With the onslaught of jihad attacks thwarted and executed across America and the world, CAIR is investing untold thousands upon thousands of dollars on a deception in the heart of New York City, infidel central. If what they are desperately trying to project is reality, and this is so obvious, why does CAIR have to keep telling us this? If this were so, we would know. Why do they have to keep beating us over the head with this nonsense?
Take a look at the ad going up at Times Square. Here we have Tariq Ramadan -- that name is no accident. A cherubic boy with the name of the silver-tongued devil of Europe. Evil personified banned from America.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A prominent national Muslim
civil rights and advocacy organization announced today that its new public
service announcement (PSA), called "I am Muslim, I am American," began airing
this morning on the CBS Super Screen in New York City's Times Square.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said its
New York chapter (CAIR-NY) produced the 15-second PSA, which will air every hour
for 18 hours each day through January 16, 2010, on the 26-foot by 20-foot
full-motion screen. More than one million people pass through Times Square each
day.
CAIR-NY's PSA features an American Muslim NYPD sergeant, as well as a Muslim
Little League all-star, a human rights activist, a doctoral candidate, and an
attorney. It begins with the statement, "Building Community, Serving Country."
Viewers are encouraged to visit CAIR's Web site.
"This public service advertisement features ordinary American Muslims whose
everyday lives are dedicated to building community and serving country," said
CAIR-NY Community Affairs Director Faiza N. Ali. "This initiative is part of our
ongoing effort to ensure that a fair and accurate portrayal of Islam and Muslims
is presented to the American public."
Ali added that the PSA will air during the New Year's Eve celebration in
Times Square, when up to one million people turn out to watch the ball drop at
midnight.
"We hope that the millions of people from around the nation and the world who
view this public service announcement will return home with enhanced
understanding of Islam and the American Muslim community," said CAIR National
Executive Director Nihad Awad. "Our PSA shows that American Muslims are a vital
part of our nation's social and religious fabric."
Why doesn't CAIR spend these tens of thousands of dollars on an initiative to expunge the violent texts from the koran? Why isn't that their mission? Why do they spit in our face and tell us it's raining?
"I am Muslim, I am American, I am a fulla shitnik."
Here is that rare thing, an attempt to show with specific Qur'anic
citations how an Islamic jihadist is misusing the Qur'an and
misunderstanding the true, peaceful teachings of Islam. Usually those
who assert such things are extremely vague about just how Islam and the
Qur'an are being misused.
Unfortunately, however, this is written by Salam al-Marayati of the
Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) -- a fact that immediately arouses
suspicion. MPAC, for example, has trafficked in moral equivalence
between jihadists and anti-jihadists regarding Israel. It was no
surprise when the organization joined CAIR and other groups in 2004 in
signing a "Joint Muslims/Arab-American Statement on Israel Violence in
Gaza." The organizations echoed some of the most virulent rhetoric that
jihadists employ in their offensives against the Jewish state,
condemning "Israel's recent indiscriminate killings of innocent
Palestinians, including many children," without even mentioning the
targeting by Palestinian suicide bombers of Israeli citizens on buses
and in restaurants, or the Israeli government's diametrically opposed
policy of never targeting civilians.
Such extreme rhetoric was nothing new for MPAC. On the afternoon of
September 11, 2001, on a Los Angeles radio show, al-Maryati added fuel
to the wildest, most paranoid conspiracy theories about the attacks
that had just unfolded: "If we're going to look at suspects we should
look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents,
and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list
because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the
Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression
and occupation and apartheid policies."
This was not al-Maryati's only outburst of anti-Israeli malevolence.
Daniel Pipes recounts a "February 1996 incident when a Palestinian
named Muhammad Hamida shouted the fundamentalist war cry, Allahu Akbar
(Allah is Great), as he drove his car intentionally into a crowded bus
stop in Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and injuring 23 others. Before
he could escape or hurt anyone else, Hamida was shot dead. Commenting
on the affair, Mr. Al-Marayati said not a word about Hamida's murderous
rampage but instead focused on Hamida's death, which he called 'a
provocative act,' and demanded the extradition of his executors to
America 'to be tried in a U.S. court' on terrorism charges."
Al-Maryati in 1996 equated violent jihadists with the Founding
Fathers: "Most Islamic movements have been branded as terrorists as a
result of the rising extremism from a handful of militants. American
freedom fighters hundreds of years ago were also regarded as terrorists
by the British."
"Repentance is the only option for the Fort Hood killer," by Salam al-Marayati in the Wall Street Journal, December 9 (thanks to all who sent this in):
[...] Maj. Hasan took an oath as a member of the U.S.
military to defend our country. He also took a Hippocratic oath to
protect his patients. The violation of these oaths is a violation of
the Quranic principle which states that making a pledge to anyone is
tantamount to making a pledge to God. The Quran states: "(Be not like
those) who use their oaths as a means of deceiving one another" (16:92).
QED, eh? Salam al-Marayati would have us believe that it's very
simple: the Qur'an says don't break your oaths, Hasan broke his oath,
and so Hasan, despite appearances to the contrary, is a Muslim heretic, a Misunderstander of Islam.
Unfortunately, however, there are indications in the Hadith that oaths taken to Infidels don't have that unbreakable character. Muhammad, of course, said, "War is deceit." He also said,
"By Allah, and Allah willing, if I take an oath and later find
something else better than that, then I do what is better and expiate
my oath."
Muhammad said this in the context of being able to do something
better for his men than what he had promised to do, and so al-Marayati
may argue that shooting up Fort Hood was in no way better than
remaining loyal to the U.S. military, but from the jihadist point of
view a jihad against Infidels is certainly better than submitting to
those Infidels. After all, Muhammad also said, when asked what was the best deed, that jihad was best after professing faith in Islam. He also recommended to his followers that they break their oaths if they found a better course of action.
Those who would say that Qur'an trumps Hadith whenever there is a
contradiction, and that therefore oaths are always and everywhere
binding upon Muslims, must then explain why that has never been
understood as such in the Islamic world. History is full of examples of
Muslims breaking oaths and treaties with Infidels. Were they all
misunderstanding Islam?
In any case, al-Marayati mentions none of this. And why not? He
could have given a much more convincing and honest presentation if he
had acknowledged the existence within Islamic tradition of
justifications for oath-breaking, and explained -- if he could -- why
they did not excuse Hasan's behavior. But he didn't.
His now infamous PowerPoint presentation is rife with
distortions of the Quran. Entitled "The Koranic Worldview As It Relates
to Muslims in the U.S. Military," it provides anything but a Quranic
perspective. Maj. Hasan's critical fault in understanding the Quran was
his failure to distinguish between two very important categories of
verses: those tied to the specific context of seventh-century Arabia,
and those that are absolute and permanent.
Here al-Marayati implies, without offering specifics, that the
martial verses of the Qur'an that Hasan quoted are understood by
mainstream Islamic theology to apply only to seventh-century Arabia.
Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Very early in the history of
Islam, Muslims noticed and began to grapple with how Muhammad's
messages changed in character over the course of his prophetic career.
Muhammad's earliest biographer, a pious Muslim named Ibn Ishaq,
explains the progression of Qur'anic revelation about warfare. First,
he explains, Allah allowed Muslims to wage defensive warfare. But that
was not Allah's last word on the circumstances in which Muslims should
fight. Ibn Ishaq explains offensive jihad by invoking a Qur'anic verse:
"Then God sent down to him: 'Fight them so that there be no more
seduction,' i.e. until no believer is seduced from his religion. 'And
the religion is God's', i.e. Until God alone is worshipped."
The Qur'an verse Ibn Ishaq quotes here (2:193) commands much more
than defensive warfare: Muslims must fight until "the religion is
God's" - that is, until Allah alone is worshipped. Ibn Ishaq gives no
hint that that command died with the seventh century.
Nor do all contemporary Islamic thinkers believe that that command
is a relic of history. According to a 20th century Chief Justice of
Saudi Arabia, Sheikh 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid, "at first 'the
fighting' was forbidden, then it was permitted and after that it was
made obligatory." He also distinguishes two groups Muslims must fight:
"(1) against them who start 'the fighting' against you (Muslims) . . .
(2) and against all those who worship others along with Allah . . . as
mentioned in Surat Al-Baqarah (II), Al-Imran (III) and At-Taubah (IX) .
. . and other Surahs (Chapters of the Qur'an)." (The Roman numerals
after the names of the chapters of the Qur'an are the numbers of the
suras: Sheikh 'Abdullah is referring to Qur'anic verses such as 2:216,
3:157-158, 9:5, and 9:29.)
This understanding of the Qur'an isn't limited to the Wahhabi sect
of Saudi Arabia, to which Sheikh 'Abdullah belongs, and which many
Western analysts imagine to have originated Islamic doctrines of
warfare against unbelievers. Jihad theorist Sayyid Qutb, who was not a
Wahhabi, subscribes to the same view of the Qur'an. In his jihad
manifesto Milestones, he quotes at length from the great medieval
scholar Ibn Qayyim (1292-1350), who, says Qutb, "has summed up the
nature of Islamic Jihaad." Ibn Qayyim outlines the stages of the
Muhammad's prophetic career: "For thirteen years after the beginning of
his Messengership, he called people to God through preaching, without
fighting or Jizyah, and was commanded to restrain himself and to
practice patience and forbearance. Then he was commanded to migrate,
and later permission was given to fight. Then he was commanded to fight
those who fought him, and to restrain himself from those who did not
make war with him. Later he was commanded to fight the polytheists
until God's religion was fully established."
Qutb summarizes the stages: "Thus, according to the explanation by
Imam Ibn Qayyim, the Muslims were first restrained from fighting; then
they were permitted to fight; then they were commanded to fight against
the aggressors; and finally they were commanded to fight against all
the polytheists." He further quotes Ibn Qayyim as emphasizing the need
to wage war against and subjugate non-Muslims, particularly the Jewish
and Christian "People of the Book": "After the command for Jihaad came,
the non-believers were divided into three categories: one, those with
whom there was peace; two, the people with whom the Muslims were at
war; and three, the Dhimmies....It was also explained that war should
be declared against those from among the 'People of the Book' who
declare open enmity, until they agree to pay Jizyah or accept Islam.
Concerning the polytheists and the hypocrites, it was commanded in this
chapter that Jihaad be declared against them and that they be treated
harshly." Qutb says that if someone rejects Islam, "then it is the duty
of Islam to fight him until either he is killed or until he declares
his submission."
The Muslims who are "working with" law enforcement present a special problem. It is in their doctrine that good Muslims, pious Muslims, lie, deceive to advance Islam, institute sharia, take over non-Muslim lands.
The New York imam working with law enforcement on the biggest bust in the US since 911 illustrates just how difficult the problem is. Imam Afzali, a permanent legal resident from Afghanistan, is accused of
lying to the FBI after he allegedly tipped off terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, 24.
The Queens imam is charged with lying to federal authorities investigating an alleged terror conspiracy. His family posted a $1.5-million bail.
Zazi was charged Thursday with one count of conspiring with others, who are not named, to use "one or more weapons of mass destruction," court papers say, including bombs or other explosives. Zazi's father, Mohammed Zazi, 53, also of Aurora, also was arrested and charged with making false statements to federal authorities.
In New York, Afzali declined to answer reporters' questions regarding Zazi other than to say Zazi used to visit the mosque.
The loyalty is always to Islam.
It's interesting to watch the media report on Islamic attacks on the West and struggle with identifying the enemy. Never is Islam mentioned, nor the violent doctrine in the quran that inspires the millions of mujahideen worldwide. Wild.
Najibullah Zazi planned for more than a year to manufacture and detonate bombs, with New York's transit system the likely target.
Those are among the terrorism charges lodged yesterday against the airport-shuttle driver, who reportedly admitted having received weapons and explosives training from al Qaeda.
Let's hope Attorney General Eric Holder was right when he said he believes that "any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted."
But there's another troubling element to this case: the role of Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam who, despite having cooperated with investigators in the past, allegedly tipped off Zazi that the feds were closing in -- forcing agents to move against Zazi sooner than planned.
Which raises the question of whether Afzali's dual role -- cooperating against would-be terrorists on the one hand, tipping them off on the other -- was an aberration. The FBI and local police have invested much time and effort in trying to develop sources of information in the Muslim community.
But some, like Rep. Pete King, claim that "80 to 85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists." And while "average Muslims are loyal . . . they won't come forward and cooperate with police." The charges against Afzali make King's allegations all the more worrisome.
Look who speaks for the anti-Rifqa machine: a CAIR "honor member." And the media could not get enough of this Hamas lover. The magnificent Spencer takes him on.
Yesterday I called Amy Edwards at The Orlando Sentinel to understand why she would shill for Muslim fundamentalists. She is not alone, just more pathetic than most of the shills.
Has anyone else noticed that the only narrative being propagated by the media on the slow motion honor killing case are thelies and deceptionof
Rifqa Bary's devout Muslim family and their lawyers? The only
opportunity Americans had to hear Rifqa Bary's story was on a youtube
video I pulled off a raw news feed.
Amy Edwards, the latest subjugated sycophant at the now notorious Orlando Sentinel, "broke"" this Christian smear. Did she fact check? Did she vet it?
The poor excuse for a reporter, Amy Edwards, (whom I called but had not returned my call) "breaks" the story with
this:
Did the Orlando pastors who sheltered an Ohio teen convert who feared her Muslim family help the girl run away to Florida?
A Department of Children and Families document just obtained by the Orlando Sentinel indicates there's a possibility.
A hand-written note on a caregiver home study conducted on Blake and
Beverly Lorenz, pastors of Global Revolution Church, said an initial
DCF study was approved "prior to being informed that the pastor's
family was involved with possibly helping the child run away from Ohio."
Did Edwards read the copy of Petition for Dependency by Rifqa’s Lawyer, with detailed facts of the case? Of course not. The story says that the missing persons report was filed on the
29th. Another report says that they waited 10 days. This report says they filed on the 19th. So I ask Ms. industrious Edwards: what is she looking at? The
DCF report has been cited inaccurately, from my
understanding.
John Stemburger also states that the DCF received reports of Rifqa's abuse on 8/5 and 8/7. Earth to Amy.
The media has terrorized Rifqa, the empathetic Pastor and
his lovely wife. They are victims of this Kafkaesque trial. Nowhere is the violent
ideology behind these heinous murders spoken of -- Christianity is the
villain. The Pastor is fair game, any lie, any "cultish" innuendo alluding to nothing makes headlines. Not a word about Islamic misogyny and subjugation.
Just for knowing, this is not about the Pastor, it's about Rifqa.
The reporter, Amy Edwards, from the Orlando Sentinel
finally returned my call after I posted that my calls were not being returned (someone at the Sentinel is reading Atlas). Mind you, she returned my call after she posted an ad looking for Islamic apologists to shill for (see below).
I
asked her why the Sentinel was only printing the fallacious narrative
of the devout, abusive parents. Why were they acting as a printing
press for the parents' press releases without vetting the lies?
I
asked where was the investigative journalism? Why hadn't she
interviewed Rifqa's friends? Where was the investigation into the Noor
Mosque and the danger it posed to Rifqa's life? Why no background on
the victims of honor killings in the US and Canada?
Edwards could not answer me. She said she got Rifqa's story from Rifqa's parents. Huh?
Edwards said that they tried to speak to the Pastor but he was out of
the country. So I asked why run a story based on the "possible" involvement of the Pastor in Rifqa's escape from terror? She said it was
in a DCF document. I said, So what? Why that? It doesn't advance the story (and it's wrong). Why pick up that
singular fact of all the overwhelming evidence that what Rifqa is saying is
true? What has that got to do with Rifqa? This is about Rifqa. Reporters
like Edwards will have a hand in this girl's fate. How flippant, cavalier, evil she
is with human life. Edwards and those like her have a responsibility to report what actually happened. Is that asking too much?
Edwards defended her paper's position. I said it was not at all balanced. She thought that it was and recommended I "write a letter to the editor". I recommended that she do some investigation and not be the mouthpiece for a devout and violent ideology.
Wait, it gets better. Urban Infidel got this after I called out Edwards:
[Emphasis mine. Did Edwards think that the parents would say, yes we
fully intend to kill her, thankyouverymuch. And who does Edwards think
will contact her. Shills, that's who.]
6. MEDIA/TODAY: Media
Attention of Muslim/Christian Convert Teen Runaway -- Orlando Sentinel (FL)
I have been covering the story about Fathima Rifqa Bary, an Ohio teen who
ran away to Florida because she feared her Muslim family would hurt or kill her
because she converted to Christianity. Since the news broke, her story has
attracted national media attention.People have taken to the extremes on both
sides -- ranging from those who think Bary will be a victim of honor killings,
and those who think the Orlando pastors who have sheltered her are crazy. I'm
trying to find someone who could say why this case has drawn the attention it
has -- and would it outside of religion. Contact: Amy Edwards,
aledwards@orlandosentinel.com
How funny is this? G-d forbid this reporter get off her ass and actually do her job. Pick up a phone. Talk to Rifqa's friends. Like I said, pathetic.
Please call Governor Crist (Florida) and beg him to keep the case and call or fax Governor Strickland of Ohio and implore him NOT TO ASK FOR THE CASE. Contact info here.
"To anyone's knowledge, Rifqa never told anyone that she was frightened
while living with her parents in Ohio. Those words only came out of her
mouth after being missing for two and a half weeks and surfacing in the
tight embrace of Mr. Lorenz, who had not promptly reported that the
runaway had been in his home," the parents' statement read.
We know this is a liebecause when Rifqa disappeared, friends immediately voiced concern that she may have met foul play because of her conversion to Christianity -- that was why I posted on it. Back on August 3rd it was reported that "the girl's friends told detectives that it was possible she ran away because of conflicting religious beliefs in her home. "
"If this case is perceived as a clash of religions, it is because Mr.
Lorenz recklessly and without authorization put someone else's child in
front of television cameras to publicly renounce her previous faith,"
McCarthy said in the statement. "The parents who love Rifqa are in the
best position now to protect her from the mess that Mr. Lorenz has
made." (more here)
But Lorenz told ABCNews.com Tuesday that they were the people Rifqa sought out for protection.The tactic is to demonize the person that Rifqa Bary ran to for safety. Get it? Rifqa is her best advocate, ask her.
A Muslim teenager made a dramatic plea to be saved from her abusive parents a
few months before she died in what police believe was an "honour killing".
Shafilea Ahmed was seen with injuries on her neck, an inquest heard
yesterday.
The westernised 17-year-old, who wanted to become a solicitor, was frightened
her parents would send her to Pakistan and force her into an arranged
marriage.
