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ACTION ALERT JULY 13: STOP ISLAMIC SAUDI ACADEMY AND ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM IN VIRGINIA

It's back: the Saudi Islamic Academy that teaches jihad, grooms valedictorians cum presidential assassins, distributes hate textbooks etc., will have another hearing for their application to expand the school on state property. Bear in mind that two Christian schools were denied that same request. But it looks like the dhimmi board is going ahead. Make your voice heard.

READ THIS: I liveblogged the last hearing here: Atlas Shrugs: TWITTERING, LIVEBLOGGING, LIVESTREAMING THE SAUDI ... You can see how in the tank the panel is with the Islamists.

How in bed is the county with ISA (Islamic Saudi Academy)? ISA Opponents filed a complaint with Attorney General over Fairfax County Dinner Invitation by the Islamic Group. The Fairfax County government distributed invitations to a free dinner to learn about the religion of "peace and harmony" -- Islam. There is collusion between the county government and the Islamists and they operate as one every time the ISA or related issues come up. The Saudis have purchased the Fairfax County government.

Each speaker will be given a short three minutes to encourage the Board to vote it down. If you don't want to speak just go to the podium and say you oppose the approval of the ISA expansion proposal. Please sign up today.

James Lafferty, great American and leader of the Anti-Shariah Task Force, wrote this for Atlas:

Next Monday is the final hearing on the radical Islamic Saudi Academy’s proposed expansion here in Fairfax County, Virginia. We do not have a single vote right now and one Supervisor, Pat Herrity who self-identifies as a “conservative”, is bobbing and weaving like you wouldn’t believe.

The last hearing brought a huge wave of new support to our campaign to shut down the “academy” and unmask the undiluted Shariah which is being practiced and taught there.

The Fairfax County government has dropped even the appearance of being impartial in this “land use” dispute. The government’s official community outreach office sent out an invitation to a free dinner to learn about the real message of “peace and harmony” of Islam. It was distributed by official government e-mail to churches throughout the county and sent to some vocal opponents of the ISA.

ISA is a national issue. With the cooperation of the local government, radical Islamists have established a madrassah here in the rapidly expanding Islamist enclave of Northern Virginia. Congressmen Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Anthony Weiner (D-NY) have both complained to the State Department about the Saudi-owned and operated “academy” but still no action.

Several national news organizations have talked with us about covering the hearing.

Calls to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors (see attached) from outside Virginia will help us drive home the fact that the “whole world is watching” and the Supervisors cannot afford to reinforce the stereotype of corrupt “Southern politicians” like those in the movies in which Rod Steiger played the Sheriff.

If you have questions, please contact me at jameslafferty@usa.net

Revised Islamic History Books at Saudi Academy Face Criticism FOX

The school deleted from its texts some of the most contentious passages, including references to Jihad, killing infidels and hatred of Jews and Christians.

But critics say the books are still "toxic" and contain more subtle references, such as criticism of secular forms of government.

Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Gulf Institute, which has been pressing the school to make revision since 2004, told FOX News that the textbooks characterize secular governments as "committing unbelief and allowing us to wage war against them."

"So you're teaching American students -- implanting the seeds of insurgency in these people -- and this is very dangerous," Al-Ahmed said.

He added that the textbooks teach girls that they should not aspire to be judges or political leaders and when a girl gets married, she must ask her husband if she wants to leave the house.

The school has stood by its latest revision.

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom says it wants to look at the books but the Saudi government, which funds the academy, won't give the panel a copy.

"We can't figure out what the Saudi government has to hide and why they continually keep these secrets," said Felice Gaer, chairwoman of the commission.

Gaer's panel released a 2008 report commissioned by the U.S. Congress which stated the school's earlier textbooks contained several troubling passages, including one that claims it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, and another that claims "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people."

Gaer said the State Department should translate the textbooks and determine whether they encourage violence, which would be against the law.

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The Islamic Saudi Academy developed new Islamic studies textbooks for all grades after a 2008 congressional report called portions of the previous editions troubling.

But Al-Ahmed said the Gulf Institute is putting together a detailed report on these textbooks that he says will show that the school "has been deceiving' the American people on its real intention".

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There is a serious issue related to radical Islamic Wahabbists gaining a greater foothold in Fairfax/Fairfax County. 

On July 13th,  there will be a very important Fairfax County Planning Commission meeting to hear from the public about the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA)’s request to expand their Shariah based school. 

The ISA wants to replace the current building on the property with a very large two-story structure which will give them 10 times the square footage they have presently. There will be a place to meet and pray for student use only—this will be a mosque. 

ACT NOW

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The Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA), founded, funded, and controlled by the Saudi Government, seeks to expand its school in Fairfax on Popes Head Road.  Currently the ISA has two locations , an upper grade school near Ft Belvoir/Mt Vernon  and a lower grade school in Fairfax.  The Wahabbists want to consolidate all 900 (and growing) students at the Fairfax location. 

At the center of the controversy are the school’s curriculum and the crimes committed by those who attended or worked at the ISA:

• Ismail Selim Elbarasse served as an accountant at ISA for 14 years before he was arrested for videotaping bridge structures including the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in August, 2004. On the day of his arrest, he was also named as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for laundering money on behalf of the American affiliate of Hamas.

• Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an ISA valedictorian, is serving a thirty-year prison sentence for providing material support to Al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President G.W. Bush.

• Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan, Director General (Principal) ISA, was arrested by Fairfax police in June, 2008 for obstruction of justice and failing to report a case of child sexual abuse involving a five year old girl at the Popes Head campus.  Al-Shabnan was fined $500.

§  Mohammed El-Yacoubi and Mohammed Osman Idris, were denied entry into Israel when authorities there found El-Yacoubi carrying what the FBI believed was a suicide note linked to a planned martyrdom operation in Israel.

There is a pattern of anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian activity at the Islamic Saudi Academy.  The curriculum sanctions murder against Jews, adulterers, homosexuals, and converts from Islam—for all other Americans these would be considered crimes.

Each time the ISA gets caught and there is a new flare-up over the hate taught at the ISA, the school “fixes” the curriculum a little.  In anticipation of this zoning request, Planning Commission hearings and then the full Board hearing , the ISA has once again claimed they have altered their textbooks.  However, while the Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most contentious passages from the texts, copies provided to The Associated Press show that enough sensitive material remains to fuel critics who claim the books show intolerance toward those who do not follow strict interpretations of Islamic Shariah.

Associated Press story on Islamic Saudi Academy ---   

Because this school is operated by the Saudi government, it teaches from the Wahabbist Saudi texts provided by the Saudi Ministry of Education.  Just as an American school overseas teaches “American” curriculum such as the Revolutionary War, our Presidents and major holidays--this school teaches Wahabbist curriculum. 

The Saudi Ministry of Education texts have taught young people that peaceful coexistence with so-called “infidels” is unattainable and that violence to spread Islam is not only permissible, but an obligation.  It encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion; they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the other.

Just a Glimpse of What is Taught

• 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11th were Saudi--educated in schools just like the ISA with Wahabbist curriculum.

·         Islam teaches that Jews are apes, the keepers of the Sabbath; while the swine are the Christian infidels of the communion of Jesus.

• The Saudi Ministry of Education texts have taught young people that peaceful coexistence with so-called “infidels” is unattainable and that violence to spread Islam is not only permissible, but an obligation.  It encourages violence toward others, and misguides the pupils into believing that in order to safeguard their own religion; they must violently repress and even physically eliminate the other.

• It is permissible for a Muslim to kill an apostate (a convert from Islam), an adulterer, or someone who has murdered a believer intentionally: “He (praised is He) prohibits killing the soul that God has forbidden (to kill) unless for just cause…”  Just cause is then defined in the text as “unbelief after belief, adultery, and killing an inviolable believer intentionally.” (Tafsir, Arabic/Sharia, 123)

• Jihad in the path of God – which consists of battling against unbelief, oppression, injustice, and those who perpetrate it – is the summit of Islam. This religion arose through jihad and through jihad was its banner raised high. It is one of the noblest acts, which brings one closer to God, and one of the most magnificent acts of obedience to God.

·         When is battle jihad in the path of God? … To fulfill an order from God,sacrifice in His path, spread the creed of monotheism, defend the realms of Islam and Muslims, and raise up the word of God. This is jihad in the path of God.

·         Jihad continues until the Day of Resurrection.

Read here for more detailed info on the ongoing problem of this Shariah based school  

            http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3342

Jihad, K- 12  

CBN story on the ISA       

United States Commission on International Religious FreedoOM

Again, we need people to attend.   Most who attend can just be a presence and pray.  Those who like to testify can do so.  My husband Jim and I will help with testimony preparation.    Last year, when I registered to testify I was the only one.  When we arrived (grp of 5) we were well out numbered.  Jim was viciously attacked by Chairman Connelly (now Congressman) who repeatedly accused him (and the rest of us) of slander.

Wahabbists are colonizing many areas of Northern Virginia.   America’s history can be described as waves of immigrants coming to our shores seeking liberty and freedom.  The Wahabbists come to America and immediately conspire to reduce our liberty and freedom and impose their brutal Islamic Shariah law—and using our very laws against us to do this.    This is the difference between them and other immigrants.

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Reverend Jeremiah Wright: "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me" "Ethnic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity"

Obama sat in this man's pew for twenty years. Twenty years. Is it any wonder that Obama would be lethal for Israel?

Bear in mind that before Wright was a "pastor," he was a member of the Nation of Islam. And even today, Jeremiah Wright's bodyguards are Nation of Islam thugs. Virulent Jew haters and America haters.

Rev. Wright says he doesn't regret severed relationship with president
Daily Press (hat tip Carl)

 

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama, a former member of the Chicago church in which Wright was the longtime pastor.

Wright also said that he had not spoken to his former church member since Obama became president, implying that the White House won't allow Obama to talk to him. He did not indicate whether he had tried to reach Obama.

"Regret for what... that the media went back five, seven, 10 years and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons to hear what I've been preaching for 20 years?

"Regret for preaching like I've been preaching for 50 years? Absolutely none," Wright said.

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Asked if he had spoken to the President, Wright said: "Them Jews aren't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office. ...

"They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."

Wright also said Obama should have sent a U.S. delegation to the World Conference on Racism held recently in Geneva, Switzerland, but that the president did not do so for fear of offending Jews and Israel.

"Ethic cleansing is going on in Gaza. Ethnic cleansing of the Zionist is a sin and a crime against humanity, and they don't want Barack talking like that because that's anti-Israel," Wright said.

He must be on B. Hussein's cherished blackberry.

Submission: More of The President's Remarks

Here is the whole transcript of Barack Hussein's  interview with French television:

THE PRESIDENT:  What I want to do is to create a better dialogue so that the Muslim world understands more effectively how the United States but also how the West thinks about many of these difficult issues like terrorism, like democracy, to discuss the framework for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and our outreach to Iran, and also how we view the prospects for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

The Muslim world does not care about the way we think. They want us to be Muslims.

THE PRESIDENT; Now, the flip side is I think that the United States and the West generally, we have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam. 

Educating ourselves more effectively on Islam?  If Americans would do that, one of two things will happen. They will start blogs like mine or write books like those of Bat Ye'or, Spencer, Bostom, etc., or they will convert to Islam. That is the truth.

PRESIDENT: And one of the points I want to make is, is that if you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.  And so there's got to be a better dialogue and a better understanding between the two peoples.

Indonesia: 200 million Muslims. India: 156 million Muslims. Pakistan: 150 million Muslims. United States: 2.3 million Muslims.

Q    You're always speaking about dialogue.  How can you do that with the young people who sometimes are very tempted by extremists?  Does you -- as, you know, kind of a new President of the United States, what do you want to tell them, the young people?

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, you know, I think the most important thing I want to tell young people is that, regardless of your faith, those who build as opposed to those who destroy I think leave a lasting legacy, not only for themselves but also for their nations.  And the impulse towards destruction as opposed to how can we study science and mathematics and restore the incredible scientific and knowledge -- the output that came about during centuries of Islamic culture --

What output? Obama is revising history yet again.
The Pope quoted a 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor as saying: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." 

Q    Do you think it's easy, Mr. President?

THE PRESIDENT:  -- I think that has to -- I think that has to be lifted up.  And you're seeing some countries I think that are making more investments in education.  I think the importance of educating women has to be something that's emphasized.  If you look at indicators of human development across the board, those where girls are getting a chance for an education end up being more economically productive.  How to reconcile this with some of the traditional values and norms of Islam, that's not for me to dictate, but certainly I think it's something that can be accomplished, and I want to encourage that.

America built those schools for girls, pious Muslims are bombing them. That's what Obama calls "reconciling the traditional values and norms of Islam"? Burkas and bombings? How vile. He goes on to say it's not for him to dictate (submission), but he thinks he can dictate the expulsion of Jews from Jewish homeland?

Q    When I met you on the campaign, you were telling me that you wanted to organize a Muslim summit.  Do you still have that in mind?

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, you know, this is a start of what I think will be a long-term process.  We'll have a speech, we'll have a roundtable discussion.  It will give an opportunity I think for people around the world to engage in this discussion.  It will be telecast in a wide variety of languages on our White House Web site, whitehouse.gov.  And my hope is, is that as a consequence you start seeing discussions not just at the presidential level, but at every level of life.  And I hope I can spark some dialogue and debate within the Muslim world, because I think there's a real struggle right now between those who believe that Islam is irreconcilable to modern life and those who believe that actually Islam has always been able to move side by side with progress.

Show me in history with whom Islam moved side by side.

VOICE OF AMERICA NOW VOICE OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD?

According to the story by Eli Lake, the Voice of America is putting Taliban figures on the air on its Pashto radio station:

EXCLUSIVE: Voice of Taliban on VOA probed Washington Times (hat tip Rey)

Complaints that the U.S. government's Voice of America (VOA) interviewed a top Pakistani Taliban leader have sparked an investigation into VOA's Pashto language service to determine if it has allowed itself to become a platform for terrorist propaganda.

In a letter obtained by The Washington Times, the State Department's acting inspector general, Harold Geisel, said his office will conduct a review "to determine the effectiveness of their broadcast and editorial practices and policies." The service broadcasts into the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region that serves as a refuge for al Qaeda and the Taliban.

The probe was spurred by concerns first raised by Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican who in the past had championed the Pashto-language service known as Deewa Radio. Mr. Kirk said he became concerned that American taxpayers were providing the Taliban a megaphone after he learned that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud had been interviewed by the service -- and claimed responsibility for terrorist bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore in March

The leader of the Pakistan Taliban is Baitullah Mehsud, who claimed responsibility for an attack on a police compound in Lahore and promised to attack the West. (more here)

And this:

Of the two Taliban groups, Mehsud's is the most feared – he has been accused of masterminding the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and trained Osama bin Laden's son as one of his commanders –

Oh, and Mehsud claimed responsibility for the Binghamton massacre in New York back in April, in which 13 people were killed, Reuters reported.

"I accept responsibility. They were my men. I gave them orders in reaction to  U.S. drone attacks," Baituallah Mehsud told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location on Saturday.

So US tax dollars are being used to pay for the propaganda of Baitullah Mehsud and other terrorists. This is an outrage. The VOA is desperately in need of scrutiny, and oversight of its traitorous editorial practices.

VOA Director Danforth Austin said Deewa Radio was simply seeking to report the news in a way that was credible to listeners from the same ethnic Pashtun group as the Taliban.

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The investigation of VOA's Pashto service is another example of the long-standing tension about the role of American-funded broadcasting.

Government Steals Land for 911 Islamic Crescent Memorial

It keeps getting worse. Regular Atlas readers are familiar with the abomination being built on the site where those brave Americans on flight 93 fought back and averted another massive Islamic terror attack on the capital on 911. United Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was diverted by hijackers with the goal of crashing it into the White House or Capitol. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers crashed the plane as passengers tried to wrest control of the cockpit.

To memorize to those brave Americans, the dhimmis in charge plan to erect a giant Islamic crescent. We have fought this for the past year (Atlas coverage here). Khalim Massoud, president of Muslims against Sharia--Islamic Reform Movement, issued a press release in support of Tom Burnett Sr.'s efforts to stop the Park Service from planting a giant Mecca-oriented crescent atop his son's grave.

As if that weren't terrible enough, now they are stealing private land to build this monstrosity.

The green circle, marked with the qibla for Somerset, is from Islam.com. A person standing at the midpoint between the most obtruding tips of the crescent structure and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow), will be facing almost exactly at Mecca.

Read more about the Crescent of Betrayal. It's as if  this horror is surrender -- Islam's victory over America monument. They attacked America and we are building monument to the icon of their ideology.

Government to condemn land for Flight 93 memorial Yahoo (hat tip Michael)

PITTSBURGH – The government will begin taking land from seven property owners so that the Flight 93 memorial can be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, the National Park Service said.

In a statement obtained by The Associated Press, the park service said it had teamed up with a group representing the victims' families to work with landowners since before 2005 to acquire the land.

"But with few exceptions, these negotiations have been unsuccessful," said the statement.

Landowners dispute that negotiations have taken place and say they are disappointed at the turn of events.

WHITE HOUSE DISTANCES ITSELF FROM ITS CAMPAIGN TO CRIMINALIZE PATRIOTS, CONSERVATIVES AND LOVERS OF FREEDOM

Audrey Hudson and Eli Lake confirm the story that Atlas broke on the blog this past weekend. The report is the blueprint for Obama's war on Conservatives and patriotic Americans.

The Department of Homeland Security banned Atlas two weeks back ... the beginning. And the officers who read Atlas at the DHS tell me it's still banned. And the DHS  have targeted the tea parties (see this Atlas post).

I have documented and covered the most extreme anti-American leftist Islamic rallies across this country for the past five years, and have never seen garbage like this on the real enemies of this great country.

Federal agency warns of radicals on right Washington Times
9-page report sent to police

The White House has distanced itself from the analysis. When asked for comment on its contents, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said, "The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins. He also believes those who serve represent the best of this country, and he will continue to ensure that our veterans receive the respect and benefits they have earned."

Here's my whole report
SHOCKING NEW EPORT! OBAMA'S REAL TERRORISTS: TARGETING PATRIOTS AND THE RIGHT

It is the fascist blueprint to create a police state and legalize gulags. This is not a spoof. This is Obama's "civilian army's" MOB. (hat tip the Rockman)

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says.

The White House has distanced itself from the analysis. When asked for comment on its contents, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro said, "The President is focused not on politics but rather taking the steps necessary to protect all Americans from the threat of violence and terrorism regardless of its origins. He also believes those who serve represent the best of this country, and he will continue to ensure that our veterans receive the respect and benefits they have earned."

Liar.

It says the federal government "will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months" to gather information on "rightwing extremist activity in the United States."

The joint federal-state activities will have "a particular emphasis" on the causes of "rightwing extremist radicalization."

