Please visit the Annie
Jacobsen Page, which is a discussion of the suspicious activity
on Northwest Flight 327, on June 29, 2004. A group of fourteen Middle Eastern
men were apparently on a "dry run" for a hijacking, looking for holes in the national
air travel security system. All were in the country illegally – on
expired visas, yet they were questioned
and released after they landed in Los Angeles.
Reference material:
List of Islamic Terror Attacks in 2004.
List of Islamic Terror Attacks from 9/11/2001 to 12/31/2003.
Map: Muslims as a percentage of all residents, 2000
Where Will You Be When You Hear "Allahu Akbar"?
"Allahu Akbar" is normally translated as an exclamation of the greatness of Allah. If you see a pattern
in the type of people who use this phrase and the timing by which they employ it, you're at least more astute
than Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, whose greatest concern following the Fort Hood attacks
was that American Muslims might face "a backlash."
Islam is the New
Communism. Paul Hsieh wrote an excellent article about America's weakness in regards to the
war against terrorists. However, he claimed that the mosque is distracting us from the real issue of
Iran's nuclear weapons program. I respectfully disagree. The real issue is that we are fighting
a war with Islam. The mosque, rather than distracting America, has brought her full attention to it.
Islamist Infiltration.
The Muslim Brotherhood is leading the way for radical Muslims to infiltrate American society and government. Their goal is
simple: control the United States and impose Shariah law. ... [This is] the Brotherhood's five-phase plan
for dominating America:
· Phase I: Establish an elite Muslim Leadership and raise Islamicist consciousness in the community;
· Phase II: Create Islamic institutions that the leadership can control and form autonomous Muslim enclaves;
· Phase III: Infiltrate America's political and social institutions forming a shadow state; escalate conversions; manipulate mass media to remove language offensive to Islam;
· Phase IV: Open hostile public confrontation over U.S. policies, riot, make militant demands for special rights and accommodations;
· Phase V: Wage final conflict and overthrow (jihad).
According to Sperry and Gaubatz, the consensus among counterterrorism officials is that the North American
Brotherhood is already in Phase III.
Islam's Achievement Gap.
As the holy month of Ramadan has gotten underway, President Obama has intensified his longstanding mission to
"remind us" of the progress and human advancement we all enjoy as a result of Islam and its practitioners. ... [But]
how many Muslims have been Nobel Prize winners for science? Just two: Ahmed Zewail in 1999 for
chemistry and Abdus Salam in 1979 for physics. For those keeping score, ... that's two prize winners
in more than a billion Muslims.
Muslim prayers welcome at Pentagon chapel.
Less than 100 feet from where a hijacked airplane slammed into the Pentagon, Muslim military personnel bring
prayer rugs on weekday afternoons for group worship.
American Muslims
Debate Loyalty to America. American Muslims are debating key questions of loyalty to America,
a debate in which the stakes could not be higher. ... The jihadists are intent upon the destruction of this
country. If moderate Muslims do exist, then it behooves them to fight the American traitors among us.
If American Muslims continue to reflect a conflicted relationship with their country of birth, putting Islam above
all else, then other Americans will rightly conclude that a civil war is upon us — one that
al-Qaeda is steadfastly perpetrating.
Obama Is Colluding
with a New Fascist Imperialism. Wherever Islamic fascists go, they first like to frighten and
intimidate less warlike peoples — as in London today, where any BBC criticism of Islamic fascists
is streng verboten. That's what the Ground Zero Mosque and the Mohammed cartoon uproar have in common:
They are purposeful agitprop campaigns to scare and intimidate all the weak-willed liberals in the West, a standard
Islamist tactic to conquer by intimidation, just as Muslim conquerors have always done. Why bother to wage
war when you can win by terror?
The Tolerant Pose.
Non-Muslims are barred from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina — not merely barred from building
synagogues or churches, but barred, period, because their infidel feet are deemed unfit to touch the ground.
This is not an al-Qaeda principle. Nor is it an "Islamist" principle. It is Islam, pure and simple.
Lockerbie bomber:
still alive, kicking, and being honored. This Friday the Muslim nation of Libya will be reaching
out to the west by thanking Allah for the great wisdom and compassion of Gordon Brown and Kenny MacAskill.
To mark the first anniversary of Abdelbaset Al Megrahi's triumphant return to Libya, Colonal Gaddafi has called
for a national day of prayer as part of a low-key celebration.
Under
New American Management Al-Qaida Now Poses Inner Threat. If al-Qaida looks and sounds different as
we approach 9/11's ninth anniversary, it's because it's under new American management. No fewer than four
U.S. citizens and a permanent U.S. resident have risen to senior leadership posts. These five English-speaking
leaders are actively planning or facilitating attacks against their countrymen, while recruiting and radicalizing
other American turncoats to carry them out.
Lambs to the Slaughter.
I used to scoff at writers such as Sam Harris, Kevin Phillips, and Chris Hedges when they warned that Christians
were a major threat to American freedoms. ... But I wonder now if Christians, in their naivite and in their
desire to be thought tolerant, aren't inadvertently paving the way for an eventual Islamic theocracy. It
seems that quite a number of Christian churches are now involved in "outreach" programs with local mosques.
Coming to
Grips With Shariah. Unfortunately, too many Americans still remain unaware of the magnitude of
the danger we face from Shariah. Worse yet, their ability to comprehend this threat, let alone respond
appropriately to it, is being seriously disserved by people who know better -- or should. Specifically,
the public is being seriously misled by 1) some journalists and politicians who are obscuring the true
nature of Shariah and 2) Shariah practitioners who engage in deliberate deception to facilitate the
penetration of their doctrine into Western societies.
Lessons from a Turkish
Wedding. In the world news, we read of a moment of horror at a wedding in Gaziantep, in southeastern
Turkey. During the celebration of his own wedding, as is all too common in the Middle East, Tevfik Altun,
the groom, fired his AK-47 into the air, immediately lost control of it, and in an instant had killed his own
father and two of his aunts, besides injuring eight others. ... Such a tale is easily dismissed as a moment of
error, a single human tragedy due to basic carelessness, but there is more beneath the surface for Americans
to heed: How different a culture we have — how different is western civilization from the
rest of the world. It horrifies the left to say so, but this is indisputable.
American
Taxpayer, Financial Jihadist. Sharia-compliant finance (SCF) is now a thriving American industry.
Sharia is Islam's authoritarian legal framework. It aspires to control not merely spiritual life but all
aspects of society, including economic matters. The purpose of SCF is to advance that mission in two important
ways. First, SCF legitimizes the incorporation of sharia into our legal system, despite the fact that many
features of Islamic law are anti-constitutional.
None Dare Call
It... What? Former Speaker Newt Gingrich may be the most notable public figure in some time to
state the obvious: radical Islam is a clear and present danger to America. In a speech last week
at The American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Gingrich said, "this is not a war on terrorism ... this
is a struggle with radical Islamists." The problem, he said, is that too many leaders are "sleepwalking"
and won't face the threat.
Sharia Law in
Canada and Britain. The spread of Sharia Law to the entire world is part of jihad. In
Canada and Britain, jihad is advancing. A June 2010 report entitled "Sharia Law in Britain: A
Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights" begins with Secretary General of the Islamic Sharia Council
Suhaib Hasan saying, "If Sharia law is implemented, then you can turn this country [Great Britain]
into a haven of peace because once a thief's hand is cut off nobody is going to steal."
What Muslim Scientific Achievements?
[Scroll down] Walid Phares, an author and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,
noted that the U.S. shouldn't "be in the business of bringing religion, Islam or other to space development." ... "This
is a ridiculous concept. Those who enter a spaceship are humans not members of religious sects.
I think what lays behind this medieval perception of space technology is a policy of partnership with
Islamist regimes, most of which are oppressive of their own people."
More
about the latest NASA scandal.
Say Yes
to a National Muslim Holiday. [Scroll down] We should treat the various Muslim holidays
as we have the birthdays of American presidents with the singular Presidents' Day. My recommendation:
We roll all the Muslim holidays into one National Muslim Day and celebrate it on September 11 each
year. ... Rather than working to educate us slow-learning Americans about the merits of holidays like
Eid al-Fitr and the birthday of Mohammad, it seems most fitting that we celebrate the contributions and
significance of Islam in America's history with one special day each September 11. Mohammad likely
does not enjoy birthday cards anyway because those cards too often are filled with cartoons and sketches.
The Islam I Left Behind.
Looking back, I see no particular time or event that, in one stroke, severed my link with Islam. There was
nothing nearly as dramatic as what reportedly happened to Paul on the road to Damascus transforming him
from a rabid Christian persecutor to a devoted follower of Jesus. My alienation with Islam started as
far back as I could discern things. More to the point, I never embraced Islam in the first place, although
I was born and raised in a Muslim family.
Philadelphia's
Islamist Boy Scouts. [Scroll down] Jawala Scouts or the Jawala Scout Youth Leadership
Program, an Islamic paramilitary boys group, was incorporated in Philadelphia in August 2005. It was
founded a short time before that. The children joining Jawala Scouts are as young as seven years of
age. This is disconcerting, when considering some of the activities of the group, which include
hand-to-hand combat, firearms training and survival tactics. Photographs from the group's official
website show the kids dressed in military fatigues, hiking through the woods, and engaged in wrestling.
What makes things worse are the type of individuals linked to Jawala Scouts.
The Mosques of War.
[Scroll down] After the conquest of Mecca in the year 630, Muhammad transformed the Black Stone in the
Ka'aba, which ancient pagan Arabs had worshiped, into the paramount Islamic holy place. It became known
as the Masjid al-Haram, or Sacred Mosque. During the Arab invasions of neighboring lands in the Middle
East, North Africa, and beyond, under the new banner of Islam, numerous synagogues and churches were converted
into mosques. In Damascus, Syria, the church of St. John is now known as the Umayyad Mosque. Also in
Syria, the mosque of Job was originally a church. The Islamic tide swept into Egypt, and many Christian
Coptic churches were converted into mosques. From North Africa, the conquests continued into Spain and
Portugal, where again churches were converted into mosques.
Understanding Muslims'
Mindset. The Muslim's mind is imprinted with authoritarianism which starts with the supreme
authority, Allah, through his one and only prophet, Muhammad, his Caliphs or Imams, and the high-ranking
religious divines all the way down to the village clergy. This authoritarian mentality encompasses all
aspects of life for the Muslim: the king and his dominion as the viceroy of God, the Amir and his
despotic ways, the Khan and his unchallenged rule over the tribe, the village headsman and his extensive
power, and finally the father and his iron grip at home over the women and children. All these
authority figures are male.
Muslim Enclaves U.S.A.
It seems almost unthinkable, but Islamist groups are, as we speak, hard at work creating Muslim
states-within-states in the U.S. Indeed, this process has been unfolding for a long time
across the Western world, through the creation of isolated Muslim enclaves in both rural and urban
areas, as well as through the designation of "no-go zones" where governments admit to having little
authority over Muslims living there, essentially leaving them to function as autonomous regions.
Islamic Law Comes to Dearborn. Is
it illegal to preach Christianity to Muslims in America now? Acts 17 Apologetics, a Christian
evangelistic group, was banned from passing out fliers at this year's Arab Festival in Dearborn, Mich., but
they went to the festival anyway and ended up getting arrested.
Radical
Islamist Group Is Returning to Chicago for Major Recruitment Drive. They're back. A
radical Islamist group critics say has links to Al Qaeda is gearing up to host its second annual U.S.
recruiting event. The group, Hizb ut-Tahrir America, which is committed to establishing a caliphate, or
international Islamic empire, kicked up controversy in Chicago last year with its first U.S. conference, "Fall
of Capitalism & Rise of Islam."
Osama
bin Laden and jihadists love soccer and the World Cup. We're not the only ones who love the
World Cup. Osama Bin Laden and his fellow jihadists do, too. Several prominent Islamist
organizations have ties to soccer, according to Newsweek. And jihadists use the sport to bond
with potential recruits.
Thousands Protest Mega-Mosque on D-Day!
Despite weather forecasts of thunderstorms, the skies were clear and beautiful Sunday afternoon for our Stop
the Islamization of America (SIOA) rally against the Ground Zero mega-mosque, but not as beautiful as the
patriotic crowd who came out to stand for freedom against this insulting manifestation of Islamic supremacism.
It was a real cross-section of humanity: every race, creed, color and religion were out in all their glory.
Vote
to Bar Sharia May Be on Fall Ballot. Oklahoma is about as far from Saudi Arabia — one
Muslim country that follows a strict version of Sharia — as you can get. But legislators in
the Sooner State figure you can never be too careful. Hence their push to put a question on November's
ballot that would ask voters to make state courts rely on federal and state laws when deciding cases and
forbid the courts from using international law or Sharia law when making rulings.
Sharia
(Islamic Law) Not O.K. in Oklahoma. Oklahoma State Representative Rex Duncan wants to make
sure no judge ever uses Sharia (Islamic law) to decide a case in Oklahoma. "Has any judge ever tried
to use Sharia in Oklahoma?" a reporter asked the Republican politician, as he walked in front of the County
Courthouse in Tulsa this week. "No," said Duncan, "and we want to make sure they never will."
Who Gets the Benefit of the Doubt?
Despite the willful denials of the Obama administration and progressives in general, most Americans understand we
are at war with Islamic fascists determined to establish a worldwide, totalitarian, religious empire. Yet
even most conservatives insist that such people are only a miniscule segment of the Muslim community. What
if they're not? And if, as stated above, we are at war, why we are so hell-bent on giving so-called
"moderate" Muslims the benefit of the doubt?
The Left and
Islam: A Love Story. [Scroll down] For all their disagreements on matters like women's
rights, gay rights and abortion, Islam and the Left are in harmony on big-picture matters: They are
authoritarian, totalitarian in the sense of wanting to control all aspects of human existence, virulently
anti-capitalist, and regard the individual as existing merely to serve the collective. Consequently,
they have the same obstacle in common: our freedom culture — i.e., Western liberalism, U.S.
constitutional republicanism, and their foundation, individual liberty. Historically, Islam and the
Left ally when there is a common enemy. But I'd stress that what I am talking about here is an
alliance, not a merger.
Islam and the Left — Two Sides of the Same
Coin. The Islamists and the Leftists have the same goal. Absolute power. Islam like
Communism is a means to that end. This is what makes them so dangerous. Their goal is to create
absolute tyrannies based on ideologies that promise a better world.
The
'peaceful' Jihad in America. Jihad is not mindless mass-murder, nor is it a syrupy
"internal struggle to become a better person." No, jihad is the mission to establish and spread
sharia. The installation of Allah's law, believed by Muslims to be a divine injunction, is the
necessary precondition to the creation of Islamic societies. While it can, and often is, waged
forcibly, Islamists don't resort to violence (or, at least, to more violence) where surrenders,
appeasements and capitulations are available.
Obama speaks softly and
carries no stick at all. We are at war with radical Islam, and that war will go on for many
years. For me, the question is this: Will the secular Western civilization shared by America and
Europe, which allows us to enjoy life and its creature comforts, still be standing at the end of that war?
Or will radical Islam, with an aggressive culture that treasures martyrdom and death over life, prevail?
Modern Liberalism & Islam: An Uncanny
Resemblance. Both Neo-Liberalism and traditional Islam present unmistakable hallmarks of Fundamentalist
thought. (Neo-Liberalism defined here as the early 20th century attempt to hide socialism behind the term
"liberalism.") Arguably, the main fixation behind both ideologies is controlling others, seeing to it they
obey all the rules. In other words, both have a predilection towards totalitarianism.
30 Terrorist Plots Against the
U.S. Foiled Since 9/11. Sheer luck and civilian bravery played roles in thwarting some of
these attacks. Additionally, U.S. efforts in the war on terrorism, including operations in Afghanistan,
have helped to weed out terrorist sanctuaries before they can organize attacks. Finally, domestic
counterterrorism tools put in place since 9/11 have helped stop terrorists from operating on U.S. soil.
Islam:
The Great Pandemic. According to the Quran — the holiest book of Islam —
Allah commanded Muhammad to instill fear into unbelievers. ... From what we know of Muhammad, is it
unreasonable to conclude that he himself would be a member of al-Qaeda if he were alive today?
Islamic War On Free Speech Heating Up.
Four incidents recently showed anew how keenly Islamic supremacists want to shut down the freedom of
speech — and how eager many Americans are to accommodate them.
Graham
defends calling Islam inferior. Evangelist Franklin Graham was the undisputed center of
attention Thursday during National Day of Prayer observances in the nation's capital, putting in an early
morning appearance outside the Pentagon, speaking to 350 people on Capitol Hill and then meeting the
media at a press conference afterward. Despite the controversy that attended his participation,
Mr. Graham's message was unchanging and unapologetic — that Islam is inferior to Christianity.
I Am Proud of
Franklin Graham. Much has been made this week of Franklin Graham's comments both about the
Ground Zero Mosque and Barack Obama's religion. ... The political elites in this world view Islam as, frankly,
primitive. "Well of course those crazy guys would believe in something like Sharia," think the secular
political elites. After all, they are several hundred years behind Christianity. Christians have
evolved — go to any Episcopalian church and you'll see a gay priest, a female priest, or what have you.
Christians like Graham, and me, are viewed with the same suspicion as muslim clerics who defend their faith,
but Graham and you and me will be questioned because, after all, Christianity is supposed to be more evolved.
What's up with
these 'incompetent' terrorists? What's up with the Islamic terrorists? Their latest failed
attempt in Times Square does not stand alone in the litany of unsuccessful follow ups to 9/11. There was
the incompetent Nigerian underwear bomber during the Christmas season. There was the infamous —
and fortunately inept — shoe bomber, Richard Reid. And there have been numerous other attempts,
both publicized and unpublicized, in which the terrorists have failed to achieve any measurable success.
