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. . . .