[...]
She ran away in February 2003, climbing out of a window of her home in
Warrington, Cheshire, with the help of her friend Melissa Powner.
Miss Powner confirmed that Shafilea had lived in fear of her parents. Months
earlier she had been off school for a week and returned with visible injuries on
her neck.
Shafilea explained they came from a confrontation with her parents over boys'
phone numbers on a phone bill.
Miss Powner said: "She didn't have much of a life - she wasn't able to be
with her friends and socialise outside school.
No one listened to Shafilea's desperate plea prior to her murder.
Contact Governor Charlie Crist today:
Phone Calls to (850) 488-7146
Fax letters to (850) 487-0801
or Email him at Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
The Florida Department of Children and Families
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Fax: (850) 922-2993
Verne Melvin Acting Regional Director / Ninth Judicial Circuit Florida
Department of Children and Families 400 W. Robinson St. Orlando
32801 407-245-0400 (Maxine McGregor, client relations coordinator)
UPDATE! RIFQA BARY ACTION ALERT! Call the Governor and ask him to make sure that the Department of Children & Families (DCF) keeps custody of Rifqa Bary.
People can also call George Sheldon, Secretary of DCF. Contact information:
Contact Governor Charlie Crist today:
Phone Calls to (850) 488-7146
Fax letters to (850) 487-0801
or Email him at Charlie.Crist@MyFlorida.com
The Florida Department of Children and Families
George H. Sheldon, Secretary
1317 Winewood Blvd.
Building 1, Room 202
Tallahassee, Florida
Rifqa Bary is not only in jeopardy from her father and other family
members but from all devout Muslims, for in converting to Christianity,
she committed the worst of all sins, apostasy. And she broke the code of silence (whole article here).
UPDATE: SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELED: I will not be on the Young Gun Conservative Radio show tonight at 7pm. They were supposed to be interviewing Rifka Bary's parents' lawyer.
Rifqa Bary said she ran to Orlando to save her life, but her
father and the Islamic Society of Central Florida say she's being
"brainwashed by a cult", "kidnapped by a cult", that she's a "rebel", a "troubled teen". Well, which is it?
Brainwashed by a cult? Which is the cult? One that calls for the murder
of a daughter who shames the family by not wearing the proper head dress, or wanting to live a free life, or
dating the wrong Muslim boy, or choosing another religion? Or is it the religion
that offers sanctuary?
Rifqa Bary's father is alleging that she was "brainwashed by the Pastor" of a church. Pastor Lorenz refutes that and says that Rifqa had been a Christian for four years, "long before he met her".
Let's look at the facts.
Below is Rifqa's myspace page - last log in
2007. She had already converted by then. Rifqa told Pastor Lorenz she converted four years ago - the myspace page is evidence of at least two years.
There's more evidence on that same myspace page. Check out the choice of "Christian layout" and her favorite movie "A Walk to Remember"
(a good Christian flick that I love watching with my kinderlach). The
movie is about a Pastor's daughter, a good Christian girl who changes
the life of a popular but rebellious teenage boy through her indomitable spirit,
purity and goodness.
A Walk to Remember found a warm reception in the Christian
community due to the film's pandering; as one reviewer approvingly
noted, "The main character is portrayed as a Christian without being
psychopathic or holier-than-thou" (Wikipedia here)
Further, under Rifqa's favorite book, there is a small icon of a page from the bible. The passage highlighted? Love is patient.Notice
how it's all done cryptically, as if she is hiding. JC is Jesus Christ.
The movie is a Christian movie. The book is the bible. And this is 2007.
The family that is accusing her of lying and saying "she is free to practice her Christianity" is a devout Muslim family. It was the members of the family's mosque that alerted Rifqa's father of her conversion to Christianity. The devout family's mosqueratted Rifqa out. How can this girl be safe?
The Islamic Society of Central Florida President Imam Muhammad Musri wonders if Rifqa is "nothing more than a troubled teen" and a "rebel teenager running away from home".
Let's look at the hard facts.
When I first ran the story of a missing teen in Ohio here on August 3rd, she was feared dead - my headline was,"Fathima Rifqa Bary: I hope she got away". The report said,"according to police, the girl's friends told detectives that it was possible she
ran away because of conflicting religious beliefs in her home".
Counter Jihad blog has this update from Rifqa's friend:
I know that her dad
is a threat to her, because I am friends with her and have heard her talk about
it. In addition, when she took off and ran, I was one of the last people to talk
to her via cell phone and as a result her dad started obsessively calling me and
being very harsh and threatening towards me, while demanding that i tell him
where she went to.
So
all of this "troubled teen" propaganda is a yarn spun (taqiya) to con the
authorities into sending this girl back to a dangerous and deadly
situation. She is not only in jeopardy from her father and other family
members but from all devout Muslims. She committed the worst of all sins, apostasy. And she broke the code of silence.
Fathima Bary converted to
Christianity and said her Muslim father threatened to kill her for
dishonoring the family. Her father is on the defense, while the Islamic
Society of Central Florida said its faith doesn't condone murder and
wonders if the religious runaway is nothing more than a troubled teen.
"It's completely false," said father Mohamed Bary. "Honestly, it's not my daughter who is speaking."
Mohamed Bary said he denies he ever threatened to kill his 17-year-old
daughter for turning her back on the family's Muslim faith by becoming
a Christian. He said he believes the Ohio girl fled to Florida last
month after being brainwashed by the pastor of Global Revolution Church
of Orlando, who she met on Facebook.
Rifqa Bary says: "And
I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the air and he
was about to beat me with it, and he said, 'If you have this Jesus in
your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.' And I refused
to speak but he said, 'I will kill you. Tell me the truth.' In these
words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away."
"This is a cult group who kidnapped my daughter and took her away," Mohamed Bary said.
She hitchhiked to the bus and took a Greyhound from Ohio to Florida. How is that a kidnapping?
The Rev. Blake Lorenz spoke with WESH 2 News earlier this week.
"She's just afraid for life," he said.
"She has been a Christian for four years, long before we ever met her," he said.
Fathima Bary is in protective custody in Central Florida, but Lorenz
said he believes she won't be safe if the court returns the religious
runaway to her family. He said former Muslim followers call it an
"honor killing."
"There's no such thing as honor killing in the Koran," said Islamic Society of Central Florida President Imam Muhammad Musri.
Murder is unjust killing. To say that their faith doesn't condone murder doesn't
address the real question: does their faith consider the killing of an apostate
to be a just action? If so, then to kill Rifqa wouldn't be murder at all, but an
act of justice. Yet again we see a Muslim group using weasel words instead of
condemning genuine injustice. This statement still leaves Rifqa's life at risk. (thanks to Robert Spencer)
Musri
said, like Christians, Muslims believe killing someone is murder. He
said, while there are extremists in every religion, he hopes Fathima
Bary isn't hiding behind faith to find freedom.
Show
me one Jew or one Christian who has been murdered by their family for
such an act. I can find you thousands upon thousands of Muslims.
Musri added "hiding behind faith to find freedom" - a very telling quote , is it not?
"Is she a rebel teenager running away from home, or is she really in danger?" Musri said.
That's the question that the Department of Children and Families is
asking. There's another custody hearing for Fathima Bary next Friday.
Further,
let's look at how the newspaper Pakistan Daily describes Rifqa
Bary. Notice the headline says pregnant, but nowhere in the article do
they write about it. It's just an Islamic smear campaign against a brave young girl fighting for her life, and it's vile.
A very disconcerting video is being shown by the Christan church. A minor Sri
Lankan girl belonging to well to do parents has been kidnapped by a church in
Ohio and being kept away from the legal guardians and parents of the girl. The
family maintains that the girls was into drugs, promiscuous behaviour and
raunchy messages on facebook. She was discussing sex with multiple older married
men. When the parents tried to control her behaviour she refused to do so. On
her return to the home she conjured up a story of conversion to Christianity.
There are serious accusations against the church on holding a minor girl in
custody against the will of her guardians and parents.
How many more girls will
the church kidnap?
Media reports indicate that the
Muslim father denies his daughter’s charge that he plans to take her life in an
“honor killing” because of her conversion to Christianity.
This is what they do all the time.Destroy the truth tellers.
I will be on the Young Gun Conservative Radio show Monday night at 7pm. They will be interviewing Rifka Bary's parents' lawyer. I will provide the counterpoint. Listen live at 7pm (click on YGC Radio at the top of the page on the right).
"We love her, we want her back, she is free to practice her religion, whatever she believes in, that's OK," her father, Mohamed Bary, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Read that again. Is that even remotely possible? How can a devout Muslim and live with such a "shame" on the family, the awful unthinkable terrible stain of apostasy. It was members of the family's mosque who spied on Rifqa and told her father that Rifqa had converted. It was that disclosure that forced Rifqa to run to spare her own life.
Here is the AOL news account. Is it even possible that 8 years after 911 that the media, the culture, the cognoscenti could be so deliberately and undeniably clueless? Hardwired for denial.
Rifqa's lawyer should be filing for emancipation. This girl is marked. Devout Muslims or family members will wait and plot and wait until Rifqa Bary is long forgotten and then she will disappear. Rifqa Bary needs witness protection.
The AOL apologists are enough to make you puke. Photo right: mom and dad.
"What these people are trying to do is not right — I don't think any religion
will teach to separate the kids from their parents," he said.
Columbus police also question
the girl's claim of being in danger.
Mohamed Bary "comes across to
me as a loving, caring, worried father about the whereabouts and the health of
his daughter," said Sgt. Jerry Cupp, chief of the Columbus police missing
persons bureau.
Police investigating the girl's
July 19 disappearance used phone and computer records to track her to the Rev.
Blake Lorenz, pastor of Orlando, Fla.-based Global Revolution Church, who called
authorities Aug. 6 to say she was staying with them.
With Lorenz holding his arm
tightly around her, Rifqa told WFTV
in Florida on Monday that she would be killed if she came home.
"They love God more than me;
they have to do this," she said. "I'm fighting for my life. You guys don't
understand."
Lorenz did not return a phone
call to the AP seeking comment.
Huge mistake. The Pastor should have commented. He missed a huge opportunity to speak for Rifqa and explain how perilous her situation is. Who is speaking for this girl?
An Orlando judge on Monday
ordered the girl into the custody of Florida's Department of Children and
Families until another hearing next week.
The family is originally from
Sri Lanka and emigrated in 2000 to seek medical help for Rifqa, who had lost
sight in her right eye when she fell and struck a toy airplane on a couch at
home.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Rifqa, a high school junior in
well-off suburban New Albany, had been questioning her faith for several months,
her father said. She attended church with friends from school and later attended
services at another church, Xenos Christian Fellowship, a megachurch that
emphasizes small groups meeting at home.
The church has no record of
her being a member but says it's possible given the size of the church — nearly
5,000 members, said spokesman Jay Reilly.
After Rifqa proselytized with
a Bible at school, Mohamed Bary said, the family asked her to stop because it
wasn't an appropriate activity in school. They also told her she had an
obligation to study her original faith first, before choosing another.
But Mohamed Bary says they
never threatened to kill or harm the girl. "She is still my daughter," said
Bary, 47, a jeweler.
The family says Rifqa was
baptized a Christian without their knowledge this year in Columbus. Around the
same time, the girl met Lorenz through an online Facebook prayer group.
Rifqa's 18-year-old brother,
Rilvan, said the family has its own worries about her well-being.
"We don't think the safest
person is the pastor she met two weeks ago on Facebook," Rilvan Bary said.
Rifqa ran away without
explanation or a note. She told WFTV that she hitchhiked to the Columbus bus
station, then took a bus to Orlando. Her parents dispute that and say she must
have had help, because hitchhiking from her suburban home would be nearly
impossible and she didn't have enough money for the trip.
"Pamela, I have been in Law enforcement for the past 20 years and am currently training the police here in Iraq. I worked homicide in the US and am now training with Iraqi Investigators here in Baghdad. TRUST ME, I know, first hand how much danger this young lady is in. I see it everyday here. I see the results of Sharia law and and how fanatical Muslims are and how deep it is embedded into their culture. I will take this knowledge and experience back with me when I return to US law enforcement so we wont be so "clueless" :-)
BTW, keep fighting the good fight, I stand with you!"
I said this before and I'll say it again. The courts and the cops have no clue what they are dealing with. Subversive groups like CAIR, ISNA and MPAC have been successful at shutting down any discourse on Islam. Anyone who tries to escape is in real danger. The media have subjugated themselves to Islam and in their silence are complicit in Islamic misogyny, oppression and suppression. Have you noticed how quiet CAIR has been on this? One can only wonder what their "involvement" is behind the scenes. Rifqa Bary needs experts to testify on her behalf. The leading scholars on Islam - Ibn Warraq, Robert Spencer, Wafa Sultan (living in hiding in the US because she speaks the truth about Islam), Nonie Darwish should be called to testify. This girl cannot be returned to her devout Muslim home.
Just as the West
failed Amina and Sarah Said in life and death, the West cannot fail Rifqa Bary in life, or it will result in her death. This cannot be her fate.
Based on the cops' ignorance, they will err on the side of political correctness and expose this teenage girl to the prospect of an early, horrible death. This reminds me of the FBI's capitulation on the Said honor killings. They too bowed to Islam and pulled the description of HONOR KILLING from the Said honor killing murders wanted poster. The FBI copped a plea. "As far as we're concerned until motive is proven in a court of law, this is just a homicide".
How many girls have to die? How many girls have to live in abject terror?
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, was found in Florida and placed in foster care there pending investigation.
A Northeast Side 17-year-old who ran away, saying that her father would
kill her for leaving Islam, is in state custody in Florida.
But Sgt. Jerry Cupp of the missing-persons unit of the Columbus
police special-victims bureau, disputes Fathima Rifqa Bary's
allegation. He said her father, Mohamed Bary, appears to be a loving
parent who knew about her conversion to Christianity months ago.
The New Albany High School cheerleader, who goes by Rifqa,
disappeared on July 19, prompting fears that she had been abducted,
Cupp said....
Cupp has interviewed the father several times, he said, and doesn't think the man is a threat.
"The parents knew months ago that she was … going to different
religious, Christian functions," Cupp said, and there's no evidence
that they threatened her with violence.
It "seems outlandish to me," he said, "but that's not for me to decide. We'll gladly let the courts work this thing out."
Developed with the support of a senior member of the Muslim Council of Britain, Living With The Infidels centres around a bumbling, Bradford-based terror cell. Initially set on a path to martyrdom, Yorkshire's jihadi warriors discover the West isn't as bad as it seems. Tempted by the likes of Man U, cable TV and ample Abi upstairs, what's a man to do? Will they find Paradise in the arms of seventy-two virgins, or is Shangri-La closer to home, propped up at the bar in The Dog and Duck? (hat tip Kasper)
Parodying the homicide bomber. Who is the last laugh on? They think we are idiots, real idiots. Are the victims worldwide laughing? The global jihad is tearing through country after country, leaving a brutal swath of death and carnage in its wake....
CAIR wants to know, "Why Are Qurans Waiting in a D.C. Warehouse?". I want to know why elected officials should accept it. Whose version is it? Has it been scrubbed of its salient verses?
The email announcement is really a fund drive. Look how they plead for bucks. The Saudis recently sent them 50 million bucks (Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal -- a donor to
the Carter Center -- announced he was giving $50 million to CAIR, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations back in 2007.) How many Democrats did they buy?
They already ran through 50 million dollars?
Dear CAIR Supporter,
Pallets of copies of the Quran in a
Washington, D.C. warehouse waiting
to be sponsored.
As-salaamu 'alaikum / Peace be with you,
Thousands of copies of the Quran were delivered last week to
CAIR’s Washington, D.C., warehouse and are waiting to be sponsored and distributed to 100,000 American opinion leaders and policymakers through the “Share the Quran ” educational initiative. Can I count on you to help empty the
warehouse?
Since our “Share the Quran"campaign was launched just a month ago, more than 1,500 Qurans have already been sponsored, but tens of thousands are waiting to be
sponsored.
We urgently need $120,000 to successfully complete the first phase of
this important effort. In the past, I asked you for your support, and
you responded. Today, I ask for your help to educate ournation’s leaders about Islam and Muslims. Our research showsthat when knowledge of Islam goes up, anti-Muslim stereotyping and
prejudice go down.
ACT NOW to sponsor one or more copies of this top-quality Quran for an
American leader or to donate to support this important initiative. If
you donate today, the Qurans can be in the hands of opinion leaders by
Ramadan, the month of the Quran.
All contributions are zakat-eligible and
AN IMMEDIATE REQUEST: Please consider offering an additional
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” campaign.
Please consider giving $5,000, $2,500, $1,000, $500, $250,
$100 $50 or whatever you can.
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CAIR National Executive Director
P.S. – PLEASE SEND THIS APPEAL to your friends and family, and
post to Facebook, Twitter, and other Internet sites.
Here is goes. Islamic authorities in the US will issue a directory of Muslims that "media editors and key people in government, universities, and policy research
institutes" should go to get their talking points and propaganda from.
This is yet another attempt to shut out and silence scholars on Islam like Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sultan, and Bat Ye'or, and shape the narrative to subdue the American masses. Don't believe your eyes, believe their Islamic lies.
In the critical war of ideas, who controls the message is key.
DIRECTORY OF EXPERTS ON ISLAM AND MUSLIM AFFAIRS PUBLISHED
MEETING TO BE HELD IN HERNDON, VIRGINIA
(Bethesda, MD, 7/20/09) Three American Muslim organizations have published a
directory listing sixty-five top experts on Islam and Muslim affairs for the use
of government, media, policymakers and academia. The directory is the product of
a collaboration of two Washington DC area think tanks, the Minaret of Freedom
Institute (MFI) and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and a
professional association, the Association of Muslims Social Scientists—North
America (AMSS-NA).
Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D., the president of MFI, heralded the directory
(available online at http://www.islamicresourcebank.org)
as “a much needed resource at a time when too many pseudo-experts with a weak
knowledge of these subjects, or with special agendas, have dominated the
discourse.” Dr. Ahmad noted that the experts in the directory are “both Muslims
and non-Muslims with a variety of views, but who have in common the fact that
they have an authentic, contextualized knowledge of their areas of expertise.
The IIIT will host a gathering of the experts in Herndon, Virginia on July
24-25 at which they will discuss emerging issues and how to effectively present
accurate information about their various specialties. The workshop is open to
the press who can RSVP to
Dr. Ahmad said that he sponsoring organizations are seeking to meet with
media editors and key people in government, universities, and policy research
institutes to make them aware of the directory. “We hope this will be on ongoing
project,” Dr. Ahmad said.
