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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.

[..]

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

Obama Shoes!

This is outta hand. Goebbels is taking notes is his grave. (Hat tip Joe L)

All the 'merchandising'...Allison wrote: "every catalog I open has some bat*#*# crazy Obama product and now this"....

Eric Holder: You've Got Mail

Ah, remember when the adults were in charge? Those were the days. McCarthy is magnificent here. Lots of pearls and wry smiles ........ but considering the odds and the AG, I am hardly smiling.

Andrew C. McCarthy

May 1, 2009

By email (to the Counterterrorism Division) and by regular mail:

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.

Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Holder:

This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline the invitation to participate in the May 4 roundtable meeting the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy is convening with current and former prosecutors involved in international terrorism cases.  An invitation was extended to me by trial lawyers from the Counterterrorism Section, who are members of the Task Force, which you are leading.

The invitation email (of April 14) indicates that the meeting is part of an ongoing effort to identify lawful policies on the detention and disposition of alien enemy combatants—or what the Department now calls “individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations.”  I admire the lawyers of the Counterterrorism Division, and I do not question their good faith.  Nevertheless, it is quite clear—most recently, from your provocative remarks on Wednesday in Germany—that the Obama administration has already settled on a policy of releasing trained jihadists (including releasing some of them into the United States).  Whatever the good intentions of the organizers, the meeting will obviously be used by the administration to claim that its policy was arrived at in consultation with current and former government officials experienced in terrorism cases and national security issues.  I deeply disagree with this policy, which I believe is a violation of federal law and a betrayal of the president’s first obligation to protect the American people.  Under the circumstances, I think the better course is to register my dissent, rather than be used as a prop.

Moreover, in light of public statements by both you and the President, it is dismayingly clear that, under your leadership, the Justice Department takes the position that a lawyer who in good faith offers legal advice to government policy makers—like the government lawyers who offered good faith advice on interrogation policy—may be subject to investigation and prosecution for the content of that advice, in addition to empty but professionally damaging accusations of ethical misconduct.  Given that stance, any prudent lawyer would have to hesitate before offering advice to the government. 

Beyond that, as elucidated in my writing (including my proposal for a new national security court, which I understand the Task Force has perused), I believe alien enemy combatants should be detained at Guantanamo Bay (or a facility like it) until the conclusion of hostilities.  This national defense measure is deeply rooted in the venerable laws of war and was reaffirmed by the Supreme Court in the 2004 Hamdi case.  Yet, as recently as Wednesday, you asserted that, in your considered judgment, such notions violate America’s “commitment to the rule of law.”  Indeed, you elaborated, “Nothing symbolizes our [adminstration’s] new course more than our decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay….  President Obama believes, and I strongly agree, that Guantanamo has come to represent a time and an approach that we want to put behind us: a disregard for our centuries-long respect for the rule of law[.]”  (Emphasis added.)

Given your policy of conducting ruinous criminal and ethics investigations of lawyers over the advice they offer the government, and your specific position that the wartime detention I would endorse is tantamount to a violation of law, it makes little sense for me to attend the Task Force meeting.  After all, my choice would be to remain silent or risk jeopardizing myself.
For what it may be worth, I will say this much.  For eight years, we have had a robust debate in the United States about how to handle alien terrorists captured during a defensive war authorized by Congress after nearly 3000 of our fellow Americans were annihilated.  Essentially, there have been two camps.  One calls for prosecution in the civilian criminal justice system, the strategy used throughout the 1990s.  The other calls for a military justice approach of combatant detention and war-crimes prosecutions by military commission.  Because each theory has its downsides, many commentators, myself included, have proposed a third way: a hybrid system, designed for the realities of modern international terrorism—a new system that would address the needs to protect our classified defense secrets and to assure Americans, as well as our allies, that we are detaining the right people. 

There are differences in these various proposals.  But their proponents, and adherents to both the military and civilian justice approaches, have all agreed on at least one thing:  Foreign terrorists trained to execute mass-murder attacks cannot simply be released while the war ensues and Americans are still being targeted.  We have already released too many jihadists who, as night follows day, have resumed plotting to kill Americans.  Indeed, according to recent reports, a released Guantanamo detainee is now leading Taliban combat operations in Afghanistan, where President Obama has just sent additional American forces.
The Obama campaign smeared Guantanamo Bay as a human rights blight.  Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year.  The President did this even though he and you (a) agree Gitmo is a top-flight prison facility, (b) acknowledge that our nation is still at war, and (c) concede that many Gitmo detainees are extremely dangerous terrorists who cannot be tried under civilian court rules.  Patently, the commitment to close Guantanamo Bay within a year was made without a plan for what to do with these detainees who cannot be tried.  Consequently, the Detention Policy Task Force is not an effort to arrive at the best policy.  It is an effort to justify a bad policy that has already been adopted: to wit, the Obama administration policy to release trained terrorists outright if that’s what it takes to close Gitmo by January.

Obviously, I am powerless to stop the administration from releasing top al Qaeda operatives who planned mass-murder attacks against American cities—like Binyam Mohammed (the accomplice of “Dirty Bomber” Jose Padilla) whom the administration recently transferred to Britain, where he is now at liberty and living on public assistance.  I am similarly powerless to stop the administration from admitting into the United States such alien jihadists as the 17 remaining Uighur detainees.  According to National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, the Uighurs will apparently live freely, on American taxpayer assistance, despite the facts that they are affiliated with a terrorist organization and have received terrorist paramilitary training.  Under federal immigration law (the 2005 REAL ID Act), those facts render them excludable from the United States. The Uighurs’ impending release is thus a remarkable development given the Obama administration’s propensity to deride its predecessor’s purported insensitivity to the rule of law. 

I am, in addition, powerless to stop the President, as he takes these reckless steps, from touting his Detention Policy Task Force as a demonstration of his national security seriousness.  But I can decline to participate in the charade. 

Finally, let me repeat that I respect and admire the dedication of Justice Department lawyers, whom I have tirelessly defended since I retired in 2003 as a chief assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York.  It was a unique honor to serve for nearly twenty years as a federal prosecutor, under administrations of both parties.  It was as proud a day as I have ever had when the trial team I led was awarded the Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award in 1996, after we secured the convictions of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and his underlings for waging a terrorist war against the United States.  I particularly appreciated receiving the award from Attorney General Reno—as I recounted in Willful Blindness, my book about the case, without her steadfastness against opposition from short-sighted government officials who wanted to release him, the “blind sheikh” would never have been indicted, much less convicted and so deservedly sentenced to life-imprisonment.  In any event, I’ve always believed defending our nation is a duty of citizenship, not ideology.  Thus, my conservative political views aside, I’ve made myself available to liberal and conservative groups, to Democrats and Republicans, who’ve thought tapping my experience would be beneficial.  It pains me to decline your invitation, but the attendant circumstances leave no other option.

