day. Strike the interests of the Jews, the Americans and all of those who participated in the attack on the Muslims,” he said. “No one can say today that we should fight the Jews in Palestine only.”

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