http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_re_us/us_terrorism_investigation_1
Closing Arguments Begin in Terror Trial
A federal prosecutor called six South Florida men would-be terrorists who pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden during closing arguments in their terrorism trial.
The prosecutor said Thursday the so-called Liberty City Six wanted to wage war against the United States and blow up Chicago's Sears Tower.
A defense attorney said the men were manipulated victims of the FBI and two government informants paid tax free to induce the defendants to pledge allegiance to al-Qaida and plan terrorist acts to kill millions.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710776624&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Airing Hizballah TV in US
A Pakistani immigrant whom a prosecutor called "Hizbullah's man in New York City" was sentenced to nearly six years in prison on Thursday, for airing the Lebanese terrorist group's television station.
Javed Iqbal was ordered by a federal judge in Manhattan on Thursday to serve five years and nine months for putting the broadcasts of Al Manar among stations he sent to customers in New York.
Prosecutor Eric Snyder said Iqbal helped the TV station get out Hizbullah's message, noting that the terror group had killed more Americans than any other terrorist group before September 11, 2001.
Iqbal's lawyer Josh Dratel said his client didn't intend to aid Hizbullah as he tried to build his television station distribution company.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95917
Feds' “McVeigh Excuse” Prompts Response
Responding to the Obama administration's attempt to justify a controversial "right-wing extremism" report by citing Timothy McVeigh, a counter-terrorism group has posted a video statement by a prominent Democrat investigator who contends the Oklahoma City bomb plot was hatched not by right-wingers but by Islamic jihadists. . . .
"I have been asked about the Oklahoma bombing and whether there was any kind of federal cover-up. The simple and direct answer is yes," he said. "Unquestionably, a federal cover-up beginning in 1995 and continuing to today." . . .
He’ll undoubtedly be branded a right-wing extremist even tho' he's a Democrat.
Clarion Fund to Promote The Third Jihad Across the Nation
Clarion was founded to alert Americans about issues of national security, and in particular the emerging threat of Radical Islam. Clarion is a non-profit, non-partisan, apolitical organization.
Clarion's new feature-length documentary, The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision for America, focuses on the dangers lurking in our own backyard – the growth of Radical Islam on American soil.
The media has taken notice of the film, which tackles one of the most controversial and urgent issues facing Americans today.
This must-see film will be promoted at thousands of screenings taking place all over the U.S. beginning in May. A gala screening at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and a screening at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles will highlight the Clarion launch schedule.
Screenings:May 3 - Minneapolis, MinnesotaMay 12 - Detroit, Michigan May 13 - National Press Club, Washington, DCMay 17 - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CaliforniaMay 20 - Toronto, CanadaPurchase the film or organize a screening.
Public screenings of The Third Jihad can be arranged only by visiting our website at www.TheThirdJihad.com, or by sending an email with your full contact information to info@thethirdjihad.com.
http://www.forward.com/articles/105042/
Harvard’s Muslim Chaplain Embroiled in Death-for-Apostasy Controversy
In an e-mail to an unnamed student, the chaplain, Taha Abdul-Basser, stated that most traditional authorities on Islamic law agree that in countries under Muslim governance, the proper punishment for apostasy — that is, rejection of Islam by a former Muslim — is death. . . .
In a subsequent statement . . . Abdul-Basser said that he was simply explaining to a student the traditional position of Islamic legal scholars, not advocating their viewpoint.
“I have never expressed the position that individuals who leave Islam or convert from Islam to another religion must be killed. I do not hold this opinion personally,” Abdul-Basser wrote, adding that the “wisdom” he referred to simply described the skill of the scholars who have historically debated the laws on apostasy.
So, is this the Muslim version of He Was For It Before He Was Against It?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/22/judge-review-guantanamo-detainees-confinement-new-obama-rule/
Judge to Review Guantanamo Detainees' Confinement Under New Obama Rule
A federal judge has signaled he will move quickly to decide whether terrorism suspects can continue to be held at Guantanamo Bay under a new Obama rule.
U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton has given attorneys for the detainees 12 days to file arguments for why he should grant an expedited judgment for their release under the new standard. That standard, announced last month by the Obama administration, said prisoners at the U.S. naval base in Cuba can only be detained if they substantially supported Al Qaeda, the Taliban or other associated forces.
Walton was critical of the Obama administration for refusing to define what "substantial support" means . . .
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/feisal_abdul_rauf/2009/04/time_to_update_islamic_law.html
Time to Update Islamic Law
“. . . it is important that we understand what is meant by Shariah law. Islamic law is about God's law, and it is not that far from what we read in the Declaration of Independence about "the Laws of Nature and Nature's God."
The Declaration says "men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights; that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
At the core of Shariah law are God's commandments, revealed in the Old Testament and revised in the New Testament and the Quran. The principles behind American secular law are similar to Shariah law - that we protect life, liberty and property, that we provide for the common welfare, that we maintain a certain amount of modesty.
What Muslims want is to ensure that their secular laws are not in conflict with the Quran or the Hadith, the sayings of Muhammad. . . .
This is an utter junk comparison. It's straight out of the Muslim Brotherhood handbook for "fooling gullible Americans."
http://stopomeish.blogspot.com/2009/04/omeish-in-last-place-in-latest-35th.html
Omeish in Last Place in Latest 35th District Poll
The headline pretty much says it all.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/22/09
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/military_cybersecurity/2009/04/22/205830.html
U.S. to Create Military Cybersecurity Command
The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to focus on Pentagon computer networks and offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing current and former officials familiar with the plans.
The initiative will reshape the military's efforts to protect its networks from attacks by hackers, especially those from countries such as China and Russia, the newspaper said.
Not having noticed, I suppose, that there’s anything going on in the Middle East.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim21-2009apr21,0,1767108.story?track=rss
Judge to Review Records of FBI Inquiries Into Muslim Groups
A federal judge in Santa Ana orders the FBI to turn over more than 100 pages of documents the agency has on 11 Muslim groups and activists who claim they have been unfairly spied on and questioned.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ordered the FBI to turn over more than 100 pages of documents the agency holds on 11 Muslim activists and organizations, to determine whether the information should be released to the public or protected under federal law.
U.S. to Create Military Cybersecurity Command
The Obama administration plans to create a new military command to focus on Pentagon computer networks and offensive capabilities in cyberwarfare, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing current and former officials familiar with the plans.
The initiative will reshape the military's efforts to protect its networks from attacks by hackers, especially those from countries such as China and Russia, the newspaper said.
Not having noticed, I suppose, that there’s anything going on in the Middle East.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim21-2009apr21,0,1767108.story?track=rss
Judge to Review Records of FBI Inquiries Into Muslim Groups
A federal judge in Santa Ana orders the FBI to turn over more than 100 pages of documents the agency has on 11 Muslim groups and activists who claim they have been unfairly spied on and questioned.
U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ordered the FBI to turn over more than 100 pages of documents the agency holds on 11 Muslim activists and organizations, to determine whether the information should be released to the public or protected under federal law.
The decision comes amid a nearly three-year battle by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Muslim groups to obtain records they say would prove the FBI is unlawfully targeting Muslims in Southern California.
Carney also said the FBI must broaden its search for records on the Council on American-Islamic Relations to include electronic surveillance, as the agency did for the other plaintiffs.
Marcia Sowles, an attorney for the Department of Justice, told the court the FBI may seek to keep some information private because of national security or privacy concerns once Carney's review is complete.
The records "do concern investigations of others because they were identified through cross-references and the plaintiffs were not the subjects of those investigations," Sowles told the judge.
‘The unindicted co-conspirators of CAIR win one -- and this travesty puts us on the road to granting de facto immunity from investigation to Muslim groups. And this at a time when we have no assurance whatsoever that jihadist teachings are not being spread in mosques in the U.S.”—Robert Spencer, JihadWatch, 4/22/09
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025767.php
Edina Lekovic Attended Muslim Victimfest in Los Angeles
Patrick Poole has kindly written in to point out that yesterday's Los Angeles Times story in which Muslims complained about the FBI (comments here) featured a photo showing that none other than Edina Lekovic was at the meeting.
The records "do concern investigations of others because they were identified through cross-references and the plaintiffs were not the subjects of those investigations," Sowles told the judge.
‘The unindicted co-conspirators of CAIR win one -- and this travesty puts us on the road to granting de facto immunity from investigation to Muslim groups. And this at a time when we have no assurance whatsoever that jihadist teachings are not being spread in mosques in the U.S.”—Robert Spencer, JihadWatch, 4/22/09
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025767.php
Edina Lekovic Attended Muslim Victimfest in Los Angeles
Patrick Poole has kindly written in to point out that yesterday's Los Angeles Times story in which Muslims complained about the FBI (comments here) featured a photo showing that none other than Edina Lekovic was at the meeting.
She is second from left in the photo above. [See article]
Who is Edina Lekovic?
She is the MPAC flack whom Steve Emerson caught lying on national television, denying she was editor of a Muslim student publication that praised Osama bin Laden as a great mujahid -- Emerson produced copies of the rag showing Lekovic's name on the masthead as editor on the very same page on which the praise for Osama appeared.
Says Patrick: "Considering the crowd (Ayloush, Lekovic, Agha Saeed), it would have been entirely appropriate for the FBI to spy on that meeting."
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/mayrally/
May 17, 2009: DC Rally Challenging Islamic Supremacism, Sharia, and the War on Women
We are holding a Washington DC public rally in mid-May, on Sunday, May 17 from 2 to 4 PM for those Responsible for Equality And Liberty at the Washington DC Capitol Reflecting Pool to address the global challenge of Islamic supremacism, the institution of Sharia to equality and liberty, and the Islamic supremacist war on women in America and around the world.
Who is Edina Lekovic?
She is the MPAC flack whom Steve Emerson caught lying on national television, denying she was editor of a Muslim student publication that praised Osama bin Laden as a great mujahid -- Emerson produced copies of the rag showing Lekovic's name on the masthead as editor on the very same page on which the praise for Osama appeared.
Says Patrick: "Considering the crowd (Ayloush, Lekovic, Agha Saeed), it would have been entirely appropriate for the FBI to spy on that meeting."
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/03/mayrally/
May 17, 2009: DC Rally Challenging Islamic Supremacism, Sharia, and the War on Women
We are holding a Washington DC public rally in mid-May, on Sunday, May 17 from 2 to 4 PM for those Responsible for Equality And Liberty at the Washington DC Capitol Reflecting Pool to address the global challenge of Islamic supremacism, the institution of Sharia to equality and liberty, and the Islamic supremacist war on women in America and around the world.
We will demand that our legislators acknowledge this supremacist threat to our freedoms and call for action to fight it. Sign our petition on this today.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/21/09
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/8858DEE96A9BC53F8625759F0004A7C1?OpenDocument
Somali Muslims Call FBI Outreach “Coercion”
Concerns about racial profiling and other questionable tactics used to investigate the possible terrorist recruitment of Somalis living in the United States are prompting some Muslim leaders in St. Louis and elsewhere to limit their cooperation with the FBI. [It never struck me as particularly without boundaries before now, so what’s the diff?]
Across the country, federal agents are intensifying efforts to make connections within the Somali community amid growing concern that some are being radicalized by al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists.
Racial profiling. Good grief. What they’re torqued about is that the FBI is aware that the Somali Muslims are jihadists.]
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslims-fbi20-2009apr20,0,7708003.story
Some Influential Muslim Groups Question FBI's Actions
Muslims attend a know-your-rights workshop at the Islamic Institute of Orange County.
Revelations that the agency has been surveilling popular leaders and infiltrating mosques and schools has many organizations turning away from their post-9/11 cooperation.
Yeah, right. Post-9/11 cooperation. Hint, guys: If you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t have to worry about being under surveillance . . .
"We're here today to say our mosques are off limits," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles, told the crowd last month at an Anaheim mosque.
"Our Koran is off limits," Ayloush said. "Our youth, who they try to radicalize, are off limits. Now is the time to tell them, 'We're not going to let this happen anymore.' "
This is great. “I’m mad and I’m not going to take it anymore!” So go away, you inferior little FBI kafirs.
http://thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=13518
CAIR Director Present Award to NJ Muslim Law Enforcement Officers
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Saturday presented an award to the American Muslim Law Enforcement Officers Association (AMLEOA) at the annual banquet of the council’s New Jersey chapter.
More than 300 people turned out for the event in Edison, New Jersey. Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Michigan Legislature, spoke about the important role of Muslims in the political process. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad also addressed the crowd, and presented CAIR-New Jersey’s 2009 Champions of Justice Award to AMLEOA “for outstanding service to the community.”
CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR’s mission is to destroy the United States.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/21/71127.html
Egyptian-born US Muslim to Advise White House
The first Muslim woman appointed to a position in President Barack Obama’s administration met with lawmakers Monday and discussed her role on an interfaith advisory board the new administration hopes will broaden dialogue and understanding.
Dalia Mogahed’s dimpled smile shined from under her hijab, [oh, please] the Muslim headscarf, as she addressed senate staff and think tanks at a meeting organized by the Congressional Muslims Staffers Association to discuss American Muslim public opinion in the wake of a recent survey.
The Egyptian-born American who heads the Gallup American Center for Muslim Studies a non-governmental research center providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world, became the first Muslim veiled woman to be appointed to a position in the White House.
The junior president from Kenya’s mission seems to match CAIR’s pretty closely.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Kenya-Muslims-fume-at-church-move-to-convert-Obama-grandma/articleshow/4425214.cms
Kenya Muslims Fume at Church Move to Convert Obama Grandma
A Protestant church in Kenya is trying to convert US President Barack Obama's step-grandmother to Christianity against her will, a Muslim group said Monday, condemning the move as provocation. . . .