Homeland Security spokeswoman Sara Kuban said the report is one in an ongoing series of assessments by the department to "facilitate a greater understanding of the phenomenon of violent radicalization in the U.S."

The report, which was first disclosed to the public by nationally syndicated radio host Roger Hedgecock, makes clear that the Homeland Security Department does not have "specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence."It warns that fringe organizations are gaining recruits, but it provides no numbers.

The report says extremist groups have used President Obama as a recruiting tool.

Nashville DA REFUSES TO INVESTIGATE CHILD MARRIAGE, PEDOPHILIA, CHILD ABUSE IN SHARIAH CLASSES

If you call child welfare on a neighbor, you can bet your bottom dollar someone would be out checking out your neighbor. There is a mountain of evidence of child abuse at the Al Farooq mosque in Tennessee. There is VIDEO here. Dave Gaubautz has it all, and I have more. Susan Niland, contact Dave Gaubatz at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

This is your law enforcement - your taxpayer dollars at work.

Everything else aside, I know from my source that that child is in imminent danger. Her mother is too. We do not live in an Islamic state. I am at a loss as to why the State department is bringing whole Muslim communities into our small towns and cities. It is just not possible for them to assimilate into the US culture, which is why some of the Somali youth have gone back to Somalia to fight.

What and who is Susan Niland so afraid of? CAIR? Lawsuits? Who will save the children? It's our taxpayer money, use it for lawsuits. If you can't do your job, resign.

DJM has received a response from Susan Niland (D.A.):

If you have legitimte, specific and non-anonymous information about a crime, you are welcome to report it under the 'Crime Prevention and Reporting' section on our website. But I'm afraid we are not able to address vague inquiries without any fact-based information behind it.

Please also pass on that information to the other people in your organization who are sending similar vague and unspecific e-mails to our office.

Regards, Susan Niland

Got that? The Nashville District Attorney General's office does not even investigate reports of child abuse - possibly child rape - or the promotion of terrorism. According to them, it is the duty of the public to investigate and provide evidence before this office will pursue justice.

"Protecting Innocence" and "Ensuring Citizen Safety." Yeah, right.

So, all of youse people from 'my' organization: the welfare of children and the safety of the community is too vague to warrant an investigation.

Hear no evil, see no evil, say no evil.

Here are more contact numbers from Warren. I find they don't pick up ..... so keep calling until you get someone. MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Here's a start....
Nashville PD HQ
(615) 862-7400

1-800-4-A-CHILD

TN Atty General Robert Cooper
(615)741-3491

Phil.Bredesen@tn.gov (TN Governor)
andrea.conte@tn.gov (TN 1st Lady)
info@nashville-sheriff.net (Davidson County Sheriff)
mayor@nashville.gov
cnewlin@nationalcac.org

More contact info here

UPDATE: AND IF THERE ARE ANY LURKERS FROM AL FAROOQ OR JIHAD SYMPATHIZERS READING ATLAS, I KNOW WHO THE LITTLE GIRL IS AND I KNOW WHO THE PERV PERPS ARE.  I HAVE MORE INFORMATION THAT I HAVENT POSTED YET. IF YOU LAY ONE HAND ON HER  YOU ARE DONE.

OBAMA'S CENSUS 2010

Amerabia!

From: Rashad al-Dabbagh
Subject: [ArabCalendar] Fw: Jobs with the Census Bureau
To: naap-oc@yahoogroups.com
Cc: arabcalendar@yahoogroups.com

Dear friends,

Please click on this link for jobs with the US Census Bureau: http://www.census. gov/rolax/ www/2010Jobs. html

Best,

Rashad Al-Dabbagh

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SAVE THE DATE: NAAP-OC "Meet the Professionals" dinner, Sat., May 16, 2009 @ the Meadowlark Golf Club, Huntington Beach. Featuring Author/Columnist Gustavo Arellano of !Ask a Mexican!.

UPDATE: 12 MILLION NEW DEMOCRATS! Patriot Resistance (hat tip Art)

The acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas Mesenbourg, told CNSNews.com that the bureau intends to work with community organizations to make sure every illegal alien in the United States is counted in the 2010 Census.
The Census is used to apportion the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. States with more people get more seats in the U.S. House.
This means that a state harboring more illegal aliens can gain more House seats as long as the Census Bureau finds the illegal aliens and counts them. This also means that the illegal alien population resident in the United States during a census year has the potential to alter the regional and philosophical balance of power in Congress.
Mesenburg said: "Our job is to count everyone that resides in the U.S. -- count them once. So, certainly that’s our goal to count every individual, every resident whether they’re documented, undocumented, whether they are citizens or non-citizens."
Ruben Keoseyan, publisher of the newspaper La Raza, said the organizations at the press conference have partnered with the Census Bureau to help undocumented immigrants "come out and register" for the census.
"This is not just a partnership among the people that you see here," said Keoseyan. "This is also a partnership with the Census Bureau because we believe that we can aid in helping those people come out and register and participate in the census. It’s a much easier form. It’s going to be in Spanish."

More here.

Previously related posts at Atlas:

ACORN: OBAMA'S CRIMINAL GANG TO "HELP" WITH CENSUS

Judd Gregg Nixes Cynical Commerce Secretary Nomination

OBAMA USURPS THE CONSTITUTION, GRABS CENSUS JURISDICTION - GAMING THE SYSTEM

WELCOME TO OBAMERICA: HOMELAND SECURITY BANS ATLAS

An officer over at the Dept. Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection sent me this screenshot when he tried to access Atlas. He is the third reader (who shall remain anonymous) who works at Homeland Security who cannot log onto Atlas. They had been able to access my site continually up until this week. "It went from to access to no access overnight".

 
The reader works for the Dept. Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection. They all have Internet access through the national mainframe (somewhere in Virginia I think). All Internet connectivity runs through one central computer center. One 'click' and the Dept can turn off anyone.

In Obama's Amerabia - Atlas is banned. That's beautiful. ACORN, Blago, Reverend Wright, Farrakhan, Ayers, the scum of the earth welcomed into his lair - Atlas is banned. And is the tea bag terror!

I am flattered that he is shattered.

Obama nominee Sees Sharia in America - why not?

UPDATE: Public Enemy #1 Soros thanked Harold Koh in one of his books

Jawdropper which, given President Hussein's daily record, is no small feat. Sharia law in America? This is the dawning of the barbaric age in America.

I think Koh kinda likes the rape is legit thing. Or is it the child bride thing?

Jihad Watch has the whole thing here:

Obama nominee sees no "reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States"

On top of that, this Obama pick believes that "America's focus on the War on Terror [is] 'obsessive.'" And his list of countries that flagrantly disregard international law highlights North Korea, Iraq, and the U.S.A. -- which he collectively calls "the axis of disobedience."

"Obama's most perilous legal pick," by Meghan Clyne for the New York Post

Will the people not rise up? Do they even know this is happening?

JUDGES should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq.

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

President Obama has nominated Koh -- until last week the dean of Yale Law School -- to be the State Department's legal adviser. In that job, Koh would forge a wide range of international agreements on issues from trade to arms control, and help represent our country in such places as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice.

It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.

What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.

He even believes judges should use this "logic" to strike down the death penalty, which is clearly permitted in the US Constitution.

The primacy of international legal "norms" applies even to treaties we reject. For example, Koh believes that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- a problematic document that we haven't ratified -- should dictate the age at which individual US states can execute criminals. Got that? On issues ranging from affirmative action to the interrogation of terrorists, what the rest of the world says, goes.

Including, apparently, the world of radical imams. A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States."

A spokeswoman for Koh said she couldn't confirm the incident, responding: "I had heard that some guy . . . had asked a question about sharia law, and that Dean Koh had said something about that while there are obvious differences among the many different legal systems, they also share some common legal concepts."

Score one for America's enemies and hostile international bureaucrats, zero for American democracy.

Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror "obsessive." In 2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law -- "most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the United States of America," which he branded "the axis of disobedience.[...]

Even though he's up for a State Department job, Koh is a key test case in the "judicial wars." If he makes it through (which he will if he gets even a single GOP vote) the message to the Obama team will be: You can pick 'em as radical as you like.

KNOXVILLE: MUSLIMS SEEK TO STOP RESTAURANT THAT SELLS BEER

"I want to feed the community. We are providing a service to the Fort Sanders community and we have a good blue plate, a good cheap lunch and dinner," Infidel Trevor Hill

Islam imposes its law on Main street, USA. This is what I mean when I say "imposing their Islam" and "Islamic supremacism". Their law does not supersede ours. They are not a special class. We Americans do not have to change our ways, our lives, our laws to bow and submit to Islamic law. What part of the Constitution do these Muslims not understand?

I strongly recommend that my readers in and around Knoxville, Tennessee, get involved in this issue and get involved now. Just say no to Islamic supremacism. And yes, there are jobs involved in this economic free fall .........but that is not the key issue here, as critical as that is.

Oh, and we come across that word again -- "conservative" -- in describing this thuggery. I am sure you have noticed this. I have been pointing this out to you for some time -- the lexicon of deathspeak that President Hussein has become so prolific at. The word conservative is the word du jour used to describe "pious" Muslims and Islamic violent ideology. Expect to see more and more of this, in a vain attempt to make 'conservative' a dirty word.

Mosque disputes sale of alcohol at nearby Knoxville restaurant Channel 6 (hat tip Kasper)

KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- Plans are underway to open a new restaurant in a Fort Sanders neighborhood building that has sat empty for years. Its owner wants to serve alcohol, and that's a problem for members of the Muslim Community of Knoxville nearby.

The two buildings are 191 feet apart. The mosque is at 100 13th Street and the restaurant would be at 1105 Forest Avenue.

According to a Knoxville city ordinance, beer can't be sold within 300 feet of a house of worship. But as it turns out, there are other laws that make the issue more complicated.

"We assumed that in Knoxville, all houses of worship would have some sort of buffer," Nadeem Siddiqi says.

Siddiqi is talking about the building being renovated behind Annoor Mosque. It was once an eyesore.

In another month, it may become home to "The Hill," a restaurant that serves alcohol and has music and dancing.

"We're trying to promote some conservative behavior to some degree, and being right next to a nightclub seems like a bad location for us," Siddiqi says.

Still, construction continues on the restaurant.

The owner, Trevor Hill, says he doesn't see any problem with the location. He's applied for a beer permit and liquor license and he intends to have a large menu.

Go Trevor!

"I want to feed the community. We are providing a service to the Fort Sanders community and we have a good blue plate, a good cheap lunch and dinner," Hill says.

The city won't issue a beer permit if the restaurant in question is within 300 feet of a church and in this situation, the restaurant is less than 200 feet from the mosque and community center.

But if the state issues a liquor license, it's a different story.

A city ordinance reads that the distance requirement is void if the restaurant receives a state license for liquor by the drink. The state does not have a distance requirement.  

"They're entitled to their opinion, and I am in compliance with the codes and laws of the state of Tennessee and Knox County so I don't know what else to do," Hill says.

He plans to hire 50 employees and open his doors in early April. By that time, he hopes to have a liquor license in hand.

The beer board deferred approval for a permit for The Hill Tuesday night as it has several times.

Beer Board Chairman Steve Hall says the board isn't going to make a decision about giving the owner a beer permit until the state approves or denies the liquor license.

The board will meet again on April 21 and likely take up the issue.

GO TO THAT MEETING. GO TO THAT MEETING. GO TO THAT MEETING.

Allen West: "We Had Best Wake the Hell Up"

Men like Allen West are America's last, best hope. West, Congressional candidate in 2010 and a leading contender for the White House in 2012, sent me this note along with his monthly column:

I am truly angry about what is happening in our America, and since there are no such voices coming off Capitol Hill from Republican leadership......someone has to fight back, let it be me!

We have the Blair-Holt Firearm Licensing and Record of Sale Act as well as this Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act sitting in the House of Reps. We had best wake the hell up and realize that these liberal socialists have lost their minds. Steadfast and Loyal, Allen

Washingtoons

17 March 2009

Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Retired)

Greetings fellow South Florida riders, South Floridians, and Americans, here we are for another monthly installment of our Wheels on the Road political assessment. It is hard to believe how fast a month flies by but it seems that we have been under the Obama administration for years; perhaps it is the everyday speeches.

I hate speeches.

I pride myself in being a person of calm demeanor, unless of course you are Attorney General Eric Holder and you call my America a “nation of cowards”. So as I begin this month’s article I find myself on the verge of total rage which is great for writing.

In these first 60 days of the Obama administration I am beginning to have concern over issues of national security. There have been some very disturbing trends which I will share in this month’s column.

It first started right after the coronation; I mean inauguration, with the first phone call going to Mahmoud Abbas. Last time I checked the leader of the displaced Arab nomad group in the West Bank called Fatah was not a National leader, or ally. Considering all the other key allies who have stood by the United States, why was this gentleman first for a new President to call?

Next came the series of executive orders which commanded we shut down Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) detention facility, stop any harsh treatment of terrorists, and ceased any ongoing military trials against those being held. Now just recently we have heard from the infamous GITMO 5 who have claimed they take utmost pride in what they have accomplished to include the atrocities of 9-11.

We know that some 60 released detainees went right back to the battlefield to include several who are now leaders in Yemen and Afghanistan. Some would say this recidivism rate is low, however, not when you are the US man or woman in uniform overseas fighting.

As of 13 March we have been instructed by this administration that we can no longer call these fellas “enemy combatants”. Hmm, lets see, how about we call them “Friendly Frustrated Freedom Fighters”? I am certain we should consult Dr Phil for a proper means to address these cheeky fellows without damaging their self-esteem.

New Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently stated in an interview that she found using the term terrorism nuanced. She preferred using the term “man created disasters”. Well, Secretary Napolitano, if there is another “man created disaster” perpetrated by “Friendly Frustrated Freedom Fighters” Americans not take that too kindly.

Does an IED fall into the category of a “man created disaster”?

Soon after the series of executive orders focusing on GITMO the President gave his first TV interview, with Al Arabiya. During that interview he remarked about a return to better relations with the Muslim world, like 30 years ago. Perhaps the President did not realize that in Iran they have been celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

I remember that being a very sad and embarrassing episode in American history, can you say Embassy hostages?

At a time when we are having serious economic issues the American taxpayers are now sending $900 Million to the Gaza Strip for rebuilding. The “political” entity controlling Gaza is called Hamas, and they are a “Friendly Frustrated Freedom Fighter” organization. I can certainly bet that the only thing being rebuilt will be tunnels from Egypt into Gaza.

Along with that piece of change, is, by executive order, $20.3 Million going to resettle pro-Hamas Palestinians to the USA…..did anyone ask the American people about this?

First planned foreign country visit? Turkey, where “Friendly Frustrated Freedom Fighter” ideology is taking root (I call it radical Islamic ideology, but don’t tell anyone, I could be arrested for hate speech).

So far the President’s only visit to a US military installation was to Camp Lejeune NC, home of the US Marine II Expeditionary Force, a place where I spent three great years. The purpose was to announce his plan for withdrawal from Iraq.

Could you imagine Alexander the Great telling his Macedonians, “well guys, that whole bit about conquering the world, I was just kidding, let’s go home”. Warriors want to be inspired.

President Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi have both referred to our ICE agents as terrorizing Hispanics and being un-American. That should really inspire them to protect us against illegal immigrants.

Ok, you are asking so what? Well, this is the so what, President Obama has decided that our wounded warriors and others with service related injuries will have to use private insurance. AFLAC does not send our men and women into harm’s way to defend our way of life, the Constitution mandates the government do so.

The so what is that why are we placating and appeasing the enemy while abandoning those who stay on the wall protecting our America? That has me fuming and truly concerned about the loyalties of this President.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned; our President Barack Hussein Obama has Wednesday evening parties in the White House.

How did we get to this point?

Ride Hard, Ride Safe, AW

Ya promise?

US:Muslim Orgs Threaten to end all Contact With FBI

In the wake of finding out that the FBI had an informant in a California Mosque, 11 major US Muslim organizations have threatened to end all out reach programs with the FBI. Demanding that the FBI changes their ways in dealing with potential Islamic threats. Of course these leading Islamic groups once again try and use our freedoms against us to get their way as they are saying "We want our constitutional rights."
They even go as far as to say that the FBI is to blame for potential Islamic terrorists here in America. This is just another example of US Muslims trying to dictate how our country is run. We need to wake up and see that they are not here to be our equals, they are here to dominate.

For the rest....

WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

Did you read this urgent post over at Atlas the day before yesterday? Commit it to memory: BLUEPRINT FOR US SURRENDER TO ISLAM: THE US MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT

Frank Gaffney has more on the stealth creep of Islamic supremacism here and worldwide over at Family Security Matters:

SHARIAH'S BROTHERHOOD

On Friday, President Obama reiterated for the umpteenth time his determination to develop a "new relationship" with the Muslim world. On this occasion, the audience was the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that, in so doing, he will be embracing the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood – an organization dedicated to promoting the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam

calls Shariah and that has the self-described mission of "destroying Western civilization from within."

 

As part of Mr. Obama's "Respect Islam" campaign, he will travel to Turkey in early April. While there, he will not only pay tribute to an Islamist government that has systematically wrested every institution from the secular tradition of Ataturk and put the country squarely on the path to Islamification. He will also participate in something called the "Alliance of Civilizations."

Bat Ye'or said the following of the Alliance of Civilizations  in a speech given at the Counter Jihad conference in Brussels in 2007: The Alliance of Civilizations, created to oppose the clash of civilizations, that is jihad, hasalso added pressure. On 13 November 2006, the High-Level Group of the Alliance ofCivilizations presented its report which sums up the request of the OIC at its Mecca Summit in 2005, after the Cartoons affair. First, it adopts the Islamic view of history and politics byclaiming that everything was fine between the three monotheistic religions until the 19thcentury, when the evil of European colonialism and Zionism destroyed this harmony. Then itaffirms that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the main source of Christian-Muslimantagonism, not the jihadist war and ideology that deny for others the right to exist. It proclaims that this conflict “remains one of the gravest threats to international stability” and formulates recommendations that again echo the OIC requests. Such views mirror Hitler accusing the Jews of fomenting World War II, or the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, praisedin the Hamas charter, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood which denies Israel’s right to exist.

The recent meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (and here) (OSCE Conference on intolerance and discrimination against Muslims, Cordoba, 9-10 October 2007) is much of the same, a charter of dhimmitude. It examines the means to condition Europeans to respect Muslim immigrants and accept their culture. Although racism against Muslims as well as against any other should be punished, nowhere do we see in any of these texts a genuine desire to understand the fears of Europeans aggressed in their own country by local jihadist cells, their anger at the Muslim scriptures and history loaded with anti-Jewish and anti-Christian stereotypes which they bring into Europe, the continual incitement to hate and war against the infidels, particularly against Israel and America, the inferiority of women and the legal oppression of non-Muslims. The accusations of Islamophobia totally overlook these facts as if they emerge from a vacuum. The Eurabian moral dishonesty that incriminates Israel’s self-defense in order to exist is now projected onto Europe, guilty when protecting itself against Islamic terrorism. Our self-defense is considered an aggression that victimizes Muslims. We are in fact in a logic of dhimmitude within Europe.

