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Obama to Ummah: "America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam" Usama: Called for "Long War Against Infidels"

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.

They received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer 2001 - Imre Kertesz 2005 - Harold Pinter	World Peace 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin 1995 - Joseph Rotblat
Chemistry 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1972 - William Howard Stein 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Herbert Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1989 - Sidney Altman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1998 - Walter Kohn 2004 - Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose 2006 - Roger Kornberg	Economics 1970 - Paul Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Arrow 1973 - Wassily Leontief 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel 1994 - John Harsanyi 1997 - Myron Scholes 2001 - Joseph Stiglitz 2001 - George A. Akerlof 2002 - Daniel Kahneman 2005 - Robert Aumann 2007 - Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin & Roger Myerson 2008 - Paul Krugman

Medicine 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff & Paul Ehrlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1947 - Gerty Cori* 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs & Fritz Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob & Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod & Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - David Baltimore & Howard Temin 1976 - Baruch Blumberg 1977 - Rosalyn Sussman Yalow & Andrew V. Schally 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown & Joseph Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen & Rita Levi-Montalcini 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1994 - Alfred Gilman & Martin Rodbell 1997- Stanley B. Prusiner 1998 - Robert Furchgott 2000 - Paul Greengard & Eric Kandel 2002 - H. Robert Horvitz & Sydney Brenner

Physics 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck & Gustav Hertz 1943 - Otto Stern 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1945 - Wolfgang Pauli 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born# 1958 - Igor Tamm & Il'ja Mikhailovich Frank 1959 - Emilio Segrè 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1963 - Eugene Wigner 1965 - Richard Feynman & Julian Schwinger 1967 - Hans Bethe 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - Leon Cooper 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1978 - Arno Penzias & Pyotr Kapitsa 1979 - Stephen Weinberg & Sheldon Glashow 1988 - Leon Lederman & Melvin Schwartz & Jack Steinberger 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992- Georges Charpak 1995 - Martin Perl & Fredrick Reines 1996 - Douglas D. Osheroff & David M. Lee 1997 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji 2000 - Zhores I. Alferov 2003 - Vitaly Ginzburg & Alexei A. Abrikosov 2004 - H. David Politzer & David Gross 2005 - Roy Glauber

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.

Here are Christians worshiping freely in Indonesia (****WARNING: LINK IS VERY GRAPHIC***). Or see these sweet young Christian girls beheaded on their way home from school.

 

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". 

More free Christians In Indonesia:

Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head." .

Beheaded girls were Ramadan 'trophies'

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 fear for my nation too, Mr. Orlev.

UPDATE: Read Spencer's brilliant take on this: Platitudes and naivete: Obama's Cairo speech

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,

...whose Grand Sheikh, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi, has given his approval — on Islamic grounds — to suicide bombing.

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...

And KGS over at Tundra Tabloids has an excellent take here: Obama's DOHA Inspired Speech in Cairo Full of Historical Errors and Apologetics.......

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...

UPDATE: Excellent comment: BINGO

UPDATE: Dan Friedman:

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.’

UPDATE: Check out Yid with lid's take here.

UPDATE: Despite Obama's surrender: Supreme Leader of Iran: Muslim Nations 'Hate America'.

UPDATE: Obama Overture to Hamas Suggests Inevitability of Terror Group's Dominance Among Palestinians FOX news

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.

Mubarak Absent (hat tip Jonathan Galt)

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.

Got a minute, watch Obama -- Warning: Hurl alert. Best not to to view on a full stomach.

Alliance of Civilizations' Subterfuge Campaign Marches OnOver Us

"The spread of hatred is the main cause of wars and terrorism", Bekir Karlığa, the chairman of the National Coordination Committee of the Alliance of Civilizations

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.

Obama attended the meeting of the Alliance of Civilizations in Turkey - looking back on his trip, it seems to me that was the point of BHO's trip: OIC'S ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS MAKES ITS MOVE IN TURKEY: Obama Advances Islamic New World Order. Read that post and scroll this link. Get educated.

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.

Much to do before next forum in Brazil
Today's Zaman hat tip Randall

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.

Taliban to Obama: "There Are No Moderates or Extremists Among Us"

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...

To read the full report, go here.

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...

First reported here at Atlas:

PRESIDENT SCARY WILL SURRENDER TO TALIBAN
US CAPITULATES TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION

The Wall Street Journal and the Jihad's “Disarming Twinkle”

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?

The “Disarming Twinkle” Defense for Jihadism and Raw Islamic Jew-Hatred?

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.”

PRAY FOR THE JIHAD

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

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

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

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

Page 1 of 1 3/10/2009

Dear Henry,

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

Pray for Gaza

That's how stupid they think people are.

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

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.

Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical" Reuters hat tip David

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?"

Can you say schmuck? 

First reported here at Atlas:

PRESIDENT SCARY WILL SURRENDER TO TALIBAN
US CAPITULATES TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION

Wilders, Islam and the Immoderate Moderates

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.

Please read it all.

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.

In May 2007, I conducted an  interview with Zuhdi Jasser. Jasser NEVER met Dr. Andrew Bostom or read his work -- let alone read an advance copy of The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, the manuscript of which had just recently been completed and had only been viewed by a few close contacts, including myself.

"Empowering Moderate Muslims" Pamela Geller interviews Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, Chairman American Islamic Democracy Forum

05-22-07

64:41

14.8MB

Alternative MP3 audio link here.

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.

Jacoby asks Wilders about Pipes as well here:

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.”

Earlier, I detailed the totalitarian impact of these fulfilled Islamic desires —based upon their doctrinal and historical application, across space and time.

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."

BINGO.

MODERATE MUSLIM SOLUTION FOR LASTING PEACE: SHARIA! SWAT!

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.

SWAT militants are misunderstood Muslims who sawed off the head of a journalist (GEO TV JOURNALIST BEHEADED DAYS AFTER SHARIA RESTORED) after a peace deal was signed.

Imran Khan to hold talks with Swat militants  Mushtaq Paracha(hat tip Kasper)

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 May 1995, 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 November 1996) and Kasim (born 10 April 1999).^[12] As an agreement of his marriage, Khan spent four months a year in England. On 22 June 2004, 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]

  

 UPDATE: MUSLIM MODERNITY Turnout low as schools reopen in Pakistan's Swat

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.

UPDATE: ISLAMISTS TRIUMPH IN SWAT VALLEY

Bowing Down to the Taliban

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.

CLUELESS OR DECEPTION? KING PRESIDENT HUSSEIN PRACTICES TAQIYA IN AL ARABIYA INTERVIEW

In President Hussein's first formal speech made on Islamic television here, he  said:

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....

BABY DOLLS, NOW NINTENDO GAME: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT"

More baby toys spouting dawah to unsuspecting infidel babies and their moms

Video game plays strange message Toy says 'Islam is the light' Jessica Hayes (hat tip Terri)

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.

