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HACKING THE RIGHT: THE LEFTS HIGH CRIMES, O'REILLY HIT

The party of terrorists rights and their right to privacy and the al jizz like Ny Times who leaked NSA and FISA classified information because terrorists privacy might be compromised,  show what fascists they really are. SILENCE  and complicity over the hacking of Palin's private email account.
There has been no outrage over Palin's privacy being hacked by leftist digital brownshirts.And no one on the left will denounce this.
Could you imagine if this happened to Obama or Campbell Brown? (did you see this video?) or Zawahiri? How the leftards would weep and prostrate themselves?

Yesterday O' Reilly was hacked. Gateway has the story here:(hat tip Larwyn)

Leftist hackers broke into Bill O'Reilly's website and posted information on his premium members at the Wikileaks website.

The criminals were upset with the way O'Relly reported on the Sarah Palin "hacker" attack.
Computer World reported:

Just days after publishing U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal email messages, the Wikileaks Web site has published data about members who signed up for a section of Fox Television host Bill O'Reilly's Web site.

Hackers were able to obtain a list of Billoreilly.com premium members, including email addresses, site passwords and the city and state where they live. Some of the information was published Friday on Wikileaks.com, which has been under fire from conservative commentators, including O'Reilly, for publishing Palin's messages.

OBAMA SUPRRESSES TRUTH VIA GOOGLE SEARCH

This is what the man does. He is an enemy of free speech. He suppresses the truth, a true child of his mentors Marshall and Alinsky.

Barack Obama Uses Google to Combat Vicious Rumors US News World Report

Searches for some of the "most pervasive Internet rumours" often turn up links to his campaign website

Barack Obama is waging an quiet battle in the Googlesphere to combat damagingrumors, as well as his opponent, John McCain.

Specifically, Obama's campaign has waded into online auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases like "Barack Obama" but also potentially negative ones like "Barack Obama birth certificate" or "Barack Obama as a Muslim," according to Hitwise, an Internet audience monitoring firm.

This means that, as of Wednesday morning, Google searches for Obama being a Muslim often turn up a prominent "sponsored" link at the top of the results page that connects to a page on Obama's campaign website that debunks the myth and details his Christian faith. Searches for Obama's birth certificate produce a link to a page showing the official document.

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It's not clear how many Web surfers are being driven to his site through these search ads. Data from Hitwise suggest the numbers are relatively low.

Whether or not people visit the Obama site, the Google search results page displays, underneath the link, text that denies the specific rumor, such as "Barack Obama is a Christian. Get the facts at his official site."

Similarly, a search for "Obama flag pin"—referring to another Internet myth that Obama refuses to wear a U.S. flag pin (which is also false)—frequently turns up a link to his site, with the text, "He says the Pledge, puts his hand on his heart and wears a flag pin." Other searches, like "Obama Koran" or "Obama Pledge of Allegiance," also usually contain sponsored links to Obama's website.

His campaign is not just playing defense. Searches for terms like "Palin Bridge to Nowhere" and "McCain maverick" sometimes display sponsored links back to Obama's campaign website.

CYBER WARFARE: Hacking Slaughterers

I would gladly continue to suffer hack attacks if the jihad suffers as well :)

Hackers break into Hamas website hat tip Van

A ring-wing Israeli group hacked into websites of organizations and activist groups Thursday, including those of the armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, and left-wing Israeli organizations. The group of hackers, calling themselves the 'Extremist Zealots,' boasted that they had broken into numerous sites. CONTD...

Uh, BTW, how bad is the my site load today?

CYBERZIONISTS!

And a cutie to boot! hooha! Fight dhimmitube!

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Jane Novak: Blog Heroine

The New York Times (!) did a wonderful piece on Jane Novak of the blog, Armies of Liberation. She is the quintessential blogger doing what she does for liberty, justice and democracy. I have had the distinct pelase of corresponding with her from time to time on Yemeni matters. She is tireless and intrepid and the nemesis of the brutalYemeni government. For Novak, the basic issue is freedom of speech. And so the Yemeni government despises her. She embodies the best of the blogosphere

It is rare that I send you over to the Times but this is a terrific piece. Please read and check out her blog. The title seems to minimize y=her stature but what would you expect from The New York Times, she is doing what they should be doing.

A LIVING ROOM CRUSADE VIA BLOGGING

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has never been to Yemen. She speaks no Arabic, and freely admits that until a few years ago, she knew nothing about that strife-torn south Arabian country.