According to relatives in her village of Kogelo, "Mama Sarah," as she is popularly known in the US president's paternal homeland, was surprised by the offer and declined to attend. . . .
And why would she? Her grandson doesn’t.
Somali Muslims Call FBI Outreach “Coercion”
Concerns about racial profiling and other questionable tactics used to investigate the possible terrorist recruitment of Somalis living in the United States are prompting some Muslim leaders in St. Louis and elsewhere to limit their cooperation with the FBI. [It never struck me as particularly without boundaries before now, so what’s the diff?]
Across the country, federal agents are intensifying efforts to make connections within the Somali community amid growing concern that some are being radicalized by al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists.
Racial profiling. Good grief. What they’re torqued about is that the FBI is aware that the Somali Muslims are jihadists.]
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslims-fbi20-2009apr20,0,7708003.story
Some Influential Muslim Groups Question FBI's Actions
Muslims attend a know-your-rights workshop at the Islamic Institute of Orange County.
Revelations that the agency has been surveilling popular leaders and infiltrating mosques and schools has many organizations turning away from their post-9/11 cooperation.
Yeah, right. Post-9/11 cooperation. Hint, guys: If you don’t have anything to hide, you don’t have to worry about being under surveillance . . .
"We're here today to say our mosques are off limits," Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for Greater Los Angeles, told the crowd last month at an Anaheim mosque.
"Our Koran is off limits," Ayloush said. "Our youth, who they try to radicalize, are off limits. Now is the time to tell them, 'We're not going to let this happen anymore.' "
This is great. “I’m mad and I’m not going to take it anymore!” So go away, you inferior little FBI kafirs.
http://thepakistaninewspaper.com/news_detail.php?id=13518
CAIR Director Present Award to NJ Muslim Law Enforcement Officers
The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Saturday presented an award to the American Muslim Law Enforcement Officers Association (AMLEOA) at the annual banquet of the council’s New Jersey chapter.
More than 300 people turned out for the event in Edison, New Jersey. Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Michigan Legislature, spoke about the important role of Muslims in the political process. CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad also addressed the crowd, and presented CAIR-New Jersey’s 2009 Champions of Justice Award to AMLEOA “for outstanding service to the community.”
CAIR, America's largest Muslim civil liberties and advocacy organization, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.
CAIR’s mission is to destroy the United States.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/04/21/71127.html
Egyptian-born US Muslim to Advise White House
The first Muslim woman appointed to a position in President Barack Obama’s administration met with lawmakers Monday and discussed her role on an interfaith advisory board the new administration hopes will broaden dialogue and understanding.
Dalia Mogahed’s dimpled smile shined from under her hijab, [oh, please] the Muslim headscarf, as she addressed senate staff and think tanks at a meeting organized by the Congressional Muslims Staffers Association to discuss American Muslim public opinion in the wake of a recent survey.
The Egyptian-born American who heads the Gallup American Center for Muslim Studies a non-governmental research center providing data-driven analysis on the views of Muslim populations around the world, became the first Muslim veiled woman to be appointed to a position in the White House.
The junior president from Kenya’s mission seems to match CAIR’s pretty closely.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News-By-Industry/Kenya-Muslims-fume-at-church-move-to-convert-Obama-grandma/articleshow/4425214.cms
Kenya Muslims Fume at Church Move to Convert Obama Grandma
A Protestant church in Kenya is trying to convert US President Barack Obama's step-grandmother to Christianity against her will, a Muslim group said Monday, condemning the move as provocation. . . .
According to relatives in her village of Kogelo, "Mama Sarah," as she is popularly known in the US president's paternal homeland, was surprised by the offer and declined to attend. . . .
And why would she? Her grandson doesn’t.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/20/09
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/04/esam-omeish/
Virginia: Islamic Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood-Founded Former MAS President Esam Omeish Running for VA Delegate Office
Esam Omeish is running for Virginia’s 35th District House of Delegate office — Virginia Primary election scheduled June 9. See Omeish’s web site for upcoming campaign activities. Esam Omeish is the former president of the Muslim American Society that the Investigative Project on Terrorism has revealed to be founded by the Islamic Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood has as its goals that “Jihad is our way,” and seeks to create a global Islamic supremacist caliphate and “mastering the world with Islam.” Barack Obama has defined as our enemies organizations that who seek to create a “caliphate.”
On April 11, 2009 at his Oakton, Virginia campaign “meet the voters” rally, Esam Omeish told us that Sharia is “wonderful” for the rest of the world. Sharia is a supremacist institution that denies humanity’s universally shared human rights of equality and liberty for all people. Sharia promotes inequality and segregation among people of different genders and religions, and seeks to deny human freedoms of speech, press, and conscience. Sharia has been used as the basis for repressing and killing girls, women, homosexuals, and religious minorities. . . .
Calling on Thomas Jefferson to please step forward and stop this madness in his state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3YVv4ewdCk&feature=player_embedded
EXCELLENT ACT! FOR AMERICA CHAPTER VIDEO ON EXPOSING CAIR’s ACTIVITIES IN FLORIDA.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liisla1912670658apr18,0,5030061.story
Peter King Remarks About Mosques Draw Muslim Ire
Muslim leaders Saturday attacked as "bigoted" comments made by Rep. Peter King involving mosques and terrorism, although King shot back that he believes there is a "real problem" involving some mosques on Long Island.
King said Saturday, "I stand by everything I said. I consider any attack by CAIR to be a badge of honor."The Seaford congressman, who is the ranking Republican member of the Homeland Security Committee, also said that "right now there are a number of mosques under surveillance by law enforcement agencies" on Long Island.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/nyusking2112675328apr20,0,6376604.story
FBI, Cops Won't Comment on King's Muslim Assertions
The FBI and Nassau police Monday declined to comment directly about Rep. Peter King's assertion that U.S. Muslims are uncooperative with police, but stressed that they do not focus investigations on particular religious denominations. . . .
That’s probably true. They focus on terrorist activities in the U.S., a considerable amount of which just happens to come out of the U.S. mosques . . . so why would anyone make a connection with religion from that?
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/state/story/Judge-orders-review-of-FBI-records-on-Muslims/AA2a-dSSbkCoiK-M2mQiww.cspx?rss=801
Judge Orders Review of FBI Records on Muslims
A federal judge in Orange County has ordered the FBI to turn over records related to a group of Muslim activists and organizations so the court can determine whether they should be made public.
The decision on Monday comes amid a nearly three-year battle by the 11 activists and organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union to obtain records related to FBI inquiries into Muslim communities in Southern California.
Judge Cormac J. Carney says he will review more than 100 pages of documents the FBI holds on the organizations to determine whether the information should be protected under federal law.
Carney also says the FBI must broaden its search for records on the Council on American-Islamic Relations to include electronic surveillance as the agency did for the other plaintiffs.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/271325/Slumdog-Millionaire-star-Rubina-Ali-who-played-Latika-is-offered-for-sale-by-dad-Rafiq-Qureshi-to-the-News-of-the-Worlds-Fake-Sheikh.html
Father Tries to Cash in on Daughter's Fame
The poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star, Rubina Ali, plans to become a millionaire himself . . . by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/18/U.S.racism.conference/index.html
U.S. Boycotts Racism Conference, Says It “Singles out” Israel
The United States is boycotting a U.N. conference on racism next week over a document that "singles out" Israel in its criticism and conflicts with the nation's "commitment to unfettered free speech," the U.S. State Department said Saturday.
One small step for the junior US president from Kenya.
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1754
HOW TO SLOW POISON INFIDELS WITH FECAL MATTER
This is really revolting. The fact that one of the poisoners is in Dallas is even more revolting.
FaithFreedom.org is a blog run by a converted Muslim, Ali Sina.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-01-05/news/the-poop
The Poop
. . . when a Dallas jury sentenced Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh to five years for sprinkling his own dried feces on pastries at the Fiesta Mart at Ross and Greenville avenues in East Dallas, the foreman of the jury told The Dallas Morning News that the jury had wanted to punish him especially severely because he "showed no remorse."
Virginia: Islamic Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood-Founded Former MAS President Esam Omeish Running for VA Delegate Office
Esam Omeish is running for Virginia’s 35th District House of Delegate office — Virginia Primary election scheduled June 9. See Omeish’s web site for upcoming campaign activities. Esam Omeish is the former president of the Muslim American Society that the Investigative Project on Terrorism has revealed to be founded by the Islamic Supremacist Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood has as its goals that “Jihad is our way,” and seeks to create a global Islamic supremacist caliphate and “mastering the world with Islam.” Barack Obama has defined as our enemies organizations that who seek to create a “caliphate.”
On April 11, 2009 at his Oakton, Virginia campaign “meet the voters” rally, Esam Omeish told us that Sharia is “wonderful” for the rest of the world. Sharia is a supremacist institution that denies humanity’s universally shared human rights of equality and liberty for all people. Sharia promotes inequality and segregation among people of different genders and religions, and seeks to deny human freedoms of speech, press, and conscience. Sharia has been used as the basis for repressing and killing girls, women, homosexuals, and religious minorities. . . .
Calling on Thomas Jefferson to please step forward and stop this madness in his state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3YVv4ewdCk&feature=player_embedded
EXCELLENT ACT! FOR AMERICA CHAPTER VIDEO ON EXPOSING CAIR’s ACTIVITIES IN FLORIDA.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liisla1912670658apr18,0,5030061.story
Peter King Remarks About Mosques Draw Muslim Ire
Muslim leaders Saturday attacked as "bigoted" comments made by Rep. Peter King involving mosques and terrorism, although King shot back that he believes there is a "real problem" involving some mosques on Long Island.
King said Saturday, "I stand by everything I said. I consider any attack by CAIR to be a badge of honor."The Seaford congressman, who is the ranking Republican member of the Homeland Security Committee, also said that "right now there are a number of mosques under surveillance by law enforcement agencies" on Long Island.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/nyusking2112675328apr20,0,6376604.story
FBI, Cops Won't Comment on King's Muslim Assertions
The FBI and Nassau police Monday declined to comment directly about Rep. Peter King's assertion that U.S. Muslims are uncooperative with police, but stressed that they do not focus investigations on particular religious denominations. . . .
That’s probably true. They focus on terrorist activities in the U.S., a considerable amount of which just happens to come out of the U.S. mosques . . . so why would anyone make a connection with religion from that?
http://www.sandiego6.com/news/state/story/Judge-orders-review-of-FBI-records-on-Muslims/AA2a-dSSbkCoiK-M2mQiww.cspx?rss=801
Judge Orders Review of FBI Records on Muslims
A federal judge in Orange County has ordered the FBI to turn over records related to a group of Muslim activists and organizations so the court can determine whether they should be made public.
The decision on Monday comes amid a nearly three-year battle by the 11 activists and organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union to obtain records related to FBI inquiries into Muslim communities in Southern California.
Judge Cormac J. Carney says he will review more than 100 pages of documents the FBI holds on the organizations to determine whether the information should be protected under federal law.
Carney also says the FBI must broaden its search for records on the Council on American-Islamic Relations to include electronic surveillance as the agency did for the other plaintiffs.
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/271325/Slumdog-Millionaire-star-Rubina-Ali-who-played-Latika-is-offered-for-sale-by-dad-Rafiq-Qureshi-to-the-News-of-the-Worlds-Fake-Sheikh.html
Father Tries to Cash in on Daughter's Fame
The poverty-stricken father of Slumdog Millionaire child star, Rubina Ali, plans to become a millionaire himself . . . by SELLING his nine-year-old daughter.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/18/U.S.racism.conference/index.html
U.S. Boycotts Racism Conference, Says It “Singles out” Israel
The United States is boycotting a U.N. conference on racism next week over a document that "singles out" Israel in its criticism and conflicts with the nation's "commitment to unfettered free speech," the U.S. State Department said Saturday.
One small step for the junior US president from Kenya.
http://www.news.faithfreedom.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1754
HOW TO SLOW POISON INFIDELS WITH FECAL MATTER
This is really revolting. The fact that one of the poisoners is in Dallas is even more revolting.
FaithFreedom.org is a blog run by a converted Muslim, Ali Sina.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2006-01-05/news/the-poop
The Poop
. . . when a Dallas jury sentenced Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh to five years for sprinkling his own dried feces on pastries at the Fiesta Mart at Ross and Greenville avenues in East Dallas, the foreman of the jury told The Dallas Morning News that the jury had wanted to punish him especially severely because he "showed no remorse."
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Dorrie's One Pick for 4/16/09
This is so intensely good and hopeful, and at the same time so intensely horrid, I thought it worth being my only pick for today. My thanks to Allen, ACT! chapter leader for NY and Long Island, for sending it to me.
Obama's Approach to Foreign Policy
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 9, 2009
Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week.
Somewhere between apologizing for American history - both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted “king” of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, "Don't worry, be happy," as he leaves them to Moscow's tender mercies; humiliating Iraq's leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its “great” [but apparently little-known] contribution to American history;
President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future. Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.
This news is music to the ears of the American Left and their friends in Europe. Obama's supporters like billionaire George Soros couldn't be more excited at the self-induced demise of the American superpower. CNN's former (anti-)Israel bureau chief Walter Rodgers wrote ecstatically in the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, "America's... superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy."
The pro-Obama US and European media are so pleased with America's abdication of power that they took the rare step of applauding Obama at his press conference in London. Indeed, the media's enthusiasm for Obama appeared to grow with each presidential statement of contrition for America's past uses of force, each savage attack he leveled against his predecessor George W. Bush, each swipe he took at Israel, and each statement of gratitude for the blessings of Islam he uttered.
But while the media couldn't get enough of the new US leader, America's most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America's role as the protector of the free world.