Always baby toys.

We will have to get these MAMAS on this.

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.

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WALMART SAW THE LIGHT! BABY DAWAH OFF THE SHELVES

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

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

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

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll 12/02/08

BABY DOLLIE TALKING DAWAH ....bwahahaha 10/6/08

BOYCOTT MATTEL'S BABY DOLL TALKING DAWAH: "ISLAM IS THE LIGHT" 11/25/08

JIHAD MEDIA: AL JAZEERA COMING TO A TV NEAR YOU

Al Jazeera Signs Deal to Air Throughout U.S.

Hundreds of thousands have marched in the streets of Paris, New York, London, Florida, Copenhagen, San Fran etc., calling for the death of the Jews, and the media won't cover.

There were tens of thousands of rockets fired into southern Israel for years, and the media won't cover it.

There were tens of  millions in illegal foreign campaign contributions made to Obama, and the media wouldn't cover it.

The media would not investigate or even mention Obama's ineligibility, but Al Jazeera will be allowed to poison the minds of American citizens?

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 WLIW and 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.

PRESIDENT ELECT B. HUSSEIN AND ISNA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More on ISNA here.

DAWAH AND PALM TREES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SKU 2708456915 -- this is the doll.

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

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

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

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

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

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

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

BABY DOLLIE TALKING DAWAH ....bwahahaha

WALMART SAW THE LIGHT! BABY DAWAH OFF THE SHELVES

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.

 

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

COVERUP! MATTEL'S ISLAMIC SKULDUGGERY: SWITCHING THE AUDIO

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

Parents complain to U.S. Agencies About Mattel “Islam is the Light” Doll 12/02/08

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.

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

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

I guess B. Hussein got the memo.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solidarity with the jihad?

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

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

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

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

SPENCER: WHITEWASHING ISLAM

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:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/

I would post about this but obviously right now I can't.

FOX GOES OVER TO THE DARKSIDE

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.

Yes Obama's Prince Al-Walid (go here for that story: Obama's Benefactor: Dr. Khalid al Mansour, I presume ...

“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".

A TOOTHLESS FOX? Radio Equalizer

FNC Censors Itself Ahead Of Obama Presidency

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.

According to columnists Rush & Malloy of the New York Daily News, Fox has issued a chilling edict to its hosts that they must cease criticism of Obama for the near future:

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?

Even before the election, viewers were alarmed over a sudden shift to a pro-Obama stance, especially during its debate coverage:

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?"

BREAK 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.

There's a lot more here.

OT but related: Morally ill media: Lets Be Honest GM

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.

And Jewish Odysseus:

NBC's Richard Engel Needs to be Horsewhipped

Jihad? Nah, it's all Lenin's fault!

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.

The Marx Brothers of Jihadism?

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.

ISLAMIC THUGGERY: WE WILL MURDER OUR DAUGHTERS, WIVES-YOU WILL SHUT UP AND GO ALONG

Please go here and look at the victims now

Aqsa Parvez  and then scroll Honor Killings: Islam Misogyny.

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.

The tragedy is, this bullying works. Just last month, the FBI removed the word "Honor Killing" from its most wanted bulletin on the murders of Amina and Sarah Said by their terrorist father, Yaser Said.   

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.

You can express support for Toronto Life by posting a letter at http://www.torontolife.com/contact/

We must not remain silent as these barbarians continue to destroy our freedoms.

Imagine the tens of thousands of young Muslim girls living lives of quiet desperation. They lead dual lives - a westernized, happy life outside in school, with their friends and then  a  home life of terror, torment, beatings. They know what these murder victims went through - they live in fear of it. Is there any hope for them to come forward, to reach out for help when they see the West covering up for Islamic brutality?

This is what Islam does. This is how they move in, and impose shariah/Islamic law on unsuspecting western societies. Demands for sensitivity! Demands for social justice (as if)! Demands for footbaths at airports! At universities! Demands for workplace accomodations! Demands for prayer in the public schools! Demands for public school madrassahs!

Look at what happened to Banaz Mahmod:

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: MUSLIM HOMOR KILLING IN CANADA  Canadian Coalition(hat tip Jane)

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.

Read the whole article - it is very good

FLASHBACK!

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.

The father is still on the lam, free. The radicalized brother who brought the girls home to their father and gave him the gun has not been arrested.

The mother from hell (Yaser's girl, as she calls herself on her myspace page) brought those girls home after they had run away to Kansas has never been questioned or indicted.

So you must have ask yourself, what side is law enforcement on?
 

GOOD MUSLIMS LIE TO ADVANCE ISLAM, IT'S THE LAW

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.

Raymond Ibrahim: "Islam's Doctrines of Deception" Jihadwatch (hat tip Fjordman)

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).

Please read it all -- it is excellent.

Obama, 9/11, and Freedom of Conscience

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.

 

Obama, 9/11, and Freedom of Conscience Dr. Andrew Bostom

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 7^th 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.

Sober, independent analyses by academics, including published essays in The Christian Science Monitor, and The New York Times, concur that Obama's childhood experience of Islam -- as perceived by Muslims from Islamic societies, in particular -- has two critically important, and inter-related ramifications: his status as a Muslim; and more ominously, as an apostate from Islam.

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.

There's much more here.

CNN's (the Crescent News Network) Taqiya on Honor Killings

Al Jizz and CNN are utterly interchangeable but this is criminal. They ought to have their license yanked. They did a segment on the sick, violent Islamic "custom" of murdering their wives, daughters, sisters and deliberately omitted Islam. I despise them.

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.

CNN Avoids Mentioning Islam in Segment on 'Honor Killings' Newsbusters (hat tip sharptooth)

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.

View video here.

'Honor' killing comes to the US - The Boston Globe Jeff Jacoby

UPDATE: OT but related:

Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity - Middle East News*

Saudi man cuts daughter's tongue, burns her to death

Honor Killing Coverage: Shame on FOX

Worse than not covering honor killings, is covering up the motive behind honor killings.

UPDATE: CLICK BELOW ON "CONTINUE" TO WATCH FOX TAQIYA COVERAGE

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.

Why when they were covering this story, they didn't bring up the terrible murders of the Muslim girls in America and Western nations - Amina and Sarah Said, Banaz Mahmood, Hatin Surucu , Aqsa Parvez , Caneze Riaz, 39, and her four daughters, Sayrah, 16, Sophia, 15, Alicia, 10, and Hannah, 3, Tahira Bibi, Pela Atroshi, Fadime, Sahindal, Samaira Nazir, Hina Salem, Methal Dayem, Sazan Bajez-Abdulluh , Rudayena Jemael, Hesha Yones, Souad, Ibtihaz Hasoun , Fadime Sahindal, Zahida Peeveen, Ghazala Khan .......

Why no mention of ALL OF THESE MUSLIM GIRLS murdered in the name of Islam in the West.