The Minaret of Freedom Institute is an Islamic think-tank based in
Bethesda, MD that promotes liberty and free market as well as being dedicated to
countering distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and
practice.
UPDATE: More on the The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). It's a privately held non-profit organization concerned with issues of Islamic thought. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, the Institute was founded in 1981 AC (1401 AH) with seed money from the Muslim Brotherhood[1], and has branches and offices in a number of major cities worldwide.[2] (Wikipedia)
Islamic institution with ties to the extremist Saudi-Wahhabi movement
Seeks to portray Wahhabism as peaceful
Partner organization to the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
A partner organization to the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences,
the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) defines itself as
"a private, non-profit, academic and cultural institution, concerned
with general issues of Islamic thought." Giving "special emphasis to
the development of Islamic scholarship in contemporary social
sciences," it works "from an Islamic perspective to promote and support
research projects, organize intellectual and cultural meetings and
publish scholarly works" that will help "the Ummah [Muslim
nation] to deal effectively with present challenges." Established in
1981, IIIT is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia (near Washington, DC),
and has set up branch offices in a number of capital cities worldwide.
The Institute seeks
to achieve its objectives by: "directing research and studies to
develop Islamic thought and the Islamization of knowledge"; "holding
specialized scholarly, intellectual and cultural conferences, seminars
and study circles"; supporting researchers and scholars in universities
and research centers, and publishing selected scholarly, cultural and
intellectual works, in English, Arabic and several other languages";
and signing agreements of cooperation with various universities,
research centers and academic institutions throughout the world to
carry out activities of mutual interest."
Controlled by the
extremist, Saudi-based Wahhabi movement, IIIT maintains that reports
about mosques distributing hate-filled literature are untrue,
and claims that the concept of jihad in no way condones or connotes violence. As an IIIT public-relations flyer puts it: "Jihad does not mean 'holy war.' Literally, jihad
in Arabic means to strive, struggle and exert effort. It is a central
and broad Islamic concept that includes struggle against evil
inclinations within oneself, struggle to improve the quality of life in
society, struggle in the battlefield for self-defense or fighting
against tyranny or oppression." The back of the flyer contains a list
of recommended websites and books on Islam. Among the authors of these
books are such apologists for extremism as John Esposito, Karen Armstrong, Hassan Hathout, and Bill Baker.
IIIT has numerous documented links to terrorism. According to court documents, in the early 1990s the organization donated at least $50,000 to a think tank run by Sami al-Arian, the World Islam Study Enterprise, which served as a front group for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. IIIT is also named as a defendant in two class-action lawsuits brought by victims of the 9/11 attacks. One alleges that the Institute received the bulk of its operating expenses from the SAAR network, whose component groups are accused in another class-action suit of being "fronts for the sponsor of al Qaeda and international terror." The same suit lists IIIT and nearly all of its officers as supporters of the SAAR network.
Moreover, IIIT's 2003 tax-exempt IRS filing lists a $720 donation to the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation of Ashland, Oregon, which was designated as a terrorist-funding entity by the U.S. government in 2004.
Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.
And it only got worse. It was terrible. My heart is heavy for my country and the free world.
The media can spin their subjugation and adulation a million different ways, but America
did not vote for a "Muslim presidency," which is what this is. Obama
deceitfully hid his Muslim background and schooling and his agenda. Little did America
know that Obama's objective would be a conversion of this nation to
"the largest Muslim country in the world". From the moment he spoke as President, in the inaugural address, Islam was falsely given a preeminent place in the
creation of America. In this speech, he quoted from the Koran three times. Why doesn't anybody
comment on this? Why doesn't anyone ever comment on what he projected
vs. what he is? Why won't all those talking heads state the obvious?
The Asia Times said Obama made a mistake by speaking in Cairo.
“Why should the president of the United States address the ‘Muslim
world?,” it asked. “What would happen if the leader of a big country
addressed the ‘Christian world’? Half the world would giggle and the
other half would sulk."
“To speak to
the ‘Muslim world’ is to speak not to a fact, but rather to an
aspiration," the paper stated, "and that is the aspiration that Islam
shall be a global state religion as its founders intended. To address
this aspiration is to breathe life into it. For an American president
to validate such an aspiration is madness.”
He quoted extensively from the Koran.
In his typically anti-semitic fashion, Obama came down very hard on the Jews in his speech today to the Muslim world.(Full text of speech here)
MK Aryeh Eldad in Israel said, "Obama makes a shocking parallel between the destruction of European
Jewry and the suffering that the Arabs of Israel brought upon
themselves when they declared war on Israel."
“If Obama does not understand the difference between them, perhaps he will understand it better when he visits the
concentration camp in the comings days. And if he doesn’t understand it
even there, then Islam will once again teach it to him, just as it
taught his predecessor on 9/11.”
The moral equivalence did not end there. Obama equated "the two peoples":
America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own.
For decades, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate
aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive.
It is easy to point fingers – for Palestinians to point to the
displacement brought by Israel’s founding, and for Israelis to point to
the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within
its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from
one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: the only
resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two
states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.
There has not been a day, not one day, since the birth of modern Israel when she was not under attack by the Arabs. Not one.There are 25 Arab/Islamic countries, one tiny Jewish state. There is already a "two state solution" in place. Jordan is Palestine. Muslims in Gaza were given whole industries, factories (a way to make a living) and billions and billions in aid, to what end? Jewish genocide.
Israel must also live up to its obligations to ensure that Palestinians can live, and work, and develop their society.
Who is stopping them? They live to hate the Jews, and yet Obama insists the Jews be responsible for their executioners - this is rich.
I say, NO MORE LAND FOR ISLAM. NO MORE ISLAMIC COLONIALISM!
Obama's speech was a lesson in taqiya (lies to advance Islam). He called Islam a force of
religious tolerance and racial equality ..... in the face of all the barbarism. He stated that “Muslims have
enriched the U.S. and have won Nobel prizes.” They have, in fact, received less than a handful of the international Nobel prizes. It is an interesting point to make, considering the glaring omission of the Jews contribution to humanity. Here are the facts:
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature 1988 - Najib Mahfooz.
Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 - Yaser Arafat
Physics: 1999 - Ahmed Zewail
Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar [UPDATE:Atheist/agnostic, not Muslim, and only half Arab] 1998 - Ferid Mourad
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000, or about 0.002% of the world population.
I think the part where he compares Israelis with white supremacists to be most enlightening. Jews suffered under Hitler...."Palestinians" suffer under occupation.
His perfect pronunciation of 'Koran' and assalaamu alaykum in the Arabic way is certainly code for his Muslim bonafides. "Peace be upon them all (the prophets)".
He spoke of Cairo University being a source of Egypt’s advancement. Has he read the work of the leading scholars of Islam at Cairo University? No mention of the terrible hate taught at these universities. Dr. Bostom has written volumes on just this thing. Go here.
Obama spoke about the tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims - but who denies, oppresses and abuses the Muslims worse than the Muslims? Colonialism is the strawman used by haters of the West. Why doesn't Obama speak of Islamic supremacism and Islamic expansionism?
More dangerous nonsense: "the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam." Yes, the West is hostile to misogyny, honor killings, racism, Jew hatred .............ugh.
As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
What revisionist nonsense. Do show us "how the arrival and steady
spread of Islam, where it did spread, and was not opposed, made the
world "a better place"?" More here. What advancements were made in Science, Medicine, Technology? These are Islamic lies: here's a starting point, and Fjordman has written a great deal about this very thing. This is a lie just as Palestine is an Islamic lie.
I think I should cite the Pope, when he quoted a Byzantine emperor who linked Islam to
violence."Show me just what Mohammed
brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such
as his command to spread by the sword the faith he
preached."
America was not immune from Obama's flair for historical revisionism.
I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President John Adams wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, served in government, stood for civil rights, started businesses, taught at our Universities, excelled in our sports arenas, won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim-American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers – Thomas Jefferson – kept in his personal library.
How amusing that Obama would bring up Tripoli, a war America had to fight against the Barbary Muslim pirates, and won. Another war against the historically aggressive and belligerent Islam. It seems disingenuous that Obama's pull quote from John Adams (which was a negotiated point in a peace agreement). How ridiculous.
Here is what John Adams's son, John Quincy Adams, said about Islam:
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
And Muslims have fought in our wars? Perhaps this is a recent development. The Muslims fought with Hitler - it's hard to know what Obama is talking about.
Obama said: "And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear." No, it is his responsibility to represent America, all Americans. I think Islam should fight "stereotypes" in thought and in deed.
"In Ankara, I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam." Obama has promised. But what if Islam is at war with us? What if Islam attacks America again? What then? Bin Laden reiterated, again today, "the long war against the infidels".
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden
called for a long war against "infidels and their agents" and warned
Muslims that alliances with Christians and Jews would turn them into
apostates.
"We either live under the light of Islam or we die with dignity ...
brace yourselves for a long war against the world's infidels and their
agents," bin Laden said in the recording posted on an Islamist website
on Thursday.
Bin Laden said Obama had planted "seeds of hatred" among Muslims. His
deputy Ayman al-Zawahri called the U.S. president a criminal in another
recording on Tuesday and warned Muslims against falling for his
polished words.
Obama said,
"Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace"
Is such a big lie even possible after all we have been through as a nation?
Obama declared Iran's right to peaceful nuclear power. The mullahs must have been dancing naked in the forest. We, in America, are not allowed clean nuclear power (or drill our own oil); instead we must buy foreign oil and fund the jihad. But the Islamic jihadi regime of Iran can develop nuclear technology and energy. This was incredible.
Obama: In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically-elected Iranian government.
Yes, Obama said that, and went on to say the most ridiculous statement uttered by a grown man:
I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nations hold nuclear weapons. That is why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. And any nation – including Iran – should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That commitment is at the core of the Treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it. And I am hopeful that all countries in the region can share in this goal.
Such stupidity is breathtaking. At least I hope that he is stupid and not evil. Nuclear weapons in the hands of democratic, righteous nations have kept evil in check over the past 50 years. Does Hussein believe that evil will give up its weapons of mass destruction? They say he is not a stupid man. So what is he?
Children in Israel during bomb drill
On democracy, Obama said:
So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.
Really, that's news to Japan and Germany post WW2. And that's news to all of the previously Christian nations that were barbarically destroyed and taken over by Islam ..... and there are all those cute little Soviet Republics.
And then, this chestnut:
This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they are out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
It sounds autobiographical ................
Obama preached about religious freedom -- speaking in a country where there is none. And that goes also for Obama's visit yesterday to Saudi Arabia.
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today.
Obama was ugly and stern with the Jews in his speech - NO MORE SETTLEMENTS! (And stood there waiting for applause for his Jewish ethnic cleansing). As if Jews wanting to live in peace and security was a war against humanity. In the same breath, Obama SPOKE OF CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM COUNTRIES AS "Christians [who] worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country".
And Obama's service to Islam did not stop there. His next jawdropper:
OBAMA: For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
More money for jihad. Think Holy Land foundation. Islamic charities fund jihad.
OBAMA: Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit – for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
One assault on free men (and women) after another:
The sixth issue that I want to address is women’s rights. I know there is debate about this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well-educated are far more likely to be prosperous. Now let me be clear: issues of women’s equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we have seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead. Meanwhile, the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world.
THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY CONTINUES IN MANY ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LIFE.
Iranian execution
Rape victim lashed
FGM - clitorectomy
Amina and Sarah said, Honor Killing victims in Texas
Obama continued:
I do not believe that women must make the same choices as men in order to be equal, and I respect those women who choose to live their lives in traditional roles. But it should be their choice.
Traditional roles for women in Islam. Oh, the humanity.
Making the world safe for Islamic male oppression, subjugation and ownership.
"That
is why the U.S. government has gone to court to protect the right of
women and girls to wear the hijab, and to punish those who would deny
it."
He goes on to say he will increase Muslim students coming into this country.
On education, we will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America, while encouraging more Americans to study in Muslim communities. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America
And as our country goes bankrupt:
We will open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new Science Envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, and grow new crops. And today I am announcing a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
The Organization of the Islamic Conference.
Obama never once mentioned terror or terrorism. Not once. He never mentioned democracy in Iraq, Afghanistan or the lack of it in Saudi Arabia, Egypt ....... He actually spoke of the savages, Hamas, with .... respect.
The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have responsibilities.
If there is one thing that is perfectly clear, it's that Obama cannot distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong, and this puts us all in grave danger.
OBAMA: The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.”
And may God’s peace be upon you.
Got it?
Israel MK Zevulun Orlev said upon hearing Obama's speech: "The speech arouses fears and concerns regarding the future of American relations towards Israel. I fear an erosion of the traditional American commitment to Israel’s security needs and its very existence and independence. Our response must not be to cave in, but rather to have dialogue with, and persuade the Administration, while waging an emergency call-up of all the resources of Israel and the Jewish nation. ”
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be
hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years,
Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning,
and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source
of Egypt's advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between
tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the
hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me
the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from
Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
According to Islamic law, a Muslim may only extend this greeting --
Peace be upon you -- to a fellow Muslim. To a non-Muslim he is to say,
"Peace be upon those who are rightly guided," i.e., Peace be upon the
Muslims. Islamic law is silent about what Muslims must do when naive
non-Muslim Islamophilic Presidents offer the greeting to Muslims...
Enough with the rest of Obama's speech, it's just more of what I've heard already, when I sat in on a seminar to hear the OIC's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu give a talk about "Islam in Europe". I'm sure that the OIC 's Secretary General is now grinning from ear to ear after hearing Obama promote everyone of his talking points, and with the backing of the United States of America...
It's Thursday, it must be Cairo. Here's Obama's wrap up today. Something for
everyone.:
The Holy Koran tells us, "O mankind! We have created
you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you
may know one another."
The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for
the purpose of promoting peace."
The Holy Bible tells us, "Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called sons of God."
NB: The entire White House research
staff couldn't come up with a Koranic verse that, like Obama's Jewish and
Christian examples, explicitly extols the virtues of "peace." Still, Obama's
selection from the Koran was the next best thing. It occurs in a section called
"The Chambers," one of the most soothing (and atypical)
in all of the Koran, and certainly a change of pace from the previous chapter,
"The Victory," where you'll find one of Islam's
recurring themes: "And whoever does not believe in Allah and His Apostle,
then surely We have prepared burning fire for the
unbelievers." (48.13)
Here, take a random walk through the Koran yourself and
see what you find.
Oh, and while we're on the subject of the Torah, Mr,
President, here's what the Torah's most authoritative commentator, our great
sage Rashi, has to say about its "purpose": Why, then,
does the Torah begin with the story of Creation? Rashi answers, “For should the people of the world say to Israel, ‘You are
robbers, for you took by force the land of the seven nations of Canaan,’ Israel
may reply to them, ‘All the earth belongs to the Holy One, Blessed Be He; He
created it and gave it to whom He pleased.’
The mention of terror group Hamas as a leader of Palestinians has some wondering just how far President Obama is going to change U.S. policy toward the Mideast. FOX News
UPDATE: BTW, Mubarak was not there. The Muslim Brotherhood was, but not the President of the country.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will not be among 3,000 people to attend U.S. President Barack Obama’s historic speech shortly after noon Thursday, a possible bad omen for the American leader trying to win respect in the Muslim world.
The official reason for his absence is the death of his 12-year-old grandson, but the child died in mid-May after health complications. Mubarak’s eldest son Jamal will stand in for his father, according to the independent Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm. Jamal is viewed as the future heir to take over as president of Egypt.
What may appear to be an innocuous article to some is really quite frightening. Advancing the Muslim Brotherhood's global goal of Islamic domination is the objective of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and their proxy the Alliance of Civilizations.
The Orwellian use of inter-faith and cross-pollination flies in the face of history and fact. What Islamic society gave non-Muslims parity with Muslims? Not in 2009 or 1509.
There is a lot to do before the next Alliance of
Civilizations forum, slated to take place in Brazil, Karlığa said. Among them is
establishing a secretariat to implement Turkey's national action plan, which
involves a number of initiatives, including scholarships that will be made
available to students and academics seeking to conduct research in the fields of
inter-cultural dialogue, conflict prevention and conflict resolution.
Another project relates to creating monographs which
will be commissioned by the Alliance of Civilizations and on cross-fertilization
between the Islamic and Western civilizations. An anthology of articles in
Turkish and other languages will be published.
The alliance attaches special importance to media and
media training. Among various projects in that regard, a media literacy pilot
project has been launched at primary and secondary schools in Turkey with the
purpose of developing the capacity of the younger generation for analysis,
evaluation and communication, in response to the messages conveyed by the
media.
Yes, yes of course. The Islamic alliance attaches a very special importance to propaganda and the spread of taqiyya - deception to advance Islam. Like the "stated" objectives of the Alliance of Civilizations.
Karlığa added that the Turkish Ministry of Education
has worked with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), the European Union and the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (OIC) to eliminate phrases and subjects that could foster
hatred toward others from school textbooks.
When it comes to academic research, Karlığa said there
in only one center in that regard: Bahçeşehir University's Civilization Studies
Center (MEDAM). Karlığa, the center's director, said it was born out of need.
"The most important step to be taken against the bigoted and primitive
approaches which make our world a hell on earth with the threat of blood and
gunpowder is to spread science, thought, art, peace, love, tolerance and a
culture of living together -- all of which are the greatest signs of
civilization."
Who exactly spreads blood and gunpowder, and who spreads science, art and thought? Orwell, I tell ya.
Could President Hussein be made to look more ridiculous? He looked so stoopid back on March 10th: Even the Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical". Now they drive the final nail in his delusion, the Taliban are "role models" -- and according to the Quran and sharia law, they are!
Following are excerpts of some reactions to President Obama's March
8, 2009 statements, by Afghan government officials, Taliban leaders, and others.
The reports, from Afghanistan and Pakistani daily newspapers and websites over
the past two weeks, are posted on the MEMRI Urdu-Pashtu Blog. Visit the MEMRI Urdu-Pashtu Blog here (hat tip Andrew Bostom)
Taliban: Contrary To What Obama Says, There Are No
Moderates or Extremists Among Us
In a communiqué posted March 16, 2009, the Taliban responded to U.S.
President Barack Obama's call for negotiations with what he called "moderate
Taliban.
The Taliban's communiqué, posted by Islamist forums, denied
that there were "moderates" or "extremists" in their midst, stating...