And yet Ms. Novak has become so well known in Yemen that newspaper editors say they sell more copies if her photograph — blond and smiling — is on the cover. Her blog, an outspoken news bulletin on Yemeni affairs, is banned there. The government’s allies routinely vilify her in print as an American agent, a Shiite monarchist, a member of Al Qaeda, or “the Zionist Novak.”

The worst of her many offenses is her dogged campaign on behalf of a Yemeni journalist, Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani, who incurred his government’s wrath by writing about a bloody rebellion in the far north of the country. He is on trial on sedition charges that could bring the death penalty, with a verdict expected Wednesday.

Ms. Novak, working from a laptop in her Monmouth County living room “while the kids are at school,” has started an Internet petition to free Mr. Khaiwani. She has enlisted Yemeni politicians, journalists, human rights activists and others around the globe. Her blog goes well beyond the Khaiwani case and has become a crucial outlet for opposition journalists and political figures, who feed her tips on Yemeni political intrigue by e-mail or text message.

She says her campaign is a matter of basic principle. “This is a country that lets Al Qaeda people go free, and they’re putting a journalist on trial for doing his job?” she said. “It’s just completely crazy.”

But Ms. Novak does admit to a personal interest in the case. She and Mr. Khaiwani have become close friends, though they have never met, and neither speaks the other’s language. One of the charges against him is receiving a cellphone text message from her, as part of an alleged plot (which he denies) to aid the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.

“The penalty for this crime is usually death,” Mr. Khaiwani said during an interview at his home in the Yemeni capital, Sana, in January. A lanky 42-year-old with large, piercing eyes and a dark sense of humor, he has already been jailed four times by the authorities in connection with his journalism. Last year he was kidnapped and beaten by men he says were plainclothes police officers.

Mr. Khaiwani added, with a broad smile: “If you add to this my relationship with Jane Novak, it means the death penalty for sure.”

Ms. Novak does not fit the profile of a dilettante in exotic causes. A former sales manager for a textile company, she speaks with a distinct Brooklyn accent, having grown up in Flatbush. When a Yemeni government minister visited the United States last year and invited the notorious “Jane,” as she is known throughout Yemen, to go to Washington for a meeting, she turned him down. “It was too much, the money, the kids, all for a one-day trip,” she said.

Nor does she have any background in Middle East studies. One of her opponents in Yemen accused her of being a Zionist member of Aipac, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. “I had to Google it,” Ms. Novak said with a chuckle. “I didn’t know what it was.”

It was after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that Ms. Novak, who used to work not far from the World Trade Center, first took an interest in the Arab world. “I thought it would be a good idea to write in the English-language Arabic press on subjects we could all agree on, freedom of the press, equality, stuff like that,” she said.

In 2004, she started her blog, www.armiesofliberation.com, adorned with a Stars and Stripes logo, and soon wrote an article defending Mr. Khaiwani, who was in prison. He wrote her a letter of thanks, addressing it to “Jane Novak, the American journalist and political analyst.”

“Leaders in our region transform into gods,” he wrote. “They even come to believe in their fake holiness, which we aim to shatter, as they know they are humans just like us. Democracy and freedom are not granted by a leader of a regime. It is a worldwide human achievement of all the free people on earth.”

Moved by the letter, Ms. Novak started her first petition campaign on Mr. Khaiwani’s behalf. Through translators, the two began corresponding.

“He’s just such a nice guy,” Ms. Novak said. “He really believes in democracy, and he’s paying the price for it.”

It was months after their first letters before Ms. Novak could bring herself to tell Mr. Khaiwani that she was not, in fact, a journalist and political analyst, but a homemaker blogging on a laptop at home. “I didn’t want to tell you before, because I didn’t want you to lose hope,” she wrote.

Mr. Khaiwani wrote back to say that the news made him even prouder of her and her work.

Bless you Novak. Go getta 'em. :)

Read it all and don't forget to sign the petition.

ANTISEMITISM AT WIKIPEDIA, Weakipedia, TOOL OF THE JIHAD

Is there no one that can stand up to evil? Seriously. Must everything be corrupted by Islamic thuggery and bullying? Wikipedia ......... another, in a long line, of surrender monkeys and useful tools. Doesn't historical accuracy mean anything anymore?
Bottom line, this does enormous harm to the credibility of wikipedia. It is not a credible source - it will increasingly be perceived as a propaganda tool of the jihad. Frankly, the mainstream medai really ought to pick up on this piece. Students, fact finders, researchers beware.

