We all know it's coming. In what shape, idea, form.....who's to know? Evil always surprises. Its goals are constant, their objective never changes, but inevitably it always manifests itself as the savior of the day, the savior of man. The 2008 Democrat October surprise that ushered in the first hardcore radical post-American president was the "economic collapse." Oh yes, that was a beaut.
The time before that, the moochers and the looters tried to fake Bush documents -- except that the right-wing blogosphere caught them red-handed, so they missed their mark.
But the party of haters, infiltrators, anti-capitalists, anti-freedom, anti-individual rights is going to have to pull off something really catastrophic to stay in power this November. And they will, because they despise the premise of America and they mean to replace it with statism, the source of untold, incomprehensible human misery for centuries.
Ayn Rand wrote of statism:
The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.The Objectivist Newsletter, Aug. 1962, 35
A statist system—whether of a communist, fascist, Nazi, socialist or “welfare” type—is based on the . . . government’s unlimited power, which means: on the rule of brute force. The differences among statist systems are only a matter of time and degree; the principle is the same. Under statism, the government is not a policeman, but a legalized criminal that holds the power to use physical force in any manner and for any purpose it pleases against legally disarmed, defenseless victims. The Objectivist Newsletter, Aug. 1962, 35
A statist is a man who believes that some men have the right to force, coerce, enslave, rob, and murder others. To be put into practice, this belief has to be implemented by the political doctrine that the government—the state—has the right to initiate the use of physical force against its citizens. How often force is to be used, against whom, to what extent, for what purpose and for whose benefit, are irrelevant questions. The basic principle and the ultimate results of all statist doctrines are the same: dictatorship and destruction. The rest is only a matter of time.
We have a long and terrible fight in front of us. The fight is as big as the idea, the foundation, the being of this great nation, the fight for America. Yes, it's as big as all that, and the enemy has no soul, no reason or logic. They are just ruthless, unscrupulous, evil and willing to do whatever it takes to assume absolute control.
They build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing, invent nothing. They steal. They demand. They demoralize. They are destroyers.
A Second Great Depression is the Democrat Party's path to power.
Are you thinking, aha, but wait until November 2nd?We'll kick these evil Dems out and spoil their dream!Electoral retribution thisNovember is our dream.What could the Dems do to spoil it?
I have lost count now of the number of predictions being made of a GOP "tsunami" in November.Serious political analysts, soberly and without hyperbole, are saying that Dem losses in the House, Senate, Governor's mansions, et al, are likely to be of "historic" proportions.
And every one of them unfailingly comes with a caveat, something along the lines of, "barring some huge unexpected disaster for the GOP."Now, if you were Rahm Emanuel, what would that caveat cause you to think about?
Our country is faced with an impending economic catastrophe, a Second Great Depression.It is being brought about on purpose by a political party that cares only for keeping and expanding its power, and looks upon prosperity as a threat to that power.
That party is now being threatened with being thrown out of power.If that party is evil enough and fascist enough to cause an economic catastrophe, it is certainly evil and fascist enough to cause a physical catastrophe, an Ultimate October Surprise, that will frighten and enrage voters enough to preserve its power in November.
What could this be?The most likely would be another 9/11, a massively horrific terrorist attack, perhaps even nuclear.An attack for which no one or no group will claim responsibility, no Al Qaeda, no Osama bin Laden, no Timothy McVeigh - just a plethora of pointed fingers at a multitude of suspects, without any sufficiently hard evidence to implicate one in particular.
It will be enough to raise suspicion about the dangerous Tea Party people and anyone who is "anti-government," enough for people to rally around their Zero-led government in fear and confusion.
Conspiracy theorists who believe that our own government, led by President Bush, perpetrated the First 9/11 attack on America are fruitcake kooks.A part of their brain is unhinged.But if there is a Second 9/11 attack on America this October, and worse than the first, the fully rational response will be to accuse our own government, led by President Zero, of perpetrating it.
The rational response will be to say, This is no accident, comrades.
Let's recap.There will be an October Surprise pulled off by the Dems, of that we can be sure.It has to be national in scope, and overwhelming enough to overcome the GOP tsunami.The most obvious candidate to do the job would be a Second 9/11, even a Nuclear 9/11 - which also would have the added advantages of accelerating US economic collapseand providing further rationales for emergency government powers.
So - what preventative action can be taken to either head it off at the pass, or neutralize its political benefits?
First, such a preventative strategy should not be narrowly-focused, aimed at just one candidate like a Second 9/11, but should be comprehensive, targeted to block or neutralize most any October Surprise.
Second, this comprehensive counter needs to have two components.One is the message of anger:get the Dems to understand that whatever they are planning in October, all it will serve to do is make TeaPartyers, conservatives, and independents - a majority of voters - mad.It will serve to increase their anger, not deflect it.So an October Surprise will do no good and will even be counter-productive.
Two is the message of blame:get the Dems to understand that whatever they are planning in October, they will be blamed for it.It will be their fault for allowing it to happen, or for trying to pull off a dirty trick.
TeaPartyers and conservatives should, then, begin a campaign right now and carry it through all the way to Election Day.Write letters, send e-mails, take out open-letter ads in local papers, etc., to the Dem National Committee, Dem pols local to national, and Admin Dems like Rahm Emanuel telling them:
Hey, Democrats!Thinking of saving yourselves in November with an October Surprise?Fuhgetaboutit!You'll just make your defeat worse.
The message should go on to explain how nothing they do is going to work.It need not accuse them of plotting any specific act, just tell them that whatever they are plotting, it will fail, serving only to enrage voters against them.
Millions of such messages delivered ever week from now to November 2nd may convince even Rahm Emanuel to abandon the evil he and his fellow Dems are planning.
And then, on an Election Day that has seen no October Surprise but a Dem Demolition instead, we can all congratulate ourselves and say to each other, This was no accident, comrades.
I gave Atlas readers a sneak peek into the recent developments in our lawsuit against the city of Detroit transit system for refusing to run our freedom ads, claiming they were political.
Islam is political? Well, then it rightly loses its "religious freedom" protections and status, and becomes the domain of legally subversive foreign law (the shariah -- Islamic law).
As you may know, Robert Spencer and I and our group the Freedom Defense Initiative are suing the city of Detroit for refusing our religious liberty bus ads -- the same ads that were dropped and then allowed on free speech grounds in Miami, and which ran without legal challenge in New York City. Detroit Transit (SMART), in its argument filed with the court defending its restriction of our freedom of speech (and effective endorsement of the Islamic death penalty for apostates), argued that it routinely disallowed ads in these categories:
1. Political or political campaign advertising. 2. Advertising promoting the sale of alcohol or tobacco. 3. Advertising that is false, misleading, or deceptive. 4. Advertising that is clearly defamatory or likely to hold up to scorn or ridicule any person or group of persons. 5. Advertising that is obscene or pornographic; or in advocacy of imminent lawlessness or unlawful violent action.
So they were saying that our ads offering help to those threatened for leaving Islam were political. They were effectively admitting that Islam was political -- an admission that has immense implications (far beyond, I'm sure, what Detroit imagined). If Islam is political, it ought to be subject to the restrictions and scrutiny to which all political entities in the U.S. are subject. This could open the door to a reevaluation of the unthinking assumption that Islam is simply a religion like Judaism or Christianity, and transform anti-terror efforts that are now hamstrung by the all-too-common idea that all that goes on in mosques is purely "religious."
But in the meantime, we have to win our lawsuit, which is a free speech issue, and as such as far-reaching implications of its own. Our ace lawyers, David Yerushalmi (www.davidyerushalmi.com and www.davidyerushalmilaw.com) and Robert Muise of the Thomas More Law Center have drafted the following legal brief replying to the city of Detroit's claims. They point out the inconsistency of the city's position: "Defendants seek to distance themselves from their own 'equal access' speech policy, which was likely drafted to comport with the First Amendment, so as to retain for themselves the unconstitutional power to censor messages they dislike. Consequently, Defendants’ evidence and arguments demonstrate a fundamental misapprehension of the First Amendment and its limits on the power of government to suppress free expression."
Read it all, carefully: it's a masterpiece of legal argumentation and a ringing defense of the freedom of speech. And one thing is certain, no matter what the outcome of our Detroit suit: the freedom of speech, our foremost bulwark against tyranny, is going to need a lot of defending in the years ahead.
“Sheer brilliance! Sharp, well-written and to-the-point. The ultimate patriot's handbook. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer lay bare Barack Hussein Obama's radical agenda and how to stop it. No true American's library will be complete without this book.”
--Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Foreign Influence
“This book is a chilling analysis of how the policy of President Barack Obama is chipping away at the very foundation of America's leading role in the world. It exposes his philosophy of near universal ?moral equivalency': a philosophy that is a dead ringer for the cultural relativism that has been poisoning Europe for the past decades. America is the last man standing and it is vital that the people of Europe adopt the attitude of proud American citizens and learn that it is not shameful to be proud of one's heritage. This book is incredibly fascinating and at the same time holds a deeply disturbing message we should all take to heart.”
--Geert Wilders, Dutch MP
“Barack Obama is the most radical individual ever to occupy the White House. This excellent book by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer explains exactly what that means and why its implications are fraught with such dangers for this great Republic.”
--David Horowitz, author of Radical Son
“Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer are two of the most incisive analysts of events at home and abroad, and you could not ask for better guides to where ?hope,' ?change' and czars are taking us ? and what Americans can do about it.”
--Mark Steyn, New York Times bestselling author of America Alone
“In The Post-American Presidency, Pamela Geller shines her laser on President Barack Obama ? his life, his values, his friends and his perceptions of the country he leads. What she reports will disturb not only every American who believes in that America is the Shining City on the Hill and that the American people are what Abraham Lincoln referred to as ?the almost chosen people.' It should also disturb people around the world who recognize that the international system stops working when the American Atlas shirks the burden of its uniqueness.”
--Caroline Glick, author of The Shackled Warrior
“With their characteristic attention to detail, clarity and fearlessness, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer assay the wreckage. The Post-American Presidency is must reading for every concerned American who needs to know why we're in this perilous moment, and where we're headed if we don't take our exceptional country back.”
--Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review legal affairs editor, author of Willful Blindness
Why isn't the OIC-driven UN passing "international resolutions" against Islamic genocide of non-Muslims instead of resolutions (co-sponsored by Obama, no less) prohibiting "defamation" of Islam? In other words, the UN wants us to say nothing negative about the religion of pieces -- like, for example, reporting this story.
Jamshed Masih, a police officer who was transferred 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Gujrat to Jhelum, Punjab Province, said a mob led by Muslim religious leader Maulana Mahfooz Khan killed his family on June 21 after Khan called him to the local mosque and told him to leave the predominantly Muslim colony. Jhelum is 85 kilometers (53 miles) south of Islamabad. “You must leave with your family, no non-Muslim has ever been allowed to live in this colony – we want to keep our colony safe from scum,” Khan told Masih, the bereaved Christian told Compass.
Masih had moved to Mustafa Colony in Jhelum with his wife, two sons and two daughters and were living in a rented house. Masih said that a Muslim neighbor, Ali Murtaza, told him that area Muslims notified Khan, telling the religious leader, “We cannot allow these non-Muslims to live here, they will be a bad influence on our children.” An anxious Masih told his wife Razia Jamshed about the local Muslim response, and they decided to bring their concern to the pastor of a local Presbyterian church, Saleem Mall. “Pastor Saleem said, ‘I will also advise you to vacate the house, as it can be dangerous living there – these people can harm your family,” Masih said. Masih’s neighbor, Murtaza, confirmed to Compass the response of the local Muslims and related incidents that led up to the murders. Murtaza told Compass that after Masih went to work at 7 a.m. on June 21, his children could be heard singing hymns before breakfast
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Neighbors saw Masih’s s 11-year-old son come into the store, he said. The shopkeeper asked him if he was a Christian; the child responded that he was.“The shopkeeper refused to give him the packet of Surf and spoke very harshly to him,‘I don’t sell to any non-Muslim, you are not welcome here, don’t you dare ever come to my shop again,’” Murtaza said. The boy went home, upset. His neighbor, Murtaza, said that shortly afterward some area residents came to the door with the Muslim religious leader, Khan.“Your son has committed blasphemy against Muhammad, our beloved prophet – we can’t allow him to live, he should be punished,” Khan told Razia Masih, Murtaza said. “Razia got scared and said, ‘My son couldn’t do such a thing, he is only 11 years old.’”
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Khan became furious and said, “Are we lying to you? You call us liars, how dare you insult us,” Murtaza said. “Someone from the crowd hit something hard on her head, and she started bleeding. The children started crying and shouted for help. Razia kept shouting for help, ‘Please have mercy on us, please let my husband come, then we can talk.’”
And this: Christian girl kidnapped, raped in Pakistan A 14-year-old Pakistani Christian girl from Mohalla Raja Sultan, Rawalpindi has been returned home after she was kidnapped and raped by five Muslim men. The girl, whose name has been withheld, had previously been threatened with death unless her fath...... read more
June 3, 2010 Turkey A Catholic Bishop who was a leading figure in Christian communities in the Middle East was stabbed to death at his home in southern Turkey Thursday, and police arrested his driver in connection with the attack. The jihadi murderer climbed on the roof of the house shouted: "I killed the great Satan! Allah Akbar!" An update HERE.
June 7, 2010 Pakistan (Hat tip to InfidelsareCool) The head of a Muslim village ordered the expulsion of 250 Christian families after they objected too strenuously to sexual assaults by Muslims on Christian girls and women.
Pakistan Pakistan Government tightens security at minorities worship places. Some Christians were put on a ‘hit list.’
June 13, 2010 Iraq Non-Muslims are not welcome any longer in large segments of the country. Kidnappings, rapes and executions are daily occurrences for the non-Muslims of Iraq.
June 14, 2010 Pakistan In "Talibanized" Pakistan Christians are victims of yet more attacks.
June 15, 2010 Afghanistan/India “We need Christians’ help all over the world to stop the Afghan government from arresting Dari-speaking Afghan Christians and condemning them to death by public execution.”
Somalia (hat tip to InfidelsAreCool) The Muslim parents of a 17-year-old Somali girl who converted to Christianity severely beat her for leaving Islam and have regularly shackled her to a tree at their home for more than a month.
June 16, 2010 The Netherlands (Translated. Hat tip to IslaminEurope) Muslims who become Christians in the Netherlands often have to deal with persecution, harassment and death threats.
Egypt (Hat tip to Pajamas Media) Egyptian government is forcing the Coptic Christian Church to change its doctrine.
Pakistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Five Muslims here kidnapped and raped a Christian girl after threatening to kill her unless her father allowed one of them to marry her.
June 17, 2010 Morocco A Moroccan Christian is currently in prison serving 15 years for proselytizing.
Morocco (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Moroccan Christians say Muslim extremists in the country are aiding and encouraging the government to pursue them by exposing and vilifying them on social networking site Facebook.
Kyrgystan (Hat tip to InfidelsAreCool) Christians receive death threats during ethnic violence with the Uzbeks that kills 190 people.
Egypt (translated by Raymond Ibrahim. Hat tip to JihadWatch) An Egyptian girl is kidnapped and her gold jewelry stolen by the Muslim village elder.
June 18, 2010 Afghanistan The Afghan government is arresting and executing Afghani Christians.
June 22, 2010 Indonesia (Hat tip to JihadWatch) Islamic extremists destroy an "immoral and blasphemous" sculpture saying it refers to the Christian trinity.
June 26, 2010 Pakistan (Hat tip to InfidelsAreCool) Muslim students attacked a Christian professor at the University of Peshawar this month after he refused their demand to convert to Islam.
June 28, 2010 Israel Seven Israeli Arab jihadis were arrested for murdering a Jewish cab driver and planning to kidnap and murder a Christian Arab in Nazereth and other crimes.
Bekasi, Indonesia A new group calling itself the Bekasi Islamic Presidium is planning a roadshow aimed at persuading every mosque in the city to prepare for the possibility of “war” against “Christianization.”
This was the scene in Lebanon .... it appears to have been replicated in ..... Michigan.
It appears that the city that refused our freedom bus ads, "Leaving Islam?," could sorely use them. One reporter over at the Washington Times had thiswhen covering the bus ad ban:
"This kind of campaign and Americans support of it could assure these frightened Muslims that they have the rights that every other American has, that they will be protected, not abandoned or exposed to their leaders should they act upon their desire to be free," the Dearborn teacher said.
Is it any wonder that thousands would mourn a bloodthirsty beast? Islamic oppression, subjugation, brainwashing, and hate of non-Muslims becomes increasingly problematic across the country. The polarization continues ...............
Again the media, like Lady Macbeth, tries to wash the blood off its own hands. Calling this killer a "popular, controversial" leader makes him sound like Elvis in the 50s.
In the words of his admirer, the Islamochristian and former CNN Mideast editor Octavia Nasr, Fadlallah "hated with a vengeance the United States government and Israel," "regularly praised the terror attacks that killed Israeli citizens," was a Holocaust denier, and was "designated a terrorist by the U.S. Treasury Department."
