Taking the night off ........... a moment to take five, sit back, pour yourself a smooth one. Love! Music! Art! Hey, it's why I do what I do.
Vincent Van Gogh, Still Life with a Plate of Onions, 1889. Oil on canvas, 49.6 x 64.4 cm.
LONDON.- In January 2010, the Royal Academy of Arts
will stage a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent van Gogh
(1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist’s
remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited
to the public due to their fragility, will be on display in the main
galleries of Burlington House, together with around 65 paintings and 30
drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the
correspondence. Thus the exhibition will offer a unique opportunity to
gain an ... More
5:15 pm: The Huffington Post has given Iran the shaft. On day 28 of the historical Iranian revolution, the Puff Ho casts the Iranian freedom protests to the dustbin of blog history. Iran and Nico Pitney, the best leftwing blogger on Iran, are off the main page of the Huffington Post. And this story put Nico front and center at a White House press conference and got his leftist girlfriends all in a huff (watch the catfight video here).
5:35 pm: I guess the Puff Ho is taking its orders from dear leader. It shows how inhumane and ugly those are on the left are. Huffington Post knows what was and is still going on there. But doing Obama's bidding and shilling is more important. Their headline - Obama Asks For Patience - is merely propaganda for a new stimulus to further sink the nation.
Think of all those Iranians who sent Huff Po their desperate stories and trusted them.
If you have money with a broker, bank, investment house, and you haven't done this already - tell your money manager not to invest your good, hard earned dough in sharia finance - NO ISLAMIC FINANCE. These funds are halal - so whole American businesses will be destroyed - tobacco, alcohol, pork, and some entertainment. And your money will fund "zakat" - Islamic charity, jihad funding. Think Holy Land Foundation.
Sharia finance will destroy whole sectors of the American economy. Why would you finance the ideology that wants to slit your throat - not to mention their plan for your daughters?
If your money is in Javelin, get it out.
Firm launches first U.S. Shariah-compliant ETF
Javelin Investment offering adheres to Islamic
principles
The latest iteration of social and religious investment screens hit the market
on the last trading day of June with the launch of the JETS Dow Jones Islamic
Market International Index Fund (JVS). The exchange traded fund is not only the
first product offering from Princeton, N.J.-based Javelin Investment Management
LLC, but it is also the first American ETF to adhere to Islamic beliefs about
investing and finance.
" The total population of Muslims in the United
States is estimated to be 2.35 million, according to a 2007 report released by
the Pew Research Center in Washington.
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In a sick, puppy dog puff piece over at the Puff Ho and Newsweek on Attorney General Eric Holder, there is continued movement in left wing media circles to promote Obama's idea of criminalizing those who defended this country from the bloody madness of the war declared on the U.S. on 911.
This is who and what Holder wants to protect? ***GRAPHIC*** video
They are laying the groundwork. Stop them.
It is obvious that Obama wants very much to take the American eye off of his failed policies. He wants us to ignore his foreign policy realignment with despots and mullahs. He wants to distract us from his abandonment of our allies and his promotion of jihad. Obama turns a blind eye to the worst brutal crackdown imaginable in Iran, but is shocked and dismayed that we may have been too tough on the jihadis who planned to overthrow and defeat America. get it?
Here's the Newsweek piece. Their spin is to puke from. Holder is trying to convince BO. Puhleeze, stop insulting our intelligence. This is all Obama.
It was soon clear to Holder that he might have to launch an
investigation to determine whether crimes were committed under the Bush
administration and prosecutions warranted. The obstacles were obvious.
For a new administration to reach back and investigate its predecessor
is rare, if not unprecedented. After having been deeply involved in the
decision to authorize Ken Starr to investigate Bill Clinton's affair
with Monica Lewinsky, Holder well knew how politicized things could
get. He worried about the impact on the CIA, whose operatives would be
at the center of any probe. And he could clearly read the signals
coming out of the White House. President Obama had already deflected
the left wing of his party and human-rights organizations by saying,
"We should be looking forward and not backwards" when it came to
Bush-era abuses.
On April 15 the attorney general traveled to West Point, where he
had been invited to give a speech dedicating the military academy's new
Center for the Rule of Law. As he mingled with cadets before his
speech, Holder's aides furiously worked their BlackBerrys, trying to
find out what was happening back in Washington. For weeks Holder had
participated in a contentious internal debate over whether the Obama
administration should release the Bush-era legal opinions that had
authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods. He had
argued to administration officials that "if you don't release the
memos, you'll own the policy." CIA Director Leon Panetta, a shrewd
political operator, countered that full disclosure would damage the
government's ability to recruit spies and harm national security; he
pushed to release only heavily redacted versions.
Holder
and his aides thought they'd been losing the internal battle. What they
didn't know was that, at that very moment, Obama was staging a mock
debate in Emanuel's office in order to come to a final decision. In his
address to the cadets, Holder cited George Washington's admonition at
the Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776, that "captive British soldiers
were to be treated with humanity, regardless of how Colonial soldiers
captured in battle might be treated." As Holder flew back to Washington
on the FBI's Cessna Citation, Obama reached his decision. The memos
would be released in full.
Holder and his team celebrated quietly, and waited for national outrage to build. . But they'd miscalculated. The memos had already received such public
notoriety that the new details in them did not shock many people. (Even
the revelation, a few days later, that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed and another detainee had been waterboarded hundreds of times
did not drastically alter the contours of the story.)
[...]
But in late June Holder asked an aide for a copy of the CIA inspector
general's thick classified report on interrogation abuses. He cleared
his schedule and, over two days, holed up alone in his Justice Depart
ment office, immersed himself in what Dick Cheney once referred to as
"the dark side." He read the report twice, the first time as a lawyer,
looking for evidence and instances of transgressions that might call
for prosecution. The second time, he started to absorb what he was
reading at a more emotional level. He was "shocked and saddened," he
told a friend, by what government servants were alleged to have done in
America's name. When he was done he stood at his window for a long
time, staring at Constitution Avenue.
Invoking the "Constitution". Get it? Our founding fathers are weeping.
In every country, on every continent, in cities and quiet towns and enclaves, no one is safe. It is everywhere. It's what they do.
"Murshidabad district (Bengali: মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলা) is a district of West Bengal in eastern India. Situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, the district is very fertile. Covering an area of 5,341 km² (2,062 sq mi) and having a population 5.863m (according to 2001 census) it is a densely populated district[1]. The Baharampur town is the headquarters of the district."
Today, 10th July, a major communal riot broke in Murshidabad district. Till now 12 persons dead, most of them Hindus, hundreds injured including 10 policemen and one D.S.P. rank police officer. Two village markets and hundreds of Hindu houses were looted and burnt. Firing between police and Muslim rioters still going on at 11.30 night. Curfew imposed in the whole area. BSF and CRPF deployed to help police and RAF.
Perhaps the whole incident planned to welcome the proposed Aligarh Muslim University Campus in this district.
Jhaubona High School is a big higher secondary school in Jhaubona village under Nawda police station in Beldanga sub division in Murshidabad district. Among total 1000 students of this school, about 50% are Muslim students. For long they were demanding to offer Friday Namaz inside the school. But school management and the Hindu students resisted it apprehending that it will create a virtual mosque inside the school. So, the furious Muslim students made objection against Saraswati Puja in the school and the school management has been compelled to stop Saraswati puja last year in the school. In spite of that, the Muslim students were not satisfied. So they planned to offer Friday Namaz today (10 July) by force inside the school without any permission from Head Master or School Management. Hindu students protested and altercation started at 12 noon between two groups of students. Muslims were prepared. Through cell phone they spread the false message that Hindu students attacked Muslim students in the school. Within 10-15 minutes, thousands of Muslims led by the students of nearby Trimohini Madrasa rushed to the school. They attacked the school students, the big village market of Trimohini, and two Hindu villages Jhaubona and Trimohini. Many Hindu shops in the Trimohini market were burnt and looted. Many Hindu houses were burnt and looted in the villages Jhaubona and Garapara. In one house 4 Hindus died in the fire including one father and his daughter were burnt alive.
Till now, according to our sources, 12 Hindus are dead, more than one hundred injured, though the district administration will surely give a lesser number.
Many are missing. Nobody knows how many of the missing persons are already dead.
Police and RAF could not control the situation. So, BSF and CRPF are called in. Till evening, police fired 250 rounds. 10 policemen were injured, among them condition of 4 are very serious. One D.S.P. is seriously injured. He has been admitted in a private nursing home to avoid media scrutiny. On the road at Begunbari village, Muslims burnt 2 buses and one matador. One Tata Sumo car and its passengers were attacked. The broken car and its passengers have been brought to Beldanga Bharat Sevashram Sangha for their safety.
The injured persons have been admitted to Baharampur and Amtala hospitals. Till mid night, firing was going on between Muslim rioters and security forces at Trimohini bazaar.
As usual, the electronic media/ TV channels are silent and totally blacked out this major incident.
Murshidabad district is a Muslim majority distrct. All the 3 police stations in Beldanga sub division – Beldanga, Nawda and Hariharpara – are Muslim majority. This is a border sub division. All the Hindu villages under Nawda and Hariharpara p.s. are awake tonight. They are scared of possible Muslim attack upon their villages.
In sub divisional town Beldanga, in evening Muslims gathered in front of Congress office. Hindus are fearing that the famous Bharat Sevashram Sangha, whose President highly revered Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj) may be attacked by communal Muslims. Swamiji is now away from Ashram. He went pilgrimage to Mansarovar-Kailas. He is expected to return in 5-6 days.
India’s Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has been elected from this Murshidabad district. As a gratitude to the Muslims of this district, he announced in his finance Budget in parliament that he would allocate a huge sum of money to establish a campus of Aligarh Muslim University in this district. This Aligarh Muslim University spearheaded the separatist movement for creation of Pakistan in pre 1947 years.
In my post yesterday, un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR declared war on free speech. CAIR issued an alert saying, "if any person is solicited to join a politically extreme organization or to make statements regarding the media crazed catch-phrase 'jihad against the West', CAIR is requesting that you notify them of the incident"... Attempting to silence us, attacking free speech, silencing everyone who uses the phrase "jihad against the west" ..... is a part of the jihad against the West. Get it?
They have intimidated and threatened the American Library Association, and have succeeded in silencing Robert Spencer to speak in Chicago.The ALA caved, the panel canceled. This is a terror attack. This is just as destructive as a bomb going off somewhere, perhaps worse.
Robert Spencer is our proxy. He speaks for us. He speaks for basic America fundamental values. Robert Spencer should be proud - chest buttons bursting with pride that he is our spokesman in the war for our unalienable rights.
They won this battle. They will not win the war as long as we have breath in our bodies.
The American Library Association invited me to speak on a panel
tomorrow, which led the Council on American-Islamic Relations, an
unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, along with
some complicit, bemused, and Leftist academics, to kick up a
controversy -- previous posts about this here and here.
However, now the other three panelists, caving to pressure from this
terror-linked group, have withdrawn from the panel, and the ALA has
canceled the panel. The panel was stacked three against one against my
point of view, but even three-to-one wasn't safe enough for CAIR or
these evidently very insecure academics.
CAIR has in this won a great victory, one of many, and I am sure
there will be many more, but ultimately time is running out on that
unsavory organization anyway, because the truth is not on its side.
CAIR has succeeded in intimidating these academics and the ALA into
behaving as if my position were beyond the pale, unworthy of discussion
by decent people. This way they make the ignorant and timid afraid to
consider what I say, and they don't have to go to the trouble of
refuting it.
And ultimately, there is nothing I can do about this tactic. It has
been employed on a large scale for years by CAIR and others. But
consider: my position is based on analysis of the texts and teachings
of Islam, and how jihadists use those texts to make recruits among
peaceful Muslims. Everything I say I back up with evidence, and have
repeatedly stated my willingness to discuss and debate these issues --
with CAIR or with anyone else. Thus the best way to silence me would be
to refute me -- censoring me will only inevitably make people curious
as to whether or not they're being lied to (and they are). Yet no one
will dare to even try to refute me.
If one of us is to be marginalized, it should be terror-linked CAIR,
not me. But of course with politically correct multiculturalism
befogging the entire society, it is not likely that anything will
change in this regard anytime soon.
There are further ironies in various position statements of the ALA itself:
Irony #1:
"ALA actively advocates in defense of the rights of library users to
read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First
Amendment. A publicly supported library provides free and equal access
to information for all people of that community. We enjoy this basic
right in our democratic society. It is a core value of the library
profession."
Irony #2: "We uphold the principles of intellectual freedom and resist all efforts to censor library resources."
Irony #3:
"We distinguish between our personal convictions and professional
duties and do not allow our personal beliefs to interfere with fair
representation of the aims of our institutions or the provision of
access to their information resources."
Here is the Library Journal article, which contains numerous
inaccuracies: "ALA Conference 2009: Panelists Withdraw from Session
Featuring 'Islam-basher': American Library Association Conference 2009:
Organization had asked for Robert Spencer to drop out from panel, says
other speakers didn't know he would be joining them," by Raya Kuzyk
& Norman Oder for the Library Journal, July 11:
[July 11] The Chicago office of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) today announced that all
other panelists scheduled to speak at an American Library Association
(ALA) annual conference session July 12 on stereotyping of Islam have
withdrawn in protest over the participation of Robert Spencer, which
CAIR calls "one of the nation’s leading Islam-bashers."
Dr. Marcia Hermansen, a professor of Islamic Studies at Loyola
University, wrote to the ALA, ""[sic] While I heartily endorse the
principles of free expression and diversity of viewpoints that are part
of the ALA mission, the way in which this information session about
Islam and Muslims for Ethnic and Multi-Cultural librarians was modified
and politicized at the last moment raises serious concerns about the
integrity of the session."
Dr. Alia Ammar, a neuropsychologist from Hinsdale, IL, commented,
"Given the substantial changes in the composition, subject, and
direction of the ALA panel to which I was invited to present as well as
the blatant misinformation provided regarding the purpose of the
session, it would [be] untenable to present in your forum…The lack of
professionalism with which this matter has been handled has been wholly
disappointing as the efforts of the originally invited panelists to
reach a respectable solution to the problem were simply ignored. In
light of these developments, I respectfully decline to participate in
the panel."
CAIR said that none of the invited panelists were informed by the ALA that Spencer was invited to participate in the panel.
Hermansen and Ammar both seem to be suggesting that the panel was
changed at the last minute -- apparently by my being added on. CAIR
says that none of the other panelists were told that I would be on the
panel. I find this hard to believe. Here is an email that Myra Appel,
chair of the Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange Roundtable
(EMIERT), sent around to the ALA's EMIERT mailing list on June 15 -- almost a month ago:
From: Myra L. Appel <[address removed]>
Subject: EMIERT Program, July 12, 2009
To: "emie-l"
Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 10:07 AM
Dear EMIERT Colleagues,
Homa Naficy, our Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect, has planned another
outstanding program to inform and stimulate conversation. We invite you
to join us Sunday, July 12, 2009, for our General Meeting, followed by
the panel discussion, "Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping."
Please see below a brief description of the program, the list of
panelists, and the agenda for the morning of July 12th. Attached are
brief speaker bios:
Islam is not new in America; over 40% of the Muslims in America are
African-Americans. The change is within the Muslim immigration trend,
that's grown 38 fold over the past three decades. Arriving from all
over the world, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Bosnia, and Somalia,
Muslims are a diverse population speaking different languages and
practicing different costumes. Even the Muslims from the Middle East
are not a homogeneous population. Yet the faith that binds the
populations is what is often singled out and often misunderstood.
Portrayed as a terrorist religion, many Muslim families and children
end up victims of hate messages and harassment. This program will offer
a brief overview of the cultures and literatures of the Muslim
populations and the ties that bind the faith with Judaism and
Christianity. Learn how your library can serve as a key forum for
Islamic tolerance and all beliefs, through interfaith dialogue and
programming. Panelists:
Dr. Marcia Hermansen
Director of the Islamic World Studies Program and Professor in the Theology Department
Loyola University Chicago.
Dr. Esmail Koushanpour
Emeritus professor, Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, &
Former Executive Director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Greater Chicago
Robert Spencer
Columnist and author of 8 books on Islam and jihad, including the New
York Times bestsellers The Truth About Muhammad and The Politically
Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). Director of the weblog,
Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. .
Alia Ammar, Ph.D., Chief Neuropsychologist, Geriatric Care Association & member of the Islamic Foundation North
AGENDA, July 12, 2009
8:00 to 9:00 EMIERT Business Meeting
9:00 to 9:15 Welcome and Introductions
9:15 to 9:40 Dr. Marcia Hermansen – “Statistical Overview/Outlook of
Muslim Populations in America and Overview of Diverse Islamic
Cultural/National Origins”
9:40 to 10:10 Dr. Esmail Koushanpour – “Core Beliefs Commonalities with Judaism and Christianity”
10:10 to 10:30 Robert Spencer – “Jihad: What Muslims Say It Means”
10:30 - 10:50 Dr. Alia Ammar - “Stereotypes and Realities of the African American Muslim Experience”
10:50 to 11:00 Q & As
11:00 to 12:00 Board Meeting
--Myra
So would Hermansen and Ammar have us believe that in all the time
since that email was sent on June 15, no one got around to informing
them who else was on the panel? They had no curiosity about it? It
strains credulity, to say the least.
CAIR's press release about the other three panelists dropping out is here. It repeats many of the same libels and innuendos that I answered here,
although it is noteworthy that this latest from CAIR contains no
mention of the lies and hate site "Little Green Footballs." Maybe CAIR
realized how silly it sounded to invoke something called "Little Green
Footballs" as an authority -- or maybe the falsehoods manufactured by
the ridiculous Charles Johnson proved to be too flimsy and implausible
even for those old hands at truth-twisting at CAIR.
Hermansen said: "I heartily endorse the principles of free
expression and diversity of viewpoints that are part of the ALA
mission." Glad to hear it. So do I. Accordingly, I invite her to debate
me on issues regarding Islam and jihad -- in fact, she can formulate
the specific topic. I will travel to Loyola University at my own
expense for this debate at a time at her convenience. The same
invitation goes to the other panelists, Esmail Koushanpour and Alia
Ammar. If my opinions are so patently false, why not debate me and
demonstrate it to the world, so that I will stand forever discredited?
If Hermansen, Koushanpour, and Ammar disagree with me, they have
proven too cowardly to debate and defend their positions, and to show
mine to be wrong. And if they agree with me, they have proven too
cowardly to do so in public. As with numerous other lightweight
academics, they dare not defend anything outside their politically
correct cocoon, because they know, even if they cannot admit it, that
what they are saying is a soothing lie, and that what I am saying is
the truth.
Not so? Prove it. My invitation to debate stands open. Hermansen,
Koushanpour and/or Ammar, or even Honest Ibe Hooper of CAIR, whom I
would love to debate, can reach me at director@jihadwatch.org.
UPDATE: The enemy's victory proclamation in their news alert. The Muslim Brotherhood front gets to choose who speaks about Islam in America, and what taqiya is spread. Got that?
Good News: Islam-Basher Will Not Speak at Library Association
Conference
(CHICAGO, IL, 7/12/09) - The Chicago office of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) announced that Robert Spencer, one of
the nation’s leading Islam-bashers, will not speak today at the annual
conference of the American Library Association (ALA) following intervention by
CAIR and concerned librarians, and the withdrawal of the other scheduled
panelists who protested Spencer's participation.
Librarians from across the country contacted the ALA questioning the
appropriateness of inviting Spencer to speak on a panel titled “Perspectives on
Islam: Beyond the Stereotyping” because of his history of intolerant views. The
other speakers invited to join the panel withdrew after hearing of Spencer’s
scheduled participation.
The ALA canceled the panel discussion on Saturday. In a statement, Myra
Appel, Chair of the ALA’s Ethnic and Multicultural Information Exchange
Roundtable (EMIERT), said in part:
“We believe that the panel on ‘Perspectives on Islam: Beyond the
Stereotyping’ and other like sessions are important to the profession, and we
invite members of the ALA to join with us in future discussions as we continue
to explore the many issues related to cultural diversity and
multiculturalism.”
“We thank all those who stood up for tolerance and mutual understanding to
challenge Robert Spencer’s Islamophobic views,” said CAIR-Chicago Executive
Director Ahmed Rehab, who had written to the ALA questioning why an
anti-Islam bigot was invited to a panel on dispelling stereotypes about Islam.
“Because stereotyping of Islam is such an important issue, we hope a future
panel on this topic can be arranged with credible scholars and representatives
of the American Muslim community,” said CAIR National Executive Director
Nihad Awad. "We strongly support open and honest discussion of difficult
issues, but Mr. Spencer's agenda-driven polemics promote the very stereotypes
that the ALA event sought to dispel."
Awad said CAIR would seek to work with the ALA to schedule a future event on
the same topic as the canceled panel discussion.
CAIR recently launched an education initiative called “Share
the Quran,” which is designed to dispel stereotypes about Islam and to
enhance understanding of Islam by opinion leaders and policymakers nationwide by
offering them free copies of the Quran, Islam’s revealed text.
1. Please support CAIR's "Share
the Quran" project today by sponsoring a copy of the Quran to be sent to an
American opinion leader to help enhance his or her understanding of Islam. To
learn more or to sponsor a copy of the Quran, go to: http://www.explorethequran.com/
2. Support CAIR's important work by make a donation here.
Tonight's feature is 1984, released in 1984, based upon George Orwell's novel of the same name, following the life of Winston Smith in Oceania, a country run by a totalitarian government. The film was directed by Michael Radford. Extraordinary performances by John Hurt and Richard Burton (in his last film role).
When someone falls out of Government favor and is ''vaporized,''
Winston must go through the newspapers and official records and erase
the person's name, creating an unperson. (more here)
It was a little over a year ago that Atlas broke the story that Obama's certification of live birth was a "horrible forgery". I ran a 28 page forensic digital analysis meticulously prepared by a forensic digital examination specialist exposing the fraud. Obama hired five law firms to fight the release of the vault copy. It has never seen the light of day, despite numerous calls by hundreds of thousands of concerned Americans to release it.
Interestingly, in the past week, Obama's secret police have been massively scrubbing the net of any and all copies of the COLB. Even vaporizing the copies on the "wayback machine". You can see the documents he has erased here. Mighty strange. Or not.
Just last week I was reviewing them online for a piece I was researching. So this is very new.
What
a difference a day makes. Just yesterday, I posted a
page (cursor down) from the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children that featured a letter
from the White House affirming the hospital as Obama's birthplace (see next item).
Well, today, the letter is
gone -- scrub-a-dub-dub!
Why would they remove the letter? This
is getting absurd.Bogus POTUS7/9/09
Massive Internet Scrub In Progress
Yesterday's item, "Fight the Smears Disappears,"
documented the changes that have recently been made to
Obama's high-profile Internet
site, "Fight the Smears," and also to the Internet Archive, also known as the
"WayBackMachine.com" -- Obama has
removed his bogus Certification of Live Birth from the Internet -- at the same
time, the Internet Archive just happened to "lose" its archived copy. What's really ironic is that FactCheck.org is so invested in their
defense of Obama's bogus bona fides, that they just can't dig
themselves out of the hole they dug themselves into. FactCheck now
stands alone as a defender of the indefensible.
In the last 24 hours, further evidence of an, organized, massive
scrubbing of the Internet has been discovered.
Evidence of this extraordinary campaign was
posted on this site on June 18th. Sometime
between June 8, 2009, and June 18, 2009, the Department of Hawaiian Home
Lands (DHHL) changed the
requirements for identification that they maintained for over 100 years.
All of a sudden, Hawaii will now accept Certifications of Live Birth (COLB) as proof of
identification and residency, and will no longer require the certified
"Certificates of Birth" -- although Hawaii says that they will still take the traditional birth
certificates.
On June 7th, this website
reported that the
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu posted on its
website a letter on White
House stationery dated January 24th (since scrubbed), in which Obama wrote, "As a beneficiary of the
excellence of Kapi'olani Medical Center -- the place of my birth -- I am pleased
to add my voice to your chorus of supporters" -- even though Obama himself has
previously
claimed to have been born at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, a claim
backed
up by his sister Maya.
Until June 7th, even United Press International (UPI) and Snopes.com contained
statements that Obama was born at the Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.
Here is a screen capture from Snopes.com that
says, "Barack Hussein Obama was born
at the Queen's Medical Center." Today, Snopes.com
claims that "Barack Hussein
Obama, was born on 4 August 1961 at the Kapiolani Medical Center."
Snopes claims they made the change because Wikipedia
made the change.
Here is the UPI screen capture that claims
Obama was born at Queens -- but now the UPI claims Kapiolani.
Remember, Obama, himself,
told
UPI that he was born at Queens.
So, because someone at the White House sent a letter to Kapiolani, all the
websites that have been covering for Obama are now scrambling to scrub content
that they have claimed as accurate for the last couple of years. Over one year ago, I wrote the following for
the "Biography" page: On the Internet, there
is an organized, systematic cleansing of Obama-related content.
Every couple of days I get an email telling me this link, or that link, connects
to a "Page not found -- 404 error." The extensive body of Obama
web-knowledge, that has evolved over the last 20 years, is shrinking.
Stuff that's considered an Obama smear or unflattering is sent to the Obama '08
cyber shredding machine. And the campaign is getting help from some really
big web service providers.
A good example is Kristof's famous New York Times article, in which Kristof
quotes Obama saying that the Muslim call to prayer
is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth" and in which Obama recited the Muslim
call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent" -- that's gone
-- from The New York Times -- butit's
here though.
And, the Trinity UCC website has completely changed. Now, it's all
sweetness and light. Gone are all those great Rev. Wright "God damn
America" videos and anti-Israeli Trumpet magazine excerpts. There's
less on the web every day. In time, the entire Obama body of knowledge
will consist of Obama's 3 bogus novels -- "Dreams From My Father" --
"The Audacity of Hope" -- and the latest -- "Change We Can Believe In" -- all
written by Barack Hussein Obama or his "ghost-writers."
Obama has lived for almost 50
years without leaving any footprints -- none! There is
no Obama documentation -- no bona fides -- no paper trail --
nothing. Just Obama's bullsh!t story.
Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released
(lawyers' fees = $2,000,000 ~ birth certificate = $15) Certification of Live Birth -- Released --
Counterfeit and here and here Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released (if one
exists)
Obama/Dunham divorce --
Released (by independent
investigators)
Kindergarten records --
Records lost (this is a big one -- see
here -- read two frames)
Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released
(lawyers' fees = $2,000,000 ~ birth certificate = $15) Certification of Live Birth -- Released --
Counterfeit Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released (if one
exists)
Obama/Dunham divorce --
Released (by independent
investigators)
Kindergarten records --
Records lost (this is a big one -- see
here -- read two frames)
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application --
Released (by independent investigators)
Punahou School records -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham divorce --
Released (by independent investigators)
Selective Service Registration -- Released --
Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport -- Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama's
terrorism and intelligence adviser.
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None
Illinois Bar Records -- Not released.
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
And the
political Left and the press, the supporters of the Usurper-in-Chief, have the
gall to attack anyone that questions this EVIDENCE of a conspiracy as a kook, a
nut -- as a "Birther."
Nidra Poller, regular Atlas contributor, has penned this piece for Atlas readers on the gross miscarriage of justice of the Ilan Halimi verdict. If not for Poller, the West would never have been alerted to this savage act of unfathomable Islamic Jew hatred in France.
Tender French
Justice for the Gang of Barbarians
Paris July 11, 2009
Nidra Poller
In a show of
disrespect for the family of Ilan Halimi, victim of the most
atrocious anti-Semitic crime committed in France since World War II,
the court announced the verdict after 10 PM on Friday night—the
Sabbath—on the eve of the July 14th
holiday weekend. Emma, the young lady who lured 23 year-old Halimi
into the cruel trap was sentenced to nine years in prison. Youssouf
Fofana, the “Brain of the Barbarians,” who admits he finished off
his Jewish victim, after 24 days of torture, stabbing him five times
and setting him aflame, gets “life” in prison (with a possibility
of parole after 22 years). The other 25 accomplices or accessories
were given jail terms ranging from acquittal to 18 years. The motive
of anti-Semitism was retained for some of the defendants, but did not
incur the corresponding ten-year increase in jail terms. Two men who
played a key role in the Halimi kidnapping are on the loose because
the police couldn’t persuade any of the defendants to cough up
their names.
The two-month trial
was held behind closed doors in juvenile
court because two of the defendants were just under 18 when the crime
was committed. Ruth Halimi, the victim’s mother, pleaded in vain
for an open hearing. In January 2006 she had vainly entreated
investigators to recognize the anti-Semitic motive of her son’s
jailers. For 24 days the police followed false trails, overlooked
clues, missed chances to nab the mastermind, and bungled negotiations
for unrealistic ransom demands that were little more than a pretext
for the torture inflicted on Ilan Halimi. The photo sent to the
family the day after his disappearance tells it all: Ilan’s face is
totally plastered with thick silver duct tape. His eyes and mouth are
sealed shut, leaving a small hole for his broken nose.
He was kept
naked--first in an unheated apartment, then in a boiler room--fed
liquids through a straw, forced to eliminate in a plastic bag,
beaten, kicked, pummeled… No one will ever know the extent of his
ordeal. Playing on the nuances of French law that supposedly
establishes the exact degree of participation of each individual in a
collective crime, defense lawyers portrayed their clients as lost
sheep haplessly involved in a seemingly normal short-term business
enterprise…even when it became obvious that the whole thing was
bungled and only the torture was real.
Late Friday
afternoon, the press, alerted by rumors
that the verdict would be pronounced before nightfall. We stood for
hours in the halls of the Palais de Justice before being admitted
into the antiquated courtroom. The atmosphere was weirdly festive, as
defense lawyers chatted with each other and fussed over their
clients, half-hidden from our view behind a glassed-in cubicle. It
was after 10 PM when the presiding judge finally announced—in a
barely audible voice-- prison terms for the 27 defendants, from life
to 18 years, to 15, 13, 11 and by even increments all the way to six
months suspended sentence and, for two of them, acquittal. Most
prisoners are released in France after serving half their terms.
The whole thing has
been hushed up and tucked away under front page stories about holiday
traffic jams and the Tour de France bicycle race.
Last week Maître Francis Szpiner, representing the Halimi family,
expressed his misgivings about the indulgent recommendations to the
jury of the Avocat Général—a sort of voice of the people and the
Bench. Interviewed Friday night after the lenient verdict was
announced, Szpiner called upon the Minister of Justice to appeal (the
plaintiffs do not have the right to appeal). Several Jewish
organizations have called for a gathering Monday night in front of
the Justice Ministry at Place Vendôme…at the same place where
enraged Islamists shouting “Death to Israel, Death to the Jews”
made a show of force in January.
Many prisoners, who were in the
solitary confinement even before the elections, after the extensive
wave of arrests began, were still kept in cells for consecutive days
without any interrogators visiting them. In some cases they were kept
in the cells for even up to 40 or 50 days and the prisoner is also left
on their own. With the start of the unprecedented protest of the
Iranian people in Iran, especially in Tehran and the subsequent arrests
the discipline of the Evin prison especially in units 240 and 209 has become worse, and this detention takes place in multiplicity of prisoners.
Capital intensity is filling the cells 209 and 240. Band 2A belongs to the revolutionary guards in Evin prison.
Prison authorities and the unit security were forced to refer prisoners
to the corridors of the prison and after filling the areas they were
forced to also send prisoners to those sections which were unused for a
very long time.
Due to a serious lack of space in the prison,
many of the interrogations take place in the cells or corridors and not
in an interrogation rooms. Prisoners are beaten and tortured at the
time of their interrogation. Excessive exuberance of prisoners in the
last few days is now the biggest problem for the prisoners, in a way
that that they are in a very bad condition regarding their food and
health wise. Among these, the authorities at the Evin prison
are extremely lax and they do not look after prisoners in any way. The
situation is so bad that the prisoners might not be able to eat during
the day as there is no food and if they’re very lucky, they might be
able to eat just one small portion for the whole day. (read the rest here)
Tweetdeck: People injured in clashes have been arrested and not given treatment. Prisoners' state of health is deplorable.
The nerve of those Muslim women who dare withhold sex from their kind, gentle and respectful husbands! Those ingrates! That's what they are for! Good thing Obama has our troops engaging in nonsensical missions to keep sharia law safe for Muslim men.
Starving them will keep their figures HOT! for those studly, evolved hubbies of theirs. /sarc tag off
Western feminists were unavailable for comment -- they were busy making the world safe for Islamic misogyny.
An Afghan law which legalised rape has been sent back to parliament with a clause letting husbands starve their wives if they refuse to have sex.
President Hamid Karzai ordered a review of the legislation after The Independent revealed that it negated the need for consent within marriage.
And the West bows to Islamic supremacism ............ and it's the
women and children, nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of
it.
Obama say: "We will be respectful, even when we do not agree. We will convey our
deep appreciation for the Islamic faith. . . . Many other Americans
have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority
country. I know, because I am one of them."
*spit*
UPDATE: This week in Islam: I am woman, hear me scream:
Asia June
28, 2009 Thailand A female Buddhist teacher was shot dead by suspected
insurgents in Thailand's restive Muslim south.
June
29, 2009 Bangladesh, India A widow and a man were whipped following a
fatwa issued by a religious leader for their alleged involvement in "anti-social
activity".
July
9, 2009 Bangladesh Six Muslim men abduct and gang-rape a 13 year-old
in a room of a hospital.
Middle East June
29, 2009 Pakistan Relatives of a Pakistani teenager who eloped and
married without parental consent shot her dead in a raid of her new home which
also killed her husband and in-laws.
June
29, 2009 Bahrain Similar to almost all Arab and Islamic countries,
Bahrain offers women no protection from sexually abusive husbands.
June
29, 2009 Pakistan Father exchanges eight-year-old daughter for a
second bride.
July
2, 2009 Pakistan Father of thirteen-year-old gang rape victim
testifies. He states that his daughter was raped to damage his honor.
July
2, 2009 Pakistan A fifteen-year-old girl leaps from a balcony after
refusing an arranged marriage.
July
3, 2009 Kuwait A woman is kidnapped, raped and sold into prostitution
by a police officer. A huge prostitution ring is busted and 64 Asian women are
rescued.
July
4, 2009 Israel A Palestinian female journalist stated that Hamas
policemen attempted to arrest her on the pretext that she was immodestly dressed
at a Gaza beach and was seen laughing loudly in public.
July
6, 2009 Kuwait Testimony is heard in a case filed against a man
charged with the premeditated murder of his wife and mother-in-law.
July
6, 2009 Pakistan Pakistani city sees 121 cases of women burned from
April to June of this year.
July
7, 2009 Jeddah, SaudiArabia 28-year-old woman is sent to jail for
disobeying her father. She flees while the police are waiting to take her to
jail.
July
7, 2009 Iran Two detained women are "in danger of being forgotten"
amid concerns that they may face execution.
July
8, 2009 Afghanistan The UN takes notice of women's rights in
Afghanistan.
July
9, 2009 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia and why child marriage is
allowed.
Europe June
30, 2009 Sweden The stabbing in Iraq of a local female Swedish
politician has prompted an investigation into whether or not the attack was paid
for by the woman's relatives back in Sweden.
July
3, 2009 Bosnia Brothers are convicted of violence against their
sister.
July
4, 2009 Germany A 32 year old woman stabbed in a court before she
could testify against her attacker.
July
4, 2009 Denmark A fourteen-year-old girl is chased by seven men and
subjected to attempted rape.
July
4, 2009 UK How Islam is dispensing justice through Sharia law in the
UK. A woman's "duties lie with the cleaning and childcare."
July
5, 2009 UK A doctor, who was abducted, drugged and held captive by
her family in Bangladesh last year in order to get her to marry a complete
stranger, speaks out for the first time.
July
7, 2009 Sweden 28-year-old's fall from a balcony is a suspected honor
killing.
Australia June
29, 2009 Brisbane Racy photos prompt man to stab his stepdaughter. He
is sentenced to twelve years behind bars and will be deported to Egypt upon his
release.
This is evidence of the onslaught of Islamic oppression and intimidation of infidels in America that is made possible by law enforcement and the judicial system. Our freedoms are disappearing at a deadly speed - we are being subdued (as the Prophet Moe instructed). And the media is silent - handing us over like lambs.
Have you ever driven into the parking lot of a mosque in any city, in any town in America? You are immediately descended upon. Every time. Mosques are forts.
Last week I reported that law enforcement caved to Islamic demands of supremacism,
in breach of our inalienable rights guaranteed to us in our
Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
"The Arabic Christian Perspective
(ACP), and Pastor George Saieg attend the annual Arab International street
festival there every year handing out Christian material to Muslims. They do
this along the public sidewalks that run along the street, where the festival is
conducted. It is open to the public and admission is free. Business
establishments along the street remain open during the festival.
It is a bold thing to do, but in the five years ACP has been going there,
it has never encountered any problems."
The Dearborn Police Department has asked ACP to stand on a single
corner, where they would be unable to freely mingle with festival gatherers and
unable to reach their intended audience. This is a violation of the group's First
Amendment rights.
Bill Becker had filed a lawsuit and the Thomas More Law Center, based in Ann Arbor, is assisting in
this matter. Go here for more of the back story. Our freedoms are being eroded, our very way of life torn asunder by Islam.
Well, a couple of great Americans went to that hatefest-ival - and look what happened in America. This is free speech under siege. These folks were harassed and intimidated, aided and abetted by law enforcement.
Video description:
This is a video of David Wood and Nabeel Qureshi asking questions at Arabfest, Dearborn. The date is June 21st, 2009. There was a booth at the festival which had a banner titled "Islam: Got Questions? Get Answers." From their table, we picked up a pamphlet claiming that Islam promotes peace. We noticed that it was full of poor logic and errors, so we decided to make a video refuting it. We went to the booth that gave us the pamphlet to give them the opportunity to defend their claims. Security, however, stepped in and forced us to turn off our camera.
We left the booth, received advice from police, and found out that the actions of the security guards were illegal. We went back to the booth to record a potential answer again. Realizing that the Muslims present had no answer, we left.
When we came outside, we were asked some questions by two young men, who had been sent by security to entrap us. While we responded to them, festival security started assaulting us, as you will see in this video. The conclusion of this video is a mob of festival security attacking our cameras, pushing us back, kicking our legs, and lying to the police.
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?
Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to
live together. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it.
For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have
made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation.
That’s why I’m committed to working with American Muslims to ensure
that they can fulfillzakat. Obama in Cairo addressing the ummah (worldwide Muslim community)
Andrew McCarthy wrote at NRO:
Zakat is the obligation of giving alms.
It occupies a central place in Islam (one of the religion’s five
“pillars”), just as it does in religious traditions more familiar to
the West — you know, the charitable giving that Obama wants to saddle
with less favorable tax treatment.
Do we really have “rules
on charitable giving” that, as the president claims, make it especially
difficult for Muslims — as opposed to others — to give? No. What we
have are federal laws against material support for terrorism. These
were enacted by Congress in 1996. They have been the bedrock of the
DOJ’s anti-terrorism enforcement ever since.
The purpose of
these laws is obvious, as has been the stepped-up effort to use them
since 9/11. If we are going to prevent terrorist strikes from
happening, rather than content ourselves with prosecuting any surviving
terrorists after our fellow citizens have been murdered and maimed, we
have to identify cells and choke off their resources before attacks can
be planned and executed. Thus, a donor who gives to an organization,
including an ostensible charity, that he knows to have been formally
designated as a terrorist entity under U.S. law, or that he knows
facilitates terrorist activity, is liable.
That shouldn’t be a problem, should it? The law does not target Muslim
charities or organizations, and, indeed, several non-Islamic entities
have been prosecuted. Yet the inconvenient fact is that
numerous Islamic charities have proved to be fronts for terrorist
activity, at least in part. These include the Holy Land Foundation (whose top operatives were recently convicted for underwriting Hamas in a prosecution that exposed CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator) and the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation,
one of the world’s largest Muslim charities, headquartered in Saudi
Arabia (which hosted the president for private talks last week). So
material-support statutes have become a sore subject for Muslims
because the vast majority of terrorism — including virtually all
anti-American terrorism — is carried out by Muslims.
Read the whole thing here. It seems that Obama's promise of making jihad financing safe from
investigation and regulation is going forward full throttle. The status
of Holy Land? They were guilty of terror. G-U-I-L-T-Y.
Check out this seminar (hat tip Allyson). A very different spin was given there, I'm sure.
Please join us for a seminar on
Giving Charity
&
The Status of Holy Land Foundation &
Charities
co-organized by
Muslim Bar Association Southern California
(MBASC), CAIR,
Muslim Legal Fund of America (MLFA),
Masjid Ansar & Shura Council
WHAT:Giving Charity, HLF & Charities Status
(Presentation followed by
Q&A)
WHEN:Friday June 19 2009, 7:00 PM
WHERE: Masjid Ansar
1717 Brookhurst Ave., Anaheim,
CA 92804.
WHO: Ahilan Arulanantham, Esq. - ACLU
Reem Salahi, Esq. “ Muslim Bar
Association of Southern California (MBASC)
Ahh, yes, Ms. Pelosi's part of the world gets stimulus money, and how do they spend it?
According to the Washington Examiner, like THIS:
"The Obama administration revealed last week that as much as $16.1 million from the stimulus program is going to save the San Francisco Bay Area habitat of, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse."
Obama bowed to their king. The UN bows to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The media bows to Islamic censorship. And the West bows to Islamic supremacism ............ and it's the women and children, nothing more than chattel, who suffer the brunt of it.
RIYADH (AFP)--A Saudi women's group on Friday blamed the country's religious
police in the "honor" killing of two sisters shot dead by their own brother
after they were arrested for mixing with unrelated men.
The Society for Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia said the religious
police put the sisters' lives in danger when they arrested them and placed them
in a Riyadh women's shelter.
The two women, identified as Reem, 21, and Nouf, 19, were murdered after they
left the shelter July 5.
The brother shot them in the presence of their father who, according to
newspaper reports, quickly forgave the son because he was defending the family's
honor.
But the society blamed the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and
Prevention of Vice, or the religious police, for sparking the brother's anger
over his family's honor by arresting the girls in the first place.
"The hands of the religious police, as well as the brother's hands, are
stained with the blood of these innocent young women," the group said in a
statement. "These women have not committed any crime to be killed in a such
brutal way."
Under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia legal code, unrelated men and women are
not allowed to be together, and the religious police actively enforce the rules
by patrolling areas frequented by young people.
"Arresting women for mingling with (unrelated males) should be stopped
because it puts many Saudi women in danger and sometimes (costs) them their
lives," the statement said.
Atlas reader Noelle has been following the latest breaking news on the trial of the brutal torture, kidnapping and murder of Ilan Halimi. Please see all of my coverage on this horror here: Ilan Halimi: Islamic Jew Hatred in France. The worst manifestation of Islamic Jew hatred. Noelle wrote me, "Ms. Geller, let me assure you that such a tragedy as befell Ilan Halimi would have been totally unthinkable during the 32 years that I lived in France. The country is now under siege".
The trial of the
"Muslim barbarian" ringleader Fofana and his 26 accomplices (it was
more like 50) had been suspended: in
a shocking display of proud Islamic Jew hatred (consistent with the
most sacred teachings of the Koran), the brutal Halimi murder trial was
suspended after the defendant spewed vile invectives and threw his
"Arab shoes" across the courtroom at the jury. Throwing shoes at someone is a powerful insult in the Arab world.
Below are extracts of the latest news concerning Ilan Halimi that Noelle found on an internet French-speaking site:
Quote:
La cour d'assises des mineurs de Paris a condamné vendredi soir le chef du «gang des barbares», Youssouf Fofana, 28 ans, à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité assortie d'une mesure de sûreté de 22 ans… Les deux complices jugés les plus actifs, Samir Aït Abdelmalek, 30 ans, et Jean-Christophe Soumbou, 23 ans, ont écopé respectivement de 15 et 18 ans de réclusion... La jeune fille qui avait servi d'appât, mineure au moment des faits et aujourd'hui âgée de 21 ans, a été condamnée à neuf ans de prison.
My translation:
On Friday evening, Paris Criminal Court for minors sentenced Youssouf Fofana, aged 28, the head of the “Barbarians” gang, to life imprisonment plus special restrictive measures [applied to particularly dangerous criminals] for a period of 22 years… Two of his accomplices deemed the most active [in Ilan Halimi’s murder] Aamir Ait Abdelmalek, aged 30 and Jean-Christophe Soumbou, aged 23, received imprisonment sentences of 15 and 18 years respectively… The girl who lured Ilan Halimi into the trap, a minor at the time and today aged 21, was sentenced to 9 years imprisonment…
The news was made public just before Shabbat, late in the evening, apparently because the authorities were afraid of public disturbances. Actually, police forces had been posted around the Law Court where some demonstrators had nevertheless gathered. A rally should take place on Monday at the Ministry of Justice in Paris .
Apparently, Fofana, the Manson-like Muslim barbarian leader, is quite popular with the Muslim community in France.
Also FYI, here is a translation of my comment on the internet site that published the news:
Since only a death sentence would have served justice in this case, one can only hope that this monster’s inmates will loose no time in clearing the air around them by dispatching him to hell.
Brownshirts. The set up begins ..... I say, fight fire with fire. They call you a name, sue them. They intimidate you, sue them. They sue us when we sneeze. We must go on the offense. This is still America. Fight for it against the infiltrators and fifth column. Freedom of speech in the age of jihad.
Cair says "if any person is solicited to join a politically
extreme organization or to make statements regarding the media crazed
catch-phrase “jihad against the West”, CAIR is requesting that you notify them
of the incident.. Attempting to silence us, attacking free speech, silencing everyone those that uses the phrase "jihad against the west" ..... is a part of the jihad against the West. Get it?
CAIR lawyer: If approached by extremist, call us first (Video)
By
creeping sharia
As Michiganders, as Americans, as Muslims, it is
our Islamic duty to ‘follow the laws of the land’ [hadith] and to ‘not harm
those who have not harmed you’ [Quran]. In the spirit of this, it seems the
Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Detroit has issued a statement
regarding any (alleged) individuals inviting others to partake in extreme
behavior or violence.
Just for clarification. Michiganders have no Islamic duty. Americans have
no Islamic duty. Muslims in America, you have a duty to abide by Michigan state
and U.S. federal laws. Apparently, to at least one Muslim American in Michigan,
following Islamic sharia law and hadith trumps the United States Constitution,
state, and federal law.
In the video recording I have included below, the
lawyer for CAIR-MI, Melanie Elturk, states: “Thwarting potential acts of
political extremism is a religious obligation”.
If any person is solicited to join a politically
extreme organization or to make statements regarding the media crazed
catch-phrase “jihad against the West”, CAIR is requesting that you notify them
of the incident.
Please view the short video below for in depth
advice and instructions if such a situation were to arise.
This video from a CAIR lawyer instructs Muslims not to call law
enforcement to report suspicious activity, but to call their mosque or imam
first, and the imam or mosque will then contact CAIR, who will then give a
third-person account to law enforcement.
Why? Why not contact law enforcement immediately? Could it be so CAIR can
craft the story appropriately or coach the
witness on what to say or not say? Why contact an imam or mosque with no law
enforcement training, background, or authority?
Why then contact CAIR – a group whose founders have been convicted of
terror-related offenses? A group who is currently under a RICO indictment for
alleged crimes against Muslims? A group who has threatened to not cooperate with
the FBI.
The FBI has gone so far as banning field agents from meeting with CAIR
due to CAIR’s connection to Hamas – a terrorist group – although
there are still meetings taking place.
Democratic and Republican politicians have recommended that the U.S. government not have
any relation with CAIR – although CAIR’s chairman is North Carolina state senator Larry
Shaw.
This video featuring a CAIR lawyer also instructs Muslims to report
incidents to CAIR if they are approached regarding attacks of violence against
“civilians”. In accordance with Islamic sharia law, attacks on non-civilians,
are permitted. And according to CAIR, only attacks on civilians need by
reported, so conversely, attacks on non-civilians – like the deadly jihad attack on two U.S. Army soldiers
in Arkansas by a Muslim American, do not need to be reported as they are
permitted.
Seven of the Muslim states have heeded the call for sharia law. Islamic leader calls for all of Nigeria to be a sharia nation, and won't stop until all of Nigeria is under Islamic sharia rule. "Sharia law is my ambition and that is the ambition of every Muslim in this country". (hat tip Will)
End of the week, time for the Friday night music thread. Friday night music, Saturday night at Atlas is cinema. Tonight a little ............John Coltrane - "Wise One".
Did anyone just catch that anti-semitic segment on FOX evening news with Chris Wallace? Earth to FOX - your anti-Israel bias is showing. Reena Ninan is reporting on a very small protest in the Israeli village Naalin (in Judea/Samaria, where a fence is being built to keep out "Palestinian" Islamic homicide bombers). Why FOX is covering this asshattery while ignoring the brutal slaughter in Iran (and Somalia, Sudan, blah blah blah) is transparent. The violent "peace" agitators (made up of Israeli "peace" activists and "Palestinian" Muslims) at this "protest" were hurling rocks and had stopped the work on the fence - so the Israeli security forces sprayed some harmless smelly repellent (think skunk) into the crowd as well as tear gas. See photo right, that's the whole protest (agitators and security) at its height - this is AP, they always try to make it look worse. So you can see, it's a non-event and in the FOX video it's even less people.
Why doesn't FOX cover protests in NYC (that are ten times, twenty times the size) against Chavez, Ahmadinejad, or Iran? They don't. I know, I cover them. They ain't there.
Back to the manufactured news story in Israel: drama queen Reena Ninan
starts coughing and acting like she is in some kind of jeopardy. This
is called full-of-shitnik press. Did she actually expect us to believe
she was in danger at any time? No one was hurt. She is there filming,
for heaven's sake. In Israel, no safer place for a journalist. Can the same access be had in Muslim countries?
Why isn't the brave Ninan covering the hi-tech security system the Saudis are building, including a fence, around the whole of its 9,000 kilometer border? She should go to Saudi Arabia and dress up in a cloth coffin type garment, aka burka, and cover the story. Why isn't diva Ninan in Iran? Why isn't brave and tough Ninan covering how the authorities handle protesters in Iran? What clownish antics. And FOX did an entire segment on this non-news item just to make the Jews look bad. If I can get the video, I'll post. If you see it, send.
Is FOX trying to more like CNN? FOX was chasing CNN's trail last week in the Michael Jackson coverage.
Assclowns all.
Reuters Photo: "A Palestinian protester uses a
sling to hurl stones toward Israeli soldiers (not pictured) during a
protest against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank
village of Bilin near Ramallah July 10, 2009".
And here's a pic from late June ....... poor "peace" protesters. Jewish self defense is racism!
A Palestinian protester uses a
sling to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers during a protest against the
controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near
Ramallah June 26, 2009.
REUTERS/Fadi Arouri
UPDATE: Here's the video - FOX played it all day and talk of excessive force. Excessive force.
Watch the asshats talk aboout the "violence" (no one was hurt) in the "Palestinian" territories (no it's Israel, Judea and Samaria is Israel). Meghan Kelly squawking "unbelievable tape, Reena", and Kelley further destroying her credibility by spouting "that was the Israeli military unleashing that, on these Palestinian protesters". You have to watch and know that at the same time the mullahs are going after protesters with axes, batons and guns, today. Has Meghan Kelly seen this Iran: The Revolution or spoken in any depth of Neda.
Stop reporting lies and kissing the asses of savages and bloodthirsty
thugs. Here's the real news out of Israel - and this just technology
(not science, medicine, culture etc). Perhaps this is why the desert
savages are blind with jealousy and want to extinguish this culture of
life:
If the wearer's condition deteriorates to a point where he or she
enters the "danger zone," the patch alerts the cell phone to send out
an SMS or other message to medical personnel
Free speech, the most basic American fundamental value and unalienable right, is under siege. There is something you can do. NOW.
There’s a chance to get the newly expanded Broadcaster Freedom Act (BFA) tacked on as an amendment to the Financial Services appropriation on Tuesday. The BFA is currently being redrafted to prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from not only reimposing the Censorship Doctrine - also mis-known as the “Fairness Doctrine - but also to address the new censorship threats – including “localism” and “media diversity.”
To get it a full, fair up or down vote, we need to act over the weekend and all day Monday.
Defiantly, bravely, they are marching for their freedom in
the streets of Teheran. The mullah’s men are gassing, beating, shooting and
jailing them.The people are chanting:
“Death to the turbans,” “Down with the
dictator,” “We want democracy“. The demonstrators
are risking their very lives in order to tell the world the truth about Iran:
That it is one gigantic prison in which elections are rigged, children are
sacrificed to clear landmines from the fields, and woman, intellectuals, and
homosexuals, are routinely jailed and murdered by corrupt dictators who sponsor
terrorism abroad.
In the face of all of this, the Obama administration has been
disturbingly timid. The White House's most consistent response to North Korea's
belligerent moves has been to ignore them and hope North Korea decides to behave
itself.
Matching their meekness toward Iran, the G-8 leaders
responded to Pyongyang's most recent provocations with an announcement that they
would like to become friends with Kim Jong Il. As Obama put it, "It's very
important for the world community to speak to countries like Iran and North
Korea and encourage them to take a path that does not result in a nuclear arms
race in places like the Middle East."
OVER THE past several weeks, as the regimes in Pyongyang and
Teheran have become ever more brazen in demonstrating their belligerent contempt
for the West, the prevailing wisdom has argued that the West has no good options
for containing or defeating them.
The traditional take on North Korea is that the world's
leading missile and nuclear proliferator poses less of a burden to global
stability than a post-regime North Korea filled with millions of starving people
who have been cut off from the world for 60 years. By this thinking, the world
is better off living with a psycho-state capable of fomenting a global nuclear
war than caring for its victims.
As for Iran, as Gabriel Schoenfeld wrote last month in The
Wall Street Journal, due to the gutting of the CIA's capacity to conduct covert
political warfare during the 1970s, today the US lacks the capability to assist
Iranian regime opponents in their efforts to overthrow the mullocracy. As
Schoenfeld put it, "the US appears utterly powerless to influence the course of
events."
They are killing people marching for one man, one vote, and the jihad President aids and abets the slaughter of our would be executioners. Raye Man Kojast has this eyewitness account of the jihad against the Iranian people:
An apparent eyewitness account from Tehran today, came to me in an email in Persian:
"At
5 pm we went to one of the meeting points, but there was no one
there...At 6 pm we were at the intersection of Palestine and Keshavarz
Blvds (the center of town). The police were busy identifying people.
There were two groups: the disciplinary forces (police) and the
plainclothes (lebas shakhsi). Then we went towards Laleh Park but we
saw that the demonstrators were coming from Laleh Park toward Vali Asr
and they were shouting "Mir Hossein, Ya Hossein." We asked them why
they're coming this way and they said every other way was closed, we
had to change direction. Again we arrived at intersection of Palestine
and Keshavarz Blvds and the police attacked with tear gas and batons.
We were stuck and being attacked from both sides. People had opened the
doors of their houses, many were seeking refuge in the houses. People's
cigarettes and the fires people had lit in their gardens were
counteracting the tear gas. When things calmed down a bit we went
toward Keshavarz again, but this time we were encircled from three
sides -- East, West, and the Northern streets and alleyways. Suddenly
an empty bus appeared and drove straight into the demonstration. Inside
the bus was filled with plainclothes officers who were hiding and
wanted to attack from the center of the crowd. We ran away toward the
southern alleyways, one out of five houses open their doors for us. We
heard shootings - we don't know if the bullets injured anybody. But
thereafter the houses were filled with people injured
One
person had his arm shattered in different places, another had a broken
skulls. As soon as we came out of the houses they continued to use the
tear gas and batons. We ran, but it was no use. A young girl and young
man were killed in front of us. Know that it was the disciplinary
forces that fired the bullets and were attacking people with the batons
and tear gas. The plainclothes officers did not have batons, they had
planks of wood to beat us to death. The Ansar (special forces) were
also there, they took a young guy right in front of us. The police were
attacking people; once they targeted someone they would catch them and
hit them to death. There were a lot of people lost/disappeared.
The
mobile phones were cut off in many areas. Our only hope was people's
houses who had opened their doors to us. They had water and fire to
counteract the tear gas and they all had first aid kits. After a lot of
running away and chasing, we tried to get out of being encircled by
police. The only option seemed like suicide -- we had to cross them,
passing through hundreds of officers. They did not think that any
protesters would come toward them, so they didn't think we were part of
the demonstration. There was a lot going on during the rest of our
journey, but all the roads heading toward Vali Asr were filled with
cars honking their horns in protest. The police hitting the cars as
well, using batons on
We were in the red zone and it was nothing less than war. Pray for us."
Somali Islamist insurgent fighters
beheaded seven people accused of abandoning their religion and of espionage,
residents said Friday, in the largest mass execution since the Islamists were
chased from power two and a half years ago.
The execution follows weeks of bloody
fighting for control of the capital and at a time of mounting concern over the
influx of hundreds of extremist foreign fighters into the war-ravaged Horn of
Africa nation.
Resident Madey Doyow said he saw seven
headless bodies in a truck being guarded by militia members in the southwestern
town of Baidoa.
"The people who were guarding the vehicle
told us they were beheaded for violating Islamic law," he said. The victims had
come from different parts of the southwestern Bay and Bakool regions, he
said.
A woman named Miriam, who asked that her
last name be withheld to protect her from reprisals, sobbed as she said in a
phone call that four bodies, including her husband's, had been brought to the
police station in Baidoa. The location of the other three was unclear.
She called the killing of her husband
inhuman.
Hawa, a woman who also wanted her full name
withheld, was at the police station in Baidoa along with other families who had
been informed a relative was executed. She told the AP that her brother had been
missing for about 20 days after being abducted from his house by masked men, and
that she had just been informed that he had been beheaded.
Al-Shabab militia officials told her that
the seven had been accused of either renouncing the Islamic religion or spying
for the transitional government, she said.
The executions fit a broader pattern of
torture and unlawful killings by various factions of the militia, said Benedicte
Goderiaux, a Somalia researcher for Amnesty International.
In Kismayo, a southern port city under
al-Shabab control, a 13-year-old girl was stoned to death last October after
being accused of adultery and a man also had a hand amputated after being
accused of theft.
Last month the militia amputated a hand and
foot each from four men accused of theft in the capital of Mogadishu. Another
man accused of rape and murder was stoned to death in a town south of the
capital last month.
"It's difficult to know if the unlawful
killings and torture is increasing or it's the reports that are increasing,"
said Goderiaux.
"It's definitely linked to al-Shabab wanting
to show or portray themselves as restoring law and order in the region they
control ... it's also linked to them wanting to terrorize the population under
their control under the guise of applying sharia law,"
The killings come as African Union officials
are deliberating over broadening the mandate of an under-resourced and
undermanned peacekeeping mission in the country's capital, and as the U.N. human
rights chief said both the insurgents and government troops may be committing
war crimes.
UPDATE: Atlas reader Marc informs of the following:
I spent a year on the Horn of Africa. I was there when the Ethiopians
entered Somalia, came through Baidoa, and into Mogadishu. I was intrigued, if
only morbidly so, by al-Shaba'ab. I looked at their formation as and reputation
as the militant wing of the Islamic Courts. I considered their training regimes. I read their rhetoric. I watched their stated claims to fame as
fighters against the puppet government. I called them a terrorist group. The
State Department then sent me a personal letter to stop calling the youth group
a terrorist group. One year alter, I felt vindicated when the group was added to
the Terrorist Watch List.
The history of the Islamic Courts is going to be seen as a small but
influential part of the current and future events. What al-Shaba'ab is going to
do includes
1. More corporal punishment against offenders, which will include
dissenters
2. They will openly and widely refer to the piracy events as a sea-borne
jihad that is reminiscent of the Barbary Coast Muslims that caused such pain and
loss to the West
3. Begin more obvious operations against Ethiopian and Kenyan
governments
4. Will justify the attacks against all the HoA governments as necessary to
return the Horn to its true and proper state as Greater Somalia, as it was under
the Sultanates/Caliphates of old
5. Will attack US forces and interests in the region
believe that we, in the West who
are looking in the proper direction, will see efforts by way of at least three
of these events by years end.
Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR is defaming Robert Spencer and trying to get him banned using thuggery, lies and intimidation. You know, the CAIR way!
Gross. And they are empowered with their man in the White House. Vile, all of it. Read it here.
I wrote
the other day about how some alleged believers in free speech among American
academia are trying to block my speaking at the American Library Association
convention this Sunday. Now the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
true to form, has gotten into the act, sending the ALA a fresh steaming pile of
defamation, lies, and distortions (drawing once again on material from its
favorite useful idiot, the discredited, thoroughly dishonest Charles Johnson of that cesspool of lies and hate,
Little Green Footballs), asking that I be dropped from the ALA panel.
Whatever the ALA does, I am not going to let CAIR's libels go unanswered.
LYON, France (Reuters) - Youths in the southeastern French town of Firminy
burned cars and destroyed a social centre on Wednesday night as protests over
the death in police custody of a young man continued for a second night.
Around 200 riot police were deployed into the early hours on Thursday, with a
helicopter circling overhead as groups of young people set fire to rubbish bins
before moving on to torch cars and the social centre.
The protests followed the death on Wednesday of Mohamed Benmouna, a local man
arrested for attempted extortion, who fell into a coma after what police said
was a suicide attempt and died several hours later.
CAIR has trumpeted false "hate crimes" against Muslims in the past.
And in the litany of alleged "hate crimes" against Muslims that are
listed in this press release, there is one exceedingly fishy detail.
It's in this article: "FBI investigating death of Muslim leader in High
Desert," by Stacia Glenn for the San Bernardino Sun, July 6:
The FBI is investigating the death of a Muslim leader whose
body was found inside a burned home in Yermo that had recently been
spraypainted with racial epithets and Nazi symbols.
Authorities have deemed the June 27 fire suspicious, but said it
could take weeks before they are able to determine how the blaze
started....
But the Council on American-Islamic Relations seems sure that
Mohammed was killed because of his race or religion. The Muslim leader
had established mosques in Yermo, Barstow and Victorville....
Mohammed still owned the Yermo house and went there the day of the
fire to paint over the offensive graffiti, which included swastikas,
drawings of the American flag and various racial slurs....
CAIR officials said they are unsure why Mohammed did not
report that someone had broken into his unoccupied Yermo home and
spraypainted racial epithets across the walls.
The imam did photograph them, however, and the pictures are now displayed on CAIR's Web site....
Let me ask you: if someone broke into your house and spraypainted
racial epithets across the walls, would you for any conceivable reason not call the police? It's extremely strange, and CAIR's involvement doesn't make it any less strange.
Any actual victimization of innocent people, Muslim or non-Muslim,
is odious and warrants the condemnation of every American. But CAIR is
playing a political game here, a game of manipulation, of which the end
result will be that law enforcement officials will be afraid to
investigate allegations of Islamic terror activity (note the last
paragraph I've quoted below from their press release) and those who
dare to explore the motives and goals of jihad terrorists will be
silenced as purveying "hate speech."
Think that couldn't happen in America? Think again. Pamela has details
of HR 1966, section 881, which says, "Whoever transmits in interstate
or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce,
intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a
person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile
behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
two years, or both."
It can't, unless it involves truths that some people don't want you
to know. It also involves an attempt to frame a narrative -- that what
I am saying is "offensive," it "causes emotional distress," and hence
must be silenced and criminalized.
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/
----A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today
cited recent anti-Muslim incidents nationwide in calling on American
leaders to address what it said is a "growing level of anti-Muslim
prejudice and stereotyping" in American society.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said opinion
leaders, policymakers and law enforcement authorities should speak out
against the type of Islamophobic rhetoric on Internet hate sites and on
talk radio programs that may lead to bias-motivated attacks.
In making its appeal to local and national leaders, CAIR cited
recent incidents targeting American Muslim individuals and
institutions, including a bias-motivated attack on a Muslim woman and
child in Seattle by a self-proclaimed white supremacist, vandalism of
mosques in Florida and California, an anti-Islam sign outside a Florida
church, racist fireworks sold in Wisconsin, the beating of a Muslim
student in New York, and the death of a California Muslim leader in a
"suspicious" fire....
The Washington-based council also noted American Muslim concerns
that government actions, such as sending agent provocateurs into
mosques or targeting Muslims for deportation even after they are
acquitted of criminal charges, can add to the growing level of
anti-Muslim views by stereotyping Muslims as predisposed to
terrorism....
The worst and ugliest elements of marginal society are empowered, validated and feared. It will get worse. Beating up a white family while screaming "it's a black world" is not a hate crime. Uh, ok.
Akron police say they aren’t ready to call it a hate crime.
But to Marty Marshall, his wife and two kids, it seems pretty
clear.
It came after a family night of celebrating America and
freedom with a fireworks show at Firestone Stadium. Marshall, his family and two
friends were gathered outside a friend’s home in South Akron.
Out of nowhere, the six were attacked by dozens of teenage boys, who shouted
”This is our world” and ”This is a black world” as they confronted Marshall and
his family.
The Marshalls, who are white, say the crowd of teens who attacked them and
two friends June 27 on Girard Street numbered close to 50. The teens were all
black.
”This was almost like being a terrorist act,” Marshall said. ”And we
allow this to go on in our neighborhoods?”
They said it started when one teen, without any words or warning, blindsided
and assaulted Marshall’s friend as he stood outside with the others.
When Marshall, 39, jumped in, he found himself being attacked by the growing
group of teens.
His daughter, Rachel, 15, who weighs about 90 pounds, tried to come to his
rescue. The teens pushed her to the ground.
His wife, Yvonne, pushed their son, Donald, 14, into bushes to keep him
protected.
”My thing is,” Marshall said, ”I didn’t want this, but I was in fear for my
wife, my kids and my friends. I felt I had to stay out there to protect them,
because those guys were just jumping, swinging fists and everything.
”I’m lucky. They didn’t break my ribs or bruise my ribs. I thank God, they
concentrated on my thick head because I do have one. They were trying to take my
head off my spine, basically.”
After several minutes of punches and kicks, the attack ended and the group
ran off. The Marshalls’ two adult male friends were not seriously hurt.
”I don’t think I thought at that moment when I tried to jump in,” Rachel
Marshall said. ”But when I was laying on the ground, I was just scared.”
Marshall was the most seriously injured. He suffered a concussion and
multiple bruises to his head and eye. He said he spent five nights in the
critical care unit at Akron General Medical Center.
We are under siege. Is there no way to get redress? This is America, not Zimbabwe. How can this stand? We need lawsuits filed a/s/a/p - and take this to the Supreme Court like the New Haven firefighters who got Sotomayor's racist ruling overturned.
More poisonous fruit from the leftwing "enlightened" totalitarianism.
Fredric U. Dicker—regarded as the pre-eminent political reporter in New York’s state capital—recently published a column decrying the complete breakdown of the state legislature, which has been unable to conduct business for the past month.
Buried way down in Dicker’s piece, starting at the 19th paragraph, we learn:
During the first five months of this year, with the Senate under the control of its first African-American majority leader, [State Senator Malcolm] Smith, top Democrats bemoaned the lack of minority Senate staffers.
But instead of trying to recruit new hires, they fired nearly 200 almost exclusively white workers and replaced them with a large number of minority employees, many of whom were seen by their fellow workers to be unskilled at their new jobs.
The move produced severe racial tensions, made worse by the fact that, as a high-level Democratic staffer confided, “We’ve been told to only hire minorities.'’
So nearly 200 people lose their jobs in New York State because of their race? And not at the hands of some evil corporation, but our own elected officials?
It’s quite telling that, in our political age, mass firings can still happen because of one’s race. It’s even more telling that—the only time I’ve seen this story get any coverage at all—it was in the 19th paragraph of an otherwise unrelated column.
The two Iranian Christian women, Maryam Rustampoor
(27) and Marzieh Amirizadeh (30) continue to be held in Evin prison in Iran
because of their Christian faith, unfairly labeled as ‘anti-government
activists’, because of the hostility of the government towards practising
Christians.
In the aftermath of the political turmoil in Iran, they are now in danger of
being forgotten. One church leader from Iran said, “With so many hundreds of
protestors now in the prison system, Maryam and Marzieh are likely to be
forgotten.”
Arrested on March 5 , 2009, the two young women have now been in prison for
four months. After being in solitary confinement for three weeks in May and
early June, they were then put one small cell together for about two weeks.
Then, following the arrests of thousands of protestors after the disputed
presidential elections, Marzieh and Maryam were moved to a larger cell to make
room for new prisoners. About 600 women were brought Evin prison during the days
of the protests. There is still no clarity regarding their case. In one court
session in June a judge told them that he would make sure they were both
executed as ‘apostates’. Maryam and Marzieh have responded with courage,
however, telling the judge to “expedite his sentence.”
“Maryam and Marzieh have demonstrated great courage and trust in God. They
believe the promise of Jesus that they will be given the words to speak when
they are taken before judges,” says Sam Yeghnazar, founder of Elam Ministries.
Please continue to pray for Maryam and Marzieh as they suffer in prison
in Iran. Pray they will continue to experience the strengthening presence of God
and that they will be a witness of the love and grace of Christ in Evin prison.
We invite you to post a prayer on our Persecuted Church
Prayer Wall.
Please also consider Maryam and Marzieh in prison at:
Evin Prison Saadat Abad Tehran Islamic Republic of Iran
Yes, you can write in English but if you wish to compose a letter in Farsi,
our US sister mission has an online tool that can help you. Click here.
Please note When writing a letter, never mention the
name of the source of your information or the name of any organization such as
Voice of the Martyrs or Prisoner Alert. It is not dangerous for a prisoner to
receive letters from individuals, but if an organization is mentioned they may
be accused of links with ‘foreign organizations’ and receive harsher sentences.
Also, please do not state anything negative about their government.
People dying on the streets in Iran and he is bowing to Putin. Bowing to Wahhabi kings. Bowing to Ahmadinejad. Bowing to Chavez. Crushing democracy in Honduras. Ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel.
And people don't even know it .................. yet.
July 9, 2009: There is a gender gap when it comes to
perceptions of Obama’s performance (hat tip Jonathan Galt).
By a
46% to 27% margin, men Strongly Disapprove.
Women are more evenly divided—33% Strongly Approve and
30% Strongly Disapprove.
These are the same women that led to a hung jury in the Menendez boys trial, that acquitted OJ ............ pathetic. Turn off The View, girls, turn on the net. Women get there, at last not at once.
12:12 PM: Roozbeh Farahanipour returns to Iran. Under Farahanipour's leadership, the Marze Por Gohar Party led the pro-democracy movement in July, 1999. The Iranian journalist, democracy activist was a former political prisoner in Iran. The Ministry of Intelligence declared the Marze Por Gohar an "illegal Party," and called Farahanipour "one of the leaders of the unrest", he was subsequently arrested and tortured.
A key leader of the 1999 student uprising that shook the Islamist
regime in Iran returned to Iran clandestinely this week, and plans to
lead a nationwide protest on Thursday.
Roozbeh Farahanipour, 37, was jailed for several months in 1999
for his role in the protests and was tortured extensively. But that
hasn’t deterred him from going to back to his homeland.
“These are momentous times,” he told Newsmax shortly before
leaving the U.S. for his secret journey to Iran. “After 10 years, I am
fulfilling my dream.”
The postelection protests of the past several weeks “have
already succeeded in crippling half of the regime,” he said. “They can
no longer work together, no longer trust each other. Our job is to help
cripple the other half as well.”
If Farahanipour can successfully elude Iran’s secret police,
Thursday’s protests will be the first time that a political figure who
has gone into exile has ever returned to lead a demonstration against
the Islamic regime.
Farahanipour, who founded the Marze Por Gohar (Glorious
Frontiers Party) in 1998, wants to see a secular, democratic government
emerge from the current turmoil in Iran.
“This Thursday is my demonstration,” he said. “It is not
Mousavi’s event. It is the 10th anniversary of the 1999 student
uprising.”
Farahanipour says the time for any pretense of reforming the regime
is over. “People are shouting, ‘Death to the Dictator,'” he said. “The
regime lost all international credibility. Only 15 countries have sent
messages of congratulations to Ahmadinejad after the elections. The
first to support him were Hamas and Hezbollah.”
Now is not the time to reassure the regime, but to confront it, he believes.
Already, regime intelligence agents been on the lookout for
Farahanipour, and scoured the area near Busheir, where Iran’s nuclear
power plant is located, when rumors circulated that he was in the
vicinity earlier this week.
11:40: Twitter: heavy clashes all over tehran, protests all over Iran. sisters and brothers fighting for freedom. the revolution ain't over!
Hundreds of young men and women chanted "death to the dictator" and
fled baton-wielding police in the capital Thursday as opposition
activists sought to revive street protests despite authorities' vows to
"smash" any new marches. (more here)
Tehran: clashes in Azadi, Enqelab, Vanq, Jomhouri, Valiasr - Nothing on the networks on the thousands who have taken to the streets.
Today is the Anniversary of the 1999 Iran Protest; the brave take to the streets.
Tweeting: Chants are more radical this time: "Death to Khamenei"
11:31 am: Shoot outs started in various places in Mashad & Tehran.
Multiple reports of protesters being attacked in different locations throughout Tehran.
Shootings reported. "Tweets passing around that there
are heavy clashes near Azadi Square.. Word is out that 3 people have
been shot by security forces." Tweets from Iran.
People are being arrested brutally in Enghelab, and tear
gass is used in Vanak // Enghelab square being packed with people
coming from side streets // Clashes infront of Tehran Universi and
VankSq. unconf. // very heavy Basiji presence. Almost all have
handguns.
One girl harshly arrested as she was dragged on the ground and thrown into a van... many others arrested
Apparently HUGE turnout, Basij desperately trying to block enghelab
6:29pm in Tehran right now, Reports of Moussavi showing might pop up as he had stated he would attend earlier
Here it comes. Thought crime and hate crime legislation. No one can attest to the vile nature of internet harassment, threats and insults more than I can, but I would never silence my "critics". This law is unconstitutional, a blatant violation of the First Amendment. It destroys the basic tenets of the Constitution. The left is ripping it to shreds. You can view the bill here.
This represents the end of political blogging and free speech on the world wide web.
If both bills are not opposed and thrown out then the First Amendment will become nothing more than a relic of a bygone age. (more here)
That this is even being proposed speaks volumes as to how far America has fallen. Here is the language in the bill:
a) Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
‘(b) As used in this section-
‘(1) the term ‘communication’ means the electronic transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received;
‘(2) the term ‘electronic means’ means any equipment dependent on electrical power to access an information service, including email, instant messaging, blogs, websites, telephones, and text messages.’.
U.S. House of Representatives would make it a felony to offend someone online.
A felony.
Under this new law you would not just be slapped on the wrist and have to pay a fine.
You would go to big boy prison.
While most free speech activists have been watching the recent "hate crimes" bill, this much more insidious piece of legislation has received almost no notice whatsoever.
Just take a look at what H.R. 1966 actually says.....
Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Whoa.
So if you offend someone on Facebook you could go to federal prison for two years?
Yup.
If your blog insults someone and causes them to feel bad you could go to prison for two years?
Yeppers.
If you are in a bad mood one day and you send fire off an angry tweet on Twitter that you maybe should not have you could go to prison for two years over it?
Yes indeed.
Are you starting to get the picture yet?
Talk about an attempt to chill free speech.
So if someone reads something that you have written and it makes them feel bad they can take it to the feds and have them come get you?
That is a very, very frightening thought.
The reality is that the government is increasingly trying to control even the very small details of our lives. They are even increasingly trying to control what we say and what we think.
Freedom of speech is one of the cornerstones of a free society. If we are not free to express ourselves without the fear that someone will be offended, then what freedom will we really have left?
The reality is that if we do not stand up to this, the United States of America will quickly become overrun with politically-correct "commissars" who are eager to throw anyone who disagrees with them in jail for "hate crimes" and "thought crimes".
Let's all take a look and remember these sponsors and the author when the next election comes up:
Rep. Linda Sánchez [D, CA-39] and 14 Co-Sponsors
* Rep. Timothy Bishop [D, NY-1] * Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1] * Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23] * Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1] * Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2] * Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7] * Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7] * Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17] * Rep. Brian Higgins [D, NY-27] * Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9] * Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10] * Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D, CA-34] * Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3] * Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]
Check out the latest "diversity visa numbers" from hot spots. The numbers from Africa-especially Egypt and Ethiopia' (Somalia) doubled from last month. "Palestine" is chargeable to Egypt and Somalis are chargeable to Ethiopia.
"Diversity" visa
-- a class of immigrants known as “diversity immigrants.” Diversity
Visas (DV) each fiscal year are made available to persons from
countries that with low rates of immigration to the United States. The Diversity Immigrant Visa program is a lottery program for receiving a United States Permanent Resident Card. It is also known as the Green Card Lottery.
Taking into account dependents, there were more than 10 million
participants in the DV-2008. The number of applicants for the DV-2009
was 45% higher than for the DV-2008.
VISA NUMBERS FOR JULY
DIVERSITY (DV-2009) VISA NUMBERS:
--------------------------------
For July, immigrant numbers in the Diversity Visa category are
available to qualified DV-2009 applicants chargeable to
all regions/eligible countries as listed below:
Atlanta - The State Department confirmed today
that as many as 1,350 Iraqi Palestinians – once the well-treated guests of
Saddam Hussein and now at outs with much of Iraqi society – will be resettled in
the US, mostly in southern California, starting this fall.
It will be the largest-ever resettlement of Palestinian refugees into the US
– and welcome news to the Palestinians who fled to Iraq after 1948 but who have
had a tough time since Mr. Hussein was deposed in 2003. Targeted by Iraqi
Shiites, the mostly-Sunni Palestinians have spent recent years in one of the
region's roughest refugee camps, Al Waleed, near Iraq's border with Syria.
"Really for the first time, the United States is recognizing a Palestinian
refugee population that could be admitted to the US as part of a resettlement
program," says Bill Frelick, refugee policy director at Human Rights Watch in
Washington.
Given the US's past reluctance to resettle Palestinians – it accepted just
seven Palestinians in 2007 and nine in 2008 – the effort could ruffle some
diplomatic feathers.
Saddam's guests
Palestinian refugees came to Iraq in successive waves over several decades,
first in 1948, then in 1967, and in 1991. They were treated well under Hussein
but were also used to attack Israeli policies, and their presence was resented
by many Iraqis.
David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and Frank J. Magill, U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota announced that on July 9 in Minneapolis, U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim sentenced Mohammed Abdullah Warsame to 92 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Warsame, a naturalized Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization – al Qaeda – in a Jan. 20, 2004, indictment returned in the District of Minnesota. A June 21, 2005, superseding indictment also charged Warsame with one count of providing material support to al-Qaeda and three counts of making false statements to the FBI. Warsame pleaded guilty to the material support count of the superseding indictment on May 5, 2009. The government has agreed as part of a plea agreement to dismiss the remaining charges.
"I applaud the many agents, analysts and prosecutors whose tireless efforts led to this sentence. This case serves as a reminder of the continuing threats we face as a nation and our resolve to meet those threats," said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.
Back in the day, under Bush, when we busted terrorists and killer not performed outreach on them.
The State Department, in a stunning act of sponsoring terror, has invited the propaganda television station of Hamas, Al-quds TV, to film propaganda here in the United States in your dime.
Below is a cable of a proposal from the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. Al-quds TV, the mouthpiece for Hamas, will film a documentary and miniseries about Muslims in America. All at US taxpayers' expense. It's really disgusting. Hamas comes to Washington.
Imagine the FDR administration welcoming Goebbels to DC during World War II to film Nazi propaganda and footing the bill.
Understand that no other propaganda TV stations are invited to come here at our expense who are not pro-hamas/hezbollah or in some fashion - part of the Muslim Brotherhood. No Hindus, no Buddhists, etc. are invited. Only Muslim stations. Israel could certainly use an invite.
There isn't an agency that is not infiltrated (see this). In the case of DOS, in particular, it's beyond infiltration. They are running the show.
a new position/division has been created at the State Department:
"Special Representative to Muslim Communities overseas and domestic".
"PALESTINE" PROPOSAL CABLE - Documentary & Series on Muslims in America for
Palestinians
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REVISED CONGEN JERUSALEM PROPOSAL FOR TV CO-OP ON CONTRIBUTION OF
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REF:
JERUSALEM 0396
1.
ConGen Jerusalem submits the following TV Co-op proposal on behalf of two Palestinian organizations, a local media NGO and
a Ramallah-based television station. The intended production will
include several documentaries on the life of
Muslims in America.
The
nominated 2-3 person TV crew will conduct interviews with local Muslim leaders and individuals, visit Muslim
institutions and organizations, and meet with USG officials. In
addition, the crew will cover some events that are part of a single country
project
IVLP
consisting of prominent Palestinian religious
leaders. Separate interviews with selected individuals from different
segments of the larger American society, including representatives from various
religious denominations, will also be an integral part of this TV
production.
2. Post
will coordinate with PA/OBS to generate a program that will fulfill the
objectives of the TV Co-op program.
3. MSP
Goal: Improve attitudes of Palestinian public
and leaders toward U.S. policies, principles, and people.
4. Time
Frame: July 13-30, 2009
5.
Background/Objectives: A 2-3 member television crew will produce a one-hour documentary and a series of other
mini-documentaries on topics related to the daily lives of Muslim-Americans, including their
role as active participants in civil society and contributions
to U.S. society
overall. The documentaries will
highlight aspects of the Muslim community in the U.S., including their equal and
full exercise of guaranteed civil rights
and full protection under the
law to
practice their religion freely. The documentaries will help counter numerous
local press reports of alleged discrimination against Muslims living in the
United States. The production of these
documentaries by a Palestinian television crew and their broadcast on local TV
outlets will help promote greater public awareness of the overall positive
experience of Muslim Americans.
During
the two week program organized by
PA/OBS, post hopes that the TV crew will be able to film some specific
portions of a post-initiated IVLP [International Visitors Leadership
Program] Single Country Program on "Religion in America" taking
place at the same time. The documentaries will
be aired on several local media outlets, including independent Al-Quds
Educational TV and the national Palestinian TV, as well as several other
independent television stations that reach viewers throughout the West Bank and
Gaza.
6.
Participating Organizations: The proposed documentaries will be jointly
produced by the Jerusalem Center for Studies
and Islamic Media, a local media NGO, and Al-Quds Educational TV, one of the
largest local TV stations in the Palestinian areas.
The
Jerusalem Center for Studies and Islamic Media:
Established in October 2005, the center aims
at reflecting Islam as
a
religion of tolerance and one that is accepting of other
religions. Through its activities, the
center seeks to provide a
"forward
look toward promoting religious tolerance, peace and
security
for all peoples of the region." Some of the center's
activities include conducting workshops and
conferences on Islamic
media,
producing television programs and computerized multimedia
presentations about Islam and Islamic
civilization, and organizing
constructive dialogue sessions with members
of different religions.
Al-Quds
Educational TV:
The TV
station currently reaches the greater Ramallah and Jerusalem areas, and is a
member of the Ma'an TV network that reaches all of the West Bank and Gaza. The
station itself is under new management and wants to renew its image and viewer
base by adding high quality programs to its existing broadcast. The new
management is very
excited
about the possibility of making the TV Coop documentaries a centerpiece of their
new program launch. Al Quds Educational TV last participated in a TV Co-op
program in 2002.
7.
Filming Locations:
The 2-3
person film crew would travel to several different locations in several states
in order to obtain a well-rounded picture of Muslim Life in America. As
mentioned, post would also like the film crew to capture some of the
meetings/events taking place as part of
the SCP
[Single Country
Program] on "Religion in America." Post will work with PA/OBS
in coordination with the crew to identify relevant sites to visit and
appropriate individuals to interview. PA/OBS
and Post would also work with the SCP program officer to identify appropriate
integration of the film crew in specific activities of the SCP.
8.
Participating crew members/Logistics:
The
participating TV crew will consist of 2-3 professionals: A reporter, a
cameraman and a soundman. The reporter is a professional journalist and a
leading TV talkshow host and news anchor. The remaining 1-2 crew members are
professional technicians
with
Al-Quds Educational TV.
9.
Funding: International airfare to the U.S.
and visa costs will
be paid for by
post. Post requests that all other costs be funded by
PA/OBS. THIS MEANS
US
10.
Consulate Points of Contact:
[redacted]
11.
Post appreciates PA/OBS's consideration.
[redacted]
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Every year TV stations come in from all over the world. However, TV stations from most of the Arab world cover one issue only - Muslim life in America, or Islam in America.
No other non-Arab nations send a TV station run by terrorists, nor do they focus on religion.
Most respect our separation of church and state and know that they are invited at our expense.
None deal with religion.
Imam Abdul Malik is arranging a mass outdoor Friday prayers in September on Capitol Hill.
September 11th is a Friday -- could it be?
Hamza Yusuf declared July 4 a Muslim Day - when the crusaders were defeated by
Muslims
Valerie Jarrett, the #2 woman at the White House, Rick Warren, and the Department of State were represented at the ISNA racist hatefest. Pure hate speech was said, and the Obama administration was there. Pure Islamic Jew hatred. What does that say?
During the 2009 Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention,
Imam Warith Deen Umar spoke about his books, Jews for Salaam: The
Straight Path to Global Peace, and Judaiology. Umar, the former head of
New York prisons' Muslim chaplain program, repeatedly described Jewish
conspiracies to control the world, as he does in this excerpt. Here's the audio: Download ISNA hate
Transcript:
"You need to know that Obama, the first man that Obama picked when we were so
happy that he was the President, he picked an Israeli – Rahm Emanuel – his number one man. His number two man –
[David] Axelrod – another Israeli person. Why do this small number of
people have control of the world? You need to go back into your history and find
out about France and Germany and England and America got together and offered
the Israelites, who became the Israelites, they offered them Ghana, the plains
of Ghana. Why don't you take Ghana since we beat you down so badly? That's what
the Holocaust was all about. You need to read my chapter on the Holocaust and
the anti-Holocaust movement. There's some people in the world says no Holocaust
even happened. Some of their leaders say no Holocaust even happened. Well it did
happen. These people were punished. They were punished for a reason because they
were serially disobedient to Allah." (from IPT)
The infiltration of Islamic supremacists at the highest levels of government is unfathomable. Senior Adviser to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke at the ISNA conference.
This is the very same conference where thugs from CAIR/ISNA set up
great American David Gaubatz and tried to have him killed or arrested. If
you expose Islam, you risk your life (read the whole thing here).
And
now, in addition to the Justice Department’s outreach to the Islamic
Society of North America, the White House is sanctioning this
un-indicted co-conspirator. Robert Spencer wrote here:
In
2007, ISNA was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation (HLF) terror funding case. The Holy Land Foundation, once
the nation’s largest Islamic charity, was ultimately found guilty of
funneling millions of dollars in charitable contributions to the jihad
terror group Hamas.
In July 2008, ISNA, along with the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT)
protested its designation as an unindicted co-conspirator, alleging
that this classification was merely part of a larger attempt by
government and law enforcement to “disparage” and “vilify” Muslims.
This earned them a stinging rebuke from federal prosecutors: “During
last year’s trial, numerous exhibits were entered into evidence
establishing both ISNA’s and NAIT’s intimate relationship with the
Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestine Committee, and the defendants in this
case. They were intimately connected with the HLF and its assigned task
of providing financial support to HAMAS....That ISNA and NAIT appeared
in these documents and share a common history with these defendants is
a reflection of the evidence, not any attempt to ‘disparage’ or
‘vilify.’”
ISNA’s “intimate
relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood” ought to raise the concerns
of every free American, not just the Justice Department. After all, the
Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is dedicated -- in its own
words -- to “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the
Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house
by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated
and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
That’s from an
internal Brotherhood document captured by law enforcement and released
during the Holy Land Foundation trial: “An Explanatory Memorandum on
the General Strategic Goal for the Brotherhood in North America.” This
memorandum concludes with an extraordinarily revealing “list of our
organizations and the organizations of our friends.” Among these
organizations is listed the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
Valerie Jarrett Addresses the Islamic Society of
North America
Posted by Hammad Hammad
Continuing President Obama’s outreach to
Muslims, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke at the Islamic
Society of North America's 46th Annual Convention. The Convention, themed "Life,
Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," brought together thousands of Muslim
Americans to our nation’s capital over the July 4th weekend.
The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
maintains that it is the largest Muslim American organization in the United
States. It was founded more than forty years ago and aims to serve as a meeting
place for people and ideas, while building bridges of understanding and
cooperation.
In her remarks, Jarrett spoke of the importance
of President Obama’s Cairo speech, where he emphasized that the United States
and Muslim communities share fundamental values, such as justice, progress,
tolerance, and the dignity of human beings.
She quoted the President in emphasizing the
many contributions of Muslim Americans to the United States:
Since our founding, American Muslims have
enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government,
stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our universities, excelled
in our sports arenas, won Nobel prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the
Olympic torch.
She continued by emphasizing that:
I will tell you, it is not always easy to
identify American "Muslim" business leaders, scientists, artists, athletes, and
so on. Not because there aren’t any, but because there are too many, and they
are known for their talents and character – not simply their religion. This is
a great thing. It is a reflection of the American dream, which is ultimately
rooted in these values that we all share – values that are common to all of
humanity. And just as we share common values, we also share common dreams – for
security, progress, and opportunity.
After acknowledging the diligent work and great
contribution of Muslim Americans to American society, Jarrett encouraged Muslim
Americans to respond to President Obama’s call to service. She asked that they
participate in United We Serve this summer, and utilize www.serve.gov to post service projects and find
other opportunities.
The White House, the Justice Department, the FBI and the State Department ...... we are infiltrated.
And
now a new position/division has been created at the State Department:
"Special Representative to Muslim Communities overseas and domestic,"
reporting directly to Secretary of State Clinton.
It's back: the Saudi Islamic Academy that teaches jihad, grooms valedictorians cum presidential assassins, distributes hate textbooks etc., will have another hearing for their application to expand the school on state property. Bear in mind that two Christian schools were denied that same request. But it looks like the dhimmi board is going ahead. Make your voice heard.
How in bed is the county with ISA (Islamic Saudi Academy)? ISA Opponents filed a complaint with Attorney General over Fairfax County
Dinner Invitation by the Islamic Group. The Fairfax County government distributed invitations to a free dinner to
learn about the religion of "peace and harmony" -- Islam.
There is collusion between the county government and the Islamists and they
operate as one every time the ISA or related issues come up.
The Saudis have purchased the Fairfax County government.
Each speaker will be given a short three minutes to encourage the Board to vote
it down. If you don't want to speak just go to the podium and say you oppose
the approval of the ISA expansion proposal. Please sign up today.
James Lafferty, great American and leader of the Anti-Shariah Task Force, wrote this for Atlas:
Next Monday is the final hearing on the
radical Islamic Saudi Academy’s proposed expansion here in Fairfax
County, Virginia. We do not have a single vote right now and one
Supervisor, Pat Herrity who self-identifies as a “conservative”,
is bobbing and weaving like you wouldn’t believe.
The last hearing brought a huge wave of
new support to our campaign to shut down the “academy” and unmask
the undiluted Shariah which is being practiced and taught there.
The Fairfax County government has
dropped even the appearance of being impartial in this “land use”
dispute. The government’s official community outreach office sent
out an invitation to a free dinner to learn about the real message of
“peace and harmony” of Islam. It was distributed by official
government e-mail to churches throughout the county and sent to some
vocal opponents of the ISA.
ISA is a national issue. With the
cooperation of the local government, radical Islamists have
established a madrassah here in the rapidly expanding Islamist
enclave of Northern Virginia. Congressmen Frank Wolf (R-VA) and
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) have both complained to the State Department
about the Saudi-owned and operated “academy” but still no action.
Several national news organizations
have talked with us about covering the hearing.
Calls to the Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors (see attached) from outside Virginia will help us drive
home the fact that the “whole world is watching” and the
Supervisors cannot afford to reinforce the stereotype of corrupt
“Southern politicians” like those in the movies in which Rod
Steiger played the Sheriff.
If you have questions, please contact
me at jameslafferty@usa.net
The school deleted from its texts some of the most contentious passages,
including references to Jihad, killing infidels and hatred of Jews and
Christians.
But critics say the books are still "toxic" and contain more subtle
references, such as criticism of secular forms of government.
Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Gulf Institute, which has been pressing the
school to make revision since 2004, told FOX News that the textbooks
characterize secular governments as "committing unbelief and allowing us to wage
war against them."
"So you're teaching American students -- implanting the seeds of insurgency
in these people -- and this is very dangerous," Al-Ahmed said.
He added that the textbooks teach girls that they should not aspire to be
judges or political leaders and when a girl gets married, she must ask her
husband if she wants to leave the house.
The school has stood by its latest revision.
[...]
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says it wants to look
at the books but the Saudi government, which funds the academy, won't give the
panel a copy.
"We can't figure out what the Saudi government has to hide and why they
continually keep these secrets," said Felice Gaer, chairwoman of the
commission.
Gaer's panel released a 2008 report commissioned by the U.S. Congress which
stated the school's earlier textbooks contained several troubling passages,
including one that claims it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and
converts from Islam, and another that claims "the Jews conspired against Islam
and its people."
Gaer said the State Department should translate the textbooks and determine
whether they encourage violence, which would be against the law.
[...]
The
Islamic Saudi Academy developed new Islamic studies textbooks for all
grades after a 2008 congressional report called portions of the
previous editions troubling.
But Al-Ahmed said the Gulf Institute is putting together a detailed report on
these textbooks that he says will show that the school "has been deceiving' the
American people on its real intention".
There is a serious issue related to radical Islamic
Wahabbists gaining a greater foothold in Fairfax/Fairfax County.
On July 13th, there will be a
very important Fairfax County Planning Commission meeting to hear from the
public about the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA)’s request to expand their Shariah
based school.
The ISA wants to replace the current building on the property
with a very large two-story structure which will give them 10 times the square
footage they have presently. There will be a place to meet and pray for student use
only—this will be a mosque.
The Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), founded, funded, and controlled by the Saudi
Government, seeks to expand its school in Fairfax on Popes Head Road.
Currently the ISA has two locations , an upper grade school near Ft Belvoir/Mt
Vernon and a lower grade school in Fairfax. The Wahabbists want to consolidate
all 900 (and growing) students at the Fairfax location.
At the center of the controversy are the school’s curriculum and the crimes
committed by those who attended or worked at the ISA:
Ismail Selim Elbarasse
served as an accountant at ISA for 14 years before he was arrested for
videotaping bridge structures including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in August,
2004. On the day of his arrest, he was also named as an “unindicted
co-conspirator” for laundering money on behalf of the American affiliate of
Hamas.
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali,
an ISA valedictorian, is serving a thirty-year prison sentence for providing
material support to Al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President G.W. Bush.
Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan,
Director General (Principal) ISA, was arrested by Fairfax police in June, 2008
for obstruction of justice and failing to report a case of child sexual abuse
involving a five year old girl at the Popes Head campus. Al-Shabnan was fined
$500.
§Mohammed El-Yacoubi and Mohammed Osman Idris, were denied entry into
Israel when authorities there found El-Yacoubi carrying what the FBI believed
was a suicide note linked to a planned martyrdom operation in
Israel.
There is a pattern of anti-American, anti-Semitic and
anti-Christian activity at the Islamic Saudi Academy. The curriculum sanctions
murder against Jews, adulterers, homosexuals, and
converts from Islam—for all other Americans these would be considered
crimes.
Each time the ISA gets caught and there is a new flare-up
over the hate taught at the ISA, the school “fixes” the curriculum a little. In
anticipation of this zoning request, Planning Commission hearings and then the
full Board hearing , the ISA has once again claimed they have altered their
textbooks. However, while the Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most
contentious passages from the texts, copies provided to The Associated Press
show that enough sensitive material remains to fuel critics who claim the books
show intolerance toward those who do not follow strict interpretations of
Islamic Shariah.
Because this school is operated by
the Saudi government, it teaches from the Wahabbist Saudi texts provided by the
Saudi Ministry of Education. Just as an American school overseas teaches
“American” curriculum such as the Revolutionary War, our Presidents and major
holidays--this school teaches Wahabbist curriculum.
The Saudi Ministry of Education texts have taught young
people that peaceful coexistence with so-called “infidels” is unattainable and
that violence to spread Islam is not only permissible, but an obligation. It
encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that
in order to safeguard their own religion; they must violently repress and even
physically eliminate the other.
Just a Glimpse of What is Taught
15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were
Saudi--educated in schools just like the ISA with
Wahabbist curriculum.
·Islam teaches that Jews are apes, the keepers of the Sabbath; while the
swine are the Christian infidels of the communion of Jesus.
The Saudi Ministry of
Education texts have taught young people that peaceful coexistence with
so-called “infidels” is unattainable and that violence to spread Islam is not
only permissible, but an obligation. It encourages violence toward others, and
misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own
religion; they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the other.
It is permissible for a
Muslim to kill an apostate (a convert from Islam), an adulterer, or someone who
has murdered a believer intentionally: “He (praised is He) prohibits killing the
soul that God has forbidden (to kill) unless for just cause…” Just cause is
then defined in the text as “unbelief after belief, adultery, and killing an
inviolable believer intentionally.” (Tafsir, Arabic/Sharia, 123)
Jihad in the path of God –
which consists of battling against unbelief, oppression, injustice, and those
who perpetrate it – is the summit of Islam. This religion arose through jihad
and through jihad was its banner raised high. It is one of the noblest acts,
which brings one closer to God, and one of the most magnificent acts of
obedience to God.
·When is battle jihad in the path of God? … To fulfill an order from
God,sacrifice in His path, spread the creed of monotheism, defend the realms of
Islam and Muslims, and raise up the word of God. This is jihad in the path of
God.
·Jihad continues until the Day of Resurrection.
Read here for more detailed info on the ongoing problem of
this Shariah based school
Again, we
need people to attend. Most who attend can just be a presence and pray. Those
who like to testify can do so. My husband Jim and I will help with testimony
preparation. Last year, when I registered to testify I was the only one.
When we arrived (grp of 5) we were well out numbered. Jim was viciously
attacked by Chairman Connelly (now Congressman) who repeatedly accused him (and
the rest of us) of slander.
Wahabbists are colonizing many areas of Northern Virginia.
America’s history can be described as waves of immigrants coming to our shores
seeking liberty and freedom. The Wahabbists come to America and immediately
conspire to reduce our liberty and freedom and impose their brutal Islamic
Shariah law—and using our very laws against us to do this. This is the
difference between them and other immigrants.
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I have refrained from commenting on Obama's much lauded military moves in Afghanistan, as I had hoped my suspicions were might be wrong. No such luck. It made no sense to me strategically. It is a set up. A weak, aimless strategy to get our boys killed. I believe Obama hates our military and is decimating it from within and without. What is the mission by objective? The global jihad? Crushing Islamic supremacism? No, the humiliation of the US military and maximum death. Too few troops while Obama talks of negotiating with "moderate" Taliban. Huh?
Do I think he is setting up our troops? Yes, I do. The number of US deaths in Afghanistan has skyrocketed since Obama's military strategy was implemented.
July 6 was the highest one-day Afghan death toll of U.S. troops. Seven good men died. Where are the media blasts? The countdowns? The SCREAMS? Remember during Operation Iraqi Freedom, there was the daily broadcast of US deaths - recounted ad nauseum. Now, all quiet on the left wing front.
On the day of the largest one-day death toll in months for U.S. troops
in Afghanistan, military officials and experts warned that the American
public should brace for rising casualties as thousands of additional
American troops pour into the region to confront a resurgent Taliban.
So far this year 73 American troops have died in Afghanistan,
including seven on Monday, according to the U.S. military. At the
current rate, 2009 would be the deadliest for the U.S. in more than
seven years of fighting, surpassing the 132 killed last year, the
military said.
I was being facetious yesterday when I asked if Obama would bow to Putin. I bet Putin was thinking the same thing.
Close, very close.
Obama sold out our Eastern European allies when he took a pass on missile defense.
Now I understand that Obama refused France when Sarkozy offered to host a Middle East peace conference later this year. Russia offered and Obama said yes. Russia to host a Middle East "peace" conference? They back Iran. Russia helped create the Israel/"Fakestinian" conflict and they will host a "peace" conference? I ask you.
Romanian intelligence
chief Ion Mihai Pacepa in The Wall Street Journal
Online back in 2003 clarified Arafat’s Russian connections. Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have
defected from the former Soviet bloc. The author of "Red Horizons"
(Regnery, 1987), he is finishing a book on the origins of current
anti-Americanism.
As Romania’s
former spy chief, Pacepa has read Arafat’s KGB file. He says that Arafat was
a KGB agent. According to Pacepa, Arafat “is a career terrorist, trained,
armed and bankrolled by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.”
In his Wall Street Journal column, Pacepa
described Moscow’s plan to make Arafat the national leader of the
Palestinians. And this was what Arafat has became and went on to conduct the
greatest terror offensive of them all -- against Israel.
Former Romanian intelligence chief Ion Mihai Pacepa describes
Arafat as
“an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by KGB
foreign intelligence.” Arafat was trained at the Balashikha special-ops
school in Russia. Pacepa also relates how “the KGB destroyed the official
records of Arafat’s birth in Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents
saying that he had been born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by
birth.”
The Israeli government has vowed to expel Yasser Arafat, calling him an
"obstacle" to peace. But the 72-year-old Palestinian leader is much
more than that; he is a career terrorist, trained, armed and bankrolled
by the Soviet Union and its satellites for decades.
Before I defected to America from Romania, leaving my post as chief of
Romanian intelligence, I was responsible for giving Arafat about
$200,000 in laundered cash every month throughout the 1970s. I also
sent two cargo planes to Beirut a week, stuffed with uniforms and
supplies. Other Soviet bloc states did much the
same. Terrorism has been extremely profitable for Arafat. According to
Forbes magazine, he is today the sixth wealthiest among the world's
"kings, queens & despots," with more than $300 million stashed in
Swiss bank accounts.
* * *
"I invented the hijackings [of passenger planes]," Arafat bragged when
I first met him at his PLO headquarters in Beirut in the early 1970s.
He gestured toward the little red flags pinned on a wall map of the
world that labeled Israel as "Palestine." "There they all are!" he told
me, proudly. The dubious honor of inventing hijacking actually goes to
the KGB, which first hijacked a U.S.
passenger plane in 1960 to Communist Cuba. Arafat's innovation was the
suicide bomber, a terror concept that would come to full flower on 9/11.
In 1972, the Kremlin put Arafat and his terror networks high on all
Soviet bloc intelligence services' priority list, including mine.
Bucharest's role was to ingratiate him with the White House. We were
the bloc experts at this. We'd already had great success in making
Washington -- as well as most of the fashionable left-leaning American
academics of the day -- believe that Nicolae
Ceausescu was, like Josip Broz Tito, an "independent" Communist with a "moderate" streak.
KGB chairman Yuri Andropov in February 1972 laughed to me about the
Yankee gullibility for celebrities. We'd outgrown Stalinist cults of
personality, but those crazy Americans were still naïve enough to
revere national leaders. We would make Arafat into just such a
figurehead and gradually move the PLO closer
to power and statehood. Andropov thought that Vietnam-weary Americans
would snatch at the smallest sign of conciliation to promote Arafat
from terrorist to statesman in their hopes for peace.
Right after that meeting, I was given the KGB's "personal file" on
Arafat. He was an Egyptian bourgeois turned into a devoted Marxist by
KGB foreign intelligence. The KGB had trained him at its Balashikha
special-ops school east of Moscow and in the mid-1960s decided to groom
him as the future PLO leader.
First, the KGB destroyed the official records of Arafat's birth in
Cairo, replacing them with fictitious documents saying that he had been
born in Jerusalem and was therefore a Palestinian by birth.
The KGB's disinformation department then went to work on Arafat's
four-page tract called "Falastinuna" (Our Palestine), turning it into a
48-page monthly magazine for the Palestinian terrorist organization
al-Fatah. Arafat had headed al-Fatah since 1957. The KGB distributed it
throughout the Arab world and in
West Germany, which in those days played host to many Palestinian
students. The KGB was adept at magazine publication and distribution;
it had many similar periodicals in various languages for its front
organizations in Western Europe,
like the World Peace Council and the World Federation of Trade Unions.
Next, the KGB gave Arafat an ideology and an image, just as it did for
loyal Communists in our international front organizations. High-minded
idealism held no mass-appeal in the Arab world, so the KGB remolded
Arafat as a rabid anti-Zionist. They also selected a "personal hero"
for him -- the Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, the man who visited
Auschwitz in the late 1930s and
reproached the Germans for not having killed even more Jews. In 1985
Arafat paid homage to the mufti, saying he was "proud no end" to be
walking in his footsteps.
Arafat was an important undercover operative for the KGB. Right after
the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli war, Moscow got him appointed to chairman
of the PLO. Egyptian ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Soviet puppet,
proposed the appointment. In 1969 the KGB asked Arafat to declare war
on American "imperial-Zionism" during the first summit of the Black
Terrorist International, a neo-Fascist pro-Palestine organization
financed by the KGB and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. It appealed to him so
much, Arafat later claimed to have invented the imperial-Zionist battle
cry. But in fact, "imperial-Zionism" was a Moscow invention, a modern
adaptation of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and
long a favorite tool of Russian intelligence to foment ethnic hatred.
The KGB always regarded anti-Semitism plus anti-imperialism as a rich
source of anti-Americanism.
The KGB file on Arafat also said that in the Arab world only people who
were truly good at deception could achieve high status. We Romanians
were directed to help Arafat improve "his extraordinary talent for
deceiving." The KGB chief of foreign intelligence, General Aleksandr
Sakharovsky, ordered us to provide cover for Arafat's terror
operations, while at the same time building up his international image.
"Arafat is a brilliant stage manager," his letter concluded, "and we
should put him to good use." In March 1978 I secretly brought Arafat to
Bucharest for final instructions on how to behave in Washington. "You
simply have to keep on pretending that you'll break with terrorism and
that you'll recognize Israel -- over, and over, and over," Ceausescu
told him for the umpteenth time. Ceausescu was euphoric over the
prospect that both Arafat and he might be able to snag a Nobel Peace
Prize with their fake displays of the olive branch.
In April 1978 I accompanied Ceausescu to Washington, where he charmed
President Carter. Arafat, he urged, would transform his brutal PLO into
a law-abiding government-in-exile if only the U.S. would establish
official relations. The meeting was a great success for us. Carter
hailed Ceausescu, dictator of the
most repressive police state in Eastern Europe, as a "great national
and international leader" who had "taken on a role of leadership in the
entire international community." Triumphant, Ceausescu brought home a
joint communiqué in which the American president stated that his
friendly relations with
Ceausescu served "the cause of the world."
* * *
Three months later I was granted political asylum by the U.S. Ceausescu
failed to get his Nobel Peace Prize. But in 1994 Arafat got his -- all
because he continued to play the role we had given him to perfection.
He had transformed his terrorist PLO into a government-in-exile (the
Palestinian Authority), always
pretending to call a halt to Palestinian terrorism while letting it
continue unabated. Two years after signing the Oslo Accords, the number
of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists had risen by 73%.
On Oct. 23, 1998, President Clinton concluded his public remarks to
Arafat by thanking him for "decades and decades and decades of tireless
representation of the longing of the Palestinian people to be free,
self-sufficient, and at home."
The current administration sees through Arafat's charade but will not
publicly support his expulsion. Meanwhile, the aging terrorist has
consolidated his control over the Palestinian Authority and marshaled
his young followers for more suicide attacks.
Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have
defected from the former Soviet bloc. The author of "Red Horizons"
(Regnery, 1987), he is finishing a book on the origins of current
anti-Americanism.
I have a one hour interview today with Duane Lester on blogging. Yes, that necessary evvvvvvvvvvvvil. Tune in at 4 pm (EASTERN) on RFC Radio. Listen here. It's on internet radio.
Front Page magazine is running part II of my interview with Jamie Glazov here. If you missed part I, go here. Today we talked about Aqsa Parvez. Women -- it's what the war is really about.
Gilad Shalit is chained to a cell well and calling for his mother when
he is visited in his cell by a Gaza boy who tells him that Israel doesn't care about
him. He pleads to the boy to be set free.
Where is the world community? Where is mutual RESPECT, Obama? It is time for free nations to walk away from the UN. It is time for free nations to stand up against the barbarism of Islamic jihad. Is there no conscience in the world?
A Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip remarked: "The Americans and Europeans are fighting against Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan while Hamas is building a new fundamentalist entity here. The settlements may be an obstacle to peace, but Hamastan will soon become a major threat to stability in the region."
(Khaled Abu Toameh)
They can do disgusting things like this because the world has empowered jihad. Withdraw your sanction.
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas launched a propaganda cartoon of Gilad Shalit on Monday,
playing it repeatedly on its Al Aksa television station, as well as on
internet forums. In the film an unshaven Shalit is calling for his mother when
visited in his cell by a Gaza boy who tells him that Israel does not care about
him.
During the three-minute film, additional Hamas messages include how it would
be betrayal by the boy to free Shalit, especially with many of the boy's
relatives in Israeli jails. Israel is portrayed as being only a collection of
people from Western countries, and Shalit's only hope is for Hamas to kidnap
another soldier to make Israel agree to Hamas's terms and discourage Israelis
from joining the army.
Vaclav Have was the leader of the opposition in Czechoslovakia; it also led to his imprisonment. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" launched Havel into the presidency. In this role he led Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic to multi-party democracy.
"I recall that my friends and I for decades were asked by people visiting from democratic Western countries, 'How can you, a mere handful of powerless individuals, change the regime, when the regime has at hand all the tools of power: the army, the police and the media, when it can convene gigantic rallies to reflect its people's 'support' to the world, when pictures of the leaders are everywhere and any effort to resist seems hopeless and quixotic?'" wrote Vaclav Havel, who knows something about how people under communist governments think. "My answer was that it was impossible to see the inside clearly, to witness the true spirit of the society and its potential--impossible because everything was forged. In such circumstances, no one can perceive the internal, underground movements and processes that are occurring."
We should be running guns to these reformers and fighters:
11:27 am: AM ET -- Protesters urged to carry roses as weapons. The Los Angeles Times reports:
One video making its way around the Internet shows demonstrators how to
make devices to disable the motorcycles used by truncheon-wielding
Basiji and Ansar-e-Hezbollah militiamen.
The marches,
which are taking place amid continued political discord over the June
12 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are meant to mark the
10-year anniversary of the storming of Tehran University dormitories by
pro-government militias and subsequent weeks of unrest.
The
circular urges marchers to avoid wearing the green that has become the
official color of the Mousavi campaign or "flashy make-up" in order to
demonstrate the marchers' serious intent.
It
suggests demonstrators leave cellphones and jewelry at home and carry
only an identification card and relatives' phone numbers.
If
protesters decide it's too risky to take part in the rally, the
circular advises them to walk or drive around in their own
neighborhoods, flashing the "victory" sign with their fingers.
Keep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises
those planning to march in Thursday's unauthorized demonstrations in
Iran cities.
"The heaviest weapon to carry is one rose in the hand," it says.
As Iranians prepare for what could be another violent day of
confrontations Thursday between demonstrators and security forces,
including pro-government plainclothes Basiji militias, supporters of
opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi have distributed instructions
to try to keep any anticipated violence to a minimum.
Iran-rose One video making its way around the internet (below) shows
demonstrators how to make devices to disable the motorcycles used by
truncheon-wielding Basiji and Ansar-e-Hezbollah militiamen.
Well, I read Atlas Shrugs, Power Line, National Review blogs ...... ... Ambassador John Bolton
I'm a fan! - Mark Steyn
Fearless, intelligent, beautiful -- Pamela Geller wears her Supergirl
costume well.
Pamela Geller is a dynamo of energy and
a paragon of courage and fearlessness.
-- Robert Spencer, JihadWatch in his book Stealth Jihad
You do great work with your blog. -- Geert Wilders
"Courageous insights from a pulchritudinous pundit!!" Dr. Andrew Bostom, Leading Scholar on Islam
"Great site," Dick Morris
"Indeed, some of Israel's best friends and most articulate defenders can be found in the blogosphere .... Atlas Shrugs, [et al] all provide a refreshing alternative to the moral relativism and politically correct anti-Israel blather of the media. Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post
"The best there is," Beryl Wajsman, President Institute of Public Affairs
Speaking to the unnamed, unchampioned, beating heart of her new land, Ayn was to say: 'Yours is the glory.'"
A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of Peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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