Tokyo was distraught by the administration's reaction to North Korea's three-stage ballistic missile test. Japan recognized the betrayal inherent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ announcement ahead Pyongyang's newest provocation that the US would only shoot the missile down if it targeted US territory. In one sentence, uttered not in secret consultations, but declared to the world on CNN, Gates abrogated America's strategic commitment to Japan's defense.
India, for its part, is concerned by Obama's repeated assertions that its refusal to transfer control over the disputed Jammu and Kashmir provinces to Pakistan inspires Pakistani terror against India. It is equally distressed at the Obama administration's refusal to make ending Pakistan's support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan. In general, Indian officials have expressed deep concern over the Obama administration's apparent lack of regard for India as an ally and a significant strategic counterweight to China.
Then there is Iraq. During his brief visit to Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, Obama didn't even pretend that he would ensure that Iraqi democracy and freedom is secured before US forces are withdrawn next year. The most supportive statement he could muster came during his conversation with Turkish students in Istanbul earlier in the day. There he said, "I have a responsibility to make sure that as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that we don't see a complete collapse into violence."
Hearing Obama's statements, and watching him and his advisers make daily declarations of friendship to Iran's mullahs, Iraqi leaders are considering their options for surviving the rapidly approaching storm.
Then there is Europe. Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia. The Czech, Polish, Georgian and Ukrainian governments were quick to recognize that Obama's strong desire to curry favor with the Kremlin and weaken his own country will imperil their ability to withstand Russian aggression. It is not a coincidence, for instance, that the day Obama returned to Washington, Georgia's Moscow-sponsored opposition announced its plan to launch massive protests in Tblisi to force the ouster of pro-Western, anti-Russian Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7,000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is non-aggressive.
Finally there is Israel. If Obama's assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, his declarations of support for the so-called Saudi "peace plan," which requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for "peace" with the Arab world, and his continuous and increasingly frantic appeals for Iran to "engage" his administration weren't enough to show Israel that Obama is sacrificing the US's alliance with the Jewish state in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran, on Tuesday Vice President Joseph Biden made this policy explicit.
When Biden told CNN that Israel would be "ill-advised" to attack Iran's nuclear installations, he made clear that from the administration's perspective, an Israeli strike that prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power is less acceptable than a nuclear-armed Iran. That is, the Obama administration prefers to see Iran become a nuclear power than to see Israel secure its very existence.
AMERICA'S BETRAYAL of its democratic allies makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies - enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease. And as the US strengthens their adversaries at their expense, these spurned democracies must consider their options for surviving as free societies in this new, threatening, post-American environment.
For the most part, America's scorned allies lack the ability to defeat their enemies on their own. India cannot easily defeat nuclear-armed Pakistan, which itself is fragmenting into disparate anti-Indian nuclear-wielding Islamist and Islamist-supporting factions.
Japan today cannot face North Korea - which acts as a Chinese proxy - on its own without risking a confrontation with China. Russia's invasion of Georgia last August showed clearly that its former republics and satellites have no way of escaping Moscow's grip alone. This week's Arab League conference at Doha demonstrated to Iraq's leaders that their Arab brethren are incapable and unwilling to confront Iran.
And the Obama administration's intense efforts to woo Iran coupled with its plan to slash the US's missile defense programs - including those in which Israel participates - and reportedly pressure Israel to dismantle its own purported nuclear arsenal - make clear that Israel today stands alone against Iran.
THE RISKS that the newly inaugurated post-American world pose for America's threatened friends are clear. But viable opportunities for survival do exist, and Israel can and must play a central role in developing them. Specifically, Israel must move swiftly to develop active strategic alliances with Japan, Iraq, Poland, and the Czech Republic and it must expand its alliance with India.
With Israel's technological capabilities, its intelligence and military expertise, it can play a vital role in shoring up these countries' capacities to contain the rogue states that threaten them. And by containing the likes of Russia, North Korea and Pakistan, they will make it easier for Israel to contain Iran even in the face of US support for the mullahs.
The possibilities for strategic cooperation between and among all of these states and Israel run the gamut from intelligence sharing to military training, to missile defense, naval development, satellite collaboration, to nuclear cooperation. In addition, of course, expanded economic ties between and among these states can aid each of them in the struggle to stay afloat during the current global economic crisis.
Although far from risk-free, these opportunities are realistic because they are founded on stable, shared interests. This is the case despite the fact that none of these potential alliances will likely amount to increased support for Israel in international forums. Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly. But this should not concern Jerusalem.
The only thing that should concern Jerusalem today is how to weaken Iran both directly by attacking its nuclear installations, and indirectly by weakening its international partners in Moscow, Pyongyang, Islamabad and beyond in the absence of US support. If Japan is able to contain North Korea and so limit Pyongyang's freedom to proliferate its nuclear weapons and missiles to Iran and Syria and beyond, Israel is better off. So, too, Israel is better off if Russia is contained by democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe. These nations in turn are better off if Iran is contained and prevented from threatening them both directly and indirectly through its strategic partners in North Korea, Syria and Russia, and its terror affiliates in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
For the past 16 years, successive Israeli governments have wrongly believed that politics trump strategic interests. The notion that informed Israel's decision-makers - not unlike the notion that now informs the Obama administration - was that Israel's strategic interests would be secured as a consequence of its efforts to appease its enemies by weakening itself. Appreciative of Israel's sacrifices for peace, the nations of the world - and particularly the US, the Arabs and Europe - would come to Israel's defense in its hour of need. Now that the hour of need has arrived, Israel's political strategy for securing itself has been exposed as a complete fiasco.
The good news is that no doubt sooner rather than later, Obama's similarly disastrous bid to denude the US of its military power under the naive assumption that it will be able to use its new stature as a morally pure strategic weakling to win its enemies over to its side will fail spectacularly and America's foreign policy will revert to strategic rationality.
But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another - covertly, if need be - to contain their adversaries in the absence of America. If they do so successfully, then the damage to global security induced by Obama's emasculation of his country will be limited. If on the other hand, they fail, then America's eventual return to its senses will likely come too late for its allies - if not for America itself.
Obama's Approach to Foreign Policy
Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 9, 2009
Like it or not, the United States of America is no longer the world's policeman. This was the message of Barack Obama's presidential journey to Britain, France, the Czech Republic, Turkey and Iraq this past week.
Somewhere between apologizing for American history - both distant and recent; genuflecting before the unelected, bigoted “king” of Saudi Arabia; announcing that he will slash the US's nuclear arsenal, scrap much of America's missile defense programs and emasculate the US Navy; leaving Japan to face North Korea and China alone; telling the Czechs, Poles and their fellow former Soviet colonies, "Don't worry, be happy," as he leaves them to Moscow's tender mercies; humiliating Iraq's leaders while kowtowing to Iran; preparing for an open confrontation with Israel; and thanking Islam for its “great” [but apparently little-known] contribution to American history;
President Obama made clear to the world's aggressors that America will not be confronting them for the foreseeable future. Whether they are aggressors like Russia, proliferators like North Korea, terror exporters like nuclear-armed Pakistan or would-be genocidal-terror-supporting nuclear states like Iran, today, under the new administration, none of them has any reason to fear Washington.
This news is music to the ears of the American Left and their friends in Europe. Obama's supporters like billionaire George Soros couldn't be more excited at the self-induced demise of the American superpower. CNN's former (anti-)Israel bureau chief Walter Rodgers wrote ecstatically in the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday, "America's... superpower status, is being downgraded as rapidly as its economy."
The pro-Obama US and European media are so pleased with America's abdication of power that they took the rare step of applauding Obama at his press conference in London. Indeed, the media's enthusiasm for Obama appeared to grow with each presidential statement of contrition for America's past uses of force, each savage attack he leveled against his predecessor George W. Bush, each swipe he took at Israel, and each statement of gratitude for the blessings of Islam he uttered.
But while the media couldn't get enough of the new US leader, America's most stable allies worldwide began a desperate search for a reset button that would cause the administration to take back its abandonment of America's role as the protector of the free world.
Tokyo was distraught by the administration's reaction to North Korea's three-stage ballistic missile test. Japan recognized the betrayal inherent in Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ announcement ahead Pyongyang's newest provocation that the US would only shoot the missile down if it targeted US territory. In one sentence, uttered not in secret consultations, but declared to the world on CNN, Gates abrogated America's strategic commitment to Japan's defense.
India, for its part, is concerned by Obama's repeated assertions that its refusal to transfer control over the disputed Jammu and Kashmir provinces to Pakistan inspires Pakistani terror against India. It is equally distressed at the Obama administration's refusal to make ending Pakistan's support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan. In general, Indian officials have expressed deep concern over the Obama administration's apparent lack of regard for India as an ally and a significant strategic counterweight to China.
Then there is Iraq. During his brief visit to Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, Obama didn't even pretend that he would ensure that Iraqi democracy and freedom is secured before US forces are withdrawn next year. The most supportive statement he could muster came during his conversation with Turkish students in Istanbul earlier in the day. There he said, "I have a responsibility to make sure that as we bring troops out, that we do so in a careful enough way that we don't see a complete collapse into violence."
Hearing Obama's statements, and watching him and his advisers make daily declarations of friendship to Iran's mullahs, Iraqi leaders are considering their options for surviving the rapidly approaching storm.
Then there is Europe. Although Obama received enthusiastic applause from his audience in Prague when he announced his intention to destroy the US's nuclear arsenal, drastically scale back its missile defense programs and forge a new alliance with Russia, his words were anything but music to the ears of the leaders of former Soviet satellites threatened by Russia. The Czech, Polish, Georgian and Ukrainian governments were quick to recognize that Obama's strong desire to curry favor with the Kremlin and weaken his own country will imperil their ability to withstand Russian aggression. It is not a coincidence, for instance, that the day Obama returned to Washington, Georgia's Moscow-sponsored opposition announced its plan to launch massive protests in Tblisi to force the ouster of pro-Western, anti-Russian Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
And as for Russia, like Iran, which responded to Obama's latest ode to the mullahs by opening a nuclear fuel plant and announcing it has 7,000 advanced centrifuges in operation, so Moscow reacted to Obama's fig leaf with a machine gun, announcing its refusal to support sanctions against North Korea and repeating its false claim that Iran's nuclear program is non-aggressive.
Finally there is Israel. If Obama's assertions that Israel must support the immediate establishment of a Palestinian state, his declarations of support for the so-called Saudi "peace plan," which requires Israel to commit national suicide in exchange for "peace" with the Arab world, and his continuous and increasingly frantic appeals for Iran to "engage" his administration weren't enough to show Israel that Obama is sacrificing the US's alliance with the Jewish state in a bid to appease the Arabs and Iran, on Tuesday Vice President Joseph Biden made this policy explicit.
When Biden told CNN that Israel would be "ill-advised" to attack Iran's nuclear installations, he made clear that from the administration's perspective, an Israeli strike that prevents Iran from becoming a nuclear power is less acceptable than a nuclear-armed Iran. That is, the Obama administration prefers to see Iran become a nuclear power than to see Israel secure its very existence.
AMERICA'S BETRAYAL of its democratic allies makes each of them more vulnerable to aggression at the hands of their enemies - enemies the Obama administration is now actively attempting to appease. And as the US strengthens their adversaries at their expense, these spurned democracies must consider their options for surviving as free societies in this new, threatening, post-American environment.
For the most part, America's scorned allies lack the ability to defeat their enemies on their own. India cannot easily defeat nuclear-armed Pakistan, which itself is fragmenting into disparate anti-Indian nuclear-wielding Islamist and Islamist-supporting factions.
Japan today cannot face North Korea - which acts as a Chinese proxy - on its own without risking a confrontation with China. Russia's invasion of Georgia last August showed clearly that its former republics and satellites have no way of escaping Moscow's grip alone. This week's Arab League conference at Doha demonstrated to Iraq's leaders that their Arab brethren are incapable and unwilling to confront Iran.
And the Obama administration's intense efforts to woo Iran coupled with its plan to slash the US's missile defense programs - including those in which Israel participates - and reportedly pressure Israel to dismantle its own purported nuclear arsenal - make clear that Israel today stands alone against Iran.
THE RISKS that the newly inaugurated post-American world pose for America's threatened friends are clear. But viable opportunities for survival do exist, and Israel can and must play a central role in developing them. Specifically, Israel must move swiftly to develop active strategic alliances with Japan, Iraq, Poland, and the Czech Republic and it must expand its alliance with India.
With Israel's technological capabilities, its intelligence and military expertise, it can play a vital role in shoring up these countries' capacities to contain the rogue states that threaten them. And by containing the likes of Russia, North Korea and Pakistan, they will make it easier for Israel to contain Iran even in the face of US support for the mullahs.
The possibilities for strategic cooperation between and among all of these states and Israel run the gamut from intelligence sharing to military training, to missile defense, naval development, satellite collaboration, to nuclear cooperation. In addition, of course, expanded economic ties between and among these states can aid each of them in the struggle to stay afloat during the current global economic crisis.
Although far from risk-free, these opportunities are realistic because they are founded on stable, shared interests. This is the case despite the fact that none of these potential alliances will likely amount to increased support for Israel in international forums. Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly. But this should not concern Jerusalem.