Former Taliban Ambassador/Guantanamo Prisoner:
Obama’s Proposal For Talks With Moderate Taliban – Attempt To Create Rifts; If
The U.S. Really Wants To Resolve The Issue Of Afghanistan, It Should Close Down
Guantanamo Bay And Bagram Prisons
According to a March 10 report in a Pashtu-language newspaper in Pakistan,
Mullah Abdus Salam Zaeef, the former ambassador of the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
to Pakistan, who is also a released Guantanamo detainee, has termed U.S.
President Barack Obama’s offer of talks with moderate Taliban militants as an
attempt to create rifts among the Taliban ranks
According to the
newspaper, Zaeef added: "Dividing the Taliban by Obama is very dangerous and it
is a bid to create rifts among the Taliban. All the Taliban are Muslims and
moderates." The former Taliban ambassador, who spent several years in
the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay... stressed the need for creating an
atmosphere of trust between the Taliban and the U.S., adding that if the U.S.
really wants to resolve the issue of Afghanistan, it should close down
Guantanamo Bay and Bagram prisons, release the prisoners, avoid deployment of
more troops to Afghanistan, and stop air strikes and uncoordinated operations...
To read the full report, go here.
Taliban Spokesman: Obama’s Proposal for Peace Talks
– Completely Irrational
According to a report on a Dari-language website in Afghanistan, a Taliban
spokesman has described U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposal for peace talks
with moderate Taliban as irrational.
According to the report, dated
March 10, a spokesman for Taliban leader Mullah Omar added that he will never
accept this proposal, as it is completely irrational"The only one
way to end the war in Afghanistan is to withdraw the foreign forces from
Afghanistan," he said...To read the full report, go here.
Taliban: We Are United Under Mullah Omar’s
Leadership; No Talks With Barack Obama
The Taliban fighters of the Mullah Dadullah Front in Afghanistan have
rejected the offer of talks from U.S. President Barack Obama to moderate Taliban
and have said they are not ready to hold negotiations with Obama, according to a
March 9 report in a Pashtu-language newspaper in Pakistan.
The report
quoted a spokesman of Mulla Dadullah Front, Rahbarmal, as saying that the
Taliban will continue jihad under the leadership of Mullah Omar... To read the full report, go here.
Taliban: We Are Not Divided Into Moderates and
Fundamentalists
Reacting to the U.S. President Barack Obama’s assertion that they were
finding ways to hold talks with moderate militants, the Taliban militants in
Afghanistan have said they are not divided into moderate and fundamentalists
groups, according a March 9 report in a Pashtu language newspaper in Pakistan.
"There are no moderate or fundamentalist groups among the Taliban. We
are all moderates and the followers of Islam," the report quoted Taliban
spokesman Qari Muhammad Yousaf Ahmadi as saying. He added that the
Taliban will never agree to hold negotiations with U.S...
Dr. Andrew Bostom takes The Wall Street Journal to the woodshed and flogs them, though not strongly enough. The Wall Street Journal is not drinking the kool-aid, they are manufacturing it and chuggin' it down. Who can forget Taranto's description of Geert Wilders as an anti-Islamic provocateur? The infidels' existence is a fookin provocation. What is wrong with everyone?
Wall Street Journal Editorial Features Editor Robert Pollock’s distressingly uninformed interview of the “spiritual” leader of Hezbollah, Ayatollah Fadlallah ignores, and/or effectively trivializes all of the following: the pervasive Shi’ite doctrine and practice of taqiya; Hezbollah’s foundational jihadism; and Hezbollah’s—and Fadlallah’s—visceral Islamic Jew-hatred, rooted in orthodox motifs from the Qur’an, hadith, and sira.
But Mr. Pollock’s keen powers of observation allowed him to note (and record for posterity) that the taqiya-mongering, jihadist, and Jew hating “Grand Ayatollah” was possessed of a “disarming twinkle in his eyes.” Pollock closes the piece about his “Dialogue” with Fadlallah thusly:
The interview is over. We pose for pictures and the Ayatollah presents me with an English translation of one of his books: “Islam: The Religion of Dialogue.” He signs it for me in Arabic: “With my affection and prayers.”
How fitting—how feckless.
Here are some—wait for it—facts about Hezbollah and “spiritual” leader Fadlallah, which Mr. Pollock and rest of the equally feckless Wall Street Journal Editorial Board should ponder, from my book The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, pp. 144-145:
Hezbollah’s name, “The Party of Allah”, derives from Qur’ran 5:56—“And whoever takes Allah and His messenger and those who believe for a guardian, then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be triumphant.”. In a public statement issued February 15/16, 1986, Hezbollah stressed its indelible links to Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini (“We obey the orders of one leader wise and just…”) and conceived of itself as a “nation” linked to Muslims worldwide by “…a strong ideological and political bond, namely Islam”. Expressed in the political language of the Qur’ran, Hezbollah’s ideology encompasses, triumphally (as per the slogan adorning the party emblem, “The Party of Allah is Sure to Triumph”) at least three major objectives: transforming Lebanon into a Shari’a state; destroying Israel; and establishing regional, followed by international Islamic hegemony, i.e., bringing the region, then the world under Shari’a law.
…we do not constitute an organized party in Lebanon. Nor are we a tight political cadre. We are an umma linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i.e., Muhammad. This is why whatever touches or strikes Muslims, in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines and everywhere reverberates throughout the Muslim umma of which we are an integral part. Our behavior is dictated to us by legal principles laid down by the light of an overall political conception defined by the leading jurist (wilayat al-faqih)
As for our culture, it is based on the Holy Qur’an, the Sunna and the legal rulings of the faqih who is our source of imitation (marja’ al-taqlid). Our culture is crystal clear. It is not complicated and is accessible to all.
No one can imagine the importance of our military potential as our military apparatus is not separate from our overall social fabric. Each of us is a fighting soldier. And when it becomes necessary to carry out the Holy war (Jihad), each of us takes up his assignment in the fight in accordance with the injunctions of the Law, and that in the framework of the mission carried out under the tutelage of the Commanding Jurist.
…our struggle [against Israel] will end only when this entity is obliterated. We recognize no treaty with it, no cease fire, and no peace agreements, whether separate or consolidated.
Demonizing Israel and Jews—via motifs in the Qur’ran, hadith, and sira—Hezbollah views the jihad against the “Zionist entity” as an annihilationist war intrinsic to broader conflicts: the struggle between the Islamic world and the non-Muslim world, and the historical struggle between Islam and Judaism. The most senior clerical authority for Hezbollah, Husayn Fadlallah has stated, “We find in the Qur’ran that the Jews are the most aggressive towards the Muslims…because of their aggressive resistance to the unity of the faith.” Fadlallah repeatedly refers to anti-Jewish archetypes in the Qur’an, hadith, and sira: the corrupt, treacherous and aggressive nature of the Jews; their reputation as killers of prophets, who spread corruption on earth; and the notion that the Jews engaged in conspiratorial efforts against the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Fadlallah argues, ultimately, “Either we destroy Israel or Israel destroys us.”
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.
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?
Can you imagine? This insufferable megalomaniac is transparent to all. He is surrendering but wants to put a happy face on it. Obama was raised a Muslim, he knows there is no "moderate" Islam for the pious. And the Taliban are very pious.
The reverbs of this incompetent traitorous fool will be felt in spades.
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday turned down as illogical
U.S. President Barack Obama's bid to reach out to moderate elements of the
insurgents, saying the exit of foreign troops was the only solution for ending
the war.
Obama, in an interview with the New York Times, expressed an openness to
adapting tactics in Afghanistan that had been used in Iraq to reach out to
moderate elements there.
"This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari
Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, told Reuters
when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about
Obama's proposal.
"The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know
why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?"
There is an excellent Geert Wilders interview with Jeff Jacoby on Boston.com today here.
Unlike the dhimmi media tools who do Islam's bidding on a daily basis, Jacoby gives Wilders the opportunity to explain and/or refute the popular memes the media and the Islamic propagandists throw at Wilders in the traitorous attempt to marginalize and smear him.
There is one issue in this interview I would like very much to address because there has been little refutation or coverage of the viability and intellectual integrity of "moderate" Muslim.
Q: What do you say to Muslims like Zuhdi
Jasser? He is an American, a former Navy officer, a doctor. After 9/11, he was
so horrified by what was done in the name of Islam that he founded the American
Islamic Forum for Democracy: pro-American, pro-democracy, anti-violence,
anti-Islamist. How do you answer Muslims like him, who say: "I love my religion.
I also love freedom, democracy, Western values. I believe in separation of
mosque and state. But how can I be an ally with someone who says my religion
itself is evil?"
A: Well, I would tell him I wish there were
more people like you. It didn't happen. I would not agree with [Dr. Jasser]
about Islam, but I wish there were more like him.
Everyone loves the idea of Jasser and his "moderate Islam," without doing even so much as the most preliminary analysis or review of his position and many of the things he has said.
Jasser, in the interview linked above, had the temerity to claim that Muslim Antisemitism is a "Wahhabi" problem, which Bostom is “promoting.” I guess that makes it a combined Bostom-Wahhabi problem. Never mind that Muslim Antisemitism was fully functional without the Wahhabis for over 1000 years before the movement arose in the 18th century, or some 1300 years before Bostom was born in 1956.
Listen to ~ minutes 20-25. Also, Jasser makes a point of repeatedly referring to Judea/Samaria as "occupied" — (and he does not mean the historically accurate characterization Arab-occupied Judea-Samaria.). I strongly recommend you listen to the whole interview if you are buying into the moderate narrative.
It is also important to mention that Jasser was recently kicked out of his own "progressive" mosque because
of his take on Islam, so who exactly is he representing? He's living in
his own private Islam. Islam considers Jasser a hyporcrite, an
apostate. There is no interpretation of Islam. Reform or reinterpret the Qu'ran and you are a "hypocrite" -- punishable by death.
Muhammad is to strike hard against the unbelievers (fight them with weapons
and armaments—ibn Kathir. Fight them with swords—Jalalyn), hypocrites (punish
them according to Sharia laws—ibn Kathir) and to be firm (harsh) against them;
the abode for the unbelievers and the hypocrites is hell...66:9
Another force behind the fallacious "moderate" Muslim meme is noted scholar Daniel Pipes -- perhaps the most damaging propagandist of this impossible argument, because of his credibility.
Q: What do you say to scholars of Islam like Daniel Pipes,
who argues that radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam is the solution?
Why should one accept what Geert Wilders says about Islam, rather than someone
like Pipes?
A: I respect Daniel Pipes, but I fully disagree. There is no
moderate Islam. It's like the [prime minister] of Turkey, Mr. Erdogan, said
himself recently: There is only one taste of Islam, and that is the taste of the
Koran.
Q: But he's an Islamist. You would expect him to say that.
What about anti-Islamist Muslims, Muslims who reject the radicals?
A: Listen, the Koran is seen by Muslims, unlike all the
other religions, as the word of God that can never be criticized. If you
criticize the Koran, you are a renegade, an apostate. There are people who are
moderate and call themselves Muslim. But moderate Islam is totally nonexistent.
It will never have an Enlightenment as happened with Christianity.
Q: Why not?
A: Because unlike the interpretations of other holy books,
Muslims believe that the Koran is the word of God and can never be changed.
Q: Hold on - the New Testament today is the same New
Testament as a thousand years ago. What's different is the way that book is read
and understood. A thousand years ago, one could have said Christianity was a
violent, militant religion; today one wouldn't.
A: Yes, there was a change in Christianity. It was possible
because Christians don't believe that the Bible is literally the word of God -
not like the Koran. If you really believe [the Koran] is the word of God, it
will never have room to change
Pipes's mantra is tired. We have all been listening to it for the past ten years without so much as a scintilla of supportive data. But now, thanks to repeated polling, reality paints a vastly different picture -- here. for example is data from 2006/2007, reported by Dr. Bostom: The Muslim Mainstream and the New Caliphate.
The openly expressed desire for the restoration of a Caliphate from two-thirds of an important Muslim sample of Arab and non-Arab Islamic nations, representative of Muslims worldwide, should serve as a chilling wake-up call to those still in denial about the existential threat posed by the living, uniquely Islamic institution of jihad.
And with the most recent follow-up, reported at the end of February from World Opinion polls here, we can quantify how factually-challenged his formulation is -- unless one accepts the absurd notion that desiring "strict application" of Sharia, and global Caliphate, are "moderate". Overwhelming majorities i.e., better than 2/3 of the best conducted sampling of the world's most populous Muslim countries, want these hideous outcomes.
As Bostom has previously written,
A World Public Opinion.org/ University of Maryland poll released February 25, 2009 indicated the following about our erstwhile Muslim ally nations of Egypt and Pakistan—81% of the Muslims of “moderate” Egypt, the largest Arab Muslim nation, desire a “strict” application of Shari’a, Islamic Law; 76% of the Pakistan’s Muslims—one of the most important, and sizable non-Arab Muslim populations—want this outcome. Moreover, 70% of Egyptian Muslims and 69% of Pakistani Muslims desire the re-creation of a “..single Islamic state or Caliphate.”
When I first came to study Islam post 9/11, I watched and waited and wanted very much to believe in the Moderate meme. But I am not a fool. You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
Wilders cites this Reagan quote frequently, "If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
Imran Khan, the moderate muslim, is working to bring lasting peace to Swat. Ah, I feel better! Imran urged the government to institute sharia. His most significant political work has been to protest against
ruling politicians such as Pervez Musharraf and Asif Ali Zardari, and his
opposition to the US and UK foreign policy.
NOWSHERA: Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Saturday said he would himself visit Swat to hold talks with Taliban to bring a lasting peace to the region. He said that he has directed his party leaders to initiate parleys with the Taliban in Swat to settle the issue forever.
In his speech to lawyers of Swat in Sheikh Maltoon Town, Mardan, internally displaced persons of Bajaur Agency in Jalozai camp and a press conference at the residence of PF-14, Nowshera PTI president Kifayatullah, Imran urged the government to immediately implement Shariah in Swat and halt military operation there, tribal areas and elsewhere in the country.
If you are unfamiliar with Imran - let me help you. He was an infamous Muslim playboy. From Wikipedia:
During the 1970s and 1980s, Khan became known as a socialite due to his
"non-stop partying" at London nightclubs such as Annabel's and Tramp, though he
claims to have hated English pubs and never drank alcohol He also
gained notoriety in London gossip columns for romancing young debutantes such as Susannah Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell and the
artist Emma Sergeant.[5] One of
these ex-girlfriends, the British heiress Sita White, daughter of Gordon White, Baron White of
Hull, became the mother of his alleged illegitimate daughter. A judge in the
U.S. ruled him to be the father of Tyrian Jade White, but Khan has denied
paternity.[9][10]
About his lifestyle as a bachelor, he has often said that, "I never claim to
have lead an angelic life."
On 16 May1995, Khan married English socialite Jemima Goldsmith, a convert to
Islam, in a two-minute Islamic ceremony in Paris. A month later, on 21 June, they were married again in a civil ceremony at
the Richmond register office in England, followed
by a reception at the Goldsmiths' house in Surrey.[11]
The marriage, described as "tough" by Khan,[5]
produced two sons, Sulaiman Isa (born 18 November1996) and Kasim (born 10 April1999).[12] As an
agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June2004, it was announced that the Khans had divorced because
it was "difficult for Jemima to adapt to life in Pakistan".[13]
Veteran journalist Khalid
Hasan reported in 2008 that Khan, beside regularly dying his hair, has had a
hair transplant.[14] Khan now
resides in Bani Gala, Islamabad, where he built a farmhouse with the money he
gained from selling his London flat. He grows fruit trees, wheat, and keeps
cows, while also maintaining a cricket ground for his two sons, who visit during
their holidays.[5] Khan is
also reported to be in regular contact with Tyrian Jade Khan-White, his alleged
daughter whom he has never publicly acknowledged.[15]
The lasting peace is working out well. Education is an insult to Islam!
MINGORA, Pakistan (AFP) – Schools reopened in Pakistan's Swat valley
on Monday but attendance was extremely low despite a fledgling truce
between the government and insurgents, officials said.
"Our schools reopened today. The attendance was very poor. Only up to
10 percent attended," Swat education ministry official Sher Afzal told
AFP.
Thousands of Islamist hardliners have spent nearly two years waging a
terrifying campaign to enforce sharia law in Swat, beheading opponents,
bombing girls' schools, outlawing entertainment and fighting government
forces.
Last Monday, the government signed an agreement with a pro-Taliban cleric agreeing to enforce sharia in the valley in the hope of ending the insurgency.
Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the picturesque Swat
Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law. Now the
militants' triumph threatens to encourage radicals throughout the
region.
We sometimes make mistakes. We have not
been perfect. But if you look at the track record, as you say, America was not
born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America
had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason
why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important
task.
Seems like the good king President Hussein is engaging in taqiya - lies to advance Islam. Spencer explains here:
20 or 30 years ago -- and longer
Max Boot dissects an Obama comment from the Al-Arabiya
interview, demonstrating that the President doesn't have the slightest idea
what he is talking about when he invokes an era of good relations between the
U.S. and the Islamic world as recently as two or three decades ago. Boot says
that Obama's comment reveals his "profound ignorance about most aspects of
foreign policy, including the recent history of the Middle East." And it also
makes it more than likely that Obama is likewise profoundly ignorant of not just
the recent history of the Middle East, but the history of the Middle East as a
whole. What he thinks he knows, moreover, is likely to be historical myth and
propaganda, the acceptance of which is extremely common among those who should
know better: Dinesh D'Souza, after all, thinks the Islamic jihad began 25 years
ago, and who doesn't believe in the unicorn myth of a tolerant, pluralistic
Muslim Spain?
"20 or 30 Years Ago?," from Commentary, January 28:
“America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect
and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30
years ago, there’s no reason why we can’t restore that. And that I think is
going to be an important task.”
So said our new president in his interview Tuesday with Al Arabiya, the
Arabic-language satellite news channel. At first the words washed over me. Then
I did some simple math. Let’s see… 20 or 30 years ago… that would be 1989 or
1979.
What was happening in relations between America and the Muslim world back
then? Not relying on memory alone, I consulted Bernard Grun’s reference book,
The Timetables of History.
It turns out that in 1989 U.S. fighters shot down two Libyan jets over the
Gulf of Sidra. The last Soviet troops left Afghanistan, creating a vacuum that
would eventually be filled by the Taliban. Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa
calling for Salman Rushdie’s death for “blasphemy.” Hundreds died in Lebanon’s
long-running civil war while Hezbollah militants were torturing to death U.S.