Exposed - Anti-Israeli Subversion on Wikipedia

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit, may strive for pure democracy, but that doesn't mean it's always fair. Our colleagues at CAMERA learned this the hard way last month when their effort to fight anti-Israel bias on Wikipedia ended in several members being banned from the site and bad press for the organization. CAMERA's campaign involved recruiting volunteers and instructing them in the basics of Wikipedia participation. The Palestinian advocacy group, Electronic Intifada (EI), however, branded the effort "a plan to rewrite history" and filed a bitter complaint with Wikipedia administrators, resulting in unusually stiff penalties for the CAMERA volunteers involved.

EI's chief evidence against CAMERA was a series of private e-mails exchanged by CAMERA staff and their volunteers. An EI staff member infiltrated the group and turned the e-mails over to Wikipedia, claiming they revealed a plot by CAMERA to manipulate Wikipedia and to pass off "crude propaganda as fact." An investigation followed, resulting in two indefinite bans and several shorter-term bans for CAMERA members.

A closer look at Wikipedia's inner workings, however, reveals there is more to the story. Research carried out by Social Media expert Dr. Andre Oboler, a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor, reveals that it was EI, not CAMERA, that manipulated Wikipedia to achieve its ideological goals.

Dr. Oboler and HonestReporting also found that despite Wikipedia's clear policy against political advocacy, initiatives such as "Wiki Project Palestine" and the Yahoo group "Wikipedians for Palestine" used the Wikipedia platform to promote their ideological views, largely unopposed by the Wikipedia community. CAMERA, however, was singled out by the administrators in order to "send a strong message to lobbying groups, campaigns and other advocacy groups."

WIKIPEDIA AND THE NEUTRAL POINT OF VIEW

With nearly 60 million visitors a month and 10 million entries in 253 languages, Wikipedia has become a primary resource for students across the world. A Google search for almost any topic will return a Wikipedia entry at or near the top of the list of results.

But despite its popularity, Wikipedia does not always provide the most accurate information. What sets the encyclopedia apart from other sources is its reliance on the "wisdom of crowds" - allowing any user who spots an error in any entry to simply change it himself, anonymously if he chooses.

Not surprisingly, this feature turns controversial topics such as "Jerusalem" or "Terrorism" into battlegrounds between people with sharply different agendas. To counter the problem, Wikipedia established the neutral point of view (NPOV) as one of its guiding principles. The NPOV policy is meant to ensure all sides are presented equally on a topic until a consensus eventually emerges, a process that can take many months of intense debate.

Unfortunately, NPOV is another noble goal not always applied equally by Wikipedia users. Dr. Oboler tracked the activity of Wikipedia user Bangpound, an individual revealed to be EI staff member Benjamin Doherty, who appears to be looking to spin EI's view of CAMERA's campaign. Here is how Dr. Oboler describes his activity:

At 14:08 on April 21 EI boasted publicly to someone thought to be a member of CAMERA's staff that CAMERA and its editor have been exposed. He links to the EI article about CAMERA [accusing CAMERA of a Wikipedia conspiracy]. At 14:26 the same person edits the CAMERA page making it say "CAMERA also attempts to use Wikipedia to covertly disseminate discredited pro-Israeli propaganda."  They add that EI have e-mails that "outlined an attempt to subvert Wikipedia editorial controls and leadership structures" - an accusation designed to make Wikipedia editors see red. At 14:44 they edited the Wikipedia page on reliable sources adding "CAMERA cannot possibly be considered a reliable source" and again they outline their accusations. These edits appear aimed both to discredit CAMERA and to promote EI. It was clever marketing as well as clever advocacy, and it took under half an hour. [For the full transcripts of these edits see Dr. Oboler's research on Zionism on the Web].

But according to Dr. Oboler, EI's manipulations on Wikipedia pale in comparison to other pro-Palestinian groups such as "Wiki Project Palestine" - an effort supposedly aimed at improving articles related to Palestinian culture and society but misused to promote a political agenda, and the Yahoo group "Wikipedians for Palestine."

The real organized effort [to recruit outsiders to promote pro-Palestinian views on Wikipedia] appears to be from "Wikipedians for Palestine," a group that was advertised to individuals both on Wikipedia and through at least one Palestinian campaigning organization. That group was active for over two years. It was detected, questions were raised on and off Wikipedia, and then …nothing seemed to happen, then or now.

People commenting on the CAMERA case who were shown to be involved in this Palestinian group first proclaimed the group's innocence. Then they made a number of misleading claims off Wikipedia, stating, for example, that they "never recruited neophytes to edit Wikiepdia," and that their group is "independent and never bankrolled and backed by any organization, let alone one as well staffed and funded as CAMERA."  They were challenged by an administrator to give access to their group so the archives could be checked, as was done to CAMERA. They promptly deleted the group - destroying all archives.