There's more - read Bat Ye'or's remarks here.

Back to Gaffney:

The Alliance is a UN-sponsored affair that reflects – as, increasingly do most things the United Nations is involved in – the views of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The OIC is made up of 57 Muslim-majority nations. Thanks to support from Saudi Arabia and its proxies, the Muslim Brotherhood has become a driving force within the Conference and their agendas largely coincide.

 

For example, in 2005 a communiqué issued after a summit in Mecca declared: "The Conference underlined the need to collectively endeavor to reflect the noble Islamic values, counter Islamophobia, defamation of Islam and its values and desecration of Islamic holy sites, and to effectively coordinate with States as well as regional and international institutions and organizations to urge them to criminalize this phenomenon as a form of racism." 

The logic of dhimmitude.

Ominously, as part of its bid to "criminalize" Islamophobia, the OIC is seeking "deterrent punishments." It insists that not only freedom of expression but all human rights be circumscribed by the OIC's 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which concludes with the caveat that, "All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shariah." Translation: Liberties enshrined in the UN's foundational Universal Declaration of Human Rights are largely rendered null and void.

 

The demand that no criticism of Islam be permitted is the preeminent feature of the Muslim Brotherhood's efforts in the West. In fact, it is but the leading edge of the Brothers' bid to suppress public awareness of the threat posed by their program in societies that pride themselves on religious tolerance, thereby facilitating seditious penetration and influence operations by the Shariah-adherent.

 

A playbook for the latter can be found in a publication issued last fall by the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project that is being aggressively promoted to the Obama administration and Congress by a number of its non-Muslim participants. Notably, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently effusively presented the Project's book entitled Changing Course: A New Direction for U.S. Relations with the Muslim World to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Former Congressman Vin Weber did the same at Grover Norquist's weekly meeting of conservative activists last week.

 

Underwritten largely by George Soros' and other left-wing foundations, Changing Course seems to reflect predominantly the recommendations of groups the government has established are Muslim Brotherhood fronts, such as the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Both are represented in the Engagement Project's "Leadership Group." Accordingly, its book calls for:

 

• "engagement with groups that have clearly demonstrated a commitment to nonviolent participation in politics" (read: the Brotherhood);
• "not equat[ing] reform with secularism, nor...assum[ing] that reformers who advocate some form of Shariah as the basis for the rule of law will inevitably abuse human rights or adopt anti-American policies";
• "not supply[ing] additional ammunition to extremists by linking the term ‘Islam' or key tenets of the religion of Islam with the actions of extremist or terrorist groups";
• Launching "an education program comparable in scale" to "the more than $7 billion" invested in the "post-Sputnik U.S. commitment to math and science education" to "education on Islam and Muslims, sustained over a decade or more, focused on teacher training and curriculum in middle and high schools, and colleges."

Emboldened by the promise of this influence operation and the apparent willingness of the Obama administration to embrace the Muslim Brotherhood's agenda – in part, if not in its entirety – the organization's assorted fronts in America are becoming ever more audacious. In response to a long-overdue decision taken by the FBI last year to terminate "sensitivity training" of its agents by one of the most prominent of these fronts, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), assorted Brotherhood groups and operatives reportedly intend to announce that Muslims will henceforth cease any and all cooperation with U.S. law enforcement until CAIR is rehabilitated.

 

Such a step would not only call into question the patriotism of the many Muslims in America who do not embrace the Brotherhood's Shariah agenda – something that would, presumably, be as offensive to them as it would be troubling to the rest of us. It could also expose those engaged in it to criminal charges of "misprision of felony," conspiring to withhold information from the authorities concerning terrorist operations and activities in the Muslim community.

Thereby killing any hope, any hope at all of real reform of Islam.

The message should go forth: Friends of the Muslim Brotherhood are no friends of America. We follow their guidance at our peril.

BLUEPRINT FOR US SURRENDER TO ISLAM: THE US MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT

The left, as its history painfully shows, has always aligned itself with the  totalitarian ideology du jour. The jihad could never have made such enormous strides  into Western society without the leftards carrying their water.

Those on the right considered themselves safe from dhimmitude and oppression. Wrong.

Defenders of America have been acutely aware of the infiltration of Political Islam into Conservative circles.  It's why I along with Robert Spencer, Dr Bostom, and David Horowitz brought Geert Wilders to CPAC.  It was the  only event at the largest gathering in CPAC history that spoke to Islamic Supremacism, freedom of speech and the war on jihad.

What is the next phase in the Muslim Brotherhood's project to overtake America? And how is America caving to Islam? It's happening right before your very eyes. 

Read this document US MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT   - Changing the Course". It's the absolute Obama blueprint. It's all George Soros money and the usual cast of suspects - Madeline Albright, Richard Armitage, Ingrid Mattson, Lugar, Ross ... the obvious cast of craven quislings.

The proposal for "reducing distrust"? Surrender. The document  is deeply informed by the objectives of the OIC and the ummah.  It is a blueprint for our dhimmitude. It's the basis for Kerry's hearing taqiyya and that garbage Fareed Zakariah article (cover) in Newsweek on how we have to accept Islamic governments and shariah.

Take a look at page 80 and what they are doing with your infidel dollars:

SPUDNIK!? vis a vis Islam?

Wait -- and if that were't disastrous enough.  They are recommending Homeland security reduce the rejection rates for applicants from Muslim countries.

This document needs to be fisked - carefully. I have only just begun to fisk!
Gates of Vienna has this:

Grover Norquist is a conservative activist and the president of Americans for Tax Reform. He is also well-known in Washington D.C. circles as a friend of Islam. Since the 1990s he has held weekly “Wednesday meetings” in which he briefs fellow conservatives and helps plot strategy for the Republican party.

But yesterday it was Mr. Norquist’s turn to be briefed.

A few days ago I wrote about John Kerry’s speech on the Senate floor touting the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project. Yesterday Mr. Norquist’s group was briefed by Vin Weber, a member of the leadership group of the same U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project.

According to several attendees who were present at Grover Norquist’s Wednesday meeting, the participants — presumably including members of Congress — were offered paperback copies of the “Changing the Course” document (pdf), which outlines the steps needed to help the United States achieve reconciliation with the Muslim world.

Unfortunately for non-Muslims in the United States, this prescription involves more engagement and more appeasement. It calls for yet more dialogue with and respect for Islam, and includes a special emphasis on removing Hamas and Hezbollah from the list of terrorist groups so that they can be recognized as legitimate negotiating partners.

The involvement of Mr. Norquist’s group raises questions about of the extent of Islamist infiltration throughout the conservative NGO groups.

If anyone is curious why this year’s CPAC — which has just folded its tents — didn’t have a single panel on radical Islam or the war on terror, remember that Grover Norquist is on the board of the ACU, which sponsors CPAC.

CPAC conservatives have now fallen into line. They don’t use words like jihad, nor do they associate Islam with terror. They have their ACU marching orders.

What’s more, attendees at Mr. Norquist’s meeting yesterday received the Muslim Brotherhood-approved game plan for the Obama administration.

No, not to critique it.

No, not to oppose it.

To get in line and support it.

What is it, exactly?
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As I mentioned above, paperback copies of the how-to manual for American appeasement “Changing the Course” were distributed to attendees, along with a helpful lecture from Vin Weber (Ingrid Mattson, president of ISNA and Weber’s colleague on the US-Muslim Engagement Project, was sadly absent).

Mr. Norquist is making sure that conservatives have the “politically correct” position — that is, Obama’s position. The same position held by Ingrid Mattson and the Muslim Brotherhood. Which, coincidentally, is also the position of Senator John Kerry and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who testified to Kerry’s committee under her US-Muslim engagement project affiliation on February 26.

If we lived in a sane world, revealing all of this to the American public would cause a stir.

But this is not news. It’s a “dog bites man” story.

Still, it’s a damned dangerous dog — and from time to time it still bites.

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If you want to learn more about Grover Norquist and his inside-the-Beltway operations, Paul Sperry’s website and his book Infiltration are recommended reading.

I’ll just include a few excerpts from his supporting documents:

8.1a		Canceled checks for major donations to GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist’s nonprofit Islamic Institute from now-convicted terrorist Abdurahman Alamoudi, who provided seed money for the controversial Washington think tank, which has a stated goal of “promoting the appointments of Muslims to positions of influence.”
8.1b		Check for donation to Norquist’s Islamic Institute from the Safa Trust, an alleged terror-underwriter based just outside Washington. It is part of the notorious Safa group, which investigators believe runs a terror-support group using Muslim charities and think tanks as cover.
		[…]
8.2a		Norquist’s Islamic Institute was a sponsor of the 2000 anti-Israel rally at the White House in which Muslim leaders such as Alamoudi shouted their support for terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. This press release called a “Friday Brief” — which has been removed from the institute’s website — shows that it strongly advised Muslim members to attend the event. It directs questions to the institute and also to Alamoudi’s American Muslim Council, which has staffed much of the institute

For additional documentation, see the Sperry Files.

No doubt Grover Norquist and his Wednesday meetings will continue, and Washington Republicans will become even more well-informed about the benefits — both spiritual and financial — that Islam brings to the United States and its elected representatives.

UPDATE: Chew on this too: How George Soros Financed Obama

UPDATE: Gaffney: "Friends of the Muslim Brotherhood are no friends of America"

PRESIDENT HUSSEIN DROPS "ENEMY COMBATANT" AS BASIS FOR DETENTION, DEFERS TO "INTERNATIONAL LAW"

Why doesn't he just hand over the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to Ahmadinejad? President Hussein is dismantling every tool, every weapon in our defense arsenal.

This should be splashed on the front page of every soon-to-be-dead news daily. The insanity is explained by AG Holder this way: in developing new policy to govern Islamic terrorists, it is essential we "operate in a manner consistent with our values".

Well, let me state this plainly: this is not consistent with our values. This has no value. There is right and there is wrong. There good and there is evil. There are allies and there are enemies. These are American values. Abdicating our sovereignty to an international Islamic code is suicidal. Who is writing this international law, the OIC?

U.S. drops "enemy combatant" as basis for detention Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration dropped the term "enemy combatant" and incorporated international law on Friday as its basis for holding terrorism suspects at Guantanamo prison while it works to close the facility.

The U.S. Justice Department said it had filed court papers outlining its break from Bush administration detention standards, and said only those who provided "substantial" support to al Qaeda or the Taliban would be considered detainable.

"As we work toward developing a new policy to govern detainees, it is essential that we operate in a manner that strengthens our national security, is consistent with our values, and is governed by law," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.

"The change we've made today meets each of those standards and will make our nation stronger."

They think the American people are complete idiot sheeples.

Instead, the Justice Department said, "It draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress.

"It provides that individuals who supported al Qaeda or the Taliban are detainable only if the support was substantial. And it does not employ the phrase 'enemy combatant.'"

It said it had told the court that the Obama administration was reviewing its entire detention policy -- as part of its plan to close the prison at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- and further refinements of the policies were possible.

How many of the released Gitmo detainees rejoined the Islamic armies of al qaeda and taleban? We are so screwed.

Previously at Atlas (related):

WHERE'S CAIR? AMERICAN TEEN GIRL MURDERED BY EX-GITMO DETAINEE

FREED GITMO MUSLIMS: "I thank Allah, Lord of the Worlds, who freed me from Guantanamo prison and --" ****SPLAT!!!!!****

B. HUSSEIN O-BLUNDER'S GITMO EMBARRASSMENT

MORE FREED GITMO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS GO JIHAD

Report: Ex-Gitmo detainee joins al-Qaida in Yemen

Even the Taliban say Obama's call on modertes "illogical"

PRESIDENT SCARY WILL SURRENDER TO TALIBAN

US CAPITULATES TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION

UPDATE 7:30 pm: Officials: Taliban's New Top Operations Officer Is Former Guantanamo Bay Detainee (thanks Matthew)

PRAY FOR THE JIHAD

Americans are being besieged with Islamic propaganda on bus ads and billboards in their relentless  multi-pronged strategy to impose their Islam on us.

Atlas reader Henry noticed a few weeks back that these billboards (above) were going up around Houston highways, and he was intrigued, so he visited the website. It is clearly an anti-Israel pro-palestinian site in terms of content. So he emailed them asking how he could be sure the money wouldn't go to terrorism. Here's the answer he received.

Prayer for Gaza? I don't think they mean these kids.

From: info@prayforgaza.org
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2009 10:41 PM
Re: Responsibility & oversight

Page 1 of 1 3/10/2009

Dear Henry,

Thank you for your e-mail and for your prayer. We are all American citizens who believe in the justice for the Palestinians as well as peace for both Palestinians and Israelis. Our message is clearly a message of peace, so how can your donations end up being used for terrorism?

Pray for Gaza

That's how stupid they think people are.

MINNESOTA: FIRST STATE TO OFFER ISLAMIC MORTGAGES

The Sheikh family signs papers to close on their first home. (Photo courtesy African Development Center)

 

Parallel systems in America? Since when and why? Galloping sharia. Vile, all of it. It's a usurpation of the the American way.

New Islamic mortgages now available in Minnesota NPR hat tip Chuck

For many Minnesota Muslims, it's been virtually impossible to buy a home, because Islamic law forbids the paying or charging of interest.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. So why did they come to America if they had no desire to integrate into the fabric of American society?

The African Development Center, with support from the state's housing agency, is now offering Islamic mortgages as a way to help close the home ownership gap among Muslim immigrants.

Minneapolis, Minn. — Islamic law does make exceptions to the ban on interest, if one's family is at stake. But the exceptions are open to interpretation and for many observant Muslims, conventional mortgages are strictly taboo.

So why come here? Why not buy their home in the Islamic home countries?

Nawawi Sheikh is one of them. The Somali-American says he and his wife just couldn't go against their beliefs, even if it meant giving up their dream of owning a home. Still, he grew tired of moving from one rented apartment to another.

"One thing I hated was moving. I don't like to move all the time," he says.

He has no plans to move again anytime soon. Sheikh is the first home buyer to get a loan through the state's New Markets Mortgage Program. That's because, program manager Nimo Farah says, he has all the makings of a successful homeowner.

"I had lots of applications, but he's the first one, because really, he was ready. He has been working at the same job for quite a while; he took care of his credit; he had the right size family, and he had all his documents together," she said. "He was basically ready to go."

The program is targeted at low-to-moderate income families. Qualified applicants have to complete first-time home buyer education classes. The goal is to help Muslim home buyers build wealth and reap the benefits of home ownership.

Here's how the mortgage, known as Murabaha financing or "cost plus sale," works:

The state buys a home and resells it to the buyer at a higher price. The down payment and monthly installments are agreed to up front at current mortgage rates.

The deal is identical to a thirty-year fixed-rate loan, except there's no additional interest, because the higher up front price factors in payments that would have been made over the life of a traditional mortgage.

So the interest is in there but called something else. What bullshit. It's interest by any other name, but it's still interest.

A handful of private banks and lending institutions offer Islamic mortgages in the U.S., but Minnesota Housing is the first state agency to offer such a product. The program is the brainchild of Hussein Samatar, director of the African Development Center in Minneapolis.

"The process is different, but the outcome will look the same," Samatar says. "We wanted to be as conventional as possible, while respecting the tenets of Islam."

I think I am going to puke.

THE AGE OF THE CRETINS

John Jay has written an essay on the state of the world as a result of America's decadent forfeiture of all that made her great ("this has not been because of the decay of American power. it has been because of America’s timidity to exercise power"). The ensuing catastrophe(s) will be devastating. Read it all here.

not all cretins become diplomats and politicians, but the obverse seems difficult to disprove, as certainly b.hussein obama and hillary clinton are hell bent for election to establish once and for all.

since more or less the year of our lord 1945, a generalized peace and prosperity has reigned over the world, the likes of which has probably never obtained. there have most certainly been burps, such as korea and viet nam and warfare in africa and the sahara and the middle east, but it has not been on the scale and of the intensity of previous global conflict, nor centered around the european and russian global powers. (yes, i know n. viet nam was russia’s proxy, as were many african nationalist movements, but proxies are why you farm out the little conflicts, to avoid the big ones, and i think my point stands: you may disagree.) and, those interruptions of the peace and the decay into violence and savagery of a lesser scale have been attributable to the dyspepsia of socialism and marxism, and islam, … , the thuggery of the communist party in russia, china, cambodia, and the religious murder in darfur, rhwanda, and the cannibalism of the middle east, and the combination of the two in yugoslavia and kosovo and serbia.

but, as odd as it may sound after recounting the various not inconsiderable conflicts in the previous paragraphs, the world has been generally at peace. and, all because, i would assert, of what has been described as the "pax americana," or the imposition of american empire and dominance upon the world, depending on the world view being propounded. in the last 65 years or so, america has been the pre-eminent military, economic and diplomatic power in the world, and its military and diplomacy have imposed peace upon the major disputants in the world over the past 6 or 7 decades, in all regions of the world.

do you doubt this assertion?

well, we shall see, but in my opinion, there will be plenty of proof of this assertion, as this hard won world stability disintegrates in the next few years. but, before i examine that, consider if you will.—

the united states navy. world commerce flows upon our oceans, for the most part calmly and without interruption, because of the united states navy. since wwii it has been the world’s only true blue water navy, and the only navy on the face of the earth able to project power to all points of the globe. it has kept the sea lanes of the world open and uninterrupted over those years, which may seem obvious upon even the briefest reflection, but what is not so obvious, given the whining and crying and caterwauling that goes on about the united states from all quarters, is that it has been the one institution on the face of the earth entrusted by the rest of the world to carry on this function.

you have never heard it expressed just that way before, have you?

the english have never really built a navy capable of interdicting the americans, and neither have the french or the germans, and in a very real sense, neither have the russians and their proxies, nor their soviet predecessors. and, of the genuinely maritime peoples of the world, the scandinavians, the japanese, the filipinos, none of them have sought to interfere with the sway of the american navy.

do you really think these people could not have built bottoms to put guns and missiles on, had they really thought it necessary in order to protect their maritime geopolitical interests, or to protect their commerce? with all due apology, (and i mean no sincere apology), you are quite foolish, indeed.

the reason that no one has built navies to counteract the american navy is that no one has thought it particularly necessary, having accrued every benefit associated with american hegemony on the oceans, and having experienced no burdens or humiliations of national interests because of unimpeded american power.

one should not be unmindful that even in this later day, no other nation on earth has strategic air craft carriers even remotely comparable to an american super carrier, and no nation on earth can put to sea an integrated air craft carrier task force remotely comparable to an american task force, and no nation has the amphibious landing capacity of a marine amphibious carrier task force.

none. and, such has been the even handedness of america’s application of sea power, that no other nation on earth has really seen fit to challenge it, save the soviet’s, and their efforts were pitiful and lie rusting in harbor in vladivostok, a peculiar harbor for a blue water navy, if there ever was one.

the next time you start up your toyota, or bmw, or turn on your blaupunkt stereo, think of what i have said. and, in the coming years, the next time you read of a japanese car carrier being intercepted in the south china sea or off the coast of somalia, think of what i have just said with some respect, and not dismissive derision. try thinking it through to the conclusion i am going to lay on you, on your own, before i hit you with it.

the united states army & air force. in the strictest strategic sense, there is one military force of infantry, armor and combined arms able to project power in the world, and that is of the united states. the rationale behind this assertion is obvious, and ironclad, and that is because the united states army has the united states navy to ship it around the world with near impunity, and that is because all the other armies of the world are landlocked, and cannot project power away from the land because they are unavailing of a navy to get them anywhere.

there is, as a matter of fact, one army in the world that would have even a modicum of success standing toe to toe with the u.s. army and marines, and that is the communist chinese. even the u.s. army might be ill advised to slog it out with the red chinese (lord, doncha just love that expression) in the mountainous regions of china, but, on an open plain with the u.s. logistics train fully intact, the chinese would suffer prodigiously at the hands of american combined arms: they simply do not have the array of weaponry, or the numbers, to withstand american armor, artillery, helicopter and mechanized attack, nor do they remotely have the command and communications structure to fight a war of movement and maneuver with the united states. it would be, as they say, a target rich environment for u.s. forces.

the russian army. well, the various engagements in the middle east suggest that even at the heyday of soviet armored power, coming across the fulda gap in germany would not have been all that easy for the russian massed columns, as neither soviet doctrine nor weaponry showed very well in the middle east against israel.

but, the same observations apply here, as above.

the pissing and moaning of the world’s leftist politicians aside, and the stupidity of our own domestic left, … , none of this, has seriously impelled any nation save the chinese and russians to build armies and infantries and allied air forces to challenge the united states. again, the reasoning and rationales for this fact are starkly apparent to anyone capable of thinking the matter through for more than 2 seconds at a time, and that is simply because no nation on earth has felt the need to.