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.

EXPOSING CULTURAL JIHADIST TARIQ RAMADAN

Dr. Bostom points us to the inestimable Ibn Warraq review of Fouret's expose of the silver tongued snake. 

Ibn Warraq Reviews Caroline Fourest’s Exposé on the Cultural Jihadist Tariq Ramadan Dr. Andrew Bostom

The Truthteller                                              Taqiyya Artist

Ibn Warraq, writing in the February 29, 2008 City Journal reviews Brother Tariq: The Doublespeak of Tariq Ramadan, by Caroline Fourest: “The Pious Fraud: Tariq Ramadan, Islamist and equivocator”

Ibn Warraq, author of the landmark Why I Am Not a Muslim (1995), since 1998 has edited several books of Koranic criticism and on the origins of Islam, including Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out, Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, and Which Koran? (forthcoming).

Read every word of Warraq’s review of Caroline Fourest’s remarkable investigative analysis of our era’s foremost cultural jihadist—a point perhaps overlooked given the apt characterization of the pseudo-intellectual Ramadan by author-essayist Theodore Dalrymple as the “second-hand car salesman of Islamic fundamentalism.”

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.”

UPDATE: Melanie Phillips call him in her latest column, Master of Islamist Doublespeak.

UPDATE: OT but related: Bolta takes it off: Censored, Purged, Blackmailed or just Scared? Sheik yer mami

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:

“Bolt, Andrew”                             BoltA@heraldsun.com.au            

UDATE from the Sheik: See, now its back up. Hahaha!

UPDATE: Muslim Weekly Apologizes (go 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.

That article repeated a false allegation made by Tariq Ramadan that Daniel Pipes had lied to a conference hosted by London mayor Ken Livingstone in January 2007. (For details of what did occur, see the article by Mr. Pipes, "Is Tariq Ramadan Lying [about Magdi Allam]?")

 

ATLAS IMPROMPTU INTERVIEW: LUNCH WITH IBN WARRAQ

Great stuff. Ibn and Atlas.

If you haven't read Warraq ......start with "Why I am not a Muslim" (buy it here) as a primer.

His latest on the perversion of Western culture by Said's teaching's : Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism

Watch the whole video.... delicious.
 

Jerusalem Post Refuses Bat Ye'or

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.

Jerusalem Post turns away Bat Ye'or

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.

If you missed my interview with Bat Yeor this past summer, please go here for video and trancript.

Department of "Peace"

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.

The Peace conspiracy.

Ashura on Park Avenue, NY

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.

Considering the number choice for President among Muslims, I may have hit upon something in that my video of events on Park Avenue, eh?

SUPERHEROS: BAT, BOSTOM, BOB (SPENCER)

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

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

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

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

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

Bat Ye’or: Rejoinder to David Frum

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

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

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

Here Bostom comes tearing out of the gate over FPG:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FACT: Obama Hussein Practiced Islam

Knowing what we know about Islam, of course it matters. I have voiced concern about this for some time. It has serious implications. Daniel Pipes over at Front Page substantiates the claim here.

Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam Daniel Pipes, Front Page Magazine

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.

Read it all here.

UPDATE: OT but related: Barack Obama’s racist and anti-semitic church

Abbas Responsible for Hurling Rockets Give 'em a State!"

There are no voids. Just more screaming into the void. Condi go home. Olmert resign! Israel, wake up! America, stay out of it!

Give 'em a state! 7.4 billion in Humanitarian aid! Munitions! Guns! Rockets! Training! Respect of the international communitay!

Moderate terrorist (chaste ho). Olmert is most assuredly deserving of the 2007's Most Self Hating Jews

Debka Report: Abbas Responsible for Negev Rockets

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.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah terror cells in Gaza are responsible for every third missile and second mortar shell fired at Israel

Read it all at Yid with Lid

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• Fatah Disarmed? Not in Nablus

Photo Essay: IDF Inside Hidden Shechem Rocket and Bomb Labs

by Ezra HaLevi, Israel National News

(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.”

 

Ibn Warraq on Edward Said

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is Obama an Apostate?

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?

Muslim apostates threatened over Christianity  Telegraph

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."

Big backing.

BARACK'S SEAL OF 'O'-PPROVAL 'WINFREY EFFECT' ON CAMPAIGN

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.

Debate on Secularism and Islamism

Watch what passes for intellectual discourse in the Arab world;

Al-Jazeera TV Debate on Secularism, Islamism in Arab World Deteriorates Into Exchange of Insults MEMRI

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.

Video here

"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."

CONDI, PUT DOWN THE BONG

UPDATED: Several Killed in Clash at Gaza Rally NY Times

A mass rally to mark the third anniversary of the death of Yasir Arafat ended in armed clashes today.  

It speaks for itself. I don't think she is smoking, I think she is drinking the bong water. Hardwired for delusion I tell ya. Peace partners? Sick.

Rice again calls Hamas 'resistance' movement 4th time in recent months
Condi avoids terrorist label in unscripted remarks

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);

What Most Palestinians Believe

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.

UPDATE: DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israeli leaders dismayed to learn Washington is secretly lifting its boycott of Syria. Palestinians want more concessions too

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.

Have mercy on us.

Was that Obama or Osama?

Who said that? Yeah, asshat, more carrots for building nuclear weaponry. That'll work - like it didn't for the past 30 years.

Obama says US must try talking to Iran AP
Sen. Barack Obama said Friday that as president he would personally negotiate with Iran, offering economic incentives and a chance for peaceful relations if Iranian leaders would forgo pursuit of nuclear weapons and support of terrorists.

"Our neglect of the Middle East peace process has spurred despair and fueled terrorism.”

Ed Lasky opines (and no Ed, you are not wrong);

I may be mistaken, but isn't Obama blaming the lack of a "peace process" between Israel and the Palestinians for terrorism-ognoring the fact that there has veeb a peace process for many years-resulting in the empowerment of terrorism, that Bush was the first President to support the establishment of a Palestinian state, tha Israel left Gaza and has given the Palestinians swaths of land in the West Bank, and that terrorism exists across the world that has absolutely nothign to do with israel: Muslim violence in India against Sikhs, Hindus; Muslim violence in the Balkans and Russia, Muslim violence in Europe, Muslim violence against Christians in Afrcia, Muslim on muslim violence in North Africa and throughout the Middle East (including Lebanon).

Obama and Moral Courage

Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem. He doesn't cover his heart or say the pledge? 

An ABC News video, however, shows that Senator Obama did not salute at any time during the anthem and that everybody else on the platform did. -- Source: TRUTHORFICTION.COM

UPDATE 11/3/07: That this half a man if a contender says a lot of the low state of the world;

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama has missed the most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months, including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.

Chicago: Islamic Comic

More on the cultural jihad front: Islamic comics come to Chicago.