The mainstream media constantly demands of us that we assume, without examination, that most Muslims in the U.S. -- all but a few "wackos," such as are found in "any religious group" -- are loyal citizens who love Constitutional liberties, abhor jihad terrorism, and have no intention of bringing Sharia here, at any time or in any way, in whole or in part, now or in the future.
So why would "thousands" of Shi'ites in Detroit be mourning this cleric, who green-lighted the 1983 Hizballah attack on the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241? Hizballah's founder Hassan Nasrallah has said, "If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide." Wouldn't patriotic, pluralistic American Muslims oppose Fadlallah, and not engage in such a public display of mourning, simply as a matter of principle?
Or could it be that we've been sold a bill of goods about what Muslims in the U.S. really think, and need to examine that subject much more closely?
Meanwhile, the noble Niraj Warikoo of the Detroit Free Press tells his readers that this bloodthirsty jihadist was "controversial." Yes, the U.S. government makes some claims about him, but the Muslim leaders mourning him in Detroit say those claims are inaccurate, and well now, that settles it, doesn't it?
More on this story. Tiny Minority of Extremists Update: "Popular, controversial Muslim cleric mourned," by Niraj Warikoo for theDetroit Free Press, July 10:
Thousands of Shia Muslims in metro Detroit are mourning the death of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Lebanese cleric who was enormously popular locally but controversial to his critics. Six nights of memorial services at three Shia mosques conclude Sunday at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn.
Fadlallah, 74, who had been ill, died Sunday. He was considered a top scholar in the Shia Muslim world, a grand ayatollah whose views had a great deal of influence on everything from marital relations to women to politics. In Dearborn, he was probably the most respected cleric among Lebanese-American Shia Muslims, according to experts and local leaders.
Speaking to hundreds this week inside the Islamic Institute of Knowledge in Dearborn, Imam Mohammed Elahi of the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights said that Fadlallah was a "man of peace, man of justice ... a man of antiterrorism and antiviolence."
To many, he was seen as a progressive who was a strong supporter of women's rights.
Yeah, the right to an honor killing. What shilling for the killing.
I thought it might do some good to provide more background on the whitewash of the jihadist history of Bosnia and who and what the players were at the time of the US deployment of troops to fight for the Muslims there. Alija Izetbegović served in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina until 2000. During that time, the US and NATO went into Bosnia to fight for jihad and kill non-Muslims.
Read his manifesto. He is as fundamentalist as Bin Laden, though Western apologists and dhimmis were only too happy to provide cover:
British author Noel Malcolm asserted that the Serb nationalist interpretation of the Declaration was false propaganda and offered a more benevolent reading of the declaration.[7] Explaining that it was "a general treatise on politics and Islam, directed towards the entire Muslim world; it is not about Bosnia and does not even mention Bosnia" and that "none of these points can be described as fundamentalist."
At the time of the U.S. intervention, he was widely reputed to be a "moderate." His Islamic declaration was swept under the rug. Stephen Suleyman Schwartz of the Center for Islamic Pluralism had a photo on the CIP website of himself praying at Izetbegovic's grave. But it has become increasingly clear that the agenda of that Declaration is gradually being implemented in Bosnia.
The following are excerpts from the book "The Islamic Declaration" ("Islamska deklaracija"), written by Mr. Alija Izetbegovic, current President of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The book was reprinted by "BOSNA", Sarajevo, 1990, 127 pages.
QUOTE:
"... Do we want the Muslim nations to cease moving in circles, to stop being dependent, backward and poverty-stricken; we want them to once again with a sure step climb the road of dignity and enlightens and to become masters of their own fate; we want the springs of courage, genius and virtue to come forth strongly once again; then we must show the way which leads to that objective: The implementation of Islam in all fields of individuals' personal lives, in family and in society, by renewal of the Islamic religious thought and creating a uniform Muslim community from Morocco to Indonesia. ..."
page 3
"... A nation, and an individual, who has accepted Islam is incapable of living and dying for another ideal after that fact. It is unthinkable for a Muslim to sacrifice himself for any tzar or ruler, no matter what his name may be, or for the glory of any nation, party or some such, because acting on the strongest Muslim instinct he recognizes in this a certain type of godlessness and idolatry. A Muslim can die only with the name of Allah on his lips and for the glory of Islam, or he may run away from the battlefield. ..."
page 4
"... Muslim nations will never accept anything that is explicitly against Islam, because Islam here is not merely a faith and the law, Islam has become love and compassion. He who rises against Islam will reap nothing but hate and resistance. ..."
"... In perspective, there is but one way out in sight: creation and gathering of a new intelligence which thinks and feels along Islamic lines. This intelligence would then raise the flag of the Islamic order and together with the Muslim masses embark into action to implement this order. ..."
"... The shortest definition of the Islamic order defines it as a unity of faith and law, upbringing and force, ideals and interests, spiritual force spiritual community and state, free will and force. As a synthesis of these components, the Islamic order has two fundamental premises: an Islamic society and Islamic authority. The former is the essence, and the latter the form of an Islamic order. An Islamic society without Islamic power is incomplete and weak; Islamic power without an Islamic society is either a utopia or violence. A Muslim generally does not exist as an individual. If he wishes to live and survive as a Muslim, he must create an environment, a community, an order. He must change the world or be changed himself. History knows of no true Islamic movement which was not at the same time a political movement as well. This is because Islam is a faith, but also a philosophy, a set of moral codes, an order of things, a style, an atmosphere - in a nutshell, an integral way of life. ..."
"... The first and foremost of such conclusions is surely the one on the incompatibility of Islam and non-Islamic systems. There can be no peace or coexistence between the "Islamic faith" and non- Islamic societies and political institutions. ... Islam clearly excludes the right and possibility of activity of any strange ideology on its own turf. Therefore, there is no question of any laicistic principles [secularism], and the state should be an expression and should support the moral concepts of the religion. ..."
" Islam contains the principle of ummet, i.e. the tendency towards unification of all Muslims into a single community - a spiritual, cultural and political community. Islam is not a nationality, it is above nationalities. ..."
"... The upbringing of the nation, and especially the mass media - the press, TV and film - should be in the hands of people whose Islamic moral and intellectual authority is undisputed. ... ... Islamic renewal cannot be initiated without a religious, and cannot be successfully continued and concluded without a political revolution."
"... Establishing of an Islamic order is thus shown as the ultimate act of democracy, because it means the implementation of the deepest desires of the Muslim nations and common man. One thing is certain: no matter what a part of the rich and the intelligence wants, the common man wants Islam and living in his Islamic community. ..."
page 33
"... In the struggle for an Islamic order all methods are permitted, except one - except crime. No-one has the right to smear the beautiful name of Islam and this struggle by uncontrolled and excessive use of violence. ..."
"... Islamic order may be implemented only in countries where Muslims represent the majority of the population. Without this majority, the Islamic order is reduced to authority only (because the other element is lacking - the Islamic society), and may turn into violence. ..."
"... the Islamic movement should and must start taking over the power as soon as it is morally and numerically strong enough to not only overthrow the existing non-Islamic, but also to build up a new Islamic authority. ..."
"... Pakistan was a general rehearsal of introducing Islamic order under modern conditions and on the present stage of development. ... ... The conclusions from the twenty-odd year of Pakistan's existence are clear enough. They are: First, the struggle for Islamic order and a general reconstruction of the Muslim society can be successfully conducted only by experienced and seasoned individuals, aligned into a staunch and homogenous organization. This organization is no political party from the arsenal of the Western democracy; it is a movement based on Islamic ideology and with clear moral and ideological criteria of belonging; Second, the struggle for an Islamic order today is a struggle to implement the essence of Islam, and this means that in practice one must ensure religious and moral upbringing of the people and provide for basic elements of social justice. At this time, forms are of secondary importance; and Third, the functions of the Islamic republic are not to primarily declare equality of all men and brotherhood of all Muslims, but to struggle for some of these high moral principles in practice. The awakened Islam should in every community take into its own hands the flag for a more just social order and to clearly state that in struggling for Islam another war is being declared as well, the one against ignorance, injustice and poverty, a war without compromises and setbacks. ..."
pages 45-46
"... In one of the thesis for an Islamic order today we have stated that it is a natural function of the Islamic order to gather all Muslims and Muslim communities throughout the world into one. Under present conditions, this desire means a struggle for creating a great Islamic federation from Morocco to Indonesia, from the tropical Africa to the Central Asia. ..."
"... Panislamism always came from the very heart of the Muslim peoples, nationalism was always imported stuff. ..."
page 49
"... But, under the leadership of Zionists, started an action in Palestine which is not only inhumane and ruthless but also short-sighted and adventuresome. This politics takes in account only temporary ratio of power and forgets about overall ratio of power between Jews and Muslims in the world. This politics in Palestine is a provocation to all Muslims of the world. Jerusalem is not only a question of Palestinians, neither is it a question of Arabs only. It is a question of all the Muslim nations. TO KEEP JERUSALEM, THE JEWS WOULD HAVE TO DEFEAT ISLAM AND THE MUSLIMS, AND THAT - THANK GOD - IS OUTSIDE THEIR POWER."
"... We would like to distinguish between Jews and Zionists, but only if Jews themselves find strength to find the difference. We hope that the military victories, which they had against quarrelling Arab regimes, (not against Arabs or against Muslims) will not blur their minds. We hope that they will eliminate confrontation which they made by themselves, so the new road is open to a life on the common ground of Palestine. If they, though, continue on the road of arrogance, which is more likely, then for the whole Islam movement, and FOR ALL MUSLIMS THERE IS BUT ONE SOLUTION: TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT, TO STRENGTHEN AND BROADEN IT, FROM DAY TO DAY, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, NO MATTER THE VICTIMS AND NO MATTER THE TIME it may last, until they are forced to RETURN EVERY INCH OF THE OCCUPIED LAND. EVERY NEGOTIATION AND EVERY COMPROMISE ON THIS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE FOR OUR BROTHERS IN PALESTINE WILL BE A TREASON WHICH MAY DESTROY THE VERY CORE OF THE MORAL SYSTEM OF OUR WORLD. These are not new laws of our new Islam politics toward Christians and Jews, not new laws dictated by the new political situation. They are just the practical conclusions taken from the Islamic recognition of Christians and Jews which come right from the Qu'ran (Qu'ran, 29/45, 2/136, 5/47-49)
pages 53-54
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BOSNIA’S PRESIDENT Islamic Declaration 1970 The basic facts of just what caused the conflict in ex-Yugoslavia are, still, not presented to the general public in the West... To understand Bosnian Muslims one should understand their leader: self proclaimed "President of Bosnia", Mr. Alija Izetbegovic. A few (very few) articles were written in the western media about the fact: THE LEADER OF BOSNIAN MUSLIMS IS THE LEADING FIGURE IN THE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST WORLD. "Islamic Affairs Analyst" (IAA) publishes reports about Islamic world, since 1935. IAA is published 4 to 5 times a year, in Great Britain... With the beginning of the civil war in Bosnia, in 1992, they wrote: Excerpts from issue of IAA entitled
"MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISM IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA" published in 1992:
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There is a great reluctance in the West to recognize that the fighting in Bosnia is a resurgence of the conflict between Islam and Christendom which shaped five centuries of Balkan history. Disbelief in the West regarding Muslim fundamentalism in Bosnia stems from several causes, among which there is a pervasive, compulsive, complacency which holds that things can never be as bad as they seem, hence European officialdom refused to believe that Hitler meant what he wrote in Mein Kampf. President Alija Izetbegovic's Islamic Declaration, first published in 1970 when it earned him a prison sentence, demanded a fully-fundamentalist Muslim state in Bosnia without non-Muslim institutions or any division between religion, politics, and economics. The book was republished in 1990 in Sarajevo (by Mala Muslimanska Biblioteka). It scathingly attacks Attaturk's reforms and holds up Pakistan as a model to be followed.
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Traditionally, Bosnians were among the most militant in the Muslim world. A ruling minority, they were proud of being the spearhead of the jihad into Europe, part of the two-pronged drive along Sava and Danube with Rome as its final objective. Occupation by the Habsburgs in 1878 caused some of them to emigrate, but others waited for fate to redeem them.
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The story continues. Only fifty years ago Serbs were subject to genocide in Bosnia. The geographic district, under Nazi occupation, was part of Nazi Independent State of Croatia...
For over 15 years the Encyclopedia Britannica article included the following statement when talking about WWII in Yugoslavia: "...IN BOSNIA... THE CROATIAN FASCISTS BEGAN A MASSACRE OF SERBS WHICH, IN THE WHOLE ANNALS OF WORLD WAR II, WAS SURPASSED FOR SAVAGERY ONLY BY THE MASS EXTERMINATION OF POLISH JEWS" One can find the above quote in all versions of Britannica from 1971 till 1987. And who welcomed and assisted the Nazi Croats in slaughtering the Serbs? Bosnian Muslims! Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Edition 1990, Volume 2, Pages 706 and 707, entry Hajj Amin Al Husseini <- The main Hitler's supporter among Palestinian Arabs...
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It so happened that Husseini made his contribution to the Axis war effort in his capacity as a Muslim, rather than as an Arab leader, by recruiting and organizing in RECORD TIME, during the spring of 1943, BOSNIAN MUSLIM BATTALIONS in Croatia comprising some twenty thousand men! These MUSLIM VOLUNTEER units, called Hanjar (Sword), were put in WAFFEN-SS, fought Yugoslav partisans in Bosnia, and carried out police and security duties in Hungary. THEY PARTICIPATED IN THE MASSACRE OF CIVILIANS IN BOSNIA and VOLUNTEERED TO JOIN IN THE HUNT FOR JEWS IN CROATIA... The Germans made a point of publicizing the fact that Husseini had flown from Berlin to Sarajevo for the sole purpose of giving his blessing to the Muslim army and inspecting its arms and training exercises.
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A photograph, on page 704, shows al-Husseini inspecting Muslim troops in Bosnia.
Today, Muslims and Croats - united in hatred of Serbs, are once again at task of slaughtering Serbs. Having no knowledge of the history of the region, and having no sense of shame, "democratic" West is supporting the union (and the slaughter).
Extensive quotes from the book were also presented in French periodical "FIGARO", on August 26, 1992 under title: "L'ORDRE ISLAMIQUE" SELON ALIJA IZETBEGOVIC See also:
British: "The daily telegraph" May 11, 1992: "Conflict could lay foundations for Islamic state in Europe"
Canadian: "Globe and Mail" October 17, 1992, page A10: "Media reports from Bosnia: A mixture of Outright lies, Staged events and untold stories".
"Jerusalem Post", August 11, 1993, text by Yohanan Ramati, Director of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence: "Don't cry for Bosnian Moslems"
British: "Sunday Times", August 30, 1992 , page A1: "Arabs join in Bosnia battle"
American: "Newsweek", October 5, 1992, page 52: "Help from holy warriors (Inside a secret military camp: how mujahedin fighters are training Bosnia's Muslims"
"The European", February 4, 1993: "How Iran is arming Bosnia's Muslims"
London: Times, October 21, 1994: "Disciples of holy war answer call to fight and die (The presence of Mujahedin fighters from around the world on Bosnian battlefields is unnerving the West)"
Washington Times, June 2, 1994, page 1: "Iranians move into Bosnia to terrorize Serbs" Washington Post, May 13, 1994: "Iran ships material for arms to Bosnians"
Islamic Fundamentalism now has a stronghold in the heart of Europe... Serbs have been expelled from Sarajevo, a city they founded more than thousand years ago.
The goal: the Islamisation of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle here and here and here.
Following are excerpts from an interview with former Lebanese minister Wiam Wahhab, which aired on Lebanon's Al-Jadid/New TV on July 4, 2010. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, go here:
Wiam Wahhab: "Does the UN really believe that it can be used by the U.S. and Israel, and that it can use the international tribunal in order to destroy Lebanon, and that we won't lift a finger?! Do they really believe this? Do they really think that things can remain the same from the Litani River to the south, while here, the country will be destroyed, and people will fight a civil war?!"
Interviewer: "Hold on, if the indictment of the international tribunal leads to civil strife, as you expect – will UNIFIL find itself in danger?"
Wiam Wahhab: "I think so. It is not that I am about to carry out attacks against UNIFIL. But in my view, UNIFIL will be in danger." [...]
Interviewer: "Who do you support [in the World Cup]?"
Wiam Wahhab: "My children and I supported Brazil."
Interviewer: "Me too."
Wiam Wahhab: "Brazil lost. My wife supports Germany. We drive the kids mad. Now I am supporting Argentina."
Interviewer: "You have become subordinate to your wife when it comes to soccer?"
Wiam Wahhab: "No. I support Germany in politics and Brazil in soccer. I like the way Brazil plays. But I like the Germans because they hate the Jews and they burned them." [...]
I have been vocal in my endorsement and support of Vijay Kumar and candidates like him, who understand the fundamental threat to our nation and are unafraid to face the foe head on and take back our nation. Our nation is under siege, a stealth coup. We need warriors. Kumar is such a man. He has written a a piece for Atlas that explains the profound threat of Islamic supremacism.