Marine Colonel William “Rich” Higgins, who had been kidnapped the previous year
while serving as a UN peacekeeper in Lebanon.
And 1979? That was an even darker year-in many ways a turning point for the
worse in the Middle East. That was, after all, the year that the shah of Iran
was overthrown. He was replaced by the Ayatollah Khomeini, who launched a war
against the West that is still unfolding. One of the first actions of this long
struggle was the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran and all of its personnel as
hostages. The same year saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which led to the
growth of the mujahideen, some of whom would later morph into Al Qaeda and the
Taliban. This was also the year that Islamic militants temporarily seized
control of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, an event that drove the Saudi royal family
to become ever more fundamentalist.
In other news in 1979, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former prime minister of
Pakistan, was hanged by General Zia al-Hak, inaugurating a long period when
Pakistan would be under the effective control of the army in alliance with
Islamic militants. That year mobs also attacked U.S. embassies throughout the
Muslim world from Kabul and Islamabad to Tripoli. The one bright spot in 1979
was the signing of the Camp David Accord between the US, Egypt, and Israel,
which did not, unfortunately, auger a “new” Middle East as many optimists
hoped.
So this is the sort of “partnership” between the U.S. and the Middle East
that President Obama would like to see? If his predecessor had suggested any
such thing he would by now be a subject of ridicule for late-night comedians and
daytime talk show hosts, and rightly so.
This is actually a revealing slip. To wit, it reveals two things: First,
Obama’s profound ignorance about most aspects of foreign policy, including the
recent history of the Middle East. A second, and related point, is his tendency
to blame the ills of the region on the previous administration-something that is
only possible if you started following the Middle East around 2001 and have
little idea of what came before. It is then all too easy to claim, as Obama did
on the campaign trail, that it was George W. Bush’s “disengagement” from the
peace process and his “disastrous” war with Iraq that messed up the Middle East.
Only someone with a longer view would realize how profoundly messed up the
region was long before Bush came into office....
KNIGHTSVILLE, Ind. (WTHI) - Months ago, Rachel Jones was shocked to discover her 4-year-old's baby doll seemed to have a hidden message: Islam is the light.
This is unbelievable ........... and of course they will tell us that we are imagining it but notice how it is always baby toys. Subliminal messages.
Imagine her surprise when a game for her 8-year-old daughter's Nintendo DS had the same message.
Rachel said she bought the Nintendo game, Baby Pals, as a gift for her 8-year-old daughter after a good report card.
She had no idea the game also contained the hidden message "Islam is the light."
"We were sitting in the kitchen, and she was playing it," said Jones. "All of a sudden she looked at me, and I looked at her and she said, 'Mom, I think my baby said something.' And so I played it back, and it says 'Islam is the light.'"
The message on the doll and in the Nintendo game sound exactly the same.
The Nintendo game has an "E" rating, which means it's suitable for any age.
In a virtual reality setting, the child playing the game can feed the baby or teach it to crawl, among other things. It's only when the child gives the baby a bath that it repeatedly seems to say "Islam is the light."
Jones said she's angry this is the second toy she's had to take from her children.
"Not just my daughters' toys, but we have a son too," said Jones. "Now I feel like I need to listen to all of his little toys to make sure they're not saying it."
Nintendo's representatives said the game is manufactured by a third party, so they're not responsible for the content, but the game's packaging clearly states the game is licensed by Nintendo.
News 10 also contacted the game's manufacturer, Crave Entertainment, and we are still waiting on a call back.
The Baby Pals game can be purchased at a number of places, including Game Stop, Walmart.com, Amazon.com and Target.com.
What's the difference between Al Manar, a US designated terror entity, and Al Jazeera? Both are all jihad, all the time.
The Al Jazeera Network plans to announce on Thursday that it has signed a deal
to run its news on Worldfocus, a syndicated nightly news program produced in New
York and distributed throughout the United States.
The deal would help the international news network, one of the top services
in the Arabic-speaking world, broaden its reach in the United States, where it
so far has been available to only a limited audience.
Worldfocus, hosted by former NBC News correspondent Martin Savidge, is
produced by New York City public broadcaster WLIWand syndicated to a number of
Public Broadcasting Service affiliates, as well as other stations in 60 U.S.
markets, including 27 of the top 30.
Al Jazeera declined to disclose terms of the deal.
Public broadcasting?YOUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS AT WORK. How does it feel to be funding the very knife that will slit your throat? Seriously. And consider the great thinkers of our time are blacklisted. When was the last time you saw Dr. Andrew Bostom, Robert Spencer, Ibn Warraq, Wafa Sutan (the first time in decades an American has had to go into hiding), Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the news or talk shows? Think about it.
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.
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)
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?
I reported earlier this week that Wal- Mart had taken the Mattel doll spouting Islamic propaganda off the shelves. Well, maybe not. See below. This is not the first email I have received from Atlas readers who report that on their visit to Wal-Mart, the doll was there chanting the Islamic mantra, "Islam is the light".
Readers, when you see this doll, complain to store management! This just in from reader Atlas reader Susan, it has an interesting twist:
I went to my local Wal-Mart today and saw AND heard the doll say "Islam is the Light" as clear as day--another shopper stopped too. I checked the other dolls on the shelf (white ones) and they didn't seem to have the same vocals. The doll that did was a dark-skinned, but not African-American doll. (I have the SKU number as well). I was floored, especially because they said they were pulling them. I live in Cheser County PA (Exton, PA Wal-Mart). Thought I'd pass on.
SKU 2708456915 -- this is the doll.
Here is the link for the one that she saw. They have rotating sounds/coos on
the chip, not just one sound. There is, btw, an African-American version of Baby dawah and this is not it. Can you imagine coming home, a working mom, from a hard day's work, and hearing your sweet little tyke looking up at you and parroting, "Islam is the light!"?
WAL-MART IS THE LIGHT! Atlas says: Shop Wal-Mart this season. Wal-Mart Managers have responded to moms please to remove the Mattel doll that is brainwashing little girls.
OTOH, Target said NO. Target TARGET and boycott the dhimmis and Islamic enablers at Target.
December 16, 2008 - Washington, DC: Wal-Mart managers are removing the Mattel doll that says "Islam is the Light" from store shelves, according to reports from parents and the media across the U.S. and Canada, as well as Wal-Mart employees. Many Wal-Mart managers have removed the controversial doll in the last two weeks, and others are removing it as soon as parents ask.
The Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability (MAMA) campaign to remove the doll began in late November on "Black" Friday, the year's biggest shopping day. The national MAMA campaign started as a response to parent concerns about the Mattel/Fisher Price "Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo Doll." The majority of "Little Mommy Cuddle and Coo" dolls on store shelves have an audio soundtrack that says "Islam is the Light," with no label or warning to parents on the doll's packaging that it advocates Islam to their young children, a practice known as "Dawa." MAMA has advised parents in the U.S. and Canada to ask retailers either to remove the doll from the shelves or to attach a label stating "NOTICE: This doll says "Islam is the light," an invitation to your child to join Islam." MAMA is concerned that an invitation to Islam is a material risk to young girls, because of the discriminatory Islamic law known as Shariah, and wants parents informed about the doll's statement before they purchase the doll.
"Parents are reporting that most Wal-Marts have already removed the doll, or immediately remove it when asked," said Denise Lee, founder of Moms Ask Mattel for Accountability. "And TV and newspaper stories are reporting the same policy changes. MAMA applauds Wal-Mart for taking the lead here in responding to parents' concerns, especially over the Christmas season."
Wal-Mart staff at the Wal-Mart customer "Urgent Assistance" complaint phones were helpful and frank about customer complaints about the "Islam is the Light" doll. Lee spoke with Wal-Mart "Urgent Assistance" employee Ben Werkheiser, who said "We have received quite a few complaints from customers." Werkheiser stated that removal of the dolls is "more or less left up to individual stores' decisions," and when asked if the dolls had been removed from most Wal-Mart stores answered "Yes, they've pulled them because people complained about it. We are mainly responding to customers' complaints. The dolls in most of our Wal-Marts have been pulled." Fellow Wal-Mart employee Maria McDonald stated "We have had many complaints with the doll...the calls we are getting are from customers. I personally have received a lot of calls from customers."
Wal-Mart employee Werkheiser offered advice to customers: "Contact store managers and let them know what's going on. Have them listen to the doll. Customers can call the home office, 1-800-WALMART." Although the Wal-Mart corporate office declined our request to provide an official policy statement, MAMA spokesperson Lee said: "The facts speak for themselves - Wal-Mart is saying YES! to parent requests for removal of the "Islam is the light" doll from the shelves."
A TALE OF TWO TOY STORES....
On the other hand, MAMA's requests to Target to remove the doll - or attach a label stating that it says "Islam is the Light" - met with a NO!
Amy Reilly of Target's Media Relations office called Lee and directed parents "To talk to Mattel if you have any issues with the doll." Reilly carefully stated, "We have not had a national recall on those dolls." When told of parents concerns about the doll Reilly stated, "The doll is a well selling doll." She said, for anything else "I would continue to try reaching Mattel."
"The difference is clear between two responses to parents' concerns," said Lee. "Wal-Mart is trying to help parents, and leaves the decision up to their managers. It appears from all the Target cases that parents have sent us (see "Cases" at www.labelthatdoll.com ), that Target refuses to take action in response to consumer complaints, and local Target store managers aren't permitted to respond to their local community. "
"The question is what will Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers do on December 26, when all those parents who bought that 'well selling' doll try to return it because it says 'Islam is the light' ?" Lee said.
Lee noted that individual Kmarts have also been reported in the media as removing the dolls, but no nationwide policy has been released.
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).
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.
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.”
Spencer's blog is down (whaddup wit dat?) He wrote me of a disturbing "change" that, yet again, obfuscates and confuses the truth about the Quran.
Note the name change of the site "Muslim-Jewish Engagement".What is s their definition of Muslim- Jewish engagement? Mumbai? -and "Jewish" should come first - we were first and alphabetically it's wrong. ISLAM MUST DOMINATE AND NOT BE DOMINATED!
It's all a whitewash, the order of the names is the least of it.
Spencer wrote:
JW is down and so I turned back to work on the Q-Blog, and I just went
to the USC-MSA collection of Islamic texts online -- a collection that
I've used for years.
I think it has always been called the "USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim
Texts." Or something like that. I'll have to go look around in the
Google Cache and see if I can turn anything up.
But now it is called the"Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement."And
the biggest change that I can see offhand is that there used to be --
I mean, up until yesterday -- Maududi's introductions to every Qur'an
chapter.
Maududi was a serious Pakistani jihadist.
But now Maududi has been deep-sixed, and replaced by commentary by
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss), a 20th-century convert from Judaism to
Islam whose commentary on the Qur'an is severely whitewashed for
Western consumption.
Check it out and maybe if you have a minute, check out the Google cache:
Watch their numbers slide. FOX never really understood why they were number one. Back as far as 2005, I lamented the dhimmitude here and here and here. We all lost a chunk of our innocence after the Sauds purchased 6% of FOX News. The fix was in. FOX threw in with the Saudis and we could not help but notice the increasing Saudi influence at FOX News ever since the French riots of 2005 when after one phone call, FOX newscasters stopped calling the Muslim rioters Muslims.
“I picked up the phone and called
Murdoch … [and told him] these are not Muslim riots, these are riots
out of poverty,” Prince al-Walid said.
“Within 30 minutes, the title was changed from Muslim riots to civil riots.”
Gald wrote me,
"The analysts at Fox (the "sane" network) were theorizing (hoping) that the murderers at Mumbai Chabad were (get this) HINDUS!
Of course!
Those Jew-hating HINDUS!
Even before the Jewish corpses have experienced rigor mortis, liberals are cautioning against an outbreak of...Islamophobia!
Lewis Carroll never constructed such an inversion of reality.
It would be devastating even if Jews were united, but most American Jews are participants in this charade.
Will Time Magazine's house Hebrew Joe Klein condemn the Islamic murderers of innocent Jews?
No, he will question the patriotism of Jews who support Israel.
Tragically, Klein is the rule...not the exception.
Keep fighting the good fight, although embracing reality will just convince people that you are crazy.
Still, we must unite to battle those Jew-hating Hindus".
Confirming the worst fears of millions of
dedicated fans, the Fox News Channel really has gone soft on Obama. That's at a
time when viewers are counting on it to remain a key opposition voice during a
disturbing political shift away from freedom and prosperity.
Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn't want to spoil Barack Obama's
political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill
O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to
lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. "We're not going to
have any personal attacks on Obama," a network insider says. "The public has spoken - we must treat him with
respect."
This confirms an almost-identical account
your Radio Equalizer was given Wednesday
evening from a key source. That person contends the order came from the top:
Rupert Murdoch himself.
"Personal attacks", by the way, can be construed
to mean any criticism of Barack Obama whatsoever.
The reason? News
Corporation is bracing for potentially-vindictive actions by Obama's incoming
thugocracy, especially regarding dual station / newspaper ownership rules and
apparently seeks to placate the Dear Leader, hoping he will be
merciful.
Unfortunately, this is a great way to send FNC's audience
running for the hills, with evening talk radio as the likely beneficiary.
Meanwhile, the left will still hate Fox.
Did MSNBC lay off of Bush
during his time in office? Of course not. Then why should FOX sacrifice its
entire audience out of fear of Obama's thugs?
What about the tens of
millions of voters that didn't support Obama and refuse to join his creepy
cult?
McCain Won the Debate, but the Drive-Bys (Even Fox)
Deny Reality October 16, 2008
BEGIN
TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I watched the debate
last night, as everybody did, and I'm thinking, "This is cool. McCain finally on
message. McCain finally on offense." I thought Obama looked like he was
stumbling around. I thought Obama looked off his game. I thought Obama was
totally on defense. I did not see somebody cool. I did not see a mountain. I did
not see somebody elegant. I didn't see any of that. I saw somebody who was lying
through his teeth time after time after time. I saw somebody who seemed
irritated when McCain was speaking. I saw somebody who almost was close to
blowing his cool in terms of facial expressions, and I saw the director cut away
from Obama at those times so as to assist Obama in having his facial expressions
not broadcast as much as possible. I'm getting e-mails all night long from
people, I mean in the thousands, who are jazzed, finally somebody is taking it
to Obama, somebody is standing up for the middle class, somebody is standing up
for the right economics, somebody trying to do the right things for the first
time in a long time.
And then, after the
debate, people that are e-mailing me, a lot of them turned on the Fox News
Channel, and they were dispirited and depressed. They felt that Obama had found
a new ally in some of the commentators on the Fox All-Star Panel.
Now, they view the Fox News Channel as their network. They tuned in for post-debate analysis
expecting the Fox All-Stars to have seen what they saw, and they listened to the
Fox All-Stars talking about a debate they didn't see. The Fox All-Stars were
talking about how rotten McCain was, how horrible he had done, what a rock Obama
was, how cool Obama was, how elegant Obama was. I got a note from a
friend who watched this in a bar with 200 people last night, and they were
cheering themselves crazy during the debate last night. One of these guys
happened to e-mail a friend and said, "What's the reaction on Fox?" He said,
"The Fox guys say Obama skunked McCain, that
McCain was just horrible." And the guys at the bar said, "What? What in the
world did they watch?" And I'm thinking, Fred Barnes, Bill Kristol, these
are the people, folks, who told us that McCain was the best chance Republicans
had way back when. I mean, as far as Kristol was concerned, going back to the
year 2000 in the primaries versus George W. Bush.
Particularly disturbing to Fox fans was
Carl Cameron's now widely-discredited hit piece against Sarah Palin, which has
led to a huge backlash in favor of the Alaskan governor. Also
from Limbaugh's show:
CAMERON:
Early on, they began to discover that there were these gaps in her knowledge. I
just want to rattle off a couple of the things that insiders say she just simply
didn't know. There were real problems with basic civics, government structures;
municipal state and federal government responsibilities. She didn't know the
nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement, we're told. She
didn't understand, McCain aides told me today, that Africa was a continent and
not a country, and actually asked them -- they argue, they say -- if South
Africa wasn't just part of the country as opposed to a country in the continent.
They go on to say that she didn't understand the idea of American
exceptionalism, a classic principle of Wilsonian doctrine that says that the
United States is exceptional in the world and has therefore a very special role
in leading the globe.
RUSH: I don't believe any
of this, and what kills it for me is that she "didn't understand...American
exceptionalism." She's the only one in the McCain campaign who did understand
American exceptionalism, and had to drag the rest of the campaign kicking and
screaming into the concept. We never heard about American exceptionalism from
our own party 'til Sarah Palin showed up. This South African... Not knowing the
countries in Africa? Not knowing how the federal government works? She's
governor of Alaska, for crying out loud! This is just a smear job. She is being
smeared worse than anybody in the McCain campaign went after Obama or any of his
questionable allies.
CAMERON: There are stories
that say she would look at her press clippings in the morning and throw what has
been described to me as "tantrums." One of the more infamous stories that's now
come out is there was a time when McCain staffers went to collect her at her
hotel room and she had just stepped out of the shower and essentially met them
wrapped in a bathrobe. They were taken aback by that. They have suggested that
she's a bit of a shopoholic and that on more than one occasion she would go out
and buy clothes that to many seemed unnecessary because the campaign had already
provided her with a very large wardrobe, uh, a wardrobe that famously rang up a
bill of $150,000, mostly because they bought extra sizes to make sure everything
fit.
RUSH:
(laughing) So this is Carl Cameron last night on Fox detailing what had been
told to him. Carl Cameron, by the way, is the voice of the McCain insiders, I
should point out. So they're dumping on Sarah Palin, and you have to ask
yourself: "Why? Who benefits from this happening to Sarah Palin?"
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TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: You might ask, "Why
is Carl Cameron spewing all this stuff?" Okay, so somebody inside the McCain
campaign reports it to him, but why does he spew all this stuff out there? I
guess to have a scoop. I don't know. But it's quite telling, it is quite
instructive here, ladies and gentlemen, as if we conservatives aren't angry
enough with Obama and McCain, the fact is we're going to have to defeat 'em both
now, all over again. So I'm just going to warn you, there's going to be a
McCain-somebody, comprehensive immigration bill, which will result in the
migration of more nonpaying Democrat voters. This I cannot believe and I'm going
to deal with this as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears today.
The wizards of smart on our side are all out there talking about how Obama's
going to govern from the center. (laughing) They have learned nothing! I don't
even think that this is wishful thinking, or hopefulness.