Islamic-themed comic book comes to Chicago
Chicago Sun Times hat tip Cynthia
 

'THE 99' | Each of the superheroes embodies an attribute of Allah

Batman has brains, Superman has brawn, but Mumita has a great kick.

She's part of the superhero cast of "The 99," an Islamic-themed comic book that debuts in select U.S. cities today, including Chicago.

Comic book "The 99" debuts in U.S. markets Wednesday features superheroes with Islamic values and virtues. (Al Podgorski/Sun-Times)

"Every child is looking for a superhero," said Firas Ahmad, an editor at Islamica magazine. "When I grew up, the people from my cultural background were always the bad guys in comics."

Now it's real life.

Already a hit overseas, "The 99" features superheroes from around the globe using their superpowers to battle forces of evil.

They are beating themselves up?

While Mumita the Destroyer relies on her martial arts expertise, Jabbar the Powerful brandishes his muscles. Other characters -- Widad the Loving, Noora the Light, Bari the Healer -- capture superheroes' softer side

More on the "softer side" of Islam here.

Islamic Scholars: "Survival of the world" is at stake

Make peace? Who is murdering who?  Who do they think they are kidding ............. stop killing Christians (Jews too! and Hindus! and ............)

Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the "survival of the world" is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.

In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions."

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Pope Benedict are believed to have been sent copies of the document which calls for greater understanding between the two faiths.

Yeah convert or die. Got it.

The letter also spells out the similarities between passages of the Bible and the Koran.

The Muslim scholars state: "As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes."

The phrasing has similarities to the New Testament passage: "He that is not with me is against me" - a passage used by President George Bush when addressing a joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11.

The Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, a non-governmental organisation based in Amman, Jordan, has organised the letter.

The Institute said: "This historic letter is intended by its 138 signatories as an open invitation to Christians to unite with Muslims over the most essential aspects of their respective faiths - the principles of love of one God and love of the neighbour.

"It is hoped that the recognition of this common ground will provide the followers of both faiths with a shared understanding that will serve to defuse tensions around the world."

It continues: "Finding common ground between Muslims and Christians is not simply a matter for polite ecumenical dialogue between selected religious leaders.

"Together they (Muslims and Christians) make up more than 55 per cent of the population, making the relationship between these two religious communities the most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world. If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace."

We've got mail!

UPDATED: More Rot from the RoP.

More love from the Religion  of ................ uh never mind. The last thing they want is real debate.

From: nadir@examinethetruth.com
To: Robert Spencer
Re: Debate on Is Islam a religion of peace?

Robert Spencer,

Hey... its me again. Just wanted to share with you my video interview with CBN.com:

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/245934.aspx

There will be a debate on the topic, "Is Islam a religion of peace?" . For the record, I will make it very clear in the debate as well as my post-debate interviews with CBN and others... that you ran away from my challenge, especially since you knew that I was comming after you about Surah 9:29... I will then lampoon your cowardice in honor of our troops fighting in Iraq.

The debate is Nov 3rd in Los Angeles, at Hope International U. If my facts are wrong.. then now is the time to correct me.

Btw, I have cc'ed your 'girlfriend' Pam Geller.

Thanks,
Nadir Ahmed
www.ExamineTheTruth.com

But Spencer is indeed a gentlemen and a scholar. Defending my honor. Yeah babay. The West rules!

From Robert Spencer
To: nadir@examinethetruth.com
Re:  Debate on Is Islam a religion of peace?

Why do you continue to lie? I never ran away from your challenge. You are the one who ran away -- I told you I was ready to debate you in print anytime, or anywhere else if you could come up with a neutral sponsor. You and Bedier were baiting me and then you both disappeared when I said I was going to write about CAIR's connection with you. I have the emails, Nadir, and will publish them if you keep lying about me. Your continued lies, not to mention your slur of Pamela Geller, doesn't give me a very high view of your character.

UPDATE: What confounds me - as demonstrated in the following flurry of emails - is how beneath this level of intellectual discourse is for someone of Spencer's standing and of scholarship. And yet Spencer is compelled, driven even,  to respond. Partly because unindicted co-conspirator CAIR and their tentacles are given unearned credence in media,  academic and government circles. Certainly they are given significantly more airtime in the mainstream media. Islamic bullies have access to high level DC and State government officials - certainly access  Spencer ought to have. Most discouraging. Read the further exchange.

From: nadir@examinethetruth.com
To: Robert Spencer
Re: Debate on Is Islam a religion of peace?

Yea youre right.. maybe you two dont make a good couple... it would
be some thing like .. 'beauty and the beast' thing.

But anyways, me and Bedier have no problem with you writing about
our association, actually we were laughing when you made that statement.

We asked you to come on the show, and you refused. That is why we
"disappeared".

Ok, so now it seems that you are willing to debate so long as
there is some neutral sponsor. Ok, what about www.ministrytomuslims.com ?
They are the ministry you saw in the video? Will that make you happy?

If so, then I am going to let you go on Surah 9:29, because they already
have some one to take your place. That being the case, then I challenge
you to debate the following topic:

    "Understanding the Ideology behind Terrorism"

We will define and provide effective solutions. If you accept, then I will
announce it in the debate and interviews, if you refuse... then I will
also announce that... and a few choice comments ;)

Thanks,
Nadir Ahmed
www.ExamineTheTruth.com

What nerve! The beast calls me a beast! :)

From Robert Spencer
To: nadir@examinethetruth.com
Re:  Debate on Is Islam a religion of peace?

Nadir

You are aptly named. You can't speak to me without engaging in gutter insults? Is this something you do out of your piety? Is this  something that will make your fellow Muslims proud of you?

will have to post the emails and show that you are lying, and that you ran from the debate which I was willing to engage in. Will do so asap, but I'm sorry to say that the likes of you are not highest on my list.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

Ridiculous, sophomoric asshat.

You wrote: > I will have to post the emails and show that you are lying

hehehe.. looks you like you chickened out :) ! You were so scared that you could not let people know about me, for good reason - people are going to view the debates in which the Islam critics were brutally exposed... and they have no rebuttals to the issues being debated on our site.

You have clearly demonstarted that is YOU who is the coward not me... and you did so, in front of your girl friend Pam.

I have clearly challenged you in this email, and you have refused. I will be saving this email for people to see.

And plz, give up on this written debates junk. You perfer this because you DONT know Islam, and you can scramble to other to find answers. And, because it is a lot better to take a beating on paper... on page 23423432 of the docuement.. rather than in person.

And finally, running from me .. is not like running from anyone else. The reason is... because people like myself have 1st hand experience with Muslims/terrorism/ Islamic texts, as we have lived amoung Muslims, speak their language, and have broke bread with those so-called radical elements, grew up with them..and we know them like the back of our hands. So we come to the table with a wealth of information.

