The Lies Arabs Tell!

Hat tip to IDF Spokesperson

Two photos tweeted in the past 24 hours, both allegedly depicting the results of Israeli air strikes in Gaza in recent days, have been proven false.

How many of us has seen this picture?

1. The photo first tweeted by Khulood Badawi (@KhuloodBadawi) and later by Diana Alzeer (@ManaraRam), allegedly depicting a Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli air strike yesterday, was proven to have originated in 2006 and to have had nothing at all to do with Israeli action. This photo is now the top tweet for #Gaza, with over 300 retweets. It is completely false.

It looks very bad for this little girl.  Those bad Israelis killing children, bombing with abandon.

Badawi first tweeted the picture at noon on March 10, claiming it was linked to last night’s air strikes. Alzeer tweeted it on March 11, claiming the same.

Both were refuted by tweeter Avi Mayer (@avimayer), who found that the photo dated back to 2009 at least.

Further research revealed that the photo was taken in 2006 by Reuters, and that the girl, initially thought to have been killed in an Israeli air strike, was injured by falling off a swing. When confronted with this information, Alzeer stated that the photo was taken last night and forwarded to the press that day.

In fact, the photo was taken by Reuters on August 9, 2006. It was originally released with an incorrect caption, and then corrected a day later:

A Palestinian man carries the body of three year-old Raja Abu Shaban, in Gaza August 9, 2006. The three-year-old girl who had been reported killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza on Wednesday actually died of an accident, Palestinian medical workers said on Thursday. Workers at Gaza’s Shifa hospital said on August 10, 2006 that the initial mistake over the cause of death appeared to have arisen because the girl’s corpse was brought in at the same time as the bodies of the gunmen. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)

Alzeer later published an apology and withdrew her claims. Badawi has yet to respond.

The original tweets, however, have already been picked up by hundreds of others and continue to circulate around the web, despite having been thoroughly disproven.

2. A second photo tweeted Maissam Nablussi (@Nablussi), allegedly showing an aerial strike in Gaza today, was proven to have been in circulation back in 2009, completely unrelated to the current round of violence.

On March 11, Nablussi uploaded a photo to Facebook, claiming it depicted “Gaza under attack today.”

The photo was also tweeted by Gaza Youth Break Out (@GazaYBO), under the same claim.

The photo was revealed to have first appeared on various websites, including that of Reuters, in 2009, following Operation Cast Lead.

After the truth behind the image was revealed, Nablussi blocked access to the Facebook post. She has yet to retract her claim regarding yesterday’s aerial strike. Neither has GazaYBO.

This isn’t the first time people have spread false information about the IDF. Meanwhile, lies are still being tweeted throughout the web.

Share this post to fight misinformation–set the facts straight about what’s going on in Israel and Gaza.


Wondering what else you can do? Spread the truth.

I am a big proponent of recycling but not of old photographs that have been doctored to produce propaganda instead of the truth.

As the Fakistinians keep shelling Israel with rockets (over 300 so far) the IDF has shown great restraint.  Instead of targeting civilian centers, the IDF targets the terrorists themselves as seen in these videos:

Pinpoint Targeting of a Hamas Weapon Manufacturing Facility

Rocket Launch Squad Targeted

Targeting of a Popular Resistance Committee Rocket Launching Site

This site is at El-Atatra

Instead of telling the truth, the Fakistinians and their supporters are lying to garner sympathy.

Help the Israelis under fire.  Tweet this and be free to steal this in its entirety.

Flight 93 Blogburst: Muslim Consultants LIED to Park Service

Muslim Consultants LIED to Park Service



The Park Service enlisted three outside consultants to assess whether the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 really can be seen as a giant mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built. All three consultants, including two Islamic scholars, were blatantly and provably dishonest.

Consultant #1 (details below) confirmed to the Park Service that the giant crescent (now called a broken circle) does indeed point almost exactly at Mecca, then when asked about it by the press, denied that there is any such thing as the direction to Mecca (insisting that "you can face any direction to face Mecca").

Consultant #2, a professor of Islamic architecture at MIT, lied about one of the most familiar of all Islamic doctrines, claiming that a legitimate mihrab must point exactly at Mecca. (The original Crescent of Embrace pointed less than 2° north of Mecca. The broken-circle "redesign" points less than 3° south of Mecca. Both highly accurate by Islamic standards.)

Consultant #3, a professor of sharia law at Indiana University (!), came up with an almost comically dishonest rationale for dismissing concern about the giant Mecca-oriented crescent: don't worry, no one has ever seen a mihrab anywhere near this BIG before. Not so funny is the Park Service's eagerness to embrace such a transparently ludicrous excuse.

The details are documented in a large advertisement that Alec Rawls and Tom Burnett Sr. are running this week in Somerset Pennsylvania as President Obama and the national press arrive in town for the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

The press has so far been unwilling to check even the most basic facts about the memorial, like whether the giant crescent really does point to Mecca (takes about 2 minutes). Maybe charges that the Park Service and its consultants are telling easily verifiable lies will be more up their alley.

That's the hope, but a strong push might also make the difference. If you want to help, here are email addresses for the new Park Superintendent Keith Newlin and for a few Pennsylvania newspapers. You can write your own letter, or just copy the first four paragraphs above, and tell them that you want these charges checked!

Keith_Newlin@nps.gov, alec@rawls.org, swischnowski@phillynews.com, chepp@phillynews.com, ajohns@tribdem.com, cminemyer@tribdem.com, news@dailyamerican.com, skalson@post-gazette.com, TBirdsong@post-gazette.com, mcollier@sfchronicle.com, newsdesk@kpix.com

The Deception Of Allah Volume 1

I have never published a review of any book I have read while I have written this blog.  There have been many books I should have given a review but either other concerns have taken priority or computer troubles prevented me from writing.  Not so this time.

The Deception of Allah Volume 1 is one of the books anyone who is researching Islam or wishes to know more about the Koran and its founder Muhammad.  It is a scholarly work written in a style that captures the reader and holds him or her to the narrative.  Questions are asked and then answered using the Koran, the Hadiths, other Muslim sources and even the Old and New Testaments.  Every misconception Muslims tell non-Muslims about their faith is exposed in this tome.  Not only exposed but backed with quotes from their own sources.  Every lie that Muhammad wrote (Yes he was literate [Another lie Muslims tell.].) is exposed either by other verses he wrote, or by the Bible (when he wrote about Biblical stories and persons.).


The Deception of Allah Volume 1 is a great book by itself, but put it together with a study of the Koran and finally the Koran becomes as clear as a pane of glass.

I have never recommended a book on Monkey in the Middle before, but if you are to read one book about Islam this year The Deception of Allah Volume 1 MUST BE IT!

You can find this book at Amazon.com and other fine bookstores everywhere.

One of Monkey in the Middle's Recommended Books.