Very truly yours,

/S/       

Andrew C. McCarthy

cc:        Sylvia T. Kaser and John DePue
National Security Division, Counterterrorism Section

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

WARNING TO US JEWS

US Jews, gird your loins, it's here.

Warning to U.S. Jewish Centers Northeast Intelligence Center (hat tip Joan)

6 January 2009: Despite official U.S. intelligence reports denying specific threat information as a result of Israeli action in Gaza, the Northeast Intelligence Network has confirmed increased terrorist “chatter” that specifically suggests pre-operational planning by Muslim terrorist operatives against Jewish assets and people throughout North America. “Chatter,” in the lexicon of intelligence agencies, encompasses various forms of communications, from communication intercepts to postings on Arabic language message boards.

Investigators and researchers of the Northeast Intelligence Network have seen a dramatic spike in postings on Arabic language web sites used by Islamic terrorists within the last several days. The rise of these communications is obviously in direct relation to Israel’s actions launched against Islamic terrorists in Gaza. Investigators however, have observed a disturbing change not only in the tenor of these postings, but in their specificity.

“The message being sent by Muslim terrorists considered ‘reputable’ Internet sources, as much as one could consider such sources as ‘reputable,’ is one of individual, if not collective action across the globe,” stated Douglas J. Hagmann, director of the Northeast Intelligence Network. “There is a call to action being made over the Internet by posters who have established a perceived level of legitimacy. These posters are the individuals who have achieved a following in the virtual world, based in part on their history of accuracy relative to terrorist operations and their posting history. Their message is to take action against Jews anywhere in the world, including inside the U.S., Canada and all Western countries, as well as their American backers,” stated Hagmann.

Although the intelligence value of the majority of Internet postings can be reasonably questioned, there have been notable exceptions, and it continues to be an accurate indicator of the pre-operational interests of Islamic terrorists, according to Hagmann.

“The call is to strike out against Jewish places of worship, Jewish centers, and schools, especially in the U.S.,” said Doug Hagmann. He added that the more recent postings have risen from “rallying cries to the level of authoritative directions, with the admonishment that it is the moral imperative of all practicing and faithful Muslims to strike out against the Jews, especially those living within the relative security of the U.S. I’m not sure how much more specific of a threat one might expect to get from Internet postings,” added Hagmann.

“Anyplace where Jews gather for school, worship services or social events are being described as “desirable targets,” according to these communications. Emphasis is also being placed on body count and visible carnage, including attacks against children.

Concurrent with these Internet postings on the same terrorist web sites are those of a political nature. Hagmann stated that researchers have found a consistent theme among those who voice support for HAMAS and not just for the residents of Gaza. “To the ‘reputable authors’ of these Internet web sites, there is absolutely no distinction between Palestinians living in Gaza and HAMAS. In fact, there seems to be a push for Gaza residents who are not already doing so to support HAMAS in any way possible, from providing supplies and shelter to taking a more active role.

The enemy of my enemy…”

From reporters to ‘Middle East expert talking heads,’ the media is not portraying this situation accurately, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by terrorist supporters, especially in the West. We are seeing a growing solidarity among Muslims of all sects to rally behind what is being described as the “slaughter” of Palestinians by the Israelis. Featured prominently within these communications are reports by Western media sources such as CNN, MSNBC and the major television networks that feature video of alleged Gaza victims. Such footage is being used to inflame the sentiments of the readers of the Arabic websites, followed by instructions to readers of all Islamic sects to avenge the deaths of Muslims in Gaza.

Please read it all.

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.

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.

It's Shariah Stupid!

Great letter from a very fine legal mind. I have had the pleasure of working with David Yerushalmi on the Stop the Madrassa, a community coalition.

The Wall Street Journal has taken a disappointing turn in recent months -- you'd think they would look at what's happening at the New York Times and run the other way.

Lance sent me this letter written in response to this piece, "Criminalizing Criticism of Islam" By Elizabeth Samson.

Dear Letters editor:

In a recent opinion piece published on line from your WSJ Europe edition (“Criminalizing Criticism of Islam”), Elizabeth Samson bemoans Jordan’s recent move to prosecute foreign speech that “libels” Islam. She notes this is a growing assault on free speech as this sensitivity to Islam’s sensitivities seems to be reaching deep into Europe and the UN.

The problem with Ms. Samson’s 705-word editorial comment, notwithstanding her moniker as an international legal and constitutional scholar soon to be resident at the Hudson Institute, is that she misses the elephant in the room—or more aptly, the shark in the bath tub. In other words, how in the world did she miss it? It had to have been assiduously.

Jordan’s prosecution of slanderers of Islam has little to do with Jordan’s “secular” legal code and everything to do with Shariah or Islamic law. The prosecution is made possible because Jordan’s constitution embraces Islam as the official religion, establishes Shariah religious courts (for personal status law and religious institutions), and specifically qualifies every statement of religious freedom and equality before the law by a neat little subterfuge, typically worded as “customs observed in the Kingdom”, and even this is further redacted by “public order” and “decorum”. What this really means of course is that no liberty or notion of equality can offend Shariah (Article 14: “The State shall safeguard the free exercise of all forms of worship and religious rites in accordance with the customs observed in the Kingdom, unless such exercise is inconsistent with public order or decorum.” Constitution of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1952 [as amended to 1984].)

Thus, the Jordanian Penal Code Ms. Samson writes of as if it were a secular Arab problem is nothing more than classical, traditional, and pedigreed Shariah. Under Shariah, “slander” includes truthful statements that offend a fellow Shariah-adherent Muslim. Slandering (i.e., insulting even if truthful) Mohammed, Shariah, or Allah is considered apostasy if by a Muslim and kufr (state of being an infidel) if by a non-Muslim. The penalty for such offenses under traditional, “moderate” (not “extreme” or “radical”) Shariah is death. (See, chapter 11 in Mufti Usmani’s 1999 English translated, Islam and Modernism or see this rather erudite Internet discussion: http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/apostasy.htm).

So, it turns out that Jordan, that oh so moderate of Muslim fiefdoms, is simply applying traditional, pedigreed Shariah but simply using a modern long-arm jurisdictional notion to prosecute those who might insult Islam from afar.

And, while Jordan implements traditional Shariah laws against slandering Islam, the Wall Street Journal is touting Shariah-compliant finance as the next wunderkind of the global financial world.

David Yerushalmi

UPDATE: OT but related, David sent this pearl

Happened to be looking up some information today at UK's Lloyds Bank, and noticed the following entries in their sites A-Z index:

   - Islamic Account

   - Islamic Financial Services

   - Islamic Home Finance

   - Islamic Student Account

http://www.lloydstsb.com/a_to_z.asp?link=top_navigation

 

Wonder how many other banks have similar?

    Better fear -

    Shariah is near!