Support this man, with your money and your life.
THE MUSLIM MOSQUE: A STATE WITHIN A STATE
by Vijay Kumar
THE KAABA IN MECCA WAS NOT BUILT AS AN ISLAMIC MOSQUE. It was an ancient temple that had been shared by polytheists, Christians, Jews, and Hindus, honoring 360 different deities. In 630 A.D. the Kaaba was captured by Islam in its military invasion and conquest of Mecca.
On the day of its capture, Muhammad delivered an address at the Kaaba in military dress and helmet, according to Ayatullah Ja’far Subhani in his book, “The Message”:
“Bear in mind that every claim of privilege, whether that of blood or property is abolished . . . I reject all claims relating to life and property and all imaginary honors of the past, and declare them to be baseless . . . A Muslim is the brother of another Muslim and all the Muslims are brothers of one another and constitute one hand as against the non-Muslims. The blood of every one of them is equal to that of others and even the smallest among them can make a promise on behalf of others.” —Muhammad
Muhammad’s address at the Kaaba overthrew the Meccan government and declared all of Islam, anywhere in the world, to be a political and military state against all non-Muslims, regardless of the non-Muslims’ political, geographical, or national origins.
“If anyone desires a religion other than Islam (submission to Allah), never will it be accepted of him.” —Quran 3:85
Although the rightful owners of the Kaaba are the many religions that shared it before the Islamic military conquest of Mecca, according to Subhani the Kaaba today is under the control of a hereditary regime going back to Muhammad: “currently the 12th Imam from the direct descent of the Prophet of Islam is the real protector, its custodian and guardian.”
All Islamic mosques everywhere in the world are required to have a clear visible indication pointing in the direction of Mecca and the Kaaba, where the international political and military state of Islam was founded. In most mosques there is a niche in the wall—the mihrab—that points toward the seat of Islamic power. Each mosque, like the Kaaba, is governed by an Imam in compliance with the political documents of Islam.
Mosques and the Political Documents of Islam
The Quran is the supreme political document of Islam—its political manifesto and political constitution. It is the only constitution of the nation-state Saudi Arabia, which is the home of Mecca and the Kaaba, where all mosques point, and is the birthplace of Islam.
The Quran is a totalitarian constitution. It demands submission by anyone within its jurisdiction. The Quran governs all mosques everywhere in the world.
As a political document, the Quran asserts that everyone in the world is within its jurisdiction. So far, Islam has not been able to enforce that totalitarian claim on the entire world, but has managed to do so through threat, infiltration, violence, terrorism, and coercion on roughly 20% of the world. It is engaged in a 1400-year-long Universal Jihad to dominate the rest of the world. All mosques are its outpost headquarters.
Central to the Quran’s political mandates is prohibition of religious freedom and religious tolerance, along with denouncements of religions such as Christianity and Judaism.
“O ye who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them.” —Quran 5:51
“Fight and slay the Pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war)” —Quran 9:5
All mosque leaders must be loyal to and supportive of these political and militaristic mandates.
The Quran as a political document also forbids separation of church and state. That is why every Islamic nation, where Islamic leaders have managed to gain power, is a theocracy, ruled by the Quran and Islamic Sharia law.
The Hadith (reported sayings and acts of Muhammad) and the Sira (the official biographies of Muhammad) are the other political documents that, along with the Quran, constitute the basis for Islam’s Sharia law.
“There is only one law which ought to be followed, and that is the Sharia.” —Syed Qutb
Sharia law is administered by Islamic Imams who interpret the law and hand down rulings in their sole discretion. Sharia law does not allow trial by jury. Sharia law also mandates a double standard of laws for Muslims (believers) and infidels (non-believers). Sharia law mandates a discriminatory tax, called jizya, on non-Islamic religions and nations:
“Fight those who believe not in Allah...until they pay the jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued.” —Quran 9:29
Sharia law also mandates discrimination toward women, and forbids any criticism of Islam or its founder, stifling freedom of speech.
Sharia law also mandates that all men are slaves with no right to freedom of religion:
“Allah’s right on His slaves is that they should worship Him (Alone) and should not worship any besides Him.” —Muhammad Sahih Bukhari 4:52:108, Narrated Mu’adh
Sharia law does not allow for separation of church and state. Sharia regards church and state as one inseparable entity governing every aspect of individual and social life, both spiritual and secular. That is why all Islamic nations are theocracies.
In short, Sharia law stands in direct opposition to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. The implementation of Sharia law demands the overthrow of the American Constitution and our form of government and system of laws. Mosque leaders, in every nation in the world, are loyal to the Quran, the Hadith, the Sira, and consider them divine law, and therefore supreme over all manmade laws.
Other political and military documents of Islam include treaties of Muhammad, which are held in reverence by Islam as models of conduct in relations between nations.
“Ye have indeed in the Messenger of Allah [Muhammad] a beautiful pattern (of conduct) for anyone whose hope is in Allah.” —Quran 33:21
“War is deceit.” —Muhammad Sahih Bukhari 4:52:268, Narrated Abu Hurarira
In one treaty proposal, to Jaifer and Abd, Muhammad wrote:
“If you two accept Islam, your country will, as usual, remain with you. But if you refuse or object, it is a perishable thing.” —Muhammad
In another, to the Chiefs of Aqaba, he wrote:
“It is better for you either to accept Islam or agree to pay Jizya and consent to remain obedient to Allah . . . If you do not accept these terms . . . I shall have to wage war (to bring peace and security).” —Muhammad
These same patterns and political mandates have been used over and over by Muslims since 610 A.D. to invade and conquer many civilizations and nations throughout the world, and to eradicate human rights and freedoms in those lands. Iran once was called Persia and was Zorastrian. Egypt was Christian. What was once a Hindu civilization was conquered and made into Pakistan, which is now part of the Axis of Jihad, along with Iran and Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan was Buddhist for thousands of years. Now its chief exports are heroin and Islamic terrorism.
“When We decide to destroy a population, We (first) send a definite order to those among them who are given the good things of this life and yet transgress; so that the word is proved true against them: then (it is) We destroy them utterly.” —Quran 17:16
In every instance where Islam has conquered and “destroyed utterly” a nation or civilization, the key to the conquest was the establishment of mosques, which are political and military command and control centers for Islam, and which all point toward the seat of Islamic power: the Kaaba.
Mosques and the Fallacy of the “Moderate Muslim”
The majority of Germans during World War II were not active members of the Nazi party, were not waging war, and were not involved in the holocaust. The leaders, though, were active members of the Nazi party, were waging war, and were involved in the holocaust.
The majority of Russians and eastern Europeans under the rule of the U.S.S.R. were not trying to spread Communism throughout the world, and were not threatening and waging war and revolution, but were going about their daily lives trying to survive. The leaders, though, were doing everything they could to spread Communism throughout the world, and were threatening and waging war and revolution.
Throughout history, since 610 A.D., the leaders of Islam have been waging Universal Jihad around the world for the purpose of Islamic totalitarian domination of the world. It has never mattered what percentage of the Muslim population was “peaceful” or “moderate.” Peace and moderation are not relevant to the totalitarian mandates of Islam’s political documents, and Islam’s leaders always follow the totalitarian mandates of Universal Jihad contained in them.
There are post-Nazi democracies. There are post-Communist democracies. There are no post-Islamic democracies. Literal Islam, as contained in its political documents, is the consummate totalitarianism. Neither Nazism or Communism had a metaphysical factor, as does Islam. Islam uses its metaphysics as a wedge to drive in its totalitarian political doctrines.
Once Islam has established itself sufficiently in any nation, it seeks to overthrow any existing regime or constitution or law, and replace it with Islamic theocracy. Even the most “moderate” Muslim is bound to obey Islamic law, and so is bound to fight if ordered to fight:
“When you are called (by the Muslim ruler) for fighting, go forth immediately.” —Hadith Sahih Bukhari 4:52:79:Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas
All Islamic mosques have Islamic leaders (rulers) who can call Muslims for fighting, and as such are satellite headquarters for spreading Literal Islam’s political doctrine of world domination and totalitarianism—no matter how many “moderate Muslims” they serve.
Mosques and the Worldwide Islamic State
Islam is a de facto political state wherever it exists anywhere in the world. The Quran is its constitution. The Kaaba is its seat of power, still in the control of the regime that occupied it in 630 A.D. All Muslims in the world, regardless of nationality, are required to travel to the Kaaba at least once in their lifetime and pay homage to it.
The fact that nations and international political institutions in the world do not recognize Islam as a de jure state is irrelevant. Muhammad himself declared it as a state, and Islam’s own political documents declare it to be a state, and, ipso facto, it always is a state-within-a-state, governed by the Quran and Sharia law internally, anywhere that it has not yet gained full power and control.
“The Believers are but a single brotherhood.” —Quran 49:10
“A Muslim has no nationality except his belief.” —Syed Qutb
“Islam wishes to destroy all states and governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and program of Islam regardless of the country or the nation which rules it. The purpose of Islam is to set up a State on the basis of its own ideology and program.” — Syed Abul A’ala Maududi
Just as our Constitution of the United States binds and identifies us as a single political and legal union of non-contiguous states, territories, political groups, and people, so the Quran binds and identifies all Islamic nations and all Muslims as a single political and legal union of non-contiguous nations, territories, political groups and people, regardless of geographic boundaries, whose seat of power is the occupied Kaaba. All Islamic Imams, in every mosque everywhere in the world, are bound to the Quran as supreme law.
As we have seen, Islamic law gives Islamic Imams the power to order Muslims to fighting. The German Max Weber, who had considerable influence on international law and politics, defined “state” as that entity that has a “monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”
Islam declares that the Quran and Sharia law are divine, and, as such, are the only “legitimate” law in the world. In that way, Islam “self-legitimizes” its right to use physical force anywhere in the world, and the right of every Imam in every mosque in the world to call for physical force and violence at any time. This makes every Imam in every mosque a military leader.
Islam is a state by every definition and theory, and is a state hostile to and at war with the United States of America and its Constitution.
Mosques and Treason and Sedition Against the U.S.
Islam’s political documents and law call for the overthrow of our Constitution and our man-made laws, and therefore for the overthrow of our government, which by definition constitutes sedition and treason. The Islamic documents call for the overthrow of our government—a protector of religious freedom and human rights—through violence:
“I was ordered to fight all men until they say ‘there is no god but Allah.’” —Muhammad’s farewell address, 632
“I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.’” —Hadith Sahih Bukhari 4:52:196 Narrated Abu Huraira
“He who fights so that Allah’s Word (Islam) should be superior, then he fights in Allah’s cause.” —Hadith Sahih Bukhari 1:3:125 Narrated Abu Musa
“I asked the Prophet [Muhammad], ‘What is the best deed?’ He replied, ‘To believe in Allah and to fight for His Cause.’” —Hadith Sahih Bukhari 3:46:694 Narrated Abu Dhar
“And fight them till there is no more affliction (i.e. no more worshiping of others along with Allah)”. —HadithSahih Bukhari 6:60:40 Narrated Nafi’
“Soon shall We cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers.” —Quran 3.151
“I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instill terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them.” —Quran 8:12
“Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know.” —Quran 8:60
The Quran, as the constitution of Islam and Muslims, is diametrically opposite to the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. According to Islam and Muslims, the Quran is divine law, uncorrupted and incorruptible, whereas the United States Constitution is man-made and is not infallible, and therefore is corrupt. The U.S. Constitution is the antithesis of the Quran; therefore Muslims have no obligation to obey it.
A mosque in the United States is a command and control center of a foreign political and military state that seeks the overthrow of our government, and an Imam in a mosque is a political and military representative of a foreign state that calls for the overthrow of the United States.
The laws of the United States provide specific criminal penalties for sedition and treason. These laws are not only applicable to those advocating and calling for the overthrow of our Constitution and our government; they are applicable to anyone who gives “aid or comfort” to such declared enemies of the United States, or who “organizes or helps or attempts to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons” so engaged. The terms “organizes” and “organize” extend to “the recruiting of new members, the forming of new units, and the regrouping or expansion of existing clubs, classes, and other units of such society, group, or assembly of persons.”
Mosques are just such units.
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Vijay Kumar is a Republican candidate for U.S. Congress from Tennessee's 5th District. A native of Hyderabad, India, Mr. Kumar lived in Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when he came to the United States. A naturalized American citizen, Mr. Kumar has lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 24 years. He has been married to his wife, Robin, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, for 27 years, and they have three children, two of whom are adopted.
Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion."
This man is vile. No other word for it. In his short time in office, Hussein has done more harm to the tiny Jewish nation than any other president in American history -- and he has the gall to accuse Israel of racism, this anti-semite? Who has sown the seeds of racism more than President Race-Baiter? Look at the Department of Justice's refusal to prosecute voter suppression against white voters. "Kill them crackers and their babies."
By G-d, he has no soul. As if they should thank him for his genocidal policies. Please, sir, more Zyklon-B?
Perhaps they are suspicious of him because of his anti-Israel policies, and his allegiances with Jew haters like Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, George Soros, Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rosa Brooks -- the list goes on and on.
U.S. president tells Channel 2 Israel is unlikely to attack Iran without coordinating with the U.S.
U.S. President Barack Obama told Channel 2 News on Wednesday that he believed Israel would not try to surprise the U.S. with a unilateral attack on Iran.
In an interview aired Thursday evening, Obama was asked whether he was concerned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would try to attack Iran without clearing the move with the U.S., to which the president replied "I think the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is sufficiently strong that neither of us try to surprise each other, but we try to coordinate on issues of mutual concern."
Obama spoke to Channel 2's Yonit Levy one day after what he described as an "excellent" meeting with Netanyahu at the White House. The two leaders met alone for about 90 minutes Tuesday evening, during which time they discussed the peace process with the Palestinians, the contested Iranian nuclear program, and the strategic understandings between their two countries on Tehran's efforts to achieve nuclear capabilities.
"Ironically, I've got a Chief of Staff named Rahm Israel Emmanuel. My top political advisor is somebody who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors. My closeness to the Jewish American community was probably what propelled me to the U.S. Senate," Obama said.
With friends like that, you don't need nazis.
"I think that sometimes, particularly in the Middle East, there's the feeling of the friend of my enemy must be my enemy, and the truth of the matter is that my outreach to the Muslim community is designed precisely to reduce the antagonism and the dangers posed by a hostile Muslim world to Israel and to the West," Obama went on to say.
Obama added that he believed a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians could be achieved within his current term. "I think [Netanyahu] understands we've got a fairly narrow window of opportunity… We probably won’t have a better opportunity than we have right now. And that has to be seized. It’s going to be difficult."
The American President entirely sidestepped the question of whether the U.S. would pressure Israel to extend a current 10-month moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements, failing to give a clear answer. The moratorium is set to expire in September, and Netanyahu has announced that he would not extend the timeframe. The U.S., however, views continued Israeli settlement construction as a serious obstacle to peace efforts.
When asked whether he thought Netanyahu was the right man to strike a peace deal with the Palestinians, the U.S. President said that "I think Prime Minister Netanyahu may be very well positioned to bring this about," adding that Israel will have to overcome many hurdles in order to affect the change required to "secure Israel for another 60 years"
Another 60 years? Who the hell does he think he is? Allah? Another 6,000 years -- Israel forever.
Meanwhile on Wednesday, Netanyahu told U.S. Jewish leaders that direct Palestinian-Israeli talks would begin "very soon", but warned that they would be "very, very tough." Netanyahu told his cabinet earlier this week before flying to Washington that the time had come for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to prepare to meet directly with the Israelis, as it was the only way to advance peace.
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At a meeting with representatives of Jewish organizations at the Plaza Hotel late Wednesday, Netanyahu discussed the efforts to promote Middle East peace. "This is going to be a very, very tough negotiation," he said, adding "the sooner the better." "Direct negotiations must begin right away, and we think that they will," he said.
Read the rest and puke.
Netanyahu promised Obama during their meeting that Israel would undertake confidence-building measures toward the Palestinian Authority in the coming days and weeks. These steps are likely to include the transfer of responsibility over more parts of the West Bank over to PA security forces.
During the interview Wednesday, when confronted with the anxiety that some Israelis feel toward him, Obama said that "some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion."
The thing is ......it's in Koran: Islamic antisemitism is the very fabric of Islam, and every one one of our betters keeps telling us how superior Islam is .............
Over the past three years, Salman Hossain has openly called for terrorist attacks in Canada, cheered the killing of Canadian troops in Afghanistan and urged fellow Muslims to "exterminate" Canada's Jewish population.
When police started showing up at his suburban home in Mississauga in 2007, he was not chastened. He wrote that he "honestly got a kick out of pissing off the RCMP.... HAHAHA.... You can't charge me for possessing a thought."
Canadian authorities have apparently heard enough of Mr. Hossain's thoughts. Ontario Provincial Police have scheduled a news conference for this afternoon to announce the results of a lengthy investigation into the young extremist.
He is expected to face charges of promoting hatred and, quite possibly, advocating a genocide. If so, it would mark the first time an advocating genocide charge has been prosecuted in Canada. The charges relate to hundreds of racist comments Mr. Hossain has posted on the Internet.