While the average American is ignorant - he probably has never met a "jihadist"... can't communicate with Muslims in their language, has spent little if any time in Mosques to undertand Islam in practice and their thinking,  and 99.9% of all his information comes from white people who claim to be experts on the subject - 3rd hand info(foxnews, magazines, websites, friends)

So, it is clear now why you are running from me...

You will be exposed in Los Angeles on Nov 3rd as I lampoon you.

Thanks,
Nadir Ahmed
www.ExamineTheTruth.com

Go Robert!

You are so despicable, I feel soiled writing to you. You think your  lies and your character assassination, your smearing of Pamela and  all the rest of it, is pleasing to your god? Is this a da'wa he will  find acceptable? Me, I think you're in big trouble either way.

Don't count your chickens, my friend. I will post the emails when  time permits. But it will be awhile, as I am busy.

Meanwhile, keep lying. All your lies will come back to haunt you once  the emails are up.

I adore that man (but that doesn't make me his girlfriend.)

Welcome to the 21st Century

They got big plans baby ........... for you. Hat tip Jane, "It is revoltingly smooth and the masses will buy into it."

Islam is emerging as the cultural and economic Superpower of the 21st Century.

An Islamic Union will serve as the catalyst and economic and cultural driver for this development.

If you want to know how this is possible, why it will happen, and what it will mean, I invite you to explore the exclusive article contained in this web site.

WELCOME TO THE 21st CENTURY

There is little argument that the 21st century has started with a bang. The internet bubble burst, the stock market tanked and the Twin Towers fell. That was just the first two years. Historically the changing of centuries has never been easy, but ultimately new ideas led to new solutions to previously unsolved problems and the community of mankind moved ahead. The 20th century was not easy by any stretch of the imagination; two world wars and the emergence of atomic weapons. But the discoveries that helped mankind clearly outweighed the destructive nature of a few.

What the world faces today is a millennium transition with hope and opportunity on one side of the human equation and despair and barriers on the other. The challenge in this century will be to recognize different solutions from different places that could have a dramatic outcome on balancing this equation so that hope and opportunity are the catalysts that drive the solutions of this new millennium. What is happening in the Islamic world is the genesis of some of these new ideas and solutions for this new century, solutions to the global problems of poverty, corruption and conflict between cultures and faiths. The objective is clear and never more necessary - peace and prosperity in our time

Check out the web pages. Full of pearls:

Who will be the 21st century superpower?
USA
CHINA
INDIA
RUSSIA
ISLAM

Hint:
It will not be a country 

Map of the First Era of Islamic Globalization in the 15th century.

Obama's Pro Pali Arab Ties Disturbing

Disturbing to say the least. I've laid Obama's Pali loving sympathies and his pathetic attempts to sweep them under the rug here and here. Candidates will throw the Jewicidals a bone and say the things the dhimmicrat Jews want to hear so that they can get the  nomination and the subsequently the House but I will lay it out straight and then no one can say, but I didn't know!

How about George Soros? The Reverend Jeremiah Wright?

Obama adviser worries Israel supporters Ben Smith hat tip Ed Lasky

Barack Obama is outlining his views on the Iraq war in a major speech Wednesday in Iowa, and bringing along a gray-haired source of foreign policy gravitas: Zbigniew Brzezinksi, Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, who says that Obama offers “a new definition of America's role in the world.”

With the gravity, though, comes a some baggage.

Brzezinski, 79, stepped into the crossfire this summer when he published an essay in the summer issue of the journal Foreign Policy, defending a controversial new book about the power of the “Israel Lobby” in American politics.

The book’s authors, Harvard’s Stephen Walt and the University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer, thanked him for his “incisive defense.”

There's more, read it all. And also check out Dershowitz: Obama Should Repudiate Brzezinski by RUSSELL BERMAN in the NY SUN

The funny thing candidates know they must support Israel, not because of the miniscule Jewish percentage of the electorate. Uh uh. It's because the majority of Americans support Israel, stand with Israel, share the same value system as Israel - llife, liberty and pursuit of happiness. La'Chaim!

RELATED Atlas posts on Obama Hussein:

Atlas Shrugs: Obama is a Liar

Atlas Shrugs: Barack Hussein Obama

Atlas Shrugs: Obama Strategy: USE THOSE JEWS!

Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Pastor is "A TOTAL HATER"

Atlas Shrugs: Obama's Jews Ruse

UPDATE: More on Obama's skulduggery. Ed Lasky notes, "lack of respect, lack of concern, lack on Curiosity, lack of credibility,lack of seriousness.  a lot of is hypocrisy and CYNICISM."

What it is - is a total lack of conscious and moral conscious.

You have it's  all here; Opinion Journal

Two days after Barak Obama's latest foreign-policy gaffe—allowing reporters to see him reading a memo from his campaign advisors on how to spin the war in Iraq—there's a new round whispering among Washington's foreign-policy watchers as to whether the Illinois senator and presidential wannabe can really be taken seriously on these subjects. Similar chatter could be heard this summer after Obama's previous blunders on Pakistan and Israel-Palestine.

This most recent episode occurred during Tuesday's Senate testimony by Gen. David Petraeus and Amb. Ryan Crocker. To be reading a memo about how to politicize the war during their testimony showed incredibly bad taste. Regardless of what you think about their policies, Petraeus and Crocker are risking their lives every day in Iraq. While I'm not naive enough to think politics doesn't play a role in the conflict, a man who wants to be the next commander in chief should have shown more respect. As the Telegraph's Toby Harndon has noted, the screwup is enough to bring into question just how sincere Obama is about changing the culture in Washington.

Obama talks a lot about building consensus. But so far, his performance on the foreign-policy front suggests he and his staff spend most of their time trying to find consensus among themselves. Rumor has it Obama's got a huge cadre of people advising him on foreign policy. It shows. Yesterday in Clinton County, Iowa, he released his plan (pdf) to end the war in Iraq. "The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq's leaders to resolve their civil war," the plan says, "is to begin immediately to remove our combat troops. Not in six months or one year – now." Then, seven lines later, it says: "Under the Obama plan, American troops may remain in Iraq ..." Depending upon how you read it, it's either annoyingly confused or irresponsibly ambiguous.

Similar confusion can be found in Obama's thinking on Iran. In his Iowa speech yesterday, Obama asserted, "President Ahmadinejad may talk about filling a vacuum in the region after an American drawdown, but he's badly mistaken." Really? Try to find a foreign-policy expert who agrees with that statement. It ain't easy. When FP recently asked more than 100 of America's most respected foreign-policy hands what would happen were the United States to withdraw from Iraq precipitously, which is what Obama is proposing, 75 percent told us Iran would step in to fill the power vacuum left by the United States. In the absence of American forces, what's to stop them? Writing in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs, Obama pronounces Bush's policy on Iran a failure, then he proposes the following solution: "Our diplomacy should aim to raise the cost for Iran of continuing its nuclear program by applying tougher sanctions and increasing pressure from its key trading partners." I could be wrong, but isn't that precisely the strategy the Bush administration is pursuing?