The Great Thomas Sowell on our Moral Paralysis on Iran

The inestimable Dr. Thomas Sowell on Iran at NRO. Sowell is, IMAO, one of the finest minds of our time.

Are We France?
Moral paralysis. By Thomas Sowell

“Moral paralysis” is a term that has been used to describe the inaction of France, England, and other European democracies in the 1930s, as they watched Hitler build up the military forces that he later used to attack them.

It is a term that may be painfully relevant to our own times.

Back in the 1930s, the governments of the democratic countries knew what Hitler was doing — and they knew that they had enough military superiority at that point to stop his military buildup in its tracks. But they did nothing to stop him.

Instead, they turned to what is still the magic mantra today — “negotiations.”

No leader of a democratic nation was ever more popular than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain — wildly cheered in the House of Commons by opposition parties as well as his own — when he returned from negotiations in Munich in 1938, waving an agreement and declaring that it meant “peace in our time.”

We know now how short that time was. Less than a year later, World War II began in Europe and spread across the planet, killing tens of millions of people and reducing many cities to rubble in Europe and Asia.

Looking back after that war, Winston Churchill said, “There was never a war in all history easier to prevent by timely action.” The earlier it was done, the less it would have cost.

At one point, Hitler could have been stopped in his tracks “without the firing of a single shot,” Churchill said.

That point came in 1936 — three years before World War II began — when Hitler sent troops into the Rhineland, in violation of two international treaties.

At that point, France alone was so much more powerful than Germany that the German generals had secret orders to retreat immediately at the first sign of French intervention.

As Hitler himself confided, the Germans would have had to retreat “with our tail between our legs,” because they did not yet have enough military force to put up even a token resistance.

Why did the French not act and spare themselves and the world the years of horror that Hitler’s aggressions would bring? The French had the means but not the will.

“Moral paralysis” came from many things. The death of a million French soldiers in the First World War and disillusionment with the peace that followed cast a pall over a whole generation.

Pacifism became vogue among the intelligentsia and spread into educational institutions. As early as 1932, Winston Churchill said: “France, though armed to the teeth, is pacifist to the core.”

It was morally paralyzed.

History may be interesting but it is the present and the future that pose the crucial question: Is America today the France of yesterday?

We know that Iran is moving swiftly toward nuclear weapons while the United Nations is moving slowly — or not at all — toward doing anything to stop them.

It is a sign of our irresponsible Utopianism that anyone would even expect the U.N. to do anything that would make any real difference.

Not only the history of the U.N., but the history of the League of Nations before it, demonstrates again and again that going to such places is a way for weak-kneed leaders of democracies to look like they are doing something when in fact they are doing nothing.

The Iranian leaders are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And, like Hitler, they don’t think we have the guts to stop them.

Read it all and  for a rare treat please click below on "CONTINUE" to watch an interview with Dr. Sowell, on of the finest minds of our time.Video hat tip Hip Hop Republican

BOLTON NAILS OBAMBI

The man who should be running weighs in on the radical left's nominee. Bolton dissects and shatters  Obambi's silly policy statements with surgical precision. This should be required reading for the electorate. Seriously.

Obama the naive John (the bomb) Bolton hat tip jon s

His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.

Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.

Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises.

Such realities should cause Obama to become more circumspect, minimizing his off-the-cuff observations about history, grand strategy and diplomacy. In fact, he has done exactly the opposite, exhibiting so many gaps in his knowledge and understanding of world affairs that they have not yet received the attention they deserve. He consistently reveals failings in foreign policy that are far more serious than even his critics had previously imagined.

Consider the following statement, which was lost in the controversy over his comments about negotiations: "Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. ... Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance."

Let's dissect this comment. Obama is correct that the rogue states he names do not present the same magnitude of threat as that posed by the Soviet Union through the possibility of nuclear war. Fortunately for us all, general nuclear war never took place. Nonetheless, serious surrogate struggles between the superpowers abounded because the Soviet Union's threat to the West was broader and more complex than simply the risk of nuclear war. Subversion, guerrilla warfare, sabotage and propaganda were several of the means by which this struggle was waged, and the stakes were high, even, or perhaps especially, in "tiny" countries.

In the Western Hemisphere, for example, the Soviets used Fidel Castro's Cuba to assist revolutionary activities in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In Western Europe, vigorous Moscow-directed communist parties challenged the democracies on their home turfs. In Africa, numerous regimes depended on Soviet military assistance to stay in power, threaten their neighbors or resist anti-communist opposition groups.

Both sides in the Cold War were anxious to keep these surrogate struggles from going nuclear, so the stakes were never "civilizational." But to say that these "asymmetric" threats were "tiny" would be news to those who struggled to maintain or extend freedom's reach during the Cold War.

Had Italy, for example, gone communist during the 1950s or 1960s, it would have been an inconvenient defeat for the United States but a catastrophe for the people of Italy. An "asymmetric" threat to the U.S. often is an existential threat to its friends, which was something we never forgot during the Cold War. Obama plainly seems to have entirely missed this crucial point. Ironically, it is he who is advocating a unilateralist policy, ignoring the risks and challenges to U.S. allies when the direct threat to us is, in his view, "tiny."

What is implicit in Obama's reference to "tiny" threats is that they are sufficiently insignificant that negotiations alone can resolve them. Indeed, he has gone even further, arguing that the lack of negotiations with Iran caused the threats: "And the fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah."

This is perhaps the most breathtakingly naive statement of all, implying as it does that it is actually U.S. policy that motivates Iran rather than Iran's own perceived ambitions and interests. That would be news to the mullahs in Tehran, not to mention the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah.

It is an article of faith for Obama, and many others on the left in the U.S. and abroad, that it is the United States that is mostly responsible for the world's ills. In 1984, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick labeled people with these views the "San Francisco Democrats," after the city where Walter Mondale was nominated for president.

Most famously, Kirkpatrick forever seared the San Francisco Democrats by saying that "they always blame America first" for the world's problems. In so doing, she turned the name of the pre-World War II isolationist America First movement into a stigma the Democratic Party has never shaken.

This is yet another piece of history that Obama has ignored or never learned. There may be one more piece of history worthy of attention: In 1984, Mondale went down to one of the worst electoral defeats in American political history. We will now see whether Obama follows that path as well.

MISTRIAL IN JEWISH FEDERATION MASSACRE:ISLAM IS A MENTAL ILLNESS

More poisonous fruit from the misinformation and miseducation of Americans concerning Islam.  The lone jihadi who gunned down helpless Jews in cold blood  at the Jewish Center in Seattle was acting in the name of Islam. And yet the jury acquitted him on one charge and was  "hopelessly deadlocked" on the other charges. He chased a Jewish woman down the stairwell as she ran for her life - he killed her. The jury was deadlocked on jihad or mental illness.