In an indication of the significance of the case, outgoing OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino, Deputy Commissioner Vince Hawkes and Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber are all scheduled to attend the 2 p.m. news conference in Toronto, along with members of the OPP Operations Intelligence Bureau.
The announcement comes nine months after Ontario Attorney-General Chris Bentley told the Jewish community the Crown had decided not to proceed with charges against Mr. Hossain because he was in a rehabilitation program to correct his behaviour.
Far from being rehabilitated, however, Mr. Hossain has only become more outspoken since then. He now openly urges Muslims to organize an invasion of Canada to overthrow the "Jewish run Canadian government" and begin the "mass extermination" of Canada's Jews.
While Mr. Hossain will face criminal charges, arresting him will be more complicated. He left the country before the OPP investigation was completed and is now in South Asia, where he continues to advocate racist violence on his U.S.-based website.
"Yes, I am a fanatic," he wrote in one of his recent posts from abroad. "I am ready to kill millions." Last week, he wrote, "We must never cease in our efforts to eliminate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. Their permanent liquidation and destruction is the only solution."
Under Canada's hate propaganda law, it is illegal to advocate or promote a genocide against an identifiable group. Offenders face up to five years imprisonment for each count. The law has been on the books for decades, but it has never been used.
Perhaps he will introduce this to the court:
Islamic Antisemitism
The Koran on the Jews
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews…” (5:82).
“Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses.” (5:78).
“Is it ever so that when they make a covenant a party of them set it aside? The truth is, most of them believe not. And when there came to them a messenger from Allah [Muhammad], confirming what was with them [the Torah], a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know!” (2:100-101).
“The People of the Book know well that that is the truth from their Lord. Nor is Allah unmindful of what they do” (2:143-144).
“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).
“And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they!” (9:30)
The Jews killed their prophets (2:61; 2:87; 2:91; 3:21; 3:112; 3:181; 3:183; 4:155; 5:70), and boast “we killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary” (4:157).
“Allah hath heard the taunt of those who say: ‘Truly, Allah is indigent and we are rich!’ We shall certainly record their word and (their act) of slaying the prophets in defiance of right, and We shall say: ‘Taste ye the penalty of the Scorching Fire!’” (3:181)
“Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works.” (5:63)
“The Jews say: ‘Allah’s hand is tied up.’ Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for the (blasphemy) they utter. Nay, both His hands are widely outstretched: He giveth and spendeth (of His bounty) as He pleaseth. But the revelation that cometh to thee from Allah increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. Amongst them we have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief” (5:64).
The Jews “strive to do mischief on earth” – that is, fasaad, for which the punishment is specified in 5:33: “they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land.”
“Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors. They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; if they come out to fight you, they will show you their backs, and no help shall they get. Shame is pitched over them (like a tent) wherever they are found, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah and from men; they draw on themselves wrath from Allah, and pitched over them is (the tent of) destitution. This because they rejected the Signs of Allah, and slew the prophets in defiance of right; this because they rebelled and transgressed beyond bounds.” (3:110-112)
“And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them and made hard their hearts. They change words from their context and forget a part of that whereof they were admonished. Thou wilt not cease to discover treachery from all save a few of them. But bear with them and pardon them. Lo! Allah loveth the kindly (5:13).
“Among the People of the Book are some who, if entrusted with a hoard of gold, will (readily) pay it back; others, who, if entrusted with a single silver coin, will not repay it unless thou constantly stoodest demanding, because, they say, ‘there is no call on us (to keep faith) with these ignorant (Pagans).’ but they tell a lie against Allah, and (well) they know it.” (3:75)
“O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say ‘We believe’ with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews -- men who will listen to any lie -- will listen even to others who have never so much as come to thee. They change the words from their (right) times and places: they say, ‘If ye are given this, take it, but if not, beware!’ If any one’s trial is intended by Allah, thou hast no authority in the least for him against Allah. For such - it is not Allah’s will to purify their hearts. For them there is disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter a heavy punishment.” (5:41)
“There is a party of them who distort the Scripture with their tongues, that ye may think that what they say is from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture. And they say: It is from Allah, when it is not from Allah; and they speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly” (3:78).
“Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: ‘This is from Allah,’ to traffic with it for miserable price! Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.” (2:79)
“But because of their breach of their covenant, We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard; they change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them- barring a few - ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds): for Allah loveth those who are kind.” (5:13)
“Many of the People of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them’” (2:109).
“And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them, although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith, when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognised, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. “ (2:89)
“For the iniquity of the Jews We made unlawful for them certain (foods) good and wholesome which had been lawful for them; in that they hindered many from Allah’s Way; that they took usury, though they were forbidden; and that they devoured men’s substance wrongfully; we have prepared for those among them who reject faith a grievous punishment.” (4:160-161)
“Thou wilt indeed find them, of all people, most greedy of life,-even more than the idolaters: Each one of them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due) punishment. For Allah sees well all that they do.” (2:96)
The Koran puts forward a clear, consistent image of the Jews: they are scheming, treacherous liars and the most dangerous enemies of the Muslims. This theological tenet provides a basis for Islam’s deeply-rooted anti-Semitism. Regardless of the actions of Jewish individuals today, and regardless of what policies the State of Israel follows, the Koran justifies an unrelenting form of anti-Semitism that will be extremely difficult to root out from the Muslim world.
And this is by no means confined to an “extremist” fringe. The Koranic impulse toward anti-Semitism is evident in the attacks on Jews emanating from Islamic preachers and scholars worldwide. Take, for example, “Jews as Depicted in the Qur’an,”an article posted in 2004 on the website Islam Online. The website’s founders include the prominent Islamic theologian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who is hailed as a moderate reformist by Western Islamic apologistsThe article, written by Sheikh ‘Atiyyah Saqr, formerly of Al-Azhar University, copiously cites the Koran in depicting the Jews as a gang of corrupt, deceitful cut-throats.
The Jews, he says, “used to fabricate things and falsely ascribe them to Allah.” Supporting this, he quotes the verse condemning Jews forclaiming Allah’s hand was fettered (5:64) and another asserting that some People of the Book say “we have no duty to the Gentiles” and in doing so, “speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly” (3:75). He adds a third verse in which some Jews, asked for money, scoff that “Allah, forsooth, is poor, and we are rich!” (3:181)
The Jews, continues Saqr, “love to listen to lies.” This is essentially a straight rendering of the Koran’s claim that the Jews are “men who will listen to any lie” (5:41). They also spread them: “There is a party of them who distort the Scripture with their tongues, that ye may think that what they say is from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture. And they say: It is from Allah, when it is not from Allah; and they speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly” (3:78). They dare to distort “Divine Revelation and Allah’s Sacred Books. Allah says in this regard: ‘Therefore woe be unto those who write the Scripture with their hands and then say, ‘This is from Allah,’ that they may purchase a small gain therewith. Woe unto them for that their hands have written, and woe unto them for that they earn thereby’” (2:79).
Saqr also notes that in the Koran Allah says the Jews have broken “their covenant,” and consequently he has “cursed them and made hard their hearts” (5:13). Indeed, says Saqr, “they never keep their promises or fulfill their words” – to demonstrate this, he quotes this Koranic passage: “Is it ever so that when ye make a covenant a party of you set it aside? The truth is, most of them believe not.” (2:100).
The Jews also refuse to believe in the prophets Allah has sent them, even Moses, telling him: “O Moses! We will not believe in thee till we see Allah plainly” (2:55). They are hypocrites (2:14; 2:44) who “grow arrogant” before the messengers of Allah, refusing to believe in some and killing others (2:87). They are so arrogant and haughty that they “claimed to be the sons and of Allah and His beloved ones” – a fault they share with the Christians: “The Jews and Christians say: We are sons of Allah and His loved ones” (5:18).
All that represents damage the Jews do to their own souls, but Saqr -- and the Koran itself – doesn’t stop there. The Jews also wish “evil for people” and try to “mislead” them. “This is clear,” says Saqr, “in the verse that reads: ‘Many of the People of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them’” (2:109). They “feel pain to see others in happiness and are gleeful when others are afflicted with a calamity,” as is demonstrated, according to Saqr, by this verse: “If a lucky chance befall you, it is evil unto them, and if disaster strike you they rejoice thereat” (3:120). The Koran, Saqr points out, accuses them of “taking usury when they were forbidden it, and of their devouring people's wealth by false pretences” (4:161).
Even worse, “it is easy for them to slay people and kill innocents,” for “nothing in the world is dear to their hearts than shedding blood and murdering human beings.” Saqr grounds this on the Koran’s assertion that the Jews “slew the prophets wrongfully” (2:61). The Jews are characterized, says Saqr, by “cowardice. . . . To this, the Qur’an refers when saying: ‘Ye are more awful as a fear in their bosoms than Allah. That is because they are a folk who understand not. They will not fight against you in a body save in fortified villages or from behind walls” (59:14). Saqr also excoriates the Jews for their “love for this worldly life” – as does the Koran: “And thou wilt find them greediest of mankind for life and (greedier) than the idolaters” (2:96).
Saqr concludes on an optimistic note, voicing hopes that some day Muslims will be able to mete out punishment to their enemies; “Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection. All this gives us glad tidings of the coming victory of Muslims over them once Muslims stick to strong faith and belief in Allah and adopt the modern means of technology.”
One should consider Saqr’s interpretation in light of Iran’s feverish attempts to acquire a nuclear bomb, alongside the repeated vows by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. For Ahmadinejad and his ilk, eliminating the Jewish state is not just a foreign policy goal; it is a religious imperative.
Jewish apes and pigs
Oddly, Saqr is silent about the famous Koranic passages in which Allah transforms disobedient Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-66; 5:59-60; 7:166). The practice of calling the Jews of today “apes and pigs” has become a staple of jihadist discourse. Although Saudi authorities promised after 9/11 to revise textbooks that taught hatred against Jews and Christians, as late as 2006 Saudi texts still referred to Jews as “apes” and Christians as “swine.”
And in April 2008 a British employment tribunal awarded 70,000 pounds to a teacher who had been fired from a Saudi-funded Islamic school for exposing the fact that the school used textbooks that spoke of “the repugnant characteristics of the Jews” and asserted: “Those whom God has cursed and with whom he is angry, he has turned into monkeys and pigs. They worship Satan.”
In March 2004 Sheikh Ibrahim Mudayris, speaking on official Palestinian Authority television, railed against “the Jews today taking revenge for their grandfathers and ancestors, the sons of apes and pigs.”
And during the swine flu scare in May 2009, Sheikh Ahmad 'Ali 'Othman, the superintendent of da'wa [Islamic proselytizing] affairs at the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments, declared, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, that “all pigs are descended from the Jews whom Allah transformed into apes, swine and worshippers of Satan, and must therefore be slaughtered.” Othman based his argument on Koran 5:60, one of the notorious “apes and pigs” passages of the Koran.
An Egyptian imam, Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub, in January 2009 delivered a televised sermon in which he insisted that Muslim hatred of Jews had nothing to do with Israel, and everything to do with the Koran: “If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. We will never love them. Absolutely not. The Jews are infidels – not because I say so, and not because they are killing Muslims, but because Allah said: ‘The Jews say that Uzair is the son of Allah, and the Christians say that Christ is the son of Allah. These are the words from their mouths. They imitate the sayings of the disbelievers before. May Allah fight them. How deluded they are.’ [9:30]
It is Allah who said that they are infidels.” He also quoted Koran 5:82, the verse that says that the Jews are the Muslims’ worst enemies. His peroration: “As for you Jews – the curse of Allah upon you. The curse of Allah upon you, whose ancestors were apes and pigs…. Allah, we pray that you transform them again, and make the Muslims rejoice again in seeing them as apes and pigs. You pigs of the earth! You pigs of the earth! You kill the Muslims with that cold pig [blood] of yours.”
Saqr, for his part, asserted that because Jews “revolted against the Divine ordinances … they found no warm reception in all countries where they tried to reside. Rather, they would either be driven out or live in isolation.” Moreover, “Almighty Allah told us that He’d send to them people who’d pour on them rain of severe punishment that would last till the Day of Resurrection.”
Those people would be, by Saqr’s own account and that of other Islamic clerics, the Muslims.
Harry de Quetteville, “Christians still ‘swine’ and Jews ‘apes’ in Saudi schools,” Telegraph, June 25, 2006.
Alexandra Frean, “Teacher accuses Islamic school of racism,” The Times, April 15, 2008.
“PA Supervised Sermon:Jews the sons of apes and pigs,” IMRA, March 15, 2004.
“Egyptian Religious Endowments Ministry Official: The Pigs Living Today Are Descended from Jews – And Must Be Slaughtered,” Middle East Media Research Institute Special Dispatch No. 2359, May 15, 2009.
“Egyptian Cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub: The Jews Are the Enemies of Muslims Regardless of the Occupation of Palestine,” MEMRITV Clip No. 2042, January 17, 2009.
John Esposito, “Practice and Theory: A response to ‘Islam and the Challenge of Democracy,’” Boston Review, April/May 2003; “Al-Qaradawi full transcript,” BBC News, July 8, 2004.
‘Atiyyah Saqr, “Jews as Depicted in the Qur’an,” Islam Online, March 23, 2004.
And from the world's leading scholar of Islamic antisemitism, Bat Ye'or:
Society was sharply divided along ethnic and religious lines, with the Arab tribes at the top of the hierarchy, followed by the Berbers who were never recognized as equals, despite their Islamization. Lower on the ladder came the mullawadunand, at the very bottom, the dhimmi Christians and Jews. -- Bat Ye’or, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis. Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005, page 166
As the dhimmis were forbidden to possess arms, they became totally dependent on the occupying power. In certain rural areas, the servile character of the dhimmi's condition worsened with the passage of time. In 1884 Charles de Foucauld described areas in southern Morocco where the Jews and their families belonged body and soul to their Muslim master and were unable to leave him. Here the condition of serfdom was determined by religion and was passed on from generation to generation: these people were part of the master's inheritance in exactly the same way as his lands and livestock. As late as 1913, the Jews of Dadès in the Greater Atlas of Morocco were serfs, the property of their Muslim master. -- Bat Ye'or, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam. Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, pages 52-53
It is reported that, in 1033, between five and six thousand Jews were massacred in Fez, and in 1066 about three thousand in Granada. In Yemen the Jews were forced to choose between death and conversion in 1165 and 1678. The Almohad persecutions (1130-1212) in the Maghreb and in Muslim Spain put an end to what remained of the Christian population of North Africa. The Jews, who had been forced to accept Islam, formed a mass of "new converts" who practiced their former religion in secret. The Almohad inquisitors, doubting their sincerity, took away their children and raised them as Muslims. A similar law also existed in Yemen, where every Jewish orphan child had to be converted to Islam. Abrogated by the Turks during their brief occupation of the country after 1872, it was reintroduced by the Imam Yahya in 1922 and confirmed again in 1925....Records concerning Morocco, Algeria and Yemen reveal that during changes of reign and times of instability, the Jewish quarters were regularly pillaged, some of the menfolk massacred, and many women abducted and held for ransom by the soldiery or by tribes from the surrounding regions. Eyewitnesses have described the destruction of the Jewish quarter at Fez in 1912 at the beginning of the French protectorate, and at Sana'a in Yemen as late as 1948, after the assassination of the Imam Yahya. Such ordeals, over the centuries, resulted in many conversions to Islam. Thus a number of Judeo-Berber tribes of the Atlas, and Muslim families in Fez, are known to be descended from Jews who accepted Islam to save their lives in 1165, 1275, 1465, and 1790-92. There are Muslims in Tripolitania and elsewhere who are the descendants of Jews forcibly converted at different periods. The Jews of Tabriz were obliged to convert in 1291 and 1318, and those of Baghdad in 1333 and 1344. --Bat Ye'or, The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam. Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985, page 61
A brief survey will illustrate the traditional condition of dhimmitude in Persia at this period. In 1866, the head of the Hamadan Jewish community was imprisoned, put in chains, and threatened with death. The same year in Balforuch (a province of Hamadan), the disappearance of a young Muslim provoked the forced Islamization of Jews: eighteen were killed and two burned alive. In Hamadan in 1875, a fanatic mullah preached the slaughter of the Jews; one of them, accused of blasphemy, was burned alive by the mob. In Teheran on 16 May 1877, the Jewish quarter was invaded and its inhabitants attacked, while a mullah published a fatwa forcing Jews to wear a distinctive badge.
In Isfahan in 1889 a ritual murder accusation unleashed several days of anti-Jewish violence and threats of extermination. On 10 August 1889 in the same town, Muslims accused Jewish pilgrims of throwing stones, of attacking a kadi, and of profaning a mosque with brandy. The mob immediately broke the hands and legs of some hundred pilgrims and injured all the others. Isfahan Jews were attacked in the streets the next day and had to hide in their homes; two who ventured out were killed. Their corpses were dragged through the streets and dumped in the Jewish quarter when night fell. On the morrow, some women were raped and the kadi signed a petition for the Jews to be exterminated. The shah's son, Prince Zil-Sultan, hastened to protect the victims but the brutality continued. Two months later, on 5 October, a Muslim who had struck a Jew then accused him of the same offense; Jews were immediately beaten up and their quarter plundered. Only the arrival of Prince Zil-Sultan prevented a general massacre. This report also mentions efforts by "Christian priests," Mirza Norollah in particular, to help the Jews, thereby saving a large number and constantly assisting them. -- Bat Ye'or, Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide, Teaneck, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002, p. 125.