The only thing that should concern Jerusalem today is how to weaken Iran both directly by attacking its nuclear installations, and indirectly by weakening its international partners in Moscow, Pyongyang, Islamabad and beyond in the absence of US support. If Japan is able to contain North Korea and so limit Pyongyang's freedom to proliferate its nuclear weapons and missiles to Iran and Syria and beyond, Israel is better off. So, too, Israel is better off if Russia is contained by democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe. These nations in turn are better off if Iran is contained and prevented from threatening them both directly and indirectly through its strategic partners in North Korea, Syria and Russia, and its terror affiliates in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
For the past 16 years, successive Israeli governments have wrongly believed that politics trump strategic interests. The notion that informed Israel's decision-makers - not unlike the notion that now informs the Obama administration - was that Israel's strategic interests would be secured as a consequence of its efforts to appease its enemies by weakening itself. Appreciative of Israel's sacrifices for peace, the nations of the world - and particularly the US, the Arabs and Europe - would come to Israel's defense in its hour of need. Now that the hour of need has arrived, Israel's political strategy for securing itself has been exposed as a complete fiasco.
The good news is that no doubt sooner rather than later, Obama's similarly disastrous bid to denude the US of its military power under the naive assumption that it will be able to use its new stature as a morally pure strategic weakling to win its enemies over to its side will fail spectacularly and America's foreign policy will revert to strategic rationality.
But to survive the current period of American strategic madness, Israel and the US's other unwanted allies must build alliances with one another - covertly, if need be - to contain their adversaries in the absence of America. If they do so successfully, then the damage to global security induced by Obama's emasculation of his country will be limited. If on the other hand, they fail, then America's eventual return to its senses will likely come too late for its allies - if not for America itself.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/14/09
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2009/04/state_rep_adam_hasner_still_an.php
State Rep. Adam Hasner: Supporting "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest"?
. . . While critics have called Hasner a "hatemonger," and CAIR says Hasner is behind the "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest," the groups supporting the conference are generally unapologetic for coming off as discriminatory, arguing that it would be a grave mistake to underestimate the threat of radical Islam.
Asked to confirm or deny his involvement with the conference, a spokesperson for Hasner, Joseph Agostini, said, "Representative Hasner intends to participate if he is able to return home in time for the event. The uncertainty of this happening is because of the heavy Session week scheduled . . . we have floor sessions through Friday and lots on our agenda."
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2009/04/14/news/7_center_090414.txt
New Plan for Islamic Center in Southwest Lodi Proposed
In his [rejection] letter to the county, Eytchison cited the 2005 terrorist investigation by the FBI and the arrest of Mohammad Adil Khan, former imam of the Lodi Muslim Mosque, who lived in a house on the property and was active in the aborted Farooqia Islamic Center application. He is not related to Taj Khan.
“Like an individual, an organization is judged by its character and by those that they associate with, good and bad,” Eytchison said in his letter to the county.
Taj Khan replied in a phone interview Monday that it’s the Planning Commission’s job to judge a project on the application itself, not the applicant’s character.
I’m sticking with Eytchison. Character counts. I don’t see a whole heck of a lot of it coming out of the mosques.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LD619549.htm
Al Shabaab Says [It Is] Behind U.S. Congressman Attack
Somalia's militant Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Monday it was behind mortars fired at U.S. congressman Donald Payne as he left the anarchic Horn of Africa nation after a rare visit by a U.S. politician.
"We fired on the airport to target the so-called democratic congressman sent by (U.S. President Barack) Obama," Sheikh Hussein Ali, an al Shabaab spokesman, told Reuters.
These Muslim pirates don’t appear to be down for the “friendship and mutual respect” part of Obama’s plan, huh?
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/04/lego-jesus.html
A Lego Jesus
by Baron Bodissey
Christians Outraged by Jesus Made Out of Legos
April 12 (Associated Reuters) — Christians took to the streets all across Scandinavia today to protest the unveiling of a statue of Jesus made entirely out of Lego blocks.Gangs of rioting youths threw paving stones and bottles, broke shop windows, set cars on fire, burned Israeli flags, and chased hapless Jews down side streets.
One angry demonstrator, dressed in an “I (heart) Jesus” T-shirt and wearing a cross around his neck, told reporters that Christianophobia must not be tolerated. “They can’t insult our Savior this way! There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world, and we will not sit idly by while our Messiah is dishonored!”
He added, “I believe in free speech, but there are limits.”
The Swedish government assured the Christian community that the perpetrators of this cowardly act would be found swiftly and brought to justice.
All right, I admit it. I made up the above news story . . . but the Lego Jesus is real.
This does seem to just dot the i on jihadist behavior, doesn’t it?
State Rep. Adam Hasner: Supporting "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest"?
. . . While critics have called Hasner a "hatemonger," and CAIR says Hasner is behind the "Anti-Muslim Hate Fest," the groups supporting the conference are generally unapologetic for coming off as discriminatory, arguing that it would be a grave mistake to underestimate the threat of radical Islam.
Asked to confirm or deny his involvement with the conference, a spokesperson for Hasner, Joseph Agostini, said, "Representative Hasner intends to participate if he is able to return home in time for the event. The uncertainty of this happening is because of the heavy Session week scheduled . . . we have floor sessions through Friday and lots on our agenda."
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2009/04/14/news/7_center_090414.txt
New Plan for Islamic Center in Southwest Lodi Proposed
In his [rejection] letter to the county, Eytchison cited the 2005 terrorist investigation by the FBI and the arrest of Mohammad Adil Khan, former imam of the Lodi Muslim Mosque, who lived in a house on the property and was active in the aborted Farooqia Islamic Center application. He is not related to Taj Khan.
“Like an individual, an organization is judged by its character and by those that they associate with, good and bad,” Eytchison said in his letter to the county.
Taj Khan replied in a phone interview Monday that it’s the Planning Commission’s job to judge a project on the application itself, not the applicant’s character.
I’m sticking with Eytchison. Character counts. I don’t see a whole heck of a lot of it coming out of the mosques.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LD619549.htm
Al Shabaab Says [It Is] Behind U.S. Congressman Attack
Somalia's militant Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said on Monday it was behind mortars fired at U.S. congressman Donald Payne as he left the anarchic Horn of Africa nation after a rare visit by a U.S. politician.
"We fired on the airport to target the so-called democratic congressman sent by (U.S. President Barack) Obama," Sheikh Hussein Ali, an al Shabaab spokesman, told Reuters.
These Muslim pirates don’t appear to be down for the “friendship and mutual respect” part of Obama’s plan, huh?
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/04/lego-jesus.html
A Lego Jesus
by Baron Bodissey
Christians Outraged by Jesus Made Out of Legos
April 12 (Associated Reuters) — Christians took to the streets all across Scandinavia today to protest the unveiling of a statue of Jesus made entirely out of Lego blocks.Gangs of rioting youths threw paving stones and bottles, broke shop windows, set cars on fire, burned Israeli flags, and chased hapless Jews down side streets.
One angry demonstrator, dressed in an “I (heart) Jesus” T-shirt and wearing a cross around his neck, told reporters that Christianophobia must not be tolerated. “They can’t insult our Savior this way! There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world, and we will not sit idly by while our Messiah is dishonored!”
He added, “I believe in free speech, but there are limits.”
The Swedish government assured the Christian community that the perpetrators of this cowardly act would be found swiftly and brought to justice.
All right, I admit it. I made up the above news story . . . but the Lego Jesus is real.
This does seem to just dot the i on jihadist behavior, doesn’t it?
Dorrie's Picks, 4/13/09
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2979/pub_detail.asp
Hillary Clinton to Give Keynote at CSID;
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Also To Be In Attendance
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
According to the website of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to give the keynote address at the organization’s 10th annual conference on May 5th. Also scheduled to attend the conference as a panelist and/or moderator is Dr. Kemal Al-Helbawy, a leader in the global Muslim Brotherhood who has defended the terrorist targeting of Israeli children and who in 1996 was denied entrance into the U.S.
CSID was founded in 1998 largely by the efforts of Georgetown University academic Dr. Esposito who, during the 1990s, had served in the State Department as a “foreign affairs analyst.”
Many members of the early CSID board were associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the American Muslim Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
For example, past CSID board members included Jamal Barzinji and Taha Al-Alwani, both important Brotherhood leaders who are closely associated with the now defunct SAAR Foundation, still under investigation by the U.S. government. Both Barzinji and Al-Alwani helped to establish many of the most important U.S. Brotherhood organizations. The current CSID Vice-Chair, Antony Sullivan, has many ties to U.S. Brotherhood groups including the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the United Association for Studies and Research (USAR), and the Circle of Tradition and Progress (COTP), a group whose other founding members included Youssef Qaradawi, the most important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood.
From its inception, CSID has argued that the U.S. government should support Islamist movements in foreign countries and has received financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy and the United States Institute of Peace.
Apparently we have some pretty lousy leaders in our government, huh? “Support Islamist movements . . .” Do they have the slightest clue that that means they’re supporting their own demise?
There are a considerable number of facts in this one about who’s connected to what terrorist organization, and of course why Hillary C. should NOT attend. The same is true for the one below . . . but note the difference. In the story below, not one “terrorist connection” is either a terrorist, or a terrorist organization.
Below, CAIR simply writes a vicious screed against the presenters. In the story above, facts are laid out as they should be: from the records.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/cair-fla-house-gop-leader-linked-to-anti-islam-hate-fest,782921.shtml
CAIR: FL House GOP Leader Linked to Anti-Islam Hate Fest
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the leader of that state's House Republicans to disassociate himself from an upcoming anti-Islam conference backed by a "motley collection of Islamophobes and Muslim-bashers."
CAIR said Rep. Adam Hasner is on the "host committee" for the April 27 conference in Delray Beach, Fla., featuring Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Wilders was recently denied entry to Britain because of his extreme anti-Muslim views, including urging that the Quran, Islam's revealed text, be banned.
Don’t you just love the biased title above? “Anti-Islam Hate Fest”? The irony is completely lost on these liars that one of the presenters included in the “motley collection” has a Web site with the name of Americans Against Hate.
This is how CAIR describes itself: “America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.”
Read the whole article. See if you can find one line in it that has any reference to the people it castigates that shows these people to be wrong in their understanding or words about Islam. Heck, find one line in it about Islam --- it's mission! --- actually.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/senator-kerry-arrives-in-pakistan-meets-pm-gilani-ha
Negative Messages Creating Ill-will [with whom, I ask?], Gilani Tells US
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani criticised the United States and its Western allies on Monday for creating “ill-will” about Pakistan and cautioned Washington against attaching strings to its assistance package . . . [which are: requiring Pakistan to pledge it would not support militancy and terrorist activities targeting India and would provide U.S. investigators access to people accused of nuclear proliferation].
The prime minister called for a partnership based on “mutual respect and trust” [Oh, thank you, Mr. BHusseinO! for giving them words to use against us!] and emphasised that if the assistance package came with conditions [which are: requiring Pakistan to pledge it would not support militancy and terrorist activities targeting India and would provide U.S. investigators access to people accused of nuclear proliferation], it would fail to achieve its objectives [which are . . .?]
Senator Kerry will [immediately groveled to?] introduce a bill in the U.S. Senate with Senator Lugar, proposing tripling of non-military help for Pakistan to $1.5 billion every year for 10 years.
This story struck me as so insanely nuts I couldn’t resist putting it in. The people we are helping are telling us how they’ll accept the help, and it certainly isn’t with thanks and gratefulness.
Hillary Clinton to Give Keynote at CSID;
Muslim Brotherhood Leader Also To Be In Attendance
The Global Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report
According to the website of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to give the keynote address at the organization’s 10th annual conference on May 5th. Also scheduled to attend the conference as a panelist and/or moderator is Dr. Kemal Al-Helbawy, a leader in the global Muslim Brotherhood who has defended the terrorist targeting of Israeli children and who in 1996 was denied entrance into the U.S.
CSID was founded in 1998 largely by the efforts of Georgetown University academic Dr. Esposito who, during the 1990s, had served in the State Department as a “foreign affairs analyst.”
Many members of the early CSID board were associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the American Muslim Council, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).
For example, past CSID board members included Jamal Barzinji and Taha Al-Alwani, both important Brotherhood leaders who are closely associated with the now defunct SAAR Foundation, still under investigation by the U.S. government. Both Barzinji and Al-Alwani helped to establish many of the most important U.S. Brotherhood organizations. The current CSID Vice-Chair, Antony Sullivan, has many ties to U.S. Brotherhood groups including the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), the United Association for Studies and Research (USAR), and the Circle of Tradition and Progress (COTP), a group whose other founding members included Youssef Qaradawi, the most important leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood.
From its inception, CSID has argued that the U.S. government should support Islamist movements in foreign countries and has received financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy and the United States Institute of Peace.
Apparently we have some pretty lousy leaders in our government, huh? “Support Islamist movements . . .” Do they have the slightest clue that that means they’re supporting their own demise?
There are a considerable number of facts in this one about who’s connected to what terrorist organization, and of course why Hillary C. should NOT attend. The same is true for the one below . . . but note the difference. In the story below, not one “terrorist connection” is either a terrorist, or a terrorist organization.
Below, CAIR simply writes a vicious screed against the presenters. In the story above, facts are laid out as they should be: from the records.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/cair-fla-house-gop-leader-linked-to-anti-islam-hate-fest,782921.shtml
CAIR: FL House GOP Leader Linked to Anti-Islam Hate Fest
The Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the leader of that state's House Republicans to disassociate himself from an upcoming anti-Islam conference backed by a "motley collection of Islamophobes and Muslim-bashers."
CAIR said Rep. Adam Hasner is on the "host committee" for the April 27 conference in Delray Beach, Fla., featuring Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. Wilders was recently denied entry to Britain because of his extreme anti-Muslim views, including urging that the Quran, Islam's revealed text, be banned.
Don’t you just love the biased title above? “Anti-Islam Hate Fest”? The irony is completely lost on these liars that one of the presenters included in the “motley collection” has a Web site with the name of Americans Against Hate.
This is how CAIR describes itself: “America's largest Muslim civil liberties group, has 35 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.”