The Inevitability of Sharia Law in the West.
When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And so liberals believe that the solution to
every problem is more socialism. Americans often believe the solution to every problem is more democracy.
And Muslims believe that the solution to every problem is Islam. Combine the three, and you arrive at
the inevitability of Sharia law in the West. As Muslims harness democratic pluralities in countries that
have become socialist, and thus less free, they will impose Islamic law.
Don't talk about Muhammad or you're dead.
We already know the culture and passion of Islamic radicals, fundamentalists and Jihad experts. They want
an international caliphate going back to the 1920s. That means they want to control the world and have
it run by Sharia law, all other Religions and people submitting to Islam.
Is It Possible for a
Practicing Muslim Soldier to Swear Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution? [Scroll down] It
is indisputably clear from these two Shariah passages that it is incumbent on every practicing Muslim, which
indicates Shariah-compliance, to pledge his or her total allegiance to Islam. Furthermore, it is mandatory
for anyone claiming to be Muslim to actively oppose by force of arms U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama Ignores Islamic Extremist Threat.
In June 1876, U.S. Army General George Armstrong Custer was defeated by Cheyenne Indians at the Battle of the
Little Big Horn. In what became known as "Custer's Last Stand," defeat was attributed primarily to a
false assumption. ... One hundred thirty-four years later, a false assumption and lack of understanding by
President Obama for a threat of a new era could well spell similar disaster — this time for an
entire nation.
Detroit-area bus agency sued for rejecting aids encouraging Muslim defectors.
A group that says it helps Muslims quit their faith sued Detroit's regional transit system Friday [5/28/2010]
for violating its First Amendment rights by rejecting bus ads that ask, "Fatwa on your head? ... Leaving
Islam? Got questions? Get answers!"
Judge: Lejeune can't ban car decals
linking Islam, terrorism. After his son was killed in the attack on the USS Cole, Jesse Nieto put
decals on his car that included "Islam=Terrorism" and "We Died, They Rejoiced." But the Marine Corps deemed
the decals offensive and told them he had to remove them or he could not park on federal installations. So
he went to court, and won.
Bowing to Radical Islam.
On February 9, 2010, the Pompano Beach, Florida city commission granted the imam of the Islamic Center
of South Florida (ICOSB), Hasan Sabri, the honor of giving the invocation at one of its bi-weekly commission
meetings. ... Sabri began his prayer, otherwise known as Salaat, with the words, "A'uudhu billaahi minash
shaitaan ar-Rajeem," which means "I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the accursed." After he completed
the Arabic, he attempted to translate for the audience his recitation. However, nothing close to the
first statement would be found in the translation. Was this deliberate or merely an oversight?
The
Tragic Truth of War. Victory has usually been defined throughout the ages as forcing the
enemy to accept certain political objectives. "Forcing" usually meant killing, capturing, or wounding
men at arms. In today's polite and politically correct society we seem to have forgotten that nasty
but eternal truth in the confusing struggle to defeat radical Islamic terrorism.
There is No Peaceful Solution to Terrorism.
It has become fashionable in modern circles to believe that terrorism is the cry of the oppressed, that bombs
on buses are the voice of the disempowered and that beheaded schoolteachers are the response of a people deprived
of their human rights. They are of course wrong. Terrorism is nothing more than strategic atrocity,
a horror show meant to shock and repulse, to weaken morale and bring about negotiations.
Islamville
community weathers suspicions. Unlike the Amish or other religious groups who mistrust
modern culture, the Muslims of the Americas use cell phones, drive cars, watch television and surf the
Internet, especially for education. They also socialize with their neighbors. ... "We're just like
everybody else," said [Haneef] Shabazz, while sitting in the bleachers at Stokes Field in Dover, watching
his daughter try out for a local softball team. "We just get up before the sun to pray."
The Editor says...
Yeah, they're just like everybody else, except that they're offended by just about everything, their women
walk around in a head-to-toe bag, you never know when they'll blow themselves up, or open fire on unarmed
bystanders, or kill their own family members to protect their so-called "honor", and their ultimate goal is
world domination.
Making Jihadists. The great
majority of jihadists emanate from the ranks of those born into the religion of Islam simply because they are the ones
most thoroughly indoctrinated and influenced by Islamic dogma in their most receptive early years. Yet there are
others who embrace Islam in adulthood, on their own, and enlist themselves as devoted jihadists for the same rewards
that Islam offers.
Wahhabism
and the First Amendment. The First Amendment seems to be the Wahabbi establishment's best friend
here in the U.S. "First Amendment concerns" seem to be a principal reason why, for nearly 30 years, the
U.S. government has turned a blind and even benign eye on the creation within the U.S. of a network of
Wahabbist mosques and related Wahabbist entities paid for and frequently staffed by the Saudi
establishment — a network now bearing bitter fruit.
Anwar
al-Awlaki — The Terrorist from Central Casting. Awlaki suffered no poverty, but
came from a well-connected, wealthy Yemeni family. He was born in the U.S. while his father sought an
American education. When his radical sympathies were disclosed, we get the usual "that can't be true"
from his former mosque adherents, along with the even more usual apologies along the lines of "if we had only
known his proclivities, we of course would have reported him."
The Educated Muslim
Terrorist. Nidal Hasan, Abdulmutallab and Humam al-Balawi are jihadists who were educated
and came from privileged middle- and upper-class backgrounds. Hasan was an American-trained
U.S. Army doctor, Abdulmutallab was a London engineering student and the son of a wealthy Nigerian
banker, and double-agent Dr. Humam al-Balawi was a member of the Jordanian professional class.
DHS
Underestimates Muslim Resistance to Countering Domestic Terrorism. Publicly, most Muslim and
Arab organizations have said they oppose rising militancy and radicalization within their communities.
But privately, they seem to harbor distrust of law enforcement agencies and believe profiling, not
radicalization, is the primary problem in the United States.
Islamic attacks on our airline industry.
The list of incidents involving Muslim passengers disrupting flight operations aboard domestic aircraft is increasing,
while criminal charges against the suspicious and disruptive Muslim passengers are not. Instead, accusations of
racial profiling, alarmist and reactionary responses by the airlines, flight crews and passengers are becoming more
widespread, despite the historical significance of such incidents and the consequential devastation and loss of life
caused by these very same "dry runs" footnoted in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Cool!
Are IDF dogs trained to pounce all who
say 'God is great' in Arabic? The Israel Defense Forces has denied allegations that it
trains its canines to attack anybody heard saying Allah Hu Akbar, Arabic for 'God is great.' Israeli
Arab MK Ahmed Tibi on Monday told the Knesset plenum that at a canine unit ceremony held the day before,
parents of the soldiers witnessed demonstrations proving these allegations.
The Editor says...
The only thing wrong with this idea is that the Israelis are using trained dogs. Instead,
they should be using trained pigs that weigh about 500 pounds each.
TSA Hands Al-Qaeda Its
Playbook. Terrorists love details. Al-Qaeda's U.S. embassy bombers knew the
thickness of the embassy walls — a key detail in figuring out how much explosives were
necessary to take the buildings down. The Mumbai terrorists had copies of the floor plans to
the Taj Mahal Hotel before beginning their three-day siege. ... Terrorists do homework. They
conduct intense reconnaissance missions so as to maximize the death toll on the day of their
actual attacks.
Hard to Explain Away This
Attack. This is [an] opportunity to again rebut the canard that such terrorism is motivated by
anti-Islamic discrimination or the desperate poor. Following the 9/11 attacks, committed mostly by an
assortment of reasonably well-educated bourgeois Arab Islamists acting on direct orders from al-Qaeda, this
tired leftist trope was beaten back. Like some of the 9/11 terrorists, Abdulmutalleb is a man of wealth
and privilege, and he appears to have acted directly for an al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen.
Political
Islam is bent on world domination. Here's what we know: Islamic law (Shariah) punishes "leaving
Islam" with death. Islam has a bloody history of expansionism. Almost exactly two-thirds of Muslims in
four countries polled in a 2007 survey by University of Maryland/WorldPublicOpinion.org favored both Shariah and the
caliphate. And the Muslim Brotherhood's manifesto for "a grand Jihad" in America calls for "destroying the
Western civilization from within" so that Islam is "victorious over all other religions."
The Islamification of America, and the
Emasculation of the U.S. Military. It is well known that the Far Left and Islamic terrorists
are in cahoots, as are liberals and "moderate" Muslims. Both sides are using the other as "useful
idiots" to further their agendas — one ideological, and the other theological. One is
using clandestine sabotage and subterfuge, while the other openly promotes global jihad. Their
common enemy is the "Great Satan" of the United States of America, which they agree, must be destroyed in
order for their plans to proceed. For the time being, they are in league with one another.
Hasan, Not KSM,
Is Our Real Problem. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is an old-school jihadi. ... Hasan is new school.
He is what's known as a homegrown terrorist. Virtually all the Islamic terrorist plots thwarted here in
recent years were homegrown, not designed from afar by a KSM.
Wait a
minaret! Minarets mean little. What they signify means a great deal. To millions
of non-Muslims, they signify terrorist attacks, hysterical mobs salivating with threats after the publication
of a cartoon, promises to slaughter innocent people when the Pope makes a comment about history, attempts
to introduce sharia law and Dutch movie-makers murdered on the street.
Enemy Combatants
on American Soil. Imam Siraj Wahhaj, from Brooklyn, NY, clarified our current situation with a statement
he made in one of his numerous anti-American and Jihadist lectures during the late 1990s. "The Muslims in
America are the most strategically placed Muslims in the whole world. America can't bomb them like they can
in Iraq." I have listened to hundreds of hours of Wahhaj lectures, have conducted first-hand research at
his mosque in Brooklyn, have attended his lectures in Atlanta, GA, and in VA. I am very confident Wahhaj
and anyone who supports him (CAIR) is involved in supporting Islamic terror groups.
Political Correctness Is Deadly. As
many analysts have noted, political correctness has insinuated itself into the analysis of the murders at Fort
Hood. Far better to rationalize the atrocity by referring to the assailant, Major Nidal Hasan, as a
deranged individual, rather than a radical Muslim intent on bloodshed. It is self evident that not all
Muslims are intent on violence, but as the history of the last few decades indicates most of the premeditated
violence can be attributed to Muslims who rely on Koranic verses and Sharia to justify sanguinic action.
Former
Hertz employees sue company over special "prayer breaks" given only to Muslims. As important
as the outcome of this case is the precedent it could set for extending special treatment to Muslim employees
to the exclusion of others — essentially creating a second class of employees: workplace dhimmis.
20,000
gather for Eid al-Adha prayer in Dallas. North Texas Muslims entered 20,000-strong Friday morning [11/27/2009]
into the Dallas Convention Center, in native costumes of far-flung lands for communal prayer for one of the holiest
days of the Islamic faith. "This is the time to come together, to help each other and to understand each other,"
said Imam Yusuf Kavakci, the religious leader of the Dallas Central Mosque.
What's
Liberating about Islam? "What's liberating about Islam is that one is spared from having to
think." This, essentially, is how a woman explained to me the change that had taken place in her life
since her conversion to Islam. Since then, I've thought about her many times, especially because at
that time I didn't know very much about Islam. Now I've learned more, have gotten to know many more
Muslims, and just begun to worry about her lack of thought.
Nidal
Hasan and Fort Hood: A Study in Muslim Doctrine. While the media wonders in exasperation
why he did it, offering the same old tired and trite reasons — he was "picked on," he was "mentally
unbalanced" — the fact is his behavior comports well with certain Islamic doctrines. As such,
it behooves Americans to take a moment and familiarize themselves with the esotericisms of Islam.
Yesterday
Communism, Today Radical Islam. Although they seem different — one claims to be
religious whereas the other was, supposedly, a perfect science — communism and political Islam
are essentially the same. Both are radical ideologies that divide the world into the elect and the
profane. Both deny individuality and suppress free will. And both treat man-made dogma as
infallible truth and seek to impose it by force.
What our founders couldn't foresee. This
once-great nation is coming apart at the seams. ... America has always welcomed immigrants who come here to become
Americans. Immigrants who come here with no intention of becoming Americans, or to become hyphenated Americans
do not share our founders' belief system. Black nationalism rejects the founders' belief system, and curses the
nation they created. The seams of American society are further tested as Muslim immigrants refuse to accept and
integrate into American culture. Instead, Islam insists that America accept its veils, custom, and culture.
The remarkably good health of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi
Attention Scotland: You've been had.
Not-so-dead
man walking. It was three months ago today, as Sen. Chuck Schumer recalls, that the Scottish government
granted a "compassionate" release to convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdul Al-Megrahi on the grounds that he had terminal
cancer — and less than three months to live.
Three months later...
Lockerbie
bomber Megrahi release reaches six-month milestone. Families who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie
atrocity have called for the bomber's medical records to be published — exactly six months after
he was freed. US victims of the bombing said they wanted to see all the medical evidence that
saw Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi released on the basis that he only had three months to live.
Row
as opposition demand for Lockerbie bomber's medical records. The Scottish government was under
pressure Saturday to release medical documents for the Lockerbie bomber -- six months after he was
released on compassionate grounds for having terminal cancer and supposedly only three months to live.
Lockerbie
bomber Megrahi living in luxury villa. The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing is living with
his family in a luxury villa in Libya six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds
because he had less than three months to live.
Lockerbie
bomber may beat cancer (but wasn't he sent back to Libya to die?) Freed from his life sentence,
the Lockerbie bomber was sent home by the Scots on compassionate grounds because he had 'just three months' to
live. But six months later, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi is still living — and doing it
in the lap of luxury.
Cancer Drug May Keep Lockerbie Bomber Alive in
Libya for 5 Years. The Lockerbie bomber is at the center of a fresh row after it emerged he is
taking a cancer drug that could keep him alive for five more years, The Sun reported.
Freed to die at
home, Pan Am bomber is living large . Seven months after his release from a Scottish prison on
"compassionate" grounds, and four months after prostate cancer was supposed to have killed him, Pan Am
Flight 103 bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi has had a miraculous turn for the better, death-wise. How
very surprising.
Essentially the same forecast was made six months ago.
Lockerbie bomber to die
'within next month'. The Lockerbie bomber is expected to die "within four weeks" of the terminal
cancer that led to his release from a British prison.
Gadhafi's son: Lockerbie
bomber is very sick. The only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, released last year from a
British prison on compassionate grounds, is alive but very sick, the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said
Tuesday [5/25/2010].
Dying
Lockerbie bomber 'could survive for 10 years or more'. The Lockerbie bomber could survive for
10 years or longer, according to a cancer specialist who last year said he would be dead within three
months of his release. Professor Karol Sikora, who assessed Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi for the
Libyan authorities almost a year ago, told The Sunday Times it was "embarrassing" the bomber had outlived his
three-month prognosis. Megrahi, 58, is the only person convicted of the 1988 bombing of a US Pan Am
jumbo jet over Lockerbie, which left 270 dead.
Scotland to Aid
U.S. Probe of Lockerbie Release. The Scottish government said it is prepared to assist with a
coming U.S. Senate hearing on its release last summer of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi,
although it says it has yet to receive any specific requests from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
the inquiry.
Lockerbie Probe May Prove Uncomfortable for Obama
Administration. The four Democratic U.S. senators probing the early release of the Libyan
convicted in the Lockerbie bombing believe there were links to a BP oil deal, but their inquiry may have
the unintended consequence of raising questions about just how strongly the Obama administration opposed
the Libyan's release.
The Lockerbie Bomber: What's the
Story? The bombing was generally believed to have been orchestrated by Libya's dictator, Muammar
al-Gaddafi. Megrahi was a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines.
After a trial in the Netherlands, Megrahi was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he not
be eligible for parole for 20 years. Why anyone would consider paroling a terrorist responsible for
the deaths of 270 people is a question for another day.
Obama Approved
Release of the Lockerbie Bomber. Some folks in Scotland are angry enough to leak to the
Guardian what many of us already suspected. The Lockerbie bomber was released only with our
approval — grudgingly given perhaps — but given nevertheless.
Secret Support for Lockerbie Terrorist
Reveals Need for "Lies Czar" in White House. Barack Obama desperately needs a "Lies Czar"
to keep track of the president's lies so that The One can avoid tripping over his own words.
Obama's latest lie-gone-wrong gaffe involves the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, AKA the Lockerbie
bomber. Just last week, Obama stated publicly that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed
and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.
Lawmakers demand Lockerbie
bomber medical files. Scottish lawmakers demanded Tuesday [8/10/2010] that their government
publish full details of the medical advice that led to the release from prison of the Lockerbie bomber
almost a year ago.
A Year On, Bomber's
Release Spurs Calls. U.S. senators ratcheted up pressure on the Scottish government over its
decision to release the convicted Lockerbie bomber one year ago Friday, sending letters to U.K. and Scottish
leaders demanding an array of medical, legal and diplomatic documents related to the release.
Still
kicking — and laughing. Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi just celebrated the first anniversary
of his freedom. That is, of the inexplicable decision to release him — the lone Libyan terrorist
convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that murdered 270 innocents — from a Scottish prison on the
"compassionate" grounds that he had only three months to live.
Father of 9/11 Victim Fights to Have
'Murdered by Muslim Terrorists' Inscribed on Son's Memorial. Peter Gadiel wants everyone to
remember his son, James, who was killed during the September 11 terrorist attacks. And he also
wants people to remember how he died: "Murdered by Muslim terrorists." For Gadiel, any tribute to
his son would be woefully incomplete without those words. "I think it's important, because I think
there's a nationwide effort to suppress the identity of the people who were involved in the attacks," Gadiel
told Fox News.
