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FBI watching for 'homegrown' terrorists. Eight years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — and just days after a terror plot was thwarted in Texas — the nation's top anti-terrorist officials told Congress on Wednesday [9/30/2009] that they are as worried about "homegrown" terrorists as they are about threats from abroad. Islam Bashers Repent. A recent report from the FBI estimates that of the 2000 mosques in the United States, 10% preach Jihad. Welcome to the religion of peace as it is invading the land of the free to make it the land of submission. This is not some Islam-hating crackpot group reporting. It is the FBI, an agency known for its bending backward to be politically correct in tune with the rest of the administration. Thousands of Muslims rally, pray at Capitol. Organizers from Dar-ul-Islam, a mosque in Elizabeth, N.J., had estimated that 50,000 Muslims might show up for the event... "This is definitely historic," said Amina Haqq of New York as she walked to the fenced-in site at the west front of the Capitol. "I am glad I lived long enough to see this. Islam is part of America. It is not a Judeo-Christian society; it is a Judeo-Christian-Muslim society." Religion and Politics Mix at Islam Rally on Captiol Hill. A Muslim prayer gathering on Capitol Hill on Friday [9/25/2009] was attended by maybe a tenth of the 50,000 people organizers were expecting. The event's PR was even less successful than its attendance, with conservative media outlets claiming that the event's two main organizers had a history of defending terrorism, making anti-Semitic comments, and expressing anti-American views. What I Saw at the (Muslim Prayer) Revolution. Visitors to Washington D.C. today got to hear what residents in Hamtramck and Dearborn, Michigan, as well as areas of London, Amsterdam and other Western cities already endure five times a day: The sound of amplified Muslim prayers lifted to Allah. This time, the prayers reverberated over America's front lawn as some 2,000 Muslims gathered for the Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill: A Day of Islamic Unity. Promoters had planned for 50,000 but came nowhere near that. Deception. If you are an enemy of America seeking her destruction, you would add to your pursuit of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons the undermining of this nation from within. You would do this largely through deception, putting on a peaceful face while subtly plotting ways to bring America down. That tactic was on display last Friday [9/25/2009] in Washington as a crowd estimated at 3,000 Muslims gathered to pray. British Lion Muzzled. Britain is sinking fast, and in too many ways its government is its people's worst enemy. Jihadists struck London on July 7, 2005 and Glasgow on June 29, 2007, and many still operate in Britain — but how bad is it now? To begin finding out, I spent the last week in London, visiting mosques and discussing the situation with locals. What I saw wasn't shocking, but quite depressing. The signs of Sharia in Dearborn Michigan. We ask you, is it a coincidence that the city with the highest percentage of Muslims in the United States is the city where Christianity is not allowed to be represented (let alone preached) on a public sidewalk? Is it coincidence that in this city, people will say "No way!" when we say "This is the United States of America"? Is this what will happen when Islam takes over the United States? Sensationalism or truth: Terror training camps in the U.S.. Robert Spencer lives in seclusion. That's because he's spent the last several years exposing the jihadist threat in the United States, and it's usually a good idea not to let the crazies know where you live. Now, in Human Events, Spencer defends a documentary film on U.S.-based terror training camps that CBS News calls "sensationalistic." Terror Training Camps On American Soil. In 2006, the Department of Justice reported that Jamaat ul-Fuqra "has more than 35 suspected communes and more than 3,000 members spread across the United States, all in support of one goal: the purification of Islam through violence." That means, of course, violence against unbelievers. Yet despite the fact that Justice and the DHS are obviously aware of what is going on, Jamaat ul-Fuqra continues to operate, relatively unhindered, in the United States. A new documentary from the Christian Action Network, Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S., tells the whole shocking story. Why Obama is losing The Third Jihad. As I pen these words not more than sixty miles north of where I sit, a radical Islamist breeding ground is churning out hate, weapons training, and radical Wahabi indoctrination. To date President Barack Obama's administration has done zero about it. Minneapolis Imam Decries 'the Hell of Living in America'. As the FBI has ongoing investigations in numerous cities across the country looking into the disappearances of possibly dozens of young Somali men who have left the country to presumably join the