Headline from the Associated Press: “Hostages said dead in Mumbai Jewish
center.” What a load of bovine fecal matter. These people were not
hostages, they were murder victims from the very start. Get it through your
thick heads AP, we are at war with Islamofascism and there is no place for
sanctimonious political correctness. Those poor folk never had a chance, you
know it, we know it and you know that we know it.
The only Marxist philosopher I admire—i.e., Groucho—is credited with this joke which casts Murawiec’s pretentious gobbledygook in the appropriate light:
“Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?
A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”
Bostom comes out blasting and rightly so. Bostom's eviscerates Laurent Murawie's latest apology for Islam, The Mind of Jihad (what mind? you are not allowed to have a mind). This neurosis amongst the pseudo intellectual crowd to blame anyone, anything, (and they love to blame the messenger) -emasculates the West and obstructs counter jihad efforts . They shake in their boots before they dare speak of the real culprit - Islam. Invariably they perform an indispensible service to Islam. Sick.
This brief review of “The Mind of Jihad” by Laurent Murawiec, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 342 pp., will also be appearing in print in the December issue of OUTPOST.
***
Ibn Hudayl a 14th century Granadan Muslim author of an important treatise on jihad war, elucidated the allowable tactics which facilitated the violent, chaotic Islamic conquest of the Iberian peninsula, and other parts of Europe:
It is permissible to set fire to the lands of the enemy, his stores of grain, his beasts of burden – if it is not possible for the Muslims to take possession of them – as well as to cut down his trees, to raze his cities, in a word, to do everything that might ruin and discourage him…[being] suited to hastening the Islamization of that enemy or to weakening him. Indeed, all this contributes to a military triumph over him or to forcing him to capitulate.
And these repeated attacks, indistinguishable in motivation from modern acts of jihad terrorism, like the horrific 9/11/01 attacks in New York and Washington, DC, and the Madrid bombings on 3/11/04, or those in London on 7/7/05, were in fact designed to sow terror. The 17th century Muslim historian al-Maqqari explained that the panic created by the Arab jihadist horsemen and sailors, at the time of the Muslim expansion in the regions subjected to those raids and landings, facilitated their later conquest,
Allah thus instilled such fear among the infidels that they did not dare to go and fight the conquerors; they only approached them as suppliants, to beg for peace.
Contemporary validation of this principle of jihad as described by Ibn Hudayl, and al-Maqqari—rooted in the Koran—(for example, verses 8:12, 8:60, and 33:26)—i.e., to terrorize the enemies of the Muslims as a prelude to their conquest—has been provided in the mainstream Pakistani text on jihad warfare by Brigadier S.K. Malik, originally published in Lahore, in 1979. Malik’s treatise was endorsed in a laudatory Foreword to the book by his patron, then Pakistani President Zia-ul-Haq, as well as a more extended Preface by Allah Buksh K. Brohi, a former Advocate-General of Pakistan. This text—widely studied in Islamic countries, and available in English, Urdu, and Arabic—has been recovered from the bodies of slain jihadists in Kashmir. Brigadier Malik emphasizes how instilling terror is essential to waging successful jihad campaigns:
Terror struck into the hearts of the enemies is not only a means, it is the end in itself. Once a condition of terror into the opponent’s heart is obtained, hardly anything is left to be achieved. It is the point where the means and the end meet and merge. Terror is not a means of imposing decision upon the enemy (sic); it is the decision we wish to impose upon him…
“Jihad,” the Koranic concept of total strategy…[d]emands the preparation and application of total national power and military instrument is one of its elements. As a component of the total strategy, the military strategy aims at striking terror into the hearts of the enemy from the preparatory stage of war…Under ideal conditions, Jihad can produce a direct decision and force its will upon the enemy. Where that does not happen, military strategy should take over and aim at producing the decision from the military stage. Should that chance be missed, terror should be struck into the enemy during the actual fighting.
…the Book [Koran] does not visualize war being waged with “kid gloves.” It gives us a distinctive concept of total war. It wants both, the nation and the individual, to be at war “in toto,” that is, with all their spiritual, moral, and physical resources. The Holy Koran lays the highest emphasis on the preparation for war. It wants us to prepare ourselves for war to the utmost. The test of utmost preparation lies in our capability to instill terror into the hearts of the enemies.
Laurent Murawiec, in a chapter entitled, “Jihad as Terror,” concludes his recently published meditation on contemporary jihadism, The Mind of Jihad, with a discussion of this same treatise by Brigadier Malik. Murawiec reiterates the obvious—Malik’s profound, overriding indebtedness to classical jihad theory and practice, including jihad terrorism. But in the end, Murawiec is betrayed by his book’s preceding shoddily constructed, and illogical narrativeDespite the inclusion of some fascinating texts, letters, speeches, and anecdotes, Murawiec’s study—a rather discursive amalgam—ignores classical (and still omnipresent) doctrines and practices of jihad war, such as the licit taking of infidel “harbi” (from dar al harb, the unvanquished non-Muslims “lands of war”) non-combatant life and property, or even more fundamentally, the goal of submitting the world to Islamic Law. In addition, he clumsily grafts “millenarian Gnostic” motifs on to the unrelated, uniquely Islamic institution of jihad war, and confuses transient, tactical alliances between (primarily) Bolsheviks/Communists, and jihadists, for some “shared vision”—as if the stark differences between the goals of creating Shari’a-based governments (and ultimately, a global Caliphate), versus a centralized, international system of atheistic, Communist bureaucracies, were immaterial. Thus Mailk’s modern primer on Islamic jihadism becomes for Murawiec, a treatise written,
…in pure Gnostic fashion, with a strong dose of Leninist voluntarism, or Nietzschean Wille zur Macht. [Will to Power]
Moreover, central to Murawiec’s overall construct, is the orthodox Pakistani Muslim ideologue Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, influential friend of Ayatollah Khomeini and Sayyid Qutb (the latter, also being Osama bin Laden’s hero). Maududi was a prolific Koranic commentator, and essayist, whose ideas were firmly rooted in classical Islamic formulations of jihad, and the creation of traditional Muslim societies, culminating in his full rendition of how a contemporary Islamic State should appear and function, under the Shari’a. Pace Murawiec, however, Maududi—a pious, traditional Muslim, whose espoused doctrines are entirely consistent with those of a multitude of prototypical Islamic revivalists who have surfaced throughout the history of the creed—must have been nurtured on Lenin, in the author’s words, “as if Lenin’s ‘The State and Revolution’ had become [his, i.e. Maududi’s] bedtime reading.”
From his sober perspective, J.B. Kelly, the great modern historian of the Arabian Gulf—contra Murawiec—viewed (writing in 1980) the aroused spirit of jihad in the Gulf during the 1960s and 1970s—fomented by Faisal b. Abdul Azziz’s implacable hatred for Israel, and the complementary doctrines of the jihadist Muslim Brotherhood—as merely a return to the region’s deep Islamic roots and values, following a brief dalliance with “revolutionary” ideologies:
Yet for all the anathematizing of Arab revolutionary movements by Muslim conservatives, it is extremely doubtful whether these movements are au fond anti-Islamic or irreligious. Marxist dogma sits very lightly and uncomfortably upon the few semi-educated peninsular Arabs who have ostensibly adopted it. Their thoughts and their lives are still shaped by Islam, they themselves are fundamentally Muslim. Nor could it be otherwise, since…Islam is the only real source of moral and intellectual guidance available to Arabs of the peninsula. The present evidence of Islamic revivalism, therefore, may be a more significant indication of the drift of events in the Gulf than sporadic troublemaking by self-styled Marxist revolutionaries
Please read it all. Bostom is uniquely brilliant and unfraid of the slings and arrows of cowards.
The latest case of Islamic intimidation and abject supremacy is against a terrific Canadian magazine, Toronto Life, that did a piece on the brutal honor killing of the tortured, tormented young girl, Aqsa Parvez. The objective - to lie about the motive in the murder. How Islamic. If we censor ourselves and go along with the silence of the media concerning rape and killing of honor victims we are accessories to their murder. The deaths are the horror of what we refuse to deal with. If we are bullied into silence, they too will come for us, our daughters, our women.
It seems that apologists for honor-killing and other barbaric practices imported into Canada have started a harassment campaign on Facebook and elsewhere against Toronto Life magazine for daring to run an article that exposed barbaric Muslim practices, including the murder of daughters to protect family "honor". We all need to judge the contribution of Muslim immigration into Canada.
The details of Banaz's murder are vile. Banaz went to the police, four times, in desperate fear for her life. The police are guilty of murder and ought to stand trial for life sentences particularly police officer Angela Cornes, who dismissed the murder victim's
account as fantasy and wanted to charge her with criminal damage because she
broke a window when she smashed her way out of her
grandmother's house to escape her family's first attempt at killing her
Aqsa Parvez had a choice: wear a hijab to please her
devout family or take it off and be like her friends. She paid for her decision
with her life. When her father and brother were charged with her murder, it
raised the spectre of religious zealotry in the suburbs. Is this the price of
multiculturalism? By Mary Rogan
Sweet 16: more than 20 Facebook pages devoted to Aqsa Parvez
were created within days of her death Image credit:
Facebook
Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth
shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because
she refused to obey his rules. He swore he would kill her.
On the morning of December 10, Aqsa huddled in a Mississauga bus shelter
with another Grade 11 student, a girl she had been staying with for the past
couple of days. They had plenty of time to make it to their first class at
Applewood Heights Secondary School. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother
Waqas, a tow-truck driver, showed up at the bus stop. He said that she should
come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying
elsewhere. Aqsa hesitated, then got into his car.
Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez phoned 911 and told the dispatcher
that he had killed his daughter. Within minutes, police and paramedics arrived
at 5363 Longhorn Trail, a winding suburban street near Eglinton and Hurontario,
and found Aqsa unconscious in her bedroom. The 16-year-old wasn’t breathing. The
paramedics started CPR, found a faint pulse, and rushed her to Credit Valley
Hospital, 10 minutes west. A few hours later, she was transferred to SickKids
and put on life support. She died just after 10 that evening. The official cause
was “neck compression”—strangulation.
In the days following her death, Aqsa’s story was widely reported in the
Canadian media as well as on CNN and the BBC. Was her murder an honour killing
or simply a gruesome case of domestic violence? Worldwide, an estimated 5,000
women die every year in honour killings—murders deemed excusable to protect a
family’s reputation—many of them in Pakistan, where the Parvez family had
emigrated from.
Canada prides itself on its multiculturalism and, to varying degrees of
success, condemns institutionalized patriarchy. But there is growing concern
that recent waves of Muslim immigrants aren’t integrating, or embracing our
liberal values. Aqsa’s death—coming in the wake of debates about the
acceptability of sharia law, disputes over young girls wearing hijabs at soccer
games, and the arrest of the Toronto 18—stoked fears about religious zealotry in
our midst. Is it possible that Toronto has become too tolerant of cultural
differences?
When police arrived in answer to his 911 call, Aqsa’s father, who worked as a
cab driver, was arrested and charged with second degree murder. Waqas was
charged with obstruction. The charges against both men were changed to first
degree murder in June, after police decided her death was a planned and
deliberate act.
The dhimmi
FBI has flipped and caved to Islamic thuggery, the same thuggery that
murdered these girls. the same Islamic thuggery that is murdering free
speech.
Atlas readers often hear me refer to taqiya - lies to advance Islam. Raymond Ibrahim,
of The Al Qaeda Reader: has an excellent piece over at Jihadwatch explaining why a pious Muslim, a good Muslim, must lie.
To better understand Islam, one must appreciate the thoroughly legalistic
nature of the religion. According to sharia (Islamic law) every conceivable
human act is categorized as being either forbidden, discouraged, permissible,
recommended, or obligatory. “Common sense” or “universal opinion” have little to
do with Islam’s notions of right and wrong. All that matters is what do Allah
(via the Koran) and his prophet Muhammad (through the Hadith) have to say about
any given thing; and how Islam’s greatest theologians and jurists—collectively
known as the ulema, literally, the “ones who know”—have articulated it.
Consider the concept of lying. According to sharia, deception in
general—based on the Koran’s terminology, also known as “taqiyya”—is not only
permitted in certain situations but sometimes “obligatory.” For instance, and
quite contrary to Christian tradition, not only are Muslims who must choose
between either recanting Islam or being put to death permitted to lie by
pretending to have apostatized; but some jurists have decreed that, according to
Koran 4:29, Muslims are obligated to lie.
THE DOCTRINE OF TAQIYYA
According to the authoritative Arabic text, Al-Taqiyya fi Al-Islam,
“Taqiyya [deception] is of fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every
Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the
practice of taqiyya is mainstream in Islam, and that those few sects not
practicing it diverge from the mainstream…. Taqiyya is very prevalent in Islamic
politics, especially in the modern era.”
Some erroneously believe that taqiyya is an exclusively Shia doctrine. That
is because the Shia have traditionally relied on it due to the fact that, as a
minority group interspersed among their traditional enemies, the much more
numerous Sunnis, they have historically had more “reason” to dissemble. However,
Sunnis living in the West today find themselves in a similar situation, as they
are now the minority surrounded by their historic enemies, non-Muslims.
The primary Koranic verse sanctioning deception vis-à-vis non-Muslims states:
“Let believers not take for friends and allies infidels instead of believers.
Whoever does this shall have no relationship left with Allah—unless you but
guard yourselves against them, taking precautions” (3:28; other verses relied on
by the ulema include 2:173; 2:185; 4:29; 16:106; 22:78; 40:28).
The most important piece on Obama's muslim upbringing and what it means it Dr. Andrew Bostom's piece in today's American Thinker. If you read nothing else, PLEASE READ IT ALL AT AMERICAN THINKER. I know Ibn Warraq and his youth is remarkably similar to Obama's. Both received the same religious training in Islam, Ibn had no more formal Islamic education than Obama, and look at how different they are in how they honestly talk about Islam.
Ibn Warraq's
formal childhood experience of Islam mirrored Barack Obama's -- it was
no more extensive. Yet despite copious evidence to the contrary, Barack
Obama has gone to great lengths to deny even a nominal childhood Muslim
upbringing. These repeated, often shrill and accusatory denials are
accompanied by a disturbing, if predictable silence: not once has
Senator Obama celebrated the remarkable freedom of conscience he had
here in America to decide in his mid to late 20s that he would practice
Christianity openly, and devotedly, absent any consideration of his
childhood Muslim background.
Mr. Obama has thus far squandered
the unparalleled opportunity to highlight and extol a profoundly
important virtue of this flawed, but still great country of ours,
personified by his life story: America's singular, unwavering support
for true freedom of conscience.
Surely
if Obama is to live up to his followers (and his own) pretensions of
being a "transformative" figure, then he should be ready to elucidate,
frankly, the utter lack of freedom of conscience in the Muslim world,
relative to the US; why his own life trajectory demonstrates this
difference; and how the fight against global jihadism is, at its core,
about the protection of this most profoundly important Western ideal.
During an interview with
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News which aired Sunday September 7, 2009,
Barack Obama bemoaned what he claimed were insidious Republican
attempts to "promulgate," falsely, his "Muslim connections." Senator
Obama then made a minor gaffe (at ~ 2 minutes 50 seconds, here), in his half-hearted exculpation of Senator McCain: "John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith."
Stephanopoulos, who earlier defended McCain against Obama's general
anti-Republican allegations, then corrected Obama's misstatement with
instantaneous, politically-correct alacrity, reminding the Democratic
Presidential nominee, "...[you meant] your Christian faith." And certainly the full context of the discussion makes clear Obama was not in any way acknowledging some personal embrace of Islam, when he responded, "What I meant to say, he [McCain] hasn't suggested that I am Muslim."
But
the self-aggrieved, whining tone of Senator Obama's interview struck me
as particularly inappropriate occurring just four days prior to his scheduled appearance with Senator McCain
at Ground Zero, in lower Manhattan. Both men will suspend their
Presidential campaigns to be present at a joint, non-partisan event,
Thursday, September 11, 2008, commemorating the 7th anniversary of the cataclysmic acts of mass-murdering jihad terrorism on September 11, 2001.
Those
savage attacks represent a jihadist assault on our core Western
values-prominently among them, the freedom of conscience Barack Obama's
personal biography epitomizes-despite his apparent obliviousness to, or
denial of, this reality.
During his childhood years in Indonesia, Barack Obama was enrolled as a Muslim (see here, here, here, and here) at his primary schools (this is confirmed, conclusively, in a registration document -- which the Associated Press photographed --
made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in
Jakarta, Indonesia, demonstrating that his Muslim step-father listed
Obama's boyhood religion as Islam), and also attended the mosque during that period.
Tine Hahiyary, a former teacher at one of these schools, claimed that the young Obama actively took part in "mengaji" classes (consistent with devout Islamic education), which instruct students to read the Koran in Arabic. And the Indonesian daily Banjarmasin Post
interviewed Rony Amir, a Muslim classmate of the young Obama, who
characterized Obama as "...previously quite religious in Islam." While
disputing Obama's childhood Muslim religiosity, a subsequent Chicago Tribune report
still concedes that the young Obama was at least an irregularly
practicing Muslim, who occasionally prayed with his step-father in a
mosque.
Irrespective
of Obama's Muslim devoutness as a child, one must also bear in mind how
contemporary (and classical) Islamic Law views the offspring of any marriage between a Muslim man (Obama's birth father and step-father were both Muslims),
and a non-Muslim woman. Sheikh 'Abdus-Sattar Fathallah As-Sa`eed,
professor of Koranic Exegesis and Koranic Sciences at Al-Azhar
University -- for more a thousand years, the pre-eminent center of
Sunni Islamic religious education -- in a recently issued a fatwa
(June 20, 2002), reiterated plainly the Islamic principle that
paternity determines (Muslim) religious identity for a child born of a
Muslim father, and a non-Muslim wife:
There
is nothing wrong, as far as Islam is concerned, that a Muslim man
marries a Christian woman, but he should stipulate (in the marriage
contract) that any children from the marriage will be Muslims.
Not surprisingly then, as Daniel Pipes
has assiduously documented, the predominant understanding about Obama
in Islamic societies is that the Democratic Presidential nominee, at
minimum, has "Muslim origins" (as stated explicitly for example in the
Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masri al-Youm). Libyan dictator Mu‘ammar al-Qaddafi has referred to Obama as "...a black citizen of Kenyan African origins, a Muslim, who had studied in an Islamic school in Indonesia."
Analyses by Al-Jazeera have called Obama a "non-Christian man," made reference to his "Muslim Kenyan" father, and observed, tellingly, that "Obama may not want to be counted as a Muslim but Muslims are eager to count him as one of their own."
Pipes also notes how Arabic discussions of Obama occasionally mention his Arab Muslim middle name (Hussein), cryptically, "with no further comment needed." Moreover,
even the American Muslim leaders Sayyid M. Syeed, president of the
Islamic Society of North America, and Lewis Farakhan of the Nation of
Islam, apparently view Obama as a Muslim. Speaking at a conference in Houston,
Syeed encouraged Muslims that, regardless of the outcome of the
American Presidential elections, Obama's candidacy reinforces the
notion that Muslim children can "become the presidents of this
country." Farrakhan
claimed Obama was "the hope of the entire world," and compared him to
his religion's founder, Fard Muhammad, "A black man with a white mother
[who] became a savior to us."
Political scientist Shireen Burkhi, and historian Edward Luttwak
have warned that this widespread perception of Obama's Muslim identity
in Islamic societies may readily engender a dangerous sentiment -- the
belief that Obama is an apostate from Islam. And as Daniel Pipes
recently demonstrated,
the subject of Obama's apostasy has already been raised in the Arab
Muslim media. Not only did at least one Arabic-language newspaper
publish Burki's article, Obama was described as "a born Muslim, an apostate, a convert to Christianity," in Kuwait's Al-Watan, while Syrian liberal Nidal Na‘isa denoted Obama as an "apostate Muslim," repeatedly, in the Arab Times.
I guess the FOX news special on honor killings caught them with their burkas down, and so the misogynists and Islamists at the Crecsent News Network have cleansed this barbaric violence against women. Shame on those tools.
Quite a feat: CNN has pulled off the MSM equivalent of describing a spiral
staircase without using one's hands. It has managed to produce a segment on
"honor killings" and related violence in the UK . . . without using the word
"Muslim" or "Islam." CNN Newsroom anchor Don Lemon introduced the segment this
afternoon at 1:37 PM EDT.
DON LEMON: Women forced into marriages, or killed for having the
wrong boyfriend. So-called "honor crimes" are often committed by fathers or
brothers when daughters do something that supposedly brings shame on the
family. It's on the rise in Britain, and authorities, they are very worried
about it. Our Paula Newton reports.
Have you been watching the honor killing coverage on FOX? Rashad, Clayton County man, faces murder charges in the strangling death of
his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an
arranged marriage in yet another honor killing in the West. A terrible trend ignored by the media and on the rise.
At first I was so happy, that finally someone was paying attention to this terrible trend and actually reporting on it in depth. But misinforming the American people? They are in the dark enough as it is. It's bad when you don't cover honor killings because you are afraid to "insult Muslims", it's worse when you cover it and and deliberately obfuscate the truth and remove Islam from the motive. This is sharia law. How dare they call it a "cultural" thing. And while I am not saying it doesn't happen in other parts of the world, the majority are Islamic and no other religious ideology advocates for it. How dare they say it was not Islamic. The murderers were in full Muslim garb?
The "specialist" they had on was a criminal lawyer who didn't know her Moe from her Curly. There are so mmany knowledgable sources on honor killings, they couldn't find one? One reporter on the scene, called the arranged marriage "sacred". GROAN.
Give me a few minutes. I am pulling the video of Martha McCallum's and Trace Gallagher's taqiya. The money quote is Trace Gallagher saying you never hear about these things in this country. Uh, yeah, because the media wont cover.
Shakes head, walks away.
I received this heartbreaking note last night from one of the Aunts of the Said sisters:
"I Am Afraid My Uncles Will Take me" Aunt Gail
Recently, an investigative reporter wrote on the honor killings of Sarah and Amina. There was much information in the article but, I personally, found it to be slanted. Even so, I read some things which disturbed me...one in particular! It was what Sarah had said to a friend, "I am afraid my uncles will take me". This quote sent shivers down my spine! Sarah was not only afraid of her dad but, she feared her uncles too! Why?
In searching for the why, I recalled the sexual abuse "period." There's something which has been overlooked in these girls tragic tales and one came as a direct result from Yaser being reported for sexual abuse.
Not long after Patricia Said wrote out an affadavit which graphically spoke of what had been done, Yaser picked the children up from school and ran with them! I do not know how this situation was handled from a legal standing but, I do know Yaser took the children and hid them out for months! In fact, they were being hidden in Fairfax, Virginia and Patricia had no clue as to where to look! The facts, they were known years after this happened.
Could this have been why Sarah was so afraid of her uncles taking her? Did they help Yaser to hide these children as a punishment for getting the police involved with the sexual abuse? Did the uncles remind these girls that honor killings are legal in Egypt...like Yaser taunted them? I'm not sure but, I know that Sarah had a reason for saying this and even though noone heard this cry of fear then, I'm listening now and I want the why's.
Fourest has
rendered an invaluable service. She demonstrates with great skill that Ramadan
is a dangerous radical who, far from modernizing Islam, is in fact attempting to
Islamize modernity. Of undoubted ability and charisma, but with no respect for
or allegiance to Western values of liberty, Ramadan is poisoning the minds of
young Muslims in the West. He spreads his message through personal appearances
and with the sale of tens of thousands of cassettes through Tawhid, an Islamist
publishing house with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Under Ramadan’s
influence, Islamist youths develop a hatred for Western values and dream of
creating a totalitarian Islamic theocracy, not only in the heart of Europe, but
eventually the entire globe, until, in the words of al-Banna, “the Islamic
banner . . . waves supreme over the human
race.”
March 3rd,
2008* This morning you could see it, now you don’t. Andrew Bolt, one
of the last of a handful of ‘right wing’ bloggers Downunder pulls back on the
excreable Tariq Ramadan, who arrived in Australia to do an Islamo-propaganda
tour, invited by labor/union prop Laurie Ferguson.
An article about
Ramadan on the Bolt blog mysteriously disappeared. Any idea what
happened? Why don’t you ask him, here:
PHILADELPHIA – The Muslim Weekly, a London-based publication, issued
an apology today to Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, concerning
a defamatory article it published in February 2007.
The rational world gets smaller and smaller. This is particularly hard to fathom. The Jerusalem Post moves closer to Haaaretz with editorial decisions like these. The most disturbing aspect of chronicling the long world war is the recent laying down of people on our side. It is the most distressing development in the war on Islamic jihad. Many on our side have lost their will and their way. Over at Dhimmiwatch.
Recently the Jerusalem Post ran an article by Mark R. Cohen, "The New Muslim Anti-Semitism,"
which repeated many politically correct and comforting historical fictions,
including:
THE FLIP SIDE of the discriminatory regulations imposed upon Jews is
that they (as well as Christians) were a "protected people," ahl al-dhimma or
dhimmis in Arabic, who enjoyed security of life and property, religious freedom,
freedom from forced conversion, communal autonomy, and equality in the
marketplace. For all its religious exclusivity and hostility towards the Jews,
expressed in the Koran and in other Islamic literature, Islam contains a nucleus
of pluralism that gave the Jews in Muslim lands greater security than Jews had
in Christian Europe. For other important reasons, too, Jews in the Islamic orbit
were spared the damaging stigma of "otherness" and anti-Semitism suffered by
Jews in Europe. They were indigenous to the Near East - not immigrants, as in
many parts of the Christian West - and largely indistinguishable physically from
their Arab-Muslim neighbors.
Bat Ye'or, the pioneering historian of dhimmitude, wrote this in response and
sent it to the Post:
Response to Mark Cohen’s article in the Jerusalem Post of
January, 2008 Bat Ye’or*
In his article “The New Muslim anti-Semitism” (Jerusalem Post,
January 2, 2006), Mark R. Cohen unfortunately provides nothing new on a subject
that now involves a global jihad war and a genocidal threat. It merely rehashes
a short-sighted article he published over twenty years ago, “Islam and the Jews:
Myth, counter-Myth, History” (The Jerusalem Quarterly, n° 38, spring
1986) to which I wrote a rejoinder, “Islam and the Dhimmis” (JQ
n° 42, spring 1987). Still no changes! Then, like today, Cohen stated that
Muslim “anti-Semitism” (an inappropriate word borrowed from European context) is
a new phenomenon as if this Princeton professor of Near Eastern Studies has
never read the Koran, the hadiths and the biographies of the Prophet Muhammad.
As in his 1986 article, he encompasses in one sweeping global judgment the
civilizations expanding over territories covering Africa, Asia and Europe during
thirteen centuries. History looses its events, transformations and evolutions as
if it is reduced to the stillness of an empty shell. This reductionist mental
attitude upholds the dogma of Islamic goodness and tolerance versus Christian
timeless evilness in all places. Cohen is not troubled by the complexities
involved in comparing utterly different civilizations, religions, jurisdictions,
political ideologies and transformations over a millennium. Faithful to himself
over the years, he remains deaf to the Islamists’ Judeophobic references in
their religious texts, praising the system of dhimmitude as one would admire
slavery, since the slave might escape death if he obeys his master’s orders. As
in his precedent article, Cohen pretends that the persecutions Jews suffered
under Islamic jurisdiction are an invented myth, a mimicry of Ashkenazi
sufferings in order to grab more than Oriental Jewry deserves of the “Zionist
pie”. Thus Oriental Jewry not only should be grateful to its Muslim rulers for
not having been wiped out entirely, but it is not even entitled to have its own
history without being accused of posturing as Ashkenazim, thereby obtaining
undeserved advantages by out-stepping its position in Israel.
Maybe Mark Cohen has never heard of the Human Rights Declarations promulgated
in Europe and America with its subsequent developments in matters of equality
and democratic rights. Or does he imagine that a caliphate ruled these
continents? Has he even forgotten the letter sent by George Washington to Moses
Seixas, president of the Newport Hebrew Congregation on August 17, 1790, and
inscribed on a stone at the Torros Synagogue (Newport R.I.), stating the
inalienable human rights for Jews as opposed to tolerance? Does he unconsciously
assume that George Washington was a caliph and that the regions from Afghanistan
to Yemen and Algeria were Christian countries, since there – at the time of
Washington and the Enlightenment – Jews were still obliged to walk barefoot,
with distinctive clothing, live in social segregation, pay countless security
ransoms, suffering the rape of their women, the abduction of their children
while the Muslim courts refused their testimony?They were exposed to murders
(Maghreb, the Levant, Yemen), deportations, forced conversions (Persia,
Afghanistan) and in many regions enslavement to tribal chiefs (Maghreb). Such
situations, of course, could not happen in Islam according to Professor Cohen --
unless the Jews became arrogant by overstepping their place and imagined they
were human beings.
The current fanaticism and mass killings perpetrated in Lebanon, Algeria,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Darfur, Indonesia and the Philippines evoke the
continual tribal wars that have permanently ravaged the dar al-Islam with their
religious-cleansing, the exodus or the deportation of population, mainly
non-Muslim, and the correlated pillage, destruction, abduction and enslavement.
Jihadist terrorism that has, over the centuries, eliminated the indigenous
Jewish and Christian populations from their Islamized homelands continues
unabated today, giving us a glimpse of this past, rosy time of dhimmitude. It is
strange that Cohen remains at Princeton instead of emigrating to Afghanistan,
Iraq, Iran, Syria, even Sudan, to enjoy, under a shari’a–taliban type
rule, that dhimmi condition he admires so much for Oriental Jewry.
* * * * *
* The latest book by Bat Ye’or, Eurabia: the Euro-Arab Axis, (English, French,
Italian, Dutch) will be published in a Hebrew edition by Schocken in spring
2008.
This article was not accepted for publication. Bat Ye'or received this
response from an editor at the Jerusalem Post:
Frankly, I don't know what there is to "respond" to as Cohen's piece
was a carefully nuanced balanced essay which could have been written by Bernard
Lewis. You may disagree with his argument that Christian Jew-hatred influenced
Muslim Jew-hatred but he did not downplay the nature of negative Muslim
attitudes toward Jews.
What you might want to consider is a brief letter to the
editor.
He did not, as you can see, take up any of the points Bat Ye'or raised in her
piece. Instead, it was enough for him simply to invoke Bernard Lewis. Yet as we
have noted here before, Bernard Lewis is a great scholar, but he isn't
infallible -- and his recent attributions of authoritarianism and antisemitism in the Islamic world
to Western influences don't bolster trust in his powers of judgment and analysis
at this point.
Later, this same editor offered Bat Ye’or “an original op-ed of up to 1,000
words”:
I will not run this attack on Cohen as an op-ed. I respect your
decision not to cut it so that it can appear as a letter to the editor.
However, we would be delighted to consider an original op-ed of up to 1,000
words -- especially if you can connect it to a news hook.
But that is not sufficient space to clarify so many important matters. It is
sad to see the Jerusalem Post, particularly at this hour of such peril for
Israel, contenting itself with purveying pleasing falsehoods that may make the
prospect for Israelis of living under Islamic rule easier to contemplate, as
horrific as it remains in actuality.
The letter from the editor reads like it could have originated from The Nation.
Look, we know how much bad informationmyths and lies there are out there, it is the inability to refute it with historical fact that is devastating.
Your Muslim candidate at work! Infiltration at every level, in every sector. This over at Neil Boortz
DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
Keith Ellison is a Democrat congressman from Minnesota. He just took a
little trip to Norway – paid for by your tax dollars, by the way. He
went to Norway in order to reinforce his support for a bill that would
create a Cabinet-level Department of Peace. No, I'm not making this
up. An entire Cabinet devoted to "peace." So why did he have to go all
the way to Norway? Because this is apparently where you go to be
indoctrinated into the ways of peace and social justice.
This idea of a Department of Peace gets even better. Guess who
authored it? None other than our favorite Democrat Dennis Kucinich! (I
wonder what his absurdly hot wife thinks about it?) When describing
his trip to Norway, Ellison gave us a little insight into the war in
Iraq. He says, "This conflict could have been avoided if we had a
stronger cultural connection to peace. It's not just the will, but the
skill to make peace." Did you get that, folks? It's because we don't
have a cultural connection to peace. If that is what he has to say
about American culture, what could he have to say about his own Muslim
culture? Yeah .. we're talking about that Keith Ellison. Our Islamic
member of Congress.
This whole Department of Peace idea is nothing but whiny political
correctness at work. Does anyone care to take a stab at just how we
would define "Peace?" Has the ferret figured that one out? The Soviets
defined "peace" as "an absence of opposition to world communism."
Perhaps Ellison defines peace as an absence of opposition to the idea
of one world under Islamic law. Some people simply define peace as an
absence of conflict. Well, when someone is attacking me I might
suggest that my failure to enter the fray would be more of a
capitulation than a quest for peace.
So there I am, with two of my little infidels in tow, dashing across town to hit Carnegie Hall. It seems Red has to have a classical concert in the bag for a report due tomorrow. I love these mandates, the kids as an impetus for some culchuh for a change. So imagine my surprise to stumble upon a sea of black down Park Avenue against a backdrop of loud Muslim prayers blaring over loudspeakers, no less. We were running late and I didn't have a picture card in my camera but Red said, "ma, there's a Staples down the block, you've got to get this". It was surreal.
The cop tells me, Moe's grandson along with 72 other Muslims beat back an army of 70,000. Yeah 72 guys beat an army of 70,000 and they are mourning the death of Husayn (the grandson). The mock coffins represent Husayn and his followers who "were denied proper burial." When I saw them beating themselves up, I asked the cop, "is this Ashura"? He said, yeah I think that's in the pamphlet. Indeed it was. He told me there was a large number from Pakistan (but no sign of mourning for Bhutto, or any sign of her for that matter), Iran Iraq, Lebanon.
ASHURA! Regular Atlas readers are familiar with this ritual as I have covered it here and here and here. Every year in fact. Remember Ashura?
Ashura in NY. Ironic how it plays out in front of the mixed LOVE artwork on Park and 57th. Mixed up indeed
What flag is that? Anybody know?
The women brought up the rear (but of course)
The flag of Husayn (Hussein) carried into battle. TMI? Too bad.
Crowds surround the men fiercely beating their chests
The most disturbing image was all those black clad women (from head to toe) en masse down Park Avenue. My 13 year old said, "ma that's scary". Indeed. Mind you, it was scary, as in an altered reality.
On every corner a young girl in full dress would stop you to explain the meaning and the beauty of this festival of mourning (did I just say that) and give you Islamic propaganda. The taqiya was in full blast mode. Check out my inter-faith dialogue with an attendee in my video.
Earlier this week, I sighed heavily when yet another high minded intellectual, David Frum, following in Dinesh's footsteps, had switched gears and gone on to attack the very people that will lead us to victory in the war on the Jihad. The greatest historians of our time, once again getting nailed to the cross, for telling the truth. Kill the messenger. As if the counter jihad movement wasn't small enough!
The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of
Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia by Bat
Ye’or, and Robert
Spencer, are provided below.
When I ran Robert's rebuttal, I wrote here, " David Frum has entered the jihad fray hoping to project his Western thinking onto what he would like the Koran to be. Isn't that special?
And tiresome. This is not Frum's milieu and it shows. I have been
studying and covering this single subject intensively for 3 years now
after coming to it after 9/11/01. I won't pretend to know as much as
Spencer, Yeor, Bostom, Warraq, but I do know that they provide
empirical evidence. They do the work to substantiate their deductions.
It's not theory. It's fact and they back it up."
I blame Bernard Lewis for a lot of bad information, bogus intel and fallacious deductions. Considered the world's leading scholar on Islam, he is an apologist and in many cases confused,dithering even, if not a liar. His historical inaccuracies are well documented but his positions are enormously influential to world leaders and opinion makers so the harm he does is incalculable.
Over at Jihadwatch Bat Yeor comes out swinging and Bostom's response follows. Yes, Bat, Bostom, Bob, this post is a grand slam.
David Frum's piece is here; my response is here. And
now the great historian Bat Ye’or has kindly sent me this response:
In his latest article, “Ancient Holy Books, Modern Dilemmas” (posted
January 8, 2008), David Frum poses as a referee in a disputation, pretending
there are two alleged extremes, whereas he ignores the rules and the meaning of
the subject itself. This hoax has often been used by Sages who pontificate: “As
usual, the truth is in the middle.” But often this scenario of two opposed
extremisms allows the Sages to pride themselves on what is only the appearance
of wisdom. Moreover, this catch-phrase is meaningless, because truth is not
found at a linear distance between two extremes. Between the Nazi genocidal
policy toward the Jews and the victims’ affirmation of their right to live there
is no middle-way solution. Would we discuss how many Jews it would be right for
the Nazis to exterminate? Between slavery and human equality, there is no middle
position. Between the dehumanization of dhimmitude and the inalienable right to
freedom, dignity and equality, there is no meeting in the middle. Would one
haggle over the amount due for protecting one’s life and rights?
David Frum describes my work as a study of Islam, whereas it is research into
a neglected and specific domain involving Islamic theology, jurisprudence and
history in relation to non-Muslims. Within this particular field, I only
examined the Jewish and Christian aspect, not that of the Zoroastrians and other
religious denominations. It is therefore not an assessment of Islam in general.
Even more, in none of my writing is there the implication that Islam must
disappear for the sake of peace. Maybe Frum has hidden his own thought, which he
unconsciously projects on Robert Spencer and myself, while contrasting our
alleged somber designs with his own generous wisdom -- which is not, in the
least, very original. It hangs on the usual love paradigm of interfaith
dialogue, dhimmi biased vision, and subvention of billions of dollars, while
waiting with humble timidity for a powerful Muslim majority to reinterpret the
Koran as a book of universal love and peace. I do not object to that, except
that meanwhile, Muslim reformers even in Europe must hide to save their lives,
while terrorism claims countless innocent victims throughout the globe, and
tomorrow we might be facing a global nuclear jihad.
Here Bostom comes tearing out of the gate over FPG:
Inexplicably David Frum of the American Enterprise Institute—hardly an authority on Islamic doctrine, or history—has nevertheless lashed
out——albeit inaccurately, and within the constraints of his own crude understanding—at two contemporary scholars, Bat Ye’or and Robert Spencer. A serious, respected writer/essayist on jihad terrorism sent me this assessment:
I don’t know why I should be surprised at this kind of thing any more, but I am. Frum really should have known better.
His criticism makes it sound as if you [AB] and Bat Ye’or and Spencer simply read the Koran and the Life of Mohammad, and inferred the nature of Islam from these isolated texts. As I said in my book—I would have no problem if Muslims decided to go back and read jihad out of the Koran; it would be okay if they pretended jihad had never played any important role in the expansion of Islam. I would rejoice if Muslims really behaved as Frum thinks he would behave if he were a Muslim! But it ain’t gonna happen.
Secularized Westerner intellectuals like Frum simply cannot imagine what it is like to be possessed by a living faith that commands its faithful to expand the community of the faithful by violent methods. This kind of fanaticism, as I argue in my book, is outside their imaginative scope. So whenever contemporary scholars like you, Bat Ye’or, or Spencer point out what every schoolboy once knew about Islam, you are the ones who are treated like extremists. When your first book came out I was astonished that anyone thought it was controversial. You didn’t make up the idea of jihad—you simply documented the historical Muslim theory and practice of it. And yet that is considered as “going too far.” The same thing can be said of Bat Ye’or work. If the two of you were merely investigating a historically transcended and outmoded form of Islam, I suppose you could be blamed for failing to let the dead bury the dead. But today people are still dying and killing in the name of Islam—but we are forbidden even to see the truth, let alone speak it.
The links (at Jihad Watch) and full texts to the eviscerating rebuttals of Frum’s self-righteous juvenilia byBat
Ye’or, and Robert
Spencer, , are provided below.
Bostom couldn't resist the medical terminology pun on Frum's supposed formulation "Axis of Evil"
All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, this status, clearly, would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.
In sum: Obama was an irregularly practicing Muslim who rarely or occasionally prayed with his step-father in a mosque. This precisely substantiates my statement that he “for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian step-father."
Therefore, what MMfA calls the “Obama-Muslim falsehood” is in fact confirmed by both articles as truthful and accurate.
Calling this a falsehood is in itself a falsehood.
About a year ago, Aaron Klein of WND reported that many
of the rockets fired from Gaza into the Negev were fired by the fatah controlled
Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade under the express orders of "moderate peace partner
Mahmoud Abbas. (see Gaza "Rocket Man": Abbas Tells Us What to Do)
Today
Debkafiles is confirming that report confirming that up to 1/3 of Gaza
missiles are under Abbas' orders..now THAT is an impediment to peace.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive: Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah terror cells in Gaza are responsible for every
third missile and second mortar shell fired at Israel
(IsraelNN.com) A four-day counter-terror operation in Shechem (Nablus) has
come to a close. Explosives and rocket labs were located and destroyed in the
Shomron city.
An IDF statement reported that a weapons cache and an explosives laboratory,
as well as various types of weaponry, were found and confiscated with help from
the Shabak (General Security Service).
An IDF commander plans the entry points he and his soldiers
will take into the narrow, winding alleys of Shechem's
Casbah.
IDF soldiers are briefed on the mission and the intelligence
information made available by the Shabak (GSS).
“Shechem contains some of the most advanced and dangerous terrorist
infrastructures,” an IDF official told reporters. “The highest amount of
terrorist attacks from Judea and Samaria originate from the Shechem region.”
The weapons cache contained materials for rocket manufacturing, explosive
substances and military equipment.
Intelligence information alerts the soldiers to the fact that
this bedroom is not what it seems.
Beneath the beds is a hidden entrance to a
cellar.
The soldiers enter the hidden room carefully, unsure of what
awaits.
A cache of weapons is found
hidden.
The bomb laboratory that was discovered contained materials and chemicals
used in manufacturing explosives, gunpowder, metal pellets for use as shrapnel
to maximize casualties, electric cables and other materials for preparing
working bombs.
In another private residence, a ready-to-use bomb-belt was discovered, along
with ammunition for grenade launchers and assault rifles.
A similar hidden room in another home holds ready-to-use
suicide-bomb vests.
A seemingly abandoned room below a private home is actually a
rocket-manufacturing factory.
The rockets are being manufactured with the hope of placing
central Israel and Ben Gurion airport within range.
The rockets and explosive materials are handed over to IDF
sappers, who destroy them.
All of the weaponry uncovered was detonated in a controlled environment by
IDF sappers. In addition, twenty-three wanted terrorists were arrested during
the Shechem operation.
In two separate incidents, armed PA Arabs opened fire and hurled improvised
hand grenades at IDF forces. In both incidents no injuries or damage were
reported.
“The IDF is operating in order to protect the lives and ensure the security
of Israeli citizens,” said a dispatch from the IDF Spokesman. “We will continue
to operate against terrorist infrastructure in the Judea and Samaria region.”
As of last April, the late Edward
Said's "Orientalism," originally published in 1978, was no. 2 on the
best-seller list in Cairo. No. 1was a book arguing that Saddam Hussein hadn't
really been executed — all cell phone video evidence to the contrary, the writer
argued, was a fabrication of the CIA
And what about Tariq Ramadan, the "moderate" Islamic philosopher, son of the
Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, who is Buruma's preferred dragoman
for liberal Europe? Mr. Warraq debated him in London last month on the question
of the superiority of Western values. "When [Ramadan] gives interviews in
English, he's incredibly evasive. He's not the kind of guy I'd buy a secondhand
car from. If you ask him, 'Do you think lapidation for adultery should be
banned?,' he never says 'yes' categorically. He says things such as, 'At this
moment, it is not applicable' or 'it is not advisable.' Always this
prevarication."
Mr. Warraq's beef with Said, however, is more a matter of reductionism than
prevarication: that "Orientalism" misses two crucial points about human nature
in its discussion of relations between East and West. The first is that even the
worst offenders aren't always motivated by bigotry or grand imperial designs.
The second is that the institutions they erect are often more significant and
enduring than their venality and greed.
Mr. Warraq praises the British of the 18th and 19th centuries for their role
shepherding India's cultural renewal — not to mention in combating the
corruption of British colonialism. Edmund Burke led the moral and legislative
charge against Warren Hastings, the notorious head of the East India Company.
James Prinsep, a secretary of the celebrated Asiatic Society of Bengal, drained
the malarial swamps of Calcutta, restored the collapsing mosque of Aurangzeb
stone by stone, and discovered that once-indecipherable rock inscriptions were
made by the Mughal emperor Asoka Maurya. Mr. Warraq relies on several modern
Indian historians, such as A.L. Basham and Nirad Chaudhuri, to emphasize the
great esteem in which British Orientalists are still held — men such as Henry
Thomas Colebrooke, who agitated for the end of the East India Company's monopoly
and composed a systematic study of Sanskrit and Hindu law as well as the only
authoritative analysis of the Veda; Sir William Jones, the "father of Indian
history" and one of the early discoverers of the Indo-European linguistic nexus
(he thought Sanskrit "more exquisitely refined" than Latin or Greek), and
William Carey, the "father of Bengali prose," who single-handedly restored a
lost literature.
Mr. Warraq is no admirer of the "clash of civilizations" thesis, and — as if
to prove his own point about self-criticism — he says he absorbed a lot of the
negative feedback on "Why I Am Not a Muslim." This is why, in the current
volume, he employs a useful tripartite distinction of Islam borrowed, he says,
from Bernard Lewis: Islam One is the Koran, Islam Two is the hadith, or oral
tradition relating to the words and deeds of the prophet, and Islam Three is
Muslim civilization, which is as variegated as it is large. One and two, Mr.
Warraq says, are incompatible with democracy and human rights. As for three,
"many Muslim feminists try to re-interpret or ignore Koranic passages in order
to improve the lives of all Muslim women. Only time will tell if such strategies
will work." Mr. Warraq tells me: "We're not going to eradicate Islam from the
face of the earth, and I have no wish for it to be… Islam Three is going to
require a lot of sociological and empirical research. One has to be careful when
we talk about Islam, one has to be more specific." This is a courtesy Said
botched, or simply failed to accord, in his examination of the West.
Obama Hussein "left Islam".Why aren't the Muslims calling for his death? It is the punishment for apostasy is it not? If he had converted to Christianity, he would be preaching against Islam. He knows first hand of their hatred against Christians and Jews. He would have been well schooled in Islamic antisemitism in the years he spent at a madrassa in Indonesia. He definitely would not be supporting such Christian and Jew hatred by supporting ANY Muslim organization, especially those involved in terror.
Are the American people ready for an
elected president who was educated in a Madrassa as a young boy and has
not been forthcoming about his Muslim heritage? More here.
His father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim.
Mr. Obama was raised as a Muslim by his
stepfather in Indonesia. Sources close to the background check, which
has not yet been released, said Mr. Obama, 45, spent at least four
years in a so-called Madrassa, or Muslim seminary, in Indonesia.
"If I go to Jakarta and address the largest Muslim country on earth, I
can say, 'Apa kabar,' -- you know, 'How are you doing?' -- and they can
recognize that I understand their common humanity," said Obama Barak here.
He
doesn't cover his heart or say the pledge? Allegiance to who? So you are with us or against us?
When Sofia Allam left the Muslim faith for Christianity, the
response from her family was one of persecution and threats. Alasdair Palmer
explores the dangers facing Islam's apostates
Sofia Allam simply could not believe it. Her kind, loving father
was sitting in front of her threatening to kill her. He said she had brought
shame and humiliation on him, that she was now "worse than the muck on their
shoes" and she deserved to die.
Religious persecution of the kind Sofia suffers is increasingly common
in Britain today
And what had brought on his transformation? He had discovered
that she had left the Muslim faith in which he had raised her and become a
Christian.
"He said he couldn't have me in the house now that I was a
Kaffir [an insulting term for a non-Muslim]," Sofia - not her real name -
remembers.
"He said I was damned for ever. He insulted me horribly. I
couldn't recognise that man as the father who had been so kind to me as I was
growing up."
The New York Post has it all. Oprah ought to know better. Supremely unqualified and no investigation into his background. The Dems make take in 2008, but they don't have a candidate. The country will truly be in a free fall.
The following are excerpts from a debate on secularism and Islamism in the
Middle East with Syrian author Nidhal Na'isa and Egyptian cleric
Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Khouli. The debate aired on Al-Jazeera TV on October
30, 2007.
"Despite the Western, Economic, Political, Cultural, Media, and Social
Invasion of the Region, the Arab Individual's Hatred of the Foreign Platforms
Only Grows, and His Adherence to the Islamic Platform Increases"
Interviewer: "What is better for the Arab world - the modern Western
platform or the Islamic platform? Only 10.4% voted for the modern Western
platform, while 89.6%
voted for the Islamic platform. Nidhal Na'isa, let me
begin with you.
"Despite the Western, economic, political, cultural, media, and social
invasion of the region, the Arab individual's hatred of the foreign platforms
only grows, and his adherence to the Islamic platform increases. You have the
results before you: About 90 percent of the voters reject the modernizing,
secular, Western platforms - call them what you will. How do you respond to
this?"
[...]
Nidhal Na'isa: "As you know, these voters are a bunch of people misled
and numbed by the proselytizing, generalized, deceptive, romanticized discourse,
which promises them black-eyed virgins and boys in Paradise, and such things.
This discourse merely postpones the resolution of their problems - instead of
resolving them today, let's resolve them in a billion years. This is escapism
into the future. That's one thing. If those voters had managed to get a job and
a visa to America, none of them would have voted, and nobody would have watched
your show. You would be fired from Al-Jazeera and would be left jobless.
"Secondly, these votes reflect disgust for the totalitarian regimes. Like the
hijab and all this Islamization, we are talking about disgust with the
totalitarian regimes that have denied these people the good life. They are not
voting this way out of love for these platforms... "
Interviewer: "They're not voting this way out of love for the Islamic
platforms?"
"We Must Draw a Distinction Between Islam and the Islamists; There are
Islamists, Who Use Islam for Their Political Designs, and There is Islam"
Nidhal Na'isa: "The platforms are Islamist, not Islamic. We must draw
a distinction between Islam and the Islamists. There are Islamists, who use
Islam for their political designs, and there is Islam. We respect Islam in the
religious, spiritual, and ideological sense. But those peddlers of Islam, who
accuse others of heresy, are the ones we must confront. They mislead these
wretched people and make fools of them, by the deceptive proselytizing
discourse.
"If these voters had experienced life under the rule of the Taliban, under
the rule of the [Somali] Islamic Courts Union, or under the rule of Al-Turabi in
Sudan, with their 'salvation state,' or whatever they call it, they would
renounce all their beliefs, and would flee not only to America, but to Zimbabwe,
Upper Volta, Burkina Faso, or Myanmar.
"Ever since these Bedouins invaded and colonized these countries, these
countries have lived in a cycle of subjugation, oppression, and torture. These
countries live under the burden of totalitarianism, backwardness, and
ideological and social decay. 'From Tangier to Jakarta' - that is the slogan of
the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Islamic Al-Tahrir Party. From Tangier to
Jakarta, all you see is poverty, totalitarianism, and decay..."
Interviewer: "And they talk about Islamic platforms..."
Nidhal Na'isa: "This platform has been failing for 1,400 years, and
now they say to you: 'We will revive this platform.' Brother, if this platform
was politically successful, we would welcome it, and would hope that people live
a life of happiness. But this platform has brought nothing but wars and
conflicts. People from the same country have become enemies because of these
platforms, these lies, this animosity, this sectarianism, and this tribal
fanaticism, which was revived by those Bedouins who invaded and colonized these
countries.
"Egypt, Iraq, and Syria have been centers of civilization since the dawn of
history. They gave rise to civilization. Every day the sun rose, civilization
shone on them. But when those Bedouins went in, they destroyed these countries,
which have never recovered since. Since those Bedouins entered these countries,
they have never recovered. They have become decaying countries, suffering from
poverty, misery, and tyranny."
Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has again referred to Hamas as a "resistance" movement during a meeting with reporters from the Dallas Morning News, WND has learned.
Dhimmi. Real dhimmi.
Rice's remarks, transcribed in full on the State Department website, mark at least the fourth time in recent months America's top diplomat has used that terminology for Hamas during unscripted remarks with reporters.
Meeting with his paper's editorial board Friday, a Dallas reporter asked Rice whether supporting democracy in the Middle East was really in U.S. interests, citing Palestinian elections last year which Hamas dominated.
Rice replied: " ... And what you've at least got now in Palestine and what you've at least got in Iraq now is contestation between healthy political forces and more radical forces.
"Hamas loved it when it could run the streets, faces covered, toting a few guns, and no responsibility for what happened to the Palestinian people. They were the great resistance force, and their only purpose in life was to threaten Israel."
Rick Richman nails in the New York Sun (hat tip Ed Lasky);
Speaking earlier this month at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem, Secretary
of State Rice expressed her fear that if "Palestinian reformers" could not
"deliver on the hope of an independent state," the "moderate center could
collapse forever." She spoke about the need to take "great chances for the sake
of peace" in light of "the opportunity that now exists."
"Most Palestinians," Ms. Rice said, "believe that Israel will
always be their neighbor and most believe that no Palestinian state will ever be
born through violence." It is unlikely that there have been any Palestinian
public opinion polls asking the question, "Do you believe Israel will always be
your neighbor?" or "Do you believe a Palestinian state will ever be born through
violence?"
But there have been several public opinion polls over the last few months
asking other questions. The answers cast doubt on whether there is in fact a
"moderate center" or whether it would be satisfied with an "independent state" —
or, for that matter, whether Fatah and its leaders constitute "Palestinian
reformers."
In a joint Palestinian-Israeli public opinion poll in June, the Palestinian
Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S. Truman Research
Institute for the Advancement of Peace found that only 60% of Palestinians
agreed that, after reaching a permanent agreement on all issues of the conflict,
there should be recognition of Israel as the state for the Jewish people.
Although the US promised Israel that its renewed contacts with Syria would be confined to the Lebanon controversy, DEBKAfile’s sources report that a Washington-Damascus rapprochement is in full flight. The US ambassador will soon return to Damascus and Syrian officials are made warmly welcome in the US capital these days.
The rumors circulating Monday, Nov. 12, asserting that Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak was pushing prime minister Ehud Olmert hard to enter into peace talks with Syria were put about by Olmert’s own office. The PM is weaving and feinting to avoid admitting that he was manipulated by Washington into attending the Annapolis peace conference alongside Syria, in breach of the American promise to Jerusalem.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has gone so far as to offer the Syrian delegate the conference floor to press his case for Israel to return the Golan which Syria lost in the 1967 War. The Golan issue will even be incorporated in the closing document.
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Speaking to the unnamed, unchampioned, beating heart of her new land, Ayn was to say: 'Yours is the glory.'"
A man whose ability and independence leads others to reject him, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values. Man as an individual, as a creator. What's the most depraved type of human being? Not a sadist or a murderer or a sex maniac or a dictator; "The man without a purpose." Yet most people seem to go through their lives without a clearly defined purpose.
Life has Loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fires that sways and swing,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup
Life has Loveliness to sell,
Music like a curve of Gold,
Scent of pinetrees in the rain,
Eyes that love you,
arms that hold,
And for your spirit's still delight,
Holy stars that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of Peace
Count many a year of strife well lost
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.
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