Betraying Our
Dead. Eight years ago today, our homeland was attacked by fanatical Muslims inspired by Saudi Arabian
bigotry. Three thousand American citizens and residents died. We resolved that we, the People, would
never forget. Then we forgot. We've learned nothing. Instead of cracking down on Islamist extremism,
we've excused it. Instead of killing terrorists, we free them. Instead of relentlessly hunting Islamist
madmen, we seek to appease them.
Jihadi Training
Compounds, U.S.A. A battle in the war against radical Islam in Detroit was briefly waged on
October 28 when the FBI engaged in a deadly shootout with an extremist imam refusing to be arrested.
The imam was a leader in "Ummah," meaning "the brotherhood," a group said to consist of mostly African-Americans,
many of whom converted in prison. This group isn't the only one trying to create an Islamic state within
the borders of the U.S., and this shoot-out should be expected, unfortunately, to be a sign of more violent
conflict coming down the line in this country with Islamic militant groups.
CAIR: We Have a
Problem. CAIR uses intimidation, blackmail, extortion, and any method a person can imagine to
target individuals who oppose or attempt to bring forth their acts of criminal and/or unethical behavior.
People should think of the Muslim Brotherhood not simply as a mob of thugs, but as a mob of thugs who provide
support to Islamic based terrorist groups who have murdered and continue to murder our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan,
and committed the acts against our country on 11 Sept. 2001.
Replacing Black Power With Militant Islam.
Even with the age of Obama dawning, for too many black Americans life is still fraught with the same old "us
against them" sort of thinking. Where once militant blacks paraded in pseudo military garb claiming the
mantle of "black power" and patterning themselves as "panthers" thrusting an angry fist into the air, now
they cling to the separatist ideals of militant Islam.
Islamic Nations Seek Legally Binding Way to Counter
Religious 'Defamation'. As support wanes for its campaign to secure controversial but
non-binding "defamation of religion" resolutions at the United Nations, the Islamic bloc is pushing
ahead with an alternative route — one that would carry the weight of international law.
Iran: Not a
Theocracy but a Thugocracy. The mullahs are not insisting that Ahmadinejad stay in power
whether or not he got most of the votes. They are saying — and they are saying not only to
the world, but to the Shiite Moslem citizens of Iran — that Ahmadinejad actually got most of the
votes. In other words, these representatives of pure Islam are lying to other Moslems —
Moslems who are their fellow countrymen — about who won the election. Islam does not only
prohibit lying to other Moslems, it also condemns it. Stealing is savagely punished. The mullahs
are stealing votes. They are lying to those they pretend to protect.
Religious
Cleansing in Iran. 'Every aspect of a non-Muslim is unclean," proclaimed Iran's late Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Khomeini. He explained that non-Muslims rank between "feces" and "the sweat of a camel
that has consumed impure food." Other prominent ayatollahs, including Ahmad Jannati, the current
chairman of the Guardian Council, have made similar utterances.
Obama's State Department
Submits to Islam. Here is but the latest act of submission to Islam by your State Department.
A State Department cable has just been sent out with this announcement: The Bureau of International Information
Programs (IIP) has assembled a range of innovative and traditional tools to support Posts' outreach activities
during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. ... Why aren't priests, pastors, etc. invited during Christmas to
give blessings or talk about Christianity in the United States?
An Open
Question to Osama Bin Laden — or Any Other Islamist. The arch-terrorist's real reason for
waging jihad has nothing to do with Israel or U.S. foreign policy.
Is another 9/11 set to
unfold? [Scroll down] [Daniel J.] Hill said the next terrorist attack will involve suitcase
nuclear bombs that will be detonated in small, low-flying two-seater private airplanes manned by men hanging onto the
belief that, like the 9/11 hijackers, they are about to die as martyrs and enter paradise. He is not alone in
suggesting such a scenario. A 2007 book, "The Day of Islam," spells out the details, as do any number of Internet
sites about a plot called "American Hiroshima."
Islam on Capitol Hill? "Our Time Has Come,"
proclaims the Islam on Capitol Hill website. ... Is the Islam on Capitol Hill day of prayer meant to be a declaration
of Islamic supremacism — that Sharia law's "time has come" in the U.S.? It could be the occasion for
a ringing affirmation of adherence to Constitutional pluralism and non-establishment of religion. But it
probably won't be.
No to Islamic Law. Those of us who
argue against Shari'a are sometimes asked why Islamic law poses a problem when modern Western societies long ago
accommodated Halakha, or Jewish law. The answer is easy: a fundamental difference separates the two.
Islam is a missionizing religion, Judaism is not. Islamists aspire to apply Islamic law to everyone, while
observant Jews seek only themselves to live by Jewish law. Two very recent examples from the United
Kingdom demonstrate the innate imperialism of Islamic law.
Fairfax
approves expansion of Islamic academy. Fairfax County supervisors on Monday [8/3/2009] narrowly voted
to let a Saudi-funded Islamic prep school expand its campus on a hazardous country road, capping a months-long debate
that mashed traffic concerns with accusations that the school's curriculum fosters religious intolerance.
Is Democracy the Killer
of Liberty? The very word "Islam" is derived from the root word of "taslim," which means
submission, submission to the will and dictates of Allah as stipulated by Muhammad and elucidated by the
medieval Islamic clerics. Free people withstood the assaults of tyrannies such as fascism and communism
and paid dearly in preserving liberty. Now, liberty is once again in mortal danger. This time, it's
from Islam. And democracy is indeed a great potential friend of the enemy.
A Tale of Two Constitutions. Last
Sunday's conference was titled, "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam," and it's was held at the Hilton
Hotel in a suburb of Chicago. The shocking part of this story is that the majority of US lawmakers were silent
about this gathering of avowed enemies of the US Constitution and American values. Those who did speak out
made certain to preface their remarks with the old cliché "they are exercising their First Amendment
rights." That was the rationale given by the management at Hilton Hotels, as well.
The Islamist Who Served on
the Electoral College. Election 2008 proved historic on a number of levels, but one milestone passed
without the recognition it deserves. When the Electoral College convened on December 15 to ratify the
citizens' choice of Barack Obama as the next president, Jafar "Jeff" Siddiqui of Lynnwood, Washington, became the
first known Islamist to cast an electoral vote.
Invasion By Immigration.
The late British parliamentarian Enoch Powell warned more than 40 years ago that Britain had to be mad to
allow in 50,000 dependents of immigrants every year. Powell, who was denounced as a racist and a xenophobe
by the intellectual elites, compared it to watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
In retrospect, Powell looks like a prophet.
Fascism 101.
Nazism was supremacist. Hitler preached that Germans and Aryans were a master race, born to rule the world.
Militant Islamists — whether Shiite (like Khomeini) or Sunni (like Osama bin Laden) — also are
supremacist, though they substitute religion for race, the "Nation of Islam" for the German nation. They claim
Muslims — led by them — have a divine right to rule. The Nazis believed their triumph
would come through a glorious war. The Islamists believe their triumph will come through a glorious holy
war — a jihad against infidels and the West. The Nazis believed that only men, not women, are
fit to lead and wield power. The Islamists concur.
NYC
Muslims push to add holidays to school year. Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between
a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose
both. Hassan, 17, is one of thousands of Muslim students in the city who must perform a balancing act
between his academic and religious obligations during his holidays. But the nation's largest school
district hasn't sanctioned official Muslim holidays. "People came to this country for freedom of
religion," Hassan said. "We're just asking for fair and equal treatment."
The Editor says...
You should think twice before asking for fair treatment in New York City, Moneeb. They
just might give it to you.
One-Way Free Speech.
On July 19th, a conference entitled "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" took place as scheduled at
the Hilton Hotel in Oak Lawn, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. There, in the heartland of a post 9/11 America,
Hizb-ut Tahrir, an international organization outlawed as a terrorist group in several European and Middle East
countries, sponsored sessions focusing on strategies to end free enterprise and replace it with Shari'ah law.
When You Lie Down with Pythons.
Nestled on lovely two-lane bypass, Popes Head Road, some 21 miles from Washington, DC, the Islamic Saudi
Academy (ISA) is a private K-12 school founded and financed by the Government of Saudi Arabia. The fully
accredited ISA declares that it "promotes respect and mutual understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims,
Arabs and Americans while keeping within the Muslim faith."
Imam at Windy City Islamist confab:
We'll fight til 'Islam Becomes Victorious
or We Die in the Attempt'. Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the international movement to re-establish an
international Islamic state, or Caliphate, kicked off a new campaign to win American recruits Sunday afternoon
[7/19/2009] in this Chicago suburb. Nearly 300 people packed the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton Hotel
for its Khalifah Conference on "The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam" to listen to HT ideologues blame
capitalism for World War I and World War II; the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown; the current
violence in Iraq and Afghanistan; world poverty and malnutrition and inner-city drug use.
Pope
expresses 'deep respect' for Islam. Pope Benedict XVI expressed deep respect for Islam Friday
[5/8/2009] and said he hopes the Catholic Church can play a role in Mideast peace as he began his first trip
to the region, where he hopes to improve frayed ties with Muslims.
Civilization and Mosques:
The entire globe is Islam's religious ambition and field of conquest. Bombings and attacks in New York and London,
Madrid and Moscow, Bali and Mumbai, Jerusalem and Balsan, are not isolated or discrete instances of local theatre
low-intensive assaults, but components of a pattern of coordinated and executed warfare of a very singular kind.
Where are the "separation of church and state" activists now?
Muslim
Group Giving 100,000 Qur'ans to Elected Officials. On the premise that nothing makes a better
gift than a good book, a Muslim civil liberties group is launching a campaign to hand out 100,000 free copies
of an expensive Arabic-English copy of the Qur'an to elected officials and influential policy makers.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is planning to announce their campaign at a press conference
Tuesday [6/30/2009].
Hijab
bullies want everyone to cover up. Lawful Islamists use two general strategies to advance
their agenda: they request that Muslims be granted special privileges and, more broadly, they seek to
impose their ways on others.
The Other Intelligence Failure.
There is some kind of suicide-supply chain working in the Muslim world and in Iraq that is able to draw recruits,
connect them with bomb makers and deploy them tactically against U.S. and Iraqi targets on an almost daily
basis. What is even more unnerving about these suicide bombers is that, unlike the Hamas crew in Israel,
who produce videos of themselves, explain their rationale and say goodbye to families, virtually all the
bombers in Iraq have blown themselves up without even telling us their names.
Nobody
wants a terrorist for a neighbor. President Barack Obama made a serious mistake when he decided
to close the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without first figuring out where to put the
240 detainees held there. Most of these people are hard-core jihadists whose main goal in life
is to kill Americans. Obama can call it an "overseas contingency operation," but for the Gitmo
detainees it is a declared war against us and terrorism is their weapon of choice.
Man convicted in NY of trying to start terror
camp. A jury convicted a Lebanese-born Swede on Tuesday [5/12/2009] of plotting to help al-Qaida
recruit by trying to set up a weapons-training post in Oregon and distributing terrorist training manuals over
the Internet.
The Somali Pirates Are Jihadists. Let's not
lose sight of who [Captain Richard] Phillips' captors were. His Somali pirate captors are Islamic jihadists,
dedicated to the same goals as Osama bin Laden and other jihadists around the world. In August 2008, when the
pirates became especially active off the Horn of Africa, Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance
Programme, declared that Al-Shabaab, a group of jihadists in Somalia, use piracy to fund their jihad: "According to
our information, the money they make from piracy and ransoms goes to support al-Shabaab activities onshore."
Where Credit Is Due.
The United States should start calling these "pirates" by their true name. They are Islamic terrorists who make millions
in ransom from ship hijackings and kidnappings. They don't buy fancy cars and big houses like members of some drug
cartels. Instead, they use the money to finance terrorism around the world.
Somali Pirates Form Unholy Alliance
with Islamists. Warships have done little to deter Somalia's pirates. But following the
latest spate of hijackings, the West plans to take a more robust approach to protecting shipping.
Intelligence agencies are alarmed at the pirates' increasingly close ties to Islamist groups.
Walking the plank. All of the arguments of the
wimp world view are predictably trotted out on issues like this: that violence only begets more violence, that
we shouldn't in our arrogance claim the right to police the high seas and summarily dispatch justice, that this and other
problems can only be addressed in multilateral fashion with U.N. approval. All of it is completely wrong.
Piracy is a criminal act and a criminal act only.
Show Me the Mullah. I am
struck by the lack of coverage in the media of the obvious beneficiary of the rise in Somali piracy. Let's just
ask the question; who stands to gain from this phenomenon? It's pretty simple really. The piracy in the
northern Indian Ocean raises large sums of money for fundamentalist Mullahs and puts a big hurt on Suez Canal traffic.
This piracy is a de facto extension of the strategy behind the assassination of Anwar Sadat and busloads of foreign
tourists.
War and
Peace — and Deceit — in Islam (Part 1). Amazingly, for all the talk that Islam is
constantly being "misunderstood" or "misinterpreted" by "radicals," the fact is, as opposed to most other religions, Islam
is a clearly defined faith admitting of no ambiguity: indeed, according to Sharia (i.e., "Islam's way of life," more
commonly translated as "Islamic law") every conceivable human act is categorized as being either forbidden, discouraged,
permissible, recommended, or obligatory. "Common sense" or "universal opinion" has little to do with Islam's notions
of right and wrong.
War and
Peace — and Deceit — in Islam (Part 2). The fact that Islam legitimizes deceit during
war cannot be all that surprising; as the saying goes, all's fair in love and war. Moreover, non-Muslim thinkers and
philosophers, such as Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, and Hobbes, all justified deceit in war. The crucial difference, however,
is that, according to all four recognized schools of Sunni jurisprudence, war against the infidel goes on in
perpetuity — until "all chaos ceases, and all religion belongs to Allah" (Koran 8:39).
Clear and Present
Danger. The most dangerous men currently incarcerated at Guantánamo are the 14 "high value"
detainees. The Bush administration gave them this designation because they are uniquely lethal, having
planned and participated in the most devastating terrorist attacks in history. Their collective dossier
includes, among other attacks, 9/11, the American embassy bombings (August 7, 1998), the USS Cole
bombing (October 12, 2000), and the Bali bombings (October 12, 2002). They are responsible for
murdering thousands of civilians around the globe, from the eastern United States to Southeast Asia. Had
they not been captured, they surely would have murdered thousands more.
How
Britain's mosques foster extremism. Today, there are between 1,200 and 1,600 mosques in
Britain — no definite figure exists. Yesterday, the Charity Commission sought to gloss
over the malaise in them by publishing figures on attendance, but not inquiring into difficult
areas. At Quilliam, Britain's first counter-extremism think-tank, we commissioned a poll
of more than 1,000 mosques in 2008, during Ramadan when mosques are busiest. Despite
employing Urdu and Bengali-speaking researchers, we could poll only just over 500. Most
British mosques don't maintain a reception or service to answer questions, and not every one
we did reach was willing to answer.
Cruel and Usual
Punishment. Every time I tried to find a solution to all the ills of Muslim society, such as jihad, oppression
of women and minorities, I was confronted with an Islamic law that stood in the way of a solution. Having been born
and raised as a Muslim who lived under Sharia for 30 years of my life, I know first hand the destructive impact of
sharia on the healthy functioning of society and its total disregard for basic human rights.
Imaginary Islamist
Think-Tanks. Despite what the pessimists say, there is one industry that is still flourishing in the UK.
It consists of Islamists establishing their own think-tanks and pressure groups. They serve little purpose other than
to bestow legitimacy upon ill-informed, extremist Muslim speakers, who can then attend conferences and get media access
under the façade of expertise.
Playing on both sides of the fence...
Episcopal
priest with Muslim beliefs defrocked. An Episcopal priest has been defrocked for refusing to
recant her faith in Islam, Rhode Island Bishop Geralyn Wolf said Wednesday [4/1/2009]. Ann Holmes
Redding's expulsion from the priesthood was two years in the making. Wolf first learned in June 2007
that Redding had become a Muslim when she recited the Shahadah — the Islam creed testifying to
Allah as the only God and Muhammad as his prophet.
Who's Sorry Now?
In 2000, at a state dinner in Washington, Secretary of State Madeline Albright ... said the U.S. "must bear
its full share of responsibility for the problems that have arisen in U.S.-Iranian relations." Those
problems presumably include Hezbollah, created and supported by Iran, killing 243 American soldiers in their
Beirut barracks in 1983. Before 9/11, Hezbollah was responsible for killing more Americans than any
other terrorist group. They have never apologized for this and other actions.
Free Speech Is Great,
But ... Accusations of "Islamophobia" have been used as a cudgel to shut down debate even in Canada, where
Islamic groups have used the law to try to silence National Review's Mark Steyn and others. We are seeing a similar
dynamic here. Obviously, the challenge that immigration-driven multiculturalism poses to free speech here is the
decaf, low-calorie version of what Europe and Canada face. The cultural distance between our society and the bulk
of our immigrants is much smaller than in Europe, and we have a much stronger sense of ourselves, which has resulted in
more success in getting newcomers to assimilate.
Islam-Speak:
It has become very clear that in the West, we have a fundamental misunderstanding of Islam. Its history,
guiding principles, and more importantly, what it means to a Muslim when he uses certain terms. In order
to understand what Muslims mean when they use a certain word, we must remember that in their minds and
cultures, certain words do not mean anything like the accepted meaning we have for them in the West.
Taliban
from Outer Space. [Scroll down] When girls and women are denied education or even health
care and are executed by their own kin for minor infractions against the cult, how does that square with our
insistence that all men want greater opportunities for the kids? What about those Afghan parents who
approve of or even encourage suicidal attacks by their sons? This not only confounds our value system,
but defies biological reason.