jihad and train in terror camps back home, attention has recently been focused on one Minneapolis imam. Hassan Mohamud (Jamici) has been singled out by some in that community as being one of the radicalization influences in the Twin Cities. The words "islam" and "Muslim" are conspicuously absent from this story: FBI raids three Minneapolis money-transfer shops. Federal agents raided three Minneapolis money transfer businesses that mainly serve the Somali community Wednesday [4/8/2009], seeking records of financial transactions to several African and Middle East countries. E.K. Wilson, a special agent for the FBI in Minneapolis, confirmed that agents searched the businesses on the city's south side to track money transactions, but wouldn't disclose any further details. Somali Pirates Tied to Jihad. The latest crisis off the coast of Africa where Somali pirates hijacked a US flag ship is not something that suddenly materialized out of thin air. US facing home-grown Islamic terror threat. Officials say a second generation of Somali immigrants is becoming increasingly radicalised and could pose a growing threat to security. The warnings come amid the revelation that 20 young Somali American men who returned to their war-torn homeland have been radicalised by a group linked to al-Qaeda. U.S. Companies Still Host Terrorist Websites. Terrorism specialists say the Internet now reigns as the single most powerful tool in the arsenal of Islamic extremists bent on taking their organizations global. A number of major homegrown terrorism plots in recent years were conceived by wannabe jihadis incited by extremist websites. Would companies like The Planet and CI Host suddenly unravel the technical mysteries of self-policing if their executives became defendants in a federal enforcement action? Jet bombers planned mass killing over Atlantic, court told. Eight Islamic fundamentalists planned to kill on an "unprecedented scale" by exploding bombs on transatlantic flights, a British court heard Tuesday. The men, who were arrested in August 2006 before they could carry out the alleged plot, had hoped for a "truly global impact", prosecutor Peter Wright told a London court. Wright told Woolwich Crown Court that Abdulla Ahmed Ali and Assad Sarwar, both 28, led the group and were "indifferent to the carnage that was likely to ensue if their plans were successful." Islamic Terrorists Forming Cells In America. Hezbollah could be one of the first security challenges faced by the new Obama administration. An official government report concludes the Iranian-backed Islamic terror group has been forming sleeper cells throughout the United States that could become operational. Shrinks And Spooks: If America starts letting shrinks and guidance counselors determine our intelligence practices, we will never be any match for the bloodthirsty fanatics who will stop at nothing to destroy the Western world's freedoms. Would you want these Guantanamo suspects living next door? The latest way to seek an immigration pass into Canada appears to go like this: Act suspiciously like a terrorist or even become one; spend a few years at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; get your name on a refugee-status claim form for review by Canadian immigration officials based in Jamaica. Canadian church groups and others have filed to "sponsor" five Guantanamo Bay detainees for immigration to Canada as refugees. Guess Who's Speaking At the Local Mosque? Unless you live in a rural area, there is probably a mosque (or more than one) in your town, and most people — including local law enforcement officials — regard them with the complete indifference shown the local churches. It is the height of political incorrectness to even suggest that possibly, just possibly, it might be worth checking into the local mosque's sources of funding, and what they're teaching there. As a Las Vegas city councilor exclaimed when some people objected to a proposal to build a mosque right beyond the fence of the international airport, "What's the big deal? It's just a church!" Islamic bigotry is still bigotry. Surveys of Muslim opinion reveal the scale of the problem: almost a third of Muslim students believe that killing in the name of religion can be justified, and 40 percent support the introduction of Sharia law for British Muslims. Channel 4's programme does not explain how we can diminish this kind of narrow bigotry. But it does make it impossible for anyone to deny the continued existence of extremism in some British mosques. Mainstream US Islamic Websites — and Terror: In counterterrorism circles there is significant buzz about "Al-Qaeda 2.0", warning of highly decentralized jihadist networks operating independently and driven by a highly toxic internet-inspired Islamic ideology. The sad reality is, however, that an increasing number of jihadist websites, especially those in the English language, are finding safe haven in the US — and the US government seems powerless, or unwilling, to stop them. Protecting Mosques in New York. Terrorism expert Yehudit Barsky … said