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Monday, October 10, 2011
Intelligence Update on Balkan Islamism
Balkan Islamic extremism, although it is considered as a taboo theme by most of the mainstream media, is still an issue debated in high-level and sensitive discussions between policy makers across the world, due to importance of the region as a historical fault line between the West and the East, in parallel with the ongoing interstate competitions that are cantered around South-eastern Europe.In a leaked cable of the U.S State Dept, dated back in 2005, the then Ambassador of the States in Bulgaria, John Beyerle noted that "Foreign international organizations and institutions praise Islamic extremism in Bulgaria...the official Islamic charities depend financially on them...Muslim Bulgarian women in Southern Bulgaria are imitating Arabic looks". The cable was classified as secret and events that have happened over the past few years have testified the existence of the aforementioned findings.According to information by various international security services, in the Balkans and in Bulgaria in particular, quite a few Islamic extremist groups are functioning and a number of Arabic descent Bulgarians are assisting organizations such as Hezbollah in financial terms by diverting a part of the profits they make through trafficking, car theft and narcotics trade.Moreover, Chechen Islamic extremists operate in Bulgaria and deal drugs sending capital to their brethren in the Caucasus. The Kurdish KGK is also active in Bulgaria and Iranian diplomats have been noted taking part into radicalizing segments of the Pomak minority in the South of the country which is primarily Muslim.In Kosovo, a recent established political-social movement named "Bashkohu", which means "participation", strives for the acceptance of the hijab in local schools and it includes amongst its circle groups of devout Muslims that want to openly declare the region as a "Muslim territory" and away from European norms and canons. Although the movement was not able yet to acquire the necessary clout to implement its ideas, the overall activity of certain Muslim circles -that has been extensively researched in previous articles and reports- is still gathering pace and it is estimated that as soon as NATO and international forces exit the Province; then it will manifest in an explicit form.
Read more here.
'Moderate' Islamists Poised to Take Over Tunisia
As predicted, Islamists are poised to take power in Tunisia. Click here for the story. Of course, the bearded men will make every effort to present themselves as so-called moderates--compared to the monsters running Iran, say. But that will change; in due course, Tunisia's clerical fascists will drop their masks.
The Idiots of Appeasement have paved the way for barbaric Islamic law in Tunisia.
The Obama administration is presiding over--assisting and cheering on--the Islamization of the Middle East.
NATO Surprised by Libyan Resistance
After intervening in Libya's civil war--on the side of Al Qaeda-linked Islamist-led rebels--NATO is "surprised" by continued fierce resistance from forces loyal to the country's ousted leader. Click here for the story.
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Copts Under Siege in Obama's New Egypt
Forbidden 'Muslim World' News: 12-Year-Old Christian Girl Gang-Raped for Eight Months in Obama's Barbaric 'Pock-ee-stohn'
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Why does America's Islamist-Appeasing President
Pronounce Pakistan like a Middle Easterner
and Afghanistan like a Midwesterner?
EGYPTIAN CHAOS
ISLAMISTS RISING, COPTIC CHRISTIANS THREATENED
THANKS TO OBAMA-BACKED OUSTER OF MUBARAK
Sunday, October 09, 2011
Libyan Calls for 'Moderate' Islamic Political Role
BLOODBATH IN EGYPT
Islamist Iran Tries to Exploit US Protests
The Awful Truth
Ten years into the Afghan war, it is painfully clear that America, which is losing the war, has been radical Islam's best friend.
The pro-Islamist policy transcends traditional party politics, as shown by the sordid history of the Afghan adventure. Covert U.S. support for Islamist warlords and drug dealers against a Soviet-sponsored, secular Afghan regime began during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. His National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, promoted the intervention in order to draw the Soviets into invading Afghanistan. Moscow fell into the trap; and the U.S. intervention was subsequently escalated by the Reagan administration into the largest-ever U.S. covert operation. It cost U.S. taxpayers at least $3 billion.
More important, with Saudi and Pakistani support, the jihad against the Soviets morphed--or metastasized--into a global jihad that blew back horrifically in the Islamist/Al Qaeda mega-terrorist attacks on the U.S. homeland of September 11, 2001 (9/11).
The Bush administration's relatively restrained response to the attacks--the worst-ever on the U.S. in its history--shows that the administration was bent on preserving the pro-Islamist policy. Instead of declaring war on Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, the country that had aided and abetted and played host to Al Qaeda, and on Islamism--the clerical fascist creed responsible for the Pearl Harbor-style sneak attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon--Bush declared war on "terror" and took too long to do little, relying on supposedly sympathetic but still notoriously unreliable Afghan warlords for much, if not most, of the fighting on the ground.
The U.S. obviously had the means to wipe out Al Qaeda and the Taliban; and the political will was there on the popular level. With the exception of the far left, the country would have accepted--in fact, the people longed for and expected--a truly merciless and swift response, including use of the most devastating conventional weapons and, if necessary, tactical nuclear weapons, to obliterate the enemy.
But Bush disappointed the nation. He dislodged the Taliban and Al Qaeda; but he did not destroy them. More specifically, Bush allowed Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar and their most senior commanders to escape into Pakistan--the country that created and sustained the Taliban and had also aided Al Qaeda. It seems that Bush declared war on terror--instead of on radical Islam--and let the mass murderers flee for the following reasons:
- He was afraid of nuclear-armed Pakistan.
- He was afraid of oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
- He wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext for plunging the U.S. into a permanent war aimed at remaking the Middle East.
Bush's blunders and failures paved the way for the ascent to power of Barack Hussein Obama--an almost unbelievable development, not because of Obama's mixed-race heritage--the U.S. was obviously "ready" to overcome its racist past and elect an African-American President--but in view of his Muslim roots. Obama's Muslim birth--his father was a Muslim and Islam traces the religion through the father--and upbringing--he studied and practiced Islam as a child in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, in the home of his adopted Indonesian Muslim father and radical leftwing mother--should have disqualified him given the ongoing (but deliberately mislabeled) war against Islamism. But the damage caused by Bush was so great that the voters ignored Obama's background--including his radical Left, Black Muslim, and Black supremacist associations--and embraced the Candidate of Change as a kind of savior.
Or mahdi--meaning, Muslim messiah. Hailed as "one of us" throughout the Middle East, Obama has made outreach to what he insists on calling "the Muslim world"--itself an Islamist concept--the foundation of his foreign policy. His odious bow to the Saudi petro-tyrant, obsession with squeezing Israel and creating an irredentist Palestinian state, appeasement of and attempts to align with nuclear-arming Iran, support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey's Islamist regime, undermining and complicity in the actual overthrow of Egypt's pro-American, peace-preserving president, and unnecessary intervention in Libya--on the side of Islamist-led rebels--belie a continuation of U.S. efforts to exploit and manipulate radical/organized/state Islam. Obama can be credited with finally killing Bin Laden--found hiding in a safe house in Pakistan, in the shadow of its equivalent of West Point--and other Al Qaeda leaders. But Obama has also narrowed the definition of the Islamist enemy to Al Qaeda alone. All other Islamist organizations and entities are OK to engage, according to the Obama administration, including the Taliban. Secret talks with Mullah Omar's murderers are underway.
From Eisenhower to Carter to Reagan to Bush to Obama ... from failed attempts to assassinate Nasser to the overthrows of Iran's Shah and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak ... the dots cry out for connecting.
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