Human Rights vs.
Islamic Rights. [Scroll down] The pre-cursor to the Cairo Declaration was the Universal
Islamic Declaration of Human Rights, first proclaimed in the 1980's by the Islamic Council at the International
Conference on the Prophet Mohammad and His Message. The document was rooted in the belief that Allah alone
is the law giver and the source of all laws. ... Cairo, unlike the UNDHR is anything but a religion-neutral
document. On the contrary, it overtly asserts that Islam is superior over other religions, and that the
Islamic ummah is the "best nation".
South
Florida: Learn about Islam, ads say. South Florida Muslims launched an ad campaign Tuesday
with banners on more than 120 buses urging Floridians to learn more about Islam. For eight weeks, buses in
Broward and Miami-Dade counties will carry messages like "Islam: Got Questions? Get answers."
The Editor says...
Educating the public about Islam is what this page is all about.
Hamas backers jailed in Texas. Two founder members
of what was once the biggest Muslim charity in the US have each been jailed for 65 years. Shukri Abu Baker, 50,
and Ghassan Elashi, 55, were convicted of channelling funds to the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.
Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts. A
jury on Monday [11/24/2008] determined that the Holy Land Foundation and five men who worked with the Muslim
charity were guilty of three dozen counts related to the illegal funneling of at least $12 million to
the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The unanimous verdicts are a complete victory for the government,
which streamlined its case after a mistrial last year, and worked hard to carefully educate jurors on the
complex evidence presented in the massive case.
The dangerous illusion of
independent terrorists. It may be that since the 9/11 attacks in New York, the world has completely
misconceived the age of terror. The radical increase in the lethality, range, political consequence and strategic
influence of terrorists comes not from their being non-state actors at all. Instead it comes from their being
sponsored by states. Sometimes they are the instruments of states and at other times they make strategic alliances
with states. A terrorist group operating without any state sponsorship is an infinitely less dangerous outfit
than a terrorist group operating with the co-operation of even the most ramshackle state.
Jewish Museum of Tolerance Is Intolerable to
Muslims. A planned Museum of Tolerance in western Jerusalem is creating another rift between Jews and
Muslims. An American Muslim group says the museum is going up on the site of a Muslim cemetery and it wants
construction stopped. Israel's supreme court, however, ruled that the museum is being built on land that's
been used for decades as a parking lot without complaint from Muslims.
Fear and the Future of Islam: Fear is a
primal human emotion. It is also a tool of the weak, the impatient, and those who having sensed a deficit of
power, feel that they have no other recourse than to use it to subdue their presumed enemies. These people are
called terrorists. But the terrorist does not seek to merely inspire fear for its own sake. He seeks to
bring about change. He hopes that those whom he terrorizes will be persuaded to reconsider their positions.
Hence the terrorist is not only the weakest but also the least imaginative of all change agents.
Enough of Radical Islam.
Enough with the pseudonyms. Western civilization isn't at war with terrorism any more than it is at war with grenades.
Western civilization is at war with militant Islam, which dominates Muslim communities all over the world. Militant
Islam isn't a tiny minority of otherwise goodhearted Muslims. Its a dominant strain of evil that runs rampant in a
population of well over 1 billion.
Messages From Mumbai:
The threat of Islamo-Nazi terror remains real and urgent, and Americans must not take our safety for granted. While
both the public and the president-elect focus almost exclusively on our dire economic challenges, we tend to dismiss
the possibility of new terrorist attacks on American soil.
An American challenges England's 'libel tourism'.
[Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz's] frenzied use of the High Court in London to silence the media began in earnest
after the 9/11 attacks on America. As a defendant in lawsuits brought by families of the 9/11 victims and others
against al Qaida's financiers, he tries to squash any information about his activities.
The New Presumption of Transparency.
"If information cannot be freely exchanged, if journalists must fear being sued over information reported in
good faith on matters crucial to our defense, matters such as the financial networks supporting jihadist terror,
then we cannot make sound security policy," former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said at a recent conference
on "libel lawfare." This is a useful term to describe lawsuits to suppress facts about radical Islam and
terrorism.
Silencing Speech: There
are those members of the radical Muslim community who wish to silence their opponents via legal means.
The goal is to instill fear and to create an undue fiscal burden on those who speak out against them, so that
the truth about their dangerous agendas will never reach the public.
Size of Islamist menace:
Gallup polled more than 50,000 Muslims across 10 countries and found that, if one defines radicals as those who
deemed the 9/11 attacks "completely justified", their number constitutes about 7 percent of the total
population. But if one includes Muslims who considered the attacks "largely justified", their ranks
jump to 13.5 percent. Adding those who deemed the attacks "somewhat justified" boosts the number
of radicals to 36.6 percent. Which figure should one adopt?
You Must Remember This.
"We are in the process of an historical war between the World of Arrogance and the Islamic world," Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has declared, "and this war has been going on for hundreds of years." "We are not fighting so that you
will offer us something," said Hussein Massawi, a former leader of Hezbollah. "We are fighting to eliminate you."
"Rome will become an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread though Europe in its entirety, and then will
turn to the two Americas, even Eastern Europe," Yunis al-Astal, a Muslim cleric and Hamas parliamentarian has pledged.
Criminalizing
Criticism of Islam: There are strange happenings in the world of international jurisprudence
that do not bode well for the future of free speech. In an unprecedented case, a Jordanian court is
prosecuting 12 Europeans in an extraterritorial attempt to silence the debate on radical Islam. The
prosecutor general in Amman charged the 12 with blasphemy, demeaning Islam and Muslim feelings, and slandering
and insulting the prophet Muhammad in violation of the Jordanian Penal Code. The charges are especially
unusual because the alleged violations were not committed on Jordanian soil.
Iran and the Problem of
Evil: The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes — from
Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis — who swear to destroy us and others
like us. Like their 20th-century predecessors, they openly proclaim their intentions, and carry them out whenever and
wherever they can. Like our own 20th-century predecessors, we rarely take them seriously or act accordingly.
Amerabia:
On May 4, an ominous alarm was sounded in a Pajamas Media column by Youssef Ibrahim, a former New York Times
reporter. Mr. Ibrahim is an astute critic of the Islamists' steady, tireless and increasingly
effective efforts to impose — on Muslims and non-Muslims alike — the repressive theo-political-legal agenda
they call Shariah law. He warned that "In the very real war on terror, a noisy squabble over 'fighting them
there so we don't have to fight them here' clouds a simple truth: namely, that 'they' are here already.
Indeed, Islamists are busy constructing a wing of jihad in America's backyard."
Stealth
Jihad or Hysteria? During the recent Tyson Chicken controversy, I published an article at
FrontPage in which I argued that Tyson and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) should not
have agreed to make Eid al-Fitr a paid day off for employees at the Tyson plant in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on
the grounds that it set a bad precedent for accommodation of Islamic practices at a time when the Muslim
Brotherhood is pressing forward a stealth jihad agenda of trying to impose Islamic Sharia law bit by bit and make
American businesses and individuals grow used to the idea that Muslims must have special accommodation.
Islamic States and Thought Crimes: The Thug's
Ideal. The topic of my talk was theocracy and Islamic law. Islamic governments, as ideological
states founded on claims to divine revelation, must jail — or worse — those who speak
out against the clerics. This was the thug's ideal: In lieu of rationally demonstrating the "truth" of
his beliefs, he would criminalize me, or jail me, or perhaps kill me, to stop the spread of ideas contrary to
his. In Iran, this ideal has already been achieved; there I would have been arrested, condemned, and
thrown into solitary confinement.
To
submit to the book is to exist in their hell. It is a book that contends that the greatest act of
worship an individual can aspire to is committing suicide, while taking the life of a sinner. The author
has 99 names but not one of them appears on the cover. This book demands total submission by its
readers. And has captured the imagination of more than a billion people.
What Do Muslims
Want? For many people, religious practice — striving to obey God's
commandments — is a high priority, the highest, even. Yet this priority can come into conflict with
the character of the society in which one lives. This is undoubtedly the case for devout Muslims who
voluntarily relocate to Western nations. This invariably will compromise what many of them profess to be
their ultimate priority: living in accordance to the divine laws of Allah (i.e., sharia — most
of which is derived from the words and deeds of seventh-century Mohammad).
Truly
endangered species: The world is increasingly at risk from a far more imminent threat, one
[Al] Gore and his ilk seem content to ignore. In fact, the caviling about global warming can be
seen as a deflection from a menace that is at hand and that risks turning vast human populations into
endangered species: the rapidly metastasizing, totalitarian ideology of our time that has come
to be known as Islamofascism or, alternatively, Islamism.
Most suicide bombers are
Muslim. Suicide missions are not always religiously motivated, but according to Oxford
University sociologist Diego Gambetta, editor of Making Sense of Suicide Missions, when religion is
involved, the attackers are always Muslim. Why? The surprising answer is that Muslim suicide
bombing has nothing to do with Islam or the Quran (except for two lines). It has a lot to do with
sex, or, in this case, the absence of sex. What distinguishes Islam from other major religions is
that it tolerates polygyny. ... It is the combination of polygyny and the promise of a large harem of
virgins in heaven that motivates many young Muslim men to commit suicide bombings.
"-------" Terrorism.
Yesterday, Muneer Fareed, head of the Islamic Society of North America, called for John McCain to cease using
the terms Muslim or Islamic in describing — Mohammedan? — terrorism.
In fact, it
does no such thing. The modifiers "Islamic" and "Muslim" are critical in helping to identify the
methodology, motivation, and personnel working against us. What does paint the moderate Muslim community
"in a very negative way" is Fareed's evident refusal to face up to a blunt fact: people calling
themselves Muslims have waged a war against people they've labeled infidels.
Muslim Groups Take Issue With McCain's Vocabulary.
using the word "Islamic" to describe terrorists. The Washington Times reports Islamic Society of North America's
secretary general wants McCain to use something he calls "more acceptable to the Muslim community."
But
McCain strategist Steve Schmidt says there will be no changes. "The reality is, the hateful ideology
which underpins bin Ladenism is properly described as radical Islamic extremism. Senator McCain refers
to it that way because that is what it is."
Muslim call to adopt Mecca time to replace
GMT. Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily prayers. The
call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of
the Earth, Theory and Practice. One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in
perfect alignment to magnetic north. He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world
by force when Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed.
The Editor says...
Attention poorly educated Muslims: The magnetic poles migrate, so no point is "perfectly aligned"
with them for long.
Obama
and Islamic Jihad. It is conventional wisdom that the United States, or the West in general, can
make the global jihad problem go away by doing something that is not being done now, or by stopping doing
something else. The possibility that the jihad might have arisen not as a reaction to actions of
America and the West — and cannot be ended by our actions, either, with the possible exception of
overwhelming military and cultural force — never seems to occur to anyone.
Jihad Comes to
Wall Street. If you've seen Geert Wilders's film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single
headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam's eventual world domination:
Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of
radical Islam's efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within.
A
movie and a conversion: Europe begins to resist? Some analysts of Islam in Western Europe argue
that the continent cannot escape its Eurabian fate; that the trend lines of the past half-century will continue
until Muslims become a majority population and Islamic law (the Shari'a) reigns. I disagree, arguing that
there is another route the continent might take, one of resistance to Islamification and a reassertion of
traditional ways.
I've never heard anybody say this before.
Imam casts doubt over existence of bin
Laden. The leader of Muslim imams in Norway said Monday [9/11/2006] that many Muslims feel
they've been under collective suspicion since September 11, 2001. He also questioned whether
Osama bin Laden actually exists.
Why the Islamists will never
win: Their apocalyptic vision of a world violently subjugated to their benighted
interpretation of the will of Allah is unattainable.
The
War on Islamic Terror: Four Key Concepts. The war on terror represents the culmination of
events set in motion centuries ago, back when the social evolution of humanity hit a fork in the road.
Down one path lay the Enlightenment, the path taken by predominantly Judeo-Christian peoples. Down the
other path lay a return to the Middle Ages, the path taken by predominantly Islamic peoples.
Evangelicals'
issue: Radical Islam. From one perspective, branding "radical Islam" as a family values
issue is yet another example of the broadening of the evangelical agenda. But next November, it also
could energize one of the Republican Party's key voting blocs, much like anti-gay marriage measures did in
2004. "It's the ultimate life issue," said Rick Scarborough, president of the Texas-based conservative
Christian group Vision America. "If radical Islam succeeds in its ultimate goals, Christianity ceases
to exist."
Thanks but No Thanksgiving.
[S]ome Muslims in the West seem to be making the argument
that Islam cannot integrate smoothly, or is entirely
incompatible, with Western values and traditions.
A Toronto mosque called, National Post reports,
The Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque says to "avoid participating" in dinners, parties or greetings on Thanksgiving
because it is a kuffaar, or non-Muslim, celebration. Not only is this surprising, but the term
kuffaar is a derogatory one meaning "ingrate" that was once applied to slaves.
How
I nearly lost my business. It seems too lunatic to be true. But here a hair salon boss reveals
how she was driven to the brink of ruin — and forced to pay £4,000 for 'hurt
feelings' — after refusing to hire a Muslim stylist who wouldn't show her hair at work.
The
Muslim Accomplishments That Weren't: Individual Muslims have been successful in the full range
of the human scientific and artistic endeavor. But a closer examination of these successes reveals that
they came about because these individuals stepped outside of the Muslim realm.
Welcome Back, Carter. Now that our
silver-tongued president has gone to Cairo to soothe Muslims' hurt feelings, they love us again! Muslims in
Pakistan expressed their appreciation for President Barack Obama's speech by bombing a fancy hotel in Peshawar
this week. Operating on the liberal premise that what Arabs really respect is weakness, Obama listed,
incorrectly, Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient
Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries (huh?).
Minister warns of 'inbred'
Muslims. A government minister has warned that inbreeding among immigrants is causing a surge
in birth defects — comments likely to spark a new row over the place of Muslims in British society.
Phil Woolas, an environment minister, said the culture of arranged marriages between first cousins was the
"elephant in the room".
The gene pool needs some chlorine!
Research
reveals new syndrome in inbred Arab family. Researchers at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center and the
Technion's medical school have for the first time identified a rare syndrome — among five of 11 children
born to Israeli Arab first cousins who married — that combines baldness, mental retardation and
neurological problems that make walking difficult.
Don't Pity the Polar Bear, Pity the Endangered Liberal.
The Polar Bear population has actually been on the rise and while theoretical climate change computer models may claim that the Polar
Bear will be in trouble — all told the Polar has it pretty good. For one thing
the Polar Bear can fairly safely
cross from floe to floe without expecting to encounter a suicide bomber, an Iranian missile or some hate imprinted denizen of the
Middle East who has been fasting for a month and thinks Polar Bears are an abomination unless draped in black sackcloth. That
is the Polar Bear is fairly safe because unlike the rest of us, it lives far up North and well away from any major Islamic population
centers, which are the real threat.
We're far
too nice to Muslim extremists. Of British Muslims aged 16-24, 37% would prefer to live under
sharia in Britain, 37% would like to send their children to Islamic state schools and — most
incredibly — 36% think Muslims converting to another religion should be punished by death. … The
usual immigrant experience of gradual integration has failed for more than a third of Muslims. All the
exhaustive and intrusive efforts of the race relations industry have been counter-productive.
Islam's War for World Mastery: "During the Cold
War, two things came to be known and generally recognized in the Middle East concerning the two rival
superpowers. If you did anything to annoy the Russians, punishment would be swift and dire. If you
said or did anything against the Americans, not only would there be no punishment; there might even be some
possibility of reward." Thus wrote the eminent historian Bernard Lewis in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
Radical
Islam, not Bush, is the enemy. Before I mention the possible consequences of leaving Iraq, I'd
like to mention an often overlooked result of our pulling out of Vietnam in 1973. Within two years of our
leaving Southeast Asia, much of that region had fallen to brutal communist regimes, and several million innocent
civilians were slaughtered by the communist Khmer Rouge in the killing fields of Cambodia, as well as hundreds
of thousands of Vietnamese killed by their new communist government. The United States, the United Nations
and the rest of the world did nothing. However, as bad as this was, it will be small compared to what will
likely happen when we withdraw from Iraq with our tails tucked between our legs yet again.
Why
radical Islam — and why now? Read any newspaper or turn on any news broadcast and you're bound
to encounter stories of Islamic radicals fighting, killing and threatening each other — and just about
everyone else. … Shiite and Sunni militias, each claiming to represent true Islam, keep slaughtering
each other in Iraq.
Lurching
toward radicalism. The homegrown plot to blow up transatlantic flights has intensified fears
that the 1.6 million Muslims in Britain are rejecting political tolerance and free speech for a
violent, radicalized version of Islam. Do British Muslims really pose a threat to that country
and its traditional values? Some answers are provided by the most comprehensive survey to date of
Muslim opinion in Britain.
Free
CDs won't stop terrorists. The [British] Prime Minister is known to be increasingly frustrated by
the failure of the Government's existing strategy for ensuring that Muslims in Britain understand, absorb and
adopt British values, especially those of tolerance, and the renunciation of terrorism. That strategy,
whose ethos is summed up by the broad banner of "multiculturalism", has been a spectacular failure. The
present generation of Muslims is, if anything, less integrated, more isolated, and more hostile to British
values than its parents were.
If You're a Muslim — It's Your
Problem. When will the Muslims of Britain stand up to be counted? When will they
declare, loud and clear, with no qualifications or quibbles about Britain's foreign policy, that
Islamic terrorism is WRONG? Most of all, when will the Muslim
community in this country accept an absolute, undeniable, total truth: that Islamic terrorism
is THEIR problem? THEY own it. And it
is THEIR duty to face it and eradicate it.