Wikipedia apparently dropped the issue because no one had infiltrated the group or had evidence revealing the content of the deleted archives. According to Dr. Oboler, it is impossible to know exactly what it accomplished over the past two years.

What is clear is that its claims on the group's home page were designed not only to defend themselves but also to attack CAMERA. The group may or may not have actually recruited people who were not editors, but they certainly tried to. The penalties to CAMERA are for trying to recruit people, not for any problematic editing on Wikipedia (itself a very unusual thing in a Wikiepdia investigation - normally only actions on Wikipedia are considered).

COMMON FORMS OF ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS ON WIKIPEDIA

Anti-Israel bias in Wikipedia takes three primary forms: vandalism, blatantly false allegations, and attempts to marginalize the Israeli perspective.

Vandalism, such as efforts to change Jerusalem to 'Capital of Palestine,' tends to be relatively harmless. Editors discover these kinds of changes quickly and "revert" them to the 'community consensus'. Wikipedia allows editors to be notified by email if someone has changed a favorite entry. It also keeps a history of all changes, making it easy to restore the original content.

A more insidious form of bias is the use of false information. An example can be seen on the 'Egypt' 'Camp David Accords' entry, where clear anti-Semitic incitement in the Egyptian press was dismissed as simple 'Anti-Zionist criticism'. This entry alone attracts 150,000 viewers a year, and the related 'Egypt' entry, which doesn't mention the issue at all, is viewed 3.5 million times annually.

More common are attempts to marginalize Israeli and Zionist content and lend more weight to the Palestinian or Arab narrative. The entry "Massacres committed during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war," for example, lists only those allegedly committed by Jews. Another example is the original 'Hebrews' entry, which fails to mention the undisputed fact that Jews always prayed in Hebrew, and that it became their primary everyday language in Israel since the early 20th century.

This category also includes entries that serve to diminish the perception of threats against Israel. For example, several Iran articles are apologetic about Iranian president Mahmoud Admadinejad's calls for erasing Israel from the map, reassuringly explaining the threat as mistranslation of Farsi, which supposedly only meant 'erase off the pages of time.' However they fail to mention that the same slogan was also painted on ballistic missiles in Iranian army parades.

PRO-PALESTINIAN ADVOCACY: WIKIPROJECT PALESTINE

A WikiProject is a Wikipedia's community feature allowing people with common interests to collaborate on particular encyclopedia topics. A project's homepage is essentially a central billboard allowing users to share articles of interest with the Wikipedia community.

The 'Palestine Project' goals, stated on its page, fall within the accepted Wikipedia guidelines:  To "Maintain information on Palestine including history, culture, geography and contemporary political, socio-economic and ideological context; Improve Palestine-related articles by expansion, verification and copyediting." And finally: "Be thorough and watch for POV in particularly controversial articles."

Despite the warning, however, the actual content promoted by the project appears geared towards online advocacy. There are 210 articles marked as "high importance". About half are related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Many appear because of their influence on public opinion on the Palestinian cause.

In its hall of fame for best articles, the Palestine Project page lists four best biographies. One is by Norman Finkelstein, a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, whose controversial bestseller "The Holocaust Industry" accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for financial and political gain.

There is also a large number of small articles that appear to have been posted to add weight to the Project's page, giving it the appearance of significant substance. Many of these articles are posted by anonymous users so that they will be difficult to track. This is particularly suspicious behavior considering the community-building nature of WikiProjects.

According to Dr. Oboler, the entire project appears to be an organized effort to promote the Palestinian point of view on Wikipedia.

In trying to kill off an attempt by CAMERA to get pro-Israel people involved in Wikipedia, Electronic Intifada may just have thrown a spotlight on the real and far more successful campaign to control Wikipedia... the campaign that caused CAMERA so much concern in the first place.

THE PROBLEMS ON WIKIPEDIA

A study of user involvement on Social Media sites such as Wikipedia suggests that only 1% of site visitors become heavy contributors. But according to Dr. Oboler, the involvement of more people and greater diversity ultimately benefits sites like Wikipedia:

CAMERA was right about the problems on Wikipedia. People should consider getting involved in Wikipedia and making use of the resources they have (such as books) to improve the accuracy of articles they take an interest in (on any topic imaginable). The first goal must be to improve Wikipedia. That this helps reverse manipulation of the truth is one side effect. Good well-sourced arguments will not only expose mistakes, they will also make Wikipedia better.