This mistrial is an OUTRAGE. Based on this premise,  every Muslim that engages in jihad is insane? This lone jihadi was following the dictates of the Koran. Bostom's book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism ought to be mandatory reading and listening as well. It's in the koran.

This Muslim was just following orders. The West is lost in a sea of mendacity. Killing Jews is as crime against humanity. Shame on this terrible jury. When it happens to non-believers, infidels, and kufirs close to them, they will weep bitter tears.

Jihad in a post 9/11 America should be a capital crime, punished to the full extent of the law.

Mistrial in case of Seattle Jewish center shooter  AP hat tip Davida

SEATTLE - A mistrial has been declared for the man accused of the 2006 shootings at a Seattle Jewish center that left a woman dead and five others wounded.

Jurors had indicated in questions posed to the judge that they were hopelessly deadlocked over whether Naveed Haq was not guilty by reason of insanity as he claims. The judge declared a mistrial Wednesday on the eighth day of deliberations.

Prosecutors say they will retry Haq on murder and attempted murder charges. Jurors acquitted him of one of the 15 counts against him.

Haq held a teenage girl at gunpoint to force his way into the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle on July 28, 2006. Once in the office he began railing against U.S. policies and opened fire. Pamela Waechter was killed as she fled down a stairwell.

Related: Maryland: No Prison Time for Muslim Murderer of a Jewish Man

Herald Square Bomber  "not a dangerous psychopath but more of a confused and misguided youngster.

UNC Chapel Hill Muslim Wanted to "Kill Americans " for jihad had sever mental illness"

Lone jihadi in Miami "needed mental institution".

UPDATE: Schlussel has a great post on this here.

Islamic Terrorist Naveed Haq Walks (photo hat tip Schlussel)

UPDATE: Reader Naar painfully writes," I am not Jewish but have a passion for the Jewish people. I remember feeling fear when the shooting happened and even told my office mates "I bet it is a Muslim after Friday prayers killing Jews." They shrugged and showed no sense of fear. I was right and their nonchalant reaction was and is more frightening. I was even more angry and sick to my stomach when I heard that he wasn't getting the death penalty and his parents' letter of thanks to the prosecution for "sparing" him. People even turned it to an anti-gun issue. People all over Seattle felt sorry for the guy, he had "mental" problems  he was angry about Israel-so it was understandable why he went to kill some Jews.
You know Haq's family works at the Hanford Nuclear Plant in Richland, WA? And his dad founded an Islamic Center in the Tri-cities area?
And the women Haq chased down the stairs and killed,  he shot her in the head after she was already down."

FOX MEET HENHOUSE: MIAMI PAYS $150k TO NATION OF ISLAM "PEACEMAKERS"

From the "you can't make this stuff" up department. The Nation of Islam  will be assisting law enforcement to "help keep the peace" to the tune of $150,000. Is this jiyza or what?

This is the brain child of ethically challenged Michelle Spence-Jones. A crooked politician who has previously faced indictment.  Spence-Jones has a history of pushing for payments to her close political allies.

Muslim group to help keep peace in Miami's Overtown Miami Herald hat tip Frank

As Miami steps up police presence in Overtown, it is starting a community outreach program run by a group affiliated with the Nation of Islam.

Seeking a balance between outreach and enforcement, Miami is launching a nearly $1 million crime-fighting initiative in Overtown that will mix police patrols, video cameras -- and suit-and-tie wearing Muslims.

The stepped-up policing seeks to deter would-be lawbreakers without making Overtown residents feel ''invaded,'' in the words of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones.

Which is where the Muslims come in.

Along with budgeting hundreds of thousands of dollars for increased police patrols and the installation of surveillance cameras, Miami is spending $150,000 on a ''Peacemakers'' pilot program run by a nonprofit with ties to the Nation of Islam.

Under the proposed contract, which should be finalized in the coming weeks, the Peacemakers would function as a liaison between police and the community.

Nation of Islam - the "peacemakers".

A mixture of suit-wearing Muslims and T-shirt-wearing outreach workers -- of various denominations -- will walk the streets of Overtown, reporting crimes, referring the drug-addicted and homeless to support agencies and listening to concerns.

''Sometimes the residents don't want to talk to the police,'' said Spence-Jones, who is spearheading the effort. ``We have to look at other ways.''

[...]

The cameras are identical to those already monitoring some parts of downtown.

But where downtown has its ''Ambassador'' program -- a uniformed private-security detail that also exists to direct lost visitors -- Overtown's Peacemakers aim to inspire black youth in need of role models.

The group's suits and ties have meaning, according to Peacemaker organizer Minister Rasul Muhammad.

''What we need most is moral reform,'' he said.

Whose morality? Islam's?

PARAMETERS UNCLEAR

Yet questions remain on how exactly the partnership between police and Peacemakers will take shape.

Muhammad said his group would carry radios that can instantly connect with police.

Yet Miami Police Maj. Jorge Gomez, who supervises Overtown and surrounding areas, said: ``We really don't have anything to do with that program. They don't have any radios. . . . They've got to call 911 just like anybody else.''
[...]
Not all ventures found success.

New Orleans police in 2005 rescinded a $15,000 police-sensitivity training contract with a longtime security director for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan -- after facing widespread criticism from local religious leaders and officers over that group's reputation as anti-Semitic.

Though Miami's Peacemakers say they will not advocate any religion and are not officially aligned with the Nation of Islam, the Peacemakers' corporate offices are at the religious group's Miami mosque.

Rasul Muhammad is a prominent Nation of Islam member and the son of former leader Elijah Muhammad.

Asked about the Peacemakers' planned role in Miami, the Anti-Defamation League raised concerns.

''While we appreciate the city of Miami's efforts to improve conditions in the Overtown area,'' wrote Andrew Rosenkranz, Florida regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, ``we are concerned that it did not fully understand the nature of the organization that it chose to provide these services.''

There are the polite Jews again, tiptoeing through the tulips. The vile jew hatred

Muhammad declined to have organizers pose for pictures for this article, saying he was reluctant to make a big media splash now.

Muhammad was also reluctant to discuss a minor lawsuit filed against the nonprofit Progressive Land Development International Inc., the group that would run Peacemakers. The suit alleged Progressive Land failed to return a $950 security deposit to a tenant in a Liberty City apartment building it owns.

Muhammad, who court records show was served in the lawsuit, denied his group even owns any apartments. County property records show multiple Liberty City apartment buildings owned by a Progressive Land Development Group Inc., that lists its business address as the Nation of Islam's Miami mosque.

''That has to be something else,'' Muhammad said. ``That's not us.''

Read it all. Nookin futz!

US Muslims Plot to Kill US Soldiers

First coptors, now US soldiers. And the dhimmi band played on. Thanks to Liam for tracking this disturbing trend.

Three Accused With Plot to Kill Soldiers                          

Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio - The aunt of a man accused of plotting to kill American Soldiers testified Friday that he said he was learning how to shoot guns for his own protection, but another defense witness said the defendant told him he was going to the range just for fun.