that 80% of the mosques in this country "have been radicalized by Saudi money and influence." The Saudis would build large mosques for immigrant Muslim communities in the United States, and send a Saudi imam to staff the new facility. The Saudis, said Barsky, have spent as much as $80 billion on such efforts over the last thirty years. Note also that hate propaganda of just this kind has been found in American mosques — which should not be surprising not only because of the Saudi connection but because much of this is mainstream Islamic teaching. Preachers of separatism at work inside Britain's mosques. Britain's leading Muslim bodies say they are fighting extremism. In one of [Britain's] most respected mosques, Sara Hassan came face to face with hardline female preachers of separatism. Here, she reports on the shocking results of her investigation. 'You've a gun on your T-shirt'. Most primitive cultures have collapsed, virtually overnight, because of the arrival of a more warlike neighbor with better weapons and tactics. Cortez did not conquer Mexico with the plow. Young Muslims 'are turning to extremism'. Increasing numbers have become so alienated from mainstream society that they could even lend their support to jihadi terrorism, the study claims. While most reject violence, many distrust police and are reluctant to inform on extremists. Hugs for Thugs Could Sink Naïve Obama. What is it about the word "appeasement" that got Barack Obama's ears ringing? Without once uttering the freshman anti-war senator's name, President Bush warned against negotiating with terrorists on the futile hope that a little more dialogue will turn these satanic beasts from their death pact to wipe Israel off the map and kill as many American men, women and children as possible. The Jihad Prevention Act: International reaction was almost uniformly negative last week when news broke that Britain had officially granted Muslim Sharia courts permission to rule on everything from divorce to domestic violence. After all, in its strictest form, Sharia law requires the stoning of women accused of adultery, and the execution of converts from Islam, among other draconian punishments for offences that aren't even considered crimes in the West. Islam vs. Free Speech: Under assault by Muslims and multiculturalists, free speech and freedom of the press are dead in Britain. The same sorts of people who killed them in Britain are killing them in Canada. They and their allies are using the British and Canadian courts and tribunals to bury our First Amendment rights in America. Time for Canada to grow a spine. Canada is so afraid of offending newcomers that we can't bring ourselves to demand that immigrants and refugees make some commitment to the Canadian way of life. It's time Canada grew a spine and made it clear that citizenship comes with responsibilities — not just social assistance, free health care and subsidized education. I propose a 10-year wait time for citizenship to make sure newcomers are the right fit for a peaceful, tolerant democracy. Right now, you can apply for citizenship after only three years. You have to wait longer to become a citizen in just about every other western country. Malaysians warned not to question Islam. An influential council of Malaysia's state rulers has warned people not to question the supremacy of Islam or the special privileges enjoyed by the country's ethnic Malay majority. Racial and religious tensions have increased in the past year as minorities have become more vocal in their complaints about an affirmative action program that they say unfairly favors Malays. They also complain that their religious rights are being ignored. Judge rules NJ Muslim leader can stay in US. An influential New Jersey Muslim leader whom U.S. authorities had sought to link to a terrorist group and have deported has won his fight to gain permanent U.S. residency. A federal immigration judge in Newark ruled today that Mohammad Qatanani, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, can remain in the U.S. Shariah's Trojan Horse: Suddenly, a new national debate is beginning about the national security, economic and other implications of Persian Gulf potentates using their petrodollars to buy up strategic American assets. Most recently, the emir of Dubai's purchase at fire-sale prices of 4.9 percent of the largest U.S. bank, Citigroup, caused a level of unease not seen since he tried to buy his way into many U.S. port facilities. 'Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK' hate fanatic says. Muslim hate fanatics plan to take over Britain by having more babies and forcing a population explosion, it has been revealed. The swollen Muslim population would be enough to conquer Britain from inside, they claim. Fanatics told a meeting of young Muslims on the anniversary of the 9/11 atrocity, that it would then be easy to impose Sharia law on the population, the Sun newspaper reported. The Muslim Brotherhood's "Grand Jihad" in Toledo: It might only be the shores of Lake Erie, but the Muslim Brotherhood has established an invasion beachhead in Toledo. … Perhaps it's no coincidence that the Department of Homeland Security recently added Toledo to the list of high-risk terrorism areas. Islamic leader warns of terror strike. Australia faces a "London-type bombing" if relations between Muslims and the intelligence and police authorities do not improve, an influential Islamic youth leader has warned. Fadi Rahman, who runs one of Sydney's biggest youth centres at Lidcombe in the city's west, said overseas Islamic elements were attempting to radicalise Muslim youth with their hardline ideologies. Freedom of the press attacked. In a flagrant attack on freedom of the press, the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) has filed three human rights complaints against Maclean's magazine and its editor-in-chief, Kenneth Whyte, accusing them of spreading "hatred and contempt" for Muslims, by publishing an article by Mark Steyn on Oct. 23, 2006, entitled The Future Belongs to Islam. Radical Imam Promotes Pro-Islamic Ad Campaign to Run on New York Subways. A Muslim group, in collaboration with a Brooklyn imam once investigated as a possible co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, paid $48,000 to run Islamic advertisements on the city's subway cars this September. The ad campaign — known as the "Subway Project" — was designed to inform people about Islam and dispel common misconceptions about the religion…. Allah aboard the jihad train! A Brooklyn imam who has been linked to various terror plots to destroy landmarks is targeting New York City passengers in 1,000 subway cars with a new campaign to draw people into Islam. Siraj Wahhaj has defended convicted would-be bombers and labeled FBI and CIA agents "real terrorists," according to a report by the New York Post. Iranians study nuclear physics in Britain. The Foreign Office has cleared dozens of Iranians to enter British universities to study advanced nuclear physics and other subjects with the potential to be applied to weapons of mass destruction. In the past nine months about 60 Iranians have been admitted to study postgraduate courses deemed "proliferation-sensitive" by the security services. The disciplines range from nuclear physics to some areas of electrical and chemical engineering and microbiology. RAF surveillance planes hear Taliban fighters talking in Brummie and Yorkshire accents. The Taliban are thought to be recruiting an increasing number of fighters from Britain after RAF experts overheard secret transmissions from the Afghan frontline spoken in broad Midlands and Yorkshire accents. … The discovery indicates that a growing number of British-born Muslim are turning their backs on the West and moving to Afghanistan to be trained as fighters. The Editor says... This is the inevitable fruit of "multiculturalism." It's one thing to welcome immigrants from diverse cultures, but it's problem when their culture has declared a holy war on your culture. Critics Dub Saudi Islamic School 'Terror High'. Its most virulent critics have dubbed it "Terror High" and 12 U.S. senators and a federal commission want to shut it down. The teachers, administrators and some 900 students at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Fairfax County have heard the allegations for years — after the Sept 11 attacks and then a few years later when a class valedictorian admitted he had joined Al Qaeda. First, they came for Piglet. [Scroll down] Take, for example, the "moderate" imam Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who once observed that "we will conquer Europe, we will conquer America. Not through the sword, but through da'wa" — i.e., the non-incendiary form of Islamic outreach. What could be more moderate than that? No wonder Mr. al-Qaradawi is an associate of the Islamic Society of Boston, currently building the largest mosque in the northeast…. Guard Accused of Hiding Ties to Imam. A former security guard at Andrews Air Force Base who failed to put his Muslim name on a job application was trying to conceal his ties to a controversial Washington imam, federal prosecutors said Tuesday [11/27/2007]. This sounds like an ultimatum. Pope told 'survival of world' at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace. In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions" and spell out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Koran. Muslims tell Christians: 'Make peace with us or survival of world is at stake'. Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the "survival of the world" is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other. In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions." The Goal of the Jihad: I am not much for predicting the future, so when it comes to detailing the next moves of the jihadists I can't tell you what they're going to do — but I can tell you about the ultimate goal they're working toward. President Bush has said that they are hoping to establish an Islamic state from Spain to Indonesia. He could have added in the Americas, too, for their goal is global. The Trouble With Islam. It is vital to grasp that traditional and even mainstream Islamic teaching accepts and promotes violence. Shariah, for example, allows apostates to be killed, permits beating women to discipline them, seeks to subjugate non-Muslims to Islam as dhimmis and justifies declaring war to do so. It exhorts good Muslims to exterminate the Jews before the "end of days." The near deafening silence of the Muslim majority against these barbaric practices is evidence enough that there is something fundamentally wrong. Poll: 1 in 4 U.S. Young Muslims OK With Homicide Bombings Against Civilians. One out of four young U.S. Muslims believe homicide bombings against civilians are OK to "defend Islam," according to a new poll. The poll by the Pew Research Center also finds some Muslim Americans seem to be separating from mainstream America in their attitudes toward the War on Terror and U.S. Mideast policy. Look Where Al Qaeda & Co. Have Struck Since 9/11. Map shows a selection of the major, memorable terrorist attacks world-wide since Jan. 1, 2002. Slavery in Islamist Sudan. Sellers frantically began to gather up their wares and hurry away with the buyers. The adults understood. They recognized the approaching signs of the dreaded scourge that most people believed had disappeared from the pages of African history long ago: a slave raid. It was 1986 and Bok was about to see his happy world of family and village shattered forever by a centuries-old, barbaric practice that has never died out: the violent capture and enslavement of black Africans by Arabs. FBI Monitoring Al Qaeda Activity in Northern New Jersey. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is monitoring a number of northern New Jersey residents with ties to Al Qaeda, according to a report. America's Homegrown Troop Killers: It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them. Islamic Group Plans to Double the Number of Mosques in Germany: Germany's Muslim community is planning to more than double the number of mosques in the country over the next few years, according to figures released by an Islamic institute this week. … While the number of mosques is growing, the doors are slamming shut at Christian churches across the country. Germany presents a tempting target for the jihadists and others. Though no longer the chief delinquent of Europe, and though not much thought is given to its strategic position, Germany is still Europe's center of gravity, territorially contiguous to more nations than any state other than Russia, with compact interior lines of communication, Western Europe's largest population, and Europe's leading economy. The Sleeper Cell Next Door: an interview with Brian Jenkins. Communications comprise a key component of al Qaeda's campaign. We see it as a military contest. Bin Laden sees it as building an army of believers. All wartime communications are aimed at the home front. Even as bin Laden appears to be addressing us, his followers are his primary audience. The Islamist Trojan Horse. "We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here" has become a hymn for the American right and an abominable lie to the left. But drowned out by all the noise is the fact that "they" are here already, having landed a long time ago and gotten very busy indeed constructing the American wing of jihad. America's Muslim population is gaining a Hispanic accent. Khadijah Rivera, 57, traded her Bible for the Koran. "Islam is not a religion of the Arabs," said Rivera, a Puerto Rican and the group's leader. "It may have started as a religion of the Arabs. But we're just regular people, and we're not all Arab." The Editor says... Hell is full of "regular people." Uncommon Criminals: Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, one of the founders of the jihadist movement that became al Qaeda, put it this way (I'm quoting from Lawrence Wright's definitive history, The Looming Tower): "We shall continue the Jihad no matter how long the way, until the last breath and the last beat of the pulse — or until we see the Islamic state established." How I escaped Islamism: For almost four years I was on the front line of British Islamism serving as a regional officer in northeast England for Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group committed to the creation of a puritanical caliphate. Since leaving in 2005, I've been concerned at just how easy it was for me to join a radical Islamist movement — and why there was hardly any support available when I decided to leave. Surrender! The English who gave us the Magna Carta in 1215, William Blackstone and the foundation of American law are slowly succumbing to the dictates of intolerant Islam and sowing seeds of their own destruction. Wake up, Americans: We're at war! 9/11 wasn't enough for some people, who seem to think it was a one-act play, despite massive physical evidence to the contrary and ceaseless calls for "death to America" from individuals such as Osama bin Laden and states such as Iran. Muslim paramilitary compounds springing up around America. A U.S. defense analyst and author says Americans should be very concerned about some radical Muslim paramilitary compounds that have sprung up around the country and that are surrounded with "No Trespassing" signs. The car bomb you are calling may be switched off — please try later! I felt like retching when Gordon Brown sauntered on camera to announce that the safety of the British people was paramount. Here is a man who for the past ten years has been one of the two most prominent members of a government which has turned Britain into a playground for jihadists. Labour tore up border controls, allowing a mass influx of Islamist psychopaths from all over the globe. Brown: Don't Say Terrorists are Muslims. Gordon Brown has banned ministers from using the word "Muslim" in connection with the terrorism crisis. The Prime Minister has also instructed his team — including new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith — that the phrase "war on terror" is to be dropped. Hamas TV Follows Farfour with Nahoul the Bee. Hamas TV introduced a new children's character intended to inspire future extremists and suicide bombers with Nahoul the Bee. In a television skit, the character vows to continue the work of his cousin, Farfour the mouse, in following in the 'path of Islam, of heroism, of martyrdom.' Fort Dix Jihad: The Media Misses the Point. It's not about the organization, it's the ideology. … Indeed, al Qaeda does not purport to give direction only to its own members, or even that the directions it does impart are al Qaeda's own directions. The network presumes to be guiding all Muslims toward what Islam compels. Another straw on the back of the proverbial American camel. Why do these residents in our midst, who have voluntarily come to America, and some of whom have had America itself spend billions abroad on their brethren, wish to kill us? Such questions are nonsensical. The aggrieved Islamist, whether born here or abroad, lives in a world of emotion, never reason, in which pride, envy, and a sense of inferiority always trump logic. When, as an individual or collectively, he constructs someone or something culpable for his own — or his people's — sense of failure, then a primordial urge to lash out follows. Why Confront Islamism? Because if we don't it will continue to get more extreme. This is not Islamophobia, as many Muslims and their apologists protest. A phobia is a baseless irrational fear. Detestation of Islamism, the violent form of Islam, is based on irrefutable facts and it is not only rational, it is ethically imperative. A Rising Tide of Fury. To varying degrees, 27 percent of Moroccans, 21 percent of Egyptians, 13 percent of Pakistanis and 11 percent of Indonesians approve of terrorism attacks on civilians — and not just American civilians. Extrapolating those percentages to the world Muslim population, roughly 250 million Muslims may approve, under some circumstances, of terrorism attacks on civilians generally. Post 9/11, Islam flourishes among blacks. Islam is growing fast among African Americans, who are undeterred by increased scrutiny of Muslims in the United States since the September 11 attacks, according to imams and experts. The Middle East: Where Trouble Lives and is Exported. The Middle East "is progressively disengaging from the world economy," warns Patrick Clawson, an expert on the area. The region grew at only half the rate of other developing nations during the 1990s. The Middle East continues to slip further behind the West and even Asia. The Middle East today is a dangerous combination of poverty, a militant Islam, nationalism, and a mindset that blames everyone else for its problems. Al-Qaeda tells British cells to carry out wave of beheadings. Police are on standby for multiple attempts by terrorists to kidnap and then behead people across Britain. MI5 is conducting a counter-terrorism surveillance operation to prevent such an attack. Africa to become al-Qaeda 'hotbed'. There is mounting evidence that Africa will become the next al-Qaeda hotbed as the militant group seeks to expand its global operations, a senior expert on terrorism said. One flag too high. The faith of Islam is in fighting trim. In millions, the Islamists are traveling and settling abroad. From these reserves we get occasional irruptions of high-tech loathing, in lower Manhattan and Washington, D.C., in Spanish trains, in British subways. The elderly voices of Islam that stressed toleration and cohabitation are so quiet they might as well be silent. Islamic attacks rise in Thailand. Bangkok The death toll from a two-year Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand has risen to more than 1,700, with bomb attacks steadily increasing over the past few months, a research team has said. Is political Islam on the march? Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks nearly five years ago, Americans have come increasingly to believe that political Islam is a mortal threat to the West, an aggressive and totalitarian ideology dedicated to random destruction and global subjugation. Cleric to sue for damages. In the ultimate insult to Australia's Bali bombing victims, radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has bragged that he is planning to sue for damages after a controversial decision to clear him of terrorism charges. The families of victims of the 2002 attack told of their despair that Bashir — widely regarded as the spiritual leader of the terrorists who murdered their loved ones — is free and planning to cash in. The Editor says... The Muslims have figured out how to sap the life out of America: It is done with frivolous lawsuits, or just the threat of a lawsuit. And fortunately for them, there is no shortage of lawyers who will abet and facilitate this process if the price is right. Extremists among us? A 2004 Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that, after a contentious debate, U.S. leaders of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood decided in 1993 to begin calling themselves the Muslim American Society. The Muslim Brotherhood is an international Islamist group that largely operates underground. The Brotherhood's goal is to spread the rule of Islamic law throughout the world. No American Muslim Terrorists? Of the 212 suspected and convicted terrorist perpetrators during 1993-2003, 86 percent were Muslim immigrants and the remainder mainly converts to Islam. More than merely a word. The pride we take in our tolerance, our determination to fight fair, to look for the "root causes" of poverty, ignorance and oppression to explain the anger of the likes of Zacarious Moussaoui and the evil of Sept. 11 put us at peril. Most of the Sept. 11 terrorists grew up in middle-class comfort and knew neither poverty nor oppression. Recommended books for Christmas Giving: Among the new books this year, Londonistan, by Melanie Phillips, is an eye-opening account of how the British have so succumbed to political correctness as regards their Muslim minority that even incitements to murder by Muslim extremists go unpunished. While the Brits have gone further down this road than Americans have, we are being led in the same direction by our academic and media elites. Radical Arabs Seek Influence Over U.S. Media. There are terrorists in the Muslim world seething with hatred for all Americans. This war, unlike any other we have confronted, presents us with an enemy that is everywhere and nowhere. The media are a key battleground. It is a war largely without nation-state soldiers in uniforms. To add to the confusion, our enemy has skillfully blurred the lines between bloodthirsty murderers and legitimately religious people. Thus, the pressure for "tolerance" that often fails to distinguish the former from the latter. Treason is Not Merely Dissenting Against Wars. A nation that means to perpetuate its existence must never abandon its clarity when it comes to distinguishing friends from enemies. The war against Islamo-fascists, who murder people in the name of Allah, deserves the benefit of moral clarity no less than our other wars. Prosecuting those who compromise national security by leaking to the media details of our surveillance of the enemy, is a good place to start. How Islamist Totalitarianism Views the West: Leaders of al-Qaeda and other terrorist movements are confident that people in the West are decadent, weak and cowardly — and ripe for defeat. Their world view promotes the idea that America, Israel, and other Western nations are paper-tigers, unwilling to sustain a long-term war with regular casualties. Stand up: Wafa Sultan is passing. In an age that has brought us the Theo van Gogh assassination, deadly riots over a series of Danish newspaper cartoons, the Pym Fortune assassination, the death threats against Salman Rushdie, Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq, among many others, it requires truly remarkable courage to stare into the Al-Jazeera camera and calmly permit yourself to be labeled a heretic. The Taliban's rising star: no poor little lamb. Exactly what was it that new Yale student Sayeed Rahmatullah Hashemi did for the Taliban? Discussions of this issue so far have usually tagged him an "envoy" or "ambassador". But a little digging shows he was far more than just a mouthpiece. Prayer leads to work disputes. Requests by Muslims to pray at work have led to clashes with employers who say they cannot accommodate the strictly scheduled prayers. The conflicts raise questions about religious rights on the job. Muslims say they are being discriminated against and are taking their complaints to the courts and the federal government. Employers say the time out for prayer can burden other workers and disrupt operations. America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think. From schools to language to religion, American Muslims are becoming a people apart. Speaking of schools... Your Friendly Jihadi Bus Driver. According to the FBI, terrorists are working as school bus drivers but it's nothing to worry about, the FBI is sure they don't mean any harm. The Islamic threat is greater than German and Soviet threats were. Whereas there were unique aspects to those evils, there are two unique aspects to the evil emanating from the Islamic world that render this latest threat to humanity particularly difficult to overcome. One is the number of people who believe in it. … [The other aspect is this:] Nazis and Communists wanted to live and feared death; Islamic authoritarians love death and loathe life. American Border Secrets. What steps should Western border agencies take to defend their homelands from harm by Islamists? In the case of non-citizens, the answer is simple: Don't let Islamists in. Exclude not just potential terrorists but also anyone who supports the totalitarian goals of radical Islam. Just as civilized countries did not welcome fascists in the early 1940s (or communists a decade later), they need not welcome Islamists today. Increased risk for bomb attacks at U.S. stadiums and sporting events. The FBI has warned stadium operators to be alert for possible suicide bomb attack at sporting events. A posting on a terrorist-sponsored web site solicited homicide and suicide attacks against people at stadiums and sporting events in the U.S. using groups of three to five "blond or black American Muslim suicide bombers." Hate spread at mosque gates. A radical Islamic group is infiltrating Australian mosques, distributing inflammatory pamphlets urging Muslims to rise up against Australian troops in Iraq and support the insurgency. Death by a thousand lawsuits. Though many Islamic groups across the United States have been closed since 9/11 for ties to terrorism, some Muslim organizations being accused of having similar such connections have turned for help to a branch of the government, specifically the courts. In most instances, though, the point does not seem to be winning or clearing one's own name, but rather to do what the government cannot: stifle criticism. Terror tapes given out at mosques. Police have launched an investigation into claims that video tapes and DVDs handed out at mosques in Dewsbury were being used to recruit terrorists. The tapes, purporting to contain readings from the Koran, were given to Muslims attending two mosques in Savile Town during the weekend's Eid festival. Islamic preachers drive the poisoning of young minds. Some, like Sheik Faiz Mohamad of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, have preached that women who are raped are at fault if they dress immodestly. … Others, like the firebrand American preacher Khalid Yasin, who visits Australia regularly, warn about associating with non-Muslims – "there's no such thing as a Muslim having a non-Muslim friend". Reformation or Civil War? The jihadists cannot be reasoned with, only defeated. Was 9/11 the Start of a 50-Year Religious War? The father of the 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta is praising the bombings in London and says his son's attack was the start of a 50-year religious war. 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. This aspiration is so remote and far-fetched to many non-Muslims, it elicits more guffaws than apprehension. Al-Qaida infiltrated U.S. military meal company? U.S. officials are probing the possibility the al-Qaida terrorist network sought to infiltrate a Texas company in order to contaminate ready-to-eat meals designated for the military. Aliens hiding in plain sight. Nearly half of the 48 al Qaeda terrorists tied to violent acts in the United States between 1993 and 2001 committed significant immigration-law violations prior to those events but were never detained or deported, federal records show. 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. Michigan: The Islamic Capital of the US. As of 2005, Michigan held the largest and still growing Muslim population in the United States and the second largest Arab population outside of the Middle East. Outside of Muslim-run countries, Paris — which still experiences nightly vehicle torchings and mayhem in its Islamic neighborhoods — has the largest. It is estimated that eight million Muslims now live in the US and their numbers are continuing to grow. Islam is now the second-largest religious body in the United States and is said to be its fastest growing religious movement. 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. Muslim group attempts late Florida vote dump. A pushy Muslim activist demanded a county elections office worker accept a box of 550 applications to vote after the close of business on the last day to register in Palm Beach County, Florida. Murder in the 101st Airborne: The Akbar incident points to the suspect allegiance of some Muslims in government. Latinos and Islam Conversion: There is almost no research showing the number of Muslims in the country, although the U.S. State Department has reported some trends that show Islam is one the fastest-growing religions in the nation. The report also predicts that, by 2010, the Muslim population will be larger than Judaism and the second-largest religion in the U.S., after Christianity. Back to the Islam Page Back to the Home page 
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