President Hussein to Subject US troops to International Criminal Court?

The terrible news just does not stop. It's as if Obama is in a race against time -- doing as much damage as possible to break America, destroy America before the comatose sheeples wake up.

The latest act of subterfuge? Jim B warns, "The signs are that the grandstanding Barack Obama is preparing to subject the United States to the jurisdiction of the ICC. In May, 2002 President Bush withdrew the United States from the Rome Statute which established the ICC. With America heading into global conflict, he had no wish to see US troops arraigned for alleged war crimes before a kangaroo court."

Carl in Jerusalem writes, "What to my mind was one of the most important pieces of news on Saturday has been under-commented in the blogosphere. It's this article from Saturday's London Telegraph".

The signs are that the grandstanding Barack Obama is preparing to subject the United States to the jurisdiction of the ICC. In May, 2002 President Bush withdrew the United States from the Rome Statute which established the ICC. With America heading into global conflict, he had no wish to see US troops arraigned for alleged war crimes before a kangaroo court.

That was a wise decision and probably required in terms of the US Constitution. Already, however, the Obama administration is sending out very different messages. America helped defeat a proposal that the warrant for Bashir should be suspended for 12 months - which would have been a welcome respite for the soup kitchens of Darfur. This is a policy change of considerable significance.

Nor is it the only straw in the wind. Last month US Ambassador Susan Rice, in a closed meeting of the Security Council, supported the ICC, saying it "looks to become an important and credible instrument for trying to hold accountable the senior leadership responsible for atrocities committed in the Congo, Uganda and Darfur". A week later Ben Chang, spokesman for National Security Advisor General James Jones, took a similar line, telling the Washington Times: "We support the ICC in its pursuit of those who've perpetrated war crimes."

The next logical step is for the United States to sign up to the ICC. That would flatter Obama's ego as the conscience of the world. It would also put US servicemen at the mercy of any American-hating opportunists who might choose to arraign them on trumped-up charges before an alien court whose judges are likely to be ill-disposed towards America too.

Read Carl's whole post. He takes on the flaccid moderates on the right who keep giving Obama a free pass.

Enemy update bulletin (thanks to Jan)

• Remember how Obama pledged to leave Iraq and send the troops to Afghanistan because the real terrorists where in Afghanistan?  Well, he just announced that we are losing in Afghanistan so we are going to make a deal with the "Moderate" Taliban.  He didn’t bother to tell us if the "Moderate" Taliban will continue to prohibit women/girls from getting and education or medical treatment, will sanction (encourage) honor killings, will live under the boot of sharia law.
• After saying we would withdraw from Iraq in 16 months, he is taking out much of our forces by September.  That would be 8 months.  Now that al Qaeda knows his plan, they can wait and then invade Iraq the day after we leave.  Oibama will not feel any responsibility for abandoning Iraqis and letting them get killed.
• In the meantime, he appears to have made concessions to the New Russia (Putin) while getting nothing in return.
• He has started putting restrictions on Israeli self defense.
• He has insulted the British, giving back a statue of Churchill and giving Brown a pathetic gift of 25 DVD’s.
• He has sucked up to Iran and Syria.
• He is giving combat helicopters to the Government of Lebanon – which is now Hizbullah.
• He is legitimizing Hamas by supporting a unity government of Hamas and Fatah.
• He is going to distribute your wealth to those who supported him (except Jews).  The stimulus bill will give about $1 billion to Acorn, the voter fraud community organizers.

900 Million to Gazan Muslims who Hate us

We are suffering financially in the US and we are giving 900 million to Muslims who hate us. Yes, let's give them billions for killing. Suicidal insanity.

Poll: PA Leads in Anti-American Sentiment Israel national News

IsraelNN.com) A poll released this week by the World Public Opinion polling group showed the Palestinian Authority leading several other Arab and Muslim countries in hatred for the United States, belief that the United States is battling Islam and support for attacks on American civilians.

The poll was conducted in 2007 and 2008 among residents of Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco and Pakistan, and in 2008 among residents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Jordan, Turkey and Palestinian Authority-controlled areas in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Nigerian Muslims were polled as well.

The survey also showed a slight increase in support for terrorism and attacks on US civilians in countries where the poll was conducted in both 2007 and 2008.A total of 638 PA Arabs were questioned for the poll, and the margin of error regarding their responses was four percent.

Among the findings:
A full 88 percent of PA Arabs said spreading Christianity in the Middle East was “definitely” or “probably” one of the United States' foreign policy goals, with PA residents the most likely to support this claim. Muslims in Turkey, Jordan and Pakistan were also likely to hold this belief, with between 70-80 percent of respondents in those countries answering that the spread of Christianity was “definitely” or “probably” a US goal.

Eighty-nine percent of PA respondents said the US was “definitely” or “probably” trying to control Middle East oil resources, a percent similar to that in other Muslim countries. Seventy percent said the US was “definitely” hoping to divide and weaken the Muslim world.

Over 50 percent said the US was “definitely” or “probably” interested in creating “an independent and economically viable” PA state. However, 90 percent said the US was also planning to expand Israel's borders.

Forty-nine percent said the US “purposely tries to humiliate the Islamic world.”

When asked about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, 42 percent of PA respondents said they believed Al Qaeda or another Muslim terrorist group was behind the attacks, while 27 percent blamed the American government.

UPDATE:  Obama's 900 Million Dollar Payout to Hamas

The Sultan rocks

ACTION ALERT: SENATOR KYL UNDER PRESSURE FOR HOSTING FITNA

Wilders to screen Fitna at the Capitol

In their continuing quest for Islamic world domination and the destruction of a Judeo-Christian America, Islamic groups are trying to stop this screening. Senator Kyl is merely upholding a basic tenet of American society - freedom of speech. Can we allow the suppression of free speech? Can we submit to a religious ideology of domination and submission? I beg you to take a stand.

There is a low grade civil war taking place in America. Just because the media is too afraid to report on it doesn't mean it's not happening.

Kyl under pressure for hosting Fitna Jihad Watch

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ) is coming under pressure from stealth jihad groups and their allies and dupes for his plan to host a showing of the film Fitna in The Capitol.

Please contact Senator Kyl and declare your support for his courageous decision to show this honest and accurate but politically incorrect film. He needs expressions of support more than ever today!

Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
730 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207

kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm

If you are in DC on Friday, come show your support for an American ideal - Geert Wilders.

If you missed Wilders on Beck or O'Reilly last night, go here.

AN EVENING WITH GEERT WILDERS

Wilders, the foremost defender of free speech in the modern age, will deliver an address at a reception at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, site of the Conservative Political Action Conference, on Friday, February 27, at 6:00PM.

The reception will feature a screening of Wilders’s courageous and hard-hitting film Fitna, which demonstrates how Islamic jihadists use the Qur’an and Islamic teachings to justify acts of violence and terrorism, and which has become the focus of efforts by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to restrict and criminalize free speech about the global jihad threat. A question-and-answer period will follow.

The reception is sponsored by the

David Horowitz Freedom Center,  Atlas Shrugs, Jihad Watch, and Dr. Andrew Bostom

It is open to the public. In light of the multiple threats on Geert Wilders’s life, security will be very tight: no bags or coats will be allowed, all materials brought in to the room will be searched, and the event organizers reserve the right to deny entry to or eject anyone at any time.

For more information, contact Pamela Geller of AtlasShrugs.com, wildersevening@aol.com

FIGHT ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM: MARCH ON TALLAHASSEE

Now that the mask is off of CAIR, unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial and terror tied group vanquished by the FBI, they have reconstituted themselves -- check out this stealth move in the relentless pursuit of Islamic supremacism in America.

Let's all counter march. Let  free men stand against Islamic law and domination. No special treatment for separate classes. It's UNAMERICAN.

MARCH ON TALLAHASSEE! FIGHT STEALTH JIHAD IN AMERICA!

Join us this March in Tallahassee for this historic day!

United Voices for America is hosting our community's first ever Advocacy Day in Tallahassee, the Capital of Florida. This exciting experience will introduce you to the Florida political process, where you will have the unique opportunity of speaking directly with your elected legislators.

MAKE YOUR VOICE COUNT Those who engage themselves in the political process determine the direction of their government. State laws impact all of our lives, but most people are not participating in shaping those laws; surrendering their voice to the political elite. This event will give you the tools to Make Your Voice Count in Tallahassee.

The day will be filled with opportunities for learning:

• You will learn how legislation is enacted and how it impacts your life on an every day basis
• You will see first hand how state politics works through tours, panel discussions and lectures.
• You will have the unique opportunity speak to your elected officials face to face, express your concerns and listen to their positions on issues important to you and your family.
• Activities have been planned beginning with a welcome get together on Monday evening, March 9, 2009, culminating with a closing Rally in the late afternoon of March 10, 2009. Please explore this website to gain insight into how you can participate in the political process, creating a better society for us in Florida

The Demise of the Democratic Nation State?

Dear friend and sagacious writer/thinker John Jay has written an extraordinary post over at his jewel of a blog Summer Patriot, Winter Soldier. It is stunning in its logic, clarity and reason. Yes, read it all. This is a fine mind. Heed his warning.

demise of democracy? of the nation state?

the demise of the democratic nation state?

introduction.

democratic states, free market economies and free speech are under a two pronged attack waged by islamic jihad for the last 50 years or so, and unrelentingly so by the radical left and the communist ideology since the advent of marxist thought and organizations, such as the com-intern and the various popular front revolutions since the time of lenin, trotsky and stalin. as to the latter, the west has largely successfully resisted overt and militaristic attacks in europe, in austria after wwi, and in greece and the entirety of south east asia and the pacific rim after wwii: the attack in this whole area was blunted by american efforts in viet nam, in my estimation. but the democratic states have been either oblivious to or unresisting of the attacks of the theories of the left and communism upon those values which form the basis of the free market democratic states, and this unrelenting attack carried out over the breadth of the 20th century, has been so successful that many otherwise supporters of free society are just about entirely ignorant of the values which underpin our society and culture and politics. concomitantly, the west is under unremitting terrorist attack, most of it stemming from the islamic jihad’s attempt to kick the west from the middle east, and lately, as an open and avowed attempt to conquer europe, within the context of social and demographic and religious values, and to impose sharia, or islamic law, upon the west.

it is the thesis of this little paper that these attacks are coordinated by the left and islam. the left very consciously uses the tensions in western political systems caused by islam and islam’s application of jihad, especially via the mechanism of hate speech laws to restrict and destroy free speech traditions to advance its leftist political agendas the world over. the islamic jihad uses the over complicity of euro and ameri leftist thought to provide legitimizing social justification for its terror, and receives direct financial subsidies from organizations like the united nations to subsidize and support it terror campaign, and to promote islamic immigration into the west to advance is demographic campaign to institute sharia. the left is, in short, complicitous with the jihad in its attacks, and supports the legitimacy of the jihad’s attacks upon western business interests and institutions, precisely to aid the imposition of its agenda antagonistic to the very institutions attacked by the jihad.

in order to advance this thesis, i am going to examine the various assumptions and values which have held societies and human groups together since time immemorial, and posit those which are also subsumed under the modern nation state. in other words, what beliefs and values make the constituent parts of democracy what they are together in sum, and which of these values are absolutely necessary to support the continued vitality and function of the modern democratic nation state, founded, as it is, upon free market economies and free speech. you might ask, why go to this bother? this is a good question, especially as some of these matters are not mentioned again in the course of the paper: but, think, if you will, as you read this paper, how many of these ancient values are assailed by the left and by jihad, even as the main pillars of western institutions, free market economics and free market thought, come under the direct attacks of the leftist and jihad agenda. (this requires some participation on your part.) then, i will look at the left and the jihad, with a view toward how its attack is very precisely focused on these bedrock assumptions and intellectual premises of the free market, so as to understand the very real danger that these attacks pose on the very existence of democratic states.

finally, i will try to look at the relative danger posed by the partnership of the left and the jihad. it is a very complicated situation, and very fluid, and not without some subtle ironies. for there is no less inherent antagonism between the left and islam as there exists between democracy and islam, and at some point, a reckoning will come between islam and the left as well, as islam will neither brook nor tolerate the rule of the left, and will break from the left and seek to conquer it as well. and, the euro and american left are no better at comprehending the animus that drives islam than their rightist brethren, who they seek to topple by using islam. given the inherent fluidity of this situation, i will still attempt to point towards what i consider the greater long term threat to our institutions, and our very survival as free people.

as the title to the paper suggests, i am not horribly sanguine that america and the west will survive, not because the jihad and the left are so strong, but because we as the adherents of freedom have become enfeebled, and lost our way, having forgotten the basics of what made us great in the first place. we are, in short, no longer true believers in the values that gave us our wealth and our liberties. we do not defend them jealously, to the death.

Go. Read it all.

PRESIDENT HUSSEIN TO RELEASE COLE BOMBING MASTERMIND AL-NASHIRI, KILLING 17 AMERICAN SAILORS

President Hussein is going to release the Cole mastermind after he puts on a disgusting show of bogus Americanism by inviting the 9/11 families to the White House. How cynical. I hope they refuse. They cannot help but see he is the principal architect of America's next 9/11.

President Obama Likely to Order Military Commission Charges Dropped Against Terrorist Suspect Al-Nashiri ABC Jake Tapper

ABC News has learned that on Friday, President Obama will likely order the Department of Defense's Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges may later be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody.

The announcement will not be made until after President Obama meets with the families of victims of terrorist attacks on 9/11 and on the U.S.S. Cole, where he will assure them that this step is not being done to be lenient towards al-Nashiri. The move is being done to stop the continued prosecution of al-Nashiri in a court system that his administration may ultimately find illegitimate, not for any other reason, sources told ABC News.

President Obama has expressed concern about whether the military commissions set up by the Bush administration are the proper way to go forward in pursuing charges against the U.S. detainees, and on January 22 he asked all the judges supervising the trials of detainees for a continuance of 120 days, so a team of administration officials could review the best way forward.

In almost the cases, that continuance request was granted. But last week the judge supervising the al-Nashiri trial -- Army Col. James L. Pohl, the chief judge at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court -- said he would not heed President Obama's request for a 120-day continuance, or delay, in prosecutions of terrorism suspects. Pohl called the president's request "not reasonable" and not "in the interests of justice."

The arraignment of al-Nashiri is scheduled for Monday, February 9.

Al-Nashiri has been identified as the former Persian Gulf Operations Chief for al Qaeda and the mastermind of the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. In March 2007 he testified in military court  that he only confessed to certain crimes because he has been tortured for the previous five years.

Asked for reaction to the news, Commander Kirk Lippold (Ret.), former Commander aboard the U.S.S. Cole when it was bombed on October 12, 2000, told ABC News that "I am concerned about the President considering dropping the charges because it may be indicative that the president does not intend to follow the military commissions process which has undergone extensive legal and legislative review."

"For some reason the administration says what's been expressed through the legislature is not sufficient," Lippold said of the military commissions. "They need to allow the process to go forward."

The 26-year Navy veteran said he found the decision to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay "disappointing," but he seemed willing to hear the president out.

"I'm interested in hearing what his long-term plan is on how he's going to deal with the detainees because he hasn't articulated that," he said. "He may have a clear-cut path that may massage some of the concerns that I know many of the families have right now."

In a way, the President tied his administration's own hands, requiring his Secretary of Defense to drop the charges. The executive order President Obama signed on closing the Guantanamo Detention Facilities states that "all proceedings" in the US Military Commissions must be "halted": (more)

UPDATE: R-E-A-D   I-T  A-L-L

AHMADINEJAD GIVES PRESIDENT HUSSEIN LIST OF DEMANDS: FIRST, ACCEPT NUCLEAR IRAN

You have to hand it to President Hussein. He managed to shatter decades of American hegemony as leverage in dealing with our  mortal enemies in just ...... days. It's staggering, two weeks and Iran is setting conditions for our surrender.

IRAN SAYS US MUST ACCEPT ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAMME Financial Times (hat tip Susan)

A senior adviser to Iran’s president says dialogue with the US will succeed only if the Obama administration accepts Tehran’s right to have a nuclear programme.

[...]

The US hopes to engage with Iran and persuade the country to halt its uranium enrichment activities, the most sensitive part of the nuclear programme, and withdraw its support for militant groups in the region.

The launch of a homemade Iranian satellite on Tuesday further raised concerns among western powers that Iran was accelerating its development of ballistic missile technology.

But Iran too has a list of demands requiring US policy shifts.

