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Muslim Riots in Sweden: Cars Burn in Fourth Night of Rampant Violence

And still the media is crippled by its own self-censorship -- beheadings in the streets of London, bombings in Boston, thousands of burning cars, Sweden under siege, but still the media cannot say the M word.

For those who don't speak media, "Asian," "immigrant," "youth," "immigrant youth," "North African," and "Moroccan" all mean the same thing. The prohibited M word -- blasphemy under the sharia. "Do not offend Islam."

Social exclusion is to blame. Housing is to blame. Disrespect for the police (non-sharia authority) is to blame. Everything and anything is to blame except what's actually to blame. And Sweden is getting swallowed whole.

Riots in Sweden: Cars Burn in Fourth Night of Youth Violence Spiegel Online, May 23, 2013

Youth in several Stockholm suburbs have rioted for four nights in a row, throwing stones at police and setting cars on fire. Leaders have appealed for calm, but the violence has spread to the southern city of Malmo.

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Rioters and police have had a number of violent standoffs since Sunday night. Protestors have thrown stones at police and firefighters and set cars and buildings on fire. At least one police officer was injured Wednesday night. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has appealed for calm in the wake of the violence, which appears to have been instigated by the police shooting of a machete-wielding 69-year-old man in the Stockholm suburb of Husby this month. Police said the shooting was an act of self-defense, but it has triggered accusations of police brutality.

Riots began in Husby, which has a large immigrant population, on Sunday night and have spread to other locations, including the southern suburb of Fittja.

A police station in another southern suburb was set on fire, but no one was injured in the attack and the fire was quickly extinguished, according to media reports. Dozens of cars have been set ablaze during the riots, testing the resources of the local fire departments, according to the police.

At least one police officer was injured in the riots Wednesday night, and two schools, a restaurant and a cultural center have been damaged this week.

Growing Disparities

The violence has been attributed to the growing disparities between rich and poor in the country, where immigrant communities have been affected the most by cuts in state benefits over the past two decades. Official unemployment among the foreign-born is at 16 percent.

"The reason is very simple," Rouzbeh Djalaie, editor of a local newspaper in Husby told the news agency Reuters. "Unemployment, the housing situation, disrespect from police. It just takes something to start a riot, and that was the shooting."

Djalaie told Reuters that local youths are often the subject of unnecessary identity checks from police, who reportedly called them "apes" during the recent riots. The country ranks fourth among 44 industrialized nations in the absolute number of asylum seekers.

Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask called attacks on police officers or rescue personnel "unacceptable," but said she understood why many people in these suburbs are angry. "Social exclusion is a very serious cause of many problems, and we understand that," she said.

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Rioters and police have had a number of violent standoffs since Sunday night. Protestors have thrown stones at police and firefighters and set cars and buildings on fire. At least one police officer was injured Wednesday night.

Turkish Ruling party member calls for the ‘annihilation of atheists’ on Twitter

This is Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's party -- Obama's most trusted ally (Obama sought his advice on "how to raise his daughters").

And you thought that the hundreds of thousdands of Muslims violently protesting for the death penalty for bloggers in Bangladesh were confined to that country only. Wrong. It is Islamic law -- here, there and everywhere. As Prime Minister Erdogan, Obama's favorite foreign leader, told him, there is no moderate Islam, there is no extreme Islam, Islam is Islam.

Ruling party member calls for the ‘annihilation of atheists’ on Twitter, sparking controversy Hurriyet Daily News, May 22, 2013 (thanks to Armaros)

'My blood boils when spineless psychopaths pretending to be atheists swear at my religion. These people, who have been raped, should be annihilated,' Macit wrote in one tweet.

An official from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) sparked controversy after he called for the “annihilation of atheists" on his Twitter account. 

Mahmut Macit, a senior member of AKP’s Ankara provincial board and keen user of social media, flared up on May 21 about insults against believers via Twitter. “My blood boils when spineless psychopaths pretending to be atheists swear at my religion. These people, who have been raped, should be annihilated,” Macit wrote in one tweet. He also argued that “insulting Islam could not be considered freedom of expression.” 

His remarks came as renowned Turkish-Armenian linguist and former columnist Sevan Nişanyan was condemned to 13 months in prison for alleged blasphemy in a blog comment. 

They also added more fuel to Turkey’s culture wars, reignited by a bill currently debated in the Turkish Parliament that foresees new restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol.   

'My blood boils when spineless
psychopaths pretending to be atheist
swear at my religion.These people
which have been raped should be
annihilated,' Macit wrote in one tweet.

While reactions from twitter users were pouring in, Macit retaliated by writing that those who criticized the AKP government were “either seen as nude or holding a bottle of an alcoholic drink in their bio picture.”

This is not the first time that members of the AKP have stirred debate with comments about atheists. AKP Zonguldak deputy Özcan Ulupınar had said last year that “no benefits could come to society from an atheist youth.”

Recently a Turkish sociologist had likened atheism with autism, saying that autistic children can't go to heaven as they were “atheists due to a lack of a section for faith in their brains.” 

 

UK jihad murderers were previously investigated by terror probe

The Boston jihad bombers were previously investigated, too.  The FBI said they posed no threat. It speaks to an epic failure on the part of intelligence agencies, that they have these devout savages in their sights and they release them on to an unsuspecting public.

UK jihad murderers were previously investigated by terror probe (thanks to Robert Spencer)

But apparently they were considered to be such a low risk that they were able to roam around London with meat cleavers, looking for a soldier to hack to death. Jihad, after all, it's an interior spiritual struggle, you know!

"London attack: hacking victim named; attackers were previously investigated by terror probe: report," from the Toronto Star, May 23 (thanks to Lookmann):

LONDON — Two men accused of butchering a 25-year-old Afghanistan veteran soldier on a London street had been featured in investigations by security services, a British official said Thursday.

The Ministry of Defence identified the soldier as 25-year-old Lee Rigby, who joined the army in 2006 and served in Afghanistan as a member of the fire support group.

Rigby, the father of a 2-year-old boy, was “an extremely popular and witty soldier (with) a larger than life personality. He was a passionate and life-long Manchester United fan,” the Defence statement read.

His attackers boasted of their exploits and warned of more violence in images recorded on witnesses’ mobile phones. Holding bloody knives and a meat cleaver, they waited for the arrival of police, who shot them in the legs, according to a passerby who had tried to save the dying soldier.

A British government official told The Associated Press both suspects were part of previous investigations for possible terror links.

The Telegraph's Jihad on the Truth: Publishes Fictions to clear Islam for London jihad street beheading

There are no limits to the lengths the media and political elites will go to sanction the savagery of jihad. On the one hand, they will use the most tenuous and many times non-existent ties to indict, say, the tea party on some unrelated offense. They vigorously attempt to tie counter-jihad work to any act of violence, despite our calls for peaceful protest and free exchange of ideas.

And yet they refuse to accept the words from the mouths of Muslims conducting holy war in the cause of Islam. These Muslims state their clear intentions and their motives quite plainly. But the media and politicians refuse to take them at their word. 

And no matter how ridiculous they look in their denial of reality, they pursue their delusions and deceit with boundless energy. They give notorious Islamic supremacists respect and legitimacy while giving them national and international news airtime to spew the most vicious bile, while voices of truth and freedom are silenced, blacklisted.

Telegraph publishes falsehoods about Qur'an in attempt to clear Islam of responsibility for London jihad murder (thanks to Robert Spencer)

Note what Mehdi Hasan leaves out of his Qur'an quotation. "The Muslim faith does not turn men to terror: The two suspects in the Woolwich killing were violating the doctrine of their own holy book," by Mehdi Hasan in the Telegraph, May 23 (thanks to JH):

'Whosoever killeth a human being…” says the Koran, in the 32nd verse of its fifth chapter, “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind.”

Thus, the two supposedly Muslim men suspected of killing and mutilating an unarmed, off-duty soldier in the middle of a London street, while shouting “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great”), were violating the injunction of their own holy book. Perversely, it was the non-Muslim Cub Scout leader who, in trying to save the soldier’s life, and standing up to his alleged attackers, was acting in accordance with Koranic principles. Let’s be clear: Islam doesn’t permit the killing of innocents. Jihad is permissible only in self-defence and if sanctioned by a legitimate government. To quote from our Prime Minister’s pitch-perfect statement outside No 10, Wednesday’s barbarism was “a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country”.

Yes, let's be clear. Qur'an 5:32 actually says this:

For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals in the earth.

Hasan quoted it thusly: "Whosoever killeth a human being...it shall be as if he had killed all mankind." Notice what he left out: "for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth." So the Qur'an is saying only that killing a human being for something other than manslaughter or "corruption in the earth" is as if one had killed all mankind.

But what if someone does commit "corruption in the earth"? The Qur'an goes on: "The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom." (Qur'an 5:33)

Now we see why Mehdi Hasan left that part out of his Qur'an quote.

So it is permissible -- indeed, commanded -- to kill those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after "corruption in the land." Islam doesn't permit the killing of innocents, but this victim was a British soldier. He was, in the view of his killer, making war upon Allah and his messenger and spreading corruption in the land by fighting in Afghanistan. In that case, the killer's jihad was defensive, and Hasan's words about it being only permissible if sanctioned by a legitimate government are simply false in terms of Islamic law.

To be sure, only the state authority can declare offensive jihad. A Shafi'i manual of Islamic law that was certified in 1991 by the clerics at Al-Azhar University, one of the leading authorities in the Islamic world, as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy, stipulates that “the caliph makes war upon Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians...until they become Muslim or pay the non-Muslim poll tax.” It adds a comment by Sheikh Nuh ‘Ali Salman, a Jordanian expert on Islamic jurisprudence: the caliph wages this war only “provided that he has first invited [Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians] to enter Islam in faith and practice, and if they will not, then invited them to enter the social order of Islam by paying the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)...while remaining in their ancestral religions.” ('Umdat al-Salik, o9.8).

Of course, there is no caliph today, and upon this fact hinges the oft-repeated claim that people like the London murderer are waging jihad illegitimately, as no state authority has authorized their jihad. But he and others like him explain their actions in terms of defensive jihad, which needs no state authority to call it, and becomes "obligatory for everyone" ('Umdat al-Salik, o9.3) if a Muslim land is attacked. The end of the defensive jihad, however, is not peaceful coexistence with non-Muslims as equals: 'Umdat al-Salik specifies that the warfare against non-Muslims must continue until "the final descent of Jesus." After that, "nothing but Islam will be accepted from them, for taking the poll tax is only effective until Jesus' descent" (o9.8).

Surely Mehdi Hasan knows all this. So why is he misleading people in the pages of the Telegraph?

Two More Arrested in Bloody Beheading in London suburb #woolwich

The jihad plot thickens -- they too intended to "start a war in the streets of London"?

British police have made two further arrests and searched multiple properties as they widened their investigation into Wednesday's fatal hacking to death of a British soldier in broad daylight on a busy London street by two Muslim terrorists.

The two arrests, of a man and a woman -- both 29 -- on suspicion of conspiracy to murder, raises the possibility that the gruesome attack was not a so-called "lone wolf" killing as once thought.  Earlier it had been reported that the attackers were known to UK authorities and one had ties to a radical jihadist group well before the shocking attack that has stunned the United Kingdom and risked inflaming tensions between communities.  (FOX News)

Lone wolf asshattery. There a millions of "lone wolves" who all believe the same thing, all share the same goals, all refer to the same playbook, all cite the same doctrine.

Tributes to soldier killed in Woolwich as police make fourth arrest ITV, May 23, 2013 

The family of the soldier hacked to death in Woolwich paid tribute tonight to "a loving son, husband, father, brother and uncle", adding that he always wanted to be in the Army and "live life and enjoy himself".

Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, was killed by two assailants on the streets of south east London yesterday.

A total of four people including the two men shot by police have now been arrested in connection with the brutal attack.

Scotland Yard said a man and a woman, both 29, were held today on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and are being questioned at a police station in south London.

The two men who were shot, aged 22 and 28, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in hospital in a stable condition with non life-threatening injuries.

Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, leaves behind at two-year-old son. Credit: MOD

Drummer Rigby's family issued the following tribute: "Lee was lovely. He would do anything for anybody, he always looked after his sisters and always protected them. He took a 'big brother' role with everyone.

"All he wanted to do from when he was a little boy, was be in the Army. He wanted to live life and enjoy himself. His family meant everything to him. He was a loving son, husband, father, brother, and uncle, and a friend to many.

"We ask that our privacy be respected at this difficult time."

Six residential addresses were being searched today as part of the investigation, three in south London, one in east London, one in north London and one in Lincolnshire.

Enough already!

In the wake of the monstrous beheading of a young British man in broad daylight by Muslims who cited quran for their ritual slaughter comes reaction from the left and their media propagandists.

Having warned of this very type of incident for years, I was horrified, but not surprised. You might think that the leftist tools in the media might step back and say, perhaps we ought to rethink our dangerous delusions and illogical fantasy. But that would be logical, and the left is vicious, a happy mouthpiece for the savage. The BBC feature the vicious MPAC Islamic supremacist, Asghar Bukhari. No matter how they twist and turn, I am right and have been all along, but they'd rather lose their heads than ever state the obvious.

And so with fresh blood still on the streets of Woolwich, the requisite attacks on voices of freedom begin. No questions as to the jihadic doctrine that calls for the ongoing monstrous savagery. No, just smears against those who oppose it. Enough already.

Enough Already
San Francisco Bay Guardian 

When it became clear that the attackers were Muslims, you could almost hear the Pamela Geller's [sic] and Steven Emerson's [sic] of the world climaxing in sexual ecstasy ...

Anti-Islam backlash in London after machete attack
Salon
The group also has ties to a number of prominent American Islamophobes, including Pamela Geller, and even had a presence at her rally against the so-called ...

In wake of soldier's beheading, UK authorities on alert for anti-Muslim backlash
Beheading puts UK on alert for anti-Islam backlash Read more:
New York Daily News
Fear of a continuing backlash against Muslims gripped London on Thursday following the gruesome beheading of a British soldier by two men spouting jihadist rhetoric.

Anti-Islamist protests flare following London attack
AFP
LONDON — Police arrested two people as they tried to quell anti-Islamist disorder following the brutal murder in London of a man, believed to be a soldier. A 43-year-old man was arrested in Braintree, east of London, late on Wednesday after reportedly ...

So what is the message? Slaughter us in the streets, hack us to death -- no worries, we will go after those who disagree with the doctrine that commands holy war.

Shocking BBC News Report Justifying MPAC's Sanction of Bloody Beheading of Young Man on Suburban London Street

Watch the BBC response to a young man who was hacked to death, beheaded on a London suburb street.  MPACUK's Asghar Bukhari on Woolwich Attack -- railing against the British. We are subjected to fallacious and vicious grievance mongering by Islamic supremacist Asghar Bukhari to justify this monstrous slaughter. Instead of having the learned Robert Spencer or Ibn Warraq on to explain the jihadic doctrine, they have a vicious Islamic supremacist attacking Britain. It is just jaw-dropping. The disconnect is stupefying. The Taliban's savage campaign of jihad, whether it's poisoning girls' schools, beheading more moderate Muslims, punitive penalties for women not shrouded in a cloth coffin, death for blasphemy, etc. is sanctioned, but the coalition to free the enslaved and bring the killers to justice --  that is reason enough to slaughter people in the streets.

This is the BBC Islam division. Freedom in the UK is an archaic relic relegated to the dustbin of a once glorious past.

Here's the thing -- they give this savage mouthpiece a platform, respect and deference but they will tear apart and destroy the champions of freedom in the UK like my colleagues Tommy Robinson and Kev Carroll.

Full Text of Obama's Speech on War on Terror "a series of persistent, targeted efforts to dismantle specific networks" by partnering with jihadist enablers

The President has decided, five years into his presidency, to finally address the gravest threat to our nation and the West in the wake of a bloody wave of jihad attacks under his sloppy and feckless watch.

"Victory will be measured in parents taking their kids to school; immigrants coming to our shores; fans taking in a ballgame; a veteran starting a business; a bustling city street"

What does that even mean? He speaks of "victory" when he is the architect of defeat. He speaks of victory while the Fort Hood victims languish and the slaughtering jihadist Hasan still has not been brought to trial, but has received over a quarter of a million dollars in compensation.

What is his plan? To partner with Muslim Brotherhood groups in America that work feverishly to "eliminate and destroy" America from within. Obama said today, "the best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community – which has consistently rejected terrorism – to identify signs of radicalization, and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence." Robert Spencer said:

The Muslim American community has consistently rejected terrorism? Four separate studies since 1998 have all found that 80% of U.S. mosques were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred and contempt for Jews and Christians. There are no countervailing studies that challenge these results. In 1998, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, a Sufi leader, visited 114 mosques in the United States. Then he gave testimony before a State Department Open Forum in January 1999, and asserted that 80% of American mosques taught the “extremist ideology.”

Then there was the Center for Religious Freedom’s 2005 study, and the Mapping Sharia Project’s 2008 study. Each independently showed that upwards of 80% of mosques in America were preaching hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity ultimately to impose Islamic rule.

And in the summer of 2011 came another study showing that only 19% of mosques in U.S. don’t teach jihad violence and/or Islamic supremacism. 

What's his plan? To close GITMO and release the killers, when we know the recidivism rate is extraordinarily high. He stands by his drone attacks while having denied the motive of jihadic doctrine. He is killing Americans and yet he whines that we "compromised our basic values – by using torture to interrogate our enemies." He is denigrating the Bush administration's waterboarding three killers that saved thousands of lives and led to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Our soldiers are waterboarded so that they understand the process. Who does this poser think he's kidding -- he kills people, spies on journalists, and abandons our Ambassador and other Americans in Libya, and he is preaching to us?

He says that there have been no large scale attacks in the US. I disagree. Scores of large scale attacks were thwarted. That counts. And Fort Hood and Boston were large scale. Hundreds of people living with shrapnel, broken flesh and bone and ...... the dead.

Our delusional President claims that our standing in the world is what it was. I beg to differ. We are much weaker under his reign. Obama's abandonment of our allies in Egypt, Libya, Israel, and Eastern Europe have weakened our hegemony and influence in those regions.

Obama claims that "unrest in the Arab World has also allowed extremists to gain a foothold in countries like Libya and Syria." That, too, is a deliberate misrepresentation of what happened. Obama backed jihadists. That's what happened in the Muslim world. Did he think that backing jihadists in Egyt, Libya, Tunisia and now Syria would end well?

What's his plan? Why didn't Obama mention that his administration scrubbed all counter terrorism materials and manuals of jihad and Islam -- disarming law enforcment and counter terrorism officials? Where did that get us? Boston.

When Obama speaks of the threat on our shores, he only cites the rare non-Muslim attacks:

"Finally, we face a real threat from radicalized individuals here in the United States. Whether it’s a shooter at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin; a plane flying into a building in Texas; or the extremists who killed 168 people at the Federal Building in Oklahoma City

Not the hundreds of thwarted and in some cases successful acts of jihad here:

BROOKLYN BRIDGE Iyman Faris, a U.S.-based, al Qaeda operative, planned to cut the bridge's support cables but was deterred, in part, by the NYPD's 24-hour coverage of the bridge. Faris sent al Qaeda leaders a coded message that, "the weather is too hot," indicating he could not carry out the mission. He was arrested in 2003, pleaded guilty and sentenced to federal prison.

SUBWAY CYANIDE - A plot to disperse cyanide gas in the subway system was called off at the last minute by Iyman Zawahiri for what he said was "something bigger."

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE & CITIGROUP HEADQUARTERS - Al Qaeda plot to use vehicles to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, Citibank, and other financial institutions. NYPD tactical teams were deployed to high-threat locations, and vehicle inspections were increased in response. Dhiren Barot/Issa al-Hindi, an associate of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pleaded guilty in 2006.

GARMENT DISTRICT PLOT The NYPD and FBI arrested Uzair Paracha for material support of terrorism in New York based on intelligence developed overseas. Paracha is reported to have discussed with top al Qaeda leaders the prospect of smuggling weapons and explosives  possibly even a nuclear deviceinto Manhattan's Garment District through his father's import-export business.

HERALD SQUARE SUBWAY STATION An NYPD undercover officer helped disrupt a 2004 plot to bomb the Herald Square subway station by lone-wolf admirers of Al Qaeda. Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay conspired to blow up the 34th Street subway station, including surveilling the subway station, choosing the location for their bombs, and diagramming entrances and exits.

PATH TRAIN and WTC RETAINING WALL A multi-agency investigation disrupted a plot to attack NYC's underground transit link with New Jersey in 2006. Law enforcement monitoring international chat rooms discovered suspects' plan to destroy a PATH train tunnel and the retaining wall at Ground Zero, to flood the New York Financial District. The main operative was taken into custody in Lebanon and admitted to plotting the attack.

JFK AIRPORT/BUCKEYE PIPELINE - Al Qaeda sympathizers plotted to bomb the fuel tanks and pipeline at John F. Kennedy Airport, through which jet fuel is transported from New Jersey through Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Queens. Four suspects were arrested in New York and Trinidad in 2007; three were later sentenced to life in prison.

TRANSATLANTIC PLOT  A British-based plot to destroy seven commercial aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean or fly one or more of them into East Coast targets including New York City resulted in multiple arrests in London.

LONG ISLAND RAILROAD - A plot to bomb a Manhattan-bound LIRR commuter train was discussed at the highest levels of al Qaeda operational leadership. See Bryant Neal Vinas, of Long Island.

BRONX SYNAGOGUES  Disrupted in May 2009, the Riverdale plot targeted two Jewish centersa synagogue and a Jewish community centerin the Bronx, and Stewart Air Base in Newburgh, NY. The NYPD and FBI arrested four men who were convicted in 2010.

NYC SUBWAY & TRANSIT HUBS - In September 2009, Najibullah Zazi and others planned a series of coordinated suicide bombings of NYC subway transit hubs at rush hour.

TIMES SQUARE Faisal Shahzad attempted on May 1, 2010 to detonate a bomb inside an SUV parked in Times Square on a busy Saturday night.

MANHATTAN SYNAGOGUE - The NYPD disrupted a plot by two Queens men, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, to bomb a synagogue in Manhattan in May 2011.

JOSE PIMENTEL - Muslim convert Jose Pimentel was arrested in November 2011 in Manhattan as he constructed bombs and plotted to killer soldiers returning home to New York from Afghanistan and Iraq. He had followed instructions in an article from Al Qaeda's English-language magazine "Inspire" on "How to Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."

JESSE MORTON; REVOLUTION MUSLIM: The case of Jesse Morton, a New York City-based Muslim convert, resulted from NYPD monitoring, combined with the investigative and prosecutorial expertise of the FBI and the U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia. Morton was apprehended in Morocco and pleaded guilty in Feb. 2012 to soliciting murder and encouraging violence via the Internet; Morton was sentenced in June to 138 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, for using his position as a leader of the "Revolution Muslim" organization's internet sites to conspire to solicit murder and encourage violent extremism. His partner Zachary Chesser was sentenced for providing material support to al Shabaab, communicating threats and soliciting acts of extremism, including against the creators of South Park. Chesser and Morton were associates of Mohamed Alessa and Carlos Almonte, two New Jersey men who pleaded guilty in March 2011 to conspiring to murder individuals overseas on behalf of a foreign terrorist group.

He goes on to explain that jihadists are lying when they quote quran chapter and verse and wage war in the case of Islam. Obama said, "this ideology is based on a lie, for the United States is not at war with Islam." No, it is Obama who is lying about the ideology. And while we may not be at war with Islam, clearly there is a significant part of Islam that is at war with us.

US President Barack Obama speaks about his administration’s drone and counterterrorism policies, as well as the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2013.

President Barack Obama is reasserting his case that closing Guantanamo is crucial to U.S. counterterrorism goals, and is making a defense of the controversial drone program, in a speech at the National Defense University. A White House official said the audience is made up of students from NDU; national security, counter-terrorism, legal and human rights experts; and U.S. government officials.

Here is the text of his speech, as prepared for delivery.

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

May 23, 2013

The Future of our Fight against Terrorism

Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery

National Defense University

May 23, 2013

As Prepared for Delivery —

Obama: "The best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community"

Obama said today:

The best way to prevent violent extremism is to work with the Muslim American community – which has consistently rejected terrorism – to identify signs of radicalization, and partner with law enforcement when an individual is drifting towards violence.

Compare that to reality. Here are some facts from Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi: Shari’a and Violence in American Mosques, 81% Promote Violent Jihad Atlas Shrugs June 7, 2011

A random survey of 100 representative mosques in the U.S. was conducted to measure the correlation between Sharia adherence and dogma calling for violence against non-believers.  Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51% had texts on site rated as severely advocating violence; 30% had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19% had no violent texts at all.  Mosques that presented as Sharia adherent were more likely to feature violence-positive texts on site than were their non-Sharia-adherent counterparts.  In 84.5% of the mosques, the imam recommended studying violence-positive texts.  The leadership at Sharia-adherent mosques was more likely to recommend that a worshipper study violence-positive texts than leadership at non-Sharia-adherent mosques.  Fifty-eight percent of the mosques invited guest imams known to promote violent jihad.  The leadership of mosques that featured violence-positive literature was more likely to invite guest imams who were known to promote violent jihad than was the leadership of mosques that did not feature violence-positive literature on mosque premises.

Muslims Desecrate Serbian Orthodox church in Sarajevo

This is an Islamic pattern from Egypt to Indonesia to Malaysia across the Muslim world ...... "unidentified individuals" desecrated the church, broke windows and painted Allah on the walls. Who could it be?
Aren't you glad Clinton sent US troops into Bosnia to fight for the Muslims against the Christians? Speaking of Clinton's war, did you know that ethnically cleansed Sarajevo is now entirely Muslim? Yes, it is.

"Serbian Orthodox church in Sarajevo desecrated" In Serbia, May 22, 2013 (thanks to Filip)

SARAJEVO – Unidentified individuals desecrated the Serbian Orthodox church of Saint Sava in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Blazuj, when they broke six windows panes and wrote improper messages. 

Priest Bojan Kulasevic of Blazuj stated that unidentified vandals wrote ‘Allah’ on two spots on the church wall using dark paint.

According to him, the local police have been notified about the incident and they carried out a preliminary investigation.

The church in Blazuj was targeted by an attack a month ago when vandals tried to set the entrance on fire in the night between April 21 and 22, the Radio Televizija Republike Srpske reported.

Full video and transcript of UK jihadist savage: "We are forced by the Qur'an"

The media edited out all references to Islam, quran, sura and ayats (video below). Why? Why are they disarming the people? Why are they disarming the very targets of the savages?

Video from The Sun. (trnscript thanks to Robert Spencer)

The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying daily by British soldiers. And this British soldier is one. It is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. By Allah, we swear by the almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you until you leave us alone. So what if we want to live by the Shari'a in Muslim lands? Why does that mean you must follow us and chase us and call us extremists and kill us? Rather you lot are extreme. You are the ones that when you drop a bomb you think it hits one person? Or rather your bomb wipes out a whole family? This is the reality. By Allah if I saw your mother today with a buggy I would help her up the stairs. This is my nature. But we are forced by the Qur'an, in Sura At-Tawba, through many ayah in the Qu'ran, we must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I apologise that women had to witness this today but in our lands women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your governments, they don’t care about you. You think David Cameron is going to get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? You think politicians are going to die? No, it’s going to be the average guy, like you and your children. So get rid of them. Tell them to bring our troops back so can all live in peace. So leave our lands and we can all live in peace. That’s all I have to say. [in Arabic:] Allah’s peace and blessings be upon you.

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"Warped and Deluded" MInd of London Mayor Boris Johnson: "Islam and UK Policy Not to Blame" for Jihadist Beheading

Despite the jihadists' very explicit calls to jihad and repeated quranic references as the basis for their act of Islamic ritual slaughter (beheading) on the streets of a London suburb, delusional dhimmi Mayor Boris Johnson said that neither "Islam nor UK policy is to blame" for the beheading of a UK soldier wearing a Help for Heroes' t-shirt  on the streets of Woolwish yesterday. The UK Muslims who wanted to "start a war in London tonight" said "We are forced by the Qur'an".

Boris Johnson has said that the blame for the brutal murder of a soldier in Woolwich lies with the ‘warped mind-set’ of his killers. Johnson sounds like the one with the warped mindset. As one eyewitness who spoke with the jihadists after the slaughter of the soldier observed, “He was not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset. He was in full control of his decisions and ready to do everything he wanted to do."

It takes a warped and deluded brain to deny reality in the face of reality. A is A.

This extraodinary dhimmitude will result in further bloodshed and jihad in the streets of England.

"Boris Johnson: Neither Islam nor UK foreign policy to blame for Woolwich attack" Metro May 23, 2013 (thanks to Van)

Boris Johnson has said the blame for the brutal murder of a soldier in Woolwich lies with the ‘warped mind-set’ of his killers.

The London mayor, arriving for a meeting of the government’s emergency Cobra committee chaired by prime minister David Cameron, said it was wrong to blame either Muslims or the presence of UK troops in Afghanistan for the attack.

One of the two suspects in yesterday’s killing made a series of political statements in the wake of the attack, while counterterrorism officers are waiting to question both men in hospital after they were shot by armed police.

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UK Muslim Who Beheaded Man in Broad Daylight: 'We want to start a war in London tonight'

It took the keystone kops 20 minutes to get to the scene of the jihadist beheading. People need to know they are on their own. Be mindful of this, America, when they try to take down the second amendment.

The jihadists hacked at the soldier “like a piece of meat.”

“He was not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset. He was in full control of his decisions and ready to everything he wanted to do.

Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: 'We want to start a war in London tonight' The Telegraph, May 23, 2013

Exclusive: A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose."

A mother-of-two described tonight how she put her own life on the line by trying to persuade the soldier’s murderers to hand over their weapons.

Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett selflessly engaged the terrorists in conversation and kept her nerve as one of them told her: “We want to start a war in London tonight.”

Mrs Loyau-Kennett, 48, from Cornwall, was one of the first people on the scene after the two Islamic extremists butchered a soldier in Woolwich, south east London.

She was photographed by onlookers confronting one of the attackers who was holding a bloodied knife.

^{Ingrid Loyau-Kennett}

Mrs Loyau-Kennett was a passenger on a number 53 bus which was travelling past the scene, and jumped off to check the soldier’s pulse.

“Being a cub leader I have my first aid so when I saw this guy on the floor I thought it was an accident then I saw the guy was dead and I could not feel any pulse.

“And then when I went up there was this black guy with a revolver and a kitchen knife, he had what looked like butcher’s tools and he had a little axe, to cut the bones, and two large knives and he said 'move off the body’.

“So I thought 'OK, I don’t know what is going on here’ and he was covered with blood. I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else. I thought these people usually have a message so I said 'what do you want?’

“I asked him if he did it and he said yes and I said why? And he said because he has killed Muslim people in Muslim countries, he said he was a British soldier and I said really and he said 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan they have nothing to do there.”

UK Jihadist chanted "Allah" while beheading man in broad daylight on London suburb street #woolwich

One of the Muslims now being treated at a hospital in London was reportedly stopped as he attempted to leave the country for Somalia to join al Shaabab jihadists. Why wasn't he arrested then? Why was he allowed to bring the war to the streets of London?

Scotland Yard said, "We understand concern about the motivation and we will work tirelessly to uncover why this occurred and who was responsible. I understand people want answers, but I must stress we are in the early stages of investigations."

The UK jihadists who beheaded a British man wearing a 'Help for Heroes' t-shirt cited the quran as justification for their savagery. They were chanting 'allah' as they viciously beheaded this young man and hacked him to death.

Have the Scotland Yard clowns watched the video? They will work tirelessly to uncover the motive? Blood in the streets and still they try to delude the public.

'Woolwich Terror Murder Suspect Named' SKY.com, May 23, 2013

Police search a house in Lincolnshire as a former Greenwich Uni student is identified as a suspect in the killing of a soldier.

The two terror suspects being held under armed guard at hospitals in London were both known to security services, Government sources say.

The men - one of whom has been named as Michael Adeboloja - were arrested following the hacking to death of a serving soldier in the street in Woolwich, southeast London.

Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt said Adeboloja is a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent.

"He was born in Lambeth, grew up in east London. There are still members of his family living in the area.

"He was a student at Greenwich University, but it is not clear what he was studying there. Already on Facebook there are comments from former pupils saying that they went to school with him in east London."

Police carry out a fingertip search of the area

Police investigating the attack have been searching an address in Lincolnshire believed to be connected to Adeboloja.

Brunt added: "We believe it is his father's house that is being searched by Lincolnshire Police on behalf of counter-terrorism command at Scotland Yard."

Police were also at a house in Greenwich, according to sources.

Anjem Choudary, the former leader of banned Islamic group al Muhajiroun, said he knew one of the alleged attackers but had not seen him for about two years.

A message of condolence left at the scene

One of them was also reportedly stopped as he attempted to leave the country for Somalia to join al Shaabab militants.

Counter-terrorism officers are leading the investigation into the "shocking and horrific" murder and the Prime Minister has held talks with his top advisers to address potential security implications.

Relatives of the dead soldier are believed to have been informed and his identity is expected to be released later today.

Obama sides with the Jihadists in Myanmar

Muslims are waging jihad in Myanmar. Buddhists are fighting back. So of course Obama has to back the jihadists. But he never has a word about the Muslim genocide of Christians in the Mideast or Africa.  Obviously, he is not on our side.

Don't buy the Muslim myth of victimhood in Burma. It's the same there as it is everywhere. Jihad.

"The term Rohingya is never known to history, nor it is ever recorded in the official documents as the designation of a Muslim coterie in Rakhaing, ostensibly cross-bred by Arab castaways. It is only a belied term employed by the alien Muslim separatists, with the object of advancing a legal claim to ethnic grouping of the Union of Burma. The Imperialist British, who ruled the Indian Empire, named them Chittagonians after the Chittagong District of East Bengal, where from they originated. The term Rohingya, therefore, is synonym of alien Chittagonian separatists or jihadist Mujtahid." -- The Rohingya Hoax (thanks to Larry)

Obama urges Myanmar to stop violence against Muslims Reuters, May 20, 2013

 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar on Monday to halt violence against a Muslim minority but praised economic and political reforms in the formerly pariah nation that is emerging as a U.S. ally in China's backyard.

During the first visit to the White House in 47 years by a leader of the Southeast Asian nation, Obama called for an end to the killings of Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Reformist Myanmar President Thein Sein vowed to resolve ethnic conflicts and bring perpetrators to justice.

"I also shared with President Sein our deep concern about communal violence that has been directed at Muslim communities inside Myanmar. The displacement of people, the violence directed towards them needs to stop," Obama said.

At least 192 people died last year in violence between Buddhists in Rakhine and Rohingya Muslims, who are denied citizenship by Myanmar. Most of the victims, and the 140,000 people made homeless in the attacks, were Muslims.

As the Myanmar government eases repression, long-simmering ethnic tensions are on the boil - a dynamic that resembles what happened when multi-ethnic Yugoslavia fractured in the 1990s after communism fell.

Thein Sein appealed for U.S. "assistance and understanding" as Myanmar attempts difficult reforms.

Obama said the Myanmar leader had assured him that he intends to release more political prisoners and institutionalize political reforms that have already begun transforming the country and ending its estrangement from the West.

Rights groups and some U.S. lawmakers fear Obama has moved too quickly since forging a dramatic breakthrough in relations in 2011 after a half century of military rule in Myanmar.

U.S. officials argue that reforms by Myanmar - freeing democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and hundreds of political prisoners, scrapping censorship, legalizing trade unions and protests - are transformative and deserve support from Obama, who confirmed the end of Myanmar's pariah status with the West with a landmark visit last November.

"What has allowed this shift in relations is the leadership that President Sein has shown in moving Myanmar down a path of both political and economic reform," Obama said in the Oval Office.

Even critics in Congress of Obama's Myanmar policy support the U.S. strategic goal of bringing Myanmar, tucked between China and India, out of its isolation from the West.

The long U.S.-Myanmar estrangement was a drag on America's relations with ASEAN, the 10-nation Southeast Asian regional grouping that looks to Washington as a counterbalance to the more assertive China of recent years.

Media Alert: Pamela Geller on Curtis Sliwa

I will be appearing on Curtis Sliwa Live on AM 970 at 8:25 am to discuss the Muslims' bloody beheading of a soldier on the streets of a suburb in the UK yesterday.

IRS Tyrant Lois Lerner was former FEC Tyrant Terrorizing Conservative and Christian Groups while Refusing to Pursue Obama's Illegal and Foreign Contributions

Obama's campaign contributions from Gaza

Did you ever wonder why the FEC (Federal Election Commission) never took any action on all the charges about Obama's eligibility and foreign campaign donations? Longtime Atlas readers remember the blockbuster stories I broke during the early summer 2008 on illegal contributions, foreign contributions, contributions from Hamas-controlled areas in Gaza, and non-existent donors (scroll here). I documented it all in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Adminstration's War on America. Good article on it here: Obama's Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

I submitted everything to the FEC and David Keene, then Chairman of the ACU, but the FEC did nothing despite repeated inquiries.

While everyone was concentrating on Lois Lerner's Congressional testimony today, this little pearl went unnoticed (but it did not escape eagle eyed Atlas reader Van). Before Lois Lerner got her current job at the IRS as head of the Tax-Exempt Division, she worked at the FEC as head of the Enforcement Division, where she had a rather contentious track record for targeting conservatives.

Lois Lerner, IRS official and director of IRS's Exempt Organizations Division is at the center of the IRS scandal. Lerner was formerly head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) where there are reports of her politically motivated harassment of conservative groups, according to a May 20 report on "The Weekly Standard."

Lerner brought her skulduggery and utter disregard for the law to her new job with the IRS. Another Obama socialist and lawbreaker on the warpath using the full authority and power of the US government to terrorize and bully American citizens. Has any other person so singlehandedly influenced not just one, but two elections? Obama always rewards his lieutenants. Think Jarrett, Axlerod, Emanuel, Holder, ad nauseum.

The government has been infiltrated by these Socialist Progressives and America haters who stuff themselves at the public trough while avoiding any accountability in their subversion of the law.  The Obama years will be remembered most for their imperious lawlessness. 

Lerner got a bonus in the $150K range and has now been appointed to run the enforcement division of Obamacare. You just can't make this stuff up. Remember, the IRS is armed and considered law enforcement.

"IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC Targeted Christian Coalition" Weekly Standard, May 20, 2013

Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct.

Still, Lerner has her defenders in the government and the media. Shortly after the scandal broke, The Daily Beast  published an article headlined "IRS Scandal’s Central Figure, Lois Lerner, Described as ‘Apolitical.’" Insisting Lerner, and the IRS more broadly, were not not politically motivated has been a central contention of those trying to minimize the impact of the scandal.

The trouble with this defense is that, prior to joining the IRS, Lerner's tenure as head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was marked by what appears to be politically motivated harassment of conservative groups.

The friend of Boston jihad bombers who was killed today in violent confrontation with FBI implicated himself & Boston jihadist in 9/11 anniversary murder of Jews

More proof of the jihad against the Jews back on the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Three Jewish boys nearly decapitated by the Boston Muslim bombers.

If law enforcement had taken this ritual islamic slaughter seriously when it happened, there would have been no Boston bombing. If I were a family member of a Boston bombing victim, I would file one big, fat lawsuit.

If you missed my column on this back on May 12th, read this: Boston bombers linked to triple murder of Jews

Friend of Boston jihad bomber implicated himself & Boston jihadist in 9/11 anniversary murder of Jews (thanks to Robert Spencer)

At least two of the victims were Jews, and were brutally murdered on September 11, 2011 by having their throats slit. The Qur'an designates the Jews the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82) and directs believers to "strike the necks" of the unbelievers (47:4). "Ibragim Todashev implicated Tsarnaev, himself in triple homicide before FBI shooting," from CBS News, May 22:

A friend of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev implicated himself and Tsarnaev in an unsolved triple homicide before authorities say he instigated a violent confrontation that resulted in his death early Wednesday morning, CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports.

Law enforcement sources told Orr that the man, a Chechen identified as Ibragim Todashev, implicated himself and Tsarnaev to authorities in the 2011 killings in Waltham, Mass., under questioning Wednesday at Todashev's apartment in Orlando, Fla.

Authorities went to the apartment after having obtained what the sources described as strong evidence to suggest that Todashev, Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokhar were involved in the killings on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The FBI had already interviewed Todashev more than once before Wednesday.