Information on Islam: History and
archeology show clearly that Allah was worshipped as a pagan moon god long before Mohammed came on the scene.
Robert Morey, author of The Islamic Invasion, explains:
"Islam's origins have been traced back by scholars to the ancient fertility religion of
the worship of the moon god which was always the dominant religion of Arabia. The moon god was worshipped
by praying toward Mecca several times a day, making an annual pilgrimage to the Kabah which was a temple of the
moon god, running around the Kabah seven times, caressing an idol of a black stone set in the wall of the Kabah,
running between two hills, making animal sacrifices, gathering on Fridays for prayers, giving alms to the poor,
etc. These were pagan rites practiced by the Arabs long before Muhammad was born."
Muslims
can never conform to our ways. Ministers appear whimsically to be shifting from the multi-cultural
society towards an integrated one. They are whistling in the dark if they think that will play well with
the followers of Islam in our midst. Muslims are rooted in their faith and it governs the way they
live. It is the only faith on Earth that persuades its followers to seek political power and
impose a law — sharia — which shapes everyone's style of life.
What it means to live by Muhammad's words and
deeds: Every aspect of Islamic practice and belief finds its basis in Muhammad's words and
deeds. … The mistreatment of women, polygamy, child-marriage, stoning of adulterers, cutting off the
hands of thieves, mutilation of enemy corpses, the sentence of death for apostasy, the subjection of dhimmi or
Christians and Jews, even the killing of writers who displease the faithful — all have their
precedents in the things Muhammad said and did.
Multiple
wives will mean multiple benefits. Husbands with multiple wives have been given
the go-ahead to claim extra welfare benefits following a year-long Government review, The Sunday
Telegraph can reveal. Even though bigamy is a crime in Britain, the decision by ministers
means that polygamous marriages can now be recognised formally by the state, so long as the
weddings took place in countries where the arrangement is legal. The outcome will chiefly
benefit Muslim men with more than one wife, as is permitted under Islamic law.
Georgia Mayor Converts to
Islam. Mayor Jack Ellis has converted to Islam and is working to change his legal name to Hakim
Mansour Ellis. Ellis, 61, a Macon native who was raised Christian, said he became a Sunni Muslim during
a December ceremony in the west African nation of Senegal.
The D'Souza Follies:
Today's jihadist predilection for suicide attacks is a matter of technological progress making possible what
had hitherto been impossible; it does not represent a theological divergence from traditional Islam.
Suicide attack recruiters today point to Qur'an 9:111, which guarantees Paradise to those who "kill and are
killed" for Allah. This was not added into the Qur'an by contemporary Muslims, and has been acted upon by
Muslims in the past: Andrew Bostom has found that John Paul Jones encountered suicide attacks by Muslim
Turks in 1788.
The Colonial War Against Islam:
America has been fighting Islamists for longer than many realize. Even before independence was declared,
American ships were pirated and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control
of the "Dey of Algiers" — an Ottoman Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. When the colonists rebelled against
British rule in 1776, American ships lost Royal Navy protection. A Revolutionary War-era alliance with
France offered French protection to US ships, but it expired in 1783.
A
courageous voice against the Muslim bullyboys. The Giraffe Heroes Project is an American
organisation that celebrates the lives of ordinary people who stick their necks out for the common good.
As its president, Anne Medlock, writes: "In stories back to the dawn of time, the healing of the wasteland
has come only when someone refuses to be passive and summons up the courage to ignore all the naysayers, go
forth, and slay whatever dragon has scared everybody else into terrified passivity.
The Dark
Ages — Live From the Middle East! Who would have thought centuries after the
Enlightenment that sophisticated Europeans — in fear of radical Islamists — would be
afraid to write a novel, put on an opera, draw a cartoon, film a documentary or have their pope discuss
comparative theology?
The veiled conceit of
multiculturalism. How tolerant must a free society be of those who are intolerant of the values
it holds dear? This question is at the heart of a controversy that has flared up in Britain over the
past fortnight concerning Muslim women who wear nikabs, burkas and other face coverings that allow little
more than the eyes to be seen.
John
Conyers And The Muslim Caucus. The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he's
just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But
he is in the pocket of Islamists. John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the
largest Arab population in the country. His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed "Dearbornistan"
by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.
Britain stops talk of 'war on
terror'. Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase 'war on
terror' and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the
Islamic world. The shift marks a turning point in British political thinking about the strategy against
extremism and underlines the growing gulf between the British and American approaches to the continuing
problem of radical Islamic militancy.
Brits End the "War on
Terror". If Muslim leaders are correct when saying that the bin Ladens, al-Zawahiris, and Hassan
Nasrallahs of the world don't equal Islam, then it inextricably follows that our actions against those terrorists
do not equal an attack on Islam — once separated, always separated. As I've argued before, if it's
wrong to assume guilt based on ethnicity, then it's equally wrong to shield guilt based on ethnicity. Why
is this concept such a daunting challenge to surmount?
Females fight ritual
mutilation. Siham Rabiyah was 12 when her uncles sliced her genitals to uphold her family
honour. She remembers the searing pain, the crowd around her and the blood, but little else about the
day of her mutilation in the coastal Yemeni city of Aden. … From behind her black burka in Sana'a, the
capital of Yemen, Siham says she wants to talk about what happened to her to highlight the practice of female
circumcision, which is still ritually performed in many areas of coastal Yemen and throughout the Middle East.
Better late than never.
Adopt
our values or stay away, says Blair. Tony Blair formally declared Britain's multicultural
experiment over yesterday [12/09/2006] as he told immigrants they had "a duty" to integrate with the mainstream
of society. In a speech that overturned more than three decades of Labour support for the idea, he set out
a series of requirements that were now expected from ethnic minority groups if they wished to call themselves
British.
Submit or
Die. Many commentators have noted the apparent irony: The pope suggests Islam encourages
violence — and Muslims riot in protest. Many commentators have pointed out the apparent
hypocrisy: Muslims are outraged by cartoons satirizing Islamic extremism while in Muslim countries
Christianity and Judaism are attacked viciously and routinely. Many commentators are missing the
point: These protesters — and those who incite them — are not asking for
mutual respect and equality.
Terrorists'
excuse du jour. If you've ever stood up to a bully, you know how this works. Confrontation
tends to increase the chances of violence in the short term but decreases its likelihood in the long term.
Any hunter will tell you that the most dangerous moment is when you've cornered an animal, and any cop will
tell you that standing up to muggers puts you in danger.
Children As Bombs: As if things
weren't crazy enough already in the Middle East, here's the officially sanctioned message in sixth-grade
Palestinian textbooks for 11- and 12-year-old kids: "The noble soul has two goals: death and the
desire for it." The goal isn't to build magnificent skyscrapers or write brilliant novels or to work on
cures for the world's most lethal diseases. The noble goal for the noble soul is as simple as strapping
on a dynamite belt and blowing oneself into a million pieces in an Israeli pizza shop.
No more ambulances for terror.
What kind of cold-blooded thugs use ambulances as killing aids or propaganda tools? Islamic terrorists,
of course, have an unsurpassed history of using emergency vehicles as tools of their murderous trade.
International charities and media dupes have gone along for the ride.
8-10-2006 — Was
This Meant As Next 9/11? Its scope was ruthlessly ambitious, causing destruction officials
say would have been "unimaginable." The alleged plot to take down several U.S.-bound planes with
liquid explosives appears to be unlike anything the world has seen in years.
It's
Fascism — And It's Islamic. George Bush recently declared that we are at war
with "Islamic fascism." Muslim-American groups were quick to express furor at the expression. Middle
Eastern autocracies complained that it was provocative and insensitive. Critics of the term chosen by the
president, however, should remember what al-Qaida, the Taliban, Hezbollah, Hamas and other extremist Muslim
groups have said and done. Like the fascists of the 1930s, the leaders of these groups are authoritarians
who brook no dissent in their efforts to impose a comprehensive system of submission upon the unwilling.
The
Islamofascist threat. If a small nuclear bomb went off in Grand Central Station, there
would be no known enemy to bomb in return. If this is a real threat, then the war in Iraq
makes sense.
Do profile;
don't tell. In the wake of last week's foiled terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners
flying between Britain and the United States, sensible people are reconsidering our government's stubborn
opposition to profiling.
At last!
Green
Light For Profiling. Nearly seven years after the 9-11 attacks, the Bush administration is
finally reconsidering its opposition to one of the most effective counterterrorism weapons at its disposal.
In the months ahead, FBI agents may be able to profile potential terrorists on the basis of suspicious traits and
activities, including their ethnic and religious backgrounds. Those most likely to commit acts of
Islamic terrorism will no longer be able to hide in plain sight.
The ACLU Continues Its Onslaught. Israeli
security agents and police have used kinetic interviewing for screening people at airports and security
checkpoints for years with much success. In a press release the ACLU has warned that the behavior
analysis screening technique could result in racial profiling. Could result? Creating public
policy based on what "could result" is nonsense since in this case the ACLU insinuates bad intentions on
the part of US security and law enforcement agencies.
Terrorists
do not share our vision of peace. We have to ask ourselves what motivates someone to perpetrate
such an act: boarding an aircraft, carrying explosives, intending to kill themselves and hundreds around
them. It is entirely right to ask that question. But it is vital that we do not jump to facile
conclusions and clutch at easy answers.
British Doctor Is
Convicted in Failed Car Bombings. A jury found the doctor, Bilal Abdulla, a passenger in the
Jeep Cherokee, guilty of two charges of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to cause explosions in
three bungled car bombing attempts in Glasgow and London over 24 hours. The judge, Sir Colin
Crichton Mackay, will sentence Dr. Abdulla on Wednesday [12/17/2008]. Both charges carry potential
life sentences.
Lost and Found: Eleven Egyptian Students
Why are Middle-eastern students allowed into this country at all? Any time a bunch of them arrive in the
U.S. to attend flight school, or any other schoool, and then they disappear, it is cause for alarm. It is
reason enough to deport them, before they disappear again. If the decision makers at the highest levels of
the federal government used common sense, and were not afraid to be politically incorrect, they wouldn't allow
anyone to immigrate to this country from predominantly Muslim countries. As long as these "students"
continue to come here, they should be under constant surveillance.
FBI Searching For 11 Egyptian
Students. Eleven Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month are being sought
by authorities after failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University. The Egyptian
men were among a group of 17 students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York
from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas, according to U.S. authorities and university officials.
What war on
terror? FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko practically scolded us civilians when 11 Egyptian men
from Cairo went missing after entering the country on education visas. The men, all in their 20's, just
vanished at JFK (one of the airports of now distant 9/11 memory). "There is no reason to believe
the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat," charmed Kolko. "At this
point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been
revoked." The next day he reiterated the plea, "They pose no threat."
All Missing Egyptian Students in
Custody. The last two of the 11 Egyptian exchange students who failed to show up at their
college program were apprehended Sunday in Richmond, Va., customs officials said.
Update:
Last of 11 missing Egyptian students rounded
up. A nationwide search for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up for an academic program
in Montana has ended with the last two caught outside their rented apartment in Virginia, U.S. authorities
said on Monday [8/14/2006].
A Few More Little Facts. The
line of the fight between civilization and barbarism runs right along the Israel-Lebanon non-border. If
it's not won there, it won't be long until the front line is right here, and then it will be too late. When
George Bush stands up for Israel, he stands up for the whole future of mankind.
Islamofascism — an enemy
like no other. "If other people in al Qaeda are really as sadistic as
this guy seems to be, then we're really in for a long and awful war." National Public
Radio's Daniel Schorr made this comment about the anti-American courtroom tirade of Zacarias
Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. Yes, Mr. Schorr, the Islamofascists — the
ones who want us dead — are, indeed, that "sadistic." This shows that a lot of
people, who should know better, still don't get it.
Democracy
didn't stop British terrorists. So why have native Brits been implicated for the second time in
little more than a year (the London subway bombings was the first) in an Islamist conspiracy to commit mass
murder? All 23 alleged conspirators held in Britain in connection with the latest plot were reportedly
British born and raised. British oppression did not create these suspected terrorists. A
radical Islamic ideology did.
Profile in
sanity. Osama and his pals must take great joy at watching 80-year-old grandmothers being
patted down and their creams confiscated by jumpy security people. … Of course, the sane way to
protect Americans in the sky is to stop looking for nail files and begin profiling people who might
actually cause terror damage. That is not "racial" profiling, that is "terror" profiling. Most
of the recent terror activities have been perpetuated by young Muslim men. So it is these people who
need greater scrutiny when they check in for a flight.
Al-Jazeera Promotes Global Terrorism.
The U.S. and Israel will not be able to win this global war on terrorism unless the role of Al-Jazeera in
radicalizing Arabs and Muslims throughout the world is recognized and addressed.
Al-Jazeera Invades
Canada and Threatens America. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
has approved a request to add Al-Jazeera English (AJE) to the list of television satellite services for
distribution in Canada. Supporters of the Arab government-funded propaganda channel hope that
acceptance in Canada will lead to more cable and satellite carriers in the U.S. picking up the
incendiary network.
US cable operator
called a 'traitor' for carrying Al Jazeera. Allan Block was accused of being 'a traitor' for
adding Al Jazeera English to the lineup at his cable operation, Buckeye CableSystem, a couple of months ago.
Buckeye's March 19 launch of the controversial news network, sister channel to Arab-language
Al Jazeera, prompted some 50 letters.
Mosque building
made simple: Satisfy the local building codes and do not make excessive noise. Oh,
and don't preach anti-Semitic garbage and call for violent world revolution. Which is where an
otherwise anonymous new Muslim temple in Newmarket, Ont., might have got it wrong. A type of
culture clash, by the way, that is being replicated throughout Canada and most of the Western world.
Happy Hajj! You're Not
Invited! Quite unlike the Jewish and Christian religious celebrations of Hanukkah and Christmas,
if you are a non-Muslim, don't plan on investigating the mysteries of Islam by joining your Muslim friends on
their trip to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj — you're not invited.
A Laudable Death:
Few men have so richly deserved death as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He met a swifter and cleaner end than what
he meted out to Arabs and Americans alike; his violence included torture and beheadings, videotaped not only for
purposes of propaganda, but, one suspects, out of a near pornographic pleasure in capturing human suffering on
camera.
Time to
profile terrorists, not grandmas. There is one undeniable fact about the 1993 World Trace Center
bombers, the Sept. 11 murderers, the Madrid bombers, the London subway bombers and the present liquid bomb
plotters — all are clearly identifiable as being from Muslim nations. We've yet to see bombers who look
even remotely like a gray-haired governess from Southampton, a harried middle-aged U.S. sales executive from
Los Angeles or a haggard dad and mom with kids in tow returning home to Atlanta.
15
Years@War. On the morning of February 26, 1993, Islamic militants steered a nondescript
Ryder van through the winding darkness of the parking garage under the World Trade Center. They had
spent years planning this moment in secret meetings at mosques and jailhouses, in rural outposts that served
as paramilitary camps, and in safehouses where explosive compounds were mixed in makeshift labs. Loaded
into the van's rear compartment was a 1,400-pound chemical bomb.
A post-9/11 vocabulary test:
The indelible sight of workers plunging from the Twin Towers — head first, feet first, solo,
hand-in-hand — roused me from slumber. The photos of children who were incinerated on United
Airlines Flight 175 and American Airlines Flight 77 compelled me to start paying attention to the beliefs,
goals, language, and lies of those who would gladly kill my children the same way.
Dwelling on the tactic, never defining the
enemy. Discussing the war on "terror" has been endlessly awkward. Terror — like
blitzkrieg, sneak attack or even disinformation — is a tactic not an enemy. But in our
politically correct era, we dwell on the tactic, never defining the enemy. Drop 500-pound bombs on his
head if we must — and we must — but don't describe him as an Islamic jihadist in the age-old tradition of
Islamic jihadists going back to Muhammad. Such historical precision might be hurtful and insensitive,
and we wouldn't want that.
Muslims face extra checks in new
travel crackdown. The [British] Government is discussing with airport operators plans to
introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest
risk. The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have
an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background.
Long war
ahead. The western democratic world is so obviously pitted in an all-out defensive position
against radical Islamic tyrants aiming to undermine us, it's hard to ponder how any rational individual would
ignore the threat. But some still do. We're urged to be calm, not to throw stones. We're
even urged to make amends for perceived sins of the past — to confess the crusades were really
an assault against Islam, rather than a legitimate defense as extremist Islamic forces were at the very
doors of Vienna. Now they are in our midst.
An
unappeasable global jihad. We are fighting a global war against international terrorists because
the terrorists are engaged in a global jihad against infidels. The scariest thing about it is that a good
many people in this country believe we actually have the luxury of opting out. … Why else would Democratic
Congressman Martin Frost tell Fox News — approvingly — that "a majority of the American
people has now decided that it was a mistake for us to go into Iraq"?
The Editor says... Incidentally,
Martin Frost is no longer a Congressman.
Muslim Brotherly Hate:
All of the problems that the world has experienced with regard to Islamic terrorists can be traced to what one
man, Hassan Al-Banna, started in 1928, when he founded the secret society of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). The
goal of the Brotherhood was to expel the West from the Middle East, and by doing so, reunite the Islamic world
under one ruler.
After all that political correctness and
diversity and tolerance, they still get targeted by terrorists. What a shame.
Canada's Cry: 'Why
Us?' No city within Canada is more Muslim-loving and liberal than Toronto; the provincial
government even considered sanctioning oppressive Muslim Sharia law. Want to live in a ghetto with your
peeps and not have to integrate with your fellow Canadians? Toronto is the place for you. So
why, people here ask, would anyone want to do damage to Toronto?