It's enough to make you weep. A huge red (O's favorite color when it's not green) spy ring is busted this week, and there was no trial. They copped a plea. They spend no time in prison. They pleaded guilty, and what did they get? A free ride back to Mother Russia. Yes, they are on their way home, "deported," probably on Air Force One.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Pollard, accused of spying for Israel, has been rotting in a jail cell for 25 years (in a life sentence). More on his case here. America has nothing to fear from Israel; let's get real.
Jihadist spies get off with no jail time. Reds go home. Jihadists return to the stealth fight. Jews rot in jail for life.
The FBI has arrested 10 alleged Russian spies and broken up a "long term, deep cover" network of agents that spent years adopting American identities and gathering an array of intelligence, from information about nuclear weapons to the gold market and personnel changes at the CIA.
In an indictment that might have been taken from the plot of a cold war thriller, the FBI alleges that the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, sent spies to live in the US under false names with the intent of becoming so Americanised they could build relationships with sources and gather information without raising suspicion. Some of the agents lived as married couples and had children who have grown up as Americans unaware that their parents are Russian.
The FBI alleges that the accused spies were able to get close to a scientist working with "bunker-buster" nuclear bombs and a New York financier with powerful political ties. But the intercepts do not suggest they were successful at uncovering valuable information and some of the exchanges with Moscow appear almost laughable in their simplicity, including advice to one agent to "build up little by little relations" with the financier.
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According to the indictments, members of the spy ring reported back to Moscow in 2004 that they were able to get close to an American whom the Russian agents described as involved in "strategic planning related to nuclear weapon development" and "had conversations with him about research programs on small yield high penetration nuclear warheads recently authorised by US Congress (nuclear 'bunker-buster' warheads)".
Another alleged spy, named as Cynthia Murphy, built a relationship with a man described as a prominent New York-based financier active in politics. Moscow responded that he was a very interesting target because he might be able to provide information about foreign policy and discussions among the president's closest aides.
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Each of the 10 has been charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government. They face up to five years in prison if convicted although it is possible that more serious charges will be added.
Secret meetings 'Haven't we met in California?' The coded exchanges
The FBI indictment relates how one of its agents, posing as a Russian consulate official in New York, put one of the alleged spies it was watching, Anna Chapman, through a charade in which she was to deliver a fake passport to a supposed Russian agent.
The FBI agent gives Chapman a magazine and tells her to hold it so she will be recognised by her fellow "Russian agent".
A coded exchange is then agreed on. The "Russian agent" will say: "Excuse me, but haven't we met in California last summer?" Chapman was to reply: "No, I think it was the Hamptons (right)." Chapman then asks the undercover FBI agent: "You're positive no one is watching?" She was assured that no one was.
The FBI agent assured Chapman she was well regarded in Russia. "Your colleagues back in Moscow, they know you are doing a good job and they will tell you this when they see you. So keep it up."
The FBI said: "Semenko responded that he would erase the hard drive of the communications equipment." Asked where he would then go if the signal came to come in from the cold, Semenko said there was only one place: the Russian consulate in New York.
"Last night I got in from Sweden, where I was invited by the pro-freedom Sweden Democratic Party to speak at the political festival Almedalen 2010. (It was there that I picked up some handy Islamophobia pills -- take two, and the Twin Towers didn't go down, Aqsa Parvez didn't get strangled to death by her father and brother, and the Muslim Brotherhood has no plan of 'eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.')" Robert Spencer via Menorah Blog
It is becoming increasingly clear that one of the pillars of Obama’s post-American presidency is to be the islamization of America. How bad is Obama’s obsession with ceding the free world to the umma (the Muslim world community)? Chilling to the bone: it should strike terror in the hearts of free men. Now he is islamizing NASA and the space program. What does this really mean? It is clearly more than outreach. Obama provided for that when he created an entirely new division at the State Department specifically for that very thing, outreach to the worldwide Muslim community (ummah), naming Farah Pandith U.S. Special Representative for Muslim Outreach. So senior level was this department that Pandith reports directly to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. So what are the implications of this treacherous redirection of NASA’s mission by objective? Are we giving away secrets under the guise of diplomacy? Are we giving away highly classified technology and scientific knowledge to the jihad?
I am hearing from the folks in California that our Freedom bus ad campaign has hit the streets of California! Readers on the left coast -- keep sending pics :)
I was driving down El Camino Real in San Mateo the other night and passed a SamTrans bus. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the billboard on the side of it! In the Bay Area! Sorry about the photo quality; I was driving and using my cell phone camera!
In another feeble attempt to add fuel to the "Muslim hate crime" myth, a Muslim was arrested today in the Marietta mosque "arson" case. How many times have we seen this? Muslims deliberately setting fires, vandalizing mosques, etc.? And of course, whenever there is a mosque story of arson, vandalism, etc., unindicted co-conspirator, Hamas-linked CAIR clubs us with these stories for weeks, demanding DoJ involvement, and hate crime legislation (from hate sponsors, that's rich!). And then when the light of truth shines, off they run scurrying into their dark corners and damp lairs once again .....until next time.
A member of the Muslim community is suspected of setting the fire that occurred at a Marietta mosque Monday night, Marietta fire officials said Thursday.
Tamsir Mendy, 26, a native of Gambia, has been charged with 1st degree arson and is being held without bail at the Cobb Countydetention center, said Scott Tucker, Marietta assistant fire chief.
Firefighters got the call about 11:30 p.m. Monday night that the Islamic Center of Marietta (Masjid Al-Hedaya) was on fire. When they arrived at the mosque at 968 Powder Springs St., flames were coming from the front and back of the converted house. Firefighters saved the structure, but damages to the facility are estimated at about $100,000, Tucker said.
Mosque leaders said Mendy, who describes himself as a “devout Muslim,” had attended their prayer services for a few weeks, Tucker said.
CAIR cites the July 9, 2004 case of apparent arson at a Muslim-owned grocery store in Everett, Washington. But investigators quickly determined that Mirza Akram, the store's operator, staged the arson to avoid meeting his scheduled payments and to collect on an insurance policy. Although Akram's antics were long ago exposed as a fraud, CAIR continues to list this case as an anti-Muslim hate crime.
CAIR also states that "a Muslim-owned market was burned down in Texas" on August 6, 2004. But already a month later, the owner was arrested for having set fire to his own business. Why does CAIR include this incident in its report?
CAIR lists the March 2005 lawsuit filed by the Salmi family for the firebombing of their family van as one example of a hate crime report it received in 2004. However, the crime named in the lawsuit occurred in March 2003, was alreadyreported by CAIR in 2003, and should not have been tabulated again in the 2004 report.
CAIR reports that "a home-made bomb exploded outside of the Champions Mosque in the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas," staking its claim on eyewitness reports that on July 4, 2004, "two white males" were seen placing the bomb. We inquired about the incident and found that Spring's sheriff department could not locate any police files about an explosion. Further inquiries to the mosque and an e-mail to CAIR both went unanswered. There is scant evidence that any crime even occurred.
CAIR notes that "investigators in Massachusetts are still investigating a potential hate-motivated arson against the Al-Baqi Islamic Center in Springfield." However the case was long ago ruled a simple robbery, news that even CAIR's own website has posted. The Associated Press reported on January 21, 2005, that prosecutors determined the fire was set by teen-age boys "who broke into the Al-Baqi mosque to steal money and candy, then set the fire to cover their tracks." The boys, they clarified, "weren't motivated by hatred toward Muslims."
CAIR describes what happened to a Muslim family in Tucson, Arizona: "bullet shots pierced their home as they ate dinner in October 2004" and two months later their truck was smashed and vandalized. But the only evidence that either incident was motivated by hate of Muslims is the Dehdashti family itself, not the police. Detective Frank Rovi of Pima County Sheriff's Department, who handled the shooting investigation, said that according to the neighbors, the desert area by the Dehdashti house was often used for target practice. Neither incident was classified as a hate crime and both cases were closed by February 2005, long before the CAIR report went to press.
Of twenty "anti-Muslim hate crimes" in 2004 that CAIR describes, at least six are invalid – and further research could likely find problems with the other fourteen instances.
Should a group with a track record like this really be given a pass by AP and Minnesota education authorities?
"Muslim Group: Hate Incidents On Rise In MN Schools," from AP, March 24 (thanks to Wheeler):
ST. PAUL (AP) ― A Muslim civil rights group is calling on the Department of Education to investigate reports of racial and religious tensions in Minnesota public schools.
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations asked for the department's help Wednesday, following reports of anti-Muslim incidents around the state.
Muslim students have allegedly been called names and faced harassment by students and teachers. In one case, CAIR says, two students shoved pork bacon in the faces of Muslim high school girls. Muslims do not eat pork.
In another case, CAIR says, a bus driver went past Muslim students waiting at a bus stop. And CAIR says a teacher told students to spray air freshener when Muslim students entered a room....
New York politicians are bending over backwards, violating protocol, to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero. In warped speed they are ramming it through, removing every obstacle to expedite the process and erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero in time for it to meet its stated opening date, the tenth anniversary of September 11th. Why? Would they do this for a church? A synagogue? This is an outrage .............
Last night, on less than a week and a half's notice (at a time when most people who care are not even around), the Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 (“LMCB”) Landmark Commission (“LMCBLC”) held its meeting to consider the landmark status of 45-47 Park Place (the site of the proposed 911 mega mosque). Refusing to wait until the entire board could meet, seven board members voted unanimously to deny landmark status to the Burlington Coat Factory building, removing another obstacle to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's supremacist, triumphal mosque.
One journalist noted that the "CB1 Landmarks committee, which is a stickler for details when someone wants to install new windows or awnings, voted to recommend to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission that landmark status not be given to the two antique buildings on Park Place that the owner wants to tear down to build the mega-mosque at Ground Zero."
The historical significance of the property is clear: it was designed by the famous architect Daniel D. Badger. A number of his buildings have already been given landmark status. The New York Times obituary (19 Nov. 1884, p. 2) for Daniel D. Badger (1806-1884), read in part, "Daniel D. Badger, the pioneer of this country in the use of iron for building purposes" ....... Further, the building was the headquarters of Merck & Company from 1911 to 1925.
More importantly, his building has special historical significance because of 911. It was part of the attack. The landing gear of one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center towers flew out to the Burlington Coat Factory building, and fell through the roof to the basement. The fact that the committee ignores that fact is outrageous, and disrespects the victims of 911.
The LMCBLC unanimously (with one recusal) voted to recommend to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (“LPC”) that landmark status be denied. Yes, this ugly decision was unanimous. The one recusal came from a board member who admitted to being in bed with the owner (future financial gains implied). This was the same tool who during last month's community board meeting was shilling for the mosque.Apparently, one of the owners of the property approached him and subsequently corresponded with him. He said he was recusing himself because although there was no “immediate” financial benefit to him, he thought it appropriate given potential conflicts of interest. The same member of the LMCBLC made reference to Kristallnacht, implying that opponents of the mosque are Nazis. Outrageous, I tell you.
The basis for the decision was that the LPC had not recommended landmark status for other architecturally and aesthetically significant buildings in the neighborhood -- which is patently untrue. See below:
45 Park Place (Ground Zero mosque site) 311 Broadway
Look at the two buildings side by side. The building on the left is 45 Park Place. The building on the right is 311 Broadway, and was granted landmark status in January 2010 by the Landmarks Preservation Commission on the grounds that there were very few Italian Renaissance, palazzo-style buildings left in the city. Yet both buildings are Italian Renaissance, palazzo-style architecture in the same neighborhood. Why is one being granted landmark status and the other being denied that status? A rhetorical question, of course.
Volume 22, Number 36 | The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan | January 15 - 21, 2010
Tribeca got a new landmark this week: 311 Broadway, a five-story Italian Renaissance-style building.
“This building recalls not only mid-19th century New York City, but also early 16th-century Rome and Florence,” Bob Tierney, chairperson of the city Landmarks Preservation Commission, said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s one of the few remaining palazzo-style buildings on Broadway in Lower Manhattan.”
Built in 1857, the building between Duane and Thomas Sts. was once located in the center of New York’s textile district. William Waldorf Astor bought the building in 1887 and subsequent tenants included L.C. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company, David T. Abercrombie Company and Hagstrom Company, Inc., the mapmaker, which bought the building in 1948.
An L.P.C. report noted the building’s detailed stonework as particularly worth preserving. The architect is unknown. The ground floor is occupied by Atomic Wings restaurant and a Super Value closeout store, with apartments above.
Next week, the Landmarks Commission, all Bloomberg appointees, is meeting on July 13th to consider landmark status. They do Bloomberg's bidding, and in the sleaziest of ploys, Bloomberg is ducking responsibility, refusing to meet with the 911 families or the Coalition for the Preservation of Ground Zero, and calendaring these key motions on a week's notice in the middle of the summer with little to no due diligence.
It is obvious that the Landmarks Commission is going to deny landmark status at its meeting next Tuesday. Again, why the mad rush? So that the mosque can open on the tenth anniversary of September 11th, as promised?
The above photos and the picture of the landing gear of the plane (below) are concrete evidence that the board is deceiving the public.
The legal team for The Coalition of the Preservation of Ground Zero pointed out to the Chair of the LMCBLC that the LPC was rushing to make a decision without having the full vote from the board, which is scheduled to meet later this month, after the LPC is scheduled to vote on the matter this Tuesday, July 13. The few board members simply said that this is the procedure. The facts, however, are undeniable. The LPC has had the Property “calendared” for landmark consideration since 1989, tabled for 22 years. Only within the last two weeks has it provided the public notice that it would be making a decision. It is doing this without full public input, and in the dead of summer, when many people aren't around to provide input.
One phone call from the Mayor's office could get this vote scheduled for next week tabled, so that the legal team for the Coalition for the Preservation of Ground Zero could prepare the case for landmark status. Considering the sudden rush to schedule this all-important vote, it seems a small accommodation.
The LMCBLC is also completely ignoring the significance of the Property in light of the 9/11 attacks, given the properties' proximity to Ground Zero and the fact that pieces of one of the planes landed in the building. The LMCB actually favored landmark status several decades ago, and now the increased historical and cultural significance of the property is being completely disregarded. The rush to deny this property landmark status so that a mosque can be constructed for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 — when the Freedom Tower that has been kicked around for nearly a decade as a political football will still not be finished — is disrespectful to the public at large, and especially to the 9/11 victims and their families. At the very least, due process demands that this vote be delayed so that the community has a full opportunity to be heard.
The only thing worse than Bloomberg's pernicious callousness, in his refusal to meet with the 911 families on this issue, is the media's silence --Bloomberg Media.
The Burlington Coat Factory building at 45 Park Place is more than worthy of landmark status:
According to the landmarks commission, the building has historical, architectural and cultural significance.
It is an example of New York's cast-iron architecture, built in 1857 in the Italian Renaissance style, to house a prominent Manhattan shipping firm. The building is like many of the store and loft structures that dominated the dry goods warehouse districts of Lower Manhattan. It was used between 1911 and 1925 as the headquarters of Merck & Company, the pharmeceuticals giant. It was later converted into a discount clothing store.
The five-story building's storefront is comprised of a cast iron Corinthian colonnade.
"The commission is considering whether to grant the building landmark status," said Elisabeth de Bourbon, spokesperson for the Landmarks Preservation Commission. "We will hold a public hearing on the possible designation on July 13." (more here)
The vote is Tuesday in lower Manhattan. Pressure is important between now and then. We need time. Why the rush? Please contact the LPC and the Mayor’s Office. Be heard -- polite but firm. You must do this. This is so patently wrong.
More on the famous architect, Daniel D. Badger, here. Here's a look at one of his landmarked buildings, the E.V. Haughwout Building:
The cast iron was forged at Daniel Badger's famous foundry, Architectural Ironworks, located along the East River. Its entire facade is comprised of 92 keystone arches crowned by an entablature comprised of several bands of intricate friezes. The facade was handsomely renovated at great expense several years ago. The building featured the world's first passenger elevator, powered hydraulically, designed and installed by Elijah Armstrong Otis.