On some issues – such as the removal of US troops from Iraq and stabilising Afghanistan – Iran and the US can find common ground.

Others, particularly Iran’s claim that its nuclear programme is peaceful in nature and so advanced that it has become a fact on the ground, could prove the two sides’ differences are irreconcilable.

“If [US] policies change the two nations will get closer to each other, the two governments will get closer to each other and the chances for dialogue and co-operation will succeed,” said Mr Samareh.

“The policy of [George W.] Bush was to use this [the nuclear issue] as an excuse to stand up against the Iranian nation.

“For there to be change, this policy has to change.” In Afghanistan, he said, Iran was expecting a more robust effort to fight opium production.

Another big concern for Tehran were US attempts to negotiate with elements of the Taliban, the radical Sunni group ousted from power and seen by Tehran as a security threat.

“When the US goes into Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting illegal groups how can it enter into negotiations with them?” said Mr Samareh.

He also pointed to the Bush administration’s support for Israel during conflicts such as the offensive in Gaza against Hamas, which is supported by Iran, and the 2006 Israeli war against Hizbollah, another Iran-backed group.

In both cases the US sought to delay the passing of a UN ceasefire resolution.

“Is the new US administration going to continue these policies? If it does, then nothing will change,” he said.

While the US last week sent envoy George Mitchell to discuss Gaza with leaders in the region, including Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, which Hamas ousted from Gaza two years ago, Iran hosted Khaled Meshaal, the Hamas leader, in Tehran this week.

Nato called last week for greater efforts to involve Iran in resolving Afghan issues.

[...]

Western officials say pressure will intensify on Tehran to compromise, as financial sanctions, designed to force Iran to suspend uranium enrichment, bite harder in a climate of lower oil prices.

Although Iranian business has suffered from the restrictions imposed by the US and the UN, record oil revenues have cushioned their impact.

Mr Samareh, however, played down the impact of sanctions, saying the financial sector’s isolation had, in effect, helped shield it from the global financial crisis.

The government was hoping to counter lower oil revenues by restructuring subsidies and curbing current expenditures, he said.

Inflation, meanwhile, which had reached more than 25 per cent, was on its way down, and housing prices were coming down, all of which was, he claimed, leading to “economic enthusiasm”.

DOUGLAS FEITH: A BLOGGER INTERVIEW ON IRAQ AND JIHADIST IDEOLOGY

Douglas Feith's book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, is coming out in paperback, with all proceeds going to charities that support veterans and their families. He conducted an interview with a few bloggers (myself, Red State, Powerline, Fausta et al). Here's a excerpt, and here's the audio - it's about an hour: Download DougFeithConferenceCall2.2.09

Geller: To what extent did the Islamic doctrines of jihad and the requirement to subjugate infidels under the rule of Islamic law enter into your calculations for Iraq, and do you think the persecution of Christians had anything to do with those doctrines?

Feith: Well ... uh, the jihadist ideology was obviously a major... issue, uh, in our analysis of the strategy for the war on terrorism. And one of the things the Pentagon took the lead on ... was calling attention to the ideological component of the war on terror, and one of the things I deal with with in the book (which is a very sad story), was how it was Rumsfeld and General Myers and others at the Pentagon, who over and over again, right from the beginning, right after 9/11, were emphasizing the importance of an ideological effort, a strategic communications effort and a general strategy for countering ideological support for terrorism. And when the rest of the government wasn't doing very much in that area, we created within my office, within the policy office at the Pentagon, the Office of Strategic Influence to do work in this area. And the Public Affairs people in the Pentagon and other people around the US government were very unhappy with the creation of this office, some of it was for turf reasons and some of it was for other reasons, but one of the consequences was somebody leaked - well, leaked, no - no, somebody lied - to The New York Times and gave a report saying that this Office of Strategic Influence was intending to lie to foreign journalists. And The New York Times ran a front page story saying that.  It caused a big imbroglio that resulted in the shutting down of this office.

I don't think the US government has recovered to this day from that fiasco, because every time anyone suggested creating an office to really deal with jihadist ideology in a systematic or strategic way at the Pentagon, people would say, oh, no, we are not going to have another Office of Strategic Influence problem. And that meant the Pentagon couldn't do it, and the Pentagon was the place that kept recognizing the importance of the ideological struggle. The State Department, which was the logical place to do it, for its own institutional and cultural reasons wasn't inclined to fight the battle that way, and they tended to think that all we needed was a public diplomacy campaign. Uh, and that's why you got all these brochures that were famous about rebranding America and showing how America treats its Muslims very nicely and ...which is a fine thing to do but it is far short of an ideological campaign against jihadist extremism. And so anyway, I would say that one of big deficiencies in our strategy on our war on terrorism remains a serious effort to counter Islamist ideology. 

Now your question was, how does that relate to Iraq, Iraq ... I mean, we did not view Saddam Hussein as, you know, as... pushing that ideology - the Baathist ideology was quite different, but what we were concerned about was that Saddam was the kind of guy who, for the other reasons, would likely be fighting us in the future as he had fought us in the past, and that he might, in a future fight with us, use his connections with various terrorist groups, some of whom were jihadist extremists, use them to hurt us. So we were concerned about that, but, uh, obviously the Saddam Hussein regime didn't have the same ideology as, for example, the Taliban regime had, which was much more in line with the jihadist ideology of Al Qaeda.

It's worse than I thought.  State department brochures to fight the jihad. It took so little to derail any real understanding of the enemy that means us dead or subjugated.

I guess that was when we lost the war.

Rumsfeld got it. Right after 911 Rumsfeld got it. But we had already been infiltrated.

UPDATE:  John Hawkin's has published RWN's Favorite Quotes From Douglas Feith's "War and Decision

Douglas Feith's "War and Decision:" One Of The Most Important Books Of The Last Decade

Read the review and you will find out the answer to important questions like....

"Why did Saddam pretend to have WMD stockpiles when he really didn't" and "So, after we took Iraq, why did the reconstruction turn out to be so costly in blood and treasure?"

Also, find out which administration official I said Feith portrayed like so, " an arrogant, passive aggressive, disloyal bureaucrat who never said that he opposed going to war, but dragged his feet at every opportunity and fought policy battles through leaks to the press."

EVIL AXIS SMELLS DESPERATION: OPERATION STEAMROLL HUSSEIN

The butchers smell blood. The vultures smell weakness. Like a dog that attacks when he smells fear. In his first formal interview in his presidency - he spoke first to al-arabiya television groveling and embarrassing himself (and us) by prostrating himself to millions, insisting on the need to "restore" the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."

Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them. It engaged in five military campaigns, every one of which involved -- and resulted in -- the liberation of a Muslim people: Bosnia, Kosovo, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq. (Krauthammer here)

Obama administration drafting "conciliatory letter to Iran"

How weak is King Hussein? So weak, in fact, that dead men are making demands on the O-bumbler:

FIDEL CASTRO DEMANDS OBAMA RETURN GUANTANAMO BASE

Would Castro have ever made such a request of Bush? Bwahahahahaha

HAVANA — Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro demanded on Thursday that President Barack Obama return the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to Cuba without conditions, and he accused the new U.S. leader of supporting "Israeli genocide" against Palestinians.

Castro, who had recently praised Obama as "honest" and "noble", lashed out at his administration for stating that Washington will not return Guantanamo if it has any military use for the United States and without concessions in return.

"Maintaining a military base in Cuba against the will of the people violates the most elemental principles of international law," Castro wrote in a column posted on the government-run website www.cubadebate.cu.

This from Mr. Human Rights.

"Not respecting Cuba's will is an arrogant act and an abuse of immense power against a little country," Castro said, resorting to a charge he has leveled against the 10 previous U.S. presidents since he came to power in a 1959 revolution.

Cuba indefinitely leased Guantanamo to the United States in 1903 after the United States occupied the country during the 1898 Spanish-American War. Castro charges that the base at the south-eastern tip of Cuba was taken over illegally.

Earlier on Thursday, Washington's loudest critic in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, also urged Obama to return the Guantanamo base, after applauding his decision to close the prison camp for terrorism suspects there.

"Now he should return Guantanamo and Guantanamo Bay to the Cubans because that is Cuban territory," Chavez, Cuba's closest ally, said in a speech in Brazil.

I think we ought to liberate Cuba.

And then of course there was this venomous vulture who smelled dead flesh.

Iran is demanding an apology. They have been at war with us since 1979. They attacked our embassy under the clown Carter and took Americans hostages, they killed 243 Marines in the barrack bombings in Lebanon in 1981, they are Hezboallah and Hamas, they were behind a good deal of the insurgency in Iraq -- and Ahmadi Nijad is telling Obambi to apologize?

Obama should apologise to Iran: Ahmadinejad Yahoo (hat tip rut)

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded on Wednesday that US President Barack Obama apologise for "crimes" committed by the United States against Iran over the past 60 years.

The hardline leader also called on Washington to withdraw its troops from across the world as a proof of Obama's policy of change.

You were standing against the Iranian people in the past 60 years," Ahmadinejad said during an address in the western region of Khermenshah that was broadcast by state television.

60 years ........... Israel.

"Those who speak of change must apologise to the Iranian people and try to repair their past bad acts and the crimes they committed against Iran."

As to the troops, he said he expected two kinds of "deep and fundamental" change.

Fundamental

"Meet people, talk to them with respect and put an end to the expansionist policies. If you talk about change it must put an end to the US military presence in the world, withdraw your troops and take them back inside your borders."

Ahmadinejad said the advocates of change must "stop supporting the Zionists, outlaws and criminals."

He called on the United States to "stop interfering in other people's affairs" and said Washington should "let the American people decide their own future ... Stop pressuring them," he added, without saying to what he was referring.

Ahmadinejad said he welcomed change but the "change has to be fundamental."

Fundamental..........ist.

Al-QAEDA Endorsed BOMB-MAKING Guide for sale on Amazon

Money quote: An Amazon spokesman said the firm stood by their decision to sell the book.

“We do not dictate to our customers what they can or cannot kill buy.”

Bare Naked Islam has the exclusive here: (hat tip Jane)

Do-It-Yourself BOMB GUIDE FOR SALE ON WEB

Terrorists can make bombs like this one using the guide pictured below  

A DIY bomb-making guide recommended as a “must-own” by al-Qaida supporters is available from web store Amazon.

The Daily Star (UK) can reveal the lethal book contains step-by-step instructions on how to make explosives and detonators. A shocked MP described the book as a “terrorist’s dream” and called for it to be banned.

The cover of The Preparatory Manual Of Explosives, Third Edition boasts “574 pages – 166 explosives” alongside photos of blasts.  It starts by explaining basic science such as the periodic table, how elements react with each other and how to mix them in test tubes. It tells readers in minute detail how to make deadly devices including fertiliser bombs, Semtex and TNT and, crucially for would-be bomb nuts, their “overall value as an explosive”.

The £37.49 book is available to any customer on the online store. And it adds: “The book will enlighten the reader in the art of explosives chemistry and science.”

The book, compiled by author Jared Ledgard, has become so useful to wannabe terrorists that it is listed on Islamic websites as a “must-own”.

One fanatics’ site features it alongside pro-Taliban propaganda and information from “Holy Warriors in Afghanistan”.

However, on Amazon the book is listed under the encyclopaedias category alongside books for children of school age. 

Last night an Amazon spokesman said the firm stood by their decision to sell the book. He added: “We do not dictate to our customers what they can or cannot buy.”

DAILY STAR UK

Prominent Sunni Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, Banned in U.S., Opens Washington D.C. Office of Islamist News Organization, Says It (IslamOnline) Is "The Jihad of Our Era"

In two words? National suicide ...........

Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi On Al-Jazeera Incites Against Jews, Arab Regimes, and the U.S.; Calls on Muslims to Boycott Starbucks and Others; Says 'Oh Allah, Take This Oppressive, Jewish, Zionist Band of People... And Kill Them, Down to the Very Last One' Following are excerpts from a Friday sermon delivered by Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on January 9, 2009. 

Prominent Sunni Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, Banned in U.S., Opens Washington D.C. Office of Islamist News Organization, Says It (IslamOnline) Is "The Jihad of Our Era" MEMRI

On December 27, 2008, the Islamist news organization Islamonline.net (IOL), which is overseen by prominent Sunni sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, announced that it had opened an office in Washington, D.C. Following is information about the new office, and about Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi's connection to it:

IOL "Aims to Contribute to Projecting Much-Needed True Image of Muslims"

According to the announcement, the new Washington office, located in the National Press Building, was opened "in an effort to reach out to its wider audience and larger readership."

IOL English managing editor Muhammad Zidan said, "This new office stands as a step forward in realizing part of the aims and objectives of IOL - that is, promoting awareness about important events in the Arab, Muslim and larger world, in addition to providing services to Muslims and non-Muslims in several languages." [1]

Acting Bureau Chief Ossama El-Shamy said that he would put all his efforts into guaranteeing the success and growth of IOL presence in, and coverage of, the U.S.

Kamal Badr, IOL English website editor-in-chief, said, "In a true sense, America can be called a multicultural and multi-ethnic society. It is full of activities with interests to Muslims... Here in Washington D.C., one has direct access to important activities and personalities that will definitely enhance our coverage. [The] Washington office is a step in a proper direction for the English website, in a sense that it will further provide it a solid media ground in the strategic areas for its international coverage."

The announcement added that IOL "aims to contribute to projecting the much-needed true image of Muslims."

Zidan said, "U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has proved that if there are persistent efforts, there can be a change... Islam has a universal appeal. We invite all the people, whether Muslims or non-Muslims, to come forward and express their views from [the] IOL platform." [2]

IOL Founded, Supported, Supervised By Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi

IOL was, according to PBS, founded by prominent Sunni sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi. [3] In its early stages, Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi personally "adopted" IOL, [4] supported it, and supervised it, and, according to The Guardian, it has remained under his supervision. [5] Al-Qaradawi has promoted IOL in the media, especially on his weekly Al-Jazeera TV program. [6]

Al-Qaradhawi, who is banned from entering the U.S. and the U.K., [7] is among the top spiritual leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and serves as a spiritual guide for many other Islamist organizations across the world. He heads the European Council for Fatwa and Research, and is founder and director of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS). [8]

Al-Qaradhawi's activity in recent months has included preaching against Shi'ites and the spread of the Shi'a in the Sunni Arab world. [9] Most recently, in his Friday sermon of January 9, 2009 he promoted boycotting U.S. goods, including the Starbucks chain, as well as the U.K. chain Marks and Spencer, stressing to his audience, "[P]ut the boycott against the nation's enemies into action. Every riyal you pay turns into a bullet in the heart of your brothers in Gaza and in other Islamic countries." In the same sermon, he also said, "Oh Allah, take this oppressive, Jewish, Zionist band of people... and kill them, down to the very last one.'" [10]

Al-Qaradhawi: IOL is "The Jihad of Our Era"

According to Arab Media and Society, a publication of the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo, IOL is "one of the most-visited Arabic/English Islamic web portals which issue fatwas." In a promotional brochure for IOL, Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi said of its mission: "This project is neither nationalistic nor one aiming at a grouping or a group of people; it is a project for the entire Islamic community. It is the jihad of our era." [11]

Al-Qaradhawi: IOL A Means "To Carry This Religion to All People Around the World"

In a speech posted on the website, Al-Qaradhawi stressed IOL as a means of fulfilling the obligation "to carry this religion to all people around the world... We [have already] used print, radio, and television. Today, there is a new medium known as the Internet. All religions have used it to call to their religions and sects. It is the duty of the Muslims to use this tool to call to their great religion, which God has granted them with, and leave others - who have lost their way - to call it... This is what this major, global project - Islam Online - is doing. It carries the message of Islam to the world."

Patriots Accosted by Pro-Hamas Thugs in DC

Great post over at Free Republic. They had a run-in with the pro-HAMAS thugs and gangstas that are infecting our body politic.

Go here: Freepers Stand Their Ground, Charged By Hamas Radicals, Wash. D.C. Jan. 10,2009 -- PIC HEAVY  There are lots of additional pictures in the links of the main story.

MUSLIM VIOLENCE IN NY

It's not just the Arab-fascist alliance on the loose in Europe, it's here in the US. I bear witness here and in all of the pro-jihad rallies I have been covering.

Even in NYC these people think there are no repercussions for their repulsive actions. (hat tip honestly)

9 arrested in NYC pro-Palestinian rally CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) — At least nine protesters were arrested in a pro-Palestinian rally in New York that injured seven police officers, authorities said.

The extent of injuries varied from minor to serious, New York police said. Two officers sustained head injuries.

Detective Cheryl Crispin said the protesters taken into custody faced charges ranging from disorderly conduct to reckless endangerment.

In a statement, the NYPD said the officers were injured when trying to break up a fight between two demonstrators.

The demonstrators had gathered on Manhattan’s West Side on Sunday afternoon to protest the Israeli incursion in Gaza.

I just heard about call from a friend who was attacked after the rally, near her house, by a pack of Muslims. She was carrying an Israeli and an American flag. She is writing up the details now and I will post them here. We are very concerned about this, both in itself and as a sign of escalating violence.

Here is her account [emphasis mine]:

"After walking home from the 42 Street & 7th Avenue Pro-Israel rally, I watched the Muslim rally participants march up 8th Avenue closely controlled by many NYC police to keep them moving along. Even so, it appeared that many of the young men and women were eyeing the bystanders on the sidewalk in threatening ways almost challenging someone to disagree with their Death to Israel and God Bless Hitler chants.

I went back to my apartment where I met my boyfriend who had also just returned from the second Pro Israel rally on 39th Street & 7th Avenue. We walked outside the building and across a major midtown avenue on the West Side to buy some groceries. He was still carrying the Israeli flag and we were both wearing baseball caps with the American flag and USA on the brims. A large number of Muslims were milling around since it seems that their rally had reached its end point and was dispersing. Six Muslim men were being photographed with posters with the words, "Praise Hamas and Hezbollah, Reopen the Ovens" and were taking photos of themselves and their posters. Seeing us with the Israel flag, they began screaming, "You're assholes, Kill the Jews, We are going to kill you, This is OUR country," etc.

We went into the corner deli and they began banging on the window and stood outside in a very threatening mob waiting for us to leave. I heard one man say, "She is a female" - very observant. I don't know what this was suppose to signal to his fellow terrorists. When we left the deli a mob of the original Muslims and others who joined them came up to us screaming death to the Jews, and one man around 19/20 years old ran up and with force and hatred threw an egg into my friend's eye. This may not seem like much but I am sure the intent was for the egg shells to be lodged in his eye. The egg was not thrown from afar against his coat but was thrown like a rock would be - to inflict as much harm as possible. The assailant then grabbed our Israeli flag, threw it to the ground, and was spitting on it and wiping his feet on it. When we asked a traffic cop to make an arrest, the assailant ran away down the block but the traffic agent did not answer us nor did he call 911. He passively stood by doing NOTHING.