Editing Wikipedia is not hard and, in time, people will learn how it works and become part of the community. If you do want to get involved, pay attention to the policies, the five pillars and other information you will be shown when you join. If you run into problems there are plenty of people on Wikipedia more than happy to help or provide clarity about Wikipedia itself.

The truth will win out, but someone needs to make sure it is heard, footnoted and properly sourced.

Dr. Oboler is also a post-doctoral fellow in Political Science at Bar-Ilan University where he is researching online public diplomacy. This research covers Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Google Earth and Wikipedia among others online platforms. More on his research can be seen at  http://www.zionismontheweb.org/internet_warfare/ . Details on Wikipedia (the background data of which was shared with HonestReporting) are being added during this week.

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THE OBJECTIVE OF ISLAMIC JIHAD

Internet jihad............... incitement to war. hat tip wolf

DEATH TO ISRAEL ETC, in different langauges

QASSAM QASSAM QASSAM

Jewish woman killed today by qassams

The company(s) that host this dreck should be indicted ..... war crimes.

hat tip da wolf

Quote: Originally Posted by iranian    These are impressive, but of little use in their current form. Why don't Al-Qassam fully exploit the potential of home-made rockets? In most other countries, rockets can be used with a choice of warheads like smoke, teargas, incendiary, cluster sub-munitions, anti-tank or high explosive fragmentation. This should be an urgent priority for the brigades because it will drastically increase the capability of the existing resistance artillery. Anti-tank warheads are particularly usefull as they will give the resistance the ability to challenge occupation armoured vehicles and make zionist attacks much more costly. Even the Iraqi resistance can do this with bombs. There is no excuse for Al-Qassam not to do so.

Salam Alaykum
The Iraqi resistance has an unlimited or almost unlimited supply of weapons and chemicals to make weapons and they can import as they wish. One example of this is getting a Dragonov sniper rifle for the sniper thats goes by the name of Osman. The Iraqi border is porous because of the lack of security as well as the its shear size therefore weapons can move through it with relative ease. In addition, the Iraqi resistance has many many engineers making these weapons and again chemicals and expertise are by no means restricted
The Palestinians are almost the exact opposite. Gaza has had all its borders closed and/or heavily guarded. In addition, Gaza's borders are not long, they are are small so less land to guard and therefore restricting supplies. The only way to get supplies in is to use the Egypt tunnels and those flippin' Egyptians are trying to restrict even those, as if tightening the noose. Therefore, in terms of the Gaza strip, chemicals are restricted, expertise they have, but they don't have the supplies to apply those expertise.

 

MEDIA SUPPORTS ISLAMISTS WEBSITES: Whose Payroll is this Dhimmi Reporter on?

While our man cyber crusader, Bill (Or is that Bull) Warner, is  kickin' ass and taking names in the enormous task of  taking down jihad spreading websites, the terror loving mainstream media is taking issue with Warner, not the killers spreading their poison of global jihad.  Internet jihad is so bad, and spreading so fast and furious MEMRI has devoted an entire division to it here:

The Islamist Websites Monitor Project monitors the on-going phenomenon of jihadist sites on the Internet, which are used by terrorist organizations and their supporters to spread their Jihadist message as well as for ideological recruitment, fundraising, training, and for keeping up morale. These sites are the primary factor in the growth of homegrown terrorism in Europe and the U.S.

Well intended useful idiots? I think not. I wonder if these same "free speech" advocates published the Danish cartoons and railed against the litigation jihad taking place against world class journalists. Their suicidal asshattery defies believability and yet they are sanctimonius. GO BILL!

OPEN LETTER TO "DOTSTER CO, THE COLUMBIAN NEWSPAPER AND REPORTER COURTNEY SHERWOOD

Open letter to "Dotster Co., The Columbian Newspaper and reporter Courtney Sherwood, Vancouver WA "

The Columbian Newspapers accuses me, Bill Warner, of trying to become an Internet Censor due to my insistence that the al-Qaeda linked terrorist website of the Al-shabab at www.kataaib.net be removed from the internet via the Vancouver Web Hosting co, "Dotster", this was not done.

Today the al-Shabab via their website www.kataaib.net are calling for their followers to target (kill) all white people in Somalia, see Sunday Times report. 

In 2005 the al-Shabab killed a female reporter for the BBC News.

Al-Shabab, now an autonomous rebel group which has added an explosive element to the combustible mix of Mogadishu’s militias, enforces strict sharia (Islamic law) and uses tactics imported from the global jihadi movement. As in Afghanistan, those who work or trade with the government risk being branded as spies or collaborators and beheaded as a warning to others. Members of Al-Shabab deliver “night letters” to businessmen and others they wish to intimidate. 