The Haughwout Emporium was world famous in its day as manufacturers and purveyors of cut glass, porcelains, mirrors , chandeliers and more. Their clients included the Lincoln's, who purchased a service for the White House, the Czar of Russia, the Imam of Muscat who purchased chandeliers to illuminate the royal harem. Gifts from Haughwout's were presented to the Emperor of Japan and King Rama IV of Siam in the age of gunboat diplomacy. (more here)
that the facades of these store-and-loft buildings suggest the profound impact made by the Italian Renaissance Revival style introduced by Joseph Trench and John B. Snook with their design for the A.T. Stewart Department Store; that the buildings in the T ribeca South Historic D istrict Extension, ranging in width from three to six bays, share certain design elements, which collectively create harmonious streetscapes; that the buildings are rich in a variety of Italianate-style architectural features; that the window openings of different shapes are emphasized by pediments, arched hoods, flat lintels, pilasters, and projecting sills; that the buildings are crowned by deep cornices, characteristic of the Italianate style; that many of the buildings retain parts of their early cast-iron and glass storefronts, some of which are documented in the 1865 catalogue of Daniel D. Badger’s Architectural Iron W orks; that by the early 1860s, the area had become the thriving hub of a national system for the distribution of wholesale dry goods, as well as the location of textile importers, dry goods jobbers, and related businesses; that after the Civil War, as the dry goods firms began moving northward, new kinds of businesses, such as hardware and cutlery merchants, moved into the area’s store-and-loft buildings; that the endurance of such enterprises reflects a continuity in the mercantile use of the district, and has been a major factor in retaining much of its nineteenth-century architectural character; that the Tribeca South Historic District Extension represents a significant pre-Civil War commercial architectural environment in New York City; and that the intact and cohesive streetscapes provide the Tribeca South Historic District Extension with a special sense of place. Accordingly, pursuant to Chapter 21 (formerly Chapter 63) of the Charter of the City of New York, and Chapter 8-A of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates as an historic district,
Does this not deserve further investigation? Where are those architectural elitist effetes at the NY Times, who take themselves and their expertise so seriously?
UPDATE: Go to the Landmark Commission Meeting July 13th. Just go:
According to our legal team, the hearing starts at 2:00 p.m. and will be held at 904 Lexington Avenue (at the corner of East 68th Street), in Lecture Hall 714 of Hunter College on the 7th floor. Anyone who wants to speak gets two minutes -- ign up in advance in the lobby of the auditorium.
There is something terribly wrong with this story. And yes, I believe that someone in the Obama administration had a hand in leaking the information on Bibi's itinerary. Something smells to high hell in DC. I do not believe that Netanyahu's guns are "ordinary." The theft was no accident.
There is more to this story. I understand all fingerprints were wiped clean.
Security for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was tightened shortly after his arrival in Washington early Tuesday morning when it was discovered that four handguns belong to body guards had been stolen.
The pistols were in a suitcase that was supposed to have been transferred from his chartered El Al plane, which landed in New York, to an American Airlines plane to Washington. The Prime Minister arrived in Washington on schedule, but the suitcase did not. It was later discovered in Los Angeles -- without the four handguns.
American Airlines has not commented on the incident and it is not clear whether the guns were stolen in New York or in Los Angeles. The theft was an embarrassment for airport security at JFK airport in New York.
Officials did not explain why the plane landed in New York instead of flying directly to Washington.
More proof of the stealth jihadists who have infiltrated Congress and senior levels of the departments of Defense and Justice and the Pentagon .............
acting as foreign agent related to his work for an Islamic charity with ties to international terrorism, ..........
......falsely denying that he was hired to advocate for IARA, and by falsely claiming that the payments from IARA were charitable donations intended to assist him in writing a book about bridging the gap between Islam and Christianity.
There's that "interfaith" taqiya that Imam Rauf is always beating us about the head with ......
KANSAS CITY, MO—A former congressman and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations pleaded guilty in federal court today to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered foreign agent related to his work for an Islamic charity with ties to international terrorism, announced Beth Phillips, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
Mark Deli Siljander, 59, of Great Falls, Va., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey to one charge contained in an Oct. 21, 2008, federal indictment, and an additional charge filed today, involving his work for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) of Columbia, Mo. Siljander was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan and was a U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations General Assembly.
Co-defendant Abdel Azim El-Siddig, of Chicago, Ill., a former IARA fundraiser, also pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Siljander and others to hire Siljander to lobby for IARA’s removal from a Senate Finance Committee list of charities suspected of having terrorist ties, while concealing this advocacy and not registering with the proper authorities.
“A former congressman engaged in illegal lobbying for a charity suspected of funding international terrorism. He then used his own charities to hide the payments for his criminal activities,” U.S. Attorney Phillips said. “Siljander repeatedly lied to FBI agents and prosecutors investigating serious crimes related to national security. With today’s guilty pleas, all of the defendants in this case have admitted their guilt and will be held accountable for their actions.”
Siljander operated a Washington, D.C., consulting business called Global Strategies, Inc. IARA was an Islamic charity in Columbia, Mo., that served as the U.S. office of an international organization headquartered in Khartoum, Sudan. IARA was closed in October 2004, after being identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a specially designated global terrorist organization, for the support its international offices provided to Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and the Taliban. The executive director of IARA, co-defendant Mubarak Hamed, 53, of Columbia, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Sudan, has pleaded guilty in connection with this case.
According to today’s plea agreements, between March and May 2004, Hamed and El-Siddig hired Siljander to lobby for IARA’s removal from a U.S. Senate Finance Committee list of charities suspected of funding international terrorism, and its reinstatement as an approved government contractor. IARA lost its status as an approved government contractor in 1999, when the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) terminated grants for two relief projects in Mali, Africa. USAID informed the organization that the grants were not in the national security interest of the United States.
Siljander, El-Siddig, and Hamed each knew that IARA was part of a large international organization controlled by its headquarters in Khartoum, Sudan, and agreed with each other to conceal Siljander’s efforts on IARA’s behalf. In order to do so, Siljander instructed El-Siddig and Hamed to transfer $75,000 of IARA’s funds to him by funnelling them through non-profit entities. El-Siddig carried at least three checks issued to Siljander’s charities from Chicago to Washington, D.C., and gave them to Siljander.
In exchange for the payments, during the Summer of 2004, Siljander acted as an agent for IARA by contacting persons at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, USAID, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Army, in an effort to have IARA removed from the USAID list of debarred entities, and to remove IARA from the Senate Finance Committee’s list of charities suspected of funding terrorism. Federal law requires anyone who serves as an agent of a foreign entity, including an organization, to register with the U.S. Attorney General.
In pleading guilty, Siljander admitted that in two separate interviews he repeatedly lied to FBI agents and prosecutors acting on behalf of a federal grand jury. Siljander obstructed justice by falsely denying that he was hired to advocate for IARA, and by falsely claiming that the payments from IARA were charitable donations intended to assist him in writing a book about bridging the gap between Islam and Christianity.
Under federal statutes, Siljander is subject to a sentence of up to 15 years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine of up to $500,000. El-Siddig is subject to a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole, plus a fine of up to $250,000. Sentencing hearings will be scheduled after the completion of presentence investigations by the U.S. Probation Office.
Siljander and El-Siddig were the final defendants facing trial next week in Kansas City, Mo.
Hamed pleaded guilty on June 25, 2010, to conspiring to illegally transfer more than $1 million to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions, and to obstructing the administration of the laws governing tax-exempt charities. Hamed used IARA to solicit charitable contributions throughout the United States, taking in between $1 million and $3 million in contributions annually from 1991 to 2003, and then illegally transferred funds to Iraq, with the assistance of a Jordanian identified by the U.S. Treasury Department as a specially designated global terrorist. Hamed also impaired and impeded the administration of the Internal Revenue laws by misusing IARA’s tax-exempt status, providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and lying to federal agents.
Co-defendant Ali Mohamed Bagegni, 56, a native of Libya who is a naturalized U.S. citizen and former resident of Columbia, pleaded guilty on April 6, 2010, to his role in the conspiracy. Bagegni was a member of the board of directors of IARA.
Co-defendant Ahmad Mustafa, 57, of Columbia, a citizen of Iraq and a lawful permanent resident alien, pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2009, to illegally transferring funds to Iraq in violation of federal sanctions. Mustafa worked as a fund-raiser for IARA and traveled throughout the United States soliciting charitable contributions. Further, in 1999, 2000, and 2001, at Hamed’s behest, Mustafa traveled to Iraq on IARA business. In 2001, he visited Iraq for several weeks and met with numerous officials to discuss the process of opening an IARA office in Iraq. Among the officials with whom Mustafa met was Hushyar Zibari, who was at the time a leader in the Patriotic Democratic Party of Kurdistan and is currently the foreign minister of Iraq. Mustafa also looked to find a building suitable for an IARA office in the Kurdish provinces of Iraq.
In New York City, where all power is centralized, all roads lead to the Mayor’s office. And Mayor Bloomberg is covertly pushing the Ground Zero mega mosque forward. Bloomberg controls the calendar, so why would he suddenly, last week, schedule a landmarks committee meeting for tomorrow and a landmarks commission meeting for next week, in the middle of July, when no one is around? Boss Bloomberg, is the fix in? And if so, why?
More troubling is the media has paid scant attention to Bloomberg’s pernicious display of megalomaniacal governance. It is corruption when our elected officials ignore the will of the people, but it is far worse when our media, who are supposed to give voice to the voiceless, work in tandem with such corruption. Why is Bloomberg given a free pass by the free press while Governor Paterson is eviscerated daily, for sport?
Why isn’t the New York Times, the Daily News or the Post demanding to know why Mayor Bloomberg is trying to expedite the building of the Ground Zero mega mosque, when the majority of New Yorkers do not want it? Why isn’t the media demanding to know why the World Trade Center has not yet been rebuilt and why its reconstruction or replacement is not being given the same priority as the mega mosque?
Why is Ground Zero still a large, gaping horrible wound? Why hasn’t the media demanded to know why the 9/11 Memorial Museum has not been built and, worse still, is being built underground like some massive coffin while the erection of a fifteen story mega mosque soaring over the cemetery that is Ground Zero gets mayoral fast-tracking? Remains of the dead are still being found, and Bloomberg is ambivalent about that…. but the mega mosque? That’s his priority.
One phone call from Bloomberg could table these hearings, giving much needed time for our landmarks legal team to work up our report. The only one who has accountability on this is Mayor Bloomberg. He controls the landmarks commission; they are all his appointees. None of them will go against him.
Why hasn’t the media called him on this? Where are all the investigative journalists looking at who is greasing whose palm?
Are they all planning on careers at Bloomberg media someday?
Huge props to Julia Gorin, who is keeping Atlas readers updated on the exposure of the lies and libels used to demonize the Serbs and lure the US into fighting with Muslims against the Christians in the Balkans.
Another trial of a "butcher" by civilizational butchers, and more shocking revelations.
The more light is shed, the more foul the stench:
Once again no one is watching the supposedly momentous trial of yet another supposed “Butcher of the Balkans” – after all that hoopla upon the arrest of Radovan Karadzic in the summer of 2008. As one analyst warned the gleeful world leaders and other Serb-haters at the time: “Careful what you wish for.”
And so it was that when Karadzic gave his stunning opening statement over the course of two days in March, reporters took down just the first five minutes. Given what he said, it’s no surprise the press had no interest in letting the public know.
But thanks to Hague observer Andy Wilcoxson, we can get the fuller picture that Americans in particular were denied by our self-censoring media throughout the 90s and then during the Milosevic trial, which Wilcoxson alone followed. Because Andy Wilcoxson exists, you and I don’t have to comb through the trial transcripts. The hard part has been done for us. To make things even easier, I’ve excerpted the most salient parts of Wilcoxson’s recent reports about the trial, which began in March.
Please allow the abridged May article below to serve as your introduction to the man whom the U.S. called an “ally” in Bosnia: President Alija Izetbegovic. Our leaders CONTINUE to portray the late president—whose son today is a leading weapons smuggler--as a pro-Western democrat working toward a democratic and multi-ethnic Bosnia. In the ‘90s Western bureaucrats did so even while Iran and the Arab world glorified Izetbegovic as Jihad’s great hope.
(Note: “Okun” is Ambassador Herbert Okun, who served in the U.S. Foreign Service and was later special adviser and deputy to Cyrus Vance, personal envoy to Yugoslavia of the UN Secretary-General.)
…Karadzic put it to the Ambassador that “In 1934 the Jerusalem Mufti al-Husseini visited Bosnia-Herzegovina [as] a guest of Alija Izetbegovic, and his visits resulted in the creation of the SS Waffen and Handzar Division, composed of Bosnian Muslims.”
… Karadzic also put it to the Ambassador that in 1939 Izetbegovic founded the ‘Young Muslims’ (an organization affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt). Karadzic claimed that the Young Muslims “continued to act secretly within Yugoslavia after World War II and because of that, the group was tried and given prison sentences in 1947.”
…Okun acknowledged that in 1970 Izetbegovic authored and published the “Islamic Declaration.” Karadzic asked the ambassador, “Do you agree that from 1970 to 1980, he disseminated the ‘Islamic Declaration’ through Islamic circles, and in the 1980s, he started creating the nucleus of an organization which was supposed to put into practice the ‘Islamic Declaration,’ and he was tried because of that at the Court in Sarajevo?”
The witness confirmed Karadzic’s information saying, “Yes, I know that.”
The judgment said that Alija Izetbegovic, and Hasan Cengic sought the establishment of Islamic sharia law, and that they idealized the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. The judges found that Izetbegovic and Cengic had solicited the help of the Iranian regime to foment an Iranian-style revolution in Yugoslavia based on Izetbegovic’s “Islamic Declaration”.
… The trial judgment said, “Alija Izetbegovic asserted that Islam must be a state system or social system in all countries where the population is Muslim, and that the necessary conditions should be created to turn Bosnia and Herzegovina into an Islamic republic with Islamic laws.” The Sarajevo trial chamber concluded that the realization of Izetbegovic’s goals could only be accomplished “with a fratricidal war, terror, or a foreign intervention.”
The judgment quoted Izetbegovic as saying “Our imams should be armed and they should interpret and apply Islam following the example of Iran’s Shiite imams.”
Hasan Cengic, who would go on to become Izetbegovic’s Minister of defense during the Bosnian war, held even more radical views than Izetbegovic.
The judgment quoted Cengic saying, “The goal of the Islamic revolution in our country is the creation of a unified Islamic state comprising the area of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sandzak, and Kosovo.”
The judgment went on to quote Cengic’s view that “Jihad should be pursued to its final outcome in order to exterminate the enemy and the infidels.” He said, “We should not wait for a challenge or a provocation. Muslims must invent a challenge. They must be the ones who produce the challenge, and the goal will then come by itself…Muslims must be superior to all others, and every effort should be made to create an environment in which everyone will be of pure Muslim blood.”
Karadzic asked Okun, “Do you remember that in the autumn of 1991, I asked Mr. Izetbegovic to say publicly that the ‘Islamic Declaration’ was not his political and state programme? I asked him to renounce it, but he didn’t do that. Do you remember that?”
Okun confirmed saying, “Yes, I remember that.”
NOW CHECK OUT OKUN’S TAKE ON ALL THIS:
“…the Muslims did not have an army, they had nothing, like any military force whatsoever. They were outnumbered by the Bosnian Croats and the Bosnian Serbs, both of whom were more highly organised and had their countries behind them…So the chances of them ever putting this fanciful dream into action were nil…I wouldn’t take [their statements] seriously.
“…Izetbegovic never hid his religiosity, nor did our president, George W. Bush, who was often accused of this kind of stuff because he was a self-described born-again Christian. These are not unusual events in countries.”
Of course George W. Bush never said he wanted to turn the United States into a theocracy, he never solicited the help of a foreign government to instigate a religious revolution in America, and he was never imprisoned for collaborating with Nazis and foreign religious fundamentalists. Ambassador Okun seemed like a fairly intelligent man, it’s difficult to believe that he was as foolish as he sounded. It was sadly obvious that he had a political agenda that he was pursuing through his testimony.
Karadzic quoted entries that Okun had made in his notebook. One entry quoted Croatian president Franjo Tudjman saying, “Muslims want a Jihad, getting billions from Arabs.”… In another notebook entry Okun quoted former Bosnian Prime Minister Mile Akmadzic (an ethnic Croat) saying “Muslim radicals (specifically: Ejup Ganic, Haris Silajdzic, Sefer Halilovic and Rusmir Mahmutcehajic) want to rid BH of Serbs.”
Okun dismissed this saying, “These were assertions by the Bosnian Croats. They were not accurate.”
…When Karadzic accused Okun of behaving as Izetbegovic’s advocate, Okun volunteered an interesting piece of information. He said, “As you know, the Bosnian Muslims refused to sign the Vance-Owen Peace Plan, along with you. That was in January 1993. It took several months, until March 25, 1993, before Izetbegovic signed the peace plan, and then he only did so after the map had been changed to ensure Bosnian Serb rejection, because the corridor was cut by a Muslim province…”
However, earlier that day Okun had been critical of the Bosnian-Serbs for [also] rejecting the Vance-Owen plan…The fact that Okun criticized the Bosnian-Serbs for rejecting the Vance-Owen Plan when he knew the plan had been purposefully rigged “to ensure Bosnian Serb rejection” shows a disturbing lack of sincerity in his testimony.
Karadzic quoted from Izetbegovic’s “Islamic Declaration” (trial exhibit D75). One passage advocated an Islamic rebirth. It said, “We are not announcing an age of peace and security, but one of unrest and trial. There are too many things crying out to be destroyed. There will not be days of prosperity, but of self-respect. A people which is asleep can be awakened only by blows. Whoever wishes our community well will not try to spare its struggle, danger and misfortune.”