In a recent piece for The New Republic, Ted Sorenson wistfully asks, "Is Obama the Next JFK?" Maybe. But the real question is, which John F. Kennedy? The young dynamo remembered favorably by Sorenson and revisionist historians? Or the inexperienced son of privilege who botched an invasion of Cuba and brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation? The jury is still out

UPDATE: China Confidential Brzezinski Advised Obama Bombing Iran Would be War Crime; Ayatollah Threatens Bush with Tribunal

Ban Islam? Uh .......... yeah

Daniel Pipes is wrong, much as it pains me to say it. I wish, in fact, he wasn't.  But in his article in the  NY Sun, Ban Islam? he closes with;

Islam is not the enemy, but Islamism is. Tolerate moderate Islam, but eradicate its radical variants.

What variant? The Koran is a violent document. The call to jihad, to  kill non believers and  Islamic Jew hatred in the Koran is well documented. This is not a variant, this is a tenet of Islam and Islamic jihad. To imply or state differently is simply inaccurate.

I would like to feel all warm and fuzzy and embrace the moderate Muslim/ meme but they show no evidence of their existence - not in any real number anyway. The only voices of reason in the Muslim world are lapsed Muslims or apostates. Many of Pipes' "moderates" speak out of both sides of their mouths and if perhaps we could point to one rally, one incident, one moment when we saw Muslims in any number come out and protest against terror, jihadi violence - perhaps then we might believe in Muslim miracles. Why hasn't there been one, ONE, Muslim rally denouncing the attacks of 9/11?  We can pretend or we can strategize on how to defeat our mortal enemy.

This is not rocket science. The problem with Pipes propagating such pablum is he is perceived to be a hard right guy, tough on Islam. Well schooled, scholarly. So this kind of well, taqiya, is dangerous. American waking up to the imminent threat  go searching for answers, which they will never find in the media, but they will find Pipes and a man of his stature can do enormous harm to understanding Islam.

We will not defeat an enemy that we can't identify, that we don't understand or whose motivation is utterly misinterpreted. Personally I think Geert Wilders, Pim Fortuyn, and other singularly brave voices were right.

The coordinator of Italy's Northern League, Roberto Calderoli, wrote in 2005: "Islam has to be declared illegal until Islamists are prepared to renounce those parts of their pseudo political and religious doctrine glorifying violence and the oppression of other cultures and religions."

Amen.

UPDATE: Ah, this post has generated more than the usual commentary so I will elaborate. It isn't moderate individuals. Pipes says moderate "Islam", which does not exist, although with gargantuan effort it might evolve over many, many years

Closer perusal of the Calcutta Koran Petition is much needed.The "riots" were by one group: hair-trigger "moderate" Muslims. Pipes' article doesn't make that clear at all.

Dr. Andrew Bostom very recently discussed Sita Ram Goel's book concerning the petition and the two relevant cases;

As described by the late Indian scholar Sita Ram Goel, Koranic sanctioning of violence and hatred was the subject of a formal Petition filed in the Calcutta High Court on March 29, 1985. The plaintiffs maintained that the Koran, in violation of the Indian Penal Code, incited violence, disturbed the public tranquility, promoted feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities, and insulted other religions or the religious beliefs of other communities in India.    Their request for proscription of the Koran included three “annexures” documenting such Koranic injunctions, and divided into the following three categories:

• verses which preached cruelty, incited violence and disturbed public tranquility (i.e., 2:193; 8:39; 2:216; 9:41; 9:123; 66:9; 9:73; 8:65; 8:66; 47:4—15; 8:12; 69:30—33; 8:15—18; 25:52; 9:39; 9:111; 3: 169—171; 4:100; 48:29; 49:15; 2:154; 3:157—158; 8:59—60; 9:2—3; 9:29; 8:67; 4:84; 29:6; 29:69; 61:9—13; 9:36; 9:5; 9:14; 9:20—22; 4:95—96; 8:72—74; 3:142)
• verses which promoted, on grounds of religion, feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will between different religious communities in India (i.e., 4:101; 60:4; 58:23; 9:7; 8:13—14; 8:55; 25:55; 5:72; 9:23; 9:28; 3:28; 3:118; 4:144; 5:14; 5:64; 5:18; 5:51)
• verses which insulted other religions as well as the religious beliefs of other communities in India (i.e., 5:17; 4:157; 5:116—118; 98:6; 68:8—13; 38:55—57; 22:19—21; 22:56—57; 5:36; 15:2; 72:14—15;41:33; 4:125; 25:27—29; 26:96—99; 3:85; 8:38; 31:13; 29:41—42; 37:22—25; 37:26—32; 25:17—19; 7:173; 21:66—67; 21:98—100; 16:20—21; 6:22—23; 6:40—41; 6:148; 2;221; 24:3)

"The Indian plaintiff’s “Calcutta Koran Petition” was ultimately dismissed on a legal technicality June 21, 1985"

Apparently,  a lower court case WAS in fact decided of the Hindus favor when they were defendants under India's version of "laws not defame (Islam)" perhaps soon to beapplied (if not already) in the US: More at Frontpage here:

In 1986, Sita Ram Goel published “The Calcutta Qur’an Petition” a brilliant analysis of the mid-1980s peaceful protests and legal actions by Hindus—which sparked predictable and pathognomonic acts of violence by enraged Muslims. Such non-violent acts of protest by Hindus served to educate the Indian public about Koranic doctrines. Despite the brutal Islamization of India—dating back to the initial 8^th century Arab Muslim jihad ravages, and the subsequent more extensive campaigns under the Ghaznavids through the Delhi Sultanate period (1000—1525 C.E.) during which an estimated 70-80 million Hindus were slaughtered—due to India's bowdlerized educational system and public discourse on Islam, many modern Hindus were ignorant of both this history, and the Koranic injunctions which inspired the brutal waves of jihad conquest and Muslim colonization of India. (As such, perhaps Americans aren't that relatively uninformed, after all.) Ultimately, these mid-1980s efforts made public the incitement to violence and hatred contained in Islam's “holy” book, which contributed to unending, unprovoked Muslim on Hindu violence, followed by tough Hindu retaliation—so- called “sectarian violence.”.

One particularly successful action stands out, as described by Goel. Two Hindus were arrested—under Indian penal code sections exploited by Muslims to prevent public criticism of Muhammad or other aspects of their creed—for publishing a poster which cited 24 Koranic verses (* read them at the links below), with a caption, “Why riots take place in this country.” The protesters added their own editorial comment that these verses,

…command the believers (Muslims) to fight against followers of other faiths…so long as these ayats [verses] are not removed [from the Koran], riots in the country cannot be prevented…There are numerous (other) ayats of the same sort. Here we have cited only 24 ayats. Obviously, these ayats carry commandments which promote enmity, ill-will, deception, fraud, strife, robbery, and murder. That is why riots take place between Muslims and non-Muslims, in this country as well as [the rest of] the world. In the above mentioned 24 ayats of the Koran, Muslims are commanded to fight against the followers of other faiths. So long as these ayats are not removed [from the Koran], riots in the country cannot be prevented.