Prosecutors allege that the real reason was for Wassim Mazloum to be ready to fight U.S. Soldiers in Iraq.

Mazloum, Mohammad Amawi and Marwan El-Hindi are charged with conspiring to kill or maim people outside the United States.

A government informant, Darren Griffin, has testified that he trained recruits for the plot after one of the defendants sought him out. The defense alleges that Griffin made up the case against the men so that he would keep getting paid as an informant.

Federal prosecutors wrapped up their case Friday against the three Ohio men, who face a maximum penalty of life in prison if convicted.

Mazloum began his defense first. His aunt, Nailam Elkhechen, said Mazloum showed her one of the paper targets he shot at the range. She asked him why he was going there.

He was planning to return to Lebanon, where he was born and lived until he was 19, and he was worried about civil unrest and fighting there, she testified. He told her that he wanted to be ready to defend himself, she said.

Hussein Smidi, who grew up with Mazloum in Lebanon and now lives in Toledo, said the two talked about the trips to the shooting range. "He said it was for fun," Smidi testified.

Griffin, a former Army Special Forces Soldier, says he gained the trust of the defendants by posing as a former Soldier who grew disenchanted with U.S. foreign policy. He recorded the defendants at their homes, when they ate together and when they practiced shooting guns.

At one point, Griffin said they needed to have a goal when they gathered to practice shooting at a gun range.

"We should have a goal," Mazloum replied, according to a recording made by Griffin. "It's not just going for fun.".

Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum came to the U.S. legally from Lebanon. El-Hindi was born in Jordan, and Amawi was born in the U.S. but also has Jordanian citizenship.

JUDGES CAN'T JUDGE

Nookin futz!

Muslim translator who took classified Iraq maps is sentenced to 11 years (NY Sun)

A Brooklyn man who stole classified documents while serving as a translator in Iraq was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison after a federal judge showed leniency, saying he could not tell with certainty whether the translator was spying for the insurgency or was only a troubled man who gathered the material for no apparent reason.

The documents in Noureddine Malki’s possession included battle maps showing routes used by American troops and lists of locations that troops suspected were used to hide weapons of mass destruction.

Authorities found the documents in Malki’s Hoyt Street apartment in 2005, upon his return from a third tour in Iraq.

Taking the witness stand in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn for the first time since his jailing nearly three years ago, Malki, now 48, testified that he believed the government was going “hard” on him because of his “cultural background” — he is Muslim and from Morocco

[...]

An assistant United States attorney, John Buretta, suggested that Malki could have passed along the classified information to the insurgency. Mr. Buretta pointed out that Malki’s phone records and e-mails show that even after returning home to Brooklyn, he stayed in contact with Iraqis, some of whom had ties to the insurgency. The prosecutor also said Malki had been accused of sneaking off one of the bases he lived on while in Iraq and that a superior had shown concern over the amount of time Malki spent with an Iraqi source who had known contacts in the insurgency.

Mr. Buretta also tried to show that various files found on Malki’s computer — including pictures of corpses of Muslims as well as a music video extolling martyrdom and the capture of Jerusalem — demonstrated that Malki had a motive to harm this country. Malki countered by saying he was a collector of things, and he compared his Internet downloads to his collections of “stamps, currencies, and cartoons.”

If this story doesn't make you mad as hell, well then I don't know what. This judge has the blood of Americna soldiers on his hands. Here is the putz en tuchas that handed down his lenient sentence:

“There is a certain amount of bizarreness about this case,” Judge Korman said, adding that he was “not 100% sure if we are dealing with a spy or someone who has other problems.

One point that seemed to trouble Judge Korman was why Malki, if he had taken the documents truly by accident, had not destroyed them upon realizing they were in his possession.

Malki, answering the judge’s question on that point, said he had “kept them in my apartment for the sole reason that I would establish contact” with an intelligence officer to whom he could return them.

That did not happen.

ththththththththththtats all folks!

CIA INFILTRATION: HAMPERING INVESTIGATIONS

This is the same CIA that lauded the hezbo mole that infiltrated their ranks as a "great agent".

Justice Dept. Inspector General Claims CIA Hampered Its Investigation US News and World Report hat tip eputz

Report says the agency blocked access to senior al Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah

A new Justice Department report accuses the CIA of hampering an investigation by its inspector general into the FBI's involvement in the controversial interrogation and detention of terrorism-related detainees.

The key accusation: that the CIA's decision to deny investigators access to interview Abu Zubaydah, a high-level al Qaeda operative waterboarded after he was taken into U.S. custody, was "unwarranted."

The allegations—while only briefly mentioned in a footnote in the report—highlight another example of how the FBI and CIA still sometimes struggle over the boundaries of cooperation between the agencies.

The problem began in early 2007 when, according to the inspector general's report, IG investigators sought approval to interview several detainees at Guantánamo Bay. The Defense Department agreed, saying this would not interfere with intelligence gathering. But then the CIA objected to interviewing Zubaydah.

While some of the reasons were redacted from the report, the CIA asserted that interviewing Zubaydah did not fall within the IG's "investigative mandate." What's more, the CIA reportedly feared he would make false statements about CIA employees.

SECRET REPORT ON SAUDI HATE SCHOOL MUST BE RELEASED

Where are the rational, right thinking leaders? WTF? Who the hell is in charge? This is the very definition of infiltration.

Secret Report on Saudi School in Virginia Must Be Released Counterterrorism blog hat tip rut

Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors of Fairfax County, Virginia, near Washington, DC, unanimously voted to continue leasing county property to the Islamic Saudi Academy, which is funded by the Saudi government. The school had been criticized for using textbooks which included virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Christian language and teachings. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a report last year urging the State Department to shut the school down unless it materially changed the textbooks to remove the hateful language. To quote the Commission, "Moreover, a 2006 report analyzing some Saudi textbooks from the 2005-2006 school year found that 'a ninth grade Saudi textbook on Hadith teaches teenagers in apocalyptic terms that violence towards Jews, Christians and other unbelievers is sanctioned by God.' For example, the textbook reads, 'the hour [of judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.'" ISA's 1999 valedictorian was Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush.

Apparently, the Board of Supervisors is satisfied that the textbooks were changed - "apparently," that is, because it commissioned a report to translate the newest version of the textbooks, but the Board refuses to release the report. That secrecy is unacceptable in this instance, especially considering that the report was paid for by taxpayers' dollars.

Either the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors must release the report, or Congress should subpoena it and release it for them.

Read the whole nasty thing here.

U.S. HEZBO SPY GETS NO JAILTIME

UN-FREAKIN-BELIEVABLE.  They are busy rounding up and busting old Jews for copyig library docs  but the enemy within who has infilitrated at the highest levels of our counter terror agencies - that's OK.