Karadzic asked the Ambassador whether he was aware that Izetbegovic held these views and Okun said, “On the whole, yes ... we knew that Izetbegovic was on the religious side of the SDA.”
Karadzic said, “I’m telling you, Mr. Ambassador, that Izetbegovic did not care about the well-being of the Muslim people, let alone the well-being of the Serb and Croat people. What do you say to that?”
Okun replied, “I say that’s a debatable point.”
Again Karadzic quoted entries from Okun’s notebook. One entry said, “Mr. Izetbegovic and the radical wing of the Presidency want to provoke foreign intervention.” And another entry quoted the French UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) commander General Morillion saying “The B and H government was very unhappy when the UNHCR [humanitarian] convoy got through to the Muslim town of Srebrenica.”
After reading out these entries Karadzic asked the Ambassador, Did the Muslims “abuse the sufferings of their own people to win over the sympathies of the international community and bring about a foreign intervention?”
Okun’s response was, “I would not say they abused it.”
Muslims Commit Crimes in Sarajevo and Ascribe them to Serbs
Karadzic showed the witness a document from the Security Administration of the Supreme Command of the Army of Bosnia-Herzegovina (exhibit D77). The document laid out the way in which Muslim soldiers in Dobrinja (a neighborhood in Sarajevo) murdered a Serbian civilian and then told the international authorities that the victim had been killed by Serbian shelling.
…Karadzic read out entries from Okun’s notebook. One entry said, “Since third week of August, UNPROFOR is being deliberately targeted by Muslim troops, have protested this to Izetbegovic.”
Another entry quoted UNPROFOR commander Satish Nambiar saying “Incidents of killing of two French soldiers yesterday was dastardly act cold-blooded ambush by Muslim force of Presidency. The humanitarian convoy announced in advance, as always, unquestionably 100 per cent certain that French soldiers were killed by Muslim forces.”
Karadzic asserted that in Sarajevo the Muslim Army killed UN soldiers with a view to tarnishing the image of the Bosnian-Serbs and Okun conceded, “That’s correct, we knew at the time that it was most probable that the French peacekeepers had been killed by Muslim fire. It’s in my journals, and that was something that was widely understood by the UN troops.” […]
In case readers need reminding as to just why Bosnia is so important and why the Karadzic trial needs to be followed, especially after Americans passed on the opportunity to follow the Milosevic trial, here is a quote from writer Jonathan Freedland in 2005 in the UK Guardian, two weeks after the 7/7 attacks. His article was titled “It’s not only about Iraq”:
Tellingly, those who monitor Islamism in Britain saythe big surge in growth of extremist groups came not after 9/11 or Iraq but in the mid-1990s - with Bosnia serving as the recruiting sergeant. In the same period Chechnya, Kosovo and Israel-Palestine all came into play - again predating Iraq.
It is also worth understanding that America’s favorite region to ignore, the Balkans, is a jihadist beachhead. For, once they have the Balkans they will have Europe. Moamar Gaddafi understands this perfectly well.
Further, it is important to finally set the historical record straight, as it is to not play into in the hands of the bigger Islamic scheme for which theinaccurate phrases “8,000 men and boys” and “worst atrocity since WWII” are being utilized. Finally, in the name of justice, it simply isn’t right that the least guilty party of the Yugoslav wars, where worldwide jihad officially kicked off, should remain the “monsters.”
As Nebojsa Malic reminds me, “Every Muslim combatant who died in Bosnia was buried as a martyr in the holy war, a shahid. Every. Single. One.” (And please note that our “moderate” ally Izetbegovic asked to be buried “among the shahids.”) “Non-Muslims are categorized as ‘casualties’ but the Muslim dead are ALWAYS referred to as ‘shahid.’ This is an explicit admission that the war was a jihad, however much the Muslims tell Western reporters otherwise. The Potocari memorial is one gigantic monument to jihad, Koranic verses and all. The Srebrenica Muslims’ raids on nearby Serb villages “and wanton murder, torture and mutilation of civilians match the standard jihadist practices.”
And so in closing, here is an excerpt from the following day of Okun’s testimony, which contained even more eye-popping revelations:
…Karadzic showed [Okun] an entry in his [Okun’s] notebook dated 9 September 1992 in which Okun quoted a statement by Judas Kumin, who was at that time the leader of the UNHCR in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The notebook entry read, "Situation deteriorating in Serbia. Sanctions hard. Many Muslims going into Serbia. Serbian response to refugee inflow is a good one. On whole, non-discriminatory. Need to tell donor community that too much aid going to B and H and Croatia. It is needed in Serbia.”
In an entry dated September 25, 1992 Okun’s notebook quoted the U.N. top aid official in the region, Jose-Maria Mediluce of Spain at a meeting in Zagreb saying, "Bosnian Serbs (and Muslims) also under pressure; either fleeing fighting in Eastern Bosnia, or fleeing persecution by Muslims and Croats…Karadzic read out the entry and said, “Here a reference is made to Bosnia-Herzegovina. From Eastern Bosnia, 170,000 Serbs were expelled, and 150,000 Serbs from Western Bosnia. That's what's written here, isn't it?” After a long speech condemning the Serbs, Okun finally conceded that the answer to the question was “Yes.”
Another entry in Okun’s notebook said, “[Portuguese diplomat Jose] Cutileiro was very concerned about what they [the EC] see as gaseous efforts to lay all the blame on the Serbs and Milosevic for everything that goes wrong in B and H. Cutileiro says bluntly that Mr. Izetbegovic is a liar and cannot be trusted.”
Okun responded to the entry saying, “We heard comments along those lines about all of the parties.”
Speaking on the topic of Iranian arms transfers to the Bosnian-Muslims Okun said, "[Croatian] President Tudjman on one occasion took Secretary Vance and me to the Zagreb Airport to look at an Iranian 747 jet plane, the big ones, that was loaded with arms and gas masks destined for the Bosnian Muslims."
Okun also testified that "There is no question that the Bosnian government did receive weapons, including from the United States. They landed largely at Tuzla Air Force Base. Everybody knew that. People felt that the imposition of an arms embargo on a defenseless state was an immoral act, and therefore they broke the embargo.”
If the Bosnian-Government was so defenseless one has to wonder how, in the first year of the war, they managed to expel the 320,000 Serbs that Okun made reference to in his notebook.
Karadzic showed Okun a document (exhibit D80). The document was an indictment against Senad Sahinpasic issued by a German court in Munich dated March 9, 1993. Sahinpasic was an official of the “defenseless state” of Bosnia-Herzegovina and it alleges that he was trying to procure weapons and nuclear materials for the Bosnian war effort.
Okun then states that preserving multi-ethnic UN founding member Yugoslavia is the same as trying to create a Greater Serbia. Wilcoxson’s analysis in response to that:
The alchemy here is amazing, the term “Greater Serbia” conjures up an idea of territory that belonged to others being conquered and conjoined to Serbia to form a Greater-Serbia. But according to Okun, Greater-Serbia was to be realized by maintaining the status quo and for the Serbs to continue living in a common-state as they had done for the previous 47 years while others opted to secede from the common state.
An Affinity for the Islamic Cause
Okun seemed to have an affinity for the Islamic cause. His criticism wasn’t limited to the Serbs. He was also highly critical of Israel. He said, "The Israeli founding myth was that about half a million Palestinians voluntarily fled their homes in Palestine during the War of Independence in 1948. That's just not true. They were forced out."
Contemporaneous documents published in 1948 indicate that the Palestinians left Israeli territory with the intention of returning after the Arab armies had destroyed Israel and drove the Jews into the sea – but that’s another story.
Finally, a Gubernatorial candidate New Yorkers can cheer, support and get behind: Rick Lazio. He is demanding an investigation into the shady financing of the 100-million-dollar mega mosque at Ground Zero.
Cuomo is for the mosque. New Yorkers need to know that. Although the leftist corrupt Democrat machine thinks they control the levers of power ............. it is the voter who pulls the lever.
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/AP) -- Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio wants his Democratic rival, Andrew Cuomo, to investigate the development of a $100 million mosque being planned near ground zero.
Lazio says he's concerned that not enough is known about the funding of the project. He says that Cuomo, as attorney general, has the authority to investigate the project because Cuomo's office has jurisdiction over nonprofit organizations in New York.
Cuomo has said he supports the mosque's construction.
Lazio refused to say whether he opposes the construction of any mosque so close to the Sept. 11 terror attack site.
He said he was concerned specifically about the lack of information about the project's funding.
A message left with Cuomo's office was not immediately returned Wednesday.
CNN’s Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr is leaving the company following the controversy caused by her tweet in praise of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah
Mediaite has the internal memo, which says “we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised.”
Nasr tweeted this weekend: “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.”
After a blog post expanding on her position, CNN promised the issue was “serious” and would “be dealt with accordingly.” That’s apparently her exit from CNN. Here’s an internal memo obtained by Mediaite:
From Parisa Khosravi – SVP CNN International Newsgathering
I had a conversation with Octavia this morning and I want to share with you that we have decided that she will be leaving the company. As you know, her tweet over the weekend created a wide reaction. As she has stated in her blog on CNN.com, she fully accepts that she should not have made such a simplistic comment without any context whatsoever. However, at this point, we believe that her credibility in her position as senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs has been compromised going forward. As a colleague and friend we’re going to miss seeing Octavia everyday. She has been an extremely dedicated and committed part of our team. We thank Octavia for all of her hard work and we certainly wish her all the best. Parisa.
Kudos to Andrew Breitbart, King of New Media, for yet again going where no new media giant has gone before, and launching yet another vehicle for accurate, news breaking journalism: "Big Peace," which in the Orwellian world in which which live actually means Big War. But we wouldn't want to offend any savages, now, would we?
Big Peace debuted this week, as did my latest on Islam's 1,400-year-old war on the Jews. Yesterday's meeting with PM Netanyahu and President Moe .............
As Netanyahu returned to Washington and met again with Barack Obama on Tuesday, it’s important to recall what neither man would mention: the specific reason for the war between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. It’s a religious war, just as the impending world war is also a religious war. The “Arab-Israeli” conflict over this or that piece of land is an Islamic narrative: taqiyya (religiously-sanctioned deception), to inflame the world and incite hatred against the Jews.
In fact, the conflict is not an Arab-Israeli anything. If it were, Muslim countries like Iran and Indonesia wouldn’t be so enflamed against Israel. It is Islam’s 1,400-year-old and continuing war against the Jews. That is the objective reality. The Koran calls the Jews the Muslims’ worst enemies (5:82), and says they’re accursed of Allah (9:30), who transformed them into apes and pigs (5:59-60). You don’t make peace with the people your god has told you are your worst enemies forever.
And secondarily, the Arab-Israeli conflict is the front line of Islam’s larger war against all unbelievers. As the world’s leading scholar on Islamic anti-Semitism, Bat Ye’or, said in an interview with me: “the Palestinian war was not only against Israel. The Palestinians, you have to see them as a tool or as an instrument of the Arab world to destroy Israel, and also as a channel to penetrate into Europe and Islamize Europe. It is exactly what they have done.”
The only news media that appeared to be covering this non event was The Advance. I expect the media will add a zero to the 40 Muslims who showed up, as the media loves to inflate the numbers when shilling for jihad.
MAS announced that they have no intention of walking away from the convent sale.
In a gross act of un-Christian abandonment, there has been no decision from the Archbishop. No vote has been taken (which has left the people of Staten Island nothing short of ......perplexed, to say the least).
The good people of Staten Island thought that the MAS would willingly walk away from such an unpopular project in the interest of "building bridges," "mutual understanding," and "mutual respect." Ha!
They aren’t going anywhere. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of Islam or knowledge of Islamic history knows that this has never happened in the history of Islam. "Walking away" is not in their vocabulary. "Building bridges," "mutual understanding," and "mutual respect" are one-way streets in Islam. Just ask Imam Rauf.
Rauf, Imam of the much opposed Ground Zero mega mosque, said he didn't understand the hostility of the opposition to the monster mosque, especially since our "children and our grandchildren would be Muslim." One man's "mutual respect and mutual understanding" is another Muslim's Islamic supremacism.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Dozens of Muslims and their supporters have assembled on the steps of Borough Hall in St. George to rally in favor of a proposal to build a mosque in Midland Beach.
Approximately 50 demonstrators had gathered by 11:45 a.m., carrying signs reading "No Hate, Yes Faith," "Where are my Rights?" "This is my Country" and "Peace Love and Equality."
The rally is being organized by the Muslim American Society (MAS).
There has been fierce debate across the borough about whether MAS should convert an empty former convent, owned by St. Margaret Mary R.C. Church in Midland Beach, into a mosque and community center.
Residents learned about the agreement between the church and MAS in May, but were furious the contract was drafted quietly and without their input. They expressed concerns about traffic and parking in the neighborhood, and contended that bringing a mosque to the area would display insensitivity toward area residents who were killed on 9/11.
In June, the church's pastor, Rev. Keith Fennessy, withdrew his support of the plan in the face of the opposition.
UPDATE: Just heard from one of my sources that NY1, WPIX and the Advance covered the "press conference." Their coverage should prove to be ............. amusing. (/sarc)
There have been myriad news reports of late that the badly beaten Afshan Azad (Muslim star of the Harry Potter movie) wanted to retract the honor killing charges against her father and her brother (who attempted to kill her for dating a non-Muslim young man). The thing is, the "retraction" did not come from her or her lawyer. The source is her would-be paternal and fraternal killers. They are would-be murderers for Islam, so what's a lie -- it's righteous, right?
Attorney John Wolfson, who is defending the pair, insists that Afshan has tried to retract her statement, regretting the outcome of the investigation. He states that she never wanted for her father and brother to be arrested.
Their spin is that "she tried on three occasions to retract her statement and has pleaded with the Crown Prosecution Service not to arrest" them. Is that so? So why was the restraining order against them issued after the arrest? And why are they prohibited from traveling to London, where she is staying? It is still unsafe for her there. She is not only a target for her family, but she is seen as an enemy of the Muslim community. After the father and brother were arrested, they expressed fear of reprisals from the Muslim community for failing to uphold their "family honor." Here is that admission.
Speaking at the family’s semi-detached home, her brother Ashraf, a customer services adviser, said: ‘We are going to get trouble from the community now. It is bad news for our safety, her safety.
‘My younger brother is going to get harassed at college. All our family is going to be harassed by the community because of this.
What's most galling is how the media and various columnists took it on its face without so much as a cursory inquiry. This young woman needs protection, real protection. Instead, the media is working to protect her attempted killers in the name of Islam.
Much thanks to Da Vinci, who tracked down the real story.
Harry Potter Lies About “Honor Killing”
Tragically, a lie is circulating the Net like wildfire that the Harry Potter actress, Afshan Azad, has tried 'three times' to retract her statement to the police wherein she accused her father and brother of trying to murder her (for seeing a Hindu man). In reality, however, Ms. Azad has said no such thing. It is instead John Wolfson, the attorney for the father and brother, who's giving this lie to the press.Here is the revealing text.
"But lawyer John Wolfson, who is defending the father and son, insists the actress is already regretting her statement, and has tried to retract it through the Crown Prosecution Service three times.
He tells the Daily Express, "This is a desperately sad situation and she has never wanted her father and brother to be locked up. She has tried on three occasions to retract her statement and has pleaded with the Crown Prosecution Service not to proceed.
"I sincerely hope for the family's sake that this can be quickly and happily resolved. My client and his father have already denied the charges and will maintain that plea."
This trick by Wolfson is the oldest (and dirtiest) trick in the legal world - a lawyer trying to save his clients by destroying the veracity of the accuser. We saw its infamous practice in the O.J. Simpson trial when Simpson's lawyers destroyed the truthful testimony of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman (testimony which could have put Simpson in jail for life) by accusing Fuhrman of being a racist. Mr. Wolfson is simply trying a different version of the same ugly tactic.
Suspicions about his statement, however, should have been raised by the fact that there is NO video, photo, tape, recording, etc., of Ms. Azad saying this herself - it's only Wolfson claiming she said this. (Rule of thumb: if you didn't hear someone say it, it means they didn't.) Note also that the Crown Prosecution Service is not corroborating this lie. Had Ms. Azad actually approached them '3 times' to retract her statement, there would be a report to this effect. The fact that the police do not admit to any such report makes it clear that no report exists - i.e., Ms. Azad never approached them '3 times' (or even once) to retract her statement. Finally, this lie by the lawyer is proven as such by the fact that Ms. Azad is still hiding out in London in fear of her life. That clearly proves that, far from regretting her charges against her father and brother, she clearly understands that her family will kill her again if they have the chance (and she's not giving it to them).
It's not surprising that so many have been duped into believing the lawyer's lie. I would have believed it myself - had it not been for the fact that I've been a legal secretary for a quarter century. Trust me, there's a reason for the joke: "How do you know a lawyer's lying? His lips are moving." Again, as I've said, this ploy by the attorney for the accused is the oldest (and dirtiest) trick in the legal world.