Read the whole article. See if you can find one line in it that has any reference to the people it castigates that shows these people to be wrong in their understanding or words about Islam. Heck, find one line in it about Islam --- it's mission! --- actually.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/senator-kerry-arrives-in-pakistan-meets-pm-gilani-ha
Negative Messages Creating Ill-will [with whom, I ask?], Gilani Tells US
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani criticised the United States and its Western allies on Monday for creating “ill-will” about Pakistan and cautioned Washington against attaching strings to its assistance package . . . [which are: requiring Pakistan to pledge it would not support militancy and terrorist activities targeting India and would provide U.S. investigators access to people accused of nuclear proliferation].
The prime minister called for a partnership based on “mutual respect and trust” [Oh, thank you, Mr. BHusseinO! for giving them words to use against us!] and emphasised that if the assistance package came with conditions [which are: requiring Pakistan to pledge it would not support militancy and terrorist activities targeting India and would provide U.S. investigators access to people accused of nuclear proliferation], it would fail to achieve its objectives [which are . . .?]
Senator Kerry will [immediately groveled to?] introduce a bill in the U.S. Senate with Senator Lugar, proposing tripling of non-military help for Pakistan to $1.5 billion every year for 10 years.
This story struck me as so insanely nuts I couldn’t resist putting it in. The people we are helping are telling us how they’ll accept the help, and it certainly isn’t with thanks and gratefulness.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 4/10-4/12/09
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/videochild-marriage-shariah-beatings-in-mosque-in-nashville-tennessee-.html
VIDEO: CHILD MARRIAGE, SHARIAH BEATINGS IN AL FAROOQ MOSQUE IN SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE
Now you can understand why un-indicted co-conspirator (and Zakat-eligible) CAIR is working feverishly to keep the FBI out of the mosques. Their daily action alerts are rife with accusations of some bogus grievances, some rights violated . . . all to protect the most heinous crimes. . . .
http://www.startribune.com/local/42695652.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU
FBI Raids 3 Minneapolis Money-transfer Shops
Federal agents raided three Minneapolis money transfer businesses that mainly serve the Somali community Wednesday, seeking records of financial transactions to several African and Middle East countries.
I am sure that CAIR National is just having a snit-fit over this happening in their own back yard of Minneapolistan. The FBI getting out of their control is just plain irksome to them, I'm sure.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Alleged-Killers-Photo-is-Insult-to-Islam.html
Alleged Killer's Mug Shot an "Insult" to Islam
Husband says wife's [alleged murderer of her 2-year-old niece] face should not be revealed, due to custom
Talk about getting your priorities screwed up.
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1522160,041109hadid.article
Accused Orland Child-killer Asks for Quran Behind Bars
[Well, you wouldn’t really expect her to ask for a Bible, would you?]
Hadid, 26, is accused of killing her 2-year-old niece, Bhia, by beating and biting her to death over a four-day period ending Sunday.
That’s beyond horrific in any language.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1022/megahed-on-ice
Megahed on ICE
Youssef Megahed, a 23-year-old former student at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, last week was acquitted of federal explosives and related charges in U.S. District Court in Tampa. . . . Megahed's freedom was short-lived, however. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested him Monday in Tampa. He faces removal (deportation) proceedings, reportedly based on similar charges to his criminal case. . . .
Like it or not, foreign nationals (aliens) in the United States really are subject to two separate legal systems. They are subject to the criminal laws like everyone else and they are subject to immigration and nationality laws, particularly removal provisions, which may render them deportable from the United States.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/10/2540677.htm?section=entertainment
A Dutch TV Jury Has Found Osama bin Laden Not Guilty of September 11 Attacks
In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled that there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in 2001.
I wonder how hard OBL is laughing at this nonsense.
http://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/local/x1201568242/Islam-exposed-to-receptive-audience
Islam Exposed to Receptive Audience
[“Exposed” is such a wrong verb for this article. Muslim Deceives Receptive Audience would be much closer to the truth.]
. . . For example, despite the ill-informed belief that the Prophet looted and stole from caravans, he was nicknamed “al-Sadiq,” which means “the trustworthy one” in Arabic. Furthermore, his honesty and sincerity in his transactions as a merchant led to a marriage proposal from his boss, Khadija.
The invitation of Estes to Bakersfield was part of an effort to allow for more dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. Estes, a former Christian missionary, entered Islam through dialogue. [What on earth does that mean?] A Texas native, he now lives in Virginia and travels throughout the country giving talks about Islam.
Sophia Bham, a volunteer at the information booth, said the turnout was, without a doubt, a success. “People were more interested and happy with the hospitality. They want to study more,” [well, it’d be good if they actually studied the same thing OBL reads, cuz he sure has the straight skinny on Muhammad’s dictums] said Bham.
Okay, so what was wholly true in that little bit he said? Nada. I’m already tired of newest CAIR buzz word: “dialogue” between Muslims and non-Muslims. There’s no such thing; men like Estes simply lie and don’t allow knowledgeable non-Muslims in the room. He probably left Texas because he got nowhere peddling his bunkum here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040903155.html
The Free World Bars Free Speech
. . . The "Free World," it appears, may be losing faith in free speech. . . .
Emblematic of the assault is the effort to pass an international ban on religious defamation supported by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. . . .
While it hasn't gone so far as to support the U.N. resolution, the “West” is prosecuting "religious hatred" cases under anti-discrimination and hate-crime laws. British citizens can be arrested and prosecuted under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which makes it a crime to "abuse" religion. . . .
VIDEO: CHILD MARRIAGE, SHARIAH BEATINGS IN AL FAROOQ MOSQUE IN SHELBYVILLE, TENNESSEE
Now you can understand why un-indicted co-conspirator (and Zakat-eligible) CAIR is working feverishly to keep the FBI out of the mosques. Their daily action alerts are rife with accusations of some bogus grievances, some rights violated . . . all to protect the most heinous crimes. . . .
http://www.startribune.com/local/42695652.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU
FBI Raids 3 Minneapolis Money-transfer Shops
Federal agents raided three Minneapolis money transfer businesses that mainly serve the Somali community Wednesday, seeking records of financial transactions to several African and Middle East countries.
I am sure that CAIR National is just having a snit-fit over this happening in their own back yard of Minneapolistan. The FBI getting out of their control is just plain irksome to them, I'm sure.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Alleged-Killers-Photo-is-Insult-to-Islam.html
Alleged Killer's Mug Shot an "Insult" to Islam
Husband says wife's [alleged murderer of her 2-year-old niece] face should not be revealed, due to custom
Talk about getting your priorities screwed up.
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/1522160,041109hadid.article
Accused Orland Child-killer Asks for Quran Behind Bars
[Well, you wouldn’t really expect her to ask for a Bible, would you?]
Hadid, 26, is accused of killing her 2-year-old niece, Bhia, by beating and biting her to death over a four-day period ending Sunday.
That’s beyond horrific in any language.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1022/megahed-on-ice
Megahed on ICE
Youssef Megahed, a 23-year-old former student at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, last week was acquitted of federal explosives and related charges in U.S. District Court in Tampa. . . . Megahed's freedom was short-lived, however. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested him Monday in Tampa. He faces removal (deportation) proceedings, reportedly based on similar charges to his criminal case. . . .
Like it or not, foreign nationals (aliens) in the United States really are subject to two separate legal systems. They are subject to the criminal laws like everyone else and they are subject to immigration and nationality laws, particularly removal provisions, which may render them deportable from the United States.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/10/2540677.htm?section=entertainment
A Dutch TV Jury Has Found Osama bin Laden Not Guilty of September 11 Attacks
In the conclusion Wednesday night to the show "Devil's Advocate" on Dutch public broadcaster Nederland 2, the jury of two men and three women, along with the studio audience, ruled that there was no proof bin Laden was the mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in 2001.
I wonder how hard OBL is laughing at this nonsense.
http://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/local/x1201568242/Islam-exposed-to-receptive-audience
Islam Exposed to Receptive Audience
[“Exposed” is such a wrong verb for this article. Muslim Deceives Receptive Audience would be much closer to the truth.]
. . . For example, despite the ill-informed belief that the Prophet looted and stole from caravans, he was nicknamed “al-Sadiq,” which means “the trustworthy one” in Arabic. Furthermore, his honesty and sincerity in his transactions as a merchant led to a marriage proposal from his boss, Khadija.
The invitation of Estes to Bakersfield was part of an effort to allow for more dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims. Estes, a former Christian missionary, entered Islam through dialogue. [What on earth does that mean?] A Texas native, he now lives in Virginia and travels throughout the country giving talks about Islam.
Sophia Bham, a volunteer at the information booth, said the turnout was, without a doubt, a success. “People were more interested and happy with the hospitality. They want to study more,” [well, it’d be good if they actually studied the same thing OBL reads, cuz he sure has the straight skinny on Muhammad’s dictums] said Bham.
Okay, so what was wholly true in that little bit he said? Nada. I’m already tired of newest CAIR buzz word: “dialogue” between Muslims and non-Muslims. There’s no such thing; men like Estes simply lie and don’t allow knowledgeable non-Muslims in the room. He probably left Texas because he got nowhere peddling his bunkum here.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/04/09/AR2009040903155.html
The Free World Bars Free Speech
. . . The "Free World," it appears, may be losing faith in free speech. . . .
Emblematic of the assault is the effort to pass an international ban on religious defamation supported by United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. . . .
While it hasn't gone so far as to support the U.N. resolution, the “West” is prosecuting "religious hatred" cases under anti-discrimination and hate-crime laws. British citizens can be arrested and prosecuted under the 2006 Racial and Religious Hatred Act, which makes it a crime to "abuse" religion. . . .
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/9/09
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/FBI-to-negotiate-with-Somali-pirates/articleshow/4381547.cms
FBI to Negotiate with Pirates to Free US Captain: Official
The US Navy has called in the FBI to help negotiate the release of a U.S. ship captain abducted and held hostage by Somali pirates . . .
"FBI negotiators stationed at Quantico (Virginia) have been called by the Navy to assist with negotiations with the Somali pirates and are fully engaged in this matter," Federal Bureau of Investigations spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement. Pirates are holding hostage the captain of the Maersk Alabama after the ship carrying U.S. food aid to African refugees was hijacked and briefly taken over until the crew regained control.
So what happened to: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”? Oh, I get it, they’re pirates. The fact that they are Muslim terrorist pirates doesn’t get mentioned, which gives President Hussein the out to call in the FBI. Why the FBI? Because they're wise to the ways of Muslim thinking after all their experience with CAIR, maybe?
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=32150
U.S. Outreach to Islamic World Will Pay Dividends, Gates Says
"I gave a speech last year in which I made the comment that how can it be that the nation that discovered public relations is being out-communicated by a guy in a cave?" he said. "The reality is I think we probably have not done as well as we should have in terms of reaching out to Muslims and making clear that what we're concerned about our [our? We have violent extremists? Okay, yeah, it was probably a typo] violent extremists."
The reality of it is that OBL is talking about something he knows about, and Gates is not. OBL knows this “man-made disaster contingency operation” is ALL about Islam and forcing it on the rest of the world. As does the Muslim Brotherhood, and all the little CAIRs in the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-biden-israel-iran8-2009apr08,0,2388127.story
Biden Warns Israel Off Any Attack on Iran
Vice President Joe Biden issued a high-level admonishment to Israel's new government Tuesday that it would be "ill advised" to launch a military strike against Iran.
Many top officials in the Obama administration have said they believe the costs of a U.S. attack on Iran would outweigh any benefits, . . .
The benefit being putting a huge dent in the Islamic Supremacist Movement? Just what is the downside to that? Perhaps it’s time to revisit the Drill Here, Drill Now plan? Then what would it matter if Israel took out the thugs threatening it?
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S871651.shtml?cat=206
An Islamic-relations Group Says High Schools, Colleges, and Universities Need To Do More to Protect the Rights of Somali Students. [Translated: Don’t let the FBI talk to any Somali Muslim student.]
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-MN, says it's received an increasing number of reports from students who say they have been interrogated by the FBI on Minnesota campuses.
The group says the interviews focus on allegations that Somali men have left Minnesota to go to Somalia and fight in that nation's civil war.
It wouldn’t do, of course, to have an innocent remark like: “Oh, yeah, I remember when Sami told me he was going off to Somalia . . .” reach ears that could actually DO something about stopping the recruiting.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923457420703137.html
Will Islam Return Obama's "Respect"?
Coptic Christians in Egypt have been singled out for discrimination and persecution. Muslim rioters often burn or vandalize their churches and shops. . . .the experience of Arab Christians living now amid majority Islamic populations is often repression, arrest, imprisonment, and death.
. . . In short, the "respect" Mr. Obama promised to give Islam is going only in one direction. And he knows that.
Candidate Obama last fall sent a letter to Condoleezza Rice expressing "my concern about the safety and well-being of Iraq's Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities." He asked what steps the U.S. was taking to protect "these communities of religious freedom." Candidate Obama said he wanted these groups represented in Iraq's governing institutions. Does President Obama believe these things?
If he does, he’s doing a darn good job of hiding it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/09/raw-data-pbs-defends-partnership-al-jazeera/
RAW DATA: PBS Defends Partnership With Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera English is one of many partners Worldfocus uses to help provide American viewers with a unique perspective on international news.
Boy, there’s just hardly anybody anywhere in public who remembers that we are at war with Islamic jihadists! --- Oh. Sorry. What is it we are at war with, again? Man-made disasters?
FBI to Negotiate with Pirates to Free US Captain: Official
The US Navy has called in the FBI to help negotiate the release of a U.S. ship captain abducted and held hostage by Somali pirates . . .
