Militant Islam is Still a Threat and the threat is constantly growing

Countries such as the United States, Canada and England, have a huge problem with Islamic terrorists, if not Islam itself, and the problem is going to get worse.

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. 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. 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. Islamic Radicalization U.S.A..  If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed.  According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has experienced 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11.  One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials. Islamist Gülen Movement Runs U.S. Charter Schools.  A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools — which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum — on U.S. soil.  The inspirer of this conspiratorial effort is Fethullah Gülen, who directs a major Islamist movement in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora but lives in the United States.  He is number thirteen among the world's "50 most influential Muslims," according to one prominent listing. 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. Penetration Even At The Pentagon:  Muslim Spies Setting Muslim Policy.  The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy.  In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack. 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. 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. The French riots of 2005 Paris When It Sizzles:  The intifada comes to France.  The French use the euphemism "quartiers sensibles" — sensitive neighborhoods — for the troubled, predominantly Arab and African working-class suburbs of Paris and other cities that increasingly resemble a ticking bomb at the heart of their society. Hell no, we won't work.  After the rampages last fall, mostly by unemployed and disaffected Muslims — almost universally referred to as "French youths" by an international press too afraid to reports facts that may not be considered polite — French Prime Minister Dominuque de Villepin has proposed measures designed to encourage French companies to hire more young workers. Muslim Riots Break Out in Denmark As Well.  As Muslim riots spread across France, Denmark is also beginning to see its own Islamic Intifada.  In Arhus, Denmark, young Muslims were heard chanting, "This land belongs to us!" Third night of unrest in Belgium.  Vandals set fires in Belgium for a third straight night in what authorities called copycat violence patterned on the rioting in France. Cars torched at liberty's heart as Paris gripped by guerilla warfare.  It is a French revolution in rioting — a war of attrition where the enemy is almost impossible to detect and the weapon is a Molotov cocktail.  Their targets are cars, buses, schools, nurseries, gyms, warehouses and brasseries across Paris and in other cities.  Comparisons with the Gaza Strip are impossible to avoid. Residents of Paris Suburbs at Gangs' Mercy.  They move in packs at night, burning and wrecking.  Their anger is both blind and targeted.  They torch their own neighborhoods as well as symbols of the French state that some feel oppresses them. French Fried Muslim Madness.  Here's the typical feed coming from liberal thought police central:  "Riots have broken out in Paris suburbs.  This wave of destruction has been at the hand of North African and Middle Eastern descent French youths who have been disenfranchised and unemployed by haughty white French people."  Yeah, if you do a little digging, I bet you'd find that, as Mark Steyn wrote, the names of the "French youths" culpable for this anarchy are not Pierre, Patrice, Henri and Claude, but rather Habib, Achmed and Mohamed. The Islamist threat in France:  This is not about Muslim poverty (the Islamist terrorists who hit London all had good jobs.  Mohammed Atta, who struck us in New York, was well-born and came from a prosperous family).  It is about radical Islamist self-confidence and contempt for the West.  And, it is about Western weakness. Facing the facts:  No one wants to admit what polls have long suggested — the French are finally reaping what they sowed with their longstanding, loose immigration laws and their egalitarian snobbishness.  Here in the United States, Republicans are finally waking up to the fact that we too have the makings of a serious problem from excessive immigration. The Media ignore one key fact about Paris rioters:  they're mostly Muslims.  The rioters who have terrorized Paris for two weeks now have been called many things by the mainstream media:  poor, disaffected, disenfranchised, mostly immigrants or children of.  But one label applied to them in passing, if at all, is one that is certainly not unimportant or irrelevant:  "Muslim." A thug by any other name...  It's unclear how [Christophe] Bertossi would prefer that the violent young Muslims (invariably called "French youths" in the mainstream media) be treated.  If torching cars and destroying schools isn't criminal and terrorist behavior, nothing is. Police Guard Paris Treasures From Rioters.  Some 3,000 police fanned out around Paris on Saturday [11/12/2005] to prevent any attempts to attack high-profile targets such as the Eiffel Tower after a 16th straight night of unrest and arson. … "This is not a rumor," said National Police Chief Michel Gaudin.  The famed Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysees avenue were among potential targets, he said. In the following story, Lucianne pointed out that the word "Muslim" first appears at the end of paragraph seven. Police, Rioting Youths Clash in Central Lyon.  Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night [11/12/2005] in the first clash between rioters and police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports. Vive la Difference!  Francophiles may unclench.  After weeks of national unrest, Jacques Chirac finally got tough on the car-broilers:  He proposed job training for 50,000 of the unemployed malcontents.  That'll teach 'em.  Of course, job training is one thing; actual jobs are another. French riots:  126 cops hurt.  France's national police service said on Wednesday [11/16/2005] that 126 officers had been injured since urban unrest first flared up nearly three weeks ago.  It said a total of 2,888 people had been arrested since the violence started on October 27, and 8,973 vehicles had been destroyed by arson. Riots in the welfare state.  France is a welfare state.  The government controls the economy.  Unions rule.  Bureaucracies fight market forces so as to benefit factory workers, farmers, and civil servants.  Wages are high, vacations are long, and benefits are generous.  That means French businesses cannot afford to hire people who need jobs. Leftist hate for America:  In the past, Europeans were unwilling or unable to protect themselves against Nazism and communism.  Now they demonstrate an unwillingness to protect themselves against Islam hell-bent on conquering the West.  We just might have to pull Europe's chestnut out of the fire — again. ...and 2006:  Editor's Note:   I don't want to blame the Islamic thugs in France for something that they haven't done, but I find it hard to believe that a completely different group of people is rioting this year, and they had nothing to do with last year's riots.  I suspect it's the same young people.  Still, even if the same people are in the streets again, the current French riots appear to have little to do with Islamic outrage and a lot to do with heavy-handed socialism, high unemployment and unfair labor laws. The French job funk:  What American despairs that the French are having problems with their youth?  Who among us laments that the snooty French, who look down their long noses at all things American … are paying the price for years of socialism? France's ghettoes boil as labour law protests spread.  The youths attacked police officers and journalists, assaulted and robbed demonstrators and set cars and stores on fire in a terrifying reminder of the three weeks of riots that swept through France in November [2005]. Rioting for Ineptitude in France:  In France's overly-planned, overly-socialist economy, the unemployment rate has hovered around 10 percent for decades, more than double the current rate of unemployment in the United States.  For France's younger workers, the jobless rate stands at 23 percent, the highest in Europe.  In the areas most severely hit by rioting over the past several weeks, unemployment rates are running in excess of 50 percent. French Student Riots:  Why are students at the Sorbonne and other distinguished institutions out trashing the streets and attacking the police?  Because they want privileges in the name of rights, and are too ignorant of economics to realize that those privileges cost them jobs. Paris 'smashers' shift attacks from property to people.  The images are unnerving: hooded, swift-footed youths infiltrating protest rallies in the heart of tourist Paris, smashing shop windows, setting cars on fire, beating and robbing passers-by and throwing objects at the riot police.  They are called the casseurs — the smashers. French despair:  People hired in France who are under 26 years old can be dismissed by their employers within two years.  For specific causes?  No, for any cause. … But [the "First Employment Contract"] says … the McDonald's hamburger stand can dismiss a (young) employee without the need to file encyclopedic papers with various French ministries. Chirac:  'Oui Surrender!'  True to Gallic tradition, President Jacques Chirac on Monday [4/10/2006] stared sternly at the rioters who've spent the last two weeks ravaging France and … surrendered.  Bowing to pressure from rowdy adolescents and moss-backed unions violently opposed to proposed labor-law reform, Chirac provided la Belle France with a regrettable lesson:  Riots pay. Update: French Police Faulted in Youths' Deaths.  An internal police review of the 2005 electrocutions of two teenagers that triggered weeks of rioting in poor French neighborhoods faulted police officers for their handling of the case, a lawyer for the victims' families said Thursday [12/7/2006].  Editor's Note:   Notice that the word "Muslim" is conspicuously absent in the story above. Islam in Prison: Islam in prison is not such a big problem, provided the converts are in for life.  It's when they're released that the rest of us have trouble on our hands. Mike Tyson goes on Mecca pilgrimage.  Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage. Homegrown Islamic Jihad in the Bronx.  Four African-American converts to Islam, all of whom converted to Islam in prison, have been arrested by the FBI just as they attempted to bomb two Riverdale synagogues, (the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple), in the Bronx and a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York where they lived and attended a mosque.  Why do I begin by clearly stating the race and religion of the terrorists?  Because the liberal mainstream media refuses to do so, or buries such facts on its back pages. Muslim inmates at Rawlins accommodated.  The Wyoming Department of Corrections says it will allow Muslim inmates at the state penitentiary in Rawlins to time their meals to accommodate their daily prayers.  The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit earlier this year on behalf of two Muslim inmates. Little Rock Shooting Suspect Joins Growing List of Muslim Converts Accused of Targeting U.S..  The suspect in the deadly shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas is the latest in a series of Muslim converts accused of planning or launching violent attacks in the U.S., part of what security experts call an alarming domestic trend.  The attack came less than two weeks after a foiled bomb plot on two synagogues in Riverdale, N.Y., allegedly led by four men who converted to Islam in prison or shortly after their incarceration. Muslim Fanatics Hijack British Prison.  Muslim prisoners have launched a reign of terror inside a top security British jail.  The fanatics are forcing fellow inmates to convert to Islam or face punishment beatings.  One man who stood up to the thugs was branded with a lump of hot metal, according to a prison source.  The crisis at Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire has led to calls by staff for the 100 Muslim inmates there to be dispersed to other prisons round the country. Black Racists Recruited to Guide the Jihad.  The prison, as the last bastion of racism and racial separatism, has become a prime recruitment center for radical Islam.  Al Qaeda training manuals found by U.S. troops in Afghanistan reveal that America's black prisoners, who constitute nearly half of the nation's two million inmates, are viewed by terrorists as a potentially bountiful source of new jihadi recruits. Radical Islam Behind Bars:  Federal, state, county, and city prison officials have wrestled since the horror of 9/11 with the presence of radical Muslim chaplains in our country's correctional systems.  To the shock of most Americans, when they hear about it, missionaries of the ultrafundamentalist Wahhabi sect, financed by Saudi Arabia and supporting terrorism, have a monopoly on Muslim chaplaincies behind bars. America's Prisons:  Breeding Grounds for Muslim Converts.  As controls in the US on the access of outside Imams to prisoners have tightened, the problem of Islamist radicalization in US prisons is one that involves much more self-radicalization.  This seems to be especially the case amongst certain segments of the African-American inmate population that has converted to Islam while in prison.  It is notable that one of the more serious Jihadist terrorist plots, uncovered in Los Angeles by local law enforcement and the FBI, involved just such individuals. Wahhabism in the Big House:  While some Muslim advocacy groups deny that extremist indoctrination is occurring in prisons, the evidence continues to mount. Muktar Said Ibrahim, arrested in the attempted bombing of London's Underground on July 21, reportedly converted to Islam while incarcerated, as did attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid before him. Jailhouse Blues:  The New Islam Remains The Same Old Islam.  Give credit to the Council on American Islamic Relations, the American Muslim Council and other members of the American Muslim disinformation lobby for using generous donations from foreign lands to package a sanitized version of Islam as peaceful and tolerant.  But their fantasy Islam collides with the truth about life inside those countries where the religion is dominant. Why Islam Attracts Criminals:  What exactly is it that makes people such as suspected "dirty bomber" Abdullah al Muhajir turn to Islamic extremism?  According to sociologists of religion and theologians, it is the search for security and structure in their lives. Islamist radicals in prison:  How many?  The radicalization and recruitment of terrorists in US prisons present a threat of "unknown magnitude," according to national security experts.  That's prompted leading analysts to call on Congress to set up a national commission to study the spread of radical ideologies in America's correctional systems. The Editor says... There's not a lot of correction being done in the "correctional systems", and there's not much penitence in the penitentiaries. Ex-Convicts Plead Guilty in Plotting Attacks on Military Sites.  Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty Friday [12/14/2007] to conspiring to wage war against the United States.  Kevin James, 31, and Levar Haley Washington, 28, both pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.  Authorities say James, Washington and two others were part of a California prison gang cell of radical Muslims planning attacks in the Los Angeles area. Spewing Poison in America's Prisons:  Not long ago, an ex-con named Umar Abdul-Jalil gave a speech in which he said the "greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House," and that the "Zionists of the media" should not be dictating "what Islam is to us."  That was bad enough, but what was worse was the fact that Jalil is the chief Islamic chaplain in the New York City Department of Corrections.  After his comments became public, he was suspended from his job.  But New York's Mayor Bloomberg refused to dismiss him, claiming that his right to free speech covered such explosive comments. London Prison Changes Direction of Toilets in Respect to Islamic Law.  Toilets in one London prison are getting a face-lift — or rather, a change in direction — to accommodate Muslim inmates who can't use them while facing Mecca, a British newspaper reported. The Editor says... A prison is not a hotel.  Sometimes things don't go your way in prison.  In my opinion, the inmates are very fortunate if they can determine which way is north, or whether the sun is shining outdoors. Concern Grows Over Prison Islam Converts.  Recent arrests have focused attention on a potential terrorism danger that federal officials have been warning about — that inmates in state prison systems are particularly susceptible to radical Islamist ideology. Primary Sources:  The U.S. prison system as a terrorist university.  Despite recent cautionary examples like Jose Padilla, who is believed to have been radicalized in prison before allegedly plotting to detonate a dirty bomb (the shoe bomber Richard Reid is thought to have been similarly radicalized in a British prison), the Justice Department reports that safeguards against religious extremism in federal prisons are still remarkably lax. The Wrong Kind of Prison Fellowship:  In August, law enforcement officials foiled a Jihadist plot to attack a synagogue and military recruitment center in Los Angeles.  What made the plot especially disturbing wasn't only the nationality of the organizers — they were native-born Americans of non Middle-Eastern descent — but where the plot was hatched:  inside Folsom prison. U.S. prisons becoming Islam battleground.  While prison chaplains of various denominations argue that Islam offers a spiritual path to rehabilitation, others say it has the potential to turn felons into terrorists.  The FBI calls prisons "fertile ground for extremists." Muslim inmate wins court fight.  A federal judge has ordered prison officials to allow a Muslim inmate to be fed an appropriate diet and to wear a headpiece consistent with Islamic teachings. Criminals Recruited for "Islamic Army" in America:  Islam is gaining an impressive number of American converts in prisons, almost all African-Americans, but political correctness has inhibited investigative reporting on the phenomenon.  Less than 12 percent of American Muslims are of Arab descent.  Native-born African-Americans account for roughly 42 percent, and immigrants from south Asia 24 percent.  The others came to the U.S. from more than 100 countries. Plot renews fears of radical Islam in US prison.  The arrest of four Muslim ex-convicts in an alleged homegrown terror plot in the Bronx is renewing fears about the spread of Islamic extremism in the nation's prisons.  At least two of the four men suspected of plotting to bomb synagogues and shoot down military airplanes converted to Islam behind bars.  The alleged mastermind is also a convert, and the fourth man identified himself as a Muslim when he entered prison. Radicals in Our Prisons.  Amid all the shocking details in the disrupted plot to bomb Bronx synagogues and fire missiles at American military aircraft, one component of the case should come as no surprise — three of the alleged culprits converted to radical Islam in prison. Black Anti-Semites Recruited to Islam.  My friend Phyllis Chesler has written a column about the recruitment of black anti-Semites in prison.  The Black Muslim movement in America was racist and anti-Semitic in its origins and in no small measure began there — legitimizing of Jew hatred in the American mainstream after it had been driven under a rock in the post-WW II era.  Because blacks were victims they could (and still can) get away with hate speech thatothers could not.  Now Muslims have made a remarkably successful bid for the same kind of racist privilege. We mustn't hurt their feelings, after all. Muslim prisoners get their own cells after sharing row.  A prison has agreed to give Muslims their own cells after they complained about sharing with other inmates.  They were said to be unhappy at praying and eating near non-Muslims at Birmingham's Winson Green jail.  It is thought to be the first time inmates have been segregated by religion.  Prison bosses have decided to place them with other Muslims, or give them single cells when space is available. Muslim inmates sue over prayers.  Two Muslim inmates held in a special unit at the federal prison in Terre Haute say they aren't allowed to pray in groups as often as their religion commands and have asked a federal judge to ease limitations on worship imposed by the Bureau of Prisons. The Editor says... Did their religion command them to do the things that sent them to the penitentiary? FBI:  Radical Islamist Group Ruled by Inmate in "Supermax" Jail.  [Scroll down]  In this case, not only did a domestic Islamic terrorist organization arise from within the walls of our prison system, but the "Supermax" facility currently serves as the headquarters for this radical group.  It appears FBI Director Robert Mueller's "relevant concerns" about bringing Gitmo's terrorists to the United States are not so far-fetched after all.  So far as we know, no terror cells are currently being run from inside Guantanamo. Department of Justice Press Release:  [Luqman Ameen] Abdullah was the leader of part of a group which calls themselves Ummah ("the brotherhood"), a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States.  The Ummah is ruled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, who is serving a state sentence in USP Florence, CO, ADMAX, for the murder of two police officers in Georgia. The Detroit 'Ummah' and Radical Islam in America.  Full details about the FBI's arrest in Detroit yesterday [10/29/2009] of a group of radical Muslims, during which their leader was killed in a shootout, are yet to become available, and it is too early to judge the real significance of these events.  Nonetheless, what we already know is sufficient to make some general observations on the growing threat that homegrown radical Islam poses to America. Muslims call for justice at funeral for lslamic leader.  Muslim leaders called for justice today at the funeral of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, the Islamic leader killed by FBI agents this week during a shootout in Dearborn.  "We are looking for justice," said Imam Mohammed Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom to a packed crowd that spilled outside.  "The closest road to Allah is justice.  May Allah bless his soul." Elahi said.  "Allah Akbar," God is great, the packed crowd said at times during the funeral. The Editor says... The Muslims will get justice soon enough.  It may be tonight or tomorrow, or it may be another 500 years, but it's coming, and they're not going to like it. Dearborn Shoot-Out Opens a Window into Homegrown Terror.  "We're not any fake terrorists, we're the real terrorists," Abdullah (aka Christopher Thomas) once bragged to an undercover informant, according to an FBI affidavit.  Abdullah, 53, was a disciple of none other than H. Rap Brown.  If you ever wondered what had become of the'60s Black Panther leader, well, he converted to Islam while in prison in the 1970s.  And he apparently has not changed his mind about what he'd like to do to America. The Rise of the Ignoramus Jihadist.  Typical of this putative class of terrorist is "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.  A petty criminal who was arrested in his teens for assaulting an elderly woman, and who was in and out of prison for most his adult life, Reid considered himself a victim of racism.  He was thus promising material for conversion to Islam:  the Jihadists love to glom onto disaffected and benighted losers to do their dirty work. Nation of Islam Subsection Race War A'Comin'?  I was stunned a few weeks ago when a black professional colleague told me there were all-black cruises that featured speakers such as Louis Farrakhan.  Mr. Farrakhan is a Muslim black nationalist, formerly a security officer, now successor to Elijah Mohammed of the Nation of Islam. ... Prosperous American blacks pay good money to go on a cruise with a racist like Louis Farrakhan?  Mr. Farrakhan is more hateful than other race agitators, hustlers, and shakedown artists like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.  He is in concert with the Congressional Black Caucus, who slavishly support communist regimes like Cuba and anti-American projects, who are angry at Whitey, but claim to be the conscience of the Congress. Corrupting Hatred.  To the followers of the Reverend, the Imam, and the Minister: ... [Louis] Farrakhan has long been associated with anti-Semitic canards, and for most Americans, Farrakhan epitomizes racism of the basest type.  Yet in 2007, Barack Obama's former minister, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, bestowed the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness" — thus, a man who consistently denigrates the Holocaust is seen fit by Obama's mentor to receive an award.  Do you agree with him or not? Nation of Islam (Definition):  A sect of Islam originating in America composed of black Americans.  Followers, sometimes called Black Muslims, believe that Allah (God) appeared in 1930 to the last great prophet Elijah Muhammad, in the person of Wallace D. Fard.  Elijah Muhammad borrowed many beliefs from traditional Islam but introduced important differences.  Most notable was the focus on black oppression and equating Satan and evil with the white race. Brief biography of Louis Farrakhan.  The Muslim Cult of Islam (now called the Nation of Islam) originated July 4, 1930.  In 1933, Elijah Poole … changed his name to Elijah Muhammad and moved the sect to Michigan and then to Chicago.  Louis Eugene Wolcott … changed his name to "Louis X" according to Black Muslim tradition, and later to Louis Farrakhan. Louis Farrakhan In His Own Words:  "A decree of death has been passed on America.  The judgement of God has been rendered and she must be destroyed…" [Harlem, NY, 8/9/1997] Farrakhan Blames Religious Divisions for World's Conflicts in Final Speech.  Nation founder Wallace D. Fard attracted black Detroiters on the margins of society with a message of self-improvement and separation from whites, who he said were inherently evil because of their enslavement of blacks.  The Nation of Islam, which promotes black empowerment and nationalism, was rebuilt by Farrakhan in the late 1970s after W.D. Mohammed, the son of longtime leader Elijah Mohammed, moved his followers toward mainstream Islam. Farrakhan says Democracy is the "Rule of the Devil".  Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan has told his followers that President Bush's efforts to bring democracy to the Middle East represent "the rule of the devil." Some Key Nation of Islam Dates:  The Nation of Islam formed in the early 20th century as a separatist movement to help blacks overcome racism and poverty.  But it wasn't until 1978 that Imam W.D. Mohammed proclaimed that whites are fully human. Another Failed 'Farrakhan Test'.  Whether Obama passed or failed the Farrakhan test might depend on where you stand on Obama's candidacy.  But the exchange regarding the controversial Nation of Islam leader probably did Hillary Clinton some good, given Farrakhan's radioactivity in many parts of the country.  Which raises the question:  Where was Hillary Clinton when her husband, former president Bill Clinton, made nice with Louis Farrakhan? Wake up and smell the thuggery.  The Nation of Islam thugs carried themselves like true believers given to hard work, self-respect and a community awareness of bettering the lives of those in black Philadelphia.  But behind the clean-shaven masks, the dark suits and the bow ties, they were selling drugs, extorting money from businesses and either brutally beating or killing people, including a family in Washington that was victimized to the tune of two murdered adults and five drowned children. Louis Farrakhan Is Not a Muslim.  Farrakhan subscribes to an American black religion founded in Detroit 50 years ago.  His faith is not recognized as Islamic by real Muslims, and his teachings bear almost no resemblance to those of Islam.  Farrakhan is as much a Muslim as the Shriner is an Arab.  Farrakhan leads a group formally known as the "Nation of Islam," commonly called the Black Muslims. Louis Farrakhan Rips 'Wicked Jews' in Hollywood.  It's been nearly a month since Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakahan blamed "Zionists and neo-cons" for "manipulating" President Bush into invading Iraq – before blasting "wicked Jews" in Hollywood for promoting "lesbianism [and] homosexuality."  Yet, outside of a few newspapers in Chicago, the same press that showers positive coverage on Farrakhan's Million Man marches has yet to get around to covering his Feb. 26 Saviours Day speech. "Islamic Americans" vs. America:  The current leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, threatened some years ago to "lead an army of black men and women to Washington, D.C., and we will sit down with the president, whoever he may be, and will negotiate for a separate state or territory of our own."  On a 1996 visit to the virulently anti-American regime in Teheran, Farrakhan declared that "God will destroy America at the hands of Muslims." Farrakhan in Cuba calls for "regime change" in US.  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan called for "regime change" in the United States on Monday and denounced "wicked" U.S. policies for turning the world against America.  "We need a new government, we need regime change in America," he said at the end of a visit to Communist Cuba. A much more thorough history of the Nation of Islam,   Part One,   Part Two. Do blacks believe levee was blown?  Was the levee break that precipitated the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina the result of some government conspiracy against blacks? … Last week, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan sparked controversy by spreading racist conspiracy theories.  "I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25-foot deep crater under the levee breach," Farrakhan said.  "It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."  Editor's Note:   This may be the first time since 9/11/2001 that Louis Farrakhan has been quoted in the news media.  He has kept an extremely low profile since people of his "religion of peace" unloaded on America four years ago. Black Muslim leader Farrakhan discloses illness.  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, 73, has suffered new health problems relating to earlier diagnosed prostate cancer and has canceled all engagements, he said in a letter published on the Web site of his church. The Editor says... Mr. Farrakhan should spend his last remaining energy denouncing Muslim acts of terrorism, instead of using it to tell everyone how sick he is. Louis Farrakhan's First Congressman.  At this particular time in history, it is a matter of note that Congress is about to receive its first Muslim member. ... [Keith] Ellison's Muslim faith has generated no controversy in the campaign.  On the contrary, it has served to insulate aspects of his public record from close scrutiny in a city whose dominant news organ, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, is a paragon of political correctness.  With the exception of columnist Katherine Kersten, the Star Tribune has scrupulously avoided examining Ellison's long train of troubling associations, foremost among them his ties to the Nation of Islam. Farrakhan ready for major speech.  The Nation of Islam returns to its roots in the city for its annual national convention and conferences next week, and dozens of officials and clergy laid down the welcome mat Thursday [2/15/2007] for what may be Minister Louis Farrakhan's last major address. After a miraculous recovery... Farrakhan:  'I'm also a Christian'.  A packed house welcomed Minister Louis Farrakhan to St. Sabina Catholic Church on Friday night with a standing ovation and cheers for his health.  The 74-year-old provocative Nation of Islam leader, who has endured a series of health setbacks, didn't speak from the Quran but from the Bible.  "Even though I am a Muslim — I don't apologize for that — I'm also a Christian," he told the crowd…. The Editor says... Sorry, Louis, but you can't play on both sides of that fence.  Islam is not just another way to God or another path to Heaven -- it is incompatible with Christianity.  If Christianity is true and valid then Islam cannot be. Obama's Farrakhan Test:  Maybe for [Rev. Jeremiah A.] Wright and some others, [Louis] Farrakhan "epitomized greatness."  For most Americans, though, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism.  Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler — "They helped him get the Third Reich on the road."  His history is a rancid stew of lies. Somewhat related... Farrakhan ordered to pay couple $350,000.  The son of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will have to pay $350,000 to a Gary couple who suffered injuries when he crashed into their car, twice, while he was apparently in a drug-induced stupor. Farrakhan Casts a Long Shadow on the Campaign Trail.  Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam and icon of black antisemitism in America, is emerging once again as a prominent factor in the political arena, causing trouble not only for Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama but also for a number of other political candidates. Farrakhan:  Stick With Obama.  The issue arose Sunday [2/24/2008], when Farrakhan praised Obama before a large Nation of Islam gathering, even comparing him to the religion's founder, Wallace D. Fard Muhammad, who Farrakhan claims also had a white mother and black father.  "A black man with a white mother became a savior to us," Farrakhan said Sunday.  "A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall."  The Obama campaign moved quickly to distance itself from Farrakhan. Obama's Truthiness About Farrakhan:  The question was about Farrakhan as a package deal.  Did Obama accept his support?  Did Obama reject his support?  So far, no answer.  And this was incredible.  Before a national audience, Obama, whose very candidacy has come to symbolize a promise of "post-racial" "unity" in America, failed to reject the support of arguably the most racist and divisive figure in America. Update: Rev. Wright's Teachers:  It turns out that a number of Jeremiah Wright's incendiary and racist comments are not new, and are traceable to leaders of the Black Muslim Movement.  As it turns out, Wright's radical ranting is an echo.  A glance back at history reveals an eerie connection between black separatists, the Nation of Islam (NOI) and Barack Obama's pastor.  Although both NOI and Wright excel at racist and anti-American rhetoric, it now appears that they read from the same hymnal. Black Muslim killings gain new attention.  [Scroll down]  What happened that night continued a chain of violence that began on June 17, 1973, police said.  The Webb-Trantham shootings weren't the first, nor were they the last, but they were, perhaps, the most pivotal.  Trantham lived.  Later, she identified Brooks as one of her attackers.  For the first time, there was a solid tie to the Nation of Islam. Obama win will stir racial tension:  Farrakhan.  Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, hailed US president-elect Barack Obama as an extraordinary leader but warned his victory would stir up racial animosity. ... But he said the country remained "divided and polarised," and he warned that the president-elect faced a daunting task in taking the reins of the nation during one of the most troubled periods in its history. The Editor says... Huh?  I thought there were predictions that if Obama lost there would be racial tension.  People like Mr. Farrakhan benefit from racial strife, and he sounds a little disappointed to see it gradually disappear. Legendary Songwriter Now Marches to an Islamist Tune.  Music and real estate mogul Kenny Gamble, alternatively known as Luqman Abdul Haqq, is one of the most powerful men in Philadelphia — and also among the most controversial.  His effort to revitalize dilapidated South Philly neighborhoods stands at the center of the storm.  While he grandiosely links his projects to "the saving of America," others have accused him of constructing a "black Muslim enclave." Jeremiah Wright Foreign Policy:  Farrakhan's anti-Semitic activities spanned years. Months before the [1995 march on Washington], he was embroiled in an ugly, anti-Semitic episode.  Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a senior Nation of Islam official, delivered three hours of remarks at New Jersey's Keane College that attacked whites, Jews, Catholics, homosexuals and white South Africans.  Muhammad said, "[Jews] are a European strain of people who crawled around on all fours in the caves and hills of Europe, eatin' Juniper roots and eatin' each other. ... They're the blood suckers of the black nation and the black community." Did someone mention "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright? Nation of Islam sees Obama's election as call to action.  Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday urged his followers not to become complacent by President Barack Obama's election and to work to repair communities. The Editor says... I thought there was an unspoken agreement that if we elected a black president, we wouldn't have to hear from Louie Farrakhan ever again. Louis Farrakhan:  H1N1 Vaccine Developed to Kill People.  "The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people.  We just can't feed that many.  So what are you going to do?  Kill as many as you can," Farrakhan reportedly said during an event in Memphis, Tenn.  "We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease." Farrakhan predicts 'white right' trouble for Obama.  Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, boasting his divine stature, on Sunday [2/28/2010] predicted trouble ahead for President Barack Obama and urged him to do more to improve the lives of blacks and the downtrodden. Covering Obama, press encounters Nation of Islam.  President Obama's home is in the same Chicago neighborhood as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.  On Saturday night, the overlapping of Obama's and Farrakhan's worlds made for a strange, and sometimes testy, encounter between the Secret Service, the press corps covering the president, and the paramilitary security force, the Fruit of Islam, surrounding Farrakhan.  The encounter was written up — for distribution to the press, not necessarily for publication — by the New York Times' Jackie Calmes. Farrakhan followers, press have minor 'stand-off' in Obama's neighborhood.  An interesting "stand-off" of sorts developed outside a barbecue President Obama was attending at a friend's house Saturday night between followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on one side and members of the press and the U.S. Secret Service guarding the president on the other. Reporters with Obama surrounded by Nation of Islam security agents.  Saturday evening [5/29/2010] in Chicago, as the pool of roughly seven or eight reporters waited for President Obama while he and his family attended a backyard barbecue at a friend's house, they were surrounded by nearly two-dozen members of the Nation of Islam's security services. Nation of Islam leader accuses Jews of 'anti-black' behavior, asks for dialogue.  Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking "repair of my people from the damage" he claims Jews have caused blacks for centuries. Louis Farrakhan sends letter asking Jews for reparations.  Last month, Louis Farrakhan, the "National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam," sent a three-page letter to the leaders of 16 major Jewish organizations demanding reparations for alleged crimes Jews have perpetrated against African Americans.  Along with the letter, Farrakhan sent two books ... written by unidentified members of the Nation of Islam's Historical Research Team. Back to the Islam Page Back to the Home page

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