Nice try, Mr. Wolfson - but it isn't going to work.
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Harold Hoffman presents alternative understandings from his personal archives - recorded 35 years ago.
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Preservation and Humility, what they mean, for real.
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The Line of Life. "I WANT... I AM... WHERE AM I?" This discussion will loose most of you but don't worry, love the struggle! The natural laws and some further world history.
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Harold Hoffman presents alternative understandings of Religion in three 90 minute lectures. Covering briefly, but not in our chronological order, so be patient - some challenging goodies are contained herein.
These lectures are from Harold's personal archives - dating back 35 years ago.
Covering 'World History' from pre sands Egypt to current times and 'Esoteric Understandings'. History, Esoteric and Occult keys, the different types of religions, from whence they came and what this portends for the future - including how it all fits into the current times, of economics, geo-politics, law, judiciary, religious practices, moral philosophies, ceremony, magic and rituals; all in brief.
Before listening to these recordings it may be useful to have also listened to film director, Chris Everard, in conversation with Harold Hoffman.
Ashley Mote: Independant Member of European Parliament Weekly Letter from Brussels.
Starting in next few days: Letter from the Asylum ashley mote ......................................
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE FIRST OF MANY INTERVIEWS WITH ASHLEY MOTE.
website http://www.ashleymote.co.uk/ Britain is committing collective suicide” Sensational new pamphlet J’Accuse…! calls on British “to re-install own standards” Most of the elderly in Britain are indigenous. Most of the young are the children of migrants. The British nation and its way of life are in serious danger of disappearing within one lifetime, certainly within two.
“We are committing collective suicide.”
That is the conclusion of a new pamphlet J’Accuse…! by Ashley Mote MEP, vice-president of the Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe. 'J’Accuse!' accuses the European Union and the British government of the “deliberate destruction of British identity”.
The pamphlet points the finger at uncontrolled immigration, the failure of the British to produce enough children to sustain their own future, the utterly inadequate education of tens of thousands of young people, and the exploitation of so-called ‘terrorism’ to impose a regime of oppression.
Together these factors have eroded fundamental British values. Britain is becoming a third-world country – a western version of a banana republic.
“Much of this change has been imported. It is our fault. We have allowed it to happen and we are now allowing other ideas and ways of life to replace our own.”
'J’Accuse!' goes on…“The whole point about the British way of life is our absolute right to enjoy our country and freedoms in peace. They are not the product of the law. Instead, the law and our government are there to protect that right and those freedoms – not destroy them.
“Yet it is our own government that is today the greatest single source of terrorism. Theirs is the terrorism of state control.”
The number of criminal offences on the statute book has doubled since 1997 – one more for every day Labour has been in power. Britain has become a self-imposed police state.
'J’Accuse!' concludes : “Our British way of life is at terrible risk. We British need to go back to our roots, and re-install our own standards.”
Copies of 'J’Accuse!' are available via the website http://www.ashleymote.co.uk/ or by writing to PO Box 216, Alton, Hants, GU34 4WY.
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MEP, vice-president of the Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe. 'J’Accuse!' accuses the European Union and the British government of the “deliberate destruction of British identity”.
Harold Hoffman interviews Ashley Mote M.E.P They discuss: Europe... the UK.. and what the future holds for the sceptred isle... this jewel this "new jerusalem"? click to listen
Journalist turned businessman turned author. Now a regular columnist, broadcaster and political campaigner. Special interest in British constitutional history.
In 1972 he started his own international marketing business, helping major industrial companies to increase their export business. At one time the company had offices in Houston and Atlanta, USA, Geneva and London. The Tory government's foolhardy attempt to shadow the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in the late 1980s and early 1990s ultimately forced interest rates to 15% and destroyed Ashley Mote's business, along with over 100,000 others.
Having had such bitter first-hand experience of the damage the ERM could do, he started researching the European Union. This led to his book Vigilance - A Defence of British Liberty. Vigilance is one of the fastest-selling books about the EU ever published. His second political book, OverCrowded Britain is about the UK's immigration crisis, and was published in 2003.
In 2000, Ashley drafted a Petition to Her Majesty under Article 61 of Magna Carta, which was later signed by 28 peers and taken to Buckingham Palace by the Duke of Rutland and others. The petition asked Her Majesty not to grant the Royal Assent to the Bill to ratify the EU's Treaty of Nice - an appeal which reports suggest came close to success.
A founder member of the SANITY group (Subjects Against the Nice Treaty), Ashley worked closely with Trevor Colman to produce three videos about the EU. The launch of Shockwaves resulted in sales of over 1000 a day. Since then he has written and directed two others - Better Off Out and Who Governs Britain?
Briefly active in the Liberal Party of Joe Grimond and Jeremy Thorpe, Ashley left when the party was taken over by left-wingers. He joined the UK Independence Party just before the 2001 general election as the only political home for people wanting Britain to leave the EU altogether. At the 2004 European parliamentary elections he won the second seat for UKIP in the south-east of England.
He now sits as the UK's only independent member of the European Parliament, free to fight for the early withdrawal of the UK from the European Union and the restoration of government of the British by the British for the British.
Married with two adult children. Ashley Mote is the author of several other books, including The Glory Days of Cricket, which won the Cricket Society Literary Award in 1997.
He is a member of the Hambledon Club and a Freeman of the City of London. His other interests include music, the theatre, good company and rugby.
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Gerard Batten UKIP MEP Interview and possible weekly fortnight Review from Brussels Interview with Gerard Batten (U.K.I.P- M E P member of the european parliament) Click to Listen his website, Gerard Batten 24.7.2007
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Experts in their Fields
Dr Richard North weekly/fortnightly review on EU - THE EU SCEPTIC MOVEMENT AND EXIT STARATEGY FOR UK. E U Referendum
Dr Richard North explains the The Reform Treaty and Why the people MUST have a vote! with Harold Hoffman Click to Listen 27.7.2007 (7993)
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Prof Dennis Cuddy
10/27/2007 Modeling the Modern Middle East LISTEN PLEASE NOTE: ACCESS OUR THREE INTERVIEWS WITH PROF DENNIS CUDDY IN 'INTERVIEWS' AND ALSO IN 'LISTEN AGAIN'. http://britanniaradio.co.uk/?q=node/2 The U.S. waved its light saber at Iran again this week, amid will- they or won't-they speculation about attacking that country, Russian President Putin's admonitions notwithstanding.
The world didn't arrive at today's Middle East in a vacuum. It's largely a product of century-old streams of globalist political thought, coupled with interventions by western counties such as France, Great Britain and the United States, topped off with Shiite Islamic expectations for the re-emergence of the Twelfth Imam. Dr. Dennis Cuddy, Ph.D, author of "The Globalists," is our sole guest for today's perspective-oriented program.27.10.2007
Prof Dennis L Cuddy fortnightly letter from the East Coast via News with Views Click to Listen 28.7.2007 (8057) Dr Dennis Cuddy-A brief dissertation on whats really happening-The Revelations of the WORLD GOVERNMENT-BACKED BY HIS DOCUMENTATION-A MUST LISTEN-A WARNING TO WAKE UP-NOW !!! THE EU-THE USA-THE MIDDLE EAST-ISRAEL-PAKISTAN-WW2-NAZISM-MONNETT-FABIANS-DIALECTS AND DELPHIC TECHNIQUES- A NEW RELIGION-GLOBALISTS-SOLANA-A WORLD SOCIALIST GOVT IN THE MAKING NOW!!!!! IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS WE SHALL BE HAPPY TO TAKE THEM ON OUR NEXT INTERVIEW
Prof Eugene Narrett a series of commencing beginning August weekly 1 hour interviews on:- Israel End Times
Israel End Times
Reminder of First Lecture by Prof Eugene Narrett Click to Listen 2.8.2007 (8179)
To include: Broad strokes. With illustrative details and examples of the situation in Israel and how it clarifies the drive toward a world state. Then in the subsequent shows, the topics on the list below:
Machiavelli and the Counter-Revolution of Paganism, 1500-1815
Western fragmentation, progress and regression, 1500-1900
Sympathy for the Devil: Romanticism and 'Darwin' 1790-1930
British Hysterics: Gothicism, Feminism and the New Empire
Working for the Three Bloc World: Betrayal, Eugenics, and Control
There's no Success like Failure... 1920 - 1966, Wars, cults and Vietnam
The pivotal year of the endtimes: 1967 and the Great Betrayal, Eras in Conflict
Land for Peace, the borderless world and War Eternal
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Prof. Eugene Narrett lecture-part 2 Machiavelli-and paganism-1500-1815 Click to Listen 8.8.2007 (8353)Link his current book World War threeBooks by Dr. Narrett
Part 6 Symapthy with the Devil Prof Narrett part 6 shelley-hegel-marx-Dialectic-new theology in the west-a new social order-auguste comte-darwin-galton-huxley-conflict to religious thought-Romanticism-ROMAN TICISM click to listen
Prof Eugene Narrett lecture 7-Mary Shelley and Frankenstein -click to listen unausa.org-COMMON PURPOSE-social physchological social control-prohibition-sympathy-despair and horror-Illuminati in Engelstadt & Percy Shelley & Rosicruscianism
Prof Eugene Narrett in conversation with Harold Hoffman leture 9 Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus-the monsters education and the authors blind spot: the failure of romantic teaching click to listen
apologies for bad background hiss Professor Eugene Narrett in conversation with Harold Hoffman lecture 10 Gothicism Terror Awe Majik or Madness into the Culture of the West click to listen
NOTHING NEW ITS OVER 5000 PLUS YEARS-EUGENICS-EUGENICS-EUGENICS-FROM CORRUPTION -DECEIT THROUGH ROMAN-TICISM-GOTHIC GLOBAL TERROR TO HUMAN ELIMINATION PROF EUGENE NARRETT IN CLASS 11 WITH HAROLD HOFFMAN CLICK TO LISTEN
Prof Eugene Narrett and Harold Hoffman discuss the span of history involving the EUGENICS MOVEMEMNT-FROM 1850's to the 1950's lecture 12 The deeper understandings of how this PROCESS AND PHILOSOPHY applies to destruction of Nation States and the furthering of the Global Agenda with such notaries as Machiavelli-Malthaus-Darwin-Galton-Huxleys's-Carnigie-Rockefeller-Sanger-Blavatsky-H G Wells- click to listen
PROF EUGENE NARRETT AND HAROLD HOFFMAN DISCUSS LECTURE 13-THE EUGENICS PROCESS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF 1967 LECT 13 -WHEN ALL WAS POSSIBLE BUT FAILURE HAPPENED-VERY IN DEPTH OF HISTRY TO ALMOST CURRENT TIMES SETTING THE CURRENT SCENE click to listen
Professor Eugene Narrett and Harold Hoffman discuss 1967 Turning Point in the Mid East-Israel lecture14 GLOBALISATION-IN SPORT ACROSS RUSSIA-EUROPE AND N.AMERICA -DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY FORGETTING NOT REMEMBRANCE-ATTEMPT TO DESTROY RELIGION FOR A NEW RELIGION FRAGMENTATION-FEDERATION-INTERNATIONALIZE-IMMIGRATION AQUARIAN AGE FEMINISM SWINGING 60's BIRTH CONTROL FAMILY UNIT DESTRUCTION-MOVING TO AN AGE OF HI TECH FEUDALISM-ALICE BAILEY click to listen
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CLICK TO LISTEN Prof Eugene Narrett with Harold Hoffman ANNAPOLIS -ISRAEL-THE END TIMES -VITAL TO LISTEN Israel as the control group for human kind and a template for whats already done in Europe and being done in USA-FROM 1967 TO 1973 -2007-The True state of Israel- Israeli Politics-Whats happening now The Future Problems !!!!!
Prof Eugene Narrett with Harold Hoffman discuss Annapolis-N Intelligence Iran Holocaust click to listen 18.12.2007 16
Prof Eugene Narret in converstaion with Harold Hoffman-Israel's Destruction-Global Security State-what it all means-part 7 click to listen
Professor Narrett analyzes the dark side of the War on Terror and exposes its true and startling target. You will read the news with new and opened eyes after examining this study. With his characteristic breadth of relevant sources, he examines Western culture from ancient works to post-Modernism.
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The Policy to Destroy Israel and timely for Annapolis)with the shifting comments on geopolitics and religion click to listen Please note our 10 plus 4 more interviews to come on britanniaradio Interviews In this show, Dr. Eugene Narrett describes the interlocking strands between British policy from 1920s through 1940s (and timely for Annapolis) with the shifting comments on geopolitics and religion of Aquarian guru Alice Bailey. These facts give a new meaning to "land for peace" and "internationalizing Jerusalem". This show exposes the diabolical plans the British and the wider International Community have, planned for Israel.
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HIR Prof Francisco Gil White History of the 20th Century 14 hourly lecturesd (Nazi Ideaology and infiltration into terrorist movements How it effects the Mid East and Israel perhaps future prophetic interpretations? History of the 20th Century 14 chapters-14 interviews(listed as per his book chapters)
Click to Listen to his site HIR part1-as promised Dissertation by Prof Francisco Gil White His Background The Importance of History The Creation of the Eugenics Movement Oh -Its those Jews Again
Dr Francisco Gil White-part 2 History of the 20th Century- The Name -Palestine-and Hadjamini al Husseini-in converstaion with Harold Hoffman Click to Listen 30.7.2007 (8113)
Prof Gil White(-chapter 4-) our part 3- The Rise of the Eugenics Movement in Germany-History-Aristocracy-and the rise of Hitler-the role of the USA/UK ELITE- Click to Listen
The role of the Vatican -pope pius 12th -chapter 5 part our part 4-Click to Listen
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Who is Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr.? First Interview with Gaylon Ross Snr. CLICK TO LISTEN PLEASE NOTE: TELEPHONE CONNECTION TO USA NOT GOOD - SO YOU WILL HAVE TO INCREASE VOLUME WHEN GAYLON IS SPEAKING. http://www.4rie.com/
Born in Big Lake, Texas, he holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A & M University. While active in engineering, he was a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, and a National Certified Manufacturing Engineer. After graduation, he accepted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant (later promoted to 1st Lt.) in the Army Security Agency (ASA), a branch of the National Security Agency (NSA), which is a big brother to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Military training was in the field of cryptoanalysis (the breaking of codes), and served as a Company Commander with an Intelligence Unit on the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in the Chorwan valley of South Korea, from 1956 to 1957 (after the fighting had ceased).
Upon leaving active duty, began his professional career in the petroleum industry. Served as an Industrial Engineer for ten years until being promoted into management, and was a manufacturing Plant Manager for over ten years.The past seventeen years he served as an International Management Consultant, working in the US, Japan, Mexico, Canada, England, and Iran.
After completing the manuscript to the first book, Who's Who of the Elite, he contacted a number of publishers to ascertain their interest in this material. They all declined because of the subject matter, so he formed his own publishing company, RIE, and published this first of fourteen books in progress. The author has devoted the rest of his life to exposing the real truth about those evil ones in this world who would like to make us all their slaves 27.1.2008
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Back to the future
By Ted Belman Israpundit, for regular update of news from Toronto, London and Israel.
We discuss Obama Barak and his background. Real revelations! The battle with the Clintons and McCain's position. Finally, Ted Belman's view of Israel's state. Optimistic.
Dr Sean Gabb director of Libertarian Alliance monthly review of one to two topical news items and their relevance to current issues and the Libertarian Alliance philosophy Libertarian Alliance
Interview with Dr Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance by Harold Hoffman Click to Listen We are pleased to announce the discussion with Dr Sean Gabb-
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John Galt on a fortnightly basis and his views on the current state of Nations and the lack off a Spiritual -Religious Dimension in the West.
The Cassandra File click to listen Be a fly on the wall and listen to John Galt and Cassandra and myself discuss: The failure of the UK and its population.
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Harold Hoffman interviewed by Tamar Yonah, Israel National Radio. PARADIGM SHIFT: the Financial Tsunami WE ARE IN NOW... Tuesday morning interview on site click to listen
THE PARADIGM SHIFT WE ARE EXPERIENCING.
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Chris Everard. Controversial? Yes Definitely. Thought Provoking? Undoubtedly!
He is Britain’s most successful documentary film-maker. He is the only British director making feature-length documentaries for cinema audiences and the only British director to have late show slots every weekend at cinemas in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Rome simultaneously. His is called the ‘Enfant Terrible!’ (which means the terrible child) of British Cinema by Paris Match magazine.
In 2007, he made no less than 4 x 2 hour feature-length documentaries, which were all subsequently released on DVD, each with 2 hour bonus discs. That means in 2007 he almost single-handedly matched the entire cinema output of the combined British Film Industry. Since 2004, he has made no less than 7 feature-length documentaries which have all been on independent cinema release and then sold to DVD worldwide.
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Previous interviews on site under Listen Again and Listen Now.
Daniel Hannan with Martin Jay. Interview on the EU and its various implications for the UK - Daniel Hannan noted Journalist and MEP FOR S.E. ENGLAND. Click to Listen
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