"FBI negotiators stationed at Quantico (Virginia) have been called by the Navy to assist with negotiations with the Somali pirates and are fully engaged in this matter," Federal Bureau of Investigations spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement. Pirates are holding hostage the captain of the Maersk Alabama after the ship carrying U.S. food aid to African refugees was hijacked and briefly taken over until the crew regained control.
So what happened to: “We don’t negotiate with terrorists”? Oh, I get it, they’re pirates. The fact that they are Muslim terrorist pirates doesn’t get mentioned, which gives President Hussein the out to call in the FBI. Why the FBI? Because they're wise to the ways of Muslim thinking after all their experience with CAIR, maybe?
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=32150
U.S. Outreach to Islamic World Will Pay Dividends, Gates Says
"I gave a speech last year in which I made the comment that how can it be that the nation that discovered public relations is being out-communicated by a guy in a cave?" he said. "The reality is I think we probably have not done as well as we should have in terms of reaching out to Muslims and making clear that what we're concerned about our [our? We have violent extremists? Okay, yeah, it was probably a typo] violent extremists."
The reality of it is that OBL is talking about something he knows about, and Gates is not. OBL knows this “man-made disaster contingency operation” is ALL about Islam and forcing it on the rest of the world. As does the Muslim Brotherhood, and all the little CAIRs in the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-biden-israel-iran8-2009apr08,0,2388127.story
Biden Warns Israel Off Any Attack on Iran
Vice President Joe Biden issued a high-level admonishment to Israel's new government Tuesday that it would be "ill advised" to launch a military strike against Iran.
Many top officials in the Obama administration have said they believe the costs of a U.S. attack on Iran would outweigh any benefits, . . .
The benefit being putting a huge dent in the Islamic Supremacist Movement? Just what is the downside to that? Perhaps it’s time to revisit the Drill Here, Drill Now plan? Then what would it matter if Israel took out the thugs threatening it?
http://kstp.com/news/stories/S871651.shtml?cat=206
An Islamic-relations Group Says High Schools, Colleges, and Universities Need To Do More to Protect the Rights of Somali Students. [Translated: Don’t let the FBI talk to any Somali Muslim student.]
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-MN, says it's received an increasing number of reports from students who say they have been interrogated by the FBI on Minnesota campuses.
The group says the interviews focus on allegations that Somali men have left Minnesota to go to Somalia and fight in that nation's civil war.
It wouldn’t do, of course, to have an innocent remark like: “Oh, yeah, I remember when Sami told me he was going off to Somalia . . .” reach ears that could actually DO something about stopping the recruiting.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923457420703137.html
Will Islam Return Obama's "Respect"?
Coptic Christians in Egypt have been singled out for discrimination and persecution. Muslim rioters often burn or vandalize their churches and shops. . . .the experience of Arab Christians living now amid majority Islamic populations is often repression, arrest, imprisonment, and death.
. . . In short, the "respect" Mr. Obama promised to give Islam is going only in one direction. And he knows that.
Candidate Obama last fall sent a letter to Condoleezza Rice expressing "my concern about the safety and well-being of Iraq's Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities." He asked what steps the U.S. was taking to protect "these communities of religious freedom." Candidate Obama said he wanted these groups represented in Iraq's governing institutions. Does President Obama believe these things?
If he does, he’s doing a darn good job of hiding it.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/09/raw-data-pbs-defends-partnership-al-jazeera/
RAW DATA: PBS Defends Partnership With Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera English is one of many partners Worldfocus uses to help provide American viewers with a unique perspective on international news.
Boy, there’s just hardly anybody anywhere in public who remembers that we are at war with Islamic jihadists! --- Oh. Sorry. What is it we are at war with, again? Man-made disasters?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/8/09
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/04/president-hussein-welcomes-the-force-of-evil.html
PRESIDENT HUSSEIN WELCOMES THE FORCE OF EVIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Obama's continuing jihad to advance the interests of Islam takes a flying leap and joins in welcoming the malevolent forces of the OIC to the White House.
Since taking office Obama has focused on three things: the transformation of our capitalistic economy to a form of socialist statist fascism, the abdication of American sovereignty to a trans-nationalism (one world-er), and the advancement of the worldwide domination of Islam, [which is] the ultimate goal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. The global jihad is conspiracy fact. And the OIC is behind it.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/textbook-lies-about-islam/
Textbook Lies About Islam
Why, at a time of war, are students at top U.S. military schools denied an objective treatment of Islam’s war doctrines? A report by the American Textbook Council sheds light by showing how these academic failures have much deeper roots.
After reviewing a number of popular textbooks used by American junior and senior high schools, the report found that, due to political correctness and/or fear of Muslim activists, “key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, [and] the status of women are whitewashed.”
Regarding the strikes of 9/11, one textbook never mentions Islamic ideologies, referring to the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers as “teams of terrorists” — this despite the fact that al-Qaeda has repeatedly articulated its hostile worldview through an Islamist paradigm, with a stress on hating “infidels” and waging holy war (see The Al Qaeda Reader).
Whoa, you just gotta read all of this.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429736190
3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop's Bid to Wear Religious Scarf
A Muslim woman who works as a Philadelphia police officer has lost her court battle to wear a religious head scarf on the job now that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that forcing the department to accommodate her would compromise the city's interest in maintaining "religious neutrality" in its police force.
In Webb v. City of Philadelphia, a unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court's decision that said the police department's blanket policy forbidding officers from wearing any religious garb did not violate plaintiff Kimberlie Webb's religious-freedom rights.
Writing for the court, Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Anthony J. Scirica said he agreed with the city's argument that, without strict enforcement of its dress code, "the essential values of impartiality, religious neutrality, uniformity, and the subordination of personal preference would be severely damaged to the detriment of the proper functioning of the police department."
YAY! And, actually, if you know what’s going on in Philly, it’s a really big surprise.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-0/1239203377133680.xml&storylist=national
US School District Pays to Settle Muslim Suit
A Muslim girl who said her complaints of bullying and death threats went unheeded by administrators at her Reno-area high school will receive $350,000 in a settlement with the Washoe County School District that was announced Wednesday.
Jana Elhifny, an American-Egyptian who openly displayed her Islamic faith and wore a religious headscarf, dropped out of North Valleys High School in 2004. In a federal civil rights lawsuit, she said she was too frightened to attend school and that teachers and administrators did not take steps to stop the harassment.
In a related settlement also announced Wednesday, Stephanie Hart, a non-Muslim who said she was ostracized and forced to leave school when she befriended Elhifny, will receive $50,000. The district also agreed to provide services for her to achieve a General Equivalency Diploma.
No yay! on this one. Litigation jihad is winning.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/Court_Overturns_Ruling_in_Muslim_Divorce
Ruling Overturned in Muslim Divorce Case
Declaring "I divorce thee" three times is not a legal way to end a marriage in Michigan.
Pinjari, now in New Jersey, was granted a divorce certificate in India after announcing he was "severing all connections of husband and wife with her forever and for good." He declared three times, "I divorce thee Saida Tarikonda."
Saida Tarikonda was deprived of her rights because she wasn't in India in April 2008 when her husband traveled there to declare what's known as the "triple talaq," the court said.
"To accord comity to a system that denies equal protection would ignore the rights of citizens and persons under the protection of Michigan's laws," the court said.
This actually happened in Michigan. American law upheld in Michigan! Will wonders never cease?
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090408/LIFESTYLE04/904080428/1041/rss11
Dutch Leaders Visit Dearborn to Learn Pointers on Tolerance
Dutch officials came to Dearborn today to discern why Muslims are more accepted in the United States than in The Netherlands.
"I really believe that Muslim Americans are at the front of the civil rights movement in America," Begg said. "We thank our African-American and Jewish brothers and sisters for going before us."
Ai-yi-yi! There’s sooooo much wrong with that statement! And my admiration for Michigan died a quick death.
PRESIDENT HUSSEIN WELCOMES THE FORCE OF EVIL TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Obama's continuing jihad to advance the interests of Islam takes a flying leap and joins in welcoming the malevolent forces of the OIC to the White House.
Since taking office Obama has focused on three things: the transformation of our capitalistic economy to a form of socialist statist fascism, the abdication of American sovereignty to a trans-nationalism (one world-er), and the advancement of the worldwide domination of Islam, [which is] the ultimate goal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact. The global jihad is conspiracy fact. And the OIC is behind it.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/textbook-lies-about-islam/
Textbook Lies About Islam
Why, at a time of war, are students at top U.S. military schools denied an objective treatment of Islam’s war doctrines? A report by the American Textbook Council sheds light by showing how these academic failures have much deeper roots.
After reviewing a number of popular textbooks used by American junior and senior high schools, the report found that, due to political correctness and/or fear of Muslim activists, “key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, [and] the status of women are whitewashed.”
Regarding the strikes of 9/11, one textbook never mentions Islamic ideologies, referring to the 19 al-Qaeda hijackers as “teams of terrorists” — this despite the fact that al-Qaeda has repeatedly articulated its hostile worldview through an Islamist paradigm, with a stress on hating “infidels” and waging holy war (see The Al Qaeda Reader).
Whoa, you just gotta read all of this.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429736190
3rd Circuit Rejects Muslim Cop's Bid to Wear Religious Scarf
A Muslim woman who works as a Philadelphia police officer has lost her court battle to wear a religious head scarf on the job now that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that forcing the department to accommodate her would compromise the city's interest in maintaining "religious neutrality" in its police force.
In Webb v. City of Philadelphia, a unanimous three-judge panel upheld a lower court's decision that said the police department's blanket policy forbidding officers from wearing any religious garb did not violate plaintiff Kimberlie Webb's religious-freedom rights.
Writing for the court, Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Anthony J. Scirica said he agreed with the city's argument that, without strict enforcement of its dress code, "the essential values of impartiality, religious neutrality, uniformity, and the subordination of personal preference would be severely damaged to the detriment of the proper functioning of the police department."
YAY! And, actually, if you know what’s going on in Philly, it’s a really big surprise.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-0/1239203377133680.xml&storylist=national
US School District Pays to Settle Muslim Suit
A Muslim girl who said her complaints of bullying and death threats went unheeded by administrators at her Reno-area high school will receive $350,000 in a settlement with the Washoe County School District that was announced Wednesday.
Jana Elhifny, an American-Egyptian who openly displayed her Islamic faith and wore a religious headscarf, dropped out of North Valleys High School in 2004. In a federal civil rights lawsuit, she said she was too frightened to attend school and that teachers and administrators did not take steps to stop the harassment.
In a related settlement also announced Wednesday, Stephanie Hart, a non-Muslim who said she was ostracized and forced to leave school when she befriended Elhifny, will receive $50,000. The district also agreed to provide services for her to achieve a General Equivalency Diploma.
No yay! on this one. Litigation jihad is winning.
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/Court_Overturns_Ruling_in_Muslim_Divorce
Ruling Overturned in Muslim Divorce Case
Declaring "I divorce thee" three times is not a legal way to end a marriage in Michigan.
Pinjari, now in New Jersey, was granted a divorce certificate in India after announcing he was "severing all connections of husband and wife with her forever and for good." He declared three times, "I divorce thee Saida Tarikonda."
Saida Tarikonda was deprived of her rights because she wasn't in India in April 2008 when her husband traveled there to declare what's known as the "triple talaq," the court said.
"To accord comity to a system that denies equal protection would ignore the rights of citizens and persons under the protection of Michigan's laws," the court said.
This actually happened in Michigan. American law upheld in Michigan! Will wonders never cease?
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090408/LIFESTYLE04/904080428/1041/rss11
Dutch Leaders Visit Dearborn to Learn Pointers on Tolerance
Dutch officials came to Dearborn today to discern why Muslims are more accepted in the United States than in The Netherlands.
"I really believe that Muslim Americans are at the front of the civil rights movement in America," Begg said. "We thank our African-American and Jewish brothers and sisters for going before us."
Ai-yi-yi! There’s sooooo much wrong with that statement! And my admiration for Michigan died a quick death.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/7/09
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg7-2009apr07,0,4894584.column
Obama's Bailout for the Despots
By investing political capital in the U.N. Human Rights Council, the president gives validation to a tainted organization.
President Bush refused to cooperate with the agency, and even held back the share of U.S. dues to the United Nations that went toward it. Obama, on the other hand, feels it is vital to work with the organization from the inside. The old U.N. Commission on Human Rights was a travesty, recognized -- even by the U.N. leadership -- as a petri dish of moral decay and political corruption. It was the foremost, though far from the sole, U.N. agency dedicated to the defamation, demonization, and destruction of Israel.
Fool.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025552.php
VIDEO: Spencer on the Islamic Attack on Free Speech
And that fool Hussein up above is playing right into the jihadists’ hands.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/07/2009-04-07_iranian_nuke_plot_vaporized_in_the_city_-2.html
Iranian Nuke Plot Vaporized In The City: NY Banks Unwittingly Aided in Material Transfers
The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.
Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.
“Unwittingly” is bad, but not nearly as bad as an American traitor wittingly doing it.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197125.php
First U.S. Based Pro-al Qaeda Magazine Released
It's called Jihad Recollections and is a production of Charlotte, NC al Qaeda supporter Samir Khan's self-styled jihad media company, as-Fursan. You can download a PDF version at the links provided by Sammy here.
The magazine is 70 pages of the same kind of garbage that you'd expect from al Qaeda itself, and certainly not from an American living in North Carolina. It seems to be imitating several other jihad magazines, which started with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Voice of Jihad.
Repeat as often as needed: I believe in free speech, I believe in free speech, I believe in free speech . . . gets harder and harder, doesn’t it? Yet, we can never circumscribe it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090406/ap_on_re_us/explosives_arrest
Egyptian Student Arrested by Immigration Officials
An Egyptian college student acquitted of federal explosives charges was unexpectedly arrested by immigration officials Monday.