Multiculturalism Breeds Terrorism. On
June 2, 2006, seventeen Muslims, including five juveniles, were arrested in Canada for planning major
terrorist attacks on Canadian soil against innocent people. Because these were "homegrown" Islamic
terrorists, blame was rightly directed towards Canada's decades-old multiculturalism policies, which
effectively encourages immigrants to stay frozen in the culture they came from instead of assimilating
into Canadian society and Western values. This allowed preachers of militant Islamism — typically
imams funded by Saudi oil money — to brainwash Muslims to hate the West and embrace terrorism.
Multiculturalism
is to blame for perverting young Muslims. Islamic radicalism did not begin with Muslim grievances
over Western foreign policy in Iraq or Afghanistan. It has deep roots, going back to the 13th-century
reformer Ibn Taimiyya, through Wahhabism to modern ideologues such as Sayyid Qutb in Egypt or Maududi in Pakistan.
The EU Idiot's Guide to Islamic
Extremism: Whenever Europeans get together to come up with ways to combat extremism and counter
terrorism, not only do they find themselves being the ones prescribed with making all the
adjustments — as opposed to the terror-prone Muslims — but they usually end up either
with suggestions to scrap Holocaust Memorial Day, or with a very limited vocabulary.
And yet the pandering continues . . .
Police to brief Muslims before terror
raids. Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist
raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on
a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid. Members
will be security vetted and will have to promise not to reveal any intelligence they are shown. They
will not have to sign the Official Secrets Act.
Moderate Western Muslims, speak
up! I thought about that following the arrests of 17 Canadian terror suspects last
weekend. Most were citizens of Canada, born and bred, or residents. The police who
announced the dragnet were careful to say that the young males did not represent any specific
ethnocultural group — though all are Muslim.
Peace-loving
Muslims: Whether most people of a country are peace-loving or not is not nearly as important as
who's calling the shots. At this particular time, fanatical jihadists are calling the terrorism shots
in many Muslim countries. Their success in committing terrorist acts is in no small part the result of
the actions by the millions of peace-loving fellow Muslims. First, there is not enough condemnation of
their terrorist acts by the Muslim community. More important is the direct or indirect assistance
terrorists receive through the silence of their fellow Muslims.
It's time to stop blaming the good guys for problems in
Iraq. Another obscene video from al-Qaida, this time showing the different ways in which
abducted Russian diplomatic staff can be put to death. And, as one could well expect, feeling in
Russia runs high. Against the United States, that is. A resolution in parliament and statements
from Russian officials place the blame on U.S. authorities for not protecting Moscow's envoys.
Death By Remote
Control: Terror suspects held in Canada planned to use remote-controlled toys packed with
explosives to target police stations, it is claimed. … CBC, citing court documents, said the radio-controlled
toys would have targeted stations in Toronto. Meanwhile, it said a 19-year-old suspect had signed up at a
Toronto-area college for flight training but withdrew for fear his activities would draw the attention of authorities.
What's this? Muslims qubbling over ethics?
Leader turned informant rattles
Muslims. The surprise announcement by a prominent Muslim leader here that he was an informant who
helped authorities arrest 17 Muslims on terrorism charges has raised questions in the Muslim community over the
ethics of informing versus a responsibility to stop violence.
Iran Is at War with
Us. Iran has been at war with us for 27 years, and we have discussed every
imaginable subject with them. We have gained nothing, because there is nothing to be
gained by talking with an enemy who thinks he is winning.
The roots of
Islamism: Islamists believe in the re-ordering of society to secure total submission to a narrow,
puritan and fundamentalist interpretation of Islam. They are conducting a civil war within the Islamic
world designed to overthrow existing regimes, which they consider to be unforgiveably apostate, and replace
them with a single and unified Muslim state, the restored Caliphate. Islamists believe that the sanctity
and culture of Muslim lands are menaced and defiled by Western influences, from capitalism to feminism, which
have to be eradicated.
Rethinking the Foundations of Religious
Freedom. In America, the separation of church and state is assumed. It is assumed because
it is a matter of rights — because individuals have the right to religious freedom, church and state
must be separated. Scholars give different accounts of the extent and limits of the right, but they
rarely ask why individuals possess it in the first place. The events of [September 2001], however,
suggest that justifying the right to religious freedom remains a foremost task of political theorists.
There are 400 terror suspects
on the loose in the UK. At least 400 Al-Qaeda terrorist suspects — double the previous
estimates — are at large in Britain, according to police and MI5. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller,
director-general of MI5, has said the figure could be as high as 600 if all those thought to have
returned from combat training in camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere are included.
Where are the
Muslim moderates? Where are those who oppose terrorism, religious wars, hatred and
intolerance? Where are those who think it crazy to attempt to recreate the 8th century
in the 21st century? Where are those who want not to destroy the Free World but to
join it? They are out there, I suspect; in larger numbers than we might be led to
believe. But if most are silent and fearful of speaking out, can you blame them?
Muslims
address silence on Europe attacks. Europe's Muslims have remained largely silent in the face
of terrorist attacks that have killed 254 people in Madrid, London and Amsterdam. Europeans want to know
why. Why have so few of them publicly condemned the train and bus bombings in Madrid and London? Why
have so few spoken out against the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, killed because his work was
considered an insult to Islam?
Dutch police encouraged to read Koran.
Police in Amsterdam will get half the purchase price back if they buy the Koran to deepen their knowledge of Islam, a
spokesman said today. A new translation had just appeared in Dutch and officers on the beat were being encouraged
to read this and a biography of the Prophet Mohammed, Ebe van der Land said.
The Editor says...
In the U.S., this would be called an "establishment of religion" -- if it was the Bible
instead of the Koran.
Civilian
Casualty? It Depends. The news is filled these days with reports of civilian casualties,
comparative civilian body counts and criticism of Israel, along with Hezbollah, for causing the deaths,
injuries and "collective punishment" of civilians. But just who is a "civilian" in the age of terrorism,
when militants don't wear uniforms, don't belong to regular armies and easily blend into civilian populations?
Maybe Now We'll Get It. Maybe, as
this terrible business in Lebanon unfolds, we'll finally get it: Guerrillas like to hide behind
civilians. Muslim guerrillas take it a step further: "Civilians" are a weapon to
them — as much a part of the fight as the AK-47 or RPG they carry. Those who have visited
any Hezbollah installation in Lebanon over the years always remark on the fact that there are families,
women and children, in and around the place.
Lebanon Is Not
Innocent. There is no way to fight a war without "collateral damage" to civilians unless the
opposing armies agree to meet in a desert and let the superior force prevail. It certainly cannot be
done when the aggressor is a terrorist army that deliberately places its headquarters, its weapons depots,
its missile launchers and its staging bases in the middle of large urban centers like Beirut, or in the
small villages abutting the border of its victims.
Apocalyptic Muslim Jew-hatred:
There are short-term reasons behind the attacks on Israel by Hezbollah and Hamas. But underlying all the
geo-strategy is a solid foundation of fanatical Jew-hatred, dating back to the founding of Islam. There
is literally nothing Israel or Jews can do to appease those who seek to annihilate them.
Arab Majority May Not Stay Forever Silent. Yes,
world, there is a silent Arab majority that believes that seventh-century Islam is not fit for 21st-century
challenges. That women do not have to look like walking black tents. That men do not have to wear
beards and robes, act like lunatics, and run around blowing themselves up in order to enjoy 72 virgins in
paradise. And that secular laws, not Islamic Shariah, should rule our day-to-day lives.
Somali radio re-opens without
music. A Somali radio station closed by Islamists for playing local love songs deemed to
encourage immorality returned to the airwaves today after pledging to stop broadcasting music.
Suicide
bomber kills 59 in Iraq. A suicide bomber killed 59 people in a crowded Iraqi market on Tuesday
[7/18/2006] after luring Shi'ite day labourers aboard his minivan with an offer of casual work.
"Islam says: Kill in the service of Allah those
who may want to kill you! Does this mean that we should surrender [to the enemy]? Islam
says: Whatever good there is exists thanks to the sword and in the shadow of the sword!
People cannot be made obedient except with the sword! The sword is the key to paradise, which
can be opened only for holy warriors! Islam is Not a Religion of Pacifists."
— Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
1942. *
Monitor the
mosques. Mosques across the globe have provided material aid to terrorist groups ranging
from al-Qaeda to Islamic Jihad to Hezbollah to Hamas. Muslim terrorists use mosques as networking
sites and often as recruitment centers for future terrorist comrades. There is no doubt that law
enforcement should be heavily scrutinizing the membership and administration of mosques.
It's the Jihad,
stupid. Canadian law enforcement officials should be proud of busting a reputed Islamic
terrorist network that may span seven nations. Instead, our northern neighbors are trying their
damnedest to whitewash the jihadi ties that bind the accused plotters and their murder-minded peers
around the world. We live on a doomed continent of ostriches.
Jihadist video aimed at
Muslim youth. The star of the video is Osama bin Laden, who is seen urging Muslims to kill
infidels. "Therefore each individual from amongst the Muslims should come forth to kill the Jews and
Americans," bin Laden says, "for killing them is foremost of obligations and the greatest form of worship."
British computer whiz-kid exports terror
via internet. An internet trail left by a British computer expert has led investigators to an
intricate terror network spreading from the backstreets of Baghdad through cells of young militants living in
European capitals to Islamic extremists plotting car-bomb attacks in North America. For nine months
police and intelligence agents in eight countries have patiently worked through a forest of e-mails and
intercepted telephone calls that have so far led to the arrest of up to 30 men.
Beheading
in the Name of Islam Online. Islam Online is a symptom of the much larger problem of Islamic
extremism, one that shutting down the site will not solve. Even so, it will be a wise step in the right
direction.
Radical Islam is
globalization for losers. It appeals to those left out of modernization, industrialization and
prosperity, particularly to young men desperate for order, meaning and pride amid the chaos of
globalization. Radical Islam provides it, but at a terrible price.
Dubai undertow: When
Islam in its heyday conquered infidel lands, it set in motion a massive transfer of wealth, enacting punitive
taxation to transfer money from nonbelievers to Muslims — or from the productive part of the economy to the
nonproductive.
The Pentagon Breaks the
Islam Taboo. Washington's policy-makers have been careful in the war on terror to
distinguish between Islam and the terrorists. The distinction has rankled conservatives
who see scarce difference.
One Nation Under Allah. Abu
Mohammed pauses and fiddles with his Pepsi before replying. "And if after all discussions and negotiations
they still refuse, then the last resort will be a jihad to spread the spirit of Islam and the rule of Islam,"
he says, smiling. "This is done in the interests of all people to get them out of darkness and into light."
U.S.,
West, Israel all face same threat: radical Islam. Without draining the swamp and
dismantling not just the terrorist infrastructure, but also the indoctrination industry, there cannot
be peace. Quite simply, Israel cannot share a peace with a neighbor that wants it dead.
Oppression
of the Press in the Muslim World: Reporters Without Borders describes Saudi Arabia in its
2005 annual report as "one the world's 10 harshest countries towards press freedom."
Swedes jailed for taking
pictures. An Iranian court sentenced two Swedish men to three years imprisonment on Tuesday
[5/2/2006], after they were found guilty of photographing military installations and telephone pylons.
'A lunatic runs
Iran'. Iran is a nation headed by a president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has
no respect for anything except a fanatical devotion to Islam, much the same as Palestine. … This is a
prime example of a terrorist nation, and be assured that Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Libya, to name but a
few, are nothing more than that, manufacturing the means to slaughter millions in the name of Allah.
Note: All the material about Pro-Islam indoctrination at Yale University has been moved to
another page.
The Adbul Rahman subsection:
Converts From Christianity. Converts
to Islam are taking over the terrorist operations previously carried out mainly by Muslim-born immigrants
and their children. This was dramatically illustrated when a Belgian convert to Islam, Muriel Degauque,
38, blew herself up near Baghdad on Nov. 9 in a suicide attack on U.S. troops, becoming the first
Christian-born Western woman to kill herself for Islamist purposes.
Man faces
death over Christianity. A man detained by police for converting from Islam to Christianity
could face the death penalty if he refused to become a Muslim again, an Afghani judge said
today [3/19/2006]. Islamic sharia law proposes the death sentence for Muslims who
abandon the religion. Afghanistan's new constitution says "no law can be
contrary to the sacred religion of Islam".
Afghan Convert to Christianity 'Could Be
Mad,' Says Prosecutor: An appeal from the White House. Tens of thousands of e-mails
urging President Bush to intervene. International reaction expressing concern for religious
freedom. All of these are in response to the plight of an Afghan man who, because he converted
from Islam to Christianity, faces possible execution if found guilty by a court in Kabul.
Muslims
mix religion, politics. That a judge in Afghanistan can even think of sentencing someone
to death for switching from the Muslim to the Christian faith speaks volumes about the problems of
dealing with Islam. Except for some Muslims, everyone is aghast at Judge Ansarulla Mawlavezda
warning Adbul Rahman that he deserves to be hanged unless he recants his switch to Christianity 16
years ago.
What is
'democracy'? "If I must die, I will die," Abdul Rahman told a human rights worker. … Rahman
is a man of faith and courage, the stuff of which Christian martyrs have ever been made. And, thanks
to U.S. intervention, he is a free man, though he will live, if he remains in Afghanistan, in constant
danger of being assassinated or lynched.
Islamic
purity: The State Department has had a profound question to ask itself in the matter
of Abdul Rahman. Did we intend to make a theatrical point — that we would not stand by
in his condemnation and beheading, an arrant interference with the right of a human being to
embrace Christianity? Or would we just settle for saving Rahman's life?
Leaving
Islam is not a capital crime. A Muslim's conversion to Christianity is not a crime punishable
by death under Islamic law, contrary to the claims in the case of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan. While
there is long-established doctrine that apostasy is punishable by death, that has also long been questioned
by Islamic criminal justice scholars, including this writer.
The Criminalization of
Christianity: Unfortunately, the widespread persecution of Christians around the world
continues unabated and receives almost no attention from the international media. For instance,
over the last several months, nearly 2,000 Christians in one African nation have been rounded up and
imprisoned. Yet these victims of religious persecution have received nowhere near the
attention [Abdul] Rahman received.
Celebrate
tolerance, or you're dead. Over in Sweden, they've been investigating the Grand Mosque of
Stockholm. Apparently, it's the one-stop shop for all your jihad needs: you can buy audio
cassettes at the mosque encouraging you to become a martyr and sally forth to kill "the brothers of
pigs and apes" — i.e. Jews.
The Swine are Christians and the
Apes are Jews. A recent article in the Washington Post, written by Nina Shea of Freedom House,
laid bare Saudi hypocrisy in claiming to have removed hateful material from textbooks, when in fact that
material remains in abundance. This is not just an issue within the Kingdom, for the Saudis export
such material in large quantities to Muslims in other countries.
Terrorists Killed
More Than 14,500 People in 2005, Report Says. Fifty-six of those killed were Americans, the
[annual U.S. State Department] report said. Three thousand of the deaths were attributable to 360
suicide bombings. There were 25,000 people wounded and 35,000 people kidnapped, the report said.
Once again, for Muslims, it's 'us
versus us'. Look no further than the triple bombing this week at the Sinai resort of Dahab, where
most of those killed and wounded were Egyptians, to fully appreciate the lie behind Osama bin Laden's latest
message that the West is on a crusade against Islam. If anyone is on a crusade against Muslims it
is Al Qaeda itself.
Turning off
terrorist television: A battle was won last week when the U.S. Treasury Department
designated Hezbollah's al Manar satellite television operation as a Specially Designated Global
Terrorist organization.
Taliban Terrorists Targeting Afghan Schools,
Especially Where Girls Are Allowed to Study. For 14-year-old Mohammed Salam, his tent school
was about all this mud-brick farming village had going for it. That was until suspected Taliban
terrorists burned it to the ground. … "They (the Taliban) want us illiterate so we have nothing
else to do but pick up a gun," Mohammed said Monday [7/10/2006].
Graphic
evidence of the evil America faces: As horrible as the image of the recent video must be, I
couldn't help but think that maybe some of those who have forgotten, or who never fully recognized the
extent of evil we face, should see it. Could anyone watch such a thing and remain complacent
about the threat of terrorism?
It's time India got
angry and stopped all this "bouncing back" nonsense. A backlash against the authorities is
taking hold in Bombay, five days after the bombings that killed 181 commuters and injured almost 900.
There is a sense of anger and betrayal among those living in India's commercial capital that the state has
failed to protect them from yet another terrorist attack.
Democracy
and Islamic Law Don't Mix, Iraqi Official Says. Despite President Bush's insistence that the
Iraqi "people want there to be a democracy," a pro-American member of Iraq's new parliament claims there
is "no relationship between Islam and democracy."
The Islamist Challenge to the U.S. Constitution:
First in Europe and now in the United States, Muslim groups have petitioned to establish enclaves in which they
can uphold and enforce greater compliance to Islamic law. While the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right
to religious freedom and the prohibition against a state religion, when it comes to the rights of religious
enclaves to impose communal rules, the dividing line is more nebulous. Can U.S. enclaves, homeowner
associations, and other groups enforce Islamic law?
Terrorist
007, Exposed. For almost two years, intelligence services around the world tried to
uncover the identity of an Internet hacker who had become a key conduit for al-Qaeda. The
savvy, English-speaking, presumably young webmaster taunted his pursuers, calling himself
Irhabi — Terrorist — 007. He hacked into American university
computers, propagandized for the Iraq insurgents led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and taught
other online jihadists how to wield their computers for the cause.