OUTRAGE!: Hezbollah Spy Prouty Gets $750 Fine, NO JAIL TIME Debbie Schlussel hat tip van

Same for Sis-in-Law, but $500 Fine

[...] This woman spied for Hezbollah, accessed records on the investigation of her brother-in-law, Hezbollah financier Talal Chahine, on his behalf, and gets zero jailtime, while Jonathan Pollard rots for life in prison for spying for an ally. A drunk driver does more time than this spy. Not a day in jail. For treason. Outrageous. CONTD...

Previously at Atlas:Hezbo Mole Sister's a Marine, Hubby State DeptJIHAD JANE: "My God, she's married to one of our people,"

Loving the Enemy "A Great Spy!"

The Face of Evil 11/14/07 

HezBo Illegal Alien Infiltrates CIA 11/13/07

CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST 9/11 20TH HIJACKER

Charges dropped? Why don't we drop our frickin pants while we are at it?
I am so not getting this. We know what these jihadis do when they are released. It must be part of the new State department strategy,"let's pretend the jihadis haven't declared war on the West and maybe it will go away!"

Mohammed al Qahtani,  the so-called 20th hijacker, was a compatriot of Osama bin Laden and a man who had tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001 to take part in the Sept. 11 attacks. Of the roughly 500 detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, none is more notorious than Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker." Only weeks before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five [and the one that ended up crashing in a Pennsylvania field instead of striking the White House, its widely believed intended target]." (more here)

The charges have been dropped.

I am thinking it's the "torture" aspect - you know, thongs, bras ... torture that made them drop the case. Al Qahtani played right into the leftards hands when he whined that interrogation techniques made him lie. The left would go nuts at trial right?

CHARGES DROPPED AGINST 20TH HIJACKER MSNBC

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday.

Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks. Authorities say al-Qahtani missed out on taking part in the attacks because he was denied entry to the U.S. by an immigration agent.

Speaking of torture and bras. Perhaps prosecutors wanted to avoid this.

CONVINCING JIHADIS IT AINT JIHAD

This is frightening in its stupidity. Furthering the Orwellian double speak policy of  forbiding the use of the word jihad, jihadist, or mujahedeen.

It seems Bush apparently hasn't gotten the memo.

Spencer over at Jihadwatch opines, "Don't the jihadists who claim to be representing "pure Islam" alienate this large aggregate of peaceful Muslims? If not, why will Americans examining their claim alienate them? And what does their non-alienation by the jihadists, and the apparent fragility of their loyalties, such that they'll be driven into the arms of the jihadists they abhor by Western mention of the word "jihad," tell us? Or what should it tell us?

[...]And how exactly will ignoring the fact that it exploits religious sentiments make it stop doing so?"

- I wonder if Robert will have to change the name of his blog to "It's not the Jihadwatch"

US urges officials to stop linking Islam with terrorism -- now if they could only convince the jihadists to stop also

[...]

"U.S. officials urged to avoid linking Islam, jihad with terrorism," by Shaun Waterman for UPI (thanks to all who sent this in):

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- U.S. officials are being advised in internal government documents to avoid referring publicly to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups as Islamic or Muslim, and not to use terms like jihad or mujahedin, which "unintentionally legitimize" terrorism.

"There's a growing consensus (in the administration) that we need to move away from that language," said a former senior administration official who was involved until recently in policy debates on the issue.

Instead, in two documents circulated last month by the National Counter-Terrorism Center, the multiagency center charged with strategic coordination of the U.S. war on terrorism, officials are urged to use terms like violent extremists, totalitarian and death cult to characterize al-Qaida and other terror groups.

"Avoid labeling everything 'Muslim.' It reinforces the 'U.S. vs. Islam' framework that al-Qaida promotes," reads "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counter-Terrorism Communication," produced last month by the center.

BOLTON: "BOMB THE IRANIAN CAMPS"

We can at least sleep better at night knowing that Bolton is there,  advocating for free men. There is hope while he works to alter the tragic course of human events.

John Bolton: US should bomb Iranian camps By Damien McElroy, Telegraph hat tip Van

John Bolton, America’s ex-ambassador to the United Nations, has called for US air strikes on Iranian camps where insurgents are trained for war in Iraq.

Mr Bolton said that striking Iran would represent a major step towards victory in Iraq. While he acknowledged that the risk of a hostile Iranian response harming American’s overseas interests existed, he said the damage inflicted by Tehran would be “far higher” if Washington took no action.

“This is a case where the use of military force against a training camp to show the Iranians we’re not going to tolerate this is really the most prudent thing to do,” he said. “Then the ball would be in Iran’s court to draw the appropriate lesson to stop harming our troops.”

Mr Bolton, an influential former member of President George W Bush’s inner circle, dismissed as “dead wrong” reported British intelligence conclusions that the US military had overstated the support that Iran was providing to Iraqi fighters.

You must, of course, read it all and then weep that he is not our Presidential candidate. I mean, really. If McCain had any gray matter at all, Bolton would be on the ticket but McCain is too busy meeting with seditious  La Raza. Bolton would give the ticket conservative cred and real man sex appeal :)

Deport the Bastard

Or indict him. Either way, stop the insanity. He confessed! Basta!

Muslim cleric fighting deportation linked to terror group Daily  Record hat tip

NEWARK (AP) -- When he faces an immigration judge in two weeks, a popular Muslim cleric fighting deportation may have to counter claims that he confessed to being a member of a terrorist group

According to Israeli military authorities, Imam Mohammad Qatanani admitted being a member of the militant Hamas organization during interrogation in 1993 in Israel.

"Imam Mohammed Katanani was convicted based on his own admission on charges of belonging to an unauthorized association and providing services to an unauthorized association, for being a member of Hamas and acting on its behalf," the Israeli army said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press.

The U.S. State Department includes Hamas on its list of "designated foreign terrorist organizations." Anyone identified as a member or a supporter of an organization on the list can be refused entry to the U.S., according to Lucille Cirillo, spokeswoman for U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. According to the army statement, an Israeli military court sentenced Qatanani to three months in prison and a 12-month suspended sentence, and also fined him.

Qatanani, who heads the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, faces possible deportation for not disclosing the conviction when he applied for citizenship in 1999. He is scheduled to appear before immigration Judge Alberto J. Riefkohl in Newark on May 8.

Of course the Democrats, handmaiden to the jihad rush to his defense:

Political leaders, including Gov. Jon S. Corzine, have expressed support for Qatanani, and the imam's followers have raised about $135,000 for his defense in recent weeks. They are planning a rally in Newark on the day his trial begins, according to Aref Assaf, president of the Paterson-based American Arab Forum.

WANTED FOR MURDER: "HONOR KILLER" YASER SAID, CHILD RAPIST, MURDERER, DAD ALL AMERICAN GIRLS SARAH & AMINA

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Amina and Sarah's Aunt Gail will be my guest on Atlas on the Air this  Wednesday 12 noon. We will catch this beast.

Here's the thing. We (the citizenry) are going to have to apprehend this killer. Law enforcement officials in Irving are playing politically correct politics with the murder of these young desperate girls. Free men must bring the killer to justice.

Imagine , if you will, two black men were lynched in the South. Imagine the reaction by law enforcement, citizens....... media. The whole country would be galvanized. Their killers would have been caught in a heartbeat.

Why should this be different? This was two more lynching victims by the Islamic community. This man brought his barbaric islamic practice from Egypt, tortured these girls for years. Beat them, raped them, kicked them in the head ....repeatedly and then finally murdered them (and even with nine bullets in her body, Sarah called 911 for help).  The West must purge Islamic violence from our communities without exception.

That 911 call may have kept Yaser Said from escaping the country. Many who believe in the practice of "honor killings" in Islam would help him. His son Islam would help him.

‘Honour killing’ brother blames victims

During the vigil, the girls’ brother took the microphone, saying his father did not kill his sisters.

“They pulled the trigger, not my dad,” he said.

What does that tell you? The control is inbred in the son.

Directly related: Texas: Dis-Honor killing of two sisters (hat tip Scarlett Crusader)

These girls trusted the West. These believed the West would save them. They believed that education would save them They poured themselves into school, were enrolled in many AP level classes. They played soccer, tennis, ......they got scholarships.  They secretly went to certain teachers to express their terrible fear of their father.

"I remember her telling me that her dad told her he would take her back to Egypt and have her killed," she said. "He said it's OK to do that over there if you dishonor your family." (article here)

No one helped them.

They went to the courts to report the rape when they were 7 and 8  (the mother, who failed them miserably, did sign the affidavit attesting to the rape). The judge dismissed the charges when they recanted a month a later (clearly under threat of violence. No one helped them (and that judge should be disbarred).

Said physically and emotionally abused his children.

In October 1998, when Amina and Sarah were 9 and 8 years old, they accused their father of sexual abuse.The allegations were reported to the Hill County sheriff's office, where the girls told a detective their father had been touching them inappropriately. Amina told authorities she had been penetrated at least once.

Lewisville police responded to a call at the residence on Dec. 26, 2007  on a report of a missing person, Capt. Kevin Deaver said. The father Yaser Abdel Said reported the girls missing. The mother, Patricia, had taken the girls to the Great aunts home but brought them back home to be murdered just 5 days later.

Amina and Sarah's Aunt Gail will be my guest on Atlas on the Air this  Wednesday 12 noon.

The West failed them in life. We cannot fail them in death too.  If this murdering Muslim gets away with the murder of of his daughters (in the Islamic tradition of honor killings) - it is an enormous victory for Islam (and Sharia) in the West. It sends a horrific message that we will tolerate, ignore such acts of barbarism. It will send girls/women living in the West under Islamic oppression in their homes, even further down the rabbit hole. This Islamic savage trend will only increase if we don't put an immediate stop to it.

If I were born into a situation like Amina and Sarah Said, I would have behaved the same way,  embraced the same things, fought back the same way and been murdered with the same savagery.

Law enforcement officials  in Irving are dragging their heels. Seems they might not want to upset the just under half of the population in that town that's Muslim. Shame on them. If they are hoping the case gets forgotten this will  never happen. Look what Amina inscribed on her picture on myspace page ..."I don't want to become a memory."

We cannot let that happen. These girls did not die in vain.

Contribute to the Crimestoppers fund. If the pot is large enough someone will come forward. Someone picked that pig up covered in blood,  after he shot and killed those girls. There had to have been an accomplice to pick  Yaser Abdel Said up from the crime scene which was in the parking lot of the Omni Mandalay Hotel at 231 Las Colinas Boulevard Irving TX. He knew exactly where to park out of the camera's vision. And while it was near  the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, it was not walking distance. Someone had to pick him up, there is quick access to Interstate Highways just two blocks away.

People know. If there is enough money involved, someone will talk. Their murder was pre-meditated.

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Check out this YouTube video displaying different ways Yaser Said might look today. Police think he changed his appearance.

He might look like this

or this

Actual mugshot

Possible appearance

Wanted for Murder.

ALL BLOGGERS SHOULD POST THESE PICS! GET THEM OUT THERE!

Look where Sarah made the 911 cal (with nine bullets in her body) and where the murdered girls bodies were found. He moved those bodies. They don't know where he killed them.

Face of an "honor" killer

With his son, Islam.
 

stuff your face pig

Read previous Atlas coverage  on Amina and Sarah Said here.

Amina (check out the look on her face), Yaser the killer smokin' the hookah, and Sarah's (right) pathetic expression. Ugh.

Throwing Holocaust Survivor and Jews off Planes ...feel safer?

Oh yeah, the TSA is on the job alright. Busting little old Jewish woman holocaust survivor.  Don't you feel safer? She is so much easier to bust than threatening  imams  - no nasty  CAIR lawsuits against the airline or the passengers ...............

Jews are a fair game. An easy target. No worries of repercussions or violence.

74 year old holocaust survivor Elena Reichman from Boca Raton was arrested on orders from the TSA at Palm Beach airport. Feel safer? Feel better?

They special search me every time I travel ..... feel better. Feel safer?

TSA said she "resisted screening". She should have worn a burka. No one would have screwed with her then.

Arrest Report  

Check out the "victim's" occupation ....Deputy Sheriff.

Elena Reichman, Holocaust survivor, arrested (and roughed up) at Palm Beach International Airport,  see VIDEO here, she calls TSA agents, Hitler.    

Davira Bareli described her mother as a strong woman who spent four years with her parents, six siblings and about 500 other people in a forced-labor camp in a Romanian castle during World War II.

WOMAN ARRESTED AT PALM BEACH AIRPORT  WPTV

  74-year-old grandmother spent the night in jail after she refused security officers' efforts to check her at Palm Beach International Airport and then shoved a deputy, authorities said Thursday.

Elena Reichman, a Holocaust survivor who lives west of Boca Raton, is charged with felony battery on a law enforcement officer. She was released from jail after posting a $3,000 bond at 5 a.m. Thursday. It was her first arrest, state records show.

Reichman's daughter, Davira Bareli, said her mother is diabetic and accused security officers and the deputy of acting irrationally with her mother.

And this yesterday .... they threw the Jew off the plane. Feeling better? Feeling safer?

JEWISH PASSENGER REMOVED FROM PLANE

HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR ARRESTED AT PALM BEACH AIRPORT FOR REFUSING TO EMPTY POCKET  Sun Sentinel

An Orthodox Jewish man, who wanted to travel to San Francisco by plane, left his seat and went to the back of the plane to pray before the  9 to

A witness said a man wearing a black hat and a long black coat had a small prayer book and he went to pray, ignoring the flight attendants’ orders to take his seat. The flight was scheduled to leave for San Francisco, which is the place where the praying passenger lives.