Youssef Samir Megahed, 23, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he left a Tampa Wal-Mart store with his father. . . . He is being held on a warrant signed by an immigration judge.
Allen said the government is trying to deport Megahed even though federal prosecutors failed to secure a conviction at trial.
Now, this is just cool. Betcha there’s gonna be lots of hell to pay from CAIR, though.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/04/06/MNPL16R4UQ.DTL
U.S. Muslims Debate How Much to Help FBI
A petition organized by a Newark nonprofit urging Muslims to limit social outreach with the FBI has provoked a national debate within the Muslim community about how to deal with law enforcement.
You know, most of us never worry about “how to deal with law enforcement.” Why do you suppose the mosque-people are? Perhaps because trouble keeps originating in them?
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/631147.html
Muslims Fear FBI Is Spying in Mosques
Queries About Moles Bring No Answers [And why should they? You think they'd tell me, for instance, if I asked what their undercover ops were all about? And heck, I haven't even lied to them several dozen times.]
A coalition of Muslim-American groups claims the FBI has been planting counterterrorism spies in mosques in some U. S. cities.
Last month, 10 Muslim-American organizations threatened to stop working with the FBI on outreach efforts in the Muslim-American community.
Qazi said the lack of a public explanation by the FBI is a concern to him and other American Muslim leaders who have been working [deceitfully, apparently] with law enforcement agencies since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
These fellows are really in a tizzy, aren’t they? Such outrage while claiming such innocence. I get the feeling that they all thought they had the FBI nicely hoodwinked and are just furious the FBI wised-up to their games.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/05/cultural-divide-mosque-doesnt-agree-restaurants-pl/
Cultural Divide: Mosque Doesn't Agree with Restaurant's Plan to Serve Alcohol
. . .Islam prohibits the consumption of alcohol, but Sidiqqi said the protest isn't an attack on drinking in general, just a call for buffer zones for religious establishments. . . .
It’s pretty obvious Sidiqqi doesn’t understand (or understands it very well, and seeks to undermine it) American culture and has never watched a TV/movie western. A saloon on one corner and a church on the other. We managed to spread the country without religious buffer zones; what reason would we have to start the practice now?
Obama's Bailout for the Despots
By investing political capital in the U.N. Human Rights Council, the president gives validation to a tainted organization.
President Bush refused to cooperate with the agency, and even held back the share of U.S. dues to the United Nations that went toward it. Obama, on the other hand, feels it is vital to work with the organization from the inside. The old U.N. Commission on Human Rights was a travesty, recognized -- even by the U.N. leadership -- as a petri dish of moral decay and political corruption. It was the foremost, though far from the sole, U.N. agency dedicated to the defamation, demonization, and destruction of Israel.
Fool.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025552.php
VIDEO: Spencer on the Islamic Attack on Free Speech
And that fool Hussein up above is playing right into the jihadists’ hands.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/04/07/2009-04-07_iranian_nuke_plot_vaporized_in_the_city_-2.html
Iranian Nuke Plot Vaporized In The City: NY Banks Unwittingly Aided in Material Transfers
The Manhattan district attorney's office has smashed a sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks, the Daily News has learned.
Officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential nuclear materials to Tehran.
“Unwittingly” is bad, but not nearly as bad as an American traitor wittingly doing it.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/197125.php
First U.S. Based Pro-al Qaeda Magazine Released
It's called Jihad Recollections and is a production of Charlotte, NC al Qaeda supporter Samir Khan's self-styled jihad media company, as-Fursan. You can download a PDF version at the links provided by Sammy here.
The magazine is 70 pages of the same kind of garbage that you'd expect from al Qaeda itself, and certainly not from an American living in North Carolina. It seems to be imitating several other jihad magazines, which started with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Voice of Jihad.
Repeat as often as needed: I believe in free speech, I believe in free speech, I believe in free speech . . . gets harder and harder, doesn’t it? Yet, we can never circumscribe it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090406/ap_on_re_us/explosives_arrest
Egyptian Student Arrested by Immigration Officials
An Egyptian college student acquitted of federal explosives charges was unexpectedly arrested by immigration officials Monday.
Youssef Samir Megahed, 23, was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as he left a Tampa Wal-Mart store with his father. . . . He is being held on a warrant signed by an immigration judge.
Allen said the government is trying to deport Megahed even though federal prosecutors failed to secure a conviction at trial.
Now, this is just cool. Betcha there’s gonna be lots of hell to pay from CAIR, though.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/04/06/MNPL16R4UQ.DTL
U.S. Muslims Debate How Much to Help FBI
A petition organized by a Newark nonprofit urging Muslims to limit social outreach with the FBI has provoked a national debate within the Muslim community about how to deal with law enforcement.
You know, most of us never worry about “how to deal with law enforcement.” Why do you suppose the mosque-people are? Perhaps because trouble keeps originating in them?
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/631147.html
Muslims Fear FBI Is Spying in Mosques
Queries About Moles Bring No Answers [And why should they? You think they'd tell me, for instance, if I asked what their undercover ops were all about? And heck, I haven't even lied to them several dozen times.]
A coalition of Muslim-American groups claims the FBI has been planting counterterrorism spies in mosques in some U. S. cities.
Last month, 10 Muslim-American organizations threatened to stop working with the FBI on outreach efforts in the Muslim-American community.
Qazi said the lack of a public explanation by the FBI is a concern to him and other American Muslim leaders who have been working [deceitfully, apparently] with law enforcement agencies since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
These fellows are really in a tizzy, aren’t they? Such outrage while claiming such innocence. I get the feeling that they all thought they had the FBI nicely hoodwinked and are just furious the FBI wised-up to their games.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/apr/05/cultural-divide-mosque-doesnt-agree-restaurants-pl/
Cultural Divide: Mosque Doesn't Agree with Restaurant's Plan to Serve Alcohol
. . .Islam prohibits the consumption of alcohol, but Sidiqqi said the protest isn't an attack on drinking in general, just a call for buffer zones for religious establishments. . . .
It’s pretty obvious Sidiqqi doesn’t understand (or understands it very well, and seeks to undermine it) American culture and has never watched a TV/movie western. A saloon on one corner and a church on the other. We managed to spread the country without religious buffer zones; what reason would we have to start the practice now?
Monday, April 6, 2009
Dorrie's Picks, 4/6/09
http://www.newsweek.com/id/191935
Obama to Muslim world: No US War with Islam
Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with NATO ally Turkey and improve relations with the larger Muslim world.
Obama acknowledged still-raw tensions over the Iraq war, but said Muslims worldwide have little in common with terrorists such as al-Qaida and have much to gain in opposing them. Reaching out, he also spoke of Muslim connections in his own background.
"We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect," Obama said in a speech to Turkey's Parliament.
Fool.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501586.html?wprss=rss_politics
Most in Poll Back Outreach to Muslims
Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to "seek a new way forward" with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents to the religion encourage violence against non-Muslims, . . .
There is still a broad lack of familiarity with the . . . religion – 55% of those polled said they are without a basic understanding of the teachings and beliefs of Islam, and most said they do not know anyone who is Muslim. While awareness has increased in recent years, underlying views have not improved. . . .
And do you suppose it’s the ones who are without the basic understanding who are in the top half of the poll who think reaching out is a good idea?
http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=79274
FBI and American Muslims at Odds
Official Hezbollah website pleads CAIR's case against FBI (Al Manar) Hezbollah reprints Christian Science Monitor apology, er, article over CAIR/FBI dispute.
http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/04/former-hamas-crooner-to-speak-at-cair.html
Cleveland CAIR Holds Fundraiser; Guest Speaker Raised $ for Holy Land Foundation; Sings of Death to Jews.
Before the Holy Land Foundation was closed by the US government as a designated global terrorist fundraising entity just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Monzer Taleb (aka Munzir Taleb, Monzer Talib, et al.) was part of the infamous Al-Sakhra Band, which toured the US raising money for HLF and the terrorist group, HAMAS. [UPDATE: It appears that not only was Taleb a fundraiser for HLF, but he was also named unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF terror finance case. See below for more details.] . . .
Cleveland, Ohio, yet.
Obama to Muslim world: No US War with Islam
Declaring the U.S. "is not and never will be at war with Islam," President Barack Obama worked Monday to mend frayed ties with NATO ally Turkey and improve relations with the larger Muslim world.
Obama acknowledged still-raw tensions over the Iraq war, but said Muslims worldwide have little in common with terrorists such as al-Qaida and have much to gain in opposing them. Reaching out, he also spoke of Muslim connections in his own background.
"We seek broader engagement based upon mutual interest and mutual respect," Obama said in a speech to Turkey's Parliament.
Fool.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040501586.html?wprss=rss_politics
Most in Poll Back Outreach to Muslims
Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to "seek a new way forward" with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents to the religion encourage violence against non-Muslims, . . .
There is still a broad lack of familiarity with the . . . religion – 55% of those polled said they are without a basic understanding of the teachings and beliefs of Islam, and most said they do not know anyone who is Muslim. While awareness has increased in recent years, underlying views have not improved. . . .
And do you suppose it’s the ones who are without the basic understanding who are in the top half of the poll who think reaching out is a good idea?
http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=79274
FBI and American Muslims at Odds
Official Hezbollah website pleads CAIR's case against FBI (Al Manar) Hezbollah reprints Christian Science Monitor apology, er, article over CAIR/FBI dispute.
http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/2009/04/former-hamas-crooner-to-speak-at-cair.html
Cleveland CAIR Holds Fundraiser; Guest Speaker Raised $ for Holy Land Foundation; Sings of Death to Jews.
Before the Holy Land Foundation was closed by the US government as a designated global terrorist fundraising entity just weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Monzer Taleb (aka Munzir Taleb, Monzer Talib, et al.) was part of the infamous Al-Sakhra Band, which toured the US raising money for HLF and the terrorist group, HAMAS. [UPDATE: It appears that not only was Taleb a fundraiser for HLF, but he was also named unindicted co-conspirator in the HLF terror finance case. See below for more details.] . . .
Cleveland, Ohio, yet.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 4/4-4/5/09
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/03/1004237/obama-al-qaeda-not-motivated-by-israeli-palestinian-conflict
Obama: Al Qaeda Not Motivated by Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
President Obama said Al Qaeda terrorism is not motivated by U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity," Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France, during a European tour. "It is -- don't fool yourselves -- because some people say, well, you know, if we changed our policies with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or if we were more respectful towards the Muslim world, suddenly these organizations would stop threatening us. That's just not the case."
Obama added, "It is true that we have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect, and changing our language and changing our tone. It is true that we have to work very hard for Israeli-Palestinian peace. . . .
Two points: It’s good that our junior president from the USA understands that al-Qaeda isn’t going to change its spots based on anything we do. But it’s bad that he still seems to think that Palestine is a state. It’s not. It’s a ragtag boondoggle of disaffected Arabs led by two groups, the Palestinian Authority and HAMAS, both set on the destruction of Israel.
Which Israel itself is now publicly acknowledging:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/05/finally_harsh_realism_from_israel/
Finally, Harsh Realism from Israel
. . . The Roadmap imposes specific obligations that the Palestinians must meet prior to achieving statehood - above all, an unequivocal end to violence, terrorism, and incitement against the Jewish state - and Israel will not agree to waive them in order to negotiate a final settlement.
If Lieberman is as good as his word - and if he is backed up by Benjamin Netanyahu, the new prime minister - we may finally see an end to Israel's fruitless attempts to buy peace with ever-more-desperate concessions and retreats. . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303589.html
New Words for War
. . . The challenge for the new administration is to describe that enemy and the campaign against it in ways that convey its urgency to both Americans and foreign audiences . . .
Let me try. Men and women who overtly subscribe to Muhammad’s dictates to submit the world to Islam (aka: global jihadists) are our enemies. We will stop them by any and all means.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512221,00.html
Americans See Mostly Smooth Transition in War On Terror
[This title seems to have nothing to do with the article.]
As the Obama administration passes its 70-day mark, Americans are fairly comfortable with its handling of the War on Terror, according to the latest FOX News poll.
A slim plurality (36 percent) think the United States is safer today than it was under the Bush administration — although a nearly equal share (31 percent) takes the opposite view. And, in a trend seen throughout this survey, independent voters are more likely to say the country was safer under George W. Bush than it is under Barack Obama (33 percent to 25 percent).
Americans do not, however, like the Obama administration's decision to retire the word "terrorism" in favor of the more abstract "man-caused disaster" terminology. Fully three-quarters (75 percent) think "terrorism" better describes the threat to the country. Only 14 percent believe that "man-caused disaster" is a more accurate description of the threat America faces. Almost seven in ten Democrats (68 percent) agree that "terrorism" is the more appropriate term to use. . . .
Email letter; 4/5/09
Former Causer of Man Made Disasters !!
If I were making a speech instead of writing it I might need a teleprompter to speak the title of this article. Does anyone understand what our government is doing? For those who cannot work it out, or need help in deciphering President Obama’s code for the new word or words for a terrorist and the latte elitist language for “War on Terror,” you just got it in the title of the article.
As a person who in my youth was steeped in terrorism and hatred we would sneer at such talk from Israelis or Americans. The current NON-politics of fear will bring death and destruction, or “man made disasters.” If the truth is to be known is that our President will be the true cause of the man made disasters with the policies of appeasement that are beyond irresponsible.
As a former Jihadist (which is a word that according to our President is the “politics of fear), let me tell you what will defeat the terrorists. First we must identify the problem, which in itself is politically incorrect. The issue is not terrorism, which is the symptom but the real problem is the ideology of Islamic Fundamentalism. In the Middle East and even in America Islamic Fundamentalism is the prevalent and dominant within the Muslim world. This is what needs to be defeated or blunted heavily before we can stop the violence.
For those that do not understand the meaning of Islamic Fundamentalist as a former Muslim terrorist let me give you it exactly: “Religious conditioning taught to Muslim masses, by using illusions of misery, historic manipulation, and illusion of the virtues of a distant past by continual reflection on glory days long ago, in order to convert the masses into angry, pride filled, remorseless killers and seekers of salvation by death. The goal is to intimidate non-Muslims by fear and threats, in order to re-establish a utopian theocratic world order in which Islam and Muslims are dominant and all non-Muslims are subservient. This conditioning becomes the sole focus of both the spiritual leaders, and the followers in every aspect of their daily lives.”
I experienced the Friday prayers when the Imam would spew from the pulpit the hatred of Jews, Christians and Americans, the evidence of which is all over the Internet but not on our mainstream media. Today it is a hundreds times worse than when I was a terrorist in the 1970s and early 1980s. In America there is overwhelming evidence that the same hatred is being propagated at epidemic proportions in the United States within the mosques and no one in our government is willing to speak on it let alone do something about it.
Many in our media and even some of our most conservative voices wish to believe that the problem of terrorism is based on a minority of extremists but this I tell you as a former Muslim and a former terrorist is far from the truth. When I lived in the West Bank our whole society was steeped in this hatred from the school, the mosque, the media and even in our family, this is the way it is right across the Middle East which is hidden from us by the mainstream media.
If we are to defeat the evil of Islamic Fundamentalism and the scourge of “man made caused disasters” we need to first recognize the problem as I have identified if we are even to start to defeat it.
We need to educate ourselves, recognize the deceptions that we as a society are willing to accept for the sake of political correctness but in the long term will only create an even bigger disaster if we do not begin to deal with them today. The parallel comparison is our unwillingness to deal with the Nazis until it was too late. We have the potential for twenty, thirty or more Nazi states to emerge with the dominance if Islamic Fundamentalism. Churchill was regarded as a Naziphobe, he was one of the few who sounded the alarm bells. I am an Islamaphobe can I and a few others be right and the rest of the world wrong? History says yes.
The current policies and ideas from this new presidential administration will only bring more and bigger “man caused disasters” both to our shores and to our allies.
Walid Shoebat and Keith Davies
Leader and Executive Director Walid Shoebat Foundation (http://www.shoebat.com/)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/muslim-coalition-to-hold-briefing-on-obama-trip-civil-liberties-concerns,774601.shtml
Muslim Coalition to Hold Briefing on Obama Trip, Civil Liberties Concerns
On Monday, April 6, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) [you remember, the one that’s threatening to chastise the FBI for not listening to them lie anymore], a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will hold a noon news briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss President Obama's visit to Turkey and how that visit relates to issues such as:
* the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S., [this has about as much truth in it as the idea that the Mexican cartels are getting 90% of their guns from the USA]
* deteriorating relations between the FBI and American Muslims, [well, sooner or later law enforcement types ARE going to see thru an act]
* the dissemination of inaccurate and agenda-driven information by DHS-recognized "fusion centers," [wellllll, just sayin’ it’s so doesn’t make the info inaccurate] and
* Muslims' concerns about new Justice Department guidelines that allow race and ethnicity to be factors in opening an FBI probe. [Now why is it that a so-called religious faction should be concerned about such things as race and ethnicity? Because their religion is not their first motivating concern?]
"While it is vitally important for President Obama to reach out to the Muslim world, it is equally important that he address serious concerns American Muslims have about domestic policies that negatively impact civil liberties and seem to reflect the growth of Islamophobic attitudes in our nation," said AMT Chairman Dr. Agha Saeed.
You decide who sounds more credible: Walid Shoebat or Agha Saeed.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/04/obama-unable-to-shake-muslim-myth/
Obama Unable to Shake Muslim “Myth”
"It's a 'Hussein' factor. You can never downplay the importance of the name. It's a brand identifier," said John Tantillo, the Manhattan marketing consultant who came up with the show title "The O'Reilly Factor" for Fox News.
"The name 'Barack' is different in the first place. Remember that the president once called himself 'Barry.' And 'Hussein' is Muslim. These associations are implanted in the minds of people and they free associate. . . .”
It might also have something to do with how he favors our enemies. Bowing to King Abdullah is a fairly large clue.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512596,00.html
Freed American U.N. Aid Worker Leaves Pakistan
An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago headed home Sunday, a day after he turned up unharmed alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me."
John Solecki was discovered Saturday evening abandoned in a village some 30 miles south of Quetta near the Afghan border after his captors called a local news agency to tell them where to look, officials said. At one point, the kidnappers had threatened to behead him. . . .
Malik said the U.N. worker was released after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari formed a task force that worked with the top official in Baluchistan, where Quetta is the capital, to convince the kidnappers to free Solecki. . . .
The release was a rare piece of good news amid intensifying violence here that has raised international alarm over the nuclear-armed country's stability. . . .
Obama: Al Qaeda Not Motivated by Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
President Obama said Al Qaeda terrorism is not motivated by U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity," Obama said Friday at a town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France, during a European tour. "It is -- don't fool yourselves -- because some people say, well, you know, if we changed our policies with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or if we were more respectful towards the Muslim world, suddenly these organizations would stop threatening us. That's just not the case."
Obama added, "It is true that we have to change our behavior in showing the Muslim world greater respect, and changing our language and changing our tone. It is true that we have to work very hard for Israeli-Palestinian peace. . . .
Two points: It’s good that our junior president from the USA understands that al-Qaeda isn’t going to change its spots based on anything we do. But it’s bad that he still seems to think that Palestine is a state. It’s not. It’s a ragtag boondoggle of disaffected Arabs led by two groups, the Palestinian Authority and HAMAS, both set on the destruction of Israel.
Which Israel itself is now publicly acknowledging:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/04/05/finally_harsh_realism_from_israel/
Finally, Harsh Realism from Israel
. . . The Roadmap imposes specific obligations that the Palestinians must meet prior to achieving statehood - above all, an unequivocal end to violence, terrorism, and incitement against the Jewish state - and Israel will not agree to waive them in order to negotiate a final settlement.
If Lieberman is as good as his word - and if he is backed up by Benjamin Netanyahu, the new prime minister - we may finally see an end to Israel's fruitless attempts to buy peace with ever-more-desperate concessions and retreats. . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040303589.html
New Words for War
. . . The challenge for the new administration is to describe that enemy and the campaign against it in ways that convey its urgency to both Americans and foreign audiences . . .
Let me try. Men and women who overtly subscribe to Muhammad’s dictates to submit the world to Islam (aka: global jihadists) are our enemies. We will stop them by any and all means.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512221,00.html
Americans See Mostly Smooth Transition in War On Terror
[This title seems to have nothing to do with the article.]
As the Obama administration passes its 70-day mark, Americans are fairly comfortable with its handling of the War on Terror, according to the latest FOX News poll.
A slim plurality (36 percent) think the United States is safer today than it was under the Bush administration — although a nearly equal share (31 percent) takes the opposite view. And, in a trend seen throughout this survey, independent voters are more likely to say the country was safer under George W. Bush than it is under Barack Obama (33 percent to 25 percent).
Americans do not, however, like the Obama administration's decision to retire the word "terrorism" in favor of the more abstract "man-caused disaster" terminology. Fully three-quarters (75 percent) think "terrorism" better describes the threat to the country. Only 14 percent believe that "man-caused disaster" is a more accurate description of the threat America faces. Almost seven in ten Democrats (68 percent) agree that "terrorism" is the more appropriate term to use. . . .
Email letter; 4/5/09
Former Causer of Man Made Disasters !!
If I were making a speech instead of writing it I might need a teleprompter to speak the title of this article. Does anyone understand what our government is doing? For those who cannot work it out, or need help in deciphering President Obama’s code for the new word or words for a terrorist and the latte elitist language for “War on Terror,” you just got it in the title of the article.
As a person who in my youth was steeped in terrorism and hatred we would sneer at such talk from Israelis or Americans. The current NON-politics of fear will bring death and destruction, or “man made disasters.” If the truth is to be known is that our President will be the true cause of the man made disasters with the policies of appeasement that are beyond irresponsible.
As a former Jihadist (which is a word that according to our President is the “politics of fear), let me tell you what will defeat the terrorists. First we must identify the problem, which in itself is politically incorrect. The issue is not terrorism, which is the symptom but the real problem is the ideology of Islamic Fundamentalism. In the Middle East and even in America Islamic Fundamentalism is the prevalent and dominant within the Muslim world. This is what needs to be defeated or blunted heavily before we can stop the violence.
For those that do not understand the meaning of Islamic Fundamentalist as a former Muslim terrorist let me give you it exactly: “Religious conditioning taught to Muslim masses, by using illusions of misery, historic manipulation, and illusion of the virtues of a distant past by continual reflection on glory days long ago, in order to convert the masses into angry, pride filled, remorseless killers and seekers of salvation by death. The goal is to intimidate non-Muslims by fear and threats, in order to re-establish a utopian theocratic world order in which Islam and Muslims are dominant and all non-Muslims are subservient. This conditioning becomes the sole focus of both the spiritual leaders, and the followers in every aspect of their daily lives.”
I experienced the Friday prayers when the Imam would spew from the pulpit the hatred of Jews, Christians and Americans, the evidence of which is all over the Internet but not on our mainstream media. Today it is a hundreds times worse than when I was a terrorist in the 1970s and early 1980s. In America there is overwhelming evidence that the same hatred is being propagated at epidemic proportions in the United States within the mosques and no one in our government is willing to speak on it let alone do something about it.
Many in our media and even some of our most conservative voices wish to believe that the problem of terrorism is based on a minority of extremists but this I tell you as a former Muslim and a former terrorist is far from the truth. When I lived in the West Bank our whole society was steeped in this hatred from the school, the mosque, the media and even in our family, this is the way it is right across the Middle East which is hidden from us by the mainstream media.
If we are to defeat the evil of Islamic Fundamentalism and the scourge of “man made caused disasters” we need to first recognize the problem as I have identified if we are even to start to defeat it.
We need to educate ourselves, recognize the deceptions that we as a society are willing to accept for the sake of political correctness but in the long term will only create an even bigger disaster if we do not begin to deal with them today. The parallel comparison is our unwillingness to deal with the Nazis until it was too late. We have the potential for twenty, thirty or more Nazi states to emerge with the dominance if Islamic Fundamentalism. Churchill was regarded as a Naziphobe, he was one of the few who sounded the alarm bells. I am an Islamaphobe can I and a few others be right and the rest of the world wrong? History says yes.
The current policies and ideas from this new presidential administration will only bring more and bigger “man caused disasters” both to our shores and to our allies.
Walid Shoebat and Keith Davies
Leader and Executive Director Walid Shoebat Foundation (http://www.shoebat.com/)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/muslim-coalition-to-hold-briefing-on-obama-trip-civil-liberties-concerns,774601.shtml
Muslim Coalition to Hold Briefing on Obama Trip, Civil Liberties Concerns
On Monday, April 6, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) [you remember, the one that’s threatening to chastise the FBI for not listening to them lie anymore], a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will hold a noon news briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., to discuss President Obama's visit to Turkey and how that visit relates to issues such as:
* the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S., [this has about as much truth in it as the idea that the Mexican cartels are getting 90% of their guns from the USA]
* deteriorating relations between the FBI and American Muslims, [well, sooner or later law enforcement types ARE going to see thru an act]
* the dissemination of inaccurate and agenda-driven information by DHS-recognized "fusion centers," [wellllll, just sayin’ it’s so doesn’t make the info inaccurate] and
* Muslims' concerns about new Justice Department guidelines that allow race and ethnicity to be factors in opening an FBI probe. [Now why is it that a so-called religious faction should be concerned about such things as race and ethnicity? Because their religion is not their first motivating concern?]
"While it is vitally important for President Obama to reach out to the Muslim world, it is equally important that he address serious concerns American Muslims have about domestic policies that negatively impact civil liberties and seem to reflect the growth of Islamophobic attitudes in our nation," said AMT Chairman Dr. Agha Saeed.
You decide who sounds more credible: Walid Shoebat or Agha Saeed.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/04/obama-unable-to-shake-muslim-myth/
Obama Unable to Shake Muslim “Myth”
"It's a 'Hussein' factor. You can never downplay the importance of the name. It's a brand identifier," said John Tantillo, the Manhattan marketing consultant who came up with the show title "The O'Reilly Factor" for Fox News.
"The name 'Barack' is different in the first place. Remember that the president once called himself 'Barry.' And 'Hussein' is Muslim. These associations are implanted in the minds of people and they free associate. . . .”
It might also have something to do with how he favors our enemies. Bowing to King Abdullah is a fairly large clue.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512596,00.html
Freed American U.N. Aid Worker Leaves Pakistan
An American U.N. worker abducted more than two months ago headed home Sunday, a day after he turned up unharmed alongside a road in western Pakistan with his hands and feet bound and pleading "Help me, help me."
John Solecki was discovered Saturday evening abandoned in a village some 30 miles south of Quetta near the Afghan border after his captors called a local news agency to tell them where to look, officials said. At one point, the kidnappers had threatened to behead him. . . .
Malik said the U.N. worker was released after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari formed a task force that worked with the top official in Baluchistan, where Quetta is the capital, to convince the kidnappers to free Solecki. . . .
The release was a rare piece of good news amid intensifying violence here that has raised international alarm over the nuclear-armed country's stability. . . .
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