Osama
Lackey a Psycho-PATH. The mastermind of the plot to blow up the PATH tunnels under the Hudson
River confessed he was following "a religious order" from Osama bin Laden, officials revealed
yesterday [7/7/2006]. "I am proud to carry out his orders," Assem Hammoud told investigators,
according to officials in Lebanon, where he was captured.
Al-Qaeda calls the
Queen an "enemy of Islam". Al-Qaeda has threatened the Queen by naming her as "one
of the severest enemies of Islam" in a video message to justify the July bombings in London.
Al-Qaeda is on the defensive as bombs
begin to backfire. After years of al-Qaeda terror attacks in which thousands have been
killed, many of them Muslims — the people they wish to recruit — voices of dissent
are starting to be heard in the Middle East.
If the Problem Is Muslim
Terror, Then What? Since September 11, the list of those arrested, and in a growing
number of cases convicted, for Islamist terrorist activities in the U.S. has gotten longer and
longer.
From
Hitler to Hamas: Like Hitler and those who followed him, Hamas thrives on humiliation
and blames others for its failures. Hamas understands that Muslims in the rest of the world
have done almost nothing to alleviate their situation, but they blame the Jews, anyway. They
keep it simple.
Point of no
return: Terrorists and terrorist governments are giving us almost daily evidence of
their fanatical hatred and violent sadism, as the clock ticks away toward their gaining possession
of nuclear weapons. They not only hold a harmless young woman hostage in Iraq, they parade
her in tears on television, just as they have paraded not only the terrorizing, but even the
beheading, of others on television.
What Hamas
teaches us about Islam, Iraq, and democracy: This week, the terrorist group Hamas won
an overwhelming electoral victory in the Palestinian Arab parliament election. Hamas, an
organization that pledges to seek the destruction of the State of Israel, now holds 76 out
of 132 seats in the relatively powerless legislative body.
Reading up on
Islam. Some scholars now ask tough questions about the Quran's historicity. As I
type with one hand, I'm holding in the other John Wainsbrough's "Quranic Studies" (2004) and
Ibn Warraq's "The Origins of the Koran" (1998). Warraq left Islam after coming to believe
the Muhammad story was a sham, and his books include "Why I Am Not a Muslim" (1995), "The Quest
for the Historical Muhammad" (2000) and "Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out" (2003).
Muslims
Think Beheadings are Bad For Their Image. Ayman al-Zawahiri's is concerned that beheadings are
bad for Muslim PR. "Among the things which the feelings of the Muslim populace who love and support you
will never find palatable … are the scenes of slaughtering the hostages." He goes on to say that
it is OK to shoot hostages. He just objects to videotaping screaming hostages as their heads are sawn
off their bodies.
Fine words
cannot disguise it: the clash of civilizations is real. Islamist
terrorism is not a phantom product of our nightmares and neuroses, but a real and
present danger in the world.
The Ambiguous Islamist Angle: In
the aftermath of the United Nations report on the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik
Hariri, much attention has been focused on how to hold Syria to account. … However, there is a
narrower aspect to the report that has gone largely unmentioned, but that shows how Syria's Baath
regime has managed to both peddle a secular image while also maintaining ambiguous ties to
Islamist groups.
Never think
it couldn't happen here. The biggest globalisation success story of recent years is not
McDonald's or Disney, but Islamism. … What's the bigger threat? A globalisation that exports c
heeseburgers and pop songs or a globalisation that exports the fiercest and unhealthiest aspects of
its culture?
Self-denial at the White
House. No known religious book besides the Koran seemingly inspires a religious vision of world
political domination — which, of course, includes America. Daniel Pipes, writing in Commentary
magazine in 2001, reported on specific Muslim efforts to turn America into a Sharia-ruled caliphate.
Londonistan: Great
Britain is struggling to come to grips with the meaning of those attacks, as they were launched not
by foreigners but by entirely homegrown jihadists. They were educated, British-born, middle
class Muslims, not poor and ignorant recruits from the Middle East.
Enough Is
Enough. Civilization has only two choices. It can continue
appeasing these murderers, looking in vain for "root causes" of the mayhem. … Or
the United States and its allies can deny suspect Middle Eastern males entry into
the West while distancing themselves from all Middle East dictatorships, which
neither punish nor even shame thousands of their citizens whose money and
psychological support fuel murderers across the globe.
Review of Robert Spencer's new
book, "The
Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam". Islam's only overarching moral principle
is "if it is good for Islam, it's right." Spencer does not flinch from pointing out
that "Islam allows for lying, as well as stealing and killing in certain circumstances," and
that "This leads to large-scale deception campaigns today." You won't hear that from
the peddlers of political correctness.
Visa And A
Prayer. A bruised and betrayed Britain vows to kick out foreign Muslim clerics
who inspire violence and hatred while blocking entry of radical imams. But America keeps
ushering them in — by the hundreds. Are we really that stupid? Yes. Since
9-11, the multiculturalists at the State Department have admitted more than 1,000 religious workers
from Muslim nations, including terror hotbeds like Pakistan. In fact, they've granted
religious-worker visas to 113 imams from that country alone, immigration records show.
One
common enemy: Radical Islam. In the decade before 9/11, many U.S. targets
were hit: the World Trade Center in 1993, Khobar Towers in 1996, the East Africa
embassies in 1998, and the U.S.S. Cole in 2000. Each time, we did nothing. Yet
al Qaeda struck anyway on September 11. There is a "reason" why four
young British men took their own lives in order to murder more than 50. But it's not
Iraq. It's not Afghanistan. It's not Israel. It's radical Islam.
Arab States Silent on Iran's
Remarks. Arab governments remained silent Thursday [10/27/2005] as international
condemnation grew over a call by Iran's new president for Israel to be destroyed.
Improving our
odds against terror: Six percent of British Muslims — more than 100,000
citizens — thought the July 7 London terror attacks were justified. A quarter
of British Muslims merely sympathize with the bombers. Even more shocking, nearly one-fifth of
British Muslims say they feel little or no loyalty to Britain.
Killed for breaking fast. A 14 year old
Iranian boy was sentenced to 85 lashes for breaking his Ramadan fast. The boy died from his
wounds. Keep this story in mind next time you hear a liberal referring to the "Taliban wing" of the
Republican party, or arguing that Christian "fundamentalists" in America are comparable to Islamic
"fundamentalists" in the Middle East, or suggesting that the Bush administration is trying to establish
a "theocracy."
Where wife-beating is up for
debate. Is it possible half the world's Arab population has no rights?
They
shoot children, don't they? Having targeted little children for death,
there is no atrocity, no barbarity, no act of evil that the human race cannot imagine
fanatical Muslims committing. [For example] the slaughtering of innocent human
beings as if they were animals while chanting Muslim prayers. The reintroduction
of black slavery and genocide against blacks. The idolization of young men who
blow themselves up while murdering and maiming innocent non-Muslims — and the
theology of sexual rewards in heaven for doing so. These are some of the
atrocities being committed by Muslims in different parts of the world today.
[What about flying hijacked passenger jets into office buildings?]
Saudis
Do Destroy Bibles, Think Tank Affirms. A U.S.-based think tank critical of the
Saudi government has added its voice to allegations that authorities in the kingdom routinely
destroy Bibles. "As a matter of official policy, the government either incinerates or dumps
Bibles, crosses and other Christian paraphernalia," the Saudi Institute said in an article
posted on its website.
Unilateral
self-flagellation: Upon arrival at Camp Delta [Guantanamo Bay], detainees
are issued a blanket, a sheet, two orange jump suits, flip-flops, a foam sleeping pad, two
bath towels, a washcloth, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, a prayer rug and a Koran. They
are allowed two 15-minute showers per week; they get recreation time and three culturally
sensitive meals per day. Schedules are respectful of Islamic traditions, prayer calls
are broadcast five times a day, and arrows painted on the floors point to Mecca. Their
regular quarters include a flushing toilet, running water and an off-the-floor
bed. Detainees who ask for them are provided with soccer balls, playing cards,
chessboards and paperback books. All of this courtesy of the American taxpayers
the detainees have sworn to kill.
Suicide out of
spite: On September 11, 2001, 19 Muslim fundamentalists committed suicide in an act of war
against the US. Last week three of their comrades-in-arms did the same thing. Fortunately, unlike
the 19, the three were in no position to murder anyone in the course of taking their own lives.
Unfortunately, this has led some elite opinion-makers to sympathise with the enemy, which was precisely
the enemy's goal.
Enemies, foreign
and domestic: The fact that native-born Muslim Europeans are committing terror acts
within their own countries shows that this Islamist malignancy long predates Iraq, long predates
Afghanistan and long predates 9/11. What Europe had incubated is an enemy within, a threat
that for decades Europe simply refused to face.
Cultures
aren't equal. Anyone who has been keeping up with British opinion since the July 7
bombings will have noticed that "multiculturalism" is under sharp attack. Multiculturalism
preaches that we should allow and encourage immigrants and their children to maintain and celebrate
their own culture apart from the national culture. Society should be not a melting pot but,
in the phrase of former New York Mayor David Dinkins, "a gorgeous mosaic." That mosaic, of
course, looks less gorgeous as people surveyed the work of the British-born-and-raised bombers.
The Face of Islamic Religious
Intolerance. Today, as I knew they would, crazed Palestinian mobs are
desecrating 25 synagogues in Gaza, setting them on fire and destroying what it took
years to build. … Unspoken is the silent message that while the Christian world
and the Jewish world would respect places of worship, the Moslem world cannot be held
to the same level of accountability.
Many faces of
Islamism. Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the
world. In its heartlands in Asia and Africa, the movement of Islamisation has penetrated
the fortress of the modernised elites, taking root among students, engineers, doctors
and lawyers.
What have we
paid for with Palestinian handouts? What was Condoleezza Rice's word for
the lawless Palestinian stampede of looting and desecration that erupted after the
Israeli withdrawal? "Successful."
Don't
Apologize, Governor Romney! Radical mosques are the spark lighting the fuse
that can kill Americans. That has killed Americans. That will kill more if we
let it. Such killing sprees, moreover, are plotted by young, male, Muslim militants
who often enter to the United States on student and other visas from places known to
sponsor or export terrorism.
"Extreme"
and "Moderate" Stonings and Amputations. A peculiar unreality now dominates
American public discourse about Islam. Those who traffic in comforting
fictions — such as but not limited to the distinction between "extreme"
and classical Sharia — are lauded in the mainstream media and consulted
by the powerful, while those who dare to point out obvious but uncomfortable facts
are dismissed and derided as a "fringe."
Our enemies are
stupid. People who can use a word like "blessed" to describe men, women, and
children being blown to pieces or having their eyes gouged out by flying glass or losing
limbs are not just barbarous, they are twisted. Theirs is a perversion of mind and
spirit that almost defies imagination. But thankfully, they are also not very smart.
Burnt
offerings on the altar of multiculturalism: Even as we devise new
ways to see inside ourselves to our most elemental components, we also prevent
ourselves from looking full-face at the danger to our way of life posed by Islam.
Muslim
rage burns in our backyard: Trying to erase the long-established culture of
Australia, permanently rooted as it is in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and replacing it
with vapid, secularist nothingness is not going to help. It simply creates a vacuum
for radical Islam to rush in and fill. And it is doing its best.
Jihadists-R-Us: As
much as we'd like to think militant Muslims will just go away, or that we can change them through
appeasement, or calm them down via our slick, politically correct verbal gymnastics, the reality is
that the only thing that is going to stop militant Muslims is death. … It is either us or
them. I say let's make it them … on our terms and on their turf.
Could the
same thing happen here? As details emerge about the terrorists who struck
London's mass transit system last week, many people are questioning how four young men
who had lived in Great Britain all or most of their lives could turn into fanatics
capable of killing their fellow Britons for the cause of radical Islam.
I'll answer that. It is because many islamists have no conscience, which in turn is
because followers of Islam depend upon harsh external controls (to behave themselves) rather
than self control. Christians and Jews don't steal because stealing is
wrong. Islamists don't steal because they don't want to get their hands chopped
off.
What do the
terrorists want? Islamic fascists demand that "infidels" leave "Muslim
lands." But define "Muslim lands." Arabs, after all, dominated Europe from
the 8th-century AD until 1492 AD, occupying lands as far west as Spain and
modern-day France.
The
Muslim groups who wouldn't attend the March Against Terror: In the
first of its kind for an event organized by a major national Muslim organization,
Kamal Nawash and the Free Muslims Coalition recently held the Free Muslims March
Against Terrorism. Not surprisingly, the leaders of every other major Muslim
organization shunned the march and declined to take a public stand against
terrorism and extremism.
Welcome
to the war on image. In a recent meeting with Daniel Sutherland, head
of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties division of the Department of Homeland Security,
American University's Akbar Ahmed had some suggestions, beginning, according to an online
report in the Pakistani Daily Times, with pretty much eliminating Muslim profiling at
airports. … "You simply cannot humiliate Muslims like this," Akbar said, describing
a "peak level of anger" in "the young generation on the edge." Just one more
pat-down and they'll blow.
"Real men moisturize".
In Iran, as Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi reports in Front Page Magazine, women continue to be stoned to death for the
crime of adultery. Accompanying this story is a photo (smuggled out of Iran) of a weeping woman being
buried up to her waist in preparation for stoning to death. … Other punishments meted out by the Islamic
Republic include cutting off hands, arms and legs, and plucking out the eyes.
Islam and Democracy: You would
have to have a heart of stone not to be moved and inspired by the sight of Iraqis flocking to the polls on Sunday,
defying suicide bombers and threats to their lives as well as those of their children. Even the hardened
skeptics in the American media found themselves carried away by the courage of the Iraqi people.
Terrorism's victims: Actually,
they're mostly Muslims. It is a common misperception that most terrorism is directed against Jews
and Christians. The fact is no group has suffered more than Muslims from radical Islamist violence.
Especially at risk are those bold enough to speak out for such values as freedom, human rights and democracy.
The Triumph of the East: Islam
really does want to conquer the world. That's because Muslims, unlike many Christians, actually believe they are
right, and that their religion is the path to salvation for all.
Islam and the Institutions of a
Free Society: Are Islamic values compatible with a free society? What are the prospects for liberty
in predominantly Muslim countries?
Saudi Arabia's religious hatred: For
years, the Saudi regime was exempt from harsh criticism in official US circles — an immunity bought with the hundreds
of millions of dollars Riyadh lavished on US policymakers, ambassadors, and lobbyists. But that changed after 9/11, when a
group of mostly Saudi terrorists sent thousands of innocent victims to their deaths.
Where
is the Muslim outrage? They are still burying the victims of the latest
atrocity committed by evildoers professing Islam — the slaughter of hundreds
of children, teachers, and parents in an elementary school in Beslan, Russia. And
from Muslims the world over, as usual, has come mostly silence.
"Islam
isn't in America to be equal to any other faiths, but to become
dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest
authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
— Omar Ahmad, Co-founder
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR).*
The Elusive Moderate Muslim: The
government and media are avid to find moderate Muslims — and as their desperation has increased, their
standards have lowered. Unfortunately, it is not so easy to find Muslim leaders who have genuinely renounced
violent jihad and any intention, now or in the future, to impose Sharia on non-Muslim countries.
Muslims and the tsunami:
Indonesia can now assume first place in the pantheon of ingrates. The world's most populous Muslim nation,
horribly battered by the tsunami, announced that it wished to see American and other foreign troops who are providing
disaster relief out by March 31. "The sooner the better," said Vice President Yusuf Kalla.
Murder
tool's extended blade: "Reactionary" is a much more apt description for these thugs
than "insurgent." Words matter, and insistently describing the murderers in Iraq as insurgents
distorts the aims and true nature of these enemies. Saddam's old cronies and Abu Musab Zarqawi's
suicide bombers don't hold elections, they don't dig sewers, and they don't build hospitals.
The Islamic States of
America? The hardest thing for Westerners to understand is not that a war with
militant Islam is underway but that the nature of the enemy's ultimate goal. That goal
is to apply the Islamic law (the Shari'a) globally. In U.S. terms, it intends to replace
the Constitution with the Qur'an.
Islamic
leader hails Chechen attack. A UK-based Islamic extremist movement said that
last week's abduction of Russian children by Chechen terrorists should be
repeated in Britain.
Teaching Morality: Whether
or not we agree with President Bush on how to confront these nations and those who
harbor or support terrorists, we should all be able to do one thing: call evil
by its name.
American Muslim Council
Founder Heads to Jail. Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding
and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must
be considered potential killers.
Parts of Detroit seem Middle Eastern. The
Dearborn area has the largest concentration of Arabic people outside of the Middle East. Some say they
came as a result of Henry Ford's infatuation with their culture. Ford offered them jobs and places to
stay on the condition that they would teach him the ways of Islam.
The
militant Islamic ducks are quacking. Itar-Tass reports that 10 hostage
terrorists were Arabs, at least one from Africa, some were Saudi and all linked to
al–Qaida. Sounds pretty clear to me. So why do so many in our media
persist in calling the killers "rebels" or "insurgents." They've no guts to call them
what they are: militant Islamic terrorists, our enemy in the war on terrorism.
Alleged Hamas figure arrested
by Maryland police: A man described in a federal indictment as a "high-ranking"
Hamas operative was arrested in Maryland on Friday [8/20/2004] videotaping the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge. Ismael Selim Elbarasse of Annandale, Va., long suspected by authorities of
having financial ties to the Palestinian terrorist group, was taken into custody
as a "material witness" in a Chicago terrorism case, according to Maryland's U.S.
attorney's office.
Defending
against Muslim aggression in Africa. Will Sudan finally have peace? Any
truce is likely to be short-lived as long as radical Muslims continue their attempt to force
non-Muslims into submission.
Islamist
women use Web for war with infidels. An Islamist women's group has begun
an Internet magazine aimed at recruiting Arab women to fight holy wars against non-Muslims.
Will
the West survive? My colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell observes, "Those in the
Islamic world have for centuries been taught to regard themselves as far superior to
the 'infidels' of the West, while everything they see with their own eyes now
tells them otherwise." He adds, "Nowhere have whole peoples seen their
situation reversed more visibly or more painfully than the peoples of
the Islamic world."
Just what we need...
US
Offers Citizenship To 7000 Ahiska Muslims. The United States has agreed
to grant citizenship to 7,000 Ahiska Muslims who will be settled in Pennsylvania,
according to a Russian newspaper, Novie Izvestia. It added that the
Muslims would be housed near the grand mosque in Philadelphia.
Muslim Prayer Calls Echo Through Detroit
Suburb; Petitioners Unhappy. Some residents of a Detroit-area town hope that an August ballot
initiative will send a strong message to the Muslim community that they do not want to hear Islamic calls for
prayer broadcast five times a day over loudspeakers. In the meantime, citizens will have to call the
police if they don't like the noise.
Albany Mosque Raid Uncovers Missile
Plot. Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., were arrested on charges stemming from an alleged
plot to help a man they thought was a terrorist purchase a shoulder-fired missile, federal authorities said
Thursday [8/5/2004]. The men have ties to a group called Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to the
al-Qaida terror network, according to two federal law enforcement authorities speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Police
Clash with Wife-Swappers in Lagos. Two policemen were shot and two more stabbed
during a raid on an Islamic sect engaged in wife-swapping in the northern Nigerian
state of Kebbi. Sect members armed with guns, daggers and bows and arrows attacked
police and government workers who were sent to destroy the group's base in the state
capital Birnin-Kebbi.
Can Jihadis be Assimilated? Nothing
has made Europeans wake up to what they have allowed mass immigration to do to them than the jihad many Muslims
are licking their whiskers to wage against the new countries to which they have invited themselves.
Islam and Slavery: The
Concealed Truth. To this day the only places in the world where one can buy a slave for ready
cash are Moslem countries. The slaves in question are almost invariably black, and the countries in
question are primarily Mauritania and Sudan.
Christian
slavery = bad. Islamic slavery = empowering! This just in from former Canadian Islamic
Congress chief Mohamed Elmasry: Islamic slavery wasn't all that bad. Writing in The Canadian
Charger — a newly formed internet-based grab bag of anti-Western articles published by hard left
Canadian activists — Elmasry works hard to distinguish the evils of Christian slavery from
the purportedly enlightened race-mixing that resulted from its Islamic equivalent.
Islam's Image Problem: Ibrahim Hooper
(spokesman for The Council on American-Islamic Relations) declares, "I wouldn't want to create the impression
that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future."
Will you wake up to an
Islamic prayer call? A holy war of sorts is heating up in a Detroit suburb,
where members of the local Muslim community want loudspeakers on mosques to announce the
Islamic call to prayer five times each day.
Punishment
includes Islam indoctrination: An Ontario man convicted of promoting hatred
against Muslims says his community-service sentence has included indoctrination
into Islam.
How al-Qaeda
May End: Most terrorist groups do eventually come to an end. Glossaries
and indices on terrorism from the 1970s and 1980s yield examples of dozens of once-promising
groups that currently have no power and make no news.
Telling Friend From Foe: Ferreting out Militant
Islam. If militant Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution, as I often argue, how
does one differentiate between these two forms of Islam? It's a tough question, especially as concerns
Muslims who live in Western countries.
Not Living in Terror in the Face of
Terrorism: The terrorists would love nothing more than to keep us trembling before their heavily
bearded, wild-eyed, non-prophetic, violent maledictions. They would love to upset our lifestyle and
freedoms and have us paralyzed into passivity while waiting for Al Qaeda's next move.
What does "jihad" Really Mean?
Free Congress Foundation analyst Robert Spencer says [there is a] need to recognize the threat posed by the idea
behind the term "jihad." "While it is [defined as] a spiritual struggle, and it is a defensive struggle,"
Spencer says, "it is also an offensive struggle to establish Islamic supremacy in the world." Spencer says
there are Muslims who believe this and take it seriously enough and are acting upon it.
CASMAS - The Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and
Sudan. Muslims are enslaving Black Christians and other non-Muslims in the Sudan and Mauritania.
Islamists leave "killing field" of
civilians: Team finds remains of unarmed villagers in southern Sudan.
Reports of Moderate Islam's Existence
Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: To his credit the president has not shied away from using
the "E" word - "evil." However, he has refused to apply it to any sect of organized Islam or
its leadership - men and women not evil because their beliefs are different from the Judeo-Christian
traditions of the West, but evil because they promote terrorism.
Piping The Wrong Tune: Islam
divides the world into two parts, the Dar al Islam, the world of Islam, and the
Dar al Harb, the world of war.
A Look at Islam: President
Bush, while he has provided generally good leadership and clearly enjoys the overwhelming support of the
American people, persists in mischaracterizing the interior motivation of the enemy. This is not wise, if
only because the first rule of warfare is to know your enemy.
Islam
on the Defensive: Al Qaeda is the largest Non Governmental Organization (NGO)
in the world: its recruiters are largely in London, its recruits in Western Europe and Saudi
Arabia, its leaders in Pakistan, its dead ideologues were in Egypt, its actions everywhere,
from Bali to Lackawana and from Morocco to Yemen. So then, where do we start in dealing
with it?
Radical Islam's Assault on Human Life:
Anti-reason, anti-freedom ideas in Islam encourage terrorist fanaticism.
Islam's New Strongholds: The recent bombing
of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia, killing at least 183 and injuring hundreds, fits into a larger pattern.
Militant Islam used to be mostly confined to Middle Easterners, but in recent years it has spread to Muslims in
other parts of the world. This can be seen especially in the cases of Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nigeria.
It's Still Evil: Terrorism
comes out of malevolence. It is a political program by which a minority seeks to obtain and maintain power
by destroying those aspects of life that are essential to human flourishing. The terrorist directly targets
family, home, work, friendship, leisure, stability, worship, mobility, and freedom. He seeks to exterminate
those parts of human existence that make life worth living. Terrorism can only truly be understood as an evil
directed against the human spirit. It is a spiritual, not a psychological, malady. It is evil in its
essence. It is a sin, perhaps the deepest sin of all.
Protect
America: Stop marrying terrorists! My fellow American women, it's time to
stop being so stupid, selfish and naive. Stay away from young, single Jihadists with wads
of cash and bomb-building manuals in their bedrooms. We are at war, ladies. Put
your self-respect -- and your country -- first. When you sleep with the
enemy, you endanger us all.
The U.S. Is Blessed To Ponder
Terror at Leisure: Have we forgotten they're trying to kill us?
Gaza's preschool of hate: An Islamist
school in the Palestinian Authority territory of Gaza teaches children as young as five the techniques of urban
guerrilla warfare, jihad against Jewish settlers and martyrdom missions to kill Zionists.
Is an American ISP Hosting
a Terrorist Web Site? The funds this outfit's looking for aren't to provide a warm safe place to
stay and hot, nourishing meals for homeless women and families. No, the thrust of this horrifying story
was that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, a prime perpetrator of the suicide bombings against Israel, is
appealing for funds on its web site to buy weapons and explosives for attacks.
Philippine
Terrorists Taunt US, Threaten To Kill American Missionaries: Muslim extremists holding an American
missionary couple hostage in the southern Philippines have thrown down the gauntlet to the joint U.S.-Filipino
forces hunting them, mocking them as "useless" yet warning that should they get the upper hand, the hostages will be killed.
15 girls
die as zealots "drive them into blaze": Saudi Arabia's religious police are
reported to have forced schoolgirls back into a blazing building because they were not wearing
Islamic headscarves and black robes. Saudi newspapers said scuffles broke out between
firemen and members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice who
tried to keep the girls inside a burning school in Mecca.
H. Rap Brown Gets
Life: The former 1960s leftist who now calls himself Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, was sentenced
Wednesday [3/13/2002] to life in prison without parole for the killing of a deputy sheriff. The jury that
convicted the robed Muslim cleric of 13 counts, including murder, deliberated about five hours before
reaching its decision.
India tense as mob torches Hindu train, killing
57: The victims included 15 children, 25 women, and 17 men, according to
Raju Bhargava, the local police chief. Asked if Muslims were responsible, he said:
"It appears so."
Does Poverty Cause Militant
Islam? Militant Islam (or Islamism) is not a response to poverty or
impoverishment; not only are Bangladesh and Iraq not hotbeds of militant Islam, but
militant Islam has often surged in countries experiencing rapid economic growth.
Poverty Canard. Hillary
Clinton, in extolling the role of development aid, repeats the old saw about poverty breeding terrorism.
Nonsense. The new attacks haven't been about living standards.
Poverty Does Not Cause
Terrorism. The canard that poverty causes terrorism just won't die. It was one thing when
Nation writer David Corn and others connected the two back in 2002. The liberal default position is that
poverty causes crime. It was an instant knee-jerk reaction after 9/11. But by now we all ought to
know better. Except, the theory is still being peddled despite the lack of evidence to support it.
Beating the
Dead Terrorist Horse. September 11 taught us that a Mohammed Atta or a Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed does not commit mass murder out of hunger, want, illiteracy, or Western oppression. ... The wealthier,
better educated, and more Westernized the radical Muslim, often the greater the sense of shame, alienation,
and anger that he and his religion are not shown proper deference.
The Rise of the Ignoramus
Jihadist. It is still widely believed in leftist circles that the generic Islamic terrorist is
the product of ignorance and poverty. ... But even liberals are coming around to the view that many acts of
terror are being planned and carried out by "educated" members of the Islamic middle class, not a few of
whom have come from affluent and privileged backgrounds.
A New "History" Book in the Spirit of
Multiculturalism: Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American
12-year-olds to convert to Islam?
Arabs Still Wish to Destroy
Israel? Osama bin Laden years ago declared a jihad against all Christians and
Jews while his friend Mullah Omar, the Taliban dictator, talked publicly about "the destruction
of America," which he hoped would happen "within a short period of time." That militant
Islamic leaders wish the same for Israel should hardly be news. The most powerful of them
all, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, recently called for "this cancerous tumor of
a state be removed from the region."
Bush's terrorist
buddy: Arab- and Muslim-American leaders have engaged in a united public relations campaign
against terrorism. And while most Arab- and Muslim-Americans are innocent and law-abiding, it's a
campaign that rings hollow, given the terrorists they have openly supported.
Islamic Nations Slaughter,
Enslave Christians: There is not one Christian nation on earth where Muslims are
persecuted. Yet in 83% of nations where the majority of the population are Muslims, there is systematic
government persecution of Christians.
Christianity Under Siege, Part
II: Those Who Are Voiceless: We hear daily messages, TV ads as well as speeches by our
president, that we should be tolerant of Islam. However, there are no calls
for Islam to be tolerant of Christianity.
"We will replace the Bible with the
Koran in Britain" "The British Government has to be stopped," said Islamist Sheikh Omar Bakri
Mohamed. "Blair knows that he is wrong. And he will pay for it. We will remodel this country
in an Islamic image." Waiting until his followers stopped giggling at the vision of an Islamic state of
Great Britain, Bakri continued: "We will replace the Bible with the Koran."
With Friends Like the
Saudis… Is Saudi Arabia with us in the war on terror, or is it fundamentally against us?
Muslims pray for American
defeat: Worshippers from Saudi Arabia to Jordan prayed Friday for America's demise and
Osama bin Laden's safety and victory on the first day of Ramadan, the holy Muslim month of fasting.
Diversity: A
Threat to National Security. Jared Taylor, author and editor of American Renaissance
newsletter, says the emphasis on diversity in America has weakened our national security and
threatens our survival. He says countries or regions with diversity along tribal, religious
or ethnic lines usually explode into violence. For 153 years of our existence as a
nation, there wasn't a single mosque in America. The first one was built in 1929. Today,
there are about seven million Muslims in the U.S. and thousands of mosques. Taylor says this
hasn't strengthened us at all. He warns that Islam isn't just a
religious view but a way to organize society.
Christians terrorized in Muslim
Indonesia: Islamic militants praising bin Laden promise believers "bloody December".
Muslim
guerrillas seize Christians for human shield: Muslim guerrillas shouting "God is Great" paraded
about 70 mainly Christian hostages through the Philippine port of Zamboanga yesterday as separatists
stepped up their rebellion against the government, whose troops are backed by America.
Bush marks end of Ramadan: With
the United States on alert against possible attacks coinciding with the end of Ramadan, President
Bush held a ceremony at the White House with Muslims to mark the end of their holy month.
Does Welfare Cause
Terrorism? Many terrorists take advantage of Western welfare states, the same way they
take advantage of Western freedoms and Western technology. Extreme anti-social terrorist
ideologies (radical Islam, in particular) seem to breed in "oppositional" cultures supported by
various government welfare benefits.
The first lady is wrong:
It wasn't terrorism that oppressed women in Afghanistan. It was Islamism. In Saudi Arabia, women
are oppressed every bit as much as they were in Afghanistan. They can't even drive cars. Now, we've
been told over and over again by the Bush administration that we are not at war with Islam. We've been
told ad nauseum what a wonderful religion it is. President Bush even invited 50 Islamic ambassadors
to the White House this week for Ramadan prayers.
Airport-security
firm at mercy of Muslims: EEOC case forced company to rehire Arabs,
instate Islamic-sensitivity training program.
Seven
Million American Muslims? Islamic activist groups claim there are millions of
Muslims in America. Unbiased demographers say otherwise.
E-mails from a
Traitor: The young John Walker left an enormous cache of nutty e-mails. Read them here.
Evangelist Graham in Presidential Hot Water
Over Comments: In what is believed to be a first in American history, there were prayers to Allah
last night at the White House where President Bush hosted a formal Ramadan celebration with dozens of Muslim
leaders. The Ramadan event was another effort by the Bush Administration to prove its war on terrorism
is not a war against Islam. However, conservative voices like Gary Bauer have been sharply critical of
that effort.
Muslim
Group Seeks to Meet Billy Graham's Son: According to a transcript of an interview,
Mr. Graham said Islam had attacked the United States on Sept. 11. He said that
Muslims worshiped a different God than Christians and that he believed Islam to be "a very evil
and wicked religion."
The Danger Within: Militant
Islam in America: The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group,
for it includes within it a substantial body of people — many times more numerous than the
agents of Osama bin Ladin — who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United
States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the strictures
of militant Islam.
More Muslim Enemies from
Within: If this event had been an anti-Muslim rally, the story would be front-page news.
Editorialists and academics would be decrying racial and religious intolerance. Left-wing celebrities
and MTV veejays would be hectoring us about the need for unity and harmony. But it was an anti-American
rally.
Islamists – not who they say
they are: Those Moslems variously known as fundamentalists or Islamists often appear
to outsiders to be the most authentic adherents of their faith. They refer constantly to God
and conspicuously pray in public. Men sport full beards and women wear veils. They urge
Moslem solidarity and demonstrate a suspicion of non-Moslems. A closer look, however, finds
that Islamists are hardly model Moslems.
Syrians
flood flight schools: 14 enter at Dallas/Fort Worth; INS
gives passport info to FBI.
Bush's scary
friends: President Bush has invited representatives of the most radical,
pro-terrorist Islamic groups in America to pray with him at the National Cathedral, to pray with
him at the Washington, D.C., mosque, to sit near Mrs. Bush at the big speech to Congress and
to hold hands with him at the White House.
An Empire of
Ideals: Everyone has finally awakened to the deadly threat posed by terrorism, and
some are even willing to admit that the source of this threat is Islamic fundamentalism. But
almost no one is prepared to name the long-term answer to that threat. The long-term
answer — the only means by which we can eventually secure world peace —
is "Cultural imperialism."
The
Education of a Holy Warrior: In a Pakistani religious school called the Haqqania madrasa, Osama
bin Laden is a hero, the Taliban's leaders are famous alums and the next generation of mujahedeen is being
militantly groomed.
U.S. equipped terror
sponsors: Clinton exported NSA-ducking phone, high-tech encryption devices to Syria. The
dozen or so Islamic terrorists who pulled off the plot to strike at America's nerve centers in New York and
Washington spent months, if not years, researching, planning and coordinating the surprise attacks, U.S.
security officials say. And they did it completely in secret, using the world's most sophisticated
telecommunications equipment, some secured by advanced encryption technology that most armies
don't have. [Thanks a lot, Bill.]
It's okay
to Be
Judgmental and Intolerant of the World's Evil Forces.
Profiling
Needed: Most security resources should be spent scrutinizing Caucasian
males, particularly those with a Middle Eastern appearance.
How
many more al-Qaida moles? Smuggling of terrorists
into U.S. could be widespread.
Muslim
Group Seeks to Meet Billy Graham's Son: According to a transcript of an interview,
Mr. Graham said Islam had attacked the United States on Sept. 11. He said that
Muslims worshiped a different God than Christians and that he believed Islam to be "a very
evil and wicked religion."
Mystery surrounds
immigrants detained in Texas: A day after the Sept. 11 terror attacks,
Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Ayub Ali Khan ended up in Texas, having traveled nearly 1,600
miles in two days by airliner and train. Their luggage contained $5,600, an assortment
of passports and box-cutting knives similar to those believed to have been the terrorist
hijackers' weapon of choice. When confronted by police looking for drug couriers, they
appeared nervous. Azmath volunteered: "I did not have anything to do with
New York."
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