His friends told the attendants that he couldn’t stop the prayer, but he should finish in about 2 minutes. After 2 minutes, the man explained that he couldn’t interrupt his praying because it was a religious ritual and he didn’t do that intentionally. But the plane took off without the man after the attendants called a guard to remove him from the plane.

“Even when the doors of the plane are not closed, if the crew says you should take your seat, you have to, so they can proceed with preparing the flight for takeoff,” Ms. Urbanski, a spokeswoman for United Airlines, was quoted by the New York Times as saying. “It’s important that the customers listen to the flight crew’s instructions, especially safety instructions.” She confirmed the man was put on another flight Thursday morning.

On the other hand, it looks like there is a religious rule in the Talmud saying that a man shouldn’t give up to his prayers even if a snake curls around his ankle.

Perhaps because CAIR is advising the TSA?

Islamic Terrorist Fundraises for Obama

Patrick Poole exposed Obama here. Obama, the candidate of the jihad.

Two years ago, Hatem El-Hady was the chairman of the Toledo, Ohio-based Islamic charity, Kindhearts, which was closed by the US government in February 2006 for terrorist fundraising and all its assets frozen. Today, El-Hady has redirected his fundraising efforts for his newest cause - Barack Obama for President.

El-Hady has his own dedicated page on Barack Obama's official website, chronicling his fundraising on behalf of the Democratic Party presidential candidate. Not only that, but he has none other than Barack Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, listed as one of his friends (one of her 224 listed friends).

WTF is the FBI doing?

Th is not new. Who are these people?

For the Record: Seriously, What is the FBI Doing? IPT News hat tip rut

In February, we exposed the latest FBI (and CIA) outrage, advertising for recruits in a pro-terrorist, anti-American magazine, the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) - (see: Looking Under a Rock: FBI and CIA Hit New Low in Recruitment Drive). Both of our top national security agencies had placed online advertisements on the webpage of a magazine that included a hagiography to a terrorist the FBI had worked almost a decade to investigate and prosecute, Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian.

Just over a month later, it is clear that the FBI has learned nothing. The agency is advertising for recruits in the Arab American News, another publication with a long history of support for terrorism, terrorists and terrorist organizations. The current edition has an editorial titled, "Let our people go!," under an ad banner recruiting for the FBI (which also appears on the home page of the website), about accused Iraqi spy Muthanna al-Hanooti, which states:

Arab American political activist Muthanna al-Hanooti was arrested and jailed this week by federal officials upon arrival at Detroit Metropolitan Airport returning from a trip to the Middle East. The following day he was charged with two counts of conspiracy and three counts of lying to the FBI about working for agents with the Iraqi Intelligence Service under Saddam Hussein. (emphasis added)

 

The editorial goes on to state:

We see a man who worked tirelessly trying to prevent a catastrophe for his homeland and for his new country. We see a guy who, rather than pick up a gun and kill somebody to reach his political goals, chose to participate in the American political system because he believed in it. He believed justice would be served if only more people knew the real story of what was going on in Iraq.

So there you have it. The FBI is advertising for recruits in a publication which proclaims the innocence of an alleged Iraqi spy accused of lying …. to the FBI, and claims that being a paid intelligence asset of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime is participating "in the American political system."

Understanding the FBI's need for Arabic translators and Arabic speaking agents and analysts is one thing. Seeing the agency advertise for recruits in pro-terrorist publications – including one that discounts making false statements to the FBI! - is quite another. As we stated in February when it became known that the FBI and CIA were advertising in WRMEA, Congress needs to immediately investigate these agencies' recruiting techniques.

Mayor Speaks, Police Provide Detail for Terror Tied Islamic Parade

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (hat tip Michael)

"Muslims of the Americas" has at least 34 camps across the USA, Hyattsville, Maryland; Hancock NY: Red House, Virginia; Falls Church, Virginia; Macon, Georgia; York, South Carolina; Dover, Tennessee; Buena Vista, Colorado; Talihina, Oklahoma; Tulare Country (Fresno), California;  ""Medina Masjid" in Commerce, Georgia,  and Onalaska, Washington.  Others are being built, including an expansive facility in Sherman, Pennsylvania.

"400 members of the Muslims of the Americas March" on Saturday 4/05/2008 in Binghamton NY, story  in the Press & Sun Bulletin see link to the story here.

Following are details from Law Enforcement on Binghamton's Ramadan A. Abdullah, the "Muslim of the Americas" member and cop killer that links him to the Fresno CA and the Binghamton/Hancock NY camps.

Binghamton's Ramadan A. Abdullah (cop killer) had his own trailer at the "Muslims of Americas " camp in Fresno CA.

U.S. Marshals encountered Baladullah (Fresno CA "Muslims of the Americas" camp) when they arrested a Baladullah resident, James Hobson, on a warrant for smuggling firearms between South Carolina and New York.

Detectives from the Fresno County sheriff's department searched the Baladullah trailer of another resident, Ramadan Abdullah (from Binghamton NY), who was charged with killing a deputy who had caught him breaking into a home outside the community, possibly to steal guns.

Detectives reported seeing a small landing strip and firing range on the Baladullah property. In Ramadan Abdullah's trailer, they found a book by Sheikh Mubarik Ali Jilani, Sgt. Toby Rien said. The State Department says Jilani, a Pakistani cleric, founded Al-Fuqra more than 20 years ago.

Authorities also said that Ramadan Abdullah had come from a similar Muslim community in Binghamton, N.Y. (Islamburg).

While at Baladullah (Fresno CA), detectives also observed near the front gate a sign for the International Qur'anic Open University an arm of another Jilani organization. The sign has since been removed.

ATF agents say they have looked into Baladullah (Fresno CA) as part of their investigation into Al-Fuqra (Muslims of the Americas) activities at a similar remote settlement in Virginia, where a man was convicted last month on federal firearms violations.

"They are all connected," said Bart McEntire, resident agent in charge of the ATF in Virginia. "And I'm aware that there is this faction near Fresno."

See this link

UPDATE: See Thursday's 4/03/08 video on the MOA cop killer:  it shows the cops taking off from the shooting scene with the body of the Deputy Sheriff in one of the cop cars with the door open at high speed.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Iranian immigrants want Farsi-language Oklahoma driver's license testing hat tip van

The federal government is investigating whether the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety violated the civil rights of Iranian immigrants by refusing to provide them with driver's license tests in their native Farsi language.

WTF?

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched the investigation in March after a complaint filed on behalf of two Iranian nationals living in Bartlesville accused the state agency of unlawful discrimination based on their national origin, according to a letter from the NHTSA to Public Safety Commissioner Kevin Ward.

And they're not even US citizens?

Killing America, I tell ya.