The ruling magistrate sided with the accused Hindus, and in dismissing charges against them, observed,

...a close perusal of the Ayats [verses] shows that that the same are harmful and teach hatred, and are likely to create differences between Mohammedans on one hand and the remaining communities on the other [emphasis added]

US SPONSORS ISLAMIC CONVENTION WITH TIES TO TERROR

This is not scrappleface. This is not a joke. The Justice department is co-sponsoring an Islamic convention held by unindicted co-conspirator ISNA. Imagine Justice sponsoring a convention for the Gestapo back in the day. How can the government begin to protect its citizenry when they haven't a clue as to who and/or what the enemy is? Staggering.
ISNA terror lies are well documented here. Giuliani's advisors better explain, in the simplest of terms, why the second amendment is crucial and necessary. If he loses the nomination, it will be on this point - not his "social liberalism" or  his trifecta of marriages. We are at war and the silent majority knows it - in their bones. The political, media and intellectual elites are "fantasists" with little to no grasp on reality.

Sayyid Syeed, former Secretary General of ISNA, and current National Director of its Office of Interfaith Relations, is also on the list as a “records custodian” to testify about “bank records of the Holy Land Foundation.” Syeed is appearing as a representative of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), also named by the HLF prosecutors as a Muslim Brotherhood group and an un-indicted co-conspirator in the case. NAIT, a subsidiary of ISNA, holds the deeds to more than 25% of the mosques and Islamic centers around the U.S. What NAIT does not control, it attempts to acquire, even against the wishes of the mosque’s membership (free registration required) and sometimes by force.

There's more on ISNA's nefarious dealings here. Audrey Hudson breaks this explosive story in this morning's WT:

US SPONSORS ISLAMIC CONVENTION Audrey Hudson, Washington Times

The Justice Department is co-sponsoring a convention held by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) — an unindicted co-conspirator in an ongoing federal terrorist funding case — a move that is raising concerns among the Justice's rank and file.

Justice lawyers have objected to the affiliation with ISNA, fearing it will undermine the case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development in Dallas.

"There is outrage among lawyers that the Department of Justice is funding a group named as a co-conspirator in a terrorist financing case," said a Justice lawyer who spoke to The Washington Times on the condition of anonymity.

According to an e-mail from Susana Lorenzo-Giguere, acting deputy chief of the Voting Rights Division, the sponsorship will involve sending government lawyers to man a booth for the Labor Day weekend event in Illinois.

"This is an important outreach opportunity, and a chance to reach a community that is at once very much discriminated against, and very wary of the national government and its willingness to protect them," Mrs. Lorenzo-Giguere said in an e-mail obtained by The Washington Times.

"It would be a great step forward to break through those barriers. And Chicago is lovely this time of year," Mrs. Lorenzo-Giguere said.]

How can Mrs. Lorenzo-Giguere know what the weather if she wears the burka? She's only steps away from that now.

ISNA is one of more than 300 unindicted co-conspirators in a case against the Holy Land Foundation, whose top officers are accused of raising money for Hamas.

Justice spokesman Erik Ablin said the agency participates in the annual convention to educate Muslims about their civil rights.

BUSH PUSH: Give em a CALIPHSTATE!

“The Caliphate…one nation…one state…one ruler…” From hizb-ut-tahrir 

The Islamic Liberation Party recently held mass rallies in Al-Bireh and other cities in the Palestinian Authority. It has no military wing, but, its radical Islamic ideology and global deployment make it a source for the potential recruitment for Islamic terrorist organizations in the PA-administered territories and around the world.  More here

Islamic Liberation Party (HuT1) rallies in the PA-administered territories and around the world.

1. On August 10 and 11, 2007, the Islamic Liberation Party (Hibz ut-Tahrir in Arabic) held a series of mass rallies in Al-Bireh, Hebron , Tulkarm and Gaza City . The rallies are held annually by the HuT during the first half of August throughout the Arab-Muslim world. 2

2. The largest and most impressive rally in the PA-administered territories was held in Al-Bireh. Chartered buses brought 10,000 people from all over Judea and Samaria and even some Israeli Arabs . During the rally in Tulkarm the HuT announced that it was beginning a youth movement in Judea and Samaria called Ashbal al- Khilafah (“Lion Cubs of the Caliphate”) 3. According to the media, the HuT also held a book fair (possibly also in Al-Bireh) at which the party's ideological material was distributed.

3. The slogan of the rally in Al-Bireh on August 10 was “ The Caliphate is the rising force .” Telephone speeches given by party leaders in several countries (including Turkey and Pakistan ) were relayed by loudspeaker. A recorded speech was also broadcast, given by Ata' Khalil Abu al-Rushtah , the party's leader (“Amir”), currently in Lebanon after having been released from a Jordanian prison. Abu al-Rashta is Jordanian but his family came from Hebron . In 2003, when party leader Abd al-Kadim Zallum died, Abu al-Rashta replaced him. Zallum was also from Hebron and was one of the party's founders.

Caroline Glick calls those hardwired for self denial "fantasists." in her latest must read column. I call them pathetic, dangerous and deadly.

the fantasists ignored completely Osama bin Laden's declarations that his goal is to conquer the world in the name of Islam. They disregarded the political and cultural milieus marked by inexhaustible envy towards the West and the US that gave rise to al-Qaida and its sister organizations. Rather than acknowledge the reality of real war with real enemies, both camps of fantasists argued that instead of slaying these twin dragons, the US should appease them by serving them Israel for lunch.

[...]

A BRIEF look at recent statements by Iran's leaders and its terrorist vassals suffice to show how cut off these views are from reality. Last Saturday, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said, "America and its followers are stuck in a whirlpool and they sink deeper as time passes. A dangerous future is predicted for them." Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signaled that Iran will share its nuclear know-how with others saying, "If nuclear energy is something good, all nations should enjoy it on the basis of law."

In an interview with Britain's Independent, Iraqi Shiite terror boss Muqtada al Sadr admitted that his group trains with Hizbullah. Sadr said, "We have formal links with Hizbullah…. We copy Hizbullah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this."

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of last year's war against Israel, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah told Iranian television that Hizbullah acts at Teheran's pleasure. "I am a lowly soldier of the Imam Khamenei. Hizbullah youths acted on behalf of the Imam Khomeini… and sent their blessings to the Iranian people," Nasrallah said.

On August 6, Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, told al-Kawthar television that Hamas is preparing for war not because expects it Israel to attack, "but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity [Israel] off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out."