Meanwehile this media tool whores for the jihad:

"In our view: Internet censor Wednesday, May 07, 2008 "

Article from the Columbian Newspaper......A Florida man’s heart might be in the right place, but he is misguided in his bid to get a Vancouver Internet service company to drop a Somali-language Web site. Bill Warner, a Sarasota private investigator (www.wbipi.com), wants Dotster Inc. of Vancouver to refuse service to www.kataaib.net. 

Warner, who has launched similar purge efforts in other cities with other Internet companies, says kataaib.net supports an al-Qaida organization (Al-Shabab) in Somalia, where war and genocide are tragic facts of daily life. Certainly a Web page that is intended to inspire terrorism should be probed and be a candidate for closure.

But the FBI or other experts should make that decision, with a judge if that’s required by law. It’s not Warner’s call".

Read it all.

UPDATE: Bill adds, it is so hard to understand the leftist media at "The Columbian" in Vancouver WA, they are so worried about free speech (of a Specially Designated Terrorist Organization in Somalia) that they ignore little facts like Al-Sahabab targeted and murdered Kate Peyton, a BBC news producer (her photo) who was doing an article on Al-Shabab, Kate Peyton was shot in the back. 

"The Columbian" articles on Al-Shabab were written by a female reporter, Ms. Courtney Sherwood, does she have the faintist idea what the Al-Shabab terrorists would do to a American female reporter, besides behead her ?

 

Wall Street Jihad

This is a must read. Alex Alexiev,vice president for research at the Center for Security Policy, writes in NRO:

Jihad Comes to Wall Street

"Sharia finance" does exactly what it promises, financing the spread of sharia — and terror.

If you’ve seen Geert Wilders’s film Fitna, you may not have noticed a single headline amongst all the bombings, beheadings, and earnest expressions of Islam’s eventual world domination: Halal-fund: investments for Muslims. But the investment vehicles referenced are an essential part of radical Islam’s efforts to insinuate itself into Western societies in order to destroy them from within. And Wall Street, barely out of the woods from its disastrous run-in with sub-prime mortgages — and having lost one of its historic investment houses, Bear Stearns, in the process — is now chasing the very kind of “sharia finance” against which Wilders's movie warns, a business line that may eventually wind up being even more calamitous than the subprime-mortgage fiasco.

[...]

For its proponents and ideological enablers — such as the well known suicide-bombing advocate, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi — sharia finance is nothing less than “Jihad with money.” As al-Qaradawi explains, “God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and with our money.” Unfortunately for Wall Street, it’s hard to argue with the good sheikh on that score. Far from being a guide to ethical investment, sharia finance is indistinguishable from sharia itself.

Sharia is a reactionary-to-the-core medieval Islamic doctrine that claims control over every aspect of every Muslim’s life. It imposes such “ethical” mandates on Muslims as the obligation to discriminate against women and non-Muslims; to kill homosexuals, adulterers, and apostates; to establish and maintain Muslim rule around the world; and to carry out violent offensive jihad against infidels. Notably, for those Muslims who cannot engage in physical jihad using force of arms, sharia requires that they support jihad financially. This is what sharia finance is all about.

Far from being a legitimate investment vehicle, sharia finance facilitates religiously sanctioned support for terrorist organizations — as well as providing radical Islamists with highly paid sinecures as sharia-finance board advisors in the sanctum sanctorum of capitalism, all the while that they are pursuing a subversive campaign to destroy it.

Predictably, none of this is even remotely disclosed by any of the dozens of Western banks promoting sharia finance today, which obviously exposes them to huge non-disclosure risks ranging from fraudulent misrepresentation, to material support for terrorism.

[...]

The legitimization of sharia in the West and its gradual imposition in Muslim communities and beyond is a key objective of sharia finance, and there is no doubt it has already made huge strides. Indeed, the precedent of legal sharia-finance transactions was used by the hapless archbishop of Canterbury to buttress his argument that introducing sharia in the United Kingdom was unavoidable.

Given the reality of malignant Islamism now spreading into our own capital markets to the loud cheers of the same Wall Street masters of the universe who gave us sub-prime mortgage securitization, Americans have a right to ask: Where are the U.S. Treasury Department and the SEC, whose job it is to protect our markets? Given the outright fraudulent misrepresentation of the potential liabilities of sharia-finance funds under existing regulations, they should get involved soon.

You must read it all. And weep

FACEBOOK TERROR THREAT

I am Hezbollah and I am going to kill you and all of your family - promise you."

I guess jihadis don't handle rejection very well.

FACEBOOK TERROR THREAT Australian (hat tip rut)

COUNTER-TERRORISM agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using internet social networking website Facebook.

The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror outfit Hezbollah.

The woman received the death threat from the self-proclaimed terrorist through the website after she declined the man's online "friendship request".

The Weekend Australian understands the man - who described himself as Ibrahim Dirani and a member of a Lebanon-based Facebook group - was banned by the network after police launched their investigation this week. The victim - who lives in Melbourne and is a member of an Israeli-based Facebook group - told police the alleged Lebanon-based Hezbollah operative promised to kill her and her family.

According to police documents, the man wrote: "I am Hezbollah and I am going to kill you and all of your family - promise you."

The investigation comes as security agencies question their ability to address serious online threats made against Australian citizens by foreign culprits.

"The international nature of the website makes it very hard for agencies to ... physically track down those involved," a security source said.

"People on those websites often set up their pages under false details."

Counter-terrorism expert Anthony Bergin yesterday warned Facebook users that terrorist networks might also be using the website to attract recruits.

The more the wold caves, submits, apologizes, funds, appeases, ass kisses the jihad, the more the stark raving madness will careen mercilessly out of control. There is nothing stopping them, except the SECOND AMENDMENT.

HOSTING TERROR: E-jihad Fighters

Print media journalists are such weasels - they steal from the blogs all the time but this is really egregious. It's an important story but credit where credit is due. Bill Warner writes:

LEE MEDIA:
This is the terror website that the Jawa Report contacted me about on March 3rd 2008 and I in turn contacted the Boston Globe on the same day, see copy of email I received from Michael Rezendes below  on March 3rd 2008 .  I did a 30 min telephone interview with Bryan Bender, the reporter on this story posted in today's  Boston Globe, on March 11th 2008, for some reason the Jawa Report and Bill Warner are not mentioned in the story and yet both the Jawa Report and Bill Warner were the instigators in contacting the Boston Globe about the Lee Media terror website hosted just North of Boston MA. 

I, Bill Warner, spent hours sending e-mails with corroborating information about the terror site Lee Media and the Hosting Company Endurance in Burlington MA (which was originated at the Jawa Report) to investigative reporters  Michael Rezendes and Bryan Bender of the Boston Globe.

The Boston Globe had no information about the terror site Lee Media or the that it was hosted in Burlington MA  by Endurance until Bill Warner contacted the Boston Globe on March 3rd, March 4th, March 5th, March 6th and March 7th 2008 !

Unbelievable. Here's the Boston Globe story. Listen they are owned byt The New York Times, so you know they have no ethics or integrity.

Unwittingly hosting terror Islamists use US Web firms for recruiting;
Agencies mine sites for data Boston Globe

For more than a year, a Burlington-based Internet company hosted a website that taught its members how to outfit a suicide bomber, aired Al Qaeda propaganda videos, and offered an "exclusive" Taliban video showing the beheadings of three "spies," according to computer records.

The English-language website, Leemedia.net, was taken down earlier this month - but not in a counterterrorism crackdown, government officials said. Instead, the Web server, Endurance International Corp. Inc., shut it down after Internet watchdogs made repeated demands to remove the terrorist material.

Internet watchdogs, I guess that would be Bill and Rusty.

The case of Leemedia.net, which was operated by a suspected terrorist sympathizer in Karachi, is the latest example of how US Internet companies are unknowingly hosting possibly hundreds of the most virulent Islamic extremist websites in the world, inciting young Muslims to kill Christians and Jews.

The phenomenon is so common, however, that the Department of Homeland Security and US intelligence agencies have determined that in most cases it's preferable to keep the sites operating as a way of tracking the spread of radical Islam, rather than try to quell them one by one. They also contend that most of the sites attract what one US counterterrorism official called confused individuals who are not believed to pose a significant threat.

Confused individuals? Is that what the leftard media calls adhernets to Islam now?

"What's useful about them is to understand the relationships between the various people that are on the sites, obviously in some cases their identities," said a senior US counterterrorism official who asked not to be identified because of his sensitive position.

But many other specialists in Islamic radicalism question the government's logic. They say the online propaganda could recruit new extremists, while the security benefits of monitoring the sites - some of which intelligence analysts have known about for years - is limited.

"There is nothing to learn from them," said Yigal Carmon, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who founded the Middle East Media Research Institute in Washington. "The damage they are causing is far beyond anything that can be learned."

Carmon and others point out that terrorists in Spain and Britain have been indoctrinated with the help of militant websites, including the London and Madrid transit bombers in 2005 and 2004.

Militants often rely on Western-based Internet companies to host their sites because they have the most advanced technology, and the radicals feel freer to market their ideas in more open societies with little interference, Carmon said.

Now that's rich. read it all.

E-Sleuthing the E-Jihad

Our man Bill Warner in Florida, has been e-sleuthing and getting Islamic websites, the new enormous, wide open battlefield for the global jihad,  taken down and removed. Bill rules.

Ordinary "Joe's" are tracking down U.S. Web sites used by al Qaeda and jihadi sympathizers and then using the Internet (Newspaper Reporters) to persuade the service providers (Hosting companies) to snuff out the sites and it is working.

One site hosted in Phoenix and shut down on February 1st 2008 was ek-ls.org  which was one of six previously hosted in Tampa, said Paul Henry, an Internet security specialist. It was Henry who uncovered a new al-Qaida encryption program hosted at al-ekhlaas.info, the web site taken down in Tampa on Monday Jan 28th 2008.  The Arizona Republic story is available here..

The latest set of al-Qaida supported websites al-hesbah.com fell today, February 19th 2008 in Tampa Fla. Not one of the al-Qaida websites is back up and running.

This is the third major al-Qaida website that he, Howard Altman Tampa Tribune, Robert Anglin Arizona Republic  have shut down since Jan 28th 2008 . The site, www.alhesbah.net/v/ is now shut down, off the internet, no more Jihad propoaganda (for now) for Palestinians to kill the Jews and Americans.

Al-Qaida Supporters' Web Site Hosted By Tampa Company (Is now shut down) By HOWARD ALTMAN, The Tampa Tribune

TAMPA - One of al-Qaida supporters' oldest and most stable Web sites is being hosted in Tampa and contains a 21-minute audio clip calling for Palestinians to attack Jews and the United States, according to organizations that track jihadists online.

The site, www.alhesbah.net/v/,  is the "principal and largest jihadi forum of supporters of al-Qaida and global jihad, and the oldest existing forums," said Reuven Paz, director of the Jerusalem-based Project for the Research of Islamist Movements. "However, it is much more than just a forum and includes many other functions of very comprehensive and thorough indoctrination, guidance, recruitment for support, virtual military training and creation of global Islamic solidarity."

In the recording, he "urges the Palestinians to participate in the war against 'the unbelievers, headed by the U.S., Europe and Iran' who are attacking Islam. He stresses that they must begin by fighting the Jews, who are their nearest enemies," according to MEMRI.

Bill writes me, www.al-Hesbah.com  and all of it's links are Shut Down today, in a huge domino effect.    Just how many al-Qaida supporting websites are hosted out of Tampa Fl, how many more ?

al-Hesbah.com & .net & .org are all SHUT Down today...this is a major blow to their propaganda that was solicitation women for suicide bombers (see MEMRI below) !  All of the following al-Qaeda supported websites (see MEMRI below) were up and running on February 1st 2008, all of the www.al-Hesbah.com and .net and .org websites are shut down today.

From MEMRI

The following are excerpts from materials from the following websites: <www.al-hesbah.org/v - a forum for women and Islamic families; www.shmo5alislam.net/ - an Islamic women's forum; and www.al-faloja.info/vb - an Islamic family forum. 

"How I Hoped to Turn My Body into Slivers to Tear the Sons of Zion to Pieces, and to Knock with Their Skulls on the Gates of Paradise"

An Al-Hesbah subscriber calling herself Umm Hamza Al-Shahid wrote a message titled "Secure Yourself a Chandelier under the Throne [in Paradise]," in which she encouraged Muslim women to carry out suicide bombings. Following are excerpts:

"The souls of the martyrs dwell inside the bellies of green birds [that roost] on chandeliers hanging from the royal throne [of Allah in Paradise]. They roam freely in Paradise, and then come to roost on the chandeliers... Sister... [think] what a [wonderful] life that is, how [wonderful] Paradise is, and what we miss living here [in this world]... You know that a martyr does not die. He lives, and will never know death, for it is said [in Koran 2:153]: 'And do not speak of those who are slain in Allah's way as dead; nay, [they] live, but you do not perceive [it].'

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The website above appears to be the only active website as of today 2/19/2008 all of the rest below are shut down as of 2/19/2008

 

[2] http://al-hesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=139493, July 7, 2007, http://www.al-faloja.info/vb/showthread.php?t=15056, July 8, 2007. >

[3] In Muslim tradition, death while praying is considered a mark of virtue. 

[4] http://al-hesbah.com/v/showthread.php?t=139393, July 7, 2007.

[5] , April 21, 2007. The link to the video is no longer active.