Two people standing on the street took photos of our attack and said they would email us with the photos to identity the criminals. We then walked back across the street to our building and were followed by a pack of Muslims - about 8 or 10 - who continued to threaten, mock and scream at us. They seemed surprised at our ferocious counter verbal attack. However, they came right within 6 inches of us saying they would kill us. One of the men was about to attack me when my boyfriend saw the assault about to begin and said, "If you touch her, I swear I'll kill you." At that point the original traffic control cop came over and a second traffic agent joined him and forced the crowd to disperse. They asked us to go into the apartment building lobby which we did.

We immediately called the police and asked to make a police report. Two NYC policemen came to the apartment about an hour later hour and took the information. They were very courteous and said they will file the report and a detective is to contact us tomorrow. They apologized for taking so long to come by but explained that there were many incidents of a similar nature that were taking place as the Muslim rally broke up. They also shared that 2 NYC police officers had been attacked at the rally and that the Muslims are 'out of control.'

Without the photos, it will be near impossible to find the Muslims involved. Even with the photos, I am not sure if the police can find the assailant or make an arrest. I am told by an attorney friend, that just the act of following and threatening is a crime in and of itself. Whatever it takes, we'll take it as far as possible to prosecute.

Any ideas as how to pursue this would be welcome. This attack could happen to anyone. This attack happened in midtown Manhattan, a major American city on a Sunday afternoon. Our country is under attack from within. We need to do much more than attend rallies."

Btw, just to clarify something, she and her boyfriend are not Jewish.

 

PRESIDENT ELECT B. HUSSEIN AND ISNA

According to ABC's The Note, Colin Powell held a press conference in DC last Friday touting the launch of  Obama's new Web site, USAService.org, which allows Americans to find -- and to promote -- local service opportunities that are searchable by zip code.

President Bush's former secretary of state said he was on the site this morning and vouched for its usefulness.

First Obama Site is linked to 'Bush Shoe Toss' event. Now it seems, b. hussein is promoting radical Islamic groups .

Reader Jim was perusing Obama's new cyber digs and found this, another "day of service" planned by USA Service - this time it's ISNA's:

Masjidush Shura Day of Service (ISNA) (Day of Service - January 19) Serving Southeast Washington, DC and Metro area by promoting educational activities, business activities and charitable efforts (providing clothing and other household needs for the needy). The Masjid will also serve as a transfer point for prison inmates, and will work with them from half-way houses through drug recovery programs on to jobs and job-training programs. Time: Monday, January 12 12:00 PM Host: ghayth kashif Location: TBA (Washington, DC) Washington, DC 20032

Prisons are the number one source of  indoctrination and inculcation of Muslims and "converts" to jihad.

Of course, the ISNA is the "Islamic Society of North America".

Terrorists. Unindicted co-conspirator in the same Hamas funding case that named CAIR. Named as a Muslim Brotherhood group in the same Brotherhood document that speaks of its goal of destroying Western civilization from within.(more)

More on ISNA here.

JIHAD IN USA: PRO-HAMAS DEMONSTRATIONS ACROSS THE USA "I want you to watch as I kill your children, cover your children in their own blood!" I want you to to watch me blow your children's brains out"

SAN FRANCISCO: Mike admits:

I was at the SF demonstration today (Sat, 1/10) surrounded by Israeli flags.  Across the street, the barbarians separated from us by numerous police and about 20 yards. The venom, hatred, and lies the Hamas lovers spewed was beyond comprehension. I am convinced we truly stand alone in this madness.

Dr. Bones friend also made it to the San Fran death march.

She is up in San Francisco...here is part of her report...

"Just back home from SF, exhausted and disgusted at the vileness and stupidity of the Americans who deny thee is a problem or who support the Hamassholes and Palestinian barbarians, whom, I don't understand were not arrested for their vulgar and hateful speech!  It was appalling! Alarming and frightening. 

They were screaming

"I want you to watch as I kill your children, cover your children in their own blood!  I want you to to watch me blow your children's brains out!" I didn't hear anyone shouting "Jews back to the ovens" as they did in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. 

PIGS!!! I plan on writing to the media this week demanding that they report on this and to the police demanding to know why these people who were speaking through microphones and standing on a stage were not arrested! People were horrified at what those bastard terrorist supporters were screaming...I'm horrified at all of the brain dead American leftoid tools who silently support them!"

When I think that these brutal thugs want to torture and kill our children and us, I can't help but feel nauseated and wonder why more people refuse to stand up for decency and human dignity.

I got a call from a friend who was at a Los Angeles rally last weekend...He said he and his friends had American and Israeli flags flying from their sunroofs...He said a crowd surrounded their car and prevented them from moving...they spat upon them and my friend closed his windows to prevent being spat upon...A large group of hostile Palestinian supporters continued spitting and spitting on their windshield until it was completely covered with spit..

FLORIDA: Reader Janice writes me,

I am too lazy to set up a Type Pad account but had to "unload" to someone.  There was a rally for Palestine in my town today - I had been vacationing and did not know about it but saw all the cops and the protesters around the park downtown where I live.  Of course it was mostly Muslims, the ladies in their headscarves and the guys with the checked cloth [keffiyeh-Atlas] around their necks, foreheads, etc but there were probably a few  peace loving Emo's in there too.

I knew there had to be some counter protesters so looked around and saw a gentleman and a lady across the street from the crowd separated by just about every cop in the city.  (Curious but the cops were all facing THEM as if they were the threat?) I asked the man if it was just them and they said there had been about 50 or so more earlier in the day but it was hard to get the word out.   He  mentioned  how End the Occupation  had organized this and we were looking across the street at the crowd facing us as he talked.  I thanked him  and then spontaneously shook his hand  (probably too spontaneous as I think I may have scratched my nose a bit before - sorry there).  Anyway, I then went on my way but just as I was off I hear behind me this mocking "Great Job, Jew", I think directed at the gentleman, and these two strapping young guys, one with a Palestinian flag draped over him, are walking behind me. 

No big deal as I just paused and let them pass and walked behind THEM.  I did not feel intimidated and did not think it was deliberate that they felt the need to leave the crowd just after I turned to go, though i was probably conspicuous as I was in such a small company --  maybe it was a coincidence.  What really struck me was that sneering  "Great Job, Jew," the thoroughly mocking tone of that voice as if assured that the worst insult he could possibly sling at someone was the word, "Jew."  (I am not Jewish myself.)  It suddenly hit me on a personal non-intellectual level what we are up against here.  Wish I could explain the feeling I got from it but it was almost like a newsreel from Germany in the 30's flashed in my head.

WASHINGTON DC: JON covered the jew hating death march: Pro-Hamas theater meets Free Republic January 10th, 2009

This afternoon in DC, at Lafayette Park, across from the White House amidst preparations for the Inauguration, several thousand protesters gathered ostensibly to show their support for Gazans. But as you can see by the flag above, it was more of an Israel Hate Fest than support for anyone.

About three blocks from Lafayette Park, in Farragut Park, I ran into a prayer session;

Inside Lafayette Park, it was interesting to see who was behind the protest;

Looking for information on the Spartacist League, an internet surfer lands on the website for the International Communist League. And they’ve got no love for President-elect Barack Obama;

Of course, I bumped into our maoist friend Brian Becker, the national coordinator of ANSWER;

On the video, you can see him tell his two friends that I’m stalking him. Paranoid little shit.

Atlas reader C was in DC too. His observations:

Just back from today's anti-Israel rally in DC organized by International ANSWER (aka "international losers"). 

Pam as you know this group has organized anti-war rallies around the country that have attracted tens of thousands of people...and for today's pro-Hamas rally in DC they partnered with TONS of Muslim groups as evidenced by their flyer:

This was billed as their "National March on Washington" for Gaza as they clearly hoped to get TENS of thousands to come out and demonize Israel.

Well, it was a HUGE BUST! As I watched the marchers assemble at 1 p.m., I would say there were in fact several hundred, at MOST 1,000, nowhere NEAR the "tens of thousands" they promised and they were about 99% Muslim.

But the BEST part is that NOBODY PAID ANY ATTENTION TO THEM!!!  Yes, as I walked among my fellow Americans, people were LAUGHING at the marchers and paid them NO attention whatsover...it was awesome.  They are pathetic....

ORLANDO: Big thanks to Mark who covered the jihad demonstration in Orlando today.

There was a small counter protest at the beginning but they went away.The teen leader and his thugs were taking pictures of me.  So i waived.  Wish there would have been more counter protest.  Hard to mix it up outnumbered 1,000 to 1. I would estimate the crowd to be 800.  The demonstrators claimed 2,000.  Split the difference and call it 1,400.

motley in body and in soul

jihad punk. he is so tuff. /not

CHICAGO: Pam's report on Muslim's blood libel used to create hate for Jew. Pictures of that rally here.

March against Israel –CHICAGO

Sponsored by Coalition for Justice in Palestine

“….look at those pictures and look at those children are those terrorists? The terrorist is the one who stops the food and the drink and the electricity for the people of Gaza….they are facing the most brutal enemy in the world, in the history of mankind and those are the Israeli’s.

[surely Palestinians would have prospered under Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot.]

SPEAKER #4

Dr. Mohammed Sahloul, Chairman of Chicago CAIR

President of the Mosque Foundation

“….remind them with the Mexican-American hero Cesar Chavez, who said, our struggle is not easy, those who oppose us, those who oppose are cause are rich and powerful, and they have many allies in high places, we are poor, our allies are few, but we have something the rich do not own, we have our bodies, and our spirits and the justice of our cause as our weapons.

[Great, instead of Kassam rockets lob Justice]

3 MORE SYNAGOGUES ATTACKED in Chicago and Defiled: "DEATH TO ISRAEL"

We must arm the synagogues. Remember just a few days ago I reported the throwing of a molotov cocktail at a shul in Chicago. Reader Crusty wrote, "Today again, after a "Palestinian" rally yesterday, a synagogue in a nearby Chicago suburb was broken into and defaced with graffiti early this morning. Broken doors, “Death to Israel” spray painted on the wall. Where there are stupid savages publicly rallying in defense of terrorists, there are violent, criminal acts of hatred. It’s getting to be a 1:1 ratio around here".

Well today, another three shuls came under attack.

THREE SYNAGOGUES DEFACED Chicago Sun Times

UPDATE: Murphy wrote to me, "As I was driving up California Ave. today, I saw a hideous sight:  the words "death to Israel" spray painted in neon orange on the side of Lubavitch Mesivta at 2756 W. Morse in Chicago.  I went home to get my camera and returned to take a few pictures.  Getting the pics was difficult due to the 10 inches of snow we've gotten since yesterday.  I couldn't pull over into a parking spot, so I slowed down and took 4 pictures."

OT RELATED: Chabad House in Charlotte Vandalized

Supporting Israel and Fighting the Jihad in US Cities and Towns

Debbie Schlussel was at the counter Hamas demonstration in Detroit today. Check out what she says here:

I just got back from the pro-HAMAS/Hezbollah rally the Muslims held (and our much smaller counter-rally) at the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit. A lot of very violent, anti-Semitic slogans were shouted, some of which I think I caught on video (am new to this). Will try to edit and put up later.

But for now, please note that once they discovered who I was--which they didn't detect for hours--the Muslims were surrounding me, wouldn't leave me alone. They also got an Egyptian Detroit Police officer to ask me to stop filming them on public property. So much for my civil rights, which the National Lawyers Guild attorneys there to "monitor the rights of Muslim-Americans" didn't seem to care about "monitoring."

The Muslim HAMAS supporters were deliberately bumping and trying to trip me, then telling police I touched them. They became more and more enraged when I wouldn't engage them and answer their questions. I feared for my life. So did the Detroit Police Department who had to escort me back to my car, so I could get away safely. One of the two gentleman DPD officers told me he feared for my safety. Many thanks to these chivalrous officers.

Atlas reader Rick was in Detroit today at the pro-Israel rally and counter protest to the pro Hamas rally:

We had a good enthusiastic crowd of about 35 people who showed up complete with Israel and American flags and signs in downtown Detroit today. It was cold and windy but that did not matter.  Everyone was happy to stand up and shout for Israel and America.  The 'Palestinian' group was in the same complex but on the other side, separated by police.

Jim in New Orleans reported the following:

I just got home from the Night of Solidarity at the New Orleans Jewish Community Center.  Here are my observations:

* The meeting started outside the building.  However, by the time I arrived, the group had already moved inside to an auditorium.  I estimate approx. 300 people were seated, plus maybe 25 standing on the side and in the back.  Also, there were about 17 people on the platform.  Tables were set up on one side of the room; children sat at the tables and drew pictures, while the adults had their meeting.  There was also a box for donating to Israel.

* There were a few speakers from Israel.  One in particular has lived in Sderot all his life, and he described how it was to be under constant attack.  Also, an Israeli General Consul officer spoke.  He informed us that Hamas is hijacking the aid trucks which Israel sends into Gaza, and they are then selling the supplies to the Palestinian people!

* Other speakers included the pastor of First Baptist Church of New Orleans, as well as a representative of the Coushatta Indian Tribe.  All expressed solidarity with Israel and with the Jewish people.

* Statements were read from both Louisiana US Senators, and from some of the Representatives.

* New Orleans City Council member Arnie Fielkow was on the platform, but he didn't speak (unless he spoke before I arrived).

* At the very end, we all stood up, faced the flag of Israel, and sang the Jewish anthem (I don't know the name of it).  A very moving experience.

Hatikvah!

* Several policemen were present.  There was no anti-Jewish protest or any other such action.I was disappointed that the group didn't meet on the steps of City Hall or at the State Capital building.  Still, it was a start...

From your man on the street in New Orleans

UPDATE: Neo-con was at the pro-Israel rally in Philly today. Check out his pics here

UPDATE: And Solstice Witch was in Ottawa today and files this magnificent personal reflection:

I just got back from the Israel support rally here in FREEZING Ottawa. We were not allowed to bring in cameras,, so I didn't get pics. They had metal detectors at the entrance and scanned people as they came in. There was a police presence,, marked and unmarked cars, and they had men inside discretely placed throughout the Jewish Centre.

They supplied flags, and some documentation. The hall seats around 500 people,, and there were another 200 at least,, standing room only, the place was packed. There were no hamas supporters, they would not have been allowed into the hall. The people were beautiful, friendly and smiled at me when I made eye contact and smiled at them. I felt welcome in their space, and I sat one row from the front.

The Honourable John Baird,, one of our Conservative Ministers was a speaker,, and I am so happy I voted for him in my riding! This man knows the truth ..... he get's it. He said,, imagine,, if what was happening in Sderot, was happening here in Ottawa, or anywhere else in our towns and cities. He really showed the audience, that Canada and the Conservative Government,, stands with Israel. And it WAS GREAT, he gave the NDP hell for not supporting Israel. But of course the NDP has radical islamists in it so they are a LOST CAUSE!! He got a standing ovation, was a great speech!

I was very impressed when Her Excellency Miriam Ziv, Israel's Ambassador to Canada,  presented her speech. She was a fascinating speaker and I learned a lot from what she said. She also got a standing ovation.
There were other speakers,, Barbara Farber, she is President of the UIA Federations Canada. They had a man named Marty Davis, in Ashkelon, who came online, in teleconference and video and he was telling us how unbearable day to day life, is - year after year -  all they want is PEACE!!!
I felt like crying a few times when they showed a video of day to day life  in Nagev, a town  that since 2001,  has seen 10,000 hamas rockets.
I am glad I went, I even chatted with some VERY cute cops,, after,, and asked them, what the hell are we going to do, was interesting. Even though the reason we all were there  is so sad,, tragic, and just INSANE -- the vibes of the room was  LOVE, BEAUTY, WHITE and POSITIVE, and LIFE AFFIRMING!! And class. These beautiful  shiny people I had the honour of being with,  are total class, dignity,, and just really ADVANCED civilizational human Beings. And the kids were adorable, and were so well behaved,, unusual for young children to have attention spans at all. And these kids, sat straight up in their chairs, and listened quietly to the whole thing. I say KUDOS,, to the Parents of these young Canadians,, they will be amazing adults when these kids grow up!

G-d bless you Solstice - if that report wasn't the sweetest piece of cake. You made my day.

UPDATE: Things went slowly at Irvine, according to Jerry Gordon.

JIHAD IN FLORIDA: SHAPSHOTS FROM THE FRONT

Radio warrior Joyce Kaufman sent over some of the snaps from the pro-Hamas rally this past Sunday taken by reader/listener Barnett. This is your backyard.

Joyce advised me -

This  was Biscayne Blvd in front of the Israeli consulate last Sunday, approx 200 supporters of Israel went down to protest after 2200 of us peacefully assembled at Holocaust Memorial. about 200 of them as well with tent to martyr and tons of kids in black.

12 arrests. 1 Jew 11 hamasniks

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HAMAS POSTERS HUNG AT US SYNAGOGUES

What, exactly, are Hoenlein et al waiting for - kristallnacht? It's here, asshats.

Hamas posters hung at U.S. synagogues Creeping Sharia

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Police in California are investigating as hate crimes the posting of anti-Israel and pro-Hamas placards at two synagogues.

Three letter-sized, hand-written signs were discovered Tuesday at Beth Jacob, an Orthodox congregation in Irvine, Calif. One poster proclaimed, “Gaza– The New Shoah” and a second read, “Hamas Recognizes Israeli Genocide.”

Similar posters were found on the same day at the nearby Reform Congregation Shir Ha-Ma’alot.

via fousesquawk.

The intifada in the U.S. is just beginning.

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TIMES SQUARE NYC: PRO-HAMAS RALLY, UGLY, HATEFILLED *YAWN*

Here in NYC - attacked by Islam on 911. It is sickening to see this depraved trash in the American city that took the biggest hit in the biggest attack on American soil in the history of this nation.

The dogs on these streets howl

Corporate media ...... what they going to blame next, the boil on Bush's ass?

They are really pathetic. Leeches, moochers, blood suckers

Indoctrinating their young -- this is their MO in Islamic countries - here too.

Shiny, happy great Americans

Red Squirrel was there.... more pics here. The Squirrel paints a grim picture:

DAY FOUR: Free Free ‘Fakestinians’ Assault the streets of Manhattan. Today they were marching to the Israeli ‘mission’ (isn’t that cute). Not the Israeli Consulate.The Left continues to rewrite history. An outrage? You bet.

A crowd of 3,000 maybe 4,000 filled their assigned pens on Broadway  but they also chose to spill on to the sidewalks. As always, the leftists do what they want by fiat because the police simply can’t rope them all in…so …as long as they aren’t rioting…they roam the streets with their offensive signs and flags. Little parades on the sidewalks and in the crosswalks: constantly.

