http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=2036

Australia’s Foreign Minister Alexander Downer speaks at the dedication of Ohel Devorah Melbourne, on November 9, 2006 ...

The price of appeasement was not just the lives of the six million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis but of the 60 or so million people that died through the Second World War.

So why is this relevant to us today?

It’s relevant to us today because I think as a country and I think as a global community we have to have the courage to confront evil when we find it and deal with it and not find excuses to walk on the other side of the road and do nothing about it.

Because if we do nothing about it, it will grow in its intensity and the consequences will become increasingly ghastly.

I think back over the last few years, you know, 1994 in Rwanda Nearly a million people were murdered before the international community thought it was right to do something about it and even that was controversial.

People were murdered in vast numbers in the Balkans, in Kosovo as well, until the international community decided do to anything about it and even that was very controversial.

What do we confront this very day? We confront - and I think Israel obviously particularly has to contend with this - we confront the ideological scourge of extremist Islamist terrorism. It’s ideological because what these people want to do is eliminate all other points of view and stamp upon the world their extremist Islamic interpretation - a completely ideological interpretation encapsulated by the work of the Taliban.

Under the Taliban no girls were allowed to go to school or women to go to work, nobody was allowed a television or a radio or a CD player. Society was plunged back into the 7th Century and if you didn’t agree with them philosophically or ideologically or theologically you were put to death.

This is the ideology that these terrorists are trying to impose.

When it comes to Israel, I don’t think the world should forget that these people want to eliminate Israel. It’s not as though they never say they do, it’s not as though they keep it a secret. It’s that the world seems to show such a lack of understanding of the Israeli’s determination that this doesn’t happen.

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Contrast FM Alexander Downer's speech to the UN's wretched and morally reprehensible Louise Arbour who stated that Israel is worse than hamas, and refused to even visit with Israeli families who have been victims of terrorism.  And contrast the current Australian government to the cowardly and morally reprehensible French and much of the EU and UN who don't understand who the actual enemy is, and fail to distinquish between terrorists and those that act in self-defense against terrorism. Thank God at least in the leadership of Australia, and I can add PM Harper of Canada, there are at least some in the free world who have moral clarity.

Iranian killed for talking to his wife in public http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061120-052602-4257r

TEHRAN -- An Iranian university student talking with his wife at a bus stop was murdered by another student upset over a public conversation between the sexes, the ISNA student news agency reported Sunday.

Towhid Ghafarzadeh Nadi was killed in the northeastern town of Sabzevar, where his death prompted a protest march by students, ISNA said.

"The murderer questioned the couple over their relationship, which led to a violent scuffle, and the murderer stabbed his victim with a knife," said the Office for the Consolidation of Unity, a reformist student group.

The man later told police that he "had acted because his religious sensibilities were injured by seeing a young man and a young woman talking in public," the statement added.

Reza Monajati, security chief at the teacher training university in Sabzevar, denied Internet reports that the murderer was a member of the Basij, an officially sponsored hardline youth militia.

There have been a number of murders in recent years by hardline Muslim youths claiming to have been offended by the "anti-Islamic" behavior of their victims.

Christian convert murdered by muslim militants http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7812

Srinagar (AsiaNews) – Two Muslim fundamentalists have killed a Christian who converted to Islam around 10 years ago. Bashir Ahmad Tantray was murdered in broad daylight as he chatted with Muslim friends in his village, Mamoosa, in Baramulla district. He leaves behind a wife and four children, two girls and two boys.

Ghulam Rasool Tantray, his cousin, said: “Two militants enquired about the public transport system. As soon as my cousin finished talking, they killed him.” The two militants fled the scene on their motorbike.

After his conversion, Bashir dedicated himself enthusiastically to social projects and to evangelization in the area with an evangelical group. Shortly after he changed his religion, he had received threats against his life and escaped from his village, returning years later.

It is the first time that a Christian convert has been murdered in the northern state, although violence against local Christians has been on the rise for some time. Around two years ago, some Muslim militants threw grenades at the missionary school of Pulwama, while last July, a car bomb damaged another Christian school.

Four shot dead in Thai south http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20815674-1702,00.html

FOUR people were killed in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said today, despite the post-coup government's promise to boost the local economy in hopes of ending three years of unrest. ...

Two suspected Islamic militants shot dead a Muslim man at his house in Narathiwat today, while a 40-year-old Buddhist teacher in Pattani was shot dead yesterday.

 A 40-year-old Muslim worker was also gunned down in an ambush at his house yesterday in Pattani and another 25-year-old Muslim man was shot and killed inside his parked car in neighbouring Yala province.

Militants also staged a spate of arson attacks against an electricity office and a home in Yala, as well as an elementary school in Narathiwat, but no one was injured.

Insurgents shot a Pattani province school director before setting his car on fire and killing him inthe flames on Friday afternoon after classes, police said.

Officers said Anand Chaidej, director of a school in Sai Buri district of Pattani, was shot in his pick-up while he was driving out of school this afternoon.

After firing shots at the victim, insurgents set his pick-up on fire, burning Mr Anand who was still alive but wounded inside the truck.

In Yaha district of Yala, a bomb went off at 4 p.m. today at a food stall located at the entrance of Wat Yaha Pracharam. The blast wounded several bystanders, one of them seriously.

Alan Dershewitz debunks the lies, distortions, deliberate ommisions and historical revisionism that is Jimmy Carter's new anti-Israel book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid".

http://www.nysun.com/article/43958?page_no=1

And in an article "Jimmy Carter, go back to your peanut farm", even the leftist founder of Rabbis for human rights describes Carter as having a "warped sense of history" and of a "blatant abuse of our sensibilities".

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378443272&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter