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Taliban Muslims Attack Using White Phosphorus Munitions

Hamas and their UN shills falsely accused Israel of phosphorus attacks in Gaza back in January (all while Hamas was firing phosphorus bombs at Israel). When the allegations against the Jews proved untrue, the disinformationalists quieted down.
Meanwhile, Muslims in Afghanistan are using phosphorus munitions with impunity, and nary a word from the international community. The morally bankrupt and the morally corrupt .............

US military: 44 Afghan cases of white phosphorus Associated Press

KABUL - The U.S. military accused militants in Afghanistan on Monday of using white phosphorus munitions in attacks on American forces and in civilian areas, saying it has documented at least 44 incidents of insurgents using or storing the weapons. A spokeswoman labeled the attacks "reprehensible."

White phosphorus is a spontaneously flammable material that leaves severe chemical burns on flesh. Using white phosphorus to illuminate a target or create smoke is considered legitimate under international law, but rights groups say its use over populated areas can indiscriminately burn civilians and constitutes a war crime.

The U.S. military, in documents supplied to The Associated Press, said there had been at least seven instances of militants using white phosphorus in improvised explosive attacks since spring 2007, including attacks in civilian areas.

The military documents showed 12 attacks where militants used white phosphorus in mortar or rocket attacks, the majority of which came the last two years.

The American military itself uses white phosphorus in Afghanistan to light up the night sky and for smoke screens.

The most recent militant attack using white phosphorus came last Thursday, when a NATO outpost in Logar was hit with two rounds of indirect white phosphorus fire, the documents said. Most troops in Logar, which lies south of Kabul, are American.

Afghan authorities have also said Taliban fighters may have used a burning agent - possibly white phosphorus - in a major battle on May 4, after doctors discovered unusual burns among the dead and wounded. President Hamid Karzai has said up to 130 civilians died in that battle. The U.S. blamed militants for deliberately putting civilians in harm's way.

Col. Greg Julian, the top U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, said the U.S. did not use white phosphorus at all in last week's battle in Farah province.

A U.S. spokeswoman, Maj. Jenny Willis, said the militants' use of white phosphorus as a weapon could cause "unnecessary suffering" as defined in the laws of warfare.

"This pattern of irresponsible and indiscriminate use of white phosphorus by insurgents is reprehensible and should be noted by the international human rights community," she said.

Willis said the U.S. military and NATO have been able to document 44 cases of white phosphorus use by insurgents - either attacks or in weapons caches - but that there may be more. Thirty-eight of those cases occurred in eastern Afghanistan, the region where the majority of American troops are stationed. Six cases came from other parts of the country.

Willis said the military doesn't necessarily know that militants are using white phosphorus deliberately, but that its use is still "indiscriminate."

A Taliban spokesman couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

The U.S. allegations come after Human Rights Watch last week called on the military to release information into a March 14 battle in Kapisa - one province northeast of Kabul - in which an 8-year-old Afghan girl named Razia was burned by white phosphorus munitions.

Willis said the U.S. can't be certain who fired the round that wounded Razia, who has been receiving medical care at the U.S. base at Bagram, where she has had 10 skin grafts.

"There's no way to be sure that it was an enemy round that impacted Razia's house, but based on the plotting of ISAF's rounds and the time of the reported impact, we can't establish that ISAF was responsible either," Willis said, referring to NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

"Either scenario is possible, and equally regrettable. One thing is certain: Razia will have the best care that we can give her".

White phosphorus is used to mark targets, create smoke screens or as a weapon, and can be delivered by shells, flares or hand grenades. Human rights groups denounce its use as a weapon for the severe burns it causes, though it is not banned by any treaty to which the United States is a signatory.

The U.S. military used white phosphorus in the battle of Fallujah in Iraq in November 2004. Israel's military used it in January against Hamas targets in Gaza.

Afghan officials on Sunday said they were investigating the possibility that white phosphorus was used in a U.S.-Taliban battle in Farah province last week that President Hamid Karzai said killed up to 130 civilians.

Nader Nadery, an official with the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, said Monday that doctors are treating 16 patients with severe burns suffered in the May 4 battle. The commission is investigating the possible use of white phosphorus or another incendiary chemical against villagers during the battle.

Nadery said Farah's governor told the group's researchers that many of those killed in the battle also had severe burns. The governor confirmed that Taliban fighters may attacked the villagers with a flammable material, though not necessarily white phosphorus, Nadery said.

Syracuse Legitimizing Islamic (Shariah) Law

To insert islamic law (shariah) in the same sentence  as "humanitarian" law is so patently dishonest and dangerous and bad enough, but a conference that attempts to put the two together is criminal. It is propaganda under the guise of education.

What deception! This is taqiyya, lies to advance Islam. Who is underwriting this? What petrosheikdom is Syracuse whoring itself out for? Or is this part of OIC compliance in league with the Alliance of Civilizations? Islamic law ...think taliban. Think stoning, public hangings of gays, honor killings, clitorectomies, beheading, death penalties for apostasy and hypocrisy, (and reinterpreting the  Koran), shariah finance, child marriage, marital rape, death to rape victims.....

Islamic law should be crushed, extinguished from the pages of modern history - relegated to seventh century barbarism.

Atlas reader Scott G wrote me, "I recently received a self congratulatory e-mail from the Dean's office for the school of Arts and Sciences boasting of a conference that explores and celebrates Islamic thinking in humanitarian law. This conference takes place this week.

Dhimmitude in CNY? It seems this conference will whitewash Islamic law and give it legitimacy as a valid source of legislation. No one reads my blog, but maybe you can get some action on stopping this. Though I'm sure it's too late now."

Any of my readers on the board of Syracuse? Someone needs to slap these asshats out of it. These people are going to be eaten alive.

4.17.2009 Workshop, Syracuse University: The goal of the initiative’s first workshop is to begin identifying the most pressing issues at the intersection of Islamic jurisprudence and humanitarian law and to consider how their shared concerns may prompt creativity in addressing present gaps in IHL—notably, the lack of standards for dealing with the rise of irregular armies or the inability of the law to accommodate asymmetric forms of attacks by non-state entities against sovereign states.

III Network and Related Initiatives: INSCT is developing partnerships on different aspects of this topic with the United Institute for Peace’s (USIP) Rule of Law Center of Innovation, which develops strategies for policymakers and practitioners to promote the rule of law in fragile and post-conflict societies; and Harvard University’s International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative (IHLRI), a central resource for the reaffirmation and development of international humanitarian law based at the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Well, the 20 million dollar gift that Harvard received from the Saudis really did pay off.

ISLAM AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (hat tip Scott G)

304 Tolley Humanities Building, Syracuse University

Overview: The Islam-IHL initiative examines from multiple perspectives the ongoing role of Islam, including Islamic leaders, in International Humanitarian Law (IHL), and the potential of that contribution for contending with new forms of warfare and international conflicts. The goal of the Workshop is to begin identifying the most pressing issues at the intersection of Islamic jurisprudence and humanitarian law and to consider how their shared concerns may prompt creativity in addressing troubling gaps in IHL today—notably, the lack of standards for dealing with the rise of irregular armies, or the inability of the law to accommodate asymmetric forms of attacks by non-state entities against sovereign states.

NUTS!

Topics for Discussion will likely include the role of culturally and religiously-based legal norms and their authoritative sources for limiting armed conflict’s effects on victims; the meaning of asymmetry from the perspective of the weaker party; conflicting and even incompatible notions of legitimacy and defense in military actions; and the role of universal human rights standards in relation to culture and conflict.

Approach: The bodies of law under consideration are “living traditions,” to paraphrase the 8th century jurist al-Awzai’s view of Islamic law, the uninterrupted, intergenerational practice of adapting approved legal precepts to contemporary circumstances. This view rebuts the tendency to reduce Western and Islamic legal traditions to static or monolithic constructs by recognizing each as complex, dynamic, and plural (made up of sub-traditions). Given the inherent complexity of this subject across traditional disciplines and practice areas (i.e., international humanitarian, military, legal, and policy communities) an interdisciplinary approach and sustained collaboration for advancing knowledge on this pressing topic is necessary.

Objective: The resulting analysis from the Islam-IHL initiative will lay the groundwork for engaging a larger community of practitioners and scholars in understanding the relationship between IHL and Islamic law for internationally viable approaches to present-day asymmetric challenges—including those involving Islamic groups or states.

Research questions:

· What role does Islam play in international laws and norms for conducting warfare and why do some consider Islamic law an alternative to IHL?

· Does incorporating primary and secondary Islamic sources foster a different understanding and legal interpretation of key IHL provisions and its present challenges today?

· What shared or divergent visions and precepts underlie IHL and Islamic attempts to humanize warfare?

· Do Islamic doctrines of warfare have lessons for contemporary conflict settings, asymmetric warfare, non-state belligerents, present gaps in IHL, or the relationship between Jus in bello and Jus ad bellum?

· Are contesting interpretations of Islamic law enabling Islamist interpretations of warfare and the use of violence for social and political change?

· What would a productive synthesis look like between Islamic jurisprudence and IHL that humanizes war while preserving state’s sovereignty, a balance central to the universal acceptance of IHL?

Please contact Corri Zoli if you are interested in this initiative.

RESPECT THE CHILD KILLERS! Islam 'Insulted' by Accused Child killer's Mug Shot

Your President says "respect" it!

And CAIR spokesman in Chicago USA said, "they should respect the modesty of the accused." Respect? It is alleged she beat the kid to death. The child had 55 separate bruises and was beaten "from head to toe". If she beat that kid to death, I'd hang her naked.

Bail on this low life was denied.

Islam 'insulted' by alleged child killer's mug shot, says husband Southtown Star (hat tip Kasper)

The police booking photo of alleged child killer Nour Hadid released Tuesday is an "insult against our religion," says Hadid's husband, Alaeddin.

Orland Park police detectives say the 26-year-old Muslim woman was treated as any other suspect in a murder probe would be, and they did not intend to humiliate her when they photographed her Sunday without her headscarf and wearing only a skimpy top

Nour Hadid is accused of beating her 2-year-old niece Bhia Hadid to death over four days at her home on the 9000 block of West 140th Street. The child had 55 separate bruises and was beaten "from head to toe," according to prosecutors, who say Hadid confessed.

But Alaeddin Hadid - who insists his wife is innocent - said Orland Park police are "really going to be in big trouble" for releasing the woman's booking photo to the news media after she was charged with first-degree murder.

The Hadids are Muslims and Nour "never leaves the home without covering up," said Alaeddin, who's vowed to sue.

[...]

Suicide threats

Orland Park police Cmdr. Chuck Doll said the mug shot was taken "for identification purposes" before Hadid made her confession. Her headscarf was handed back to her after the photo was taken, Doll said.

"A matron was with her at all times while she was in our custody," Doll said. A matron is a law enforcement official who works with women held in custody. "She was wearing a tank top, and she had the headscarf when she was interviewed."

The headscarf later was taken from her after she made suicide threats, he said.

Why didn't she kill herself before she killed the child? Pity, my friends, the children who live under sharia law.

A sobbing Hadid appeared without the headscarf at the Bridgeview courthouse Tuesday and is being held without bail at the Cermak Medical Center at the Cook County Jail, where she remains on suicide watch.

Police have said her husband's possible involvement in Bhia's death still is under investigation.

Nour Hadid's attorney, Frank Celani, said he hopes to speak with her today about the mug shot.

Respecting the accused

Islamic advocacy groups seem wary of taking up Hadid's cause.

Spokesmen for the Council on Islamic American Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Bridgeview Mosque Foundation all declined to comment Thursday.

But Dr. Mohammed Sahloul, chairman of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Chicago, said that while police should follow the usual procedures with all defendants, "they should respect the modesty of the accused."

Sahloul, who made it clear he was not aware of the Hadid case and was speaking in general terms about the hijab, pointed out that Muslim women are allowed to wear hijabs in photos for their state IDs.

"If it's for the purposes of identification and they cover in public, then that's going to be more effective in identifying them anyway," he said.

UPDATE: They think they have America by the .....

BABY DOLLIE TALKING DAWAH STILL ON SHELVES: ISLAM IS THE ....

I reported earlier  this week that Wal- Mart had taken the Mattel doll spouting Islamic propaganda off the shelves.
Well, maybe not. See below.  This is not the first email I have received from Atlas readers who report that on their visit to Wal-Mart, the doll was there chanting the Islamic mantra, "Islam is the light".

Readers, when you see this doll, complain to store management! This just in from reader Atlas reader Susan, it has an interesting twist:

I went to my local Wal-Mart today and saw AND heard the doll say "Islam is the Light" as clear as day--another shopper stopped too.  I checked the other dolls on the shelf (white ones) and they didn't seem to have the same vocals.  The doll that did was a dark-skinned, but not African-American doll.  (I have the SKU number as well).  I was floored, especially because they said they were pulling them.  I live in Cheser County PA (Exton, PA Wal-Mart).  Thought I'd pass on.

SKU 2708456915 -- this is the doll.

Here is the link for the one that she saw. They have rotating sounds/coos on the chip, not just one sound.  There is, btw,  an African-American version of Baby dawah and this is not it. Can you imagine coming home, a working mom, from a hard day's work, and hearing your sweet little tyke looking up at you and parroting, "Islam is the light!"?

Here are the previous links -- this is an ongoing story:
WALMART SAW THE LIGHT! BABY DAWAH OFF THE SHELVES

MATTEL COVER-UP; SCRUBBING DAWAH DOLLIE, "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

BABY DOLLIE TALKING DAWAH ....bwahahaha

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

The  whole contradiction between the Mattel audio file and the one that the Moms recorded is a real smoking gun.  Mattel did something to change the audio JUST at the phrase Islam is the Light. Advancing Islamic dawah and then a cover-up.

Check out the back story here:

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT".

Combine Taub's work and Grayban's work and it's an interesting example of forensic audio investigation....:

Audio Comparison

OUR FINDINGS:
On October 13, 2008, Mattel posted - on their corporate webpage for “Investors and Media” - an audio file which they alleged was for the “Islam is the Light” sound made by the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo  doll.

On November 18, Scott Grayban, a computer and audio expert, received an “Islam is the Light” doll directly from amazon.com, and recorded his own audio file using the methods described below.  He compared it to the Mattel file posted at their website October 13, 2008.

Here are the two audio files:

The Mattel audio file:  lil_mommie_coo_original_10k

The audio file recorded by Scott Grayban: my-sound.wav

As you can see, the two files are very similar - close to identical - UNTIL YOU REACH the section of audio for “Islam is the Light.”  At that section, the Mattel file is very different from the Grayban file - and from the earlier parts of the Mattel file itself.  FULL EXPLANATION BELOW:

Comparison: Mattel Website Audio vs. Actual Doll Audio

RECOMMENDATION: Further investigation is needed to determine if the file posted at the Mattel “Investors and Media” webpage was in any way altered from the actual sound made by the doll.  If the sound is indeed different due to being edited or some other manipulation, other consumers and shareholders should ask for a formal investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Based on Grayban’s tests, we are submitting a complaint and request for investigation to both FTC and SEC.

Pending those official investigations, you can replicate Grayban’s experiment yourself, and we encourage any owner of the LMRLBCC doll to do so.  We describe here the findings from this single experiment.

Please read it all. How nefarious...

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll

Back on November 25th, I ran this post BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT".

There is a movement afoot!

We're writing to ask for your help with a local citizen's campaign this December.  Our goal is to convince stores to stop selling a Mattel talking doll that says "Islam is the light," a way of inviting someone to join Islam - also know as "Da'wa."  We have started this campaign in Virginia and Maryland, and we need your help to take it nationwide.

The controversial toy is called the "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo" doll, manufactured by Mattel-Fisher Price.  We've put up a website to provide resources for parents to download an information packet to give to store managers.  As parents, we've already started asking store managers to remove the dolls from the store shelves, or to put labels on the dolls stating "Notice: this doll says 'Islam is the light,' an invitation to your child to join Islam." 

THE "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT" DOLL IS STILL ON THE SHELVES

You may have heard about this controversy in the media.  It received a lot of print and TV media attention in October and earlier in November.  Yet - hard as it is to believe - most stores are still carrying the doll on their shelves for the holiday shopping season.  The doll has no warning label letting parents know that it clearly says "Islam is the light."  In fact, we found one store in Virginia where the dolls had the audio disabled AND the front packaging panel (where the name is displayed) ripped off, which made it harder for parents to know that this was the controversial doll.  A few newer dolls are being distributed without the sound file, but most still say "Islam is the light."

Bottom line - parents are still buying the doll RIGHT NOW, taking it home, and may not realize what the doll says until Christmas morning when their child unwraps the package and the doll tells her that "Islam is the light."

MATTEL DENIES EVERYTHING

You'd think Mattel would have recalled the doll after parents complained, after some retailers pulled it in response to parent complaints, and after about twenty Youtube videos went up spontaneously from parents and local TV news stations showing that the doll was really saying "Islam is the light."  But no.  Mattel denies everything.

Mattel has flatly denied that the doll audio files say "Islam is the light," and has stated that parents are hearing the phrase "Islam is the light" because of "power of suggestion."  Mattel even put up their "version" of the doll's audio file on their investors and media webpage, although an actual recording of the doll's audio appears to be VERY different (see the "audio research" link at the link label the link.

JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN TO NOTIFY STORE MANAGERS AND PARENTS

We decided enough is enough - store managers need to get the doll off the shelves, or at least label the packaging for each doll so parents know what they are buying their kids for Christmas.  We've sent a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, and we've put together information packets you can take to store managers to inform them about the doll (including a sheet of 30 labels they can put on the doll packaging).  At their website, we have created a "case" reporting system for each store: just email us basic info about the store you visited and the store manager's response, and we'll put it up so everyone can track the progress in that case.  You can see how we've started to do this at the "Cases" link at their website

If you can visit just one store - just one - you can make a difference. 

This campaign is also a way to educate our communities about the threat of the Islamic legal and political doctrine of Shariah.  Shariah is particularly discriminatory and violent towards Muslim and non-Muslim girls and women.  This unadvertised use of a doll - without any notice to parents in the doll's packaging - to advocate Islam to children is particularly offensive and inappropriate, given the very real risks to girls under Shariah.

Please visit the campaign website.

The Marines have a good saying:  "We do well that which we know will be inspected."  We need to let store managers know that parents across America, this holiday season, are inspecting them for their responsiveness to community concerns about the "Islam is the Light" doll. 

"Republicans" for Obama? Nah, more Jew haters for Obama

More empirical evidence of what I contended here, Obama's real sentiments and motivations despite weak lip service paid to the contrary from time to time. He is anti-Israel.  He brings the best and the brightest Jew haters under his tent. It is not "Republican" that enjoins these demogogues, it is their hate for Israel.

By his acts we shall know him, and so we know him. Yet again.

Schlussel has the dope on Hauser here.

Who is Rita Hauser?: Arafat-Gushing, Israel-Hating Jew is 1/3 of Trio on Team Obama GOP; "Republicans" For Obama Are Islamist-Enablers

Three "Republicans" (In Name Only)--former Congressman Jim Leach, former U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee, and Bush family friend Rita Hauser--are the leaders of "Republicans for Obama."

But with Hauser at the forefront, they might as well call the group Lewinskys for Arafat. At least that has been the lifelong role of Rita Hauser, a virulently pro-P.L.O. fundraiser for George W. Bush. I've followed this woman for many years, and it's of note that Obamaslobbering Wall Street Journal fabricator Amy Chozick, yet again, chose not to tell readers the truth. She mentions not a word of Rita Hauser's pro-P.L.O. activities and the millions the terrorist group paid her.

The most spot-on description of Rita Hauser is on Masada 2000 (with background music of "Who Let The Dogs Out?"), where she is a member of the Jewish S.H.I.T. (Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening Jews). Here's just a tad:

Her unsolicited meddling on behalf of the Jewish State led to the Oslo Peace Accords and the resulting murder of more than 1,400 Jews! But this lady is not through with Israel yet, in fact, not by a long shot. On a Oct.14, 2003 C-SPAN2 speech, she told her audience, "It's a moral duty to speak out against Israel" followed by "The Oslo Process was the best thing that ever happened to Israel!" ... "a joyous moment."

But Schlussel has it wrong, this is no Jewess in chief - this Jewicidal went Jehovah witness long ago.

The following piece below is from "Rebecca" (name changed at her request), who knew Rita Hauser, one of the (few) "Republicans for Obama."   This story was broken by Cindy atThe Pink Flamingo  and Stephen Maloney, but make sure you check out Yid with Lid too.

"Rebecca" writes:

I have just heard a radio commentator talk about Rita Hauser, the "Republican for Obama". I would like to pass the following on to the McCain campaign, though I do not wish it to be attributed to me, or - if posted and discussed - done so in any way that will enable anyone to identify me.

I grew up with Rita in a Jewish neighborhood in in [the New York area]. Everyone I knew was Jewish, with the exception of one boy who was Greek Orthodox. This continued through all my public school years.

Rita was a brilliant girl who lived a few blocks away, and with whom I was somewhat friendly.  Wee were both in honors classes. She went on to win a Fulbright, and became an international lawyer, a full partner in a prestigious law firm, and the wife of Gus Hauser who was, I THINK, one of the founders of cable television.

We kept in touch periodically, and she was kind to me, even though she far outstripped me in both achievement and money.

She came from a very poor family. Her father sold hot dogs [at a major league baseball field in the New York area]. One day, in our early adulthood not long after she married Gus, she told me she was a member of another religion. I THINK it was Jehovah's Witnesses. I fell down. Metaphorically.

She was born Rita Abrams. Everyone I knew then, and was in touch with afterward, knew her to be Jewish: although, to be fair, none of us ever discussed the subject. It was just assumed. In our neighborhood, EVERYONE was a Jew. And if your name was Abrams, the conclusion was not  irrational.

In fact, on learning this, I mentioned the revelation to another woman who was part my childhood crowd: "Not Jewish?" she said, amazed. "How could she be not Jewish? I never heard that."

Neither did I; and so, much much later, when I discovered she supported the Palestinians, I was really surprised. (We have not been in touch nor spoken since then.)

The point: by the time I learned this, Rita was ascending the ladder of success and fortune in America where, in many times past - and, perhaps, even today - being Jewish is a hindrance to success.

So, to reach the top, you change "sides."

Her advocacy for Palestinians - and her trumpeted appearance for Obama - tells you exactly, and in no uncertain terms, the direction he's [probably] going to take in reversing American policy toward Israel.

And it tells you about the credentials of people who find it expedient to be something other than what they would like you to believe.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. . . .

"Rebecca"

NYC: COUNTER PROTEST THE NAKBA LIE TODAY AND FRIDAY

Counter protest! The real "nakba" is this lie TODAY AT 3PM

AND THEN ON FRIDAY!

Major Rally at the UN to commemorate 60 years of Nakba 1948 - 2008
6.8 Million Palestinian Refugees Denied a Homeland
JOIN THE PALESTINIAN AND ARAB COMMUNITIES OF NY AND NJ IN DEMANDING
AN END TO THIS CATASTROPHE. ..

FRIDAY, MAY 16th, 2008
Dag Hammarskjold Park at the UNITED NATIONS
47th Street bet. 1st and 2nd Avenues
4/5/6/7 to Grand Central Station
1:00 PM - Prayer
2:00PM - Rally including speakers, spoken word, musical and dance performances
4:00 PM - March

For more information: www.nakbah1948.org
Download fliers and posters: http://www.nakbah1948.org/Fliers.htm

Organized by The Steering Committee for the 60th Commemoration of Al Nakbah

Blah, blah, blah

Musaji over at American Muslim didn't like my defending Phyllis Chesler.

Geller attempts to make a point but her logic backfires.  She says ”Who better understands the subjugation demanded of shariah law than a Muslim woman?” I am a Muslim woman, and I would agree with her that I certainly understand shariah law and Islam better than she does (or Phyllis Chessler does), but I don’t think that is the point she was trying to make.

She doesn't think that's the point I am trying to make? Musaji knows better than me the point I am trying to make? huh?

Musaji goes on to cite terrorist in a fancy suit Tariq Ramadan, Ayatollah Sistani  and dar al Hudna to back up her arguments.  Idiotic...a "hudna" can be broken any time it is to the Muslims' advantage....Ramadan refuses to condemn stoning for adultery and  Sistani believes in najis and issued fatwas that resulted in the killing of gays in Iraq.

It's all deception, taqiyya- the deliberate dissimulation about religious matters that may be undertaken to protect Islam. And while this kind of double talk has the left doing the Islamists bidding, many of us know exactly what this shiz is. You can fool some of the infidels some of the times, but you can't fool all of the kufirs all of the time.

Musaji has had a problem with many of us fighting for our way of life.

I wish Musaji spent as much time on the SAID honor killings in America as she does defending Islamists. Tariq Ramadan indeed.

SUPERHEROS: BAT, BOSTOM, BOB (SPENCER)

Earlier this week, I sighed heavily when yet another high minded intellectual, David Frum,  following in Dinesh's footsteps, had switched gears and gone on to attack the very people that will lead us to victory in the war on the Jihad. The greatest historians of our time, once again getting nailed to the cross, for telling the truth. Kill the messenger. As if the counter jihad movement wasn't small enough!

The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia by Bat Ye’or, and Robert Spencer, are provided below. 

When I ran Robert's rebuttal, I wrote here, " David Frum has entered the jihad fray hoping to project his Western thinking onto what he would like the  Koran to be. Isn't that special? And tiresome. This is not Frum's milieu and it shows. I have been studying and covering this single subject intensively for 3 years now after coming to it after 9/11/01. I won't pretend to know as much as Spencer, Yeor, Bostom, Warraq, but I do know that they provide empirical evidence. They do the work to substantiate their deductions. It's not theory. It's fact and they back it up."

I blame Bernard Lewis for a lot of bad information, bogus intel and  fallacious deductions. Considered the world's leading scholar on Islam, he is an apologist and in many cases confused,dithering even,  if not  a liar.  His historical inaccuracies are well documented but his positions are enormously influential to world leaders and opinion makers so the harm he does is incalculable.

Over at Jihadwatch Bat Yeor comes out swinging and Bostom's response  follows. Yes, Bat, Bostom, Bob, this post is a grand slam.

Bat Ye’or: Rejoinder to David Frum

David Frum's piece is here; my response is here. And now the great historian Bat Ye’or has kindly sent me this response:

In his latest article, “Ancient Holy Books, Modern Dilemmas” (posted January 8, 2008), David Frum poses as a referee in a disputation, pretending there are two alleged extremes, whereas he ignores the rules and the meaning of the subject itself. This hoax has often been used by Sages who pontificate: “As usual, the truth is in the middle.” But often this scenario of two opposed extremisms allows the Sages to pride themselves on what is only the appearance of wisdom. Moreover, this catch-phrase is meaningless, because truth is not found at a linear distance between two extremes. Between the Nazi genocidal policy toward the Jews and the victims’ affirmation of their right to live there is no middle-way solution. Would we discuss how many Jews it would be right for the Nazis to exterminate? Between slavery and human equality, there is no middle position. Between the dehumanization of dhimmitude and the inalienable right to freedom, dignity and equality, there is no meeting in the middle. Would one haggle over the amount due for protecting one’s life and rights?

David Frum describes my work as a study of Islam, whereas it is research into a neglected and specific domain involving Islamic theology, jurisprudence and history in relation to non-Muslims. Within this particular field, I only examined the Jewish and Christian aspect, not that of the Zoroastrians and other religious denominations. It is therefore not an assessment of Islam in general. Even more, in none of my writing is there the implication that Islam must disappear for the sake of peace. Maybe Frum has hidden his own thought, which he unconsciously projects on Robert Spencer and myself, while contrasting our alleged somber designs with his own generous wisdom -- which is not, in the least, very original. It hangs on the usual love paradigm of interfaith dialogue, dhimmi biased vision, and subvention of billions of dollars, while waiting with humble timidity for a powerful Muslim majority to reinterpret the Koran as a book of universal love and peace. I do not object to that, except that meanwhile, Muslim reformers even in Europe must hide to save their lives, while terrorism claims countless innocent victims throughout the globe, and tomorrow we might be facing a global nuclear jihad.

Here Bostom comes tearing out of the gate over FPG:

David Frum’s Axilla of Ignorance* January 11th, 2008 (25 minutes ago) by Andrew Bostom

*(“Axilla of Ignorance,” coined by Ruth King)

Inexplicably David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute—hardly an authority on Islamic doctrine, or history—has nevertheless lashed out——albeit inaccurately, and within the constraints of his own crude understanding—at two contemporary scholars, Bat Ye’or and Robert Spencer. A serious, respected writer/essayist on jihad terrorism sent me this assessment:

I don’t know why I should be surprised at this kind of thing any more, but I am. Frum really should have known better.

His criticism makes it sound as if you [AB] and Bat Ye’or and Spencer simply read the Koran and the Life of Mohammad, and inferred the nature of Islam from these isolated texts. As I said in my book—I would have no problem if Muslims decided to go back and read jihad out of the Koran; it would be okay if they pretended jihad had never played any important role in the expansion of Islam. I would rejoice if Muslims really behaved as Frum thinks he would behave if he were a Muslim! But it ain’t gonna happen.

Secularized Westerner intellectuals like Frum simply cannot imagine what it is like to be possessed by a living faith that commands its faithful to expand the community of the faithful by violent methods. This kind of fanaticism, as I argue in my book, is outside their imaginative scope. So whenever contemporary scholars like you, Bat Ye’or, or Spencer point out what every schoolboy once knew about Islam, you are the ones who are treated like extremists. When your first book came out I was astonished that anyone thought it was controversial. You didn’t make up the idea of jihad—you simply documented the historical Muslim theory and practice of it. And yet that is considered as “going too far.” The same thing can be said of Bat Ye’or work. If the two of you were merely investigating a historically transcended and outmoded form of Islam, I suppose you could be blamed for failing to let the dead bury the dead. But today people are still dying and killing in the name of Islam—but we are forbidden even to see the truth, let alone speak it.

The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia byBat Ye’or, and Robert Spencer, , are provided below.

Bostom couldn't resist the medical terminology pun on Frum's supposed formulation "Axis of Evil" 

Bush, Stay out of it

Scroll contents here (hat tip Shirley)

It ain't your country, stay out of it. Better yet, read your bible. It seems to me the purpose of this visit is to shore up support for the traitorous Olmert. Bush was invited to but won't speak to the knesset. Seems to me he is sending a very definite message to the people of Israel.

Bush Snubs Netanyahu on Israel Visit

U.S. President George W. Bush is refusing to meet with Likud Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu, or anyone else opposed to the Annapolis process.

UPDATE: Brand sent me this amusing play on words

"Annapolis Brutality"

[New lexicon]: Bushsnubbed (like Bushwhacked)
Bush is now a Bibishitter

Now read these lyrics and and play the song -- just substitute "Bibi" for "Baby"

UPDATE:  Caroline Glick's advice to Bush:Bush's historical parallels

In his last year in office, Bush's central challenge is to clarify what he himself has allowed to become muddled about the nature of the current generational struggle. Unfortunately, though his commitment to Palestinian statehood, and his refusal to assert his own foreign policy against the wishes of a hostile bureaucracy, he calls to mind not Truman, but another American president who led his country at the cusp of another formative crisis. Like Bush, James Buchanan - the last president to serve before the Civil War - understood the nature of the gathering storm; yet rather than confront the dangers, he was overwhelmed by them.

Read it all.

 

EXPOSE BERNARD LEWIS!

Dithering in his old age, Bernard Lewis has done more to mislead the West (and the White House) about the true intent of Islam than any other single group or entity.  Considered the world's leading scholar on Islam, his position and his power to influence western leaders is incalcuable.  It is critical to the fight on the war on Islamic jihad that his arguments be shown to be fallacious and historically inaccurate. He has been an apologist for Islam throughout his illustrious career and while he may have been trying to be productive, he was in fact aiding and abetting.

Whether Bernard Lewis is the greatest scholar of Islam of all time, he is without question the most influential such scholar in our time, particularly when it comes to the American foreign policy establishment's understanding of the Muslim world.

This is why it is so disturbing to hear sweepingly, jarringly inaccurate statements from this pre-eminent historian about Islam on core historical facts. Andrew Bostom, American Thinker

It's pretty clear if Bernard Lewis had not excused Islamic antisemitism with the wave of a hand, the Pali Arabs would not be receiving a7.4 billion dollar jiyza

 

What about the Record? Diana West, Washington Times

As it happens, I began the calendar year thinking about this subject — exonerating Islam — while discussing a PBS documentary on anti-semitism in the Islamic world. The show's conclusion: What isn't Israel's fault is that of the West.

Well, you can't expect much more from (lefty) PBS. What was startling about the message, however, was one of the messenger's: none other than the eminent historian Bernard Lewis. He declared that anti-semitism didn't even exist in the Middle East until European Christian colonizers brought it. You don't need to be a scholar of Mr. Lewis' stature to know that European colonization of the Middle East didn't begin until some 1,100 years after Islamic anti-semitism got going in the Koran, the canonical commentaries on the Koran and in a long and painful (for Christians also) historical record.

West explains;

But first, a digression: Christmas, obviously, doesn't come to the PA, even if Western billions do. Despite a tiny (and decreasing) number of Christians, the PA is a land of Islam-Dar al-IslamThat makes Israel, the object of the PA's destructive animus, Dar al-Harb, land of war, right?

Right. But not according to the PC script of the "international community." We never, ever discuss the Islamic context of "Arab-Israeli" conflicts. But how else can we hope to understand them? Jihad ideology inspires the Arab struggle against Israel. It also explains it. As the only non-Muslim country amid Middle Eastern Dar-al Islam, as the only "dhimmi" nation to reclaim its land once conquered by Islam, Israel's very existence is a religious offense to the "umma," or Islamic community. In this same context, what we call "foreign aid" to the PA may be understood as a form of "jizya," the protection money paid to Muslims by non-Muslims.

But the non-Muslim world prefers not to think like that. We avert our collective eye from the goals of jihad, from the history and teachings of Islam. Instead, we see ourselves as villains — Israel for its existence, and Israel's supporters for, well, their support for Israel's existence.

In so doing, we create a sinkhole of Western guilt and responsibility for suffering Muslims, in this case in the PA. They suffer not as a consequence of their religio-political bloodlust to destroy the Jews in Israel (the nearest infidels), but because there are Jews in Israel. In other words, it's everyone else's fault but their own. Islam — particularly, jihadist ideology — is not to blame. Throw more money down the hole.

Read it all.

Bernard Lewis Gets It Wrong. "why is Lewis making statements contradicted by the historical record? To be sure, if it were true that Europe were the source of Islamic evil-- in this case,  Anti-Semitism and authoritarianism--that would let Islam off the hook and put the blame on the West. Whether that is Lewis' point, it is certainly Lewis' effect. " Andrew Bostom

KGIA: Dhabah's Deceit

The Islamist principal of the NY public school madrassa will not give it up. More Islamic lies and deceit. We ought to sue for slander.

Dhabah Almontaser's Campaign Of Deceit By William Mayer and Beila Rabinowitz

December 18, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On Sunday December 16, Dhabah Almontaser, the recently ousted principal of Brooklyn's embattled Arab language school Khalil Gibran International Academy, spoke as part of a series called the "Masked Talkback Series," held at the Daryl Roth 2 theater. The "talkback series" being organized around the controversial, pro-Intifada off-Broadway play, "Masked." Written by Israeli Ami Dayan, the plot revolves around the killing of a 7 year old Palestinian youth and the tension experienced within a Palestinian family, involved in the Intifada, who suspect that one of the family's three brothers is an Israeli informant, see "Masked" website, http://www.maskedtheplay.com/index_enter.html.

Almontaser's presence at the event [listen to audio file here, Almontaser Masked] brings her full circle back to the subject which was the tipping point, turning the tide against her effort to remain the head of KGIA.

Almontaser's remarks at the event betray a level of deception that might be shocking to those who fail to understand that misrepresentations and outright lies are stock-in-trade among Islamists - pushed with much histrionics by groups like CAIR - who have made the strategic calculation that in a world where multiculturalism and moral equivalency are in ascendance, legitimate critics of radical Islam can be muzzled, dismissed as bigoted Islamophobes.

Towards that end Almontaser's remarks spun a conspiratorial tale in which she was intentionally set up and "smeared" by a coalition led by certain New York and alternative media sources and shepherded back-stage along the way by the omnipresent bogeyman, the noted Middle East historian Dr. Daniel Pipes.

Even a partial transcript [13:50 - 24:12] is damning:

"The school was announced on February 12…a couple of days later the bloggers began to blog, so the notorious Daniel Pipes started blogging about the school as being a school that would be developing home grown terrorists, suicide bomber…"

Anyone with a computer and an Internet connection can access Pipes' blogs on KGIA; they are collected here.

On March 7 of this year he wrote:

"My take on the school: In principle it is a great idea – the United States needs more Arabic-speakers."

Thus during the time frame to which Almontaser refers, not only absent from Pipes' entries are any references to "home grown terrorists" or "suicide bombers," but rather, verbiage clearly supportive of KGIA conceptually. His reservations regarding implementation of such a program, "...In practice, however, Arabic instruction is heavy with Islamist and Arabist overtones and demands." - are scholarly, reserved and stripped entirely of invective.

On this charge if Almontaser is not simply lying, she is delusional, neither desirable traits for someone who is still employed by the New York DOE.

Almontaser continues:

"…the second phase of the smear was actually on me, where they started calling me an Islamic jihadist…behind those closed doors I was going to be developing terrorists…"

PipeLineNews.org has actively covered KGIA and Ms. Almontaser. We, not Dr. Pipes [who has never been one of our writers and has no connection to our organization] produced the short video mentioned in the court filing in Almontaser's lawsuit against the NY DOE for wrongful termination. We believe that our statements in that work are characteristic of what the overwhelming majority of critics of that school and her inept stewardship of it have said.

The piece is here. There is so much more GO!

Bernard Lewis Gets It Wrong

Andrew Bostom writes me, "why is Lewis making statements contradicted by the historical record? To be sure, if it were true that Europe were the source of Islamic evil-- in this case,  Anti-Semitism and authoritarianism--that would let Islam off the hook and put the blame on the West. Whether that is Lewis' point, it is certainly Lewis' effect. "

Bernard Lewis' position is very dangerous. For the very reason that it is coming from him and not a silver tongued Islamist like, say Tariq Ramadan. If we are going to win this war, we need facts not the wishful thingingof an apologist for Islam.

Diana West elaborates brilliantly here;

Whether Bernard Lewis is the greatest scholar of Islam of all time, he is without question the most influential such scholar in our time, particularly when it comes to the American foreign policy establishment's understanding of the Muslim world.

This is why it is so disturbing to hear sweepingly, jarringly inaccurate statements from this pre-eminent historian about Islam on core historical facts.

I wrote about one such misstatement early this year after watching a PBS documentary on  Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world. In it, Lewis declared, mind-bogglingly enough,  that Anti-Semitism in the Islamic world was a European import.

In a January 12, 2007 column  I wrote:

According to the practically oracular authority of Princeton's Bernard Lewis, never in 1,200 years did Muslims even think of Anti-Semitism, let alone act on it -- not until European Christian empire-builders introduced the pathology to the region in the 19th century, what with tales of Christ-killers and, later, the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

It wasn't that those first 1,200 years of Islam and sharia were exactly paradise for Jews, Lewis said, but Jews were "tolerated" so long as they accepted their "inferiority." This was a pretty breezy way to dismiss centuries of violence, oppression, fear and degradation inflicted, according to Islamic law, on "dhimmi" Jews (and on "dhimmi" Christians for that matter), as copiously documented by historian Bat Ye'or. But Lewis stuck to this story: "Anti-Semitism was introduced into the Middle East by Christians."

Even oracles get it wrong sometimes, I guess, because Lewis's explanation doesn't square with a long and vivid historical record, and that includes the Koran. The notion that Christians introduced Muslims to Anti-Semitism may well be the conventional wisdom -- indeed, it may even be that nonagenarian Lewis is the source of that conventional wisdom -- but just as surely as Anti-Semitism historically existed in Christianity, it also historically existed in Islam. And I can actually footnote that statement because, quite by chance, the same week the documentary aired, I happened to read the first chapter of a forthcoming book called "The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism" by Andrew G. Bostom, author of "The Legacy of Jihad."

That was then. Now Bostom's  book  is about to come out in January. It  examines the origins of Islamic Anti-Semitism in the Koran, the canonical commentaries on the Koran, and the historical record--all of which got going about 1000 years before Queen Victoria, say, crowned herself empress.

And why does this matter?

The conventional wisdom, as expressed on PBS--and validated by Bernard Lewis--does two things. It blames Christianity and the West for introducing Anti-Semitism to a practically Edenic Islamic world, and it minimizes Islam's non-original sin of partaking of it. Indeed, this same conventional wisdom suggests that Anti-Semitism is the natural, if unfortunate, response of "unempowered" Muslims to contemporary political events beyond their control -- namely, the essentially Christian/Western-sponsored establishment of the modern state of Israel.

[...]

Now, Lewis has done it again. Writing at The American Thinkerwww.americanthinker.com/2007/12/another_just_so_story.html, Andrew Bostom reports on Lewis' latest gaffe--namely that authoritarianism in the Islamic world is a Western import, just like Anti-Semitism. Bostom writes:

Speaking at a December 10-11, 2007  Rome Conference entitled, "Fighting for Democracy in the Islamic World," renowned historian Bernard Lewis intoned,

"The authoritarianism present in the Middle East region is not part of the Arab and Muslim tradition, but it has been imported from Europe...."

Bostom goes on to cite copious chapter and verse--including earlier writings by Lewis himself--that demonstrate that 'the Arab and Muslim tradition" needed no lessons from Europe on authoritarianism.

Read it all here.

MURDERED GIRL - ISLAMIC MISOGYNY & LIES

This is the girl murdered by her father for her desire to remove the hajib.

DEAD GIRL WAS SCARED OF HER FATHER National Post hat tip Norman

Here is the bullshit that the mouthpieces for Islam put forth.  Shahina Siddiqui, the president of the Islamic Social Services Association said the following in  yesterday's National Post.

"The strangulation death of Ms. Parvez was the result of domestic violence, a problem that cuts across Canadian society and is blind to colour or creed."

But in the Post's blog Barbara Kay wrote about how Canada - and in particular feminists, let Aqsa down. She's on the same page as you about this. I think she nails it when she talks about "first tier" and "second tier" women.

"The hijab is rather a public sign of supervised sexual modesty, and marks those wearing it as chattel, leashed to their fathers and brothers as surely as if they were wearing a dog collar."

I pointed out here when I first reported this horrible murder that the media was being deceptive in its reportage. Taqiya is a skill set the western mainstream media has mastered.

"There was a 911 call placed by a man who indicated that he had just killed his daughter"

This death cult must be crushed. Crushed, I tell ya.

UPDATE: CAIR's take.

But a spokesman for the Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) said he is dubious of opinions the girl's death resulted from a clash of cultures.
"Teen rebellion is something that exists in all households in Canada and is not unique to any culture or background," CAIR-CAN's Sameer Zuberi told AFP. "Domestic violence is also not unique to Muslims."

CAIR is evil.

Ibn Warraq on Edward Said

As of last April, the late Edward Said's "Orientalism," originally published in 1978, was no. 2 on the best-seller list in Cairo. No. 1was a book arguing that Saddam Hussein hadn't really been executed — all cell phone video evidence to the contrary, the writer argued, was a fabrication of the CIA

Michael Weiss has a terrific review of the new book by Ibn Warraq, the preminent scholar of Islam,  Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism. Warraq is the Islamic scholar's scholar and if you have not read his work, start now.

THE BERTRAND RUSSELL OF ISLAM Michael Weiss, NY Sun hat tip Andrew Bostom

And what about Tariq Ramadan, the "moderate" Islamic philosopher, son of the Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, who is Buruma's preferred dragoman for liberal Europe? Mr. Warraq debated him in London last month on the question of the superiority of Western values. "When [Ramadan] gives interviews in English, he's incredibly evasive. He's not the kind of guy I'd buy a secondhand car from. If you ask him, 'Do you think lapidation for adultery should be banned?,' he never says 'yes' categorically. He says things such as, 'At this moment, it is not applicable' or 'it is not advisable.' Always this prevarication."

Mr. Warraq's beef with Said, however, is more a matter of reductionism than prevarication: that "Orientalism" misses two crucial points about human nature in its discussion of relations between East and West. The first is that even the worst offenders aren't always motivated by bigotry or grand imperial designs. The second is that the institutions they erect are often more significant and enduring than their venality and greed.

Mr. Warraq praises the British of the 18th and 19th centuries for their role shepherding India's cultural renewal — not to mention in combating the corruption of British colonialism. Edmund Burke led the moral and legislative charge against Warren Hastings, the notorious head of the East India Company. James Prinsep, a secretary of the celebrated Asiatic Society of Bengal, drained the malarial swamps of Calcutta, restored the collapsing mosque of Aurangzeb stone by stone, and discovered that once-indecipherable rock inscriptions were made by the Mughal emperor Asoka Maurya. Mr. Warraq relies on several modern Indian historians, such as A.L. Basham and Nirad Chaudhuri, to emphasize the great esteem in which British Orientalists are still held — men such as Henry Thomas Colebrooke, who agitated for the end of the East India Company's monopoly and composed a systematic study of Sanskrit and Hindu law as well as the only authoritative analysis of the Veda; Sir William Jones, the "father of Indian history" and one of the early discoverers of the Indo-European linguistic nexus (he thought Sanskrit "more exquisitely refined" than Latin or Greek), and William Carey, the "father of Bengali prose," who single-handedly restored a lost literature.

Mr. Warraq is no admirer of the "clash of civilizations" thesis, and — as if to prove his own point about self-criticism — he says he absorbed a lot of the negative feedback on "Why I Am Not a Muslim." This is why, in the current volume, he employs a useful tripartite distinction of Islam borrowed, he says, from Bernard Lewis: Islam One is the Koran, Islam Two is the hadith, or oral tradition relating to the words and deeds of the prophet, and Islam Three is Muslim civilization, which is as variegated as it is large. One and two, Mr. Warraq says, are incompatible with democracy and human rights. As for three, "many Muslim feminists try to re-interpret or ignore Koranic passages in order to improve the lives of all Muslim women. Only time will tell if such strategies will work." Mr. Warraq tells me: "We're not going to eradicate Islam from the face of the earth, and I have no wish for it to be… Islam Three is going to require a lot of sociological and empirical research. One has to be careful when we talk about Islam, one has to be more specific." This is a courtesy Said botched, or simply failed to accord, in his examination of the West.

The Individual will Save America

I tell ya, it's the individual that will save the day. My new hero Korina

Negligent and intolerable’ Parents bring textbook concerns to Lodi Unified Lodi News

Still not satisfied with the treatment of religions in her son's seventh-grade textbook, Korina Self aired her concerns Tuesday night at Lodi Unified's board meeting.

Backed by nearly a dozen family members and friends, Self delivered a prepared statement asking the board to remove the book "History Alive!: The Medieval World and Beyond" from classrooms.

"To know that a textbook was selected and put into use by our district that is blatantly one-sided, whitewashed, and that our children are being spoon-fed this information with sugar on top ... I feel is negligent and intolerable," Self said.

Self stopped to gather herself several times during her statement, in which she said the book's description of the Crusades and its definition of several Islamic terms, including "Jihad" and "Shari'ah" are incorrect.

Korina Self and her husband Jim decided to review their 12-year-old son's textbook late last month after hearing that he was learning about the Prophet Muhammad.

After reading the book, which was published by the Teachers' Curriculum Institute, the Selfs took issue with what they feel is an undue amount of attention to the teachings of Islam, historical inaccuracies and a lack of information on other religions.

Islamic Cars

This is getting way outta or hand or is it just me?

Report: Malaysia to Make 'Islamic Cars' AP hat tip Liam

Malaysia's Proton Plans to Make 'Islamic Cars' With Iran, Turkey

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian automaker Proton plans to team up with companies in Iran and Turkey to produce "Islamic cars" for the global market, a news report said Sunday.Proposed by Iran, the collaboration would include installing features in automobiles such as a compass to determine the direction of Mecca for prayers, and compartments for storing the Quran and headscarves, Proton's Managing Director Syed Zainal Abidin told national news agency Bernama.

Do the airbags double as airbags.

"What they (Iran) want to do is to call that an Islamic car," he was quoted as saying while on a visit in Iran. "The car will have all the Islamic features and should be meant for export purposes. We will identify a car that we can develop to be produced in Malaysia, Iran or Turkey."The report didn't give further details. Syed Zainal and other Proton officials couldn't be reached Sunday for comment.

UPDATE: Ben writes;

Proton's Managing Director Syed Zainal Abidin told national news agency Bernama:  "The car will have all the Islamic features..."

Which are what, exactly?   I did a little research, and here is what I found:  

The horn does not beep.  It’s more of a “Lululululululu…!”  

If you get a dent, the dealer is expected to destroy the car in an “honor wrecking”.  

There is no owner’s manual.  You are expected to read the Koran and the Hadiths, and deduce the proper maintenance procedures from there, because the Holy texts contain all that is truth.  

You don’t need a license or registration.  Instead, different agencies will issue “Driving Fatwas”, which may contradict each other.   

The military version looks exactly like the civilian version.  The “troop transport” variant is actually painted and equipped to resemble a UN ambulance.  

Rear doors have child-proof, woman-proof safety locks.  

Exhaust may or may not meet emission standards.  No one knows, because the gasses are always concealed from inspectors.  

They must be parked facing Mecca.  Any parking spots ever used by a Muslim car, even for a short time, are considered Muslim forever after, and must not be used by infidel vehicles. Muslim cars claim to have won the Gran Prix every year- and they claim this is proved in the Koran.

There are no airbags.  Instead, in case of collision, speakers on the car will announce “Allahu Akbar!” just before impact.

Ellison, Muslim Lawmaker, Promotes Election Fraud

This speaks for itself. hat tip kap

Anti-Photo ID Legislation Would Promote Election Fraud, Says Group

Washington, D.C. - Legislation introduced by Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) to prohibit photo ID requirements for voting in federal elections would promote election fraud, say members of the black leadership network Project 21.

"Representative Ellison's proposal is fundamentally flawed and potentially harmful to the integrity of our democratic process," said Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie. "Why invite that which can only lead to unimaginable fraud and corruption?"

Imposing existing Minnesota election law on a national scale, the "Voter Access Protection Act of 2007" (H.R. 4026) would ban the use of photo ID for voter verification in federal elections. Rep. Ellison calls photo ID requirements "burdensome" and liken them to a "modern-day poll tax." He further charges that the Bush Administrations enforcement of voting rights issues effectively promotes "voter suppression of minorities, seniors and young people."

"The Ellison bill will do nothing more than encourage situations in which legitimate minority, elderly and poor voters - among others - will be disfranchised by non-citizens and corrupt political activists," said Project 21 member Kevin Martin. "Americans are already required to present photo ID for things such as banking and travel. I must show a photo ID if I want to try to talk to Representative Ellison about his bill in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, but I presently do not need to show any identification to vote for him back in Minnesota. To compare voter security precautions to a poll tax is reprehensible."

Project 21 members suggest that voting rights groups - many of which accept taxpayer funds - offer services to ensure those currently without valid ID can obtain them.

"Photo ID is not the problem. Photo ID is the solution," added Project 21's Massie. "The rational and responsible response to complaints about a photo ID requirement is to help those who absolutely cannot get identification without assistance. If groups such as ACORN can afford to conduct voter registration and voter education and transport people to the polls on Election Day, they should certainly be able to transport and subsidize the cost of IDs for those who need them as well. If they cannot undertake this pro-active action when they can afford to lobby and litigate against photo ID requirements, they reveal their concerns are disingenuous."

CAIR Rewrites American History: WWII

Look, I am suspect of any World War II veterans group established  in 1997 - uh...... huh? And it is common knowledge that the Muslims were conspiring with the Nazis. FACT. But facts are irrelevant when it comes to the Islamic narrative.

DC: Muslims Veterans to Lay Wreath at WWII Memorial CAIR  11/1/2007

(Washington, DC - 11/01/2007) - On Veteran’s Day, American Muslim service members will lay a wreath at the National WWII Memorial to honor Muslims and all those who served in that conflict.

Additionally, three surviving American Muslim WWII veterans will be honored, including Army Sgt. Nazeem Abdul Hakeem who fought at Normandy.

Who: Muslim American Veterans Association
What: will lay a wreath at the National WWII Memorial to honor American Muslims and others who served in that conflict Where: 17th Street between Constitution and Independence Avenue in Washington D.C.
When: November 11, 2007 (Veterans Day) between 10-11 a.m.

The Muslim American Veterans Association has conducted similar wreath laying at the Korean and Vietnam War Memorials.

For more information: CDR Saleem G. Abdul-Mateen, Muslim American

PALESTINE FACTS

BRITISH MANDATE
WORLD WAR II PALESTINE-JEWISH BRIGADE

Despite British-Jewish tensions, thousands of Jewish volunteers served in the British army in scattered units, and on September 14, 1944, the Jewish Brigade was established. The Jewish Brigade of approximately 5,000 soldiers was the only military unit to serve in World War II in the British Army — and, in fact — in all the Allied forces — as an independent, national Jewish military formation.

The Arabs took the side of the Axis, either overtly like Iraq or indirectly by withholding support for the Allies. Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini issued a fatwa- "summons to a holy war against Britain" in May 1941 (see detail below). The Mufti's widely heralded proclamation against Britain was declared in Iraq, where he was instrumental in "the pro-Nazi" Iraqi revolt of 1941.

In the 1930s, the fascist regimes that arose in Italy and Germany sought greater stakes in the Middle East, and began courting Arab leaders to revolt against their British and French custodians. Among their many willing accomplices was Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, who fled Palestine after agitating against the British during the Arab Revolt of 1936-39. He found refuge in Iraq – another British mandate – where he again topped the British most wanted list after helping pull the strings behind the Iraqi coup of 1941. The revolt in Baghdad was orchestrated by Hitler as part of a strategy to squeeze the region between the pincers of Rommel's troops in North Africa, German forces in the Caucuses and pro-Nazi forces in Iraq. However, in June 1941 British troops put down the rebellion and the Mufti escaped via Tehran to Italy and eventually to Berlin.

Once in Berlin, the Mufti received an enthusiastic reception by the "Islamische Zentralinstitut" and the whole Islamic community of Germany, which welcomed him as the "Führer of the Arabic world." In an introductory speech, he called the Jews the "most fierce enemies of the Muslims" and an "ever corruptive element" in the world.

Husseini openly encouraged Muslims to join Nazi units that would be later implicated in genocide and crimes against humanity - the infamous Hanjar (or Handschar) 13th Waffen SS division.

  Summons to a Intifada Against Britain
A "Fatwa " Issued by Haj Amin al-Husseini10, May, 1941** Translated from:-"Oriente Modemo," 1941, pp. 552-553; broadcast over the 'Iraqi and Axis radios.

In the name of Merciful and Almighty God. I invite all my Moslem brothers throughout the whole world to join in the Holy War for God, for the defense of Islam and her lands against her enemy. O Faithful, obey and respond to my call.

O Moslems!

Proud 'Iraq has placed herself in the vanguard of this Holy Struggle, and has thrown herself against the strongest enemy of Islam certain that God will grant her victory.

The English have tried to seize this Arab-Moslem land, but she has risen, full of  dignity and pride to defend her safety, to fight for her honor and to safeguard her integrity. 'Iraq fights the tyranny which has always had as its aim the destruction of Islam in every land. It is the duty of all Moslems to aid 'Iraq in her struggle and to seek every means to fight the enemy, the traditional traitor in every age and every situation.

Whoever knows the history of the East has everywhere seen the hand of the English working to destroy the Ottoman Empire and to divide the Arab countries. British politics toward the Arab people is masked under a veil of Hypocrisy. The minute she sees her chance, England squeezes the prostrate country in her Imperialist grasp, adding futile justifications. She creates discord and division within a country and while feeding it in secret openly she assumes the role of advisor and trusted hiend. The time when England could deceive the peoples of the East is passed. The Arab Nation and the Moslem people have awakened to fight British domination. The English have overthrown the Ottoman Empire, have destroyed Moslem rule in India, inciting one community against another; they stifled the Egyptian awakening, the dream of Mohammed Ali, colonizing Egypt for half a century. They took advantage of the weakening of the Ottoman Empire to stretch out their hands and use every sort of trick to take possession of many Arab countries as happened to Aden, the 9 Districts, the Hadramut, Oman, Masqat and the Emirates of the Persian Gulf and Transjordania. The vivid proof of the imperialistic designs of the British is to be found in Moslem Palestine which, although promised by England to Sheriff Hussein has had to submit to the outrageous infiltration of Jews, shameful politics designed to divide Arab-Moslem countries of Asia from those of Africa. In Palestine the English have committed unheard of barbarisms; among others, they have profaned the el-Aqsa Mosque and have declared the most unyielding war against Islam, both in deed and in word. The Prime Minister at that time told Parliament that the world would never see peace as long as the Koran existed. What hatred against Islam is stronger than that which publicly declares the Sacred Koran an enemy of human kind? Should such sacrilege go unpunished? After the dissolution of the Moslem Empire in India and of the Ottoman Caliphate, England, adhering to the policy of Gladstone, pursued her work of destruction to Islam depriving many Islamic States both in the East and in the West of their freedom and independence. The number of Moslems who today live under the rule of England and invoke liberation from their terrible yoke exceeds 220,000,000.

Therefore I invite you, O Brothers, to join in the War for God to preserve Islam, your independence and your lands from English aggression. I invite you to bring all your weight to bear in helping 'Iraq that she may throw off the shame that torments her. O Heroic 'Iraq, God is with Thee, the Arab Nation and the Moslem World are solidly with Thee in Thy Holy Struggle!

Source:The Arab War Effort-A Documentary Account The American Christian Palestine Committee (New York, n.d.).

UPDATED: Dr. Steve Carol, Middle East Consultant Salem Radio Network News,  Prof. of History (retired), Associate Producer and Historian of Middle East Radio Forum adds this;

That the overwhelming number of Muslims fought on the Axis side is historic fact – from the spy ring in Cairo (of which Nasser and Sadat were part) to the coup by Rashid Ali Gailiani in Iraq, to the Muslim Bosnian SS (in the picture) – they favored the Axis and the Axis genocidal policies.

The emblem, no doubt newly created, is of importance. Note it places the Quran ABOVE the symbols of the United States – the eagle and the Stars and Stripes. It is a re-emphasis, though subtle, that Muslims place Sharia religious law above the secular US Constitution.

10 Commandments of Arab Lies

Know your history. The Bush/Rice initiative is wrong.  hat tip Jim via The Jerusalem Connection.

1.  The “Palestinian people” have an historic connection to the land.

This is very interesting since there is no such thing as a “Palestinian people.” When the Romans changed the name of Israel to Palestine, the people living there at the time were Jews, not Arabs. If there had been a Palestinian people, which there never was, it would have been Jews.

2. The Palestinian people have been in the land from time immemorial.
For centuries pre-Israel Palestine was a forgotten, desolate wasteland inhabited by a remnant of Jews, along with some Christians and wandering Bedouins who certainly had no thought of a national identity of any kind.

3.There were no Jews in Palestine until Israel became a state in 1948.

The Romans officially banished the Jews from Israel (Palestine) in 135 CE. However, historical records show there was always a Jewish presence in the land. While many were scattered, other Jews simply moved out of “harm’s way” until a less hostile power ruled the land.

4. Arabs and Jews lived in harmony before Israel became a state.

Throughout the centuries, Jews as well as Christians, living under Islamic rule suffered persecution and humiliation, the intensity of which was determined by the character of a particular Moslem ruler. As second class citizens, there was never a “good time” for non-Moslems living under Islamic rule.

5.The returning Jews displaced the Palestinian Arabs

The ancestors of most of the present-day Arab population migrated to the land after Jewish pioneers began to reclaim the land. They came from many different countries and were not original inhabitants of the land.

6. The Jews stole Arab land

Jews returning to the land settled on unclaimed, unoccupied land or bought land from absentee Arab landowners at outrageously high prices. 

7. The Jews forced Arabs to flee Palestine

When Israel was declared a state in 1948, leaders from the surrounding Arab countries declared war on Israel and instructed the Arabs living in the land to flee until the Jews were annihilated. Israeli leaders, to no avail, urged the Arabs to stay.

8. The Jews caused the Arab refugee problem

If Arab countries would assimilate and care for the “Palestinian” refugees, as Israel did for their Jewish refugees, there would be no refugee problem. Instead they use them as political pawns in their struggle against Israel.

9. Israel is the aggressor  against defenseless Palestinians

In its brief history, Israel has had one war after another and each time they are blamed as the aggressor. The Arabs do not recognize the right of Israel to exist and are in a constant state of hostility against Israel. Their aim is to destroy Israel.

10. Jerusalem is holy to Moslems

While Jerusalem is mentioned over eight hundred times in the Bible, it is not mentioned one time in the Koran. Moslems have had little or no interest in Jerusalem until the Jewish presence in modern times.