However, WE….the Pro-Israel Patriots  are penned in…even those who were trying to pass out informational flyers with the FACTS, the TRUTH were penned in. Also, trying to take a picture of the Pro-Israel side AGAIN was complicated by the police stepping into the pictures. This happened to other photographers on our side. Not just to this photographer. The police are controlling US…Not them? Why?! Why no pictures?

The hate-Israel crowd is very confident. they own the streets. I was told to ‘get out of here’ and I was flipped off and cursed each time I said “Long Live Israel’. One of our group was shoved in the face because(as a woman of color) she had no right to support Israel.. There was a bit of fun at the N/W corner of 42nd  and 7th Ave. I caught  two of our Patriots staying on-the-streets with the wandering ‘fakestinians’…It was wonderful to see them hang close and tight with their Pro- ISRAEL message forced among their Hate-Israel messages.

 

Then the March. When it began there was a HUGE uproar (planned in my opinion for the photographers). The march began, turned onto 42^nd street and a ‘pali’woman came screaming at the cops that the march was NOT to start yet. She was in charge and to STOP the march. Her people came and surrounded the officers in charge…then more officers came and surrounded her people and she kept demanding the march stop. Lots of yelling and confusion and  lots of pictures and film rolled taking in this situation…and of course…now the traffic was blocked. Finally…the cops said they were to move and the march continued.

42^nd street was a long march. Traffic at each avenue had to be able to pass, so this very large crowd would go through intersections in groups. Five large groups I think passed through slowly at Sixth Avenue as they passed Bryant Park.. Turning at Third Avenue. Going uptown to 48^th and then back down 2nd Avenue. When we arrived, a valiant few of our Pro-Israel patriots were at 2^nd Ave and 42^nd. It was great to see them. But, we are out-numbered. WHY?!

The ‘palis’ made a very BIG show for all of Manhattan to see….lots and lots of muslims….lots and lots of ‘fakestinian’ scarves…Is this our future? As Europe goes…What’s next for us. Be Afraid, America!

AMEN!

OT but related: Check out this brave woman. My hero - love her. LOVE

 

POLLER IN PARIS: PRO-HAMAS RALLY, "DEATH TO THE JEWS"

A vehicle burns during a demonstration against Israel  in Paris, Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Thousands of protesters across Europe march, rally and even hurl shoes or stones

In Paris, police said more than 20,000 demonstrators, many wearing Palestinian keffiyeh headscarves, marched through the city center chanting slogans like "Israel murderer!" and waving banners demanding an end to the air attacks.

Nidra Poller is a rare bird in Paris - a "reliable witness". Here is her account of the pro jihadi, annihilationist rally in Paris. I must ask her if Jews stayed shuttered in their homes, afraid to leave for fear of the savages .....

Nidra Poller reporting from Place de la République, Paris, 3 PM

Huge turnout for this afternoon’s pro-Palestinian demonstration. People pour out of the metro stations and march into the Place de la République, bundled up against the cold, knotting keffiehs around their shoulders as they walk briskly to join the compact crowd. Raucous voices shouting “Israël assassin.” Palestinian flags flutter. Families with children, men and women of all ages, very very few infidels. When these mass demonstrations began in October 2000, the proportions were reversed: many leftists, so-called pacifists, and a sprinkling of Arab-Muslims. And the rallying cry was “Death to the Jews.”

Two infidels timidly waving blue and white peace flags huddle near a metro exit looking hesitant. 

“Nous sommes tous Palestiniens” “Palestine vaincra, Palestine vivra” “Halte au massacre” …the usual stuff. And all those keffiehs.

The square trembles with hate-filled violence-prone voices, and the flow of demonstrators never ends. Take a good look: these are the moderates. Huh? The moderates? Yeah, the moderates. Don’t they always tell us the majority of Muslims in Paris, London, Alexandria VA, and the world are moderates? Well here they are.

A dark skinned white haired chap with the airs of a European intellectual, a red keffieh wrapped around his neck, chats with a woman by his side. They look like they are waiting for friends to join them. I hear him say “assassins,” and I know he isn’t talking about Hamas.

It doesn’t look like the demonstration is going to follow the traditional République-Bastille route. Either they are going to stay put and shout their lungs out, or maybe they’ll march down the Grands Boulevards?

Anyway, it’s no place for a little Jewish grandmother. I’ve seen enough. I walk south and in five minutes I’m out of the Arab quarter and back in the ville européenne where life goes on as normal. Back home, I check out the media. What do they have to say about this madding crowd?

Guess what? They have nothing to say. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes you wouldn’t know it existed. There’ll be a few brief shots on the evening news. A family with kids, a pretty young lady, a few talking points—massacre of civilians, blockade, humanitarian crisis, starvation. You’d think that all those French journalists frustrated at not being able to mill around Gaza and report directly on Israeli atrocities didn’t take the opportunity to immerse themselves in Gaza at la République. Snuggled into that mass of dense anger, surrounded on all sides by “youths” in keffieh, they could have a try at yelling “ceasefire” in a crowded pro-jihad mob.

Photo: Pro-"Palestinian" demonstrators protest in Paris January 3, 2009.

Cars overturned during a demonstration against Israel in Paris, Saturday Jan. 3, 2009.

Update 10 PM Nidra Poller

You have to scratch around in the dusty soil to get a few kernels of information in this country. After watching 3 newscasts and checking out the major daily’s websites, here is what I got:

There were about 21,000 demonstrators and the atmosphere was tense. As a matter of fact, there was not much in the way of newswoman-in-the-midst interviews. Like I said, they claim they want to get into Gaza to bear witness to all that humanitarian crisis, but they don’t have the courage to dive into a keffieh-clad crowd.  Le Parisien, which is the only paper that really covered the event, claims it was organized by the Collectif national pour une paix juste entre Palestiniens et Israéliens, which includes the MRAP, PCF, LCR, and some labor unions. I have no proof to the contrary but I don’t believe it anyway. Having seen hundreds of demonstrations in Paris, I can attest that this one looked like it was organized by the Paris branch of Hamas.

Two extreme-left personalities marched in front like the good old days. Communist (PCF) party leader Marie-George Buffet declared: “We must stop this attack against Gaza and go back to negotiations on the basis of the 1967 frontiers [sic…it’s the ceasefire line, madame]. Olivier Besancenot (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, ex-LCR) said French public opinion  is not represented by Sarkozy, who rolled out the red carpet for Israeli officials [Tzipi Livni paid a visit to politely decline the ceasefire proposal].

At 6 PM, a group of two to three hundred heading for the Israeli embassy were blocked by police. They went wild, threw café chairs at the policemen, smashed telephone booths and shop windows, overturned and burned cars. The battle raged for an hour. “At least 3 people,” reports le Parisien, “were arrested.” How’s that for a law & order ratio?

In a private communication from J.S., an envoy reports:

When we got there at 3 PM the square on the side leading to the Grands Boulevards was already packed. We walked all the way down to Porte Saint-Martin. The demonstrators marched in tight rows in the street and spilling over onto the sidewalk, most of them wearing keffiehs, many women in different degrees of hijab.. 

Shouting their hatred of Israel that kills children, starves Palestinians. Up with the résistance, down with Sarkozy, Moubarak, and the media.

A  crowd filled with hate that filled us with fear. Most of them were young.

Groups prostrate in prayer on the sidewalk.

Slogans shouted through megaphones, chanted by the crowd. Photos of children, a bloodied doll, a flag burning…

When we left at 4 PM, people were still joining the march.

It was so frightening, that dense crowd shouting and screaming, just like the crowds we see on TV ! 

UPDATE:  JTA: A large pro-Palestinian protest turned violent in the heart of Paris' high-end shopping district. hat tip reliapundit

PRO HAMAS RALLY IN OBAMALAND, CHICAGO

And who doesn’t love to see this symbol of freedom, democracy, and a lack of oppression for women?

Pro-Israel vs. Pro-Hamas Protests in Chicago

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Freedom Folks covered the blood libel here.

Pro-Israel vs. Pro-Palestine Protests in Chicago

A very large Pro-Palestine protest was mounted in Chicago today, with participants being bused in from other cities and states (we heard one organizer gathering people who “were on the bus from Milwaukee”). Jake covered a similar but much smaller protest earlier in the week.

Today was definitely the main event — the Hamas supporters gathered in front of Chicago’s famous Tribune Building, then marched across the Chicago River and around the corner to the Israeli Consulate. A good-sized crowd was already in place across the street to offer their support for Israel.

We wandered around in both crowds taking pics and video for a while. We had our press ID badges on, but were still told we had to “choose a side” when the loonies got ready to begin their march to the Israeli consulate. The police hustled us off behind their barricades post haste…just in case you were wondering if bloggers are still largely considered to be “second class journalists” — the answer is YES!

Jake will have video up after a while. Until then, I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves, for the most part, and keep my witty commentary to a minimum.

JEW HATE RALLY: DEARBORNISTAN, AMERABIA

It seems to me the Jihad intends to split America - between pious Muslims, those that hate America, those that side with Islamic jihad and our historical enemies - communist, socialists. How deep is the divide? How large is the Islamic revolution in America? Large enough to stage an Islamic coup? It won't matter if America merely rolls over. Stealth jihad, baby.

Thousands gather in Dearborn to protest Israeli airstrikes  Arab newspaper
By Khalil AlHajal

Short excerpt follows. Go read the whole thing. This is your country.

DEARBORN – Several thousand demonstrators marched, chanted and waved flags, signs and banners along Warren Avenue in Dearborn on Tuesday, protesting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that have killed more than 370 people since Saturday, including at least 64 civilians, according to U.N. figures.

Protestors stretched from Chase Road to Schaefer Road on the north side of Warren, chanting "One, two, three, four, stop the killing, stop the war," "Free, free Palestine," and "Bush and Olmert, you can’t hide, you are guilty of genocide!"

While the crowd included primarily Arab Americans from Dearborn and Hamtramck, Jewish peace groups from Ann Arbor and diverse activists’ groups from Detroit and other cities also participated.

Those are not Jewish groups. They are leftard groups allowing the Jew to be exploited. Where those same "jewish groups" protesting the thousands of missiles into Gaza? Ot the sexual mutilation and murder of the Rabbi and his pregnant wife?

This march is Muslims and dhimmis. Period. It's all about Islamic jew hatred.

The Bloomfield Hills-based Jewish Community Relations Council has expressed support for the Israeli strikes on Gaza, calling the campaign "a measure of self-defense," in response to rocket attacks into Southern Israel

"That’s exactly what we need. This isn’t just an Arab issue. It’s a human rights issue," said Suhaib Al-Hanooti, a student activist who helped organize the gathering.

How about a Jewish right to live issue? Or is that not human rights related?

Jihad sympathizers expressed suprise that the media turned out.  "Hopefully it will have an effect –and it helps people get their frustrations out."

Of course there is media.  One angry muslim can bring out all the news nets. But if you are a Jew or a scholar like Robert Spencer, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Phares, Ibn Warraq, Andrew Bostom - NO MEDIA FOR YOU! Media is so afraid of Islamic violence they censor themselves.

"We’re out here supporting the Arab American community. We believe in what they’re fighting for… What Israel is doing is racist. We have to put a stop to this," said BAMN organizer Xavier Carr, of Detroit.

Islam is a religion. Not a race (wrong pamphlet from victimized group number 3).

That’s how South African apartheid fell," Newash said.

He said large, loud demonstrations also facilitate the influence of community leaders on government leadership.

Intimidation and thuggery - when do the car burnings begin, I wonder?

Democracy, Human Rights, Refugees: The United States Contributes $85 Million for Humanitarian Assistance to Palestinian Refugees

FLORIDASTAN: ISLAMIC ANTI JEW, PRO-HAMAS RALLY - THE HATRED OF THE GOOD

Federal building Broward Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, Florida: Muslims rally against the Jewish state.

It was pandemonium. Muslims dress in full jihad garb juiced with .... hate.It looked like Halloween in Gaza. Throngs of young Muslims drunk with ..... hate. It was madness in America. You had to see it to believe it (watch video for the feel)

Across the street was an anemic counter protest. Where were the Jewish kids? NOWHERE. Jewish leadership and the diaspora have failed miserably in the education of our youth. The entire Muslim rally was young, wild -- frenetic. Itchy fingers on hair triggers.

Jewish lay leadership should be thrown out on the dhimmi asses. They have failed an entire generation of slackers.

"Israel is a terrorist state!" Screaming, yelling, very ugly .... police were not prepared. At one point the Muslims broke out crossed the street and confronted the 18 Jewish and Israel lovers across the street (watch the video, I caught part of it).

Someone tell this asshat that Israel has been sending truckloads of humanitarian aid into Gazastan.
The keffiyeh is their signature - the new swastika.

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The media eats this garbage up

Generations of hate

The opposite side of the street (west) was cleared when a bag/backpack was left in front of the office building - Police shooed me away saying - "stay away from there!  that could be a bomb!" Below you can see the yellow tape ....

The women all covered up

The scene - check out Tm Trento bottom left (he was covert too)

The good guys across the street (south) - small but strong!

From Alex in Israel: (hat tip Richard Baehr)

....our Defence Dept who said they have access to telephone nos. in Gaza and beginning two days ago began calling the Arab population of Gaza in areas where the Israel Air Force was going to bomb and left messages in Arabic telling them to get out, since their gov't, led by Hamas, had placed strategic weapons and ammunition in their area and Israel was forced to destroy it to protect it's citizens.

First, let me say that the idea of placing ammunition and weapons among it's citizenry is a violation of human rights and the UN. This is something the Arab gov'ts have been doing in just about every war with Israel. Hamas is among the most uncaring and even among it's citizenry that supports them they have used their homes and living space to store ammunition and weapons. Hezbullah in Lebanon did the same thing.

The other point I want to make is that we have been extremely careful to avoid civilian casualties and when was the last time in the history of warfare that any gov't called it's enemy populations and told them to get out since their areas were targeted and tried to protect civilians. To my knowledge this is a first.

I don't think you'll see this story in the popular western press. But it did happen and is happening here. On two different occasions in the past two days  I personally heard on radio that our gov't thru the ministry made more than 90,000 telephone calls per day to Gaza residents warning them that their specific area was targeted.

Please let your friends and neighbors know about this action that does show we care, and don't let the local media cry about the poor civilians who are being massacred when their own Hamas gov't cares less about them than their mortal enemies.

Great Americans, Joyce Kaufman (Florida Talk radio host and Alan West - the man in 2010)

Baruch Hashem!

UPDATE: Tom Trento just sent me his video - it's unbelievable  --view here.

"nuke Israel" "go to hell" "go back in the oven" "you need a big oven"

You remember Tom, he did the Great Reverse Schlep with me.

ROUND-UP: UGLY PRO-HAMAS, ANTI-JEWISH RALLIES ACROSS AMERICA

Deeply grateful and proud of Atlas readers who made it their business to attend these god awful, evil rallies against Israel, the Jews, America .............. everything that is right with this sick world. I am proud to be in your good company and held in your regard, in this I am blessed.

MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA: Atlas reader Darrin

LOS ANGELES: Atlas reader Da wolf reports:

There were more of them than us and a few incidents where if the LAPD had not been there, it could have become ugly. The rhetoric of 'Fakenstinians' is typically ugly. They were screaming for 'Jews and Christians to get out of Palestine', and one Pali man in his 60s told my friend 'Hitler Should Have Finished off the Job'. ( I won't tell you what she told him, but he was in shock). So many LAPD were there, including the riot police. It's says a lot about who they are when most of the cops and riot people were posted on 'their' side. Also, as the Pali's rode by in their cars, they shouted 'Fuck You, Fuck you Jews' (which shows their limited intelligence). Of course we were also called 'pigs', 'dogs' accused of 'Genocide' (very rich coming from them). They are just looking for a violent fight and confrontation. Someone on our side had to call the police to come and protect us as they tried to come over to our side and start something. Amazing, that we as Jews are facing such vile hate in L.A. in America. Wish I had a camcorder. Glad we went. Next time we need to be larger and louder

Los Angeles photo

TAMPA FLORIDA: Atlas reader Karen:

Thanks for the info on the planned CAIR rallies.  I attended the one in Tampa, Fl this evening.  

For 2 hours today, I experienced a little bit of what it is like to be Israel, surrounded by a mob who hates you.   

Arriving at the site, and surveying the lay of the land, I decided to stand with two fellows wrapped in the Jewish flag, across the street from about 200 "anti Israel" protesters. That was it, me the two jewish guys and one muslim on one side of the street and a whole sea of Palestinian flags, megaphones and mania on the other side. I am a Christian, and was warmly welcomed by my new Jewish friends, and coldly received by the lone "anti Israel" protester on our side of Dale Mabry highway.

This guy really wanted to argue with me, which I refused to do, and I finally shut him up when I asked him if he had been out protesting the death of thousands of Americans on 9/12 or was he dancing in the streets? He muttered something about "you must pay, America must pay and the Jews must pay" and ambled away.

Their side send several instigators to "our side" to try to intimidate us. A few young men even came and swiped one of the Jewish flags right out of the guys hands. He bravely went across the street to retrieve it, God bless him, and finally a cop got it for him.

I guess standing on the street and holding a sign wasn't enough "action" for these folks, so a whole "contingent" of young men and women marched across the street towards us. Three teenage girls came and stood right in front of me, to block my sign - I just stepped back and held it higher. We were quickly surrounded by this mob of protesters "for peace" - yelling and chanting at us, and telling us we were "outnumbered" and to go home. That's when it occurred to me that this is EXACTLY what Israel is like - surrounded by a mob of people so hyped up on emotion and inaction and frustration, that they have to find someone to blame, to target, to hate. This mob decided to hate us. This mob, holding up signs that said "honk for peace", could not stand the fact that 3 people stood across the street from them and disagreed with them.

I heard one of the "leaders" attempt to calm this mob down and move them back over to their side of the street to no avail - the young men, and girls were determined to scare us away. They ignored the leader, and even said

"This is American and it's a free country, I can stand wherever I want to". Imagine that! One teenage girl ripped a protester sign out of his hands, two others screamed in an older lady's face, all the while the entire crowed of them swarming in and around us, chanting, pounding their fist in the air and spewing hatred.

It wasn't until Tampa's finest (most in plain clothes) showed their badges that the crowd began to make their way back across the street. It wasn't until a SHOW OF FORCE other than their own leader, who tried in vain to calm them, broke up this mob. I would venture to say that if the police weren't there, we would have all been seriously beaten by this gang of "honk if you love peace" protesters.

I don't know why I was compelled to go today, it was something that I could not not do. Perhaps God wanted me to see what His children are suffering with. To have so many hate you for simply being you, for being faithful, and for standing for God.

I was told point blank, that I must "pay", that America must "pay" and that the Jews must "pay" by one of these "honk if you love peace" protesters. I am reminded, that I am always forgiven even when I didn't do anything wrong.