Glick kindly cautions;

FANTASIES ARE alluring. Peddling them can even get you elected. But the majority of Americans who reject fantasy as a basis for making real world decisions should take heed of Israel's example.

That example shows that despite the fantasists' fervent efforts to smother it, reality never goes away. Sooner or later, it mugs you. Sometimes, all it does is pick your pocket. But the longer you ignore it, the more dangerous it becomes.

"Mugs"? I say nukes.

Iran vows to use 'smart' bomb on enemies

Dhimmi Jewicidal Whore for Wahhabis

Jewicidals make my skin crawl. Why don't they just convert and leave us to fight another day for our survival. If this self loathing Jew was my son, I beat the living crap  out of him.

Whoring for the wahhabis. Film Stew reports  Bender’s film is slated for 2008 distribution, and has most recently received SHOCKA! funding from Saudi Arabian Prince Al Walid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud’s Kingdom Foundation.

Jewish filmmaker tackles Islam...  Dhummiwatch hat tip Sheikyermami

...and tells us to go back to sleep, since Jews, Christians, and Muslims got along swimmingly in medieval Muslim Spain, and therefore there is no clash of civilizations today.

Exhibit A, apparently, will be the Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, a resident of this paradisial Al-Andalus. You can find in my book Religion of Peace? some quotations from Maimonides' actual writings that I doubt will make it into this documentary, in which Maimonides complains of the brutality of the Muslims toward the Jews. As soon as I get close enough to a copy of the book I'll post them.

BIGGEST TERROR FUNDING TRIAL IN US HISTORY: MEDIA REFUSES TO COVER

FBI: HLF Linked to Hamas Operatives/CAIR Lies in Legal Brief.

Congressional plans to outlaw material support for designated terrorist groups and their leaders in 1996 caused a stir for leaders of the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), evidence released Wednesday shows. More here.

HLF Overseas Speakers Dominated by Hamas
By The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)

Officials at the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) have long maintained that they have no relationship with Hamas, a specially designated terrorist group.

Liars! Taqiya!

But HLF’s own list of speakers from abroad, seized by federal agents in 2001, is a veritable roster of Hamas leaders and activists. In a Dallas courtroom Tuesday, FBI Special Agent Robert Miranda told jurors in HLF’s terror support trial how he used telephone records and other information to cement more than three dozen HLF “overseas speakers” to Hamas.

“This is an organization that’s all about money,” Miranda said of HLF. “Who’s raising it for them?”

HLF and five of its officials are on trial for allegedly providing material support to Hamas. The defendants say they merely were helping the poor and needy.

"Needy" for heavy munitions.

HLF Executive Director Shukri Abu Baker has denied any Hamas link for more than a decade. He told Dallas Morning News reporter Gayle Reaves:

Go read it all.

KGIA Almontaser's Lesson in Taqiya

Here's the file. Daniel Pipes has it all here;
Almontaser sent a pugnacious letter of resignation to Klein;

Unfortunately, a small group of highly misguided individuals has launched a relentless attack on me because of my religion. They have used my religion as the pretext to undermine the Academy and have taken my words out of context to distort my record and portray me as something that I am not. They have not succeeded, of course. The Academy will open as scheduled. They confused me for the larger movement in support of equity in education for all New Yorkers and they underestimated the Mayor's commitment.

With your unwavering support in the face of these unprecedented attacks, and the love of my family, they did not bother me. However, their intolerant and hateful tone has come to frighten some of the parents and incoming students. I have grown increasingly concerned that these few outsiders will disrupt the community of learning when the Academy opens its doors on September 4^th.

Seperation of church and state ain't hate. It's AMERICA.

Therefore, I have decided to step aside to give the Academy and its dedicated staff the full opportunity to flourish without these unwarranted attacks.

The small group of fear mongers who used hate and prejudice to try to derail the Academy are on the wrong side of history. New York is bigger than that; America is fairer than that.

"Fair" ..........now that's rich.

Al-Newsweek

I have been meaning to fisk this week's taqiya piece Newsweek did on Islam. The money quote was the headline, "Muslim Americans are one of this country's greatest strengths. But they're vulnerable as never before." WTF? Who is the ghostwriter here? CAIR? Deception of Islam to advance Islam. The whole thing is one ginormous deception, completely divorced from reality.

Islamophobic or informed?

Newsweek Sucks to Terrorists The Urban Grind

Thanks to the Koran Toilet-Gate, we all know where Al-Newsweek’s sympathies lie.

But now, in another effort to suck up to Islamists, they have put out a glowing puff piece on Islam in America. Naturally they glossed over or plainly ignored whatever went against their anti-America, pro Islam, pro Third World Immigration agenda. So here I am to break it all down for you, dear readers

First the authors start out by describing Muslim businessman Fareed Siddiq, who attended a speech given by President Bush to Muslim business people.

He was moved to ask his president a question: “What,” he asked, hauling his 6-foot-5, 245-pound frame to the microphone, “are we doing with public diplomacy to change the hearts and minds of a billion and a half Muslims around the world?” What should he tell his friends and relatives in Pakistan about why he continues to live in the United States?

Excuse me, but why does any grown man with a family and a good job have to justify where he chooses to live? Also, why does America have to change anyone’s hearts and minds? I’d rather we be not be hated and feared, but respected instead. At least that’s how things used to be until after World War II.

Giuliani vs. CAIR

JoinRudy2008 - Giuliani tells dems to use phrase: Islamic terrorists (hat tip Helen)
CAIR projectile vomits. Check out this CAIR alert.

GIULIANI TO DEMS: USE THE WORDS 'ISLAMIC TERRORISTS' -
Lisa Leff, Associated Press,

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani took Democratic White House hopefuls to task Monday for being soft on terrorists and hard on capitalism.

Speaking to an invited audience of about 100 local GOP members, the former New York mayor said he was concerned that if a Democrat wins the White House the nation would take a defensive stance in "the war on terror" and become more vulnerable to a domestic attack.

"At no time during their three debates have they used the words 'Islamic terrorists,'" Giuliani said of the Democratic contenders who as he spoke were debating at The Citadel military college in South Carolina. "If they do tonight, I will take credit for it." (MORE)

CAIR ACTION: CONTACT THE GIULIANI PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE

CONTACT the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee to express your concerns about his promotion of linking the faith of Islam to terrorism.

CONTACT: (As always, be POLITE.)

Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee
295 Greenwich St, #371, New York, NY 10007
Tel: 212-835-9449, 646-943-7890
E-mail: webteam@joinrudy2008.com

FOR BACKGROUND ON THIS ISSUE, SEE:

CAIR: ISLAM HAS NO TIES TO TERRORISM

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ATLAS ALERT: CONTACT the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee to express your support and love for his promotion of linking the faith of Islam to terrorism.