San Francisco, Calif, Israeli Consulate:  Atlas reader Jeremayakovka

TransAmerica building, SF's signature skyscraper, w/ Hamas flag held aloft in front

The answer my friend is blowing in the shofar

Very few surprises at tonight's ANSWER-sponsored demonstration outside San Francisco's Israeli consulate. The public needs to know, however, real details about the event that the mainstream media (despite their several network trucks, light poles, and cameramen) may ignore.

The Numbers Game: Pro-Israel activists, no matter how principled and committed, were heavily outnumbered by pro-Pali activists by about 4 (or 5) to 1. The Pali-crowd owned one side of the street, while the side with Israelis was about evenly divided among partisans. The radical left-wing site Indybay claimed that thousands turned out for Palestine – that's bunk – there were hundreds, maybe 500, and maybe 100 for Israel.

The Logistics Game: Pro-Pali people had mounted speakers, bullhorns, professionally printed banners and signs (I ended up standing next to the guy who'd printed the signs – the ABC News affiliate filmed us talking to each other), flags (including a Pali flag with the al-Aqsa mosque printed on its white field) and even war drums. Pro-Israeli people had pre-printed signs, many big Israeli flags, and a shofar – all good, but the Palis had the bigger and more portentous act.

The Propaganda Game: The Palis employed all too common slander and very calculated sloganeering to manipulate their several cases. This is key: they were present not merely to protest the Israeli campaign in Gaza, but to present a public face for "FREE PALESTINE!", for "The Right of Return", to "Free The Jena 6" (which some signs described as a "Legal Lynching"). Important to note is the Palis' sense of inevitability: "VICTORY IS OURS!" This includes their case against the US as well as against Israel. One common sign urged to "Stop the US-Israeli Genocide."

Solidarity vs. Solitary: If non-Jews came out to show solidarity with the Jewish State, they didn't show their colors, but non-Palis visibly stepped up to the plate for their pet cause. An average-looking American carried a Hamas flag on a tall pole (he has no direct ties with Hamas – I asked him); an Episcopalian contingent draped a large banner over the police barricade; so did ANSWER. The latter two were on the Pali-owned side, which suggests pre-event planning. An hour into the rally, an aggressive spokeswoman took the bullhorn for the Pali side: she was Asian-American looking and kicked off her remarks with a shrill "Brothers and sisters!" This is par for the course in San Francisco, but anyone who considers himself pro-Israel should note that, by appearances, not one non-Jewish individual or organization dared share sidewalk space with Jews. How existential.

Small world: At one point I found myself alongside Osha Neumann. Osha's a longtime Berkeley radical lawyer, a self-described artist, and a veteran of the 60s anarchist groupuscule, The Motherfuckers. He's also author of the recently-published Up Against the Wall, Motherf**ker, a memoir of going from liberal Jewish kid with a graduate degree from Yale to the more daring fringes of American radicalism. in the book he renounces nothing, but he does admit some of the more bizarre and dangerous elements of modern American radicalism (e.g., willingly submitting to totalitarian organizational structures, submitting oneself to "criticism" in order to become a better radical, etc.).

Most of the Israel activists were young, under 30 & teens.

WASHINGTON DC: STATE DEPARTMENT: John L was there and posted all of his reportage here:

We were ringed by police, but we were on State Department property in downtown DC, not everyone there was protesting. I saw at least one panhandler fleecing the crowd.

And it was several hundred people






At five o’clock some of them prayed, but certainly a small portion of them. I guess that’s as deep as most of them took those shouts of “God is great” I heard.

The most important thing is to listen to the rhetoric and lies in the videos. Notice there are very few Palestinians, very few Arabs speaking. The Arab Community, like IVAW, like every other group of “victims” are being used by the anti-war community to work us all up into a lather. But you can see that for yourself.

TACOMA WASHINGTON:  Atlas reader Janey Barnhart

Just got home from standing as the lonely voice for Israel at the demonstration in Tacoma WA. We are terribly civil here in the Pacific NW, so it was me and my large Israeli flag in uneventful, solitary solidarity with 25-ish 'anti-violence' folks. Just doin' my part as a Christian to support Israel's right to defend itself against slaughter. Thanks for letting us know about these events

DEARBORN, MICHIGAN: Rick reports:

Well, we had a pro-Palestinian/anti-Zionist demonstration here in Dearborn this afternoon.  This happens every once in a while whenever somebody other than Israel gets bombed.

     It was quite well attended by Palestinian supporters (who in Dearborn are chiefly Lebanese).

     So I made my presence known on the other side of the street.  Which was not easy, since I was the only one over on that side.    

I have to ask, where were my brothers and sisters who believe in the peace that the gospel of Christ brings?  Where were my friends who support Israel's right to exist?

     We cannot and must not be afraid to bring truth to the forefront.

NEW YORK NY: Pamela covered it beautifully (more coverage here):

To see all the pictures click picture

We had a COUNTER at this one . Stand With Israel did a great job!

UPDATE More reportage thoughts from San Francisco. Atlas reader Peter

Just wanted to add my take on the confronting of  savages in S.F. If it was pandemonium elsewhere it was absolute anarchy and  mob rule in S.F. The last such rally I attended the police managed to separate the two sides. Yesterday, they just swarmed over to our side, the inept police just standing idly by. Outraged,  I asked several police why they are allowing it, and they replied that I'm obviously not a native San Franciscan, where everything goes and nothing can be.prevented.  It was revolting to watch some of these barbarians intimidate some of the frail, elderly Pro-Israeli supporters. I almost got into a fight coming to the defense of one such lady. When I suggested  rearranging the cowardly Pali's face, he made as though he was calling to the police. My wife eventually  convinced me to leave as I was becoming more and more agitated  and couldn't contain myself any longer. Being 6' 2" and 210, I'm no pushover, but suffering from chronic sciatica due to a  back condition, I didn't want to chance   being attacked by a wave  of hyenas. Walking back to Market the main thoroughfare in S.F to catch a bus home, my wife noticed throngs of savages making there way up Market towards us. I noticed the presence of S.F Commandos and thought they were there to prevent the Pali's from disrupting the rush hour traffic.and otherwise causing mayhem throughout the city.  Apparently they were there to contain any possible violence. I again approached several officers asking how they could permit this clearly illegal march to take place. They replied they were inept  to do anything as the head dhimmi at City Hall, Gavin Newsome had given them free reign. Unbelievable...So basically an entire city was held hostage to a band of thugs, because the powers that be were intimidated into acquiescence. As it goes in S.F. so it goes the world over. Very scary shit, when even my habitually indifferent scientist-academic wife, finally admitted that my forebodings as to Stealth Jihad are in fact very real. Anyhow next time I'll be better prepared with my sign which would read, " Anti-Israel Jew Hating is none other than " The Swollen Envy of Pygmy Minds" ( Mark Twain). I think this curt saying says all that needs to be said.

UPDATE: Albuquerque Anti/Pro Israel Rallies

Noticeable at these anti-Israel protests as compared with protests of earlier years was the vocal presence of local Arabs from Israel, the many kefiyehs and Palestinian flags, and the rowdiness of the young people and young adults. Evidently they feel more confident now than in previous years, or have moved out from under the council of prudence. Perhaps conditions are such that they are moving into phase II or III of a plan. The honking of passers-by to show support was much more frequent than in earlier years, and many of the drivers were Muslim, but more weren’t.

Anti-Israel sentiment is growing in Albuquerque in main part because it is growing throughout the world and the US, and has become socially acceptable. To most of the public, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish are synonyms. The bigotry has also been growing in part because the local “pro-Palestinian” groups have been active for years, patiently and successfully working to produce this sentiment in schools, the university, the media, local government and the public at large. Indeed, some synagogues and Jewish leaders have promoted this movement.

[...]

At the evening protest, two passers-by joined me with my lone pro-Israel sign, and we held up an Israeli flag and took the harrassment of the Arab young people together, which made us stronger, even later, when there were only two women. None of us knew each other, but the two supporters were both Messianic. Coincidence? To us, Messianics seem strange, but many have courage and conviction in this matter, that others lack.

Because I was the only Jew with a Pro-Israel sign at the anti-Israel protests, I got my picture taken and got interviewed three times. I doubt my statements were aired. My statements that Israel is right to attack Gaza, and if the Arabs of Gaza are suffering, they brought it on themselves by electing and supporting genocidal terrorist leaders, is socially unacceptable in polite gentile society. Indeed, it is unacceptable in polite Jewish society, but it is true.

At these protests I saw a stridency and rowdiness in the Arabs who showed up, that was not apparent in earlier protests. I saw that the majority of passers-by were either active supporters of their view, or non-committal. While we pep-rallied privately in the the JCC, with security, the public was turned a shade more against us, and we had no effective response.

UPDATE: ATLANTA, GEORGIA  Orit reports:

Re: Atlanta Pro-Hamas Rally 12/30/08 (Israeli Consulate) Part 1

There were about 250 people.

Here are some notes though:

Chants:

no justice, no peace
long live palestine
US out of the middle east
Free, free palestine
1-2-3-4 we don't want this racist war, 5-6-7-8 israel is a terror state
occupation is a crime, israel out of palestine
gaza is under attack. what are we going to do? fight back!
what do we want? Justice. When do we want it now? Now.
allah akbar
US, israel you can't hide, we charge you with genocide
not a penny, not a dime, israel out of palestine
Hitler, Olmert all the same, all they have is different names
they kill, they lie, but palestine will never die
free, free palestine, long live palestine


Signs:

gaza solidarity
stop Israeli terrorism
sympathize with gaza t-hirt (in hebrew and english)
stop war on iran
gaza you are not alone
stop the massacre in gaza
stop US, israeli war crimes
I am not a terrorist (held by little girl)
honk for gaza (MARTA -- Atlanta public bus honked)
zionism equals (sign) racism

The protest was arranged by the Atlanta International Center. They had a permit from 4-5:30pm to demonstrate in front of the Israeli consulate which is in midtown Atlanta. Car traffic was heavy the entire time, and there was a constant flow of people into the demonstration. Women were coming with their young children in strollers and older people wrapped in kefiyahs came and set up chairs.

Representatives from CAIR were there as well as the student movements of Students for Justice in Palestine at Georgia Tech and Emory Advocates for Justice in Palestine. At 5:30pm they made an announcement that they must leave the premises, so they marched into the street -- walking in the opposite flow of traffic -- shutting down the street entirely and establishing themselves about 1/4 mile away.   

There were about 4 cops from the Atlanta police department ensuring people's safety: staying on the sidewalks and crossing the street. About a block away there were about a dozen police on motorcycles. The cops I talked to said they were there in case there was a counter protest. As I found out afterwards, there were also undercover, plain-clothes police officers around the entire time.

Local media were there as well and there was at least one local channel (NBC affiliate) which interviewed people for their 6pm broadcast.

I have no idea why there was no counter protest planned. I only found out about it through the Muslim Student Association at Georgia Tech the night before, so there's was no time to arrange anything.

There was a big press conference earlier in the day with the ambassador and the incident involving Cynthia McKinney. But, as far as I know, no one commented on the pro-hamas rally specifically.

UPDATE:BOSTON, MASS: BENJAMIN was out covering the action in Massachusets here - Park Plaza

BROOKLINE MASS: Benjamin has a great post here:

UPDATE: BERLIN, Germany - Gudren has this

Videos der “Gaza-Soli-Demo” in BerlinPosted 9 videos about 2000 Hamas activists in Berlin, December 29, 2008: "Israel Murderer of Women", "Israel Murderer of Children", "Zionists Faschists", nobody, no policeman no politician said anything against ist. More demos to come all around Germany, Hamburg p.e., on January 2, 2009.

 

 

U.S. Muslims Importing Child Slaves

Meanwhile in other Muslims in the West news (apart from Islamic antisemitism) - here at Islam in action:

The concept of child workers or slaves is nothing new to Islamic countries such as Yemen, Egypt, and in parts of Africa. Some of these children have to work because of poor economic conditions, others are forced to work and many are beaten to work harder. They are basically treated no better than slaves.

Now American Muslims are once again bringing part of the Islamic culture here. As more and more cases of children being imported here to work are being reported. This is besides the uptick of Islamic "honor killings" that we have seen in America. Let me get right to the point, all cultures are not equal and some have no business being here at all.

Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

DAWAH AND PALM TREES

So me and the crew ventured down to south Florida to spend the holiday with two of my sisters. Driving down the sprawling, palm-tree-lined suburban sprawl, we were assaulted by Islamic lies to advance Islam.
My daughter said OMG, ma look! And riding shotgun was the public bus urging folks to convert to Islam. Islam: The Way of Life of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad. Muhammad? How 'bout Al Franken while we are at it?
ABRAHAM! MOSES! JESUS! My oldest said, "Moses? What nerve!"
Nerve? Honey, you don't know the half of it. Invoking Judaism to sell Islam, is like invoking Jesus Christ to promote the devil. Uh, they did that too. Headslap!

Here a couple of pics my daughter took while I drove by, sick to my stomach.

Islam: the way of life of Abraham, Moses, Jesus blah blah blah

I yelled over to this guy in the truck. What do you think of that? What nerve, I said. They attacked this country, took down the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, Flight 93 and now they are advertising? He smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Poor bastard has no clue.

Public transportation. We would have run messages from the Third Reich during World War II?

UPDATE: Creeping Sharia has more on this propaganda campaign here.

PREACHIN' JIHAD EN MASSE .... ACHUSETTS

Andrew Bostom writes, "All Americans need to know that three close relatives of terrorist leader Hafiz Saeed were imams at three Massachusetts mosques. Brother Hamid was imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Worcester, until he hurriedly left the country in June 2007.  Brother Masood was imam at the Islamic Center of New England (ICNE) in Sharon MA, until he was deported in October 2008 (his wife and five children remain here at the ICNE estate).  Brother-in-law Abdul Hannan is still the imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell.  Might small world, innit?  Any Lashkar e Toiba cells in Massachusetts, perchance?  Any funding from Massachusetts mosques that supported LeT or JuD"

Hafiz Saeed Declared Terrorist, Put Under House Arrest

SHARIA FINANCE IN THE CLASSROOM

UPDATE: Top Saudi cleric cites crisis to press for sharia finance (hat tip journalist)

Toto, we ain't in Kansas anymore From Atlas reader and student HC:

Sharia enters the classroom.

FYI - Here's a course announcement from the MIT Sloan School of Management

Title
Spec Sem in Mgmt: Practice of Finance: Islamic Finance

Islamic financial institutions have in recent years experienced spectacular growth (+25% in 2006, +37% in 2007). Islamic financial assets now exceed 1 trillion dollars and what was once a small niche has gone mainstream. Indeed, most major Western financial institutions are involved in one way or another in Islamic finance. The first part of the course introduces the basic principles underlying the industry (the prohibitions of riba, gharar, etc.) and discusses its recent evolution. The second part focuses on the main Islamic products: murabaha, mudaraba, musharaka, ijara, sukuk, takaful, etc. and explains how Islamic deals are structured. The third part discusses the challenges - competitive, regulatory, political, religious, etc. - faced by Islamic institutions and considers the impact of the current financial meltdown on their future evolution.
Area
Finance
Course Number
15.994
Credits
6.0
Capacity
20
Course Abstract

Room
E51-361
Time
T (H1) 4:00 PM-7:00 PM

OBAMA BOWS, Will Make Major "Foreign Policy Speech from an Islamic capital"

Egyptian Cleric Hassan Abu Al-Ashbal Calls on President-Elect Obama to Convert to Islam, Threatens: We Have People Who Are Eager For Death

I guess B. Hussein got the memo.

This will be the  first of many speeches President B. Hussein will make in these, his spiritual capitals where he wishes to express "solidarity". America has no clue who she voted for. Gird your loins folks. America will be unrecognizable after Hussein's first and last term (if we live through it).

Looking for the Ideal Spot to Make a Speech NY Times (hat tip rut)

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama’s aides say he is considering making a major foreign policy speech from an Islamic capital during his first 100 days in office.

So where should he do it? The list of Islamic world capitals is long, and includes the obvious —Riyadh, Kuwait City, Islamabad — and the not-so-obvious — Male (the Maldives), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Some wise-guys have even suggested Dearborn, Mich., as a possibility.

Clearly it would be cheating for Mr. Obama to fly to Detroit, talk to Dearborn’s 30,000 Arab residents and call it a day. And Male and Ouagadougou, while certainly majority Muslim, can’t really be what Mr. Obama’s aides have in mind when they talk about locales for a high-profile speech that would seek to mend rifts between the United States and the broader Muslim world.

The consensus, after an entire day of reporting, is Cairo.

Why Cairo? It’s a matter of elimination. I called Ziad Asali, the president of the American Task Force on Palestine, to gauge his thoughts. “Damascus would be cool, except it would look as if he was rewarding the Syrians and it’s too soon for that,” Mr. Asali said.

True. Maybe in a year, if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gets around to a land-for-[Jewish genocide] deal with Israel. But for right now, I’m not really seeing Damascus as the spot for the big speech.

This is not Iowahwak. Not Scrappleface. This is not satire.

What about Ramallah, I asked Mr. Asali, thinking it would show solidarity with the Palestinians.

Solidarity with the jihad?

“I would object to that on so many levels,” he shot back, irate. “Are you forgetting that Palestinians seek Jerusalem as their capital?”

Right. And giving the speech in Jerusalem would just open up a Pandora’s box full of problems. So that’s not happening.

My colleague, David Sanger, heard me talking about it and came over to my desk. “I think he’s going to pick Jakarta,” he said. “It would be a big homecoming-type trip.”

Read it all. And Israel should be nervous. Very nervous

PENTAGON: 20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011

We could fight the enemy. We could stop Muslim immigration and pass Tancredo's jihad legislation. But noooooooooooooo............ instead we surrender without a fight and choose to turn the US into a police state

20,000 uniformed troops inside U.S. by 2011 Jihadwatch

And why is this necessary? Primarily "to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack." Of course, to call the Muslim community in America to account and compel it to stop teaching Sharia supremacism and hatred of Jews and Christians -- that would be "bigoted." Of course, to halt Muslim immigration in light of the impossibility of distinguishing peaceful Muslims from actual and potential jihadists -- that would be racist. Of course, even to institute some kind of screening of Muslims who enter the country in order to determine their adherence to Sharia principles and to make agitation for Islamic law (stonings, amputations, no free speech, no freedom of conscience, etc.) in this country grounds for deportation -- that would be "Islamophobic."

So if we can't do all that or even anything close to those things, what is left? What can we do? Why, become a Police State, with armed troops roaming the streets. After all, the next terror threat could just as easily come from the local Methodist church as from the local mosque. Better have that Wesleyan Center adequately covered.

"Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security," by Spencer S. Hsu and Ann Scott Tyson for the Washington Post, December 1 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement.