Unveiling Taqiyya

Dorrie's Picks, 6/22/09

2009-06-22T16:14:00.001-07:00

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026669.php
Michigan: "Christians Are No Longer Being Given the Same Rights as Others"
. . . This is an invidious form of discrimination, and the City of Dearborn will have to justify it in the lawsuit that I and the Thomas More Law Center have filed against it to permanently end this violation of the First Amendment.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/09/americas-first-muslim-president/
GAFFNEY: America's First Muslim President?
. . . Whether Mr. Obama actually is a Muslim or simply plays one in the presidency may, in the end, be irrelevant. What is alarming is that in aligning himself and his policies with those of Shariah-adherents such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the president will greatly intensify the already enormous pressure on peaceful, tolerant American Muslims to submit to such forces - and heighten expectations, here and abroad, that the rest of us will do so as well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803495.html
Hope and Change --- but Not for Iran --- by Charles Krauthammer
Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it represents. The demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they await just a word that America is on their side.

And what do they hear from the president of the United States? Silence. Then, worse. Three days in, the president makes clear his policy: continued "dialogue" with their clerical masters. . . .

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1073/aclu-recommendations-would-mean-more-money-for
ACLU Recommendations Would Mean "More Money for Hamas"
The American Civil Liberties Union released a report June 16 (together with a You Tube video) attacking the U.S. government's efforts to shut down terrorist-financing charities. The report was based on 120 interviews, 115 of which were conducted with Muslim community leaders and other Muslims "directly affected by" U.S. government policies regarding the charities.

It suggests (contrary to a substantial body of evidence) – that the U.S. government was wrong to have acted against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and other charities accused of raising money for terrorist organizations. The report also perpetuates the myth that the United States government may be planning to prosecute persons for unwittingly contributing to charities that were fronts for terrorism. . . .

http://blogs.indystar.com/thoushalt/2009/06/islamic_society.html
Islamic Society Convention Lands Appearance from Rick Warren
The Indiana-based Islamic Society of North America will be holding its annual convention -- the largest yearly gathering of Muslims on the continent -- in Washington, D.C. over the Fourth of July weekend.

And while convention leaders are holding out hope that President Barack Obama might make the convention his latest stop in his outreach to the Muslim world, the convention has landed another pretty big fish as a featured speaker.

Purpose-Driven pastor Rick Warren has agreed to appear at the convention and be part of its main session discussing the convention's theme -- "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness." [Damn, they’re good, huh? Sounds so all-American . . .] Joining Warren for the session is ISNA President Ingrid Mattson and noted Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf. Not exactly your moderate Muslims . . .

I suspect those who didn’t like Reverend Warren are not going to have their minds changed through this foolish move. Conservative, he’s supposed to be a conservative . . . Those people who think by putting out the olive branch to the Muslims they'll be successful in changing the Muslim mindset (and I'm assuming that Rev. Warren must have something along that line in mind) are just asking to have their hands bitten off.

Dorrie's Picks, 6/19/09

2009-06-19T15:45:00.001-07:00

http://thelastcrusade.org/2009/06/04/obama-bombs-american-history-101/
Obama Bombs American History 101
SORRY, BARACK, BUT THERE WERE NO MUSLIMS ON THE MAYFLOWER
Speaking at the University of Cairo, President Barack Hussein Obama said that Americans are indebted to Islam for the great contributions Muslims have made to the history and development of the United States.

Sorry, Barack Hussein, but there were no Muslims among the passengers on the Mayflower or the settlers at Jamestown. Muslims were conspicuously absent from the ranks of George Washington’s Army of the Revolution and played no role in the creation of the American republic - - save for the fact that the new country’s first declaration of war was against the forces of Islam in the form of the Barbary pirates.

This is an excellent article full of lots of history of Muslim activity in the USA. This was a new blog to me; I’ll eventually update the blog w/a whole batch of books and DVDs and blogs or Web sites which I haven’t had time to do yet.

This blog also gives a lot of up-to-date info on the violence in Iran.

http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/
VIDEO: FSC Sues The Delray Beach Marriott
Obviously, I’m pleased by this. Striking back against creeping Islamic suppression in a non-violent way is the best way. Let us not get to the point of blood in the streets to get back our freedoms, as is happening in Tehran today.

http://www.pjtv.com/video/Specials/PJTV_SPECIAL_REPORT%3A_Iranian_Election_Chaos__Is_Khamenei_Caving%3F_/2045/
PJTV SPECIAL REPORT: Iranian Election Chaos ... Is Khamenei Caving?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=101400
Keith Ellison's Office Hangs Up On WND
Congressman's Islamic Pilgrimage Paid by Group Tied to Terrorism
. . . earlier this month Ellison's office filed its annual congressional disclosure form, listing travel payments and reimbursements by private entities.

The Powerline blog posted a copy of the form which documents Ellison's trip to Saudi Arabia from November 29 to December 14 Was Paid for by the MAS-Minnesota. . . .

MAS national director Mahdi Bray called the story his group paid for Ellison's pilgrimage a "myth" and "urban legend" that needed to be laid to rest.

"Keith Ellison is a member of Congress who knows that congressmen don't take trips sponsored by nonprofits. That would be a breach of congressional ethics," Bray told FoxNews.com. . . .

Well, yeah, but apparently that didn’t stop him.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090618/pl_usnw/cair_ny_welcomes_city_council_vote_on_muslim_holidays_in_schools
CAIR-NY Welcomes City Council Vote on Muslim Holidays in Schools
The New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today joined a coalition of community organizations in welcoming the passage of a resolution by a committee of the city council that calls for adding Muslim holidays to the school calendar.

Resolution 1281, passed overwhelmingly by the New York City Council Education Committee, calls on the "New York City Department of Education to incorporate the Muslim holidays of Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha as observed school holidays in the school calendar for the city school district of the city of New York" and also asks that the state legislature "pass, and the Governor to sign into law, A.8108/S.5837, an Act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that Eid Ul-Fitr and Eid Ul-Adha be school holidays in the city school district of the city of New York."

You would think, of all the cities in the United States, the citizens of New York City would be brighter than this. The NYCCEC has just allowed all the children in NYC to accept the idea that an Islamic “holy” day is equal in meaning and importance to, say, Christmas or Chanukah.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526972,00.html
Pentagon Exam Calls Protests "Low-Level Terrorism," Angering Activists
A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels "protests" as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment.

The written exam, given as part of Department of Defense employees’ routine training, includes a multiple-choice question that asks: “Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism?”
— Attacking the Pentagon
— IEDs
— Hate crimes against racial groups
— Protests
The correct answer, according to the exam, is "Protests." . . .

I think I'm even annoyed at the headline. ". . . angering activists." Who's Fox considering to be activists?

http://www.freep.com/article/20090618/NEWS02/90618059/1004/Judge++Group+can+t+roam+with+literature+at+Arab+festival
Judge: Group Can't Walk with Lit[erature] at Mich[igan] Festival
A federal judge has denied an evangelical Christian group's request for permission to hand out literature on sidewalks at an Arab festival in the heart of the Detroit area's Middle Eastern community.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds on Thursday denied Anaheim, Calif.-based Arabic Christian Perspective's request for a temporary restraining order.

The group sued the city of Dearborn after police told them they would need to restrict literature distribution to a designated table & booth section of the 3-day Arab International Festival, which opens Friday.

The city says public safety concerns require the limitation and say other Christian and Muslim groups already have tables or booths at the festival.

Update 6/18/09: A federal judge sided with the city of Dearborn today in a dispute with a Christian group over the distribution of religious literature during an upcoming Arab festival. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed this week by a Christian group that says the city of Dearborn is denying it the right to roam the Arab International Festival to hand out religious literature.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds denied a motion from the Christian group for a temporary restraining order that would have prohibited the city from restricting the group from handing out literature, according to a release from the group’s attorneys.

Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly Jr. said the city strongly believes in free speech and has at least two other Christian groups who will be at the festival handing out information. O’Reilly said the California group, like other groups, is restricted to one place because of crowd control issues.

Gee, imagine this happening in Dearborn, Michigan, huh? And this is all about “crowd control issues.” Really. How does it help crowd control to keep one group of people from walking around in the crowd?

http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_12615737?source=most_emailed
El Paso Gets $5.4M Grant to Improve Planning in Case of Terror Attack, Disaster
A $5.4 million federal grant awarded to the city of El Paso is designed to help law enforcement agencies avoid some of the mistakes made in New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, officials announced Wednesday.

The money is for fiscal year 2009, which will start on Sept. 1, and will be used to improve communication between various law-enforcement agencies in the region; to create a tactical "fusion" center in which intelligence from state, local and federal agencies can be shared and analyzed; and to buy and coordinate standardized breathing equipment to be used by local fire departments.

The city of El Paso will spearhead a regional effort to improve planning and communication in case of a terrorist attack or disaster, Mayor John Cook said. . . .

I don’t suppose I should turn up my nose at $5.4M, but somehow, what with our daily inundation of the words “billions” and “trillions,” this doesn’t sound like much, somehow.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics2/32_see_better_u_s_relationship_with_muslim_world
[ONLY] 32% See Better U.S. Relationship With Muslim World
Fewer than one-third of voters nationwide (32%) believe most Islamic nations want to have a positive and peaceful relationship with the United States.
Just prior to the now disputed Iranian election, 62% of voters said Iran should be required to stop developing its nuclear weapons capabilities before a meeting is allowed between the Iranian president and the president of the United States.

Only 31% think the United States will be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st century.

My granddaughters might still be around then . . . the oldest of the two could be 94, then. When I think of it that way, it sounds really awful that there's even a chance (and I don't disagree that it's certainly possible) that the U.S. will be just another middling country in a world of . . . what? I can't actually imagine it.

Dorrie's Picks 6/17/09

2009-06-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1068/ramifications-of-a-possibly-armed-muslim
Ramifications of a Possibly Armed Muslim Brotherhood
. . . Last summer, the Brotherhood's Deputy Supreme Guide acknowledged there remains an active wing of the organization in the U.S. [which we think of as Homegrown Jihad] which "are part of the American society and they want to an active positive role in it." In response to an interviewer's question, Mohammed Habib acknowledged a "relationship" between CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood.

The existence of an armed Muslim Brotherhood should refocus the way the U.S. government engages the various U.S.-based organizations that are rooted in the Brotherhood. Surely, such organizations that have supportive or operational links to a foreign, armed militant group that is dedicated, through violence if necessary, to the establishment of an Islamic new world order should be high on the investigative target list of U.S. intelligence, law enforcement and security agencies. . . .

http://www.uscirf.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2206&Itemid=1
Saudi Arabia: USCIRF Confirms Material Inciting Violence
Intolerance Remains in Textbooks Used at Saudi Government's Islamic Saudi Academy
WASHINGTON—Last fall, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom asked the U.S. Department of State to secure the release of all Arabic-language textbooks used at a Saudi government school in Northern Virginia, the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA). . . .

. . . although it was unable to obtain the entire collection, the Commission managed to acquire and review 17 ISA textbooks in use during this school year from other, independent sources, including a congressional office. While the texts represent just a small fraction of the books used in this Saudi government school, the Commission’s review confirmed that these texts do, in fact, include some extremely troubling passages that do not conform to international human rights norms. . . .

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=016_1214398300
VIDEO: Al-Jazeera [responds]: TV Report on the Controversy over the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virgina.

http://www.examiner.com/a-2068302~County_planning_officials_OK_Saudi_Academy_plan.html
County Planning Officials OK Saudi Academy Plan
Planning officials have approved a proposal to expand an Islamic school with close ties to the Saudi government in northern Virginia.

The Fairfax County Planning Commission gave its OK on Thursday. The Islamic Saudi Academy is looking to expand its Popes Head Road campus in Fairfax, which could allow about 200 new students on the 34-acre site.

Who said “We are the architects of our own demise.”? Whoever it was, I agree.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026608.php
Arabic Christian Group Sues City of Dearborn After Police Restrict Its First Amendment Rights
Robert Spencer: I received this email from my attorney, William Becker. It is a sad day when American law enforcement officials restrict the First Amendment rights of Americans in order to accommodate Muslims. . . .

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS108186+15-Jun-2009+PRN20090615
District Director for California State Senator Carol Liu (21st District) Served in…
WASHINGTON—Tahra Goraya, the District Director for California State Senator Carol Liu (D-La Canada) was served last week in a federal fraud and racketeering lawsuit. . . .

Goraya served as "national director" of the Council on American-Islamic Relations at the time of the alleged fraudulent scheme perpetrated by CAIR and its national leadership in Washington, D.C. . . .

The complaint alleges criminal fraud and racketeering against CAIR, a self-described Muslim public interest civil rights law firm. The lawsuit also names CAIR's national leadership, including Goraya, as individual defendants. . . .

America is beginning to fight back. Instead of standing passively by, we’re on the offense. Good. Let it happen more and more; take away the one arrow they in their quiver---the threat of suing---and we’re one step closer to our rightful freedoms.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
Palestinians Angered by Netanyahu Peace Terms
[Whoa, now there’s a surprise! What? Us get out of Jerusalem and throw away our guns? How then can we kill the kafirs?]
. . . Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter . . . criticized key points in the speech — Netanyahu's intention to keep all of Jerusalem [imagine the nerve!] and his demand for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, which Carter said would make it hard for Obama to rally Arab support. [Doesn’t that tell you something, Mr. Carter? Like they don’t want peace? They want Israel gone off the map?]

Carter reserved his harshest words for settlements. "If Israeli continues to expand the settlements," he said, "then the prospects for peace will be greatly diminished, if not made almost impossible."

Look in the dictionary for Useful Idiot, and you’ll find Carter’s picture.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/13/2009-06-13_al_qaedas_american_traitor_adam_yahiye_gadahn_blasts_israel__and_own_jewish_rela.html VIDEO
Al Qaeda's American Traitor, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, blasts Israel - and own Jewish relatives. . .

Gadahn said he rejected Judaism and Israeli citizenship because he had too much self-respect "to stand in the ranks of criminals and killers who have no morals, no mercy, no humanity and indeed no honor. . . .

And he thinks Islam has any of that? Look in the dictionary for morals, mercy, humanity, and honor, and you won’t find Gadahn’s picture anywhere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16charity.html?_r=1
A.C.L.U. Report Says Antiterror Fight Undercuts Liberty of Muslim Donors
The fight against terrorism has dealt a harsh blow to Muslim charities and interfered with their donors’ religious freedom, a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union concludes.

The report says statutes that it describes as overly broad and enforced in a discriminatory manner, coupled with a lack of due process, have starved Islamic charities of money and impeded Muslims’ ability to fulfill zakat, their religious requirement to make charitable donations.

The report is based on interviews with more than 100 Muslim community leaders as well as experts on antiterrorism laws and regulations. Though it gives no estimate of the decline in donations to Muslim groups, it says a total of nine Islamic charities have closed as a result of government action against them since the Sept. 11 attacks. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 6/15/09

2009-06-15T18:46:00.001-07:00

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/05/gitmo-gall-charges-dropped-against-cole-bombing-jihadist/
Gitmo Gall: Charges Dropped Against Cole Bombing Jihadist
The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.

The legal move by Susan J. Crawford, the top legal authority for military trials at Guantanamo, brings all cases into compliance with Obama’s Jan. 22 executive order to halt terrorist court proceedings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Crawford dismissed the charges against al-Nashiri without prejudice. That means new charges can be brought again later. He will remain in prison for the time being. . . .

http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_12590361
West Covina Muslim Man Jailed After Spies Infiltrate Mosque
A Diamond Bar man is being held in a secret federal prison and his family believes he was targeted for investigation by authorities because of his faith.

Seyed Mousavi, 51, was convicted of filing false tax returns, omitting information on naturalization forms, and violating an economic embargo against Iran, officials said. He is being held in a Communication Management Unit (CMU) in Indiana and is largely isolated from his family and friends. [And this surprises anybody?]

Despite a recent speech at Cairo University that was well-received by U.S. Muslims, local Muslim Americans like the Mousavi family said much damage has been done at home by tactics used by the FBI, which included sending spies into mosques. [You mean, the FBI caught Mousavi by spying? And they think that’s unfair? Awhhhh.] . . .

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090613/METRO/906130392/1409/METRO/Ex-President-Clinton-to-Arab-Americans--World-must-embrace-diversity
Bill Clinton to Arab Americans: World Must Embrace Diversity
Washington -- Former President Bill Clinton told a gathering of Arab Americans on Saturday night that the increasingly interdependent world must learn to embrace diversity or risk perishing.

Alternating between humor and heavy philosophizing, Clinton pointed to scientific breakthroughs, spiritual texts, the recent economic meltdown and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to deliver a near 40-minute-long message that the world's survival depends on people learning to take pride in their identity without putting down others.

Addressing the stubborn conflicts in the Middle East, Clinton said, "It's all rooted in a sense of identity .... I hope you will tell everybody that your vision of America is one where you are deeply proud of who you are. And teach your children their ethnic heritage, their religious heritage, their cultural heritage, with no negative reference to anyone else. Because it's the only shot we've got to make the most of our interdependent world."

Well, this was a bit of a surprise. Clinton asking for something FROM these poor misunderstood US Muslims? Not that it’ll do any good. Dems/Libs just can’t get it thru their heads that the Followers of Muhammad do not WANT an “interdependent world.”

http://www.startribune.com/local/48005352.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUF
Demonstrators Support Area Muslim Group
Representatives from more than a dozen Somali civil, religious, and political organizations gathered Saturday to rebut allegations that a Muslim civil rights group [that would be CAIR] is blocking an FBI inquiry into the disappearances of dozens of Twin Cities Somali men.

Last week, relatives of a Minneapolis teenager who said he was recently killed in Somalia and a Somali community leader claimed that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Minnesota chapter was discouraging area Somalis from cooperating with the FBI. But supporters Saturday said CAIR has only advised Somalis about their civil rights and urged them to tell the truth and work with law enforcement. . . .

It’s not hard to tell which side the Somalis think their bread is buttered on.

http://www.ameinfo.com/200571.html
Fahad Al-Mukhaizeem: KFH Committed to Spreading Islamic Financial Method
The “Islamic Finance Program Manager at Harvard University” [oh good God; at Harvard, yet] Dr. Nazem Ali stated that many projects and deals achieved by Kuwait Finance House (KFH) are being taught to the students and the researchers taking part in the Islamic Finance Project (IFP) by clarifying the unique structure, innovative concepts, and the role they played in offering new horizons for Islamic finance. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_homegrown_radicals
Recruiter Shootings Spark Homegrown Terror Fears
. . . Muhammad, 23, told The Associated Press in a jail cell interview last week that the shootings were an "act for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military."

Former West Point researcher and jihadist expert Jarret Brachman calls the Arkansas killing a landmark case and "a giant step forward for the global jihadist movement." Brachman, who wrote a book on global jihad, said Muhammad's case proves that the U.S. can no longer pretend that violent jihadism is a foreign phenomenon.

"It is being born and bred here on American soil," he said. "The seeds have all been sown over the past few years, between Iraq and Afghanistan on our side, and the increased propaganda and increased jihadi education materials on their side." . . .

I don’t hear any gasps out there, like this is news to anybody but the folks at the AP, maybe.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-palau-gitmo14-2009jun14,0,2897549.story
Some in Palau Are Worried About Guantanamo Detainees
. . . Palau's decision to offer refuge to more than a dozen ethnic Uighurs once suspected of terrorism was hailed by the Obama administration, which is eager to disperse Guantanamo detainees as part of a plan to close the notorious [according to whom?] prison early next year.

But the "humanitarian gesture" by Palauan President Johnson Toribiong has rattled cocktail glasses and scuba tanks across this nation of 20,000 year-round residents, a former U.S. territory whose economy is heavily dependent on eco-tourism. . . .

He couldn’t just leave it alone; oh no, BHO has to spread the terror everywhere . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5535575/Benjamin-Netanyahu-speech-on-Palestinian-state-an-important-step-forward-says-Barack-Obama.html
Benjamin Netanyahu Speech on Palestinian State an Important Step Forward, Says Barack Obama
President Barack Obama "welcomes the important step forward in Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech," Robert Gibbs, the president's spokesman, said in a statement.

In the speech, the Israeli prime minister endorsed for the first time the creation of a Palestinian state, provided it was demilitarised, [that means he's telling BHO there's not a chance he'll go for a Palestinian state, but BHO doesn't know that] after weeks of pressure from Washington.

Oh, shut up, BHO, and let Israel protect itself. Not a word about Admadinejad’s phony win (not that the other guy would’ve been an improvement), but oh boy, Israel’s gotta get in line . . .

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=177999
Gülen Movement an Inspiration for All, Says Obama’s Muslim advisor, Mogahed
Dalia Mogahed, appointed by US President Barack Obama and the first Muslim woman to be a member of the White House Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, has said the Gülen movement, a faith-based social movement named after Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, is a model and inspiration for all those working for the good of the society.

Mogahed spoke with Sunday's Zaman in Doha, Qatar, and commented on a couple of topics, including the US approach to Muslims worldwide during the Obama administration, the state of democracy and religious freedom in the Muslim world, and the contributions of the Gülen movement to global peace and understanding.

Her job is an AMERICAN interfaith coordinator (which is nothing I like anyway), so why’s she’s promoting a Muslim Turk’s latest Islamic scam? And what is she talking about here: “the state of democracy and religious freedom in the Muslim world . . .”? There is none. What’s there to talk about?

So who is Fethullah Gulen? He’s a Muslim trying to take Turkey back into the dark ages:
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15165&size=A

Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 6/12-14/09

2009-06-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

http://www.pjtv.com/video/Klavan_on_culture/___Bumper_Sticker_Police/2011/7413/
Pajamas TV: Andrew Klavan and the Bumper-sticker Police!
If you have not yet discovered PJTV, this is a great show to start with.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/026551.php
D.C. Watson: Enough With Blaming Americans, Already
After Barack Obama’s recent speech to the “Muslim world,” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder followed up with this statement: "The President's pledge for a new beginning between the United States and the Muslim community takes root here in the Justice Department where we are committed to using criminal and civil rights laws to protect Muslim Americans. [FROM WHAT?]

A top priority of this Justice Department is a return to robust civil rights enforcement and outreach in defending religious freedoms and other fundamental rights of all of our fellow citizens in the workplace, in the housing market, in our schools and in the voting booth.” . . .

Do you wonder when Holder & Obama join CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, ISCA, MAS, MSA, MPAC . . .

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/muslim-forces-ny-harley-davidson-dealer-to-take-down-sign/
Muslim Forces NY Harley Davidson Dealer to Take Down Sign
ADAMS, NY – Upstate NY Harley-Davidson dealer Iron Block Harley in Adams was forced to take down a sign facing Route 81 behind their store.

The sign has been displaying messages to drivers traveling on Interstate 81 since 2002. Earlier this week, it read “Obama, are you kidding? We’re not Muslim. You are not Christian!!” a reference to President Obama’s recent speech in the Middle East . . .
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Harley-Davidson’s lawyers ordered Dunk to remove the message from his sign or risk losing his Harley-Davidson franchise. They had received one complaint regarding the sign from a Syracuse-area Muslim who told Harley-Davidson that the sign was offensive and derogatory to Muslims. . . .

He’s been ordered to take down the sign or lose his dealership. I hope he doesn’t. Dunk sounds like someone who won’t.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2009/06/obamas-zakat-vow-raises-troubling-questions.html
Obama's Zakat Vow Raises Troubling Questions
. . . Obama claimed rules on charitable giving were making it difficult for American Muslims to satisfy the religious obligation of charity known as zakat and he promised to work "with American Muslims to ensure that they can." This simply isn't true.

American law, enacted in 1995 by an executive order by President Clinton and further entrenched by Congress a year later, makes it illegal to provide support to any entity designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. government. The laws do nothing to restrict donations to relief agencies that haven't been so designated. . . .

http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2009/06/cair-losing-support-from-north-to-south.html
CAIR Losing Support From North to South
Separate events in Florida and Minnesota could indicate that more people are catching on to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its duplicitous dealings.

In Tampa, Mayor Pam Iorio announced that she was breaking a pattern of designating "CAIR Day" in the city, as she had done since 2005. The decision followed protests from activist Joe Kaufman at Americans Against Hate, but Iorio insisted the decision resulted from her own research.

More significantly, dozens of people in Minneapolis protested outside a CAIR ice cream social for discouraging local Somalis from cooperating with the FBI. The protesters were friends and family of a local teenager believed to have been killed by terrorists in Somalia.

The more the CAIR leaders speaks, the more obvious it becomes that it’s in our best interests to just let them keep on exposing themselves for what they are . . .

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQACNshVFYt6M9CDykHq6DKqPhiwD98OMLO00.
Judge Blocks Phone for Suspect in Soldier Shooting
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge restricted jail telephone access Thursday for a man accused of killing a soldier outside of an Army recruiting center.

Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle sent a letter to the Pulaski County jail, saying she heard that Abdulhakim Muhammad gave interviews over a jail telephone in violation of her gag order. Muhammad called The Associated Press twice this week to discuss the shooting death of Pvt. William Andrew Long.

"Since the defendant is in your care and custody, I request that phone privileges for the defendant be suspended with the exception of calls to his legal counsel," Lightle wrote. . . .

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-nyc-terror-drill,0,7388793.story
Ambitious Terrorism Drill Tests NYC's Line of Defense Against Radiological, Nuclear Attack
Agents had intercepted information about a possible terrorist attack in Manhattan, including a diagram showing a mysterious device. The raw intelligence was relayed to experts in Washington, who offered a daunting diagnosis: "You have a problem."

As chilling as that sounded, the situation wasn't real. But authorities say it could be, and what followed over the next two days was an ambitious stress test of the city's line of defense against a radiological or nuclear terrorist attack. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 6/11/09

2009-06-11T20:52:00.001-07:00

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/166317
UNWRA to get $55 Million from US
(IsraelNN.com) The United States has agreed to provide the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) with an additional $55 million in funding, according an AP report. The latest pledge would bring the total the agency has received from the U.S. in 2009 [just in 2009?!] to $154.5 million.

The UNRWA was created in 1949 [multiply that by $154.5M!] to provide health, education, housing, and financial services to Palestinian Authority Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

WHO is it in the “United States” who “has agreed . . .”? Certainly not me.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3729414,00.html
Mubarak: Netanyahu Will Agree to Two States
“Israel will agree to the two-state solution," Mubarak said in an interview with Egyptian media on Wednesday, "I spoke with Netanyahu and told him there was no other option. Ultimately the solution will be one of two states – the State of Israel alongside an Arab state."

Mubarak said that Netanyahu did not counter his assertion.

Oh, say it ain't so, Joe. And so the world goes out with a whimper, not a bang. [Would whoever knows the author of that quote please let me know?]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11fairfax.html?ref=us
Debate Erupts Over Muslim School in Virginia
FAIRFAX, Va. — For years, children’s voices rang out from the playground at the Islamic Saudi Academy in this heavily wooded community about 20 miles west of Washington. But for the last year the campus has been silent as academy officials seek county permission to erect a new classroom building and move hundreds of students from a sister campus on the other end of Fairfax County.

The proposal from the academy, which a school spokeswoman said was the only school financed by the Saudi government in the United States, [and this is something they want to crow about? And is it true that's it's the "only"?] has ignited a noisy debate and exposed anew the school’s uneasy relationship with its neighbors.

. . . others object to the academy’s curriculum, saying it espouses a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam known as Wahhabism. A leaflet slipped into mailboxes in early spring called the school “a hate-training academy.” . . .

Kamal S. Suliman, 46, a state traffic engineer with three daughters at the academy, called the accusations “fear tactics and stereotyping.” . . .

The term "stereotyping," or "stereotypes" has just begun to show up in the Muslim buzzword scatology. Probably the work of the Ikhwan.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090611/cm_csm/ycassini
A 10-year Truce Between Islam and the West
Rome – From the bosom of the world Muslim community, two contrasting voices have been distinctly heard in the wake of President Obama's speech in Cairo. One, arising from the extremists, exhorts jihad.

The other, arising from throngs of approving moderates, wants his promises delivered.

The voices of the extremists were comparatively feeble, and that is of the utmost significance: It means that the overwhelming majority of the Muslim community is poised to accept new proposals coming from Washington, provided they are bold and far-reaching. . . .

Oh, bunk. This is an article from the Christian Monitor, which recently told us that we had to agree to most anything the Muslims wanted or else there’d never be peace in the world. Give in, give in, give in! This reporter has no real clue what’s in the Islamic mind.

Muhammad broke the first 10-year treaty with the Meccans. There's never ever been a successful 10-year treaty w/Muslims. The CM is dreaming about something that will never be.

http://www.freep.com/article/20090609/NEWS01/90609030/1003/NEWS01
Iraq Spy from Sterling Heights [Michigan] Gets 46 Months
A Sterling Heights man who pleaded guilty to aiding Iraq without approval from the U.S. government was sentenced today to 46 months in prison.

“I apologize to the court for what happened,” said Najib Shemami, 62, who was born in Iraq but later because [became?] a U.S. citizen [why? Because we have no clue as to why any follower of Islam becomes a US citizen?]. “Trust me. I swear to God I didn’t mean no harm to no one.”

Federal prosecutors had recommended nearly four years in prison for Shemami, who pleaded guilty to a violation of the international emergency economic powers act in January.

U.S District Court Judge Nancy Edmunds agreed with the recommendation, saying today that Shemami's activity created the "terrible potential to undermine the security of the United States."

And once again, our judges and juries get it right. Apparently, no one trusted him.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/648508
Man with Toronto 18 Ties Convicted in the U.S.
An Atlanta man with ties to members of the so-called Toronto 18 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Toronto_terrorism_case] terror cell has been convicted of plotting to aid a terrorist group by videotaping landmarks around Washington, D.C.

U.S. District Judge Bill Duffey found Syed Haris Ahmed, 24, guilty of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism in the U.S. and abroad.

Ahmed faces up to 15 years in prison. The judge delayed sentencing until co-defendant Ehsanul Islam Sadequee's trial begins in August.

There’s a grand pattern forming here, and it’s always against the bad guys and pro-American. I don’t know if somebody like Mr. Obama will ever notice, but I sure do.

Four stories re: Our liberals winning. If they ever learn that this doesn’t work, it’ll most likely be way too late for the rest of us:

U.S. frees Guantanamo detainee seized when a teenager--Mohammed El Gharani: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSLB13601920090611

U.S. Lawmaker Says Obama Administration Ordered FBI to Read Rights to Detainees: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/10/lawmaker-says-obama-ordered-fbi-read-rights-detainees/

4 Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo to Bermuda http://www.wtop.com/?nid=116&sid=1678563-- British Government Raises Concerns Over Detainee Transfer to Bermuda: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/11/officials-uighur-detainees-guantanamo-sent-bermuda/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6480320.ece

Two Guantanamo detainees sent to Iraq, Chad
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/5510000/Two-Guantnamo-detainees-sent-to-Iraq-Chad.html

Dorrie's Picks, 6/10/09

2009-06-10T18:43:00.001-07:00

This is a note I received from a friend, and a blast list member. I think she sums up in a few words what a lot of us wonder about --- can we tell our kids the truth? Yes.

Well, Dorrie, I knew the opportunity would arise . . . several of my 6th graders watched a 9/11 video before coming to my class. I asked them who made the terrorist acts against America, and they said “bad people.” I asked who they were specifically, and they had no clue.

I wrote “jihadists,” and "terrorist Muslims” on the board and told them they are our enemy. Most of my students are Hispanic, so they are well aware of the border shootings and gang operations there. I told them most of the money for buying the guns, and bombs, and terrorist materials, is being supplied by terrorist Muslims. They said that was scary!

I told them that they are out future, and they need to know who their enemy will always be in terms of terrorist acts. I also told them that terrorist Muslims want everyone to convert their way of life and their religious beliefs, or there will be bad consequences.

I have had no feedback from parents and administrators, yet, and that was last week. Couldn't help myself, I felt emboldened to let the kids know just the tip of the iceberg of reality. ---Kay A.

https://www.voterinfo.sbe.virginia.gov/Election/Data/2009/B19D959E-A4DD-4C27-BC08-30C8F2FF2F92/Unofficial/8_l_58395D37-FFF8-4C84-B155-F5616C59CD20_s.shtml
2009 June Democratic [Virginia] Primary Unofficial Results: Esam Omeish LOSES! --- Well, okay, Virginians. Good job.

It apparently didn’t help him that Hillary included him in a Muslim leaders conference call last week. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/08/clinton-invites-controversial-muslim-leader-conference/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6467828.ece
"Shoe-bomber" Richard Reid on Hunger Strike in US Prison
. . . Richard Reid has been refusing food for several weeks in an apparent protest against prison restrictions that he says prevent him from following his Sunni Muslim faith . . .

Awhhh . . . but doesn’t he remember that suicide is forbidden in Islam if you can’t take a dozen other people with you at the same time?

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/261584
Judge Issues Gag Order in GI-shooting Case
Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle issued a gag order Monday in the case of the man accused of killing one U.S. Army soldier and wounding another outside a west Little Rock recruiting office last week.

Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley requested that Lightle issue an order barring "police agencies" and defense and prosecution attorneys and their staffs from commenting publicly on the case of Abdul-Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23.

Jegley said Friday he planned to seek the order in large part because Hensley granted extensive interviews and spoke at length about the case. Jegley said his preference was to try the case in court --- not in the press. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090609/ap_on_re_us/us_recruiters_shot
Suspect Tells AP [that] Soldier's Killing Was Justified

---Apparently, the gag order isn’t working.

http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/christian-and-muslim-get-in-religious-argument-in-bar-muslim-shoots-christian/
Christian and Muslim Get in Religious Argument in a Bar . . .
. . . Of course, he was in a bar, and so he probably wasn’t drinking apple juice, and so this has nothing to do with jihad, right? Maybe not. But when one comes from a culture of violent intransigence regarding religion, this kind of thing is going to happen.

Watch for the BBC dramatization of this event, with just one minor detail change: in the BBC version, the Christian will shoot the Muslim.

Meanwhile, note the NBCSandiego.com headline — as if this sort of thing happens all the time when people argue about religion in bars. . . .

So, in the past two weeks or so, we’ve had an American convert to Islam shoot and kill a military man in Arkansas (and wound another), a Muslim shoot a Christian in a bar (what on earth was the Muslim doing in a bar? He was faithful enough to kill someone in his religious righteousness, but not faithful enough to not drink? It’s a priority thing, I guess) in San Diego, and we’ve had a young woman stabbed to death by a Muslim while the woman was getting on a bus.

And only one of these stories sneaked past the MSM blockade.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-crt-559.html
Justice Department Files Religious Discrimination Lawsuit Against Essex County, New Jersey
County Refused to Accommodate Muslim Employee’s Religious Headcovering
The Department filed a lawsuit today against Essex County, N.J., alleging that it discriminated against a Muslim corrections officer on the basis of her religion in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The suit alleges that the county refused to permit Yvette Beshier to wear a religiously mandated headscarf while working as a corrections officer. . . .

OMG! It’s bad enough when THEY do the suing, but now the DoJ is doing it for them!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/08/cia.interrogations/
CIA Asks Court to Keep Interrogation Records Secret
CIA Director Leon Panetta on Monday asked a federal judge to keep records of U.S. interrogations of top al Qaeda captives secret, arguing their release could cause "exceptionally grave" damage to national security.

"My sole purpose is to prevent the exceptionally grave damage to national security likely to occur from public disclosure of any portion of these documents, and to protect intelligence sources and methods," he wrote.

Can any of us really imagine that the time has come that the head of the CIA has to go to court to keep US secrets secret? And the person approving the release of the secrets is the U.S. president?

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/06/10/terrorism_trial_tech.html
Ex-Tech Student Found Guilty on Terrorism Charge
Father: Ahmed “not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of Allah”
Moments after his son was convicted Wednesday of a terrorism conspiracy, Syed Riaz Ahmed said the young man never harmed anyone and committed nothing more than thought crimes.

“You think something and you’re guilty of something,” said Ahmed, somber and weary as he stood outside a federal courtroom. “He’s not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of Allah. ---There are no crimes that Allah does not condone, so he’s hardly an unbiased judge. He’s guilty of U.S. laws.” ---And he lives in the U.S., right?

U.S. Attorney David Nahmias said Ahmed’s case did not involve an imminent threat, “because in the post-9/11 world we will not wait to disrupt terrorism-related activity until a bomb is built and ready to explode.”

U.S. judges and juries just keep on getting it right!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=100486
Napolitano Adds Adviser with Ties to Terror-backers
Swears in Leader of Arab Group that Hailed Jihadists as "Heroes"
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as "heroes" and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization . . . the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC . . . .

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217800173
Black Hat Founder Tapped To Advise Homeland Security
Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon security conferences, was one of 16 people appointed to the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) on Friday.

The HSAC is composed of individuals with extensive security and policy experience from state and local government, the private sector, and academia.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that members of the HSAC will bring unique expertise and insight to the DHS's mission to keep the United States secure. . . .

Well, sometimes, I guess you’ve just got to hire a cyber-hacker to catch a cyber-hacker. Moss is a hacker. A good-guy hacker, but a hacker nevertheless.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/09/world/main5074473.shtml
British Hacker Fights U.S. Extradition
The self-confessed British hacker charged with illegally accessing about 100 computers at the Pentagon and NASA is to hear this week whether his diagnosis with a mild type of autism can prevent his extradition to the United States. A judicial review by Britain's high court was to weigh the possibility of Gary McKinnon, 40, facing trial on U.S. cyber-terrorism charges and a possible jail sentence of up to 70 years, against the Asperger's Disorder diagnosis.

A new version of “He’s just having a bad hair day,” but certainly a prime example of why DHS would hire Jeff Moss, huh?

These last two stories just tickled my sense of humor. Napolitano appoints an pro-Islamist, then an international hacker to catch pro-Islamist cyber terrorists.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/07/content_11503090.htm
Stereotypes Must Be Overcome in Improving U.S.-Muslim Ties: Expert [Speaks]
. . . Commenting on the speech U.S. President Barack Obama made at Cairo University Thursday, Coleman [Isobel Coleman, director of the Women and Foreign Policy program of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations] said: "U.S.-Muslim relations are starting from a very low point, so the first step in building respect and trust (between the two sides) is just really trying to initiate dialogue."

"Obama made numerous overtures to the Muslim world and talked about U.S.-Muslim relations several times during his presidency," she said. . . .

"Obama is a new person, a new presidency, a new generation and a new face, I think he is trying to start over again," she said, "It is really a starting point."

And what are the members of the Muslim world doing to help the peace process? Nada.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/05/us/AP-US-Temple-Plot.html?_r=2
Prosecutors: Videos Detail NY Terror Plot
. . . ''There's video of everything in this case your honor,'' Snyder told the judge.

The government had already given defense lawyers copies of 45 DVDs showing the defendants meeting, sometimes for as much as two hours, as they plotted the attacks since last June, Snyder said. . . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2009/06/09/AR2009060900401.html
Guantanamo Bay Detainee Brought to U.S. for Trial
. . . Human rights groups, which earlier expressed dismay about President Obama's announcement that some suspects would be tried in reformed military commissions, welcomed Ghailani's transfer. But Republicans and some military groups, who were cheered by the prospect of renewed military tribunals, sharply attacked the decision to hold any trials in the United States.

"By bringing Ghailani's case into the federal court system without a policy or plan on how to deal with the larger Gitmo issue, the Obama administration is again taking a piecemeal approach to a major national security issue," said Kirk S. Lippold, a senior military fellow at Military Families United who was commander of the USS Cole when it was bombed in Yemen in 2000. . . .

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/06/05/2009-06-05_obama_gives_a_little_to_muslim_charities.html?
President Obama to American Muslims: I Will Ease the Impact of Post-9/11 Scrutiny of Charities ---Good God.
Tucked away in President Obama's historic speech in Cairo Thursday was a promise to American Muslims to ease the impact of post-9/11 scrutiny of their charities.

. . . Ever since the World Trade Center attacks, fund-raising by American Muslims has come under repeated federal investigations for possible support of terrorism. ---Which surely doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that the Islamic charities ARE funneling money to terrorists, I suppose?

"The perception that giving to charities is financing terrorism has to be debunked," said Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. "It hurts America."

No, it hurts the terrorists. Obama just doesn’t seem to be able to stand the idea that Islamists should be hurt.

Dorrie's Picks, 6/9/09

2009-06-09T18:17:00.001-07:00

I’ve been gone from the RSN for quite awhile, from mid-April to now, in fact. Many of you know why: Success on one front has taken time from several others.

Quite a bit has happened on the world stage while I’ve been absent from this one. I thought I’d just list some, in no particular order, in a manner of “catching up,” so that I can just begin Dorrie’s Picks with tomorrow’s news.

So, here goes:
The U.S. State Department issued a CAIR propaganda booklet titled “Being Muslim in America.” ---Now really, was that a good use of my tax dollars? It's not like they don't know why they're here.

Hawaii voted to make 9/24 an annual state “Islam Day.” The bill seeks to recognize "the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions" that Islam and the Islamic world have made. ---Well, I guess we know why the governor is so sympathetic about keeping Mr. Obama’s birth certificate locked up.

Four Muslim men were arrested before they could bomb a NY synagogue. ---The plot failed thanks to information the police would not otherwise have received if it hadn’t been for the establishment of the Patriot Act.

Geert Wilders’ PVV party is now the second largest party in the EU. ---Lord Ahmed in London is probably apoplectic. Perhaps he should have his 10,000 thugs protest in the streets of London.

Captain Phillips of the USS Bainbridge almost died before Mr. Obama allowed the SEALS to do their thing and kill the Muslim Somali pirates who were holding Phillips hostage. ---Those SEALs were amazing. Three shots at night on a rolling, raft-like thing in the Indian Ocean, and pop-pop-pop, three dead Muslim marauders.

A NY jury convicted a Lebanese-born Swede/al Qaeda Muslim of trying to set up a weapons-training post in Oregon, and for distributing terrorist materials on the Internet. ---I suspect some of you know why he was tried in NY and not Oregon, but I don’t. And no, don't tell me; I really don't care; I'm just glad the citizens of NY continue the proud pattern of locking up the terrorists in our country.

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (born Carlos Bledsoe) killed a soldier and wounded another at a military recruiting center in Little Rock, AK. “While authorities continued to investigate a motive, Thomas said Muhammad is a Muslim convert and, based on preliminary interviews with him, investigators believe there were "political and religious motives" in the shooting.” ---Duh.

This is a link to a VIDEO showing a Muslim woman who bewailed Muhammad’s act, but then by her own words, showed why Muhammad can think as far-out screwed up as he does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqopnIAnmAw

The U.S. District Court of Michigan denied USG’s motion to dismiss the AIG-Sharia lawsuit. ---Yay! So the lawsuit against AIG goes forward.

The BBC appointed a Muslim as head of its Religious Programming department. ---Is that messed up, or what?

An Ohio State University student was stabbed to death by Wael W. Kalash, a Muslim who ran for safe haven in a mosque after he killed the woman. Police say she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time; Kalash is just a crazy kinda guy, and whoda tho't he'd go and do something so crazy?---Will this same kind of “he’s crazy” excuse work for Muhammad in Arkansas?

BHO allowed secret info on the CIA’s interrogation techniques to get out to the MSM. ---Further proving, in my opinion, that BHO is a traitor to the country. Then again, since he’s likely not a U.S. citizen, he can’t be a traitor, just a high-level spy.

Arif Alikhan, currently the appointed deputy mayor for the city of Los Angeles, has been appointed as assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. ---He’s a Sunni Muslim. DHS obviously thinks like the BBC, oh joy. It's just a show; doesn't mean anything, I guess.

NC State Senator and CAIR Board Member Larry Shaw was a guest of honor and keynote speaker at the Islamic Center of Irving (TX). ---I know how the ACT! chapter leader in North Carolina feels about having the second highest-ranking U.S. elected official (behind Keith Ellison of MN) in his state. You fill in his words. You’ll be close, I’m sure.

The Holy Land Foundation founders were sentenced to as much as 65-year terms. ---YAY!

CAIR-Los Angles told the FBI that mosques were off-limits to spying. FBI Director Robert Mueller said, [and this is not a direct quote] “No, they’re not. Take at look at the records, guys. Your mosques are not squeaky clean, after all.” The response from CAIR: [and this is a quote] “. . . It doesn’t alleviate anything. It only continues to show the sheer arrogance demonstrated by the bureau in holding Muslim community members, clerics, mosques, as suspects . . .” ---Well, look who’s calling the kettle black.

The fellow in Tennessee who wanted to open a bar that was less than 300 feet away from a mosque won his case in court, and he’s open for business! ---Another win for our side!

DHS' Napolitano labeled Republicans and U.S. Vets, and those who want the border closed, as “right-wing extremists.” ---Okay. Some titles you can just be proud of.

GM filed for bankruptcy, but few took notice because of . . . THE SPEECH. ---And what a complete waste of good English words that was.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/23/09

2009-04-23T21:06:00.001-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/22/09

2009-04-22T17:40:00.001-07:00

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/21/09

2009-04-21T20:10:00.000-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/20/09

2009-04-20T19:53:00.000-07:00

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."

Dorrie's One Pick for 4/16/09

2009-04-16T19:34:00.000-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/14/09

2009-04-14T17:32:00.000-07:00

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?

Dorrie's Picks, 4/13/09

2009-04-14T17:21:00.000-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 4/10-4/12/09

2009-04-12T18:30:00.001-07:00

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. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 4/9/09

2009-04-09T19:59:00.001-07:00

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?

Dorrie's Picks, 4/8/09

2009-04-08T15:20:00.000-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/7/09

2009-04-07T16:15:00.000-07:00

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?

Dorrie's Picks, 4/6/09

2009-04-06T19:12:00.001-07:00

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.

Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 4/4-4/5/09

2009-04-05T14:59:00.000-07:00

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. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 4/3/09

2009-04-03T18:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/04/obama_bows_down_to_saudi_king.html
Obama bows down to Saudi King (updated)
[Two excellent videos here, for those who might doubt he bowed.]
I am quite certain that this is not the protocol, and is most unbecoming a President of the United States.(See also: With bowed head and bended knee and Would Abe Lincoln bow down to a slave-keeping Arab king?)

Update: See Miss Manners on the protocol: Americans do not bow to foreign monarchs because that act signified the monarch's power over his subjects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6gShjY_Nx4
YouTube - CAIR: California Radio Hosts Mock Islam, Muslim Beliefs

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=37918
Islamic Rights Group [CAIR—imagine!] Demands Reprimand of KSFO Talk Show Hosts
The nation's leading Islamic civil rights group today issued a call for San Francisco-based KSFO 560 AM to reprimand two local talk show hosts -- and has asked the station's listeners to contact advertisers -- following a segment that it says "mocked Islam, misstated Muslim beliefs and cast suspicion on political participation by American Muslims."

The pair, during the Monday program, did a comedic segment about Islam and its tenets, and joked that "Islamic finance is about living within your means and helping the needy -- unless they're Jews," the blog reported. Additionally, they observed that "the great honorable qualities of that good old time religion: honor killings, female circumcision, not allowing women to drive ... Jews are monkeys, pigs.''

And what was it CAIR objected to here?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-04-02-afghan-detention_N.htm
Judge: Bagram [Afghanistan] Prisoners Can Challenge Detention
A federal judge ruled Thursday that prisoners in the war on terror can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention at a military air base in Afghanistan, for the first time extending rights given to Guantanamo Bay detainees elsewhere in the world.

U.S. District Judge John Bates turned down the United States' motion to deny the right to three foreign detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

So let’s see if I’ve got this right: an American judge says that if an American captures a jihadist (who’s likely about to kill the American) that Afghan jihadist can SUE THE AMERICAN in Afghanistan for capturing him IN AFGHANISTAN?? Ai-yi-yi!

It was bad enough to allow the Gitmo Guys to help themselves to American justice, but at least they were confined at Gitmo . . . but right there on Afghan soil the jihadist can sue the American who catches him?

This is an appalling new twist on Catch & Release.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008961581_webdefrocked01m.html
Episcopal Priest Ann Holmes Redding Has Been Defrocked
The Episcopal Church has defrocked Ann Holmes Redding, the Seattle Episcopal priest who announced in 2007 that she is both Christian and Muslim.

Bishop Geralyn Wolf of Rhode Island, who has disciplinary authority over Redding, informed the priest of her decision in a letter today.

Wolf found Redding to be "a woman of utmost integrity and their conversations over the past two years have been open, honest and respectful," according to a press release from the Diocese of Rhode Island.

Two years? She would have long since been dispatched to Allah had she decided to be a priest while living in any of her beloved Islamic nation-states.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/2/09

2009-04-02T16:43:00.001-07:00

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/bowing%20to%20Saudi%20King.jpg
Obama Bows Down To Saudi King Abdullah
NOTE: THIS IS A PICTURE ONLY.

Michelle Obama put her arm around Queen Elizabeth. Barack Obama bows to the Saudi king. A clear indication (to me), of who this couple recognizes as equal, and who they recognize as their (do I dare say it?) masters.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/04/01/dunkin_franchise_ends_over_refusal_to_sell_pork/
Dunkin' Franchise Ends Over Refusal to Sell Pork
A Muslim franchisee of a suburban Chicago Dunkin' Donuts has surrendered his longtime store ownership after losing a legal battle with the chain over religious objections to selling pork. . . .

Since he was not employee of the company, Elkhatib could not sue it under federal laws prohibiting workplace religious discrimination. So he sued under a law that bans racial and ancestry discrimination in the making of contracts. [Instead of getting out of biz that he had issues with, he chooses to find a way to sue. That’s certainly the entrepreneurial spirit.] . . .

Andrew Mastrangelo, manager of public relations for Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands Inc., noted that the jury's verdict was unanimous and the court ruled against Elkhatib's discrimination claims.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090401/pl_usnw/cair__minn__gold_n_plump_settlement_paves_way_for_religious_accommodation
CAIR: MN: Gold'n Plump Settlement Paves Way for Religious Accommodation
On Tuesday, a federal judge approved a $1.35 million religious discrimination settlement against Gold'n Plump Inc. As part of the settlement, the company will add a paid break to accommodate prayer in the workplace.

"The Gold'n Plump decision sets a new standard for religious accommodation in Minnesota," said CAIR-MN Civil Rights Director Taneeza Islam. "CAIR-MN's goal is to ensure that Muslim employees are afforded their religious rights and are free from discrimination. We are not asking for anything special, but we demand that employers understand and follow the law."

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minneapolis Civil Rights Ordinance all protect the right of any employee with a bona fide religious belief to have accommodations at the workplace as long as they are not unduly burdensome for the employer . . . [and apparently a fed judge can determine what is burdensome and what isn’t? Well, heck, why not? POTUS just set it up so he can decide what corp CEOs, et.al., can earn.]

Gold’n Plump had to be way out of touch not to take this to a jury.

“ . . . this whole lawsuit is . . . redolent of a stealth jihad initiative to intimidate American businesses into conforming to Sharia norms, rather than a genuine discrimination case.”—Robert Spencer, 4/2/09

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090401/pl_usnw/dc_muslim_coalition_signs_amt_statement_on_fbi_relations
DC Muslim Coalition Signs American Muslim Taskforce Statement on FBI Relations
More Islamic and civil liberties organizations have signed on to a statement by the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, saying that it is considering suspending outreach relations with the FBI over recent incidents in which American mosques and Muslim groups have been targeted.

This is a no-lose ploy for these orgs. If they get the FBI to come back hat in hand, they look like heroes to the Muslim community. If the FBI does not, these orgs can bang their chests with righteous indignation and still look like heroes to the Muslim community.

Dorrie's Picks, 4/1/09

2009-04-01T17:36:00.000-07:00

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03302009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/obamas_most_perilous_legal_pick_161961.htm
OBAMA'S MOST PERILOUS LEGAL PICK
“Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations' legal ‘norms.’" "Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts." "The United States constitutes an 'axis of disobedience' [wow!] along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq."

Those are the views of the man on track to become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh.

A New York lawyer, Steven Stein, says that, in addressing the Yale Club of Greenwich in 2007, Koh claimed that "in an appropriate case, he didn't see any reason why Sharia law would not be applied to govern a case in the United States." . . .

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102532656&ft=1&f=1001
Clinton: "War On Terror" Phrase Won't Be Used
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration has indeed abandoned the term "global war on terror."

Clinton says that while she hasn't seen any specific orders, the new administration in Washington simply isn't using the phrase.

The term was a rallying cry for President Bush after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the use of the term "global war on terror" is widely disliked overseas. [By the enemy?]

Reporters asked Clinton about the phrase Monday as she headed to Europe for a week of diplomatic meetings. She said the absence of the "war on terror" language speaks for itself.

Pundits have noted the absence, but top administration figures have had little to say on the subject.

And how could they? You can’t talk if your tongue is tied in knots.

But not to worry, she’s on the job, making converts:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/us-backs-reconciliation-with-nonviolent-taliban-20090331-9iej.html
US Backs Reconciliation with Non-violent Taliban
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday backed Afghanistan's plans to hold reconciliation talks with members of the Taliban or past Al-Qaeda supporters who reject violence.

Good luck with that, lady. Violence is endemic to Islam.

See?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165758/Taliban-promises-attack-Washington-amaze-world-Pakistan-police-massacre.html
Taliban Promises Attack on Washington That Will “Amaze” the World
The top Taliban commander in Pakistan has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police academy that left 18 dead after an eight-hour bloodbath.

And Baitullah Mehsud also promised an assault on Washington "soon" - one he said will "amaze" the world.

Think again, Mrs. Clinton, about who you're so willing to work with.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6011186.ece
CIA Launches Recruitment Drive on Internet and TV
In a bid to fulfill a pledge by George W. Bush . . . to expand the agency's clandestine arm, advertisements have been placed on websites such as Career Builder, and on the online versions of The Economist and The Washington Post.

Leon Panetta, the new CIA director, will meet Muslim groups in cities such as Detroit to spearhead personally the new drive to recruit Arabic speakers. He recently lamented the fact that only 13 percent of CIA officers speak a foreign language, and just 22 percent come from minorities.

This is willfully playing blind, deaf, and dumb. I’ve read hundreds of emails from Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians who’ve volunteered to work for the CIA who have been turned away. Panetta knows nothing about them? I do, and I’m certainly on the outside of the flood the CIA must get. He has to go to Muslim groups to recruit those who can read, write, and speak Arabic? Nonsense.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/30/09

2009-03-30T16:54:00.001-07:00

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=3592
Judicial Nominee Says Prayers to Allah Okay, But Not to Jesus
"True to his campaign promises, President Barack Hussein Obama has picked a rabid judicial activist as his first federal court pick. Judge David Hamilton has been chosen by Obama to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.Hamilton is precisely what Obama wants in a judge: Someone who ignores the Constitution and imposes his own liberal ideas on each case. Hamilton will have what Obama calls “empathy” for the poor, child molesters, abortionists, murderers, etc.

Hamilton is also an enemy of the First Amendment and religious freedom. Interestingly enough, Hamilton has ruled that prayers in Jesus Name at the Indiana House of Representatives was unconstitutional, but prayers to Allah were not. . . .

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRHXSIoJJdXQpG3kPrRO2LWMnWTAD975SKN01
UN Body Okays Call to Curb Religious Criticism
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human-rights body approved a proposal backed by Muslims nations Thursday urging the passage of laws around the world protecting religion from criticism.

The council is dominated by Muslim and African countries. Muslim nations have argued that religions, in particular Islam, must be shielded from criticism in the media and other areas of public life. They cited cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad as an example of unacceptable free speech. “Islam is frequently and wrongly associated with human rights violations and terrorism," [and this resolution will do what to disprove that association? Nada] the resolution said.

A simple majority of 23 members of the 47-nation Human Rights Council voted in favor of the resolution. Eleven mostly Western nations opposed it and 13 countries abstained.

The United States did not vote on the resolution because it is not a member of the council. The Bush administration announced it was virtually giving up on the body and would participate in debates only if absolutely necessary because of the council's anti-Israel statements and its failure to act on abuses in Sudan and elsewhere.

Death to free speech creeping ever more steadily toward the United States.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/islamophobia-is-a-fabrication-20090329-9fjm.html?page=-1
Islamophobia Is A Fabrication
. . . Given the abundant evidence of violent cause and fearful effect, involving a small percentage of [Muslim] antagonists, the general charge of Islamophobia is an ideological fabrication.

But thanks to actions just now in the U.N., an accusation of Islamophobia will be enough to get people killed or thrown in jail, and this author’s voice (and thousands of others) will never be heard.

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090330/LIFESTYLE04/903300400/1409/METRO
Archbishop Meets with Muslim Leaders at Dearborn Mosque
. . . The Catholic prelate's visit to one of the most prominent Islamic institutions in Metro Detroit occurs amid initiatives by Muslims, the Vatican, and Roman Catholic bishops in America to further ecumenical dialogue. In 2007, Catholic and Muslim leaders met in the Islamic Center of American [sic] for a series of conversations aimed and formalizing a statement of common beliefs and understandings between the faiths.

Such a statement is expected to take years to achieve. . . .

Indeed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511361,00.html
Islamic Law's Influence in America a Growing Concern
"Shariah Law is the totality of the Muslim's obligation," said Abdullahi An-Na'im, a professor of law at Emory University in Atlanta. According to An-Na'im, Shariah is similar to Jewish Talmudic Law or Catholic Canon Law in that it guides an adherent's moral conduct.

“Similar” might be true, but “moral concept” and human conduct are miles apart in meaning, understanding, and restrictions, in the Qur’an versus the Talmud and Canon Law.

But Professor An-Na'im believes it will be different in America. "The variety of American secularism — which is much more receptive of public displays of religion and a public role for religion — is, in fact, more conducive for Muslims to be citizens and to be comfortable with their religious values and citizenship than European countries," An-Na'im said.

Kitman at work. Translated: We’ll get a foothold here a lot faster. Helped nicely by the likes of the archbishop above.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/28-29/09

2009-03-29T16:37:00.000-07:00

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-muslims-bdmar29,0,3456548.story
Muslims seeking greater influence [in the White House]
In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified—Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives, and public servants, all carefully vetted—has been submitted to the White House.

The effort, driven by community leaders and others, including Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), was bumped up two weeks ahead of schedule because White House officials heard about the venture, said J. Saleh Williams, program coordinator for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association who sifted through more than 300 names.

"It was mostly under the radar," Williams said. "We thought it would put [the president] in a precarious position. We didn't know how closely he wanted to appear to be working with the Muslim American community." [!!!!! And this wasn’t a red flag to them to cease and desist? Apparently not.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217436/posts
Administration Will Pay Welfare To Terrorists
Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, echoed yesterday the same eventuality that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted, . . . Terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay are LIKELY coming to America.

Not only that, but Blair went as far as to discuss all the wonderful things we are going to do for these terrorists, besides giving them the privilege of our American court system, its endless appeals process, and the same constitutional rights as a natural born citizen. Now they are already talking about access to public assistance!

I can hardly wait to hear the stupendous scream of NOT IN MY BACK YARD, that the likes of CAIR, et.al., are sure to let loose with, right?

I wasn’t going to put this one in until I saw that the Freeper had the story. Still not sure I believe it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/
EXCLUSIVE: Hezbollah uses Mexican drug routes into U.S.
Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.

The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S. . . .

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/566637.aspx?option=print
Somali Muslims Changing Small Town
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - It has been nearly 20 years since Somalia last had a functioning government. Islamic jihadists now control most of the country-and sharia is the law of the land. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have resettled in America in recent years to escape the chaos of their homeland, which is located in the Horn of Africa.

"I found that there was just an enormous culture clash going on here," he said. "The Somalis were--according to a lot of the people I talked to here--were being very, very rude, inconsiderate, very demanding. They would go into stores and haggle over prices. They would also demand to see a male salesperson, would not deal with women in stores , , , Their culture is totally alien to anything the residents are used to," Mosely added.

"We're probably as culturally diversified as any small town in America." said Chief Swing. "There's been a lot of changes. But I think most people just take it in stride and keep going along with it."

It’s not the “most people” you have to worry about, Chief. It’s clearly the Somalis who aren’t taking anything in stride.

http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2009/03/28/news/doc49cd858d55234158092702.txt
US Judge Orders Iran to Pay $25M for Hamas Killing

A federal judge on Friday ordered Iran to pay $25 million plus interest to the family of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman, who was kidnapped and executed by Hamas in 1994.

Wachsman was a 19-year-old U.S. citizen and Israeli army corporal when he was taken by four members of Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States. His abduction damaged Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations at the time, as he pleaded on videotape for his life.

Iran has refused to respond to the lawsuit, resulting in a default judgment in favor of Wachsman’s family.

The Wachman’s moral victory is far more precious than any money they will never see.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Speak_Out_Gender_equity_rootedin_teachings_of_Islam.html
Speak Out: Gender Equity Rooted in Teachings of Islam

I got all the way thru this completely whitewashed, unrecognizable-as-truth-in-Islam, why-on-earth-did-the-Website-run-it? article before I got to the byline:

"Sarwat Husain is president of the Council on American Islamic Relations-San Antonio, and is a CAIR national board member. She can be reached at shusain@cair.com."

Ah, well, there you go, all this taqiyya & kitman easily explained: It’s coming from CAIR.

It’s bad enough, of course, that the above stuff gets out, but to have it come from our “own side” defies explanation:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0328/p09s01-coop.html
10 Terms Not To Use with Muslims
There's a big difference between what we say and what they hear.
In the course of my travels – from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia – it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout Muslims. [This is written by Chris Seiple; I’m willing to bet this is not a female Chris.] These friendships are defined by frank respect as we listen to each other; understand and agree on the what, why, and how of our disagreements, political and theological; and, most of all, deepen our points of commonality as a result.

I have learned much from my Muslim friends, foremost this: Political disagreements come and go, but genuine respect for each other, rooted in our respective faith traditions does not.

[This is just 3 verses, sir, that blow both your genuine respect and respective faith traditions foolishness all to heck. Qur’an 9.3: “Allah is not bound by any treaties made with the idolators.” Qur’an 48.28: “It is he who has sent his apostle with the guidance and the true faith, so he may exalt it over every other creed.” Qur’an 60.4: “We are through with you, and those you worship other than Allah. We reject you. Enmity and hate have come between you and us forever, unless you believe in Allah the one.”]

If there is no respect, there is no relationship [which they’re not looking for, sir], merely a transactional encounter that serves no one in the long term [except them, of course, because they’ve got you completely buffaloed]. . . . I want to share the advice given to me from dear Muslim friends [who’re pulling your chain, sir; Qur’an 3.28: "Let not the believers take disbelievers for their friends in preference to believers. Whoso doeth that hath no connection with Allah unless (it be) that ye but guard yourselves against them."] worldwide regarding words and concepts that are not useful [the only useful ones would be "Yelling Uncle! We give up!"] in building relationships with them. . . .

Chris has apparently never bothered to question the basis of Islam. Did you catch the subtitle? It’s just backward. Why is it everybody on the non-Muslim side seems to think it’s only what they hear that we should worry about? How about what WE hear, and how WE interpret that, as being the starting place in our “relationship” with these Believers?

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20090328/NEWS06/903280320/1102/NEWS06
[Michigan U, what a surprise!] Web site to Educate Media on Islam
Mohammed Ayoob sees two trends in the media coverage of the Muslim world since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, one toward greater intellectual curiosity about Islam and its practitioners, one toward belligerence and oversimplification. [Translated: You’re reading the Qur’an? How dare you?]

It's the latter he's concerned about [well of course he is; it’s haram for just any Tom, Dick, and Dorrie to be able to spread the skinny], the "articles and coverage that have become increasingly adversarial and antagonistic, painting all Muslims and Islam with the same black brush." [And what do you bet he’ll use kitman white paint and make it all better?]

The question here should be: Why are the articles and coverage becoming increasingly adversarial and antagonistic? Maybe because what Muslims say and what they do are so far apart? Oh, and given the above two articles, it beats me where he’s getting all these adversarial and antagonistic articles, now that I think on it.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/27/09

2009-03-27T15:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510863,00.html
Freedom Tower Will Be Called “One World Trade Center”

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman Anthony Coscia says the agency refers to the building as One World Trade Center. He says it's the building's legal name and "the one that's easiest for people [WHAT people?] to identify with."

Oh, gag me. It should be called the “In Your Face” tower. Do these people really think that naming something as blandly as possible will change the reality of the problem? It’s our FREEDOMS they want to destroy, let’s make it plain we know what they're up to.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjEyNTQyMmYzYmM0ZDk4NGYxYTdkMTQxZmZlNDgxY2Q
CAIR’s Well-Deserved Expulsion
Terrorism Is Only One Expression of Jihad — There Are Others as Dangerous.
A week ago, the FBI officially announced that it has cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The self-styled civil-rights organization is characteristically squawking, but the FBI’s move was patently overdue — so much so that we ought to be asking: Why on earth did the FBI have ties with CAIR in the first place?

While we should applaud the government for finally doing the right thing, we also must seize this moment to consider why this action was necessary, and what it says about the threat we are up against. That threat is not, essentially, about terrorism. . . .

Given the life-and-death stakes involved, it is understandable that government is preoccupied by terrorism (or what Obama’s homeland-security secretary, Janet Napolitano, absurdly calls “man-caused disasters”). But jihadist terror is merely the means to a specific end: the installation of sharia, the Islamic legal code, which Muslim fundamentalists regard as the necessary precondition for the achievement of Islam’s universalist ambitions. . . .

http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&b=5061015
"Who Says Terrorism Doesn’t Pay?”
. . . we [the Simon Wiesenthal Center] are launching the "Who Says Terrorism Doesn't Pay?" poster and ad to coincide with the self-declared BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) Day.

The virulently anti-Israel BDS Day will take place on campuses around the world, this Monday, March 30th.

In their own words, the BDS campaign: "...urge[s] the people and their organizations around the globe to mobilize in concrete and visible BDS actions to make this day a historic step in this new anti-apartheid movement. The time for the world to fully adopt and implement the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment and sanctions is NOW" ... by "adopting widespread action against Israeli products, companies, academic and cultural institutions, sports groups, international corporations supporting Israeli policies of racism, ethnic cleansing and military occupation and pressuring governments for sanctions." . . .

http://www.wate.com/global/story.asp?s=10071059
Mosque Disputes Sale of Alcohol at Nearby Knoxville Restaurant
Plans are underway to open a new restaurant in a Fort Sanders neighborhood building that has sat empty for years. Its owner wants to serve alcohol, and that's a problem for members of the Muslim Community of Knoxville nearby.

"We're trying to promote some conservative behavior to some degree, and being right next to a nightclub seems like a bad location for us," [imam] Siddiqi says.

"They're entitled to their opinion, and I am in compliance with the codes and laws of the state of Tennessee and Knox County so I don't know what else to do," Hill says. . . .

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1015/mahdi-bray-voting-with-conviction
Mahdi Bray: Voting With Conviction
. . . As a convicted felon, [Mahdi] Bray [leader of the Muslims of America Society Freedom Foundation] can't register to vote in his home state of Virginia. As the Investigative Project on Terrorism reported Thursday, Bray was convicted on separate indictments of grand larceny and drug possession in 1981. In 1989, he began a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to mail fraud. For more than 10 years, Bray kept workers' compensation checks sent to his late grandfather, who died in 1975. He was released in 1991.

Beyond his criminal history and the voter registration issues, Bray has a history of defending accused terrorist supporters, and of offering misleading statements about his organization's history and his own actions.

Character counts. Mahdi Bray doesn’t have any. None of the other Muslim leaders are any better, in my opinion. ‘Course, they don’t have any need for it to be leaders in the Party of Jihad, come to think of it.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727554888&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Clinton: US Will Continue to Reach Out to Iran Despite Difficulties
[You mean like the one when Iran told us to get lost?]
Clinton told reporters in Monterrey, Mexico, that the United States will continue to reach out to Iran, even though earlier efforts were unsuccessful.

When does she say “enough”? When does our new administration recognize that it takes two to play the “Let’s get along” game?

Dorrie's Picks, 3/25/09

2009-03-25T14:41:00.001-07:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE52N6JT20090324?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
Obama Lawyer Sticks to Ban on Muslim Scholar
A lawyer arguing on behalf of the Obama administration on Tuesday echoed Bush administration policies to back a decision to deny one of Europe's leading Muslim intellectuals entry to the United States.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David Jones told a U.S. federal appeals court panel that they should uphold a decision to bar Swiss Muslim Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford University professor and a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from entering the United States. . . .

I’m loath to do it, but I gotta say it: Good job, B. Hussein O.!

And then he goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid, like:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1887435,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
Behind Obama's [next] Speech to the Muslim World
When President Obama visits Turkey early next month, some observers are expecting he will use the occasion to deliver on his promise to deliver a major foreign policy speech from a Muslim nation in his first 100 days. But indications are that he will not give the speech in Turkey. The White House and State Department have not yet decided on the location for the speech, which is meant to undo some of the damage done to America's image in the Muslim world during the George W. Bush Administration. . . .

There might be something good in this article, but with those words in the first paragraph, it turned me off completely. How does the Muslim world's good opinion of us change what Muhammad taught the Believers 1400 years ago?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/23/the_end_of_the_global_war_on_t.html?hpid=news-col-blog
The End of the Global War on Terror
The end of the Global War on Terror -- or at least the use of that phrase -- has been codified at the Pentagon. Reports that the phrase was being retired have been circulating for some time among senior administration officials, and this morning speechwriters and other staff were notified via this e-mail to use "Overseas Contingency Operation" instead. . . .

More gobbledygook from Washington. God forbid we should ever call it what it is: The War to Save Our Culture, Our Humanity, Our Freedoms.

http://snappedshot.com/archives/3719-ISA-Fairfax-Christian-School-Responds.html
ISA: Fairfax Christian School Responds
. . . Unfortunately, I think the political reality on the ground here is that ISA is getting special consideration that would not otherwise be available to other schools in the County. The Planning Commission has acted in a way that makes it patently obvious that they are advocating this expansion [of the Islamic Saudi Academy], in a way that I just can't see them doing for any other entity.

Which leaves the other schools at the back of the proverbial bus. . . .

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1012/extremists-use-civil-rights-group-front-to-push
Extremists Use “Civil Rights” Group Front to Push Agenda
Hatemongering vs. extremism
Groups like CAIR deny the very existence of radical Islam and blame the problem on "hatemongers." I am sorry to tell Mr. Ayloush that the primary factor causing an image problem for Islam today is the existence of rampant Islamic terrorism and extremism. CAIR says that the term "Islamic terrorist" is racist and that terrorism has no religion. I wish it he could have convinced the 19 Muslim hijackers on Sept. 11 or the four U.K. Muslims who bombed a London subway in July 2005 or any of those responsible for more than 50,000 attacks carried in the name of Islam. All of these were Islamic terrorists motivated by their particular belief in Islam. . . .

http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b.5018279/k.7184/AJC_Honors_Rupert_Murdoch.htm
AJC Honors Rupert Murdoch
"In the West, we are used to thinking that Israel cannot survive without the help of Europe and the United States. Tonight I say to you: maybe we should start wondering whether we in Europe and the United States can survive if we allow the terrorists to succeed in Israel.

"In this new century, the "West" is no longer a matter of geography. The West is defined by societies committed to freedom and democracy. That at least is how the terrorists see it. And if we are serious about meeting this challenge, we would expand the only military alliance committed to the defense of the West to include those on the front lines of this war. That means bringing countries such as Israel into NATO.

"My friends, I do not pretend to have all the answers to Gaza this evening. But I do know this: The free world makes a terrible mistake if we deceive ourselves into thinking this is not our fight." . . .

I often hear that Fox News has sold out to the Saudis, which is why we don’t hear anything about the jihad threat. I’ve no idea if that is true, but this speech tells me it’s not.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Pakistan-US-Terror-Attack-Fears-Is-Boosting-Surveillance-Of-Pakistanis-In-Britain/Article/200903415247451?lpos=UK_News_Second_Home_Page_Article_Teaser_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15247451_Pakistan%3A_US_Terror_Attack_Fears_Is_Boosting_Surveillance_Of_Pakistanis_In_Britain
CIA Terror Fears Over British Pakistanis
[Translated: CIA agents are afraid that the British Pakistanis represent a terrorist threat to the USA.]
US fears that future attacks on America are likely to be carried out by Muslims from the UK may be boosting surveillance of British Pakistanis. [See above translation.]

He said: "There is a very acute threat, especially from the South Asian community [translated: Muslims from Pakistan], which has been radicalised over several decades (and) has direct ties back to South Asia [translated: Afghanistan], where the core of al Qaeda is believed to be hiding.

This kind of torturous writing/wording is partially what allows the Party of Jihad to hide in full view.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/24/09

2009-03-24T16:33:00.000-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090321/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_guantanamo
Obama Criticizes Some Guantanamo Release Decisions
President Barack Obama says the U.S. hasn't done a good job sorting out who should be released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Say what? Isn’t HE “the U.S.” he’s complaining about? It was his dumb idea, right?

http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/2009/03/23/20090323gr-policestop0325.html
Muslim Woman Critical of Gilbert Police Treatment
. . . the Muslim woman and former schoolteacher believes her religion gained her the unwanted attention of Gilbert police, who arrested her for DUI when she failed a field sobriety test.

. . . awaiting the outcome of the investigation is the Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR-AZ. Executive Director Ahmed Daniels said the group is monitoring the internal investigation. [They can do that? CAIR gets to sit at the AZ police elbow and “monitor”?] "Our primary goal is to make sure the civil rights of the Islamic community are adhered to," Daniels said. [The whole community? Were they all high on drugs?]

"We want to see where the police department is taking it," he said. "What concerns me is Lisa's case may be the tip of the proverbial iceberg.” [That she’s inadvertently shining a light on a whole mess of Muslim drug users? What else could he be concerned about? Surely he’s not concerned with anti-Muslim sentiment; it hasn’t happened anywhere else in the USA; why should it be going on in AZ?]

How does CAIR get involved in these things so fast? Do you ever wonder that?

http://www.geo.tv/3-23-2009/38010.htm
Hamas Sees New language in Obama Talks on ME
Palestinian organization Hamas leader, Khalid Mishal lauding US president Barack Obama said that he has talked on the Middle East issue in new language.

Kahlid Mishal in an interview to an Italian newspaper said that President Obama was talking in new language for the region. He said that it was a test for all that this language should herald any real change in the US and European policy.

He said that the issue of official contact with Hamas was a matter for a while, as the big powers need us for the resolution of Arab-Israel conflict. He said that their importance hinged on popular support, who cast vote for them and would do so in future also.

Translated: “We’re in, boys!”

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25226537-12332,00.html
Uni[versity] Rejects Demand for Muslims' Prayer Room
"AUSTRALIAN universities are responsible for providing quality education, not consecrated religious spaces," according to a university involved in a bitter dispute over Muslim prayer rooms.

Go, Maddy! Seems the Brits' Aussie cousins have a clearer picture of Muslim motivation in these cases; would that our elected officials were as astute.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/21-22/09

2009-03-22T12:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?_r=1
Obama’s Message to Iran Is Opening Bid in Diplomatic Drive
In Iran, officials were tepid in their initial response, saying that Mr. Obama’s message must be followed up with concrete actions to address past grievances, like the downing of an Iranian airliner in 1988. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, a high-ranking adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, praised the effort to reach out to Iranians but said that Iran wanted more than words. “This cannot only be done by us, we cannot simply forget what the U.S. did to our nation,” he said. “They need to perceive what wrong orientation they had and make serious efforts to make up for it.”

Yup, not a word about what they’re supposed to do. It’s all loudly and nastily about the other guy caving in to what they want, have you noticed? Certainly no words about letting by-gones be by-gones, either, huh?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5021796/Iran-responds-to-Barack-Obamas-video-appeal-with-nuclear-pledge.html
Iran Responds to Barack Obama's Video Appeal with Nuclear Pledge
US President Barack Obama's appeal for a "new beginning" with Iran has been met by a pledge to turn on the country's nuclear power plant this year.

. . . "Exactly 20 days from now we will have another celebration for celebrating the achievements we have gained for peaceful nuclear energy. You will hear about [it in] the news," he said. . . .

"Iran will finish and operate the Bushehr nuclear plant by the end of this year." . . .

He added that while Mr Obama's message to his country on the occasion of the Iranian New Year was "positive," it had to be followed by "positive action." . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090321/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_obama
Iran's Supreme Leader Dismisses Obama Overtures

Which leaves the junior president from the United States looking weak and foolish. That outcome should have been expected, and the “overture” gone unmade.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/sarah-and-amina-saids-brother-islams-continuing-murderous-threats.html
SARAH AND AMINA SAID'S BROTHER ISLAM'S CONTINUING MURDEROUS THREATS
It has been well over a year since the Said girls were brutally murdered in a sharia killing (aka ''honor” killing) by their Muslim father in Texas, after a life of abuse and terror in the name of Islam. . . .

The heinous crime was whitewashed by the dhimmi media who live in fear of the religion of peace. . . .

No arrests have been made. The murdering father is still at large and the radical ticking time bomb brother, Islam Said, is threatening non-Muslim father members (in this case Gail Gartrell) with a violent death. . . .

http://www.startribune.com/nation/41626352.html
Alleged "Enemy combatant" [I surely do find that qualification ridiculous] Returns to Illinois for Terror Trial
. . . a federal grand jury in Illinois [has] indicted [Ali] al-Marri on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to [the 9/11] terror. . . .

Ali Al-Marri's arrest in December 2001 shocked this Midwest city on the Illinois River . . .

"I remember how surprised I was that he lived in the community," said Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis, a lifelong resident. "Someone potentially involved in the [9/11] terrorist plot was here?"

This is a distressingly familiar question in the U.S.A. We Americans have a truly difficult time accepting the idea that there is a fully developed network of Muslim men and women in the United States dedicated to the downfall of the United States.

http://snappedshot.com/archives/3700-Creeping-Sharia-in-Fairfax-County,-Virginia.html
Creeping Sharia in Fairfax County, VA
. . . Based on this obvious bias in interaction with the public, it's abundantly clear to me that the Commission has already predetermined that this project will be approved. Which is sad, considering that the government of Fairfax County is theoretically supposed to represent the citizens of Fairfax County. . . .

This, too, is distressingly familiar behavior in the U.S.A. Our elected officials (who are often equally clueless) appointing jihad-clueless people to vitally important commissions like this one, the Fairfax County Planning Board, which have it in their power to control all Islamic expansion . . . and might even try if they weren't so afraid of knowing what the Party of Jihad is all about..

http://dgaubatz.blogspot.com/2009/03/black-flag-of-jihadal-qaeda-in-al.html
VIDEO: Nashville, TN: Al Qaeda Flag Found in Somali Mosque
Why would an Al Qaeda flag be in the Al Farooq (Somalia) mosque in Nashville,TN? Of course this is covered under "religious freedom" and is not being used as an educational tool (along with lectures of convicted terrorists inside the mosque) for the young worshippers of the mosque.

[And of course] In no way would the flag be a symbol of their support to any terrorist organization, nor as a recruiting tool to 'brainwash' the minds of innocent young children. Now if the children do not adhere they are simply beaten by the Islamic leaders, and this also (according to Nashville authorities) is also legal in TN.

And people ask themselves why America is slowly being taken away from us. We are wrong. It is not being taken away, it is being handed over to Islamic terrorist groups and their supporters on a golden plate. Respectfully, Dave G.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/state/epaper/2009/03/21/0321busislamad.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=0
Ad for Islam on Broward Bus May Lead to Ban
In the wake of controversial bus ads saying Jesus followed the principles of Islam, Broward County commissioners are considering a ban on advertising religious messages on public transportation and all other government property. . . .

Broward has had no advertising standards that apply across the board at the port, airport, parks, libraries, government buildings and mass transit. County commissioners will consider the proposal Tuesday, but both sides in the January dispute believe it goes too far.

"This is a knee-jerk reaction from our elected officials to small voices of extremism," said Altaf Ali of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which bought the ads. [Well, of course he said that; what else would you expect from a CAIR rep?]

Joe Kaufman, who organized protests against the ads for Americans Against Hate, said: "We were not concerned about whether Muslims or Jews or Christians put religious messages in advertising. We were concerned that the ad was offensive and demeaning to other religions." . . .

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/03/jordanian-accused-of-mailing-threatening-letter-to-jewish-school.html
Jordanian Charged in Threat to Jewish School
According to a criminal complaint made public by the FBI, [Mohammed Alkaramla’s] typewritten letter read "Will Give You until 01.15.2009 to back OFF from Gaza in Palestine or will set our explosive in your areas, it very important to make a quick action before we make our decisions to set bombs in the fowling [sic] addresses:"

The letter went on to list addresses for 22 Chicago-area Jewish schools . . . . No explosives were found near Ida Crown or any other Jewish school.

Imagine, a Muslim threatening Jewish schools. Whodathot?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509839,00.html
"Several" Missing Somali-Americans Back in U.S. After Overseas Terror Mission
. . ."Some of the guys who were missing aren't missing anymore," the source said. "Some of them got blown up and some of them came back, and some of them are still there [in Somalia]."

For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who traveled to war-torn Somalia, where some of them trained and fought with an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab, according to counterterrorism officials.

Asked to characterize how many of those men are now back on American soil, the source would only say that "several" have returned. Federal authorities believe the men went to Somalia to join al-Shabaab, which has been warring with the moderate Somali government since 2006.

Oh, joy. Now we have Somali trained professional jihadists in the country. Better they had stayed missing.

http://www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com/israelnews/editorial/38-editors-choice/978-how-hamas-became-kosher-.html
How Hamas Became “Kosher”
Today Hamas stands on the cusp of international acceptance. It may take a week or a month or a year, but today Hamas stands where Fatah and the PLO stood in the late 1980s. The genocidal jihadist terror group is but a step away from an invitation to the Oval Office. Two events in the past week show this to be the case.

First, last Saturday, the Boston Globe reported that Paul Volker, who serves as US President Barack Obama's economic recovery advisor, and several former senior US officials, [wrote] a letter to Obama calling for the US to recognize Hamas. As one of the signatories, Brent Scowcroft, former national security advisor under president George H.W. Bush explained, "I see no reason not to talk to Hamas."

And I still stand by my thoughts from last week: The reason not to talk to Hamas is because they are not a country [there is no Palestinian nation] without diplomatic relations with ANY country, and they are a terrorist organization set to destroy Israel. Hamas should be ignored, stopped, pushed off . . . But I dream on. Our nation is now led by B. Hussein Obama.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/20/09

2009-03-20T14:15:00.001-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090319/pl_usnw/cair_seeks_religious_rights_for_ohio_muslim_cabbies
CAIR Seeks Religious Rights for Ohio Muslim Cabbies [Ah, we’ve moved on down, I see, from Minnesota to Ohio.]

Muslim civil rights group asks for meeting with mayor to discuss “reasonable” religious accommodation.

The drivers claim that if they must exit the taxi queue in order to pray, they will suffer significant loss of access to fares, forcing them to choose between their faith and their livelihood. . . .

Well, like it or not, Muslims should have to play by the rules, too, just like everybody else (is supposed to). You make the choice, religion or work; the local gov'ts should not be called upon to get involved in your private quandary.

Nothing is ever “reasonable” about these demands, no matter how nicely demanded. Keep the ban. Do not buckle under, Mayor Jackson. This is just like blackmail: The more you pay, the more they’ll ask for . . . Oh, maybe that’s like terrorism, come to think of it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/17/guns-on-a-plane-obama-secretly-ends-program-that-l/
Guns on a plane: Obama Secretly Ends Program That Lets Pilots Carry Guns
Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. . .

The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots. . . .

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/132.html
Virginia: Bullying Mob Packs Govt Meeting in Support of Islamic Supremacist Institution
Imagine facing the overwhelming odds of fighting for equality in Islamic supremacist Saudi Arabia, or in the 1960s-era white supremacist Mississippi. These were the same odds faced by a handful of activists in challenging the estimated 600 supporters of the Islamic Saudi Academy at Northern Virginia's Fairfax County Planning Commission on the night of March 18, 2009. Many hundreds of the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) supporters wore printed name tag badges reading "I Support ISA," including ISA's logo containing the emblem of Saudi Arabian government with its two crossed swords. . . .

http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Iraqi-Men-Captured-In-Valley/K_1CKoqyQEqooPwdMq1wmA.cspx
Iraqi Men Captured in Valley
Three Iraqi men captured by Border Patrol agents say they made arrangements with a man in Iraq, and paid $20,000.00 to get into the United States.

They were captured on March 12th during normal patrols near Los Ebanos.

The three men, and the alleged smuggler who was driving the truck, have been arrested.

The smuggler is expected to be in court Thursday morning.

http://cis.org/2006SwiftRaids
The 2006 Swift Raids: Assessing the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Actions at Six Facilities
On December 12, 2006, about 1,300 illegal immigrants working at six meat processing plants owned by Swift & Co. were arrested in the largest immigration enforcement action in U.S. history. Other illegal workers, fearful of future raids, stopped reporting to work. . . .

Swift also has recruited a large number of refugees who are legal immigrants. . . .

This would be the Somali immigrants who last year instigated various strikes and disruption because they had to have special “accommodations” for their dining concerns during Ramadan.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025303.php
Where have the jihadis gone? Return to Islamberg
(2). The compound is no longer centralized. Many of the wannabe jihadis have moved to nearby locations, including a trailer park less than a mile away.

(3). The community is engaged in a public relations campaign designed to present Islamberg and other Jamaat ul-Fuqra compounds as peaceful settlements that pose no threat to national security. In keeping with this campaign, Islamberg now proclaims itself to be the “International Headquarters” of the newly created “United Muslim – Christian Forum.” . . .

Homegrown Jihad has apparently been trumped by homegrown exposure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er0OIb7DU7M
VIDEO: Muslim tells the absolute truth: No non-Muslim is innocent, and are all therefore targets for jihadists. Which makes the next story even less believable:

http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/19/when-nypd-wears-a-muslim-topi/
When NYPD Wears A Muslim Topi
Police chaplaincy lets Khalid Latif embody both Islam and American culture. . . .

This is a nice story. We all want to believe the young Muslim cleric/policeman. We want him to be one of us. But I don’t. He can’t be both an imam and a pastor, anymore than the female priest (see: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008246825_redding10m.html) can be a priest and an imam. Christianity and Islam are NOT compatible: Christians and Jews revere life; Islam seeks death.

Two Qur’anic verses from Muhammad:
5:51: Believers, take not Jews and Christians for your friends.
9:23: Believers, take not for friends your father and your brother if they love disbelief above belief.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163194/400-000-payout-headmistress-smeared-racist-opposing-Muslim-takeover-primary-school.html
Head accused of 'Islamophobia' wins £400,000 after being forced out by Muslim governors . . .

British juries aren’t snowed, either. Maybe there’s hope for the Brits, after all.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/19/09

2009-03-19T13:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025283.php
Stop the [Virginia] Islamic Saudi Academy expansion!
Robert Spencer of JihadWatch has all the data you need to affect a change at this school, tonight [3/19/09].

After reading that, I’d suggest you revisit Jeffrey Imm’s editorial about losing Virginia to the dark side, posted 3/18/09 on Unveiling Taqiyya. [http://unveilingtaqiyya.blogspot.com]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613330,00.html
"Away From the Politics of Fear"
Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?

Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. [Which makes her unfit for her position, in my opinion.] That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.

If I don’t call a hurricane a hurricane, how can I ever know how to prepare for it and live through it? NAME THE ENEMY, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Or get out of my way, so I can.

http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1236509082820&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
US Muslim Groups Mull FBI Boycott
Frustrated by mistrust, suspicion and provocative actions targeting their law-abiding [would that be Sharia-abiding, do you think?] community, the major American Muslim groups are considering to rupture all outreach relations with the FBI and the Justice Department. . . .

If the FBI does not accord fair and equitable treatment to every American Muslim organization [fair and equitable according to whom? According to me, the FBI is being overfair and untra-delicate with Muslim sensitivities. Perhaps the underlying thinking here is: "Shut up and go away, FBI"?], then Muslim organizations, mosques, and individuals will have no choice but to consider suspending all outreach activities with FBI offices, agents, and other personnel," said the statement. . . .

And they seriously think this is a threat? The case that caused this little tempest started because an FBI agent had to go into a mosque UNDERCOVER to get the straight skinny on what was going on inside. No exactly full disclosure coming from the Islamists, so what’s the loss?

A spokesperson says later in the article: "We further request objective evaluation of the sources of information and analysis utilized to formulate decisions." In other words: Tell us who told you we were misbehaving and we’ll decide for you if we think you should pay any attention to it.” The hutzpah these people display is astounding.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/18/america/NA-US-Terrorism-Extradition.php
NY Jury Convicts Man in Terrorism-arms Conspiracy
A jury has convicted a man extradited from Romania in a plot to sell weapons to Colombian militants after a notorious arms dealer was already sentenced for his role.

The jury in Manhattan federal court convicted Tareq Mousa al Ghazi Tuesday in the sting operation.

Al Ghazi was convicted of conspiring to murder U.S. officers and employees, conspiracy to acquire and export anti-aircraft missiles and conspiracy to support a terrorist group.

He was acquitted of conspiracy to murder U.S. nationals.

He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and could face life at a June 16 sentencing.

Last month, notorious Syrian-born arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role [in this same criminal enterprise, I assume?].

This is the whole article. I was struck by the complete emptiness of this report. What terrorist group was this guy supporting? Was it the “Colombian militants”? Why did the Feds include a “conspiracy to murder US nationals” in the case? And he had to be “extradited,” yet. From Romania.

What, really, was this Arabic-named criminal’s reason for all this behavior? Money, you think? A common drug-smuggling problem?

Could it have been because he’s following Muhammad’s dictum to carry out jihad until the world has submitted to Allah? Could it be the fellow is a --- gasp! --- Islamic Believer?

Dorrie's Picks, 3/18/09

2009-03-18T16:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney031709.php3
Will Obama Embrace Shariah As Part of His ‘Respect Islam’ Campaign?
President Obama on Friday reiterated for the umpteenth time his determination to develop a "new relationship" with the Muslim world. On this occasion, the audience were the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that, in so doing, he will be embracing the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization dedicated to promoting the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah and that has the self-described mission of "destroying Western civilization from within." . . .

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/the_radicals_among_us/
The Radicals Among Us
. . . something dark [is] at the heart of Philadelphia: a prevalent but scarcely mentioned brand of radical Islam that has appeared almost unremarked upon . . . in several of the city’s worst modern moments. And which has, over recent decades, entwined the city from its lowest streets to the pinnacle of public power. . . .

It’s difficult to get a sense of just how big Philadelphia’s Muslim population is. Estimates range from less than 100,000 to twice that many. Its importance is clear, though; Sylvester Johnson, for instance, served as America’s first Muslim metropolitan police chief. [Does this indicate that there are several others in the U.S.?] Along with many other adherents in Philadelphia, he found Islam — or some form of it, at least — decades ago, when the Nation of Islam came to town. . . .

A cursory search did not turn up any US police chiefs ID’d as Muslim. If anyone knows one, or some, or all, in the USA, please let me know by replying to scrivener2007@gmail.com.

http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/imm-articles/131.html
The Growing Islamic Supremacist Threat to Virginia
The Northern Virginia suburb of Washington DC has been growing as an Islamic supremacist haven. Amidst the many hard-working Virginians who serve our nation's defense, civilian federal government, homeland security, and commercial businesses, Islamic supremacist groups, organizations, and institutions have quietly expanded and gained members. Northern Virginia has been home to a wide series of Islamic supremacist groups and leaders that have resisted investigations and challenge by the government and concerned citizens. For years, Northern Virginia has long been a target of a network of Islamic supremacist organizations. . . .

Here’s a link to the blog, “Northern Virginiastan” that I found when making a search for “American police chiefs” from the story about Philiadelphia above: http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2008/05/jihad-watch-virginia-muslim-police.html It's not like you'll probably need to know anything more after reading Mr. Imm's editorial, but I found the blog interesting.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-NABlEjaGSsDBh_qdpdNmX7V6VwD9701NMO1
Draft for Racism Meeting Drops Israel Criticism
The United States and the 27-nation European Union have threatened to boycott the April 20-25 meeting in Geneva unless Muslim countries back down from demands to limit free speech that criticizes Islam or other faiths. They also objected to passages that singled out Israel for its treatment of Palestinians.

The draft declaration now speaks only of concern about the "negative stereotyping of religions" while omitting direct references to Israel.

A BIG HOOAH TO THAT! Our men and women in the diplomatic world are still on the job, and this is a huge line in the sand for those encroaching on our freedom of speech here, and everywhere.

Not that everybody is listening (see next article) . . .

http://www.pmw.org.il/
Norway Finances Israel-hate
. . . "I want to say for the thousandth time, in my own name and in the name of all of my fellow members of the Fatah movement: We do not demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel. On the contrary, we demand of the Hamas movement not to recognize Israel, because the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel even today."

And does anybody think HAMAS needs to be encouraged in their hatred? And yet we’re sending $900,000,000 of our tax dollars to them to “help Gaza.” AKA: help HAMAS.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/17/09

2009-03-17T10:33:00.000-07:00

http://news.msu.edu/story/6072/
MSU faculty tackles inaccurate, simplistic portrayal of Islam, Muslims in the media
Reporters sometimes underestimate the complexities of Islam and Muslims, according to Michigan State University faculty who will use a grant to create a multimedia Web site designed to foster accurate and balanced reporting of the religion and its followers.

“If you look at the coverage of Muslims in the press in this country, there are either over- simplifications or distortions – such as combining the terms Arab and Muslim despite the fact that only 20 percent of the world’s Muslims are Arabs,” [and the rest are what? Blacks in America, Canada, and Europe?] said Mohammed Ayoob, director of MSU’s Muslim Studies Program and University Distinguished Professor of international relations at James Madison College and the Department of Political Science. “This problem has become particularly acute in the wake of Sept. 11.” [And he's inferring what, here? That non-Believers have been out there making life miserable for the Believers living in the U.S.? Not true. We’re plenty fooled in this country about Islamic pacifism; way too fooled, to my liking. This article will simply add to the soft lulling of the American hearts that desperately do not want to know about Islam's real aims.]

Add to that commonly misunderstood – and misused – terms like jihad, militant Islam and Islamic fanaticism. [They are misused how? Somebody's saying they don’t exist? Somebody's saying they aren’t mandated activities in the Qur’an? They are exactly that. I might agree that “fanaticism,” and I’ll add “radical” Islamist are misused terms: These people are simply very active activists in the Party of Jihad that Muhammad designed 1400 years ago.]

. . . “The Web site will offer examples of ideal and poor [which will undoubtedly be the truth about Islam] reporting on stories and a list of best practices on reporting on Islam to help journalists make sense of this subject matter before trying to inform their masses.” . . . [Translated: we’re indoctrinating you PC-ers to be even more PC-ish. And we’re teaching it to your kids, too.]

This is almost a criminal waste of Michigan’s taxpayers' money.

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2009/03/muslim-blames-american-culture-for.html
Muslim blames American culture for beheading
In our moments alone, we too may ask, "How can any Muslim really be trusted, if, living in a so-called civilised country like the US [he’s questioning us being civilized?], he remains capable of murdering his own wife?"

Yes, excellent question. How can any Muslim man be trusted anywhere in the world? The men are taught they are dominant beings and their women can be used, abused, and discarded as they like. Every time someone like Hassan kills his wife, he’s just proving the norm.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/03/16/2009-03-16_taking_risks_with_terror_naive_us_justic.html
Taking risks with terror: Naive U.S. justice system is turning terrorists loose
The "terrorists to the bone" taunting by five Al Qaeda architects of the 9/11 attacks was a painful reminder that more than seven years after the murders of 3,000 Americans, the U.S. has failed abysmally in the application of justice.

Those who committed the unspeakable should no longer have the capacity to speak. They should be dead. . . .

.http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/09/analysts-to-obama-there-are-no-taliban-moderates-you-nitwit/
Analysts to Obama: There are no Taliban “moderates,” you nitwit
“Obama’s comment resembles a dream more than reality,” said Waheed Mozhdah, an analyst who has written a book on the Taliban.

“Where are the so-called moderate Taliban? Who are the moderate Taliban?” asked Mozhdah, who was an official in both the Taliban and the Karzai governments. . . .

Indeed, name me any “moderate” Muslim. I know of two. They aren’t invited to the White House as experts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/4996052/Barack-Obama-adviser-urges-talks-with-Hamas.html
Barack Obama adviser urges talks with Hamas
"I see no reason not to talk to Hamas," [maybe because they aren’t a country and have no diplomatic national status? They are a terrorist organization . . .?] Mr Scowcroft told the Boston Globe. "The main gist is that you need to push hard on the Palestinian peace process. . . .”

Mr Obama has made peace in the Middle East a central goal of his presidency. . . .

And the junior president from the U.S. has surely not taken into consideration that the Qur’an uses the word “peace” only once, and it had nothing to do with non-Islamic nations, and never will.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/indonesia/4688668/Hillary-Clinton-courts-Muslim-world-with-Indonesia-visit.html
Hillary Clinton courts Muslim world with Indonesia visit
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has courted the Muslim world by visiting Indonesia and hailing its blend of democracy and Islam.

This is really scary. It shows the complete lack of understanding of Islam that our gov’t types have, either willingly or from ignorance. Indonesia is governed 100% by Sharia law. 100%! The muttawa (religious police) murder Christians, Hindus, and Bhuddists on an almost daily basis. There is no freedom of or for anything in those islands. Yet Mrs. Clinton “hails its . . . democracy.” Not a chance.

The only result of this type of salaam-ing will be is to hearten the jihadist Muslims in the States.

http://204.96.138.161/p17940.xml
Sharia’s “Brotherhood”
Frank Gaffney explains what is wrong with the "U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project” that is being aggressively promoted to the Obama administration and Congress by a number of its non-Muslim participants (this opening by Robert Spencer):

On Friday, President Obama reiterated for the umpteenth time his determination to develop a "new relationship" with the Muslim world. On this occasion, the audience were the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Unfortunately, it increasingly appears that, in so doing, he will be embracing the agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood - an organization dedicated to promoting the theo-political-legal program authoritative Islam calls Shariah and that has the self-described mission of "destroying Western civilization from within." . . .

Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 3/14-15/09

2009-03-15T16:45:00.000-07:00

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/03/13/media-forgets-obamas-nominee-justice-dept-was-terrorists-lawyer
Media Forgets Obama's Nominee to Justice Dept. Was a Terrorist's Lawyer
On March 9, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on one of Barack Obama's latest nominees. This time it was to assess the suitability of Tony West, Obama's nominee for the assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Division.

Curiously enough, though, not one of these brief reports mention that Tony West was "American Taliban" terrorist John Walker Lindh's defense lawyer. . . .

Let us hope this guy “steps down” like so many of the other “America-last” choices BHO has made.

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/03/report-obama-planning-to-send-irans-supreme-leader-ayatollah-khamenei-a-personal-letter-prior-to-ele.html
Obama Planning to Send Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei a Personal Letter
. . . on Monday, State Department acting spokesman Robert Wood told reporters: "We have offered our hand to the government of Iran, and we hope to be able to engage this government on a whole range of issues. But a lot of it's going to depend on Iran and its willingness to engage and its willingness to change its behavior in a number of areas where we have concern." . . .

Yeah, this time it ought to work, huh? Wilting lilies they are, just waiting for a chance to work with the new junior president from the U.S.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764180626&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Obama: I'll forge new ties with Muslims
In phone conversations with the leaders of Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines on Friday, US President Barack Obama discussed his commitment to forging a new relationship with Islamic countries, among other issues. . . .

That’s as vague as his promise of hope and change back in the day.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1010/cairs-war-on-truth
CAIR's War on Truth
By attacking Wolf, Awad and his organization hope to avoid the difficult questions about their roots and true agenda. Similarly, the statement labels the IPT report "smears against CAIR by Internet Muslim-bashers like Steven Emerson." . . .

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/state/ny-stbehe0314,0,4443778.story
Man accused of beheading wife arraigned
The founder of a Muslim-American television station pleaded not guilty Friday to beheading his estranged wife.

Does he think somebody else is going to claim credit for it? I suspect in his heart he really isn’t guilty; he’s a Muslim man. Women are theirs to do with as they will.

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/03/08/muslim_community_rallies_behind_sudbury_man_charged_by_the_fbi/
Muslim community rallies behind Sudbury man charged by the FBI
a community of supporters has rallied around him, questioning how Mehanna could have been ensnared in a federal case and whether he is being used a pawn in the FBI's war on terrorism.

"They're kind of painting [which means they aren't really?] the wrong picture of the Muslim community," said S. Ahmad Zamanian of Houston, a friend of Mehanna's. "Anyone who has met Tariq . . . would all tell you that this man is far removed from anyone's definition of a terrorist." . . .

Well, of course. He’s just the choir boy from next door. And the FBI always spends time and resources on people who aren’t connected in any way to the crime, right?

http://docstalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/whose-view-of-islam-do-youtrust-pa.html
Whose View Of Islam Do You Trust: PA Professors Or PA Police?
. . . It is interesting to point out that while both the university and the Commission claim to present “an understanding” of Islam, it is the Commission’s training course that discusses the verses in the Quran that call for the killing of non-believers, the abrogation of Jewish and Christian scriptures, and that Islam means “submission to the will of Allah.”

While the training course reiterates that most Muslims observe only the moderate teachings of Islam, the university doesn’t even acknowledge the threat of radical Islam. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 3/13/09

2009-03-13T17:40:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9uHpzOcJmA&NR=1
Video: On Al-Jazeera TV, Kuwaiti Prof Suggests a Biological Attack on White House

“I seem to recall about a decade ago we sent American resources and spilled American blood to free Kuwait from Iraqi plunder and conquest.”Now a Kuwaiti professor shows us islamic gratitude. Listen to how nicely he pronounces the few English words - with quite an American accent! Note his introductory remarks about Anthrax on the White House lawn!” –Allan, chapter leader, ACT! For America, NY

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/13/enemy.combatant/index.html
U.S. reverses policy, drops 'enemy combatant' term
. . . In a court filing in Washington, the department said it is developing a new standard for the government's authority to hold detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

The announcement says the Justice Department will no longer rely on the the president's authority as commander in chief, but on authority specifically granted by Congress. . . .

I have no idea from this if this is a good or bad move for those of us who want them to stay in Gitmo, but God forbid we should ever call them Muslim terrorists.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/11/wolf-deeply-disappointed-fbis-lack-answers-cairs-questionable-ties/
Congressman 'Deeply Disappointed' By FBI's Lack of Answers on CAIR's Questionable Ties
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., says he is surprised and disappointed by the FBI, which has given him no answers in his investigation of the questionable ties of the nation’s largest Islamic advocacy group.

And happily, the Congressman paid no apparent attention to CAIR's ridiculous attempt at making him look the bad guy:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20090312/pl_usnw/gop_rep_pressures_fbi_for__payback__against_muslim_civil_rights_group
GOP Rep Pressures FBI for 'Payback' Against Muslim Civil Rights Group
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) charged today that a Virginia member of the U.S. House of Representatives has "abused his office" by seeking to pressure the FBI to produce negative information about the Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.

In a letter delivered to the FBI on Monday, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) said he is "deeply disappointed" in the agency's "insufficient response" to an earlier letter apparently seeking negative information based on smears against CAIR by Internet Muslim-bashers like Steven Emerson.

Emerson was recently named one of Fairness & Accuracy in Media's "dirty dozen" of Islamophobes. (http://www.smearcasting.com/) FOXNews.com articles on the controversy have been based on Emerson's online attacks on CAIR.

and, the following is Steve Emerson's response to CAIR's broadside: http://www.investigativeproject.org/

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/11/terrorism.recruitment/
Domestic terror threat growing, Senate committee warns
There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community, a U.S. Senate committee hearing concluded Wednesday.

The hearing highlighted the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota before traveling to Somalia and blowing up himself and 29 others in October.

“And it is growing in no small part because of the abject failure of government and law enforcement to deal with the Islamic doctrines and beliefs that provide the justification for "terrorism." Instead, most policymakers and law enforcement officials have decided a priori, without a shred of evidence, that those doctrines either do not exist or have no influence on American Muslims.”—Robert Spencer

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=326250&paper=59&cat=104
Extortion, Guns and Visa Fraud:
Springfield man sentenced to 18 months for conspiracy to commit fraud, transporting illegal firearm.
A three-year FBI investigation into extortion, gun distribution and visa and marriage fraud concluded with the sentencing of a seventh and final defendant in U.S. District Court in Alexandria Friday, Feb. 27, 2009.

The FBI investigation began in 2005 when Springfield resident, Amjad Mustafa Hamed, 32, attempted to purchase six U.S. visas from an FBI source to put on six Palestinian Authority passports smuggled into the United States, according to Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office. . . .

Just pointing out that once again an American jury gets it right.

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/03/12/vindicated-by-muslims-against-sharia-law/
[Chesler] Vindicated by “Muslims Against Sharia Law.”
. . . Lo and Behold: A second honorable ally wrote to me. I want to share what he said. His name is Khalim Massoud, and he is the President of Muslims Against Sharia Law, an international organization. After reading my most recent blog HERE, he wrote me as follows:

“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that (the) Buffalo beheading is a honorcide. We, Muslims Against Sharia, prefer this term to honor murder. Beheading is not just a murder, it’s a ritual. It’s a form of control and humiliating a family member who “stepped over the line,” in this case, wife taking out a TRO (order of protection) and planning to divorce her husband. . . .

I would suggest we all bookmark Muslims against Sharia Law, and Phyllis Chesler’s columns in Pajamas Media for the future.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer/the_intelligencer_news_details/article/27/2009/march/10/school-buses-soft-targets-for-possible-terrorist-attacks/print.html
School buses "soft targets" for possible terrorist attacks
Terrorism experts say homeland security begins at the school bus stop.

It's a school security gap that most parents, police and school officials don't always see, but terrorists do.

School buses can be vulnerable to a potential attacker, but are often overlooked in a school district's security plan.

This is a sad commentary of the worries that parents have to contend with today, but it's good to know there are people aware of and working to prevent the problem.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hMT9GSjeFeuiRWPCUKflpfkvfw3QD96SOREO0
Obama official on leave after FBI raids
The charges were lodged against the two men at a federal court hearing as the FBI finished searching the city's technology office, which was led until recently by Obama's new computer chief, Vivek Kundra.

At the court hearing, Yusuf Acar (a 40-year-old native of Turkey), the acting chief security officer in the city's technology office . . . Technology consultant Sushil Bansal . . .

Yes, these could be Hindu East Indians, I suppose. . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/4972554/Iranian-TV-show-scrapped-after-child-calls-toy--monkey-Ahmadinejad-live-on-air.html
Iranian TV show scrapped after child calls toy monkey Ahmadinejad live on air
When the presenter of Amoo Pourang (Uncle Pourang), a programme watched by millions of Iranian children three times a week on state TV, asked the name of the toy the boy had been given as a reward for behaving himself, the child replied: "Well, my father calls him Ahmadinejad."

The father's likely unease at his son's honesty was matched by the programme-makers after the state broadcaster, IRIB, immediately responded by removing the show from viewing schedules . . .
This struck me as funny, but it really isn’t. Lack of freedom of speech is lack of freedom of speech, which is the death-nell for everyone.

Dorrie's Picks 3/12/09

2009-03-12T13:25:00.001-07:00

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025198.php
9/11 defendants: "We ask to be near to God, we fight you and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in god's cause is a great duty in our religion." . . .

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/12/FBI_raids_former_office_of_Obama_appointee/UPI-49951236873896/
FBI Raids Former Office of Obama Appointee
FBI officials Thursday raided the offices of Washington, D.C.'s chief technology officer, whose director recently accepted a post in the Obama administration. Agents arrested Yusuf Acar, an information systems security official. . . .

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-03-10-watchlist_N.htm
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million
The government's terrorist watch list has hit 1 million entries, up 32% since 2007. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/s/rasmussen/20090312/pl_rasmussen/terrorattack20090312
41% Say U.S. Focus on Economy Raises Risk of Terrorist Attack
Forty-one percent of U.S. voters worry that America's preoccupation with the ongoing economic crisis will make us more vulnerable to a terrorist attack, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. . . .

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,195325,00.html
LeT Bigger Threat Than Al-Qaeda, Says U.S. Intelligence
Intelligence agencies report that potentially many tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been trained in LeT's guerrilla camps in Pakistan. . . .

This is the ferocious group that caused such horror in Mumbai.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,508484,00.html
Grand Jury Convenes in FBI Terror Case Against Somali-Americans [and their mosque] in Minneapolis, Sources Say
. . . the FBI has been investigating about a dozen Somali-American men who disappeared from their homes in the Minneapolis area late last year and may have joined terrorist groups overseas. One of the men, 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed, later blew himself up in Somalia. The FBI recently called him the first U.S. citizen to carry out a suicide bombing, and FBI Director Mueller said he was "radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota."

Hurre [the director of the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center in St. Paul [translated: He’s an imam in the largest mosque in Minnesota] said the media attention and subsequent backlash are "destroying our community." . . .

Well, you’ll get no sympathy from me. Communities and countries have been destroyed for 1400 years following Muhammad’s Party of Jihad. Stop complaining about the FBI and other authorities who want to put a stop to jihad and start exposing those who are practicing jihad.

http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/state_regional/article/saudi_academy_in_northern_virginia_revises_islamic_history_books/30402/
Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia Revises Islamic History Books
While the Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most contentious passages from the texts, copies provided to The Associated Press show that enough sensitive material remains to fuel critics who claim the books show intolerance toward those who do not follow strict interpretations of Islam. . . .

http://www.flanews.com/?p=4720
Anti-Terrorism Group Crashes Muslim Day
About 200 Muslim-Americans toured the Capitol and met with lawmakers Tuesday to discuss education and healthcare reform. While the group ate lunch in Capitol courtyard, a coalition of Jews and Christians held a news conference to speak out against radical Islam. Kelly Cook, a spokesman for Act! for America, [yay!] an anti-terrorist group, said some Muslims are trying to fool state lawmakers.

“They want our Florida lawmakers to trust them; well, here’s what violates trust: Islamic organizations that refuse to acknowledge that there are a lot of people in their community of faith who want to hurt America, kill Americans, and impose Sharia law on America,” said Cook. [Go, Kelly!]

Mohammad Sherif, a spokesman for United Voices for America, http://www.unitedvoices.com/
[well, that was incredibly uninformative] said Muslims want the same things from state government that Jews and Christians [do]. “What’s important to do is to have people who understand our view point and understand that we are constituents and that we are not necessarily Muslims that live in America [and you prove that how?], but that we are American Muslims and in this state we are Floridians first and foremost,” said Sherif.

Right. The UVA Web page says it's a political org. If that's the case, they aren't American Floridians first. They are Muslim political activists concealing and deceiving Americans about their goals.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDdiN2RkZjQwNmEzZmViYTM2ZTIyOWEzZTgyMGE0MzY=&w=MA
No Honor in This
It really was two crimes in one. When Aasiya Hassan was allegedly beheaded by her husband in upstate New York, the response by many Muslim groups was to make sure that no one connected the murder to Islam . . .

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=42CDB933-16F1-4EC3-817F-C47FE3C0247B
Victory at Facebook? Update
. . . it also finally deleted the original “I Wonder How Quickly I Can Find 1,000,000 People Who Support Israel” group site, with the menacing material from the pro-Hizballah, pro-jihad, anti-Semitic hackers. . . .

http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41692/108/
Religious [Muslim!] hack attack against Christianity seen on Facebook
The Facebook group, Christians On Facebook, has become the latest target of attack for hackers who are posting pro-Islam messages.

At 11:15am CDT today, the group's name was changed to "La ilaha illallahu Muhammadur Rasulullah", which means "There is no god but Allah; Muhammad is the messenger of Allah." Since then the name has changed no fewer than ten times. . . .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4974031/Calls-for-crackdown-on-parade-Muslim-extremists.html
Calls for crackdown on parade Muslim extremists
The outcry over soldiers in uniform being verbally attacked has continued after a Muslim preacher who was formerly the member of a now illegal group accused them of being "cowards" and "brutal murderers."

Internet sites have been swamped with families horrified at the men of 2nd Bn The Royal Anglians being confronted with placards that branded them as killers, rapists and terrorists. . . .

Good. Some steely reactions from the Brits. But I do wish they’d stop calling these people “extremists.” They are simply very active members of the Party of Jihad, doing their duty out in the open. I’ve no doubt there will be many who tell these righteous fighters to shut up.

http://britishjihad.com/blog1/2009/03/uk_approves_ibrahim_moussawi.html
Post: UK approves visit of Hezbollah official
UK approves visit of Hezbollah official -- Hezbollah's Ibrahim Moussawi to speak in London March 25Jerusalem Post: "Britain on Thursday approved the visit to the country of Hizbullah official Ibrahim Moussawi to address a seminar on political Islam at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies . . .

Not just ignoring the problem, but actively encouraging it. They are truly nationally psychotic over there.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/11/09

2009-03-11T17:04:00.001-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_guantanamo_sept11_trial
9/11 suspects: “We are terrorists to the bone.”
The self-professed mastermind and four other men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks declared they are "terrorists to the bone" in a statement that mocked the U.S. failure to prevent the killings and predicted America will fall like "the towers on the blessed 9/11 day." . . .

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130358
Violent Intruders Attack Brooklyn Synagogues
For the second time in less than a week, a packed Brooklyn, New York, synagogue has been the target of threats of violence by intruders.

On Monday, according to Yeshiva World News, an Arab man in his mid-30s entered Boro Park's 'Sephardish Shul' and began making proclamations of jihad. Members of a Jewish volunteer security organization, the Shomrim, apprehended the threatening individual. They held him until police officers arrived at the scene, arresting the suspect. Detectives spoke with the "Middle Eastern man" at a station house near the synagogue. . . .

We all heard about the minister who was shot this past weekend, right? Did anyone hear about this?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090310/pl_afp/usintelligencepoliticscongresswithdraw_20090310205533
Embattled top US intel pick Freeman withdraws: official
A veteran US diplomat and vocal Israel critic, Charles Freeman, has withdrawn from contention for a top US intelligence post, US intelligence director Dennis Blair announced Tuesday.

Freeman "has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman?s decision with regret," Blair's office said in a statement. . . .

One small step for all of us.

http://in.reuters.com/article/email/idINIndia-38433020090310
Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical"
"This does not require any response or reaction for this is illogical," Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a purported spokesman for the insurgent group, told Reuters when asked if its top leader Mullah Mohammad Omar would make any comment about Obama's proposal.

"The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy...I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means?"

"If it means those who are not fighting and are sitting in their homes, then talking to them is meaningless. This really is surprising the Taliban." . . .

And let us not forget what Prime Minister Erdogan said: http://www.thememriblog.org/turkey/blog_personal/en/2595.htm
PM Erdogan: The Term “Moderate Islam” Is Ugly And Offensive; There Is No Moderate Islam; Islam Is Islam
Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, PM Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, ‘These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025185.php
UK Muslim demonstrators: British government is "terrorist"

And the reason they wouldn’t let Geert Wilders in the country? Because they were afraid of Muslim riots. THAT certainly seems to have worked well for them, huh?

Dorrie's Picks, 3/10/09

2009-03-10T13:02:00.000-07:00

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.6975:
Jihad Prevention Act
Sponsored by Tom Tancredo (R-CO), Sue Myrick (R-NC) and Zach Wamp (R-TN)

See also: Sue Myrick’s 10 Point Plan: http://www.suemyrick.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6229

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=42CDB933-16F1-4EC3-817F-C47FE3C0247B
Victory at Facebook?
. . . on February 15, 2009, Snider’s Facebook group was hacked and destroyed by a pro-Hizballah group calling itself “Lebanese Shee’a Hackers.” The hackers completely erased the original site content and replaced it with threatening, obscenity-laced pro-jihad, anti-Israel propaganda datelined Bint Jbeil, South Lebanon: “DEAR ADMINS, DON’T WASTE MY AND YOUR TIME , LEAVE THIS GROUP ITS BETTER FOR BOTH THIS IS THE LAST TIME ILL EDIT YOU INFO , NEXT TIME AND IN A COUPLE OF HOURS YOU WILL LOOSE EVERYTHING RELATED TO THIS GROUP….”

Facebook did nothing to stop these hackers . . .

http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/03/08/chicago-tv-muslim-leader-says-america-will-become-a-muslim-country/
Chicago TV: Muslim Leader Says America Will Become A Muslim Country
VIDEO. This is from a tv show that airs on Chicago TV called Underground Railroad. I just posted about this show here. The host of the show is named Clifton Raheem Bradley. He has created at Youtube channel for the show which can be viewed HERE: Below is video of a man named Amir Ali who is the head of Institute of Islamic Information and Education which is based in Chicago. You can visit their website here: http://iiie.net/

Obviously, Bradley is more honest about Muslim intentions than Muzzammil Hassan, founder of Bridges TV and head-chopping murderer, was.

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1007/fbis-embarrassing-response-to-cair-questions
FBI's Embarrassing Response to CAIR Questions
A U.S. Congressman who serves on a committee controlling the FBI's budget is blasting the Bureau's response to a set of questions regarding an FBI freeze on contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

This article, unfortunately, shows me that the FBI turns out to be not so solidly against working with CAIR as I would like.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/03/muslim-day-at-the-capitol-provokes-a-backlash.html
Muslim Day at the [FL] Capitol Provokes a Backlash
. . . While the Muslim groups held their events, an Israel-friendly counter-protest organized by House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, R-Boca Raton, will be taking place to warn legislators about their purported terrorist ties. The pro-Israel folks say United Voices For America has links to CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations), a Muslim advocacy group sometimes criticized for having ties to Islamic extremists. . .

Go, Hasner!

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-09-2009/0004985357&EDATECAIR: Md. Muslim Objects to 'Separate But Equal' Treatment by Bank

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said a Muslim customer at an NFCU branch in California, Md., reported that she was singled out twice by bank officials because of her religiously-mandated head scarf, or hijab.

A Muslim woman not long ago walked into this same credit union in CA wearing a hijab. And CAIR put up a stink. Now, gosh, it's happened AGAIN, can you imagine, on the other side of the country. Anybody think maybe CAIR might be orchestrating, not just complaining?

http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/business/19887-a-hometown-bank-heeds-a-call-to-serve-its-islamic-clients
A [MN] Hometown Bank Heeds a Call to Serve Its Islamic clients

In Michigan, of all places. Whodathot?
See also: http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/03/minnesota-state-agency-offering-sharia-mortgages.html

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/08/islam_and_freedom_of_speech/
Islam and Freedom of Speech. An interview w/Geert Wilders.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqCe9VplKqAs&refer=worldwide
Wary Muslims Seek More Than Gestures in Obama’s "Way Forward"

Well, of course they do. And if not, Khameini and Admadinejad will simply force him to it:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,506813,00.html
Iran Test Fires New Long-Range Missile
The warning from Revolutionary Guards commander Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari is the latest message from Tehran that it will strike back if attacked.

Israel and the United States suspect Iran's nuclear program is a cover for weapons production and say they would not accept a nuclear-armed Iran.

Tehran denies the accusation and says its nuclear activity is for generating power.

And yet, look at the title of the article. I suppose it just proves the old maxim: If you tell a big enough lie often enough, everybody will eventually believe it.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/6/09

2009-03-06T06:37:00.000-08:00

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\03\06\story_6-3-2009_pg1_10
Govt accepts BLUF demands for John Solecki’s release
Balochistan government announces top-level committee to investigate captors demands

The government has accepted the demands of the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) in exchange for the recovery of John Solecki, [American] head of the United Nations refugee agency . . .

Whew. I hope this works.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,504944,00.html
Critic Says Islamic Extremism Gets Whitewashed in American Textbooks
An education expert is warning that some American textbooks present a biased view of Islam and offer a sugarcoated picture of Islamic extremism, a trend that has parents worried about what's being taught in public schools.

In numerous history textbooks, "key subjects like jihad, Islamic law, the status of women are whitewashed," said Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, an independent group that reviews history books and other education materials.

But Muslim advocacy groups say students need to learn more about Islam to correct misconceptions [like what? That Islam, the Party of Jihad, doesn't actually employ jihad?] and help turn away a wrongheaded focus on extremism [like which extreme behavior? That the men in the Party of Jihad don't murder or butcher thousands of their women every day?]. . . .

Well, what else would they say? Me, I think I’ll side with Mr. Sewall on this, what about you?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/sherifa-d-zuhur-scholar-s_n_172381.html
Sherifa D. Zuhur, Scholar, Suspended By U.S. Army War College After Complaining Of Anti-Muslim Discrimination
The U.S. Army War College has suspended a widely known expert on Islamic studies partly because she had turned to the Middle East Studies Association, and threatened to contact a newspaper, with allegations that administrators there were violating her academic freedom and discriminating against her as a Muslim. . . .

And unexpectedly giving credence to the above story; Zuhur was teaching a whitewashed version of the Party of Jihad. Why would the War College have hired her in the first place?

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/19815
U.S. Muslim Brotherhood [and CAIR and MPAC] Reacts to California Mosque Infiltration
. . . The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) has reacted by stating that the use of informants in mosques “stigmatizes” the mosques and erodes trust. . . .

The plan here is simple: cloud the issue, play the victim, threaten lawsuits, etc., so that the fact that the FBI did its job and got damaging information on what’s going on in the mosques is completely lost behind the cloud.

"CAIR is grasping at straws here in trying to give the impression that the FBI has an unwarranted 'perception of American Muslims as a community that must be constantly monitored,' when in fact its spying operation yielded recordings of an Islamic jihadist talking on 'multiple occasions about 'blowing up buildings, acquiring weapons, and sending money to the Afghan mujahadeen.'”—Robert Spencer, FrontpageMag

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90736
U.N. to make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory?
Expected proposal would criminalize such comments in U.S.
Muslim-dominated nations at the United Nations are once again pushing a religious "anti-defamation" plan that would bar worldwide all criticism of their founder Muhammad and his teaching.

Constitutional lawyer Floyd Abrams said in the report, "What they would do would be to make it illegal to put out a movie or write a book or a poem that somebody could say was defamatory of Islam." . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 3/4/09-A

2009-03-04T11:21:00.000-08:00

http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=70154
Pakistani Kidnappers Set Latest Deadline to Kill American
QUETTA: An unknown militant group holding an American working for the United Nations in Pakistan has said it will kill the hostage, John Solecki, in four days if its demands are not met. The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) gave the latest deadline in a letter delivered to a local news agency in Quetta late on Sunday. Solecki, 49, the head of the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in southwestern Balochistan province, was kidnapped in the provincial capital of Quetta on Feb. 2 after gunmen ambushed his car and shot dead the driver. . . .

Is there some good reason we haven’t heard about this all over the news everywhere?

http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/1427236.html
NC Sen. Shaw to Chair Muslim Civil Rights Group
A North Carolina state senator has been elected chairman of one of the country's major Muslim civil rights groups.

Fayetteville Democrat Larry Shaw was named Tuesday as the new board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Shaw has been a member of the board since 2006, and in the state senate since 1997. He is the owner and chief executive of a food services company.

CAIR said Shaw was the country's highest-ranking Muslim elected official before 2006, when Minnesota Democrat Keith Ellison was elected to Congress. . . .

Further proof that the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR, et. al., are successfully executing their propaganda plan to invade and destroy the U.S. through our political system. I wonder what N.C. U.S. Rep Sue Myrick (who devised the 10 Point Plan to fight off stealth jihad in the U.S.) thinks of this N.C. anti-American state senator? http://www.suemyrick.com/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6229

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/03/we-turned-a-corner-friday-night-something-really-big-happened-something-historic-in-the-face-of-a-complacent-lethargic-co.html
VIDEO: CPAC: WILDERS ON FIRE: "It felt like a revival meeting."
Gellers: I had no idea if I would have 50 or 200 patriots -- this was just a blog event. Just a blog event indeed! I understand well over a hundred or more were turned away at the day. I did not know. They stopped letting folks in after 500+, which was the max the room could take. If I had known, we would have opened up another room. . . .

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/northernsuburbs/story/581540.html
Possibility of "Honor Killing" Mulled in Orchard Park Slaying
While Muslim leaders have urged against applying cultural stereotypes to the crime, advocates for women linked the killing to attitudes in Muslim societies.

“This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’s subordination to men,” said Marcia Pappas, New York State president of the National Organization for Women.

Members of NOW please take note: "Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them, and send them to beds apart, and beat them." -- Qur'an 4:34

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_afghan_diplomat_mohammed_fagirad_charged.html
Afghan diplomat Mohammed Fagirad charged in all-day wife beating
An Afghan [Muslim!] diplomat was charged Friday with beating his wife "like a dog" for more than 15 hours in their Queens home, prosecutors said.

Mohammed Fagirad, 30, a [Muslim!] vice consul at the Afghanistan Consulate, brutalized his wife inside their Flushing home from about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday until nearly midnight, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.

During the attack, Fagirad bit, slapped, choked, and beat the 22-year-old woman with a belt, pushed her down a flight of stairs and sat on her chest, prosecutors said.

But it’s okay, it’s just a domestic disturbance case. Nobody need worry that Muhammad gave a Muslim man permission for this kind of thing in Qur’an 4:34, as pointed out above. And THAT, not to put too fine a point on it, is what separates domestic disturbance from brutality in the name of Muhammad.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2646/pub_detail.asp
Are Bad Ideas Coming to Your Neighborhood?
. . .Violence toward women is not just an American phenomenon but here, it is a crime. In many other places, however, particularly in many Muslim communities, honor killing is considered acceptable. A family loses its “honor” if its daughters or wives “misbehave” by running away, dating, not wanting to marry someone chosen by the family, imagined (or real) adultery, and worst of all, demanding a divorce, which Hassan’s wife did. . . .

http://www.realcourage.org/
March 8, 2009 - Save Women Now Rally
We will be holding a Washington DC rally on March 8 at the front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool beginning at 1 PM to address the global challenge of women oppressed and killed in the name of Islamic supremacism. We will demand that our legislators recognize the threat to women around the world by this supremacist ideology.

About time.

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=26710
Al-Qaida Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Caribou Cafe Plot
An Ohio man was sentenced to 20 years in prison last week over allegations he joined al-Qaida and helped plot terrorist bombings in the U.S. and overseas — including a plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. . . .

Keeping the perfect record straight: Get a jihadist in front of an American jury and they go to jail.

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-03-2009/0004982305&EDATE
CAIR: Minn. Muslims Oppose Bill Banning Hijab on Driver's Photos
Activists to meet with legislators at state capitol on March 10

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) said today that a proposed bill banning head coverings in driver's license photographs would infringe on the First Amendment rights of Muslims who wear a religiously-mandated head scarf, or hijab, and of Minnesotans of other faiths who wear religious attire. . . .

CAIR is Muslimman! He’s everywhere! But hardly surprising that this is happening in Minnesotastan.

http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/030309kvue_terrorists-houston-based-eh.1f999b3c.html
Is Houston a Target for Terrorists?
When al-Qaida first attacked the World Trade Center in 1993--- a Palestinian who was part of the conspiracy--- had just months earlier been living right here in Houston. . . .

Records show that these men are the terrorists or would-be terrorists among us. The job for law enforcement has been to detect such people. . . .

And The Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR's job to hide them . . .

http://www.esubulletin.com/articles/news/2009/03/02/al-qazwini-dispels-bigoted-depiction-islam
Al-Qazwini dispels ‘bigoted depiction’ of Islam
“This is a real Christian-based community, a small, little town, and I think it’s a good experience for them to see what Islam is,” said Ben Wiggins, junior international business major. “They only really see one side, just Christianity. They need to be open. More people need to be open to more experiences so we do have freedom of religion.” [This young man didn't know we had freedom of religion before he went in?]

“We should not confuse politics with religion,” Al-Qazwini said. “Those who do harm and engage in violence in the name of Islam, they do not represent Islam. [And with that statement brands himself as a stealth jihadist, helping to spread taqiyya.] They have a purely political agenda, yet they are exploiting Islam so they can gain more legitimacy.”

So, apparently, he did not include a lively discussion of the 77% of the Qur’an that is devoted to jihad, war, terror, hatred, bigotry, rape, wife-beating, supremascism — all politically motivated tenets of Islam.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j_nPl_mbEa8AfbQwVk7XUksmD4VQD96M33KG0
Immigrant in SoCal Court on Terror-tie Accusations
A man authorities say is an in-law of an Osama bin Laden bodyguard has pleaded not guilty in California to charges that he lied on his U.S. citizenship and passport applications when he denied having terrorist ties.

Muslim-American advocates contend that Niazi was charged because he refused to become a government informant.

Whose government? And an informant on whom? If this were any but “Muslim-American advocates,” (CAIR, perhaps), the advocates would be called conspiracy nuts.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/aroundnj/Imam_asks_for_appeal_to_be_rejected.html
Imam Asks for Appeal to be Rejected
A prominent Muslim cleric is asking a federal appeals board to uphold a judge’s decision last year granting him permanent U.S. residency.

DHS officials argued that Qatanani should not be allowed to remain in the United States because in an application seeking permanent U.S. residence, he failed to disclose an arrest and conviction by Israel during a visit to the West Bank in 1993. DHS also argued that Qatanani was deportable because he had worked as an imam despite not having received a renewal of his employment authorization.

And a judge already ignored all that and said, “Oh, well, let's let him stay”?

http://thetartan.org/2009/3/2/news/islam
Pitt Professor Relates Muslim Identity to the African-American Community
. . . “African-Americans make up a large percentage of the people who convert to Islam,” Jamal said. But for the Muslim African-American, being Muslim goes in hand in hand with “not leaving being black,” he added. . . .

But it doesn’t leave them being Americans, either, since Muslims are not here to assimilate into American society, but rather to subjugate it.

Dorrie's Picks, 3/3/09

2009-03-03T19:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,502085,00.html
'THE FACTOR' INVESTIGATES MUSLIM BEHEADINGS
And all over the world, fanatical Muslims — some terrorists, others just enraged citizens like Hassan [just “enraged citizens like Hassan”? Bill, why did you do this segment if that’s your opinion of Hassan’s reason?]— are beheading people. The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women may have been murdered by Muslim fanatics [and there again, no real understanding of his motivation], some by getting their heads chopped off.

With us now, Dr. Dawn Perlmutter, a ritual murder expert who has been studying the situation: First of all, these are honor killings? This Buffalo, New York, thing where a Muslim man is insulted by the woman. She commits adultery. She divorces, whatever. He has the right to kill her. Is this widely accepted in the Muslim world? You know, do moderate Muslims [and who was the last “moderate Muslim you met?] believe this?

Dr. Dawn Perlmutter, Ritual Murder Expert: Absolutely. [Well, there you go, Bill, an unexpectedly unequivocal correct answer.]
Click here to watch the segment.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim1-2009mar01,0,2228162.story
OC Muslims say FBI surveillance has a chilling effect
. . . "It gives you a little bit of apprehension about who you trust," the elder Turbi said. "Makes you think twice about what you say; what if people misunderstand you?"

Well, I wonder, Mr. Turbi, don’t you think maybe the reason the FBI is there is because of behavior displayed by Muslims in this country? Perhaps if you all weren’t quite so deceptive, you wouldn’t have this problem. Mr. Turbi, start a movement. Call it, Get Jihad Out of Islam.

http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/mar/01/cu-muslim-students-islam-awareness-week-boulder/
CU Muslim Students' Association hosting Islam Awareness Week
The University of Colorado's Muslim Students' Association this week hosts a series of campus events that its members hope will cast Islamic faith and culture in a more accurate and positive light.

CU's Islam Awareness Week opens tonight with a keynote address entitled "Deconstructing Islamophobia" by New York Times best-selling author Reza Aslan.

Well, here’s a plan that would maybe deconstruct Islamophobia a lot faster and better: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017943.php "Help me, Doc, I'm suffering from Islamophobia!"

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/zijlijn/6196336/Geert-Wilders-Freedom-Party-leads-polls
Wilders' Freedom Party Leads Polls
According to a recent opinion poll, if parliamentary elections were held today, the Freedom Party (PVV) headed by right-wing populist leader Geert Wilders would become the largest party in the Netherlands.

It would win 27 seats in the 150-seat parliament, as opposed to the nine it currently has. The Christian Democrats - the largest party in the governing coalition - would win only 26 seats.

So let us hope the Republicans do as well in the U.S. in 2010.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/was-cpac-an-epic-fail/2/
Was CPAC an Epic Fail[ure]?
. . . That the conservative movement has slid into complete irrelevancy was demonstrated by the absence of any ideas — nay, any discussion whatsoever — of several of the most pressing political issues of our day. As fellow blogger Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugged observed, there was not a single panel on the War on Terror, the growing threats to free speech, or the cultural jihad underway in the West.

What should have been one of the most important events of this year’s CPAC, the appearance by Dutch parliamentarian and anti-jihad activist Geert Wilders, was relegated to the opposite side of the hotel, divorced from all of the other conference proceedings. . . .

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/02/28/islamicfinancing/?refid=0
New Islamic mortgages now available in Minnesota
The program is targeted at low-to-moderate income [Muslim!] families. Qualified applicants have to complete first-time home buyer education classes. The goal is to help Muslim home buyers build wealth and reap the benefits of home ownership.

But not assimilation, I imagine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/us/02muslims.html?_r=1
Poll Finds U.S. Muslims Thriving, but Not Content
. . . “They are the only religious community without a majority race.” . . .

Wow, this just blew out the old “You’re a racist” scream, didn’t it? Ho, ho, what will they start calling the anti-jihad crowd now, do you suppose?

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025056.php
International Islamic organization slams Israeli program on Muhammad and calls again for free speech restrictions
The feelings of Muslims throughout the Muslim world have been hurt [ahh, I am so sorry to hear that] by the unceasing and malignant campaign against Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The campaign has shamelessly targeted all sacred beliefs and symbols, persistently slandering Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and disparaging a tolerant religion [?!!!] "embraced" [I suspect that’s more in the eye of the beholder than fact] by more than a billion and a half people. . . .

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.2b0b8bd405048e19f36fa896834ca058.9b1&show_article=1
Iran wants apology from Hollywood team
"We will believe (US President Barack) Obama's policy of change when we see change in Hollywood, too, and if Hollywood wants to correct its behaviour towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially apologise," . . .

Dorrie's Weekend Picks, 2/27/09-3/1/09

2009-03-01T20:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025025.php
Raymond Ibrahim: A Response to the Critics: Taqiyya Revisited (Part I)
[Okay, I couldn't very well ignore these 2 articles that prove the whole POINT of the title of this blog, could I?] Having written at length on various aspects of Islam, it is always my writings concerning doctrinal deceit that elicit (sometimes irate) responses. As such, the purpose of this article is to revisit the issue of deceit and taqiyya in Islam, and address the many ostensibly plausible rebuttals made by both Muslims and non-Muslims. . . .

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025032.php
Raymond Ibrahim: A Response to the Critics: Taqiyya Revisited (Part II)
Regarding my recent “War and Peace—and Deceit—in Islam," others have written to me complaining that, by not juxtaposing more “moderate interpretations” to the mainstream ones, I delineated (e.g., Tabari, Ibn Kathir, al-Qurtubi, al-Razi, al-Arabi, et al), I am supposedly “distorting.” While there are in fact “moderate interpretations,” most of these come from minority sects—such as the Ahmadiyyas or the Quraniyuns—who, as they make up a trivial percentage of the Islamic world, and are in fact often accused of and persecuted for apostasy by mainstream Muslims, are definitely not representative of the latter. . . .

http://www.anti-jihad.org/
We Need You... to Fight Jihad
Why the Anti-Jihad League of America? This web site is to promote activism between citizens in the "war of ideas" against Jihad and its ideological basis in Islamic supremacism through communications between a league of groups, individuals, and anti-Jihad specialists.

Such an Anti-Jihad League seeks to promote our positions against Jihad and its Islamic supremacist basis to American government officials. . . .

http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/wilders-in-washington-his-speech-at-the-us-capitol/
Wilders in Washington: His Speech at the US Capitol
Thank you very much for inviting me. And - to the immigration authorities - thank you for letting me into this great country. It is always a pleasure to cross a border without being sent back on the first plane.

I feel very honoured to have the privilege to speak and to show my short documentary, Fitna, here in this heart of your democracy, here in the US Senate.

Today, the dearest of our many freedoms is under attack all throughout Europe. Free speech is no longer a given. What we once considered a natural element of our existence, our birth right, is now something we once again have to battle for. . . .

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/26-3
Ellison Expresses Concern and Disappointment with Decision to Screen Anti-Islamic Film
Takes Issue with sponsorship of film by Senator Kyl [Well, of course he would. He has to earn the money the Muslim Brotherhood is paying him, doesn't he?]

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) took issue with the screening of a film by the controversial Dutch Parliamentarian, Geert Wilders, in the United States Capitol. The film being screened, "Fitna," is said to compare Islamic terrorism to Nazism. [No, it compares Qur'anic statements to the murderous behavior by Muslims going on all over the world.] The screening is sponsored by Senator John Kyl (R-AZ).

"I am a strong an advocate of First Amendment free speech [until he's not because it speaks the truth]. However, this is not about free speech, but rather an issue of propriety, timing, and venue," Ellison said. "Senator Kyl has every right to host anyone he chooses; however, it becomes a question of propriety to use the United States Capitol as a venue for the condemnation of an entire religion," [which of course Fitna doesn't do. It condemns calls to violence in the name of Allah] Ellison said.

Does anybody have any question that Ellison has been bought and paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood (which paid for his recent hajj to Mecca, by the way. Good going, US Rep)? What else would he say to freedom of speech? He does not, you’ll notice, declaim any of the facts in Wilders’ film.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/02/wilders-event-observations-from-an-atlas-reader.html
WILDERS EVENT: OBSERVATIONS FROM ATLAS READERS
If given the chance to fly back in time to hear Patrick Henry deliver his "liberty or death" speech, I probably would. No, I'm sure I would. In a very real sense, that's why I left Danville and drove almost six hours (and almost another six on the way back immediately after) to hear a man from the Netherlands named Geert Wilders. . . .

http://www.northjersey.com/news/aroundnj/Wayne_super_stands_his_ground_on_Muslim_prayers.html
Muslim prayer-in-school controversy might be solved
. . . “As far as I am concerned the issue is resolved,’’ Sico said. “We did the right thing. The kids did the right thing. No one was making fun.’’

Afsheen Shamsi, spokeswoman for the Council on American Islamic Relations [who else?], which has intervened with the district on Awwad’s behalf, said the accommodation was a correct step. “It’s a question of finding the right balance and making sure the student is comfortable and the district is comfortable,’’ she said.

Uh-huh. But the Christian kids can’t recite the Lord’s Prayer at school. Where is the balance in that?

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1002/are-acts-of-staged-controversy-an-islamist
Are Acts of Staged Controversy an Islamist Strategic Tactic?

Well, personally, I don’t even have to nod, it’s so obvious to me. But you might want to read the whole article to be sure, too.

http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/02/27/whats-behind-the-enormous-denial-that-beheadings-are-related-to-islam/
What’s Behind The Enormous Denial That Beheadings Are Related To Islam?
Hard on the heels of the Buffalo beheading, the mainstream and feminist media hosted many Islamic clerics, Muslim, Jewish, and Christian religious writers, as well as liberal, secular feminists, all of whom insisted that honor killings are no different than domestic violence, that both are crimes, and that honor killings have nothing to do with Islam, just as domestic violence has nothing to do with religion. . . .

Oh, this is serious circular thinking. Read the hadith, the Qur’an, the Sira . . . Women are property. They are expendable. They are collateral damage; no harm done when you kill a couple dozen, you see. But the damage done to a MAN's image if a woman gets uppity . . . well, it's intolerable.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29431678/
SoCal Muslims Angry at Informants in Mosques
. . . A Muslim advocacy organization [CAIR, who else?] said Friday that American Muslims are feeling "anger, disillusionment, and mistrust" [did they ever actually not feel any of those emotions?] toward the FBI in the aftermath of reports that it used an informant to infiltrate Southland mosques.

Hm. Imagine how non-Muslim Americans are feeling toward Muslims who don’t admit that what the informant said was true. Muslims are not our friends, near as I can figure. And it’s only Muslims who can change that opinion. Instead, they do a head fake and blame the FBI for spying.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/27/1003341/us-pulling-out-of-durban
U.S. pulling out of ‘Durban II’ conference
The Obama administration has decided to boycott the so-called Durban II conference over ant-Semitism concerns.

Multiple sources on a conference call with the White House on Feb. 27 told JTA that the Obama administration had opted not to attend any further preparatory meetings ahead of the planned U.N. conference against racism in Geneva in April.

Well, all right. But I don’t expect this reality to last.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067540.html
European States Consider Boycotting Durban 2 Summit
European Union member states may follow in the footsteps of the United States, which announced Friday it would not be participating in the Durban anti-racism conference set to take place in April. While several states mull cancelling their participation in the conference, senior UN diplomats say the chances for the entire EU body to boycott the summit are slim.

Yeah, sigh, ain’t it the truth.

http://jta.org/muslims-in-europe
This is just a darn good site that perhaps you could all bookmark and check in with every now and then.

Western Michigan U. continues to try to interfere with free speech
[This is a letter I received via email from the Walid Shoebat org. I don't know if there's a link to it.]
Dear Mr. Green,
I am very concerned about a meeting with International Conservatives leader Chris McCann which was held Thursday, the 26th of February with three members of your administrative departments. The meeting which took place I would regard as very troubling and tantamount to intimidation in its content if not its tone. It also reveals the tremendous bias based on the personal views of these particular administrators who overreached when it came to the issue of free speech. Based on case law there is no balance between sensitivity and free speech; free speech trumps sensitivity under the first amendment, so the members of the administration were treading on the side of inappropriate intimidation of a group’s right of free speech by even attempting to ask a student to consider his actions on the issue of content of a poster because of the “sensitivities” of others.

I would like to remind you that Martin Luther King’s views in his day were regarded as “hateful” by the actual haters. I would contend this to be exactly the case in this situation. Martin Luther King’s right of free speech had to be protected when he too came under pressure. It is beyond belief that members of your administration would side with a group of students, probably representatives of the Muslim Student Association, as well as the radical “Peace Center” on campus who we know called Mr. Shoebat and Mr. Saleem “frauds” at an organizing meeting of the International conservatives for this event, and indicated directly by email that they oppose the March 10th event.

Again, similar slurs were used against Martin Luther King, the same as against our speakers, when he was outspoken on civil rights. Former terrorists who are now willing to speak out for their former enemy obviously will evoke a response from those that might support terrorism. You might possibly consider that the people who expressed fear concerning the event might be supporters of terrorism and now use fear as a way of touching the nerves of your administrators which prompted them to call the meeting with Mr. McCann.

Or, possibly even worse, is that some or all members of the administration who called this meeting might even side with the terrorist sympathizers, which is a position that could be construed from their personal view of the content of the posters. I do hope not.

It is incredulous how your administrators would entertain the views of students that would oppose these brave men who now speak out against what all Americans left or right of the political spectrum would regard as evil. It is also unbelievable that they might consider the argument that the poster used to promote the event, while certainly eye-catching and provocative in its title, certainly is not a hurtful message if you are against violence and terror which I hope that the administrators in question would be.

It is shameful that we in America are caving into fear from Islamic extremists who have their propaganda machines at American universities, located right on your doorstep. The very people who speak against the evil are viewed as bad and the people who support the terror are given the ear of your administrators. To pressure a student group to alter its message that wishes the message of freedom to be promoted using the tactic of “sensitivity training,” which was used at the said meeting on February 26, is a disgrace.

I hope that you not only will make it your business to reject the administrators who are causing unnecessary obstacles and the radical elements on the campus who oppose the event or use tactics to undermine it, but will also show support to anyone who speaks out for freedom for this great nation, the freedom of the Western Judeo Christian world which allows your institution, as well as thousands of other institutions similar to yours, to operate with the exchange of free ideas that in itself defines our aspirations as free people of the human race.

The jihadist terrorists wish that this very freedom be taken from us and, ironically, this is one of the topics that Mr. Shoebat and Mr. Saleem will talk about in their lecture on March 10.

I hope that you consider this letter and that if anything is done to undermine International Conservatives rights, including the lack of effort in policing the campus to stop vandals from tearing down posters, as well as enforcing bylaws incorrectly; our organization will use all the forces that are legally disposed to us if Western Michigan University is derelict in its duty on protecting those rights of free speech based fully on Constitutional law of the United States of America. We are already reviewing what has already transpired to examine whether it is within the rights afforded within the United States Constitution under the first amendment.

Yours sincerely,
Keith Davies
Executive Director of The Walid Shoebat Foundation and Forum For Middle East Understanding.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/71154/Hate-preacher-gets-OK-to-run-Sharia-law-demo/
HATE PREACHER GETS OK TO RUN SHARIA LAW DEMO (in London. But, you’ll remember, Geert Wilders couldn't show Fitna there)
HATE preacher Anjem Choudary will march in London today, calling for Britain to adopt Islamic Sharia law.

The startling move comes just days after processions celebrating St George were banned for being racist.

St. George processions were banned?! Has anyone even checked out British history? St. George a racist? Oh, good grief.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022702278.html
Netanyahu's Middle East Outlook
. . . "I personally intend to take charge of a government committee that will regularly address the needs of the Palestinian economy in the West Bank. . . . In the recent conflict, the West Bank did not boil over. The people there cared about the loss of life in Gaza, but they said, 'We do not want to go that route. We have the beginnings of economic development in Jenin and we do not want an Islamic fundamentalist regime.' They'd like a society with law and order. . . ."

Dorrie's Picks, 2/26/09

2009-02-26T21:23:00.000-08:00

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=162A8E80-A357-405A-9F29-C36A1A46C00A
Defiant Wilders
It’s been a tough few weeks for Geert Wilders. First, an Amsterdam appeals court announced in late January that it was going to bring the blunt-speaking Dutch parliamentarian to trial for offending Muslims with his anti-Islam film, Fitna. Just a few weeks later, Wilders was controversially denied entry into Britain after the British Home Office declared that his views on Islam “would threaten community harmony and therefore public security in the United Kingdom.”

Set against the near-daily threats on his life, the 24-hour security detail, and the restrictions on travel that have been Wilders’ lot since he first emerged as an outspoken critic of extremist Islam in 2004, these latest setbacks might have tested even the most determined public crusader. But Wilders seems to draw strength from intimidation, whether from aggrieved Muslims or zealous multiculturalists. . . .

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90019
Kuwaiti prof: 330,000 dead from 4 pounds of anthrax
A professor from Kuwait, the country liberated from Saddam Hussein's attack squads by the United States in the first Gulf War, has called Islamic terrorists "the most honorable people in the world" and has outlined on Arab television a potential terror attack that would involve smuggling anthrax from Mexico into the U.S. and killing 330,000 people in 60 minutes. . . .

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=90049
Likely intel pick: "Muslims were here first" [WHAT?]

The Obama administration's reported pick for a top intelligence post once peddled a book to U.S. public schools that falsely claims Muslims inhabited North America far before European explorers.

The book, funded by Saudi Arabia, also contains widely inaccurate anti-Israel Arab propaganda. . . .

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-25-2009/0004978905&EDATE

Engaging Muslim Communities Around World
Ms. Dalia Mogahed, executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim studies and co-author of Who Speaks for Islam? [They do quite well on their own, seems to me. I would really like to know Who Speaks for America?] has been asked to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as they hold a hearing on February 26, 2009 titled "Engaging with Muslim Communities around the World." The hearing will discuss how the perceptions of the United States are shaped abroad, explore possible new strategies of diplomacy, and look for where common ground exists with the broader Muslim world that advances mutual interests and builds on shared values . . .

Well, see, I don’t see where "shared values" exist. This is an exercise in kitman for them, and fool-hardy wishful hoping on our side. If you study Islam, you find it’s pretty clear that Muslims are not to take infidels as friends, that no infidel is ever to be equal to a Muslim, that Jews and Christians are to be despised. . . I dunno, I just don’t see any shared values on their part—they want nothing we have or believe in.

And this article sounds really good, until you know that Ms. Mogahed is a follower of John Esposito, who is, well, not exactly a stalwart defender of freedom and the American way. Check out any of Robert Spencer’s conversations with or about John Esposito and his position becomes very clear.---DOB

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30856
Beheading Moderate Islam
. . . The environment that they [the children] will grow up in instead cannot be imagined. But many people are doing their best to make sure that, whatever the other features of that environment may be, a critical appraisal of the roots of honor killing in Islamic culture, and a determination to put an end to this phenomenon, will not be among them. . . .

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/26/mideast/terror.php
A word standing in the way of peace: Terrorism

[It’s a heck of a lot more than that (like the Qur’an, the Hadith, the Sira, Sharia law), but they aren’t gonna tell you that. It’s called kitman.]
If President Barack Obama is serious about repairing relations with the Arab world and re-establishing the United States as an honest broker in Middle East peace talks, one step would be to bridge a chasm in perception that centers on one contentious word: terrorism.

The recent fighting in Gaza offered a potent reminder of the challenge Washington faces in mediating a dispute when the United States refuses to speak directly with some of the main players, including Hamas and Hezbollah, which it calls terrorist groups. . . .

As you read, would you please see if you can find ANY indication that the complainers offer to do ANYthing to lessen the hostilities? It’s NEVER them who needs to change; it’s always the other guy.---DOB

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-breaking-radical-ties,0,7446301.story
Study says US must work more with Muslim communities to fight spread of terrorism
A task force of Middle East experts is urging the Obama administration to work within Muslim communities in the United States to counter extremism and prevent Islamic militant groups from gathering new recruits. . . .

The study, obtained by The Associated Press, suggests that instead of using goodwill ambassadors and other public relations campaigns to bolster opinions of the U.S. in Muslim countries, officials should build support for mainstream Muslim groups or activists to use their own voices to discount extremist discussions. . . .

In other words, let us hear from the mythical moderate Muslims---DOB.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/arts/design/24muse.html?_r=1&sq=Edward%20Rothstein&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all
Nazis’ “Terrible Weapon,” Aimed at Minds and Hearts
[It takes awhile, but eventually this writer gets to comparing the Hitler propaganda to what’s happening vis a vis the Islamists in today’s world.]
The exhibition points out that the Nazis financed anti-Semitic broadcasts by Haj Amin al-Husseini, “an Arab nationalist and prominent Muslim religious leader.” Now no sponsorship seems needed. Major Middle East media outlets have asserted that Jews use children’s blood to bake matzos. In recent weeks we have heard that Jews are following the nefarious plot outlined in the Protocols to exterminate all gentiles, this from the poet and former member of the Lebanese Parliament Ghassan Matar. An Egyptian cleric, Safwat Higazi, has described Jews being “as smooth as a viper”: “Dispatch those son of apes and pigs to the Hellfire.”

And an Egyptian cleric with strong ties to the West, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradhawi, has described Jews as “a profligate, cunning arrogant band of people”: “Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.” . . .

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/turning_universities_into_grav.html
Turning Universities into Graveyards
The cult of death, Islam, is marching forward under its battle cry: "We love death, the infidels love life," as Hassan Nasrullah, leader of Lebanon Hizbollah, says. There is no limit to the Shi'a mullahs' obsession with all matters dealing with death. . . .

. . . the ever-conniving mullahs are gradually transforming Iran's universities, cradles of knowledge about life, to mausoleums. Instead of adorning the landscape with statues of great scientists and scholars to inspire the young to life achievement, the mullahs bring corpses of their victims and bury them there, victims who had been hoodwinked by the fascist Islamists and had lost their lives in implementing the schemes of Allah's frauds. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 2/25/09

2009-02-25T16:45:00.000-08:00

http://www.investigativeproject.org/1001/senators-praise-fbis-cair-freeze
Senators Praise FBI's CAIR Freeze
Three United States Senators have written to FBI Director Robert Mueller praising a decision last year to cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and inquiring about other groups linked to a Hamas-support network in the U.S.

Republicans Jon Kyl of Arizona, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, and New York Democrat Charles Schumer signed the letter dated Tuesday, which asked Mueller for additional information about the decision. . . .

Three is not a landslide, but it sure is better than none. How about we all call or email our senators and ask them to send a positive letter to Director Mueller, too?---DOB

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-24-2009/0004977754&EDATE
Arizona Senator Asked to Invite Muslim Reps to Balance Anti-Islam Film
"It seems that Senator Kyl is oblivious to the fact that there are Muslims in his own state who will take offense at this cheap anti-Islam publicity stunt designed to promote a person who is under indictment for inciting religious hatred," said CAIR-AZ Executive Director Ahmad Daniels.

"Geert Wilders is just one of many self-promoting Islamophobes traveling the world in search of attention for their hate-filled views. We ask that Americans of all faiths ignore Mr. Wilders, thereby depriving him of the attention he so desperately seeks. Wilders has the right to spew his hate, but he does not have the right to a taxpayer-funded platform in the United States Congress." . . .

These guys just never let up, do they? You would think that our elected officials would begin to note this behavior.---DOB

http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2009/02/25/Focus/iron-Wall.Documentary.Sparks.Debate-3647608.shtml
Iron Wall documentary shown by MSA . . . no CAIR argument that there ought to be fairness for the Israeli POV?

Sorry, this story wouldn’t allow copying.---DOB

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/hate_speech_at_san_francisco_s.html
Hate Speech At San Francisco State University
The fragile ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the recent Gaza incursion may have brought a tentative peace to that region, but on campuses in California -- the veritable ground zero of anti-Israel sentiment in the academy -- the debate over the 60-year conflict has gained a new, and more insidious, momentum as student demonstrations, protests, and denunciations of racist Zionism, a "brutal occupation," and "genocide" of Arabs were heard on campuses worldwide.

The virulence of anti-Israel and anti-Semitism at The University of California, Irvine campus, for instance, has been so flagrant and endemic in recent years that it actually prompted an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights . . .

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/local&id=6677337&rss=rss-wpvi-article-6677337
US says jury in Fort Dix plot case was right
Government prosecutors are defending the conviction of five Muslim immigrants who conspired to kill U.S. military personnel.

The men, whom prosecutors say targeted the Army's Fort Dix in New Jersey, have all asked a judge to overturn the jury's verdict, claiming it wasn't supported by the evidence.

Color me unsurprised that they claim the jury was wrong. Have you noticed that every time Islamists get in front of American juries, the Islamists lose? This requires, of course, a change in tactics by the Islamists.---DOB

http://special-guests.com/guests/viewnews.cgi?id=EkFVuZuZyVNbOevGSV&style=PrintFull&tmpl=print
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FACES FREE SPEECH SCANDAL: University Rescinds Grant Approved In Writing
A speaking event to be held at Western Michigan University on March 10, 2009, which includes two former terrorists, Walid Shoebat and Kamal Saleem, who speak regularly on university campuses about the threat of Islamic terrorism, has been threatened with cancellation due to the pulling of grants, which were allocated by the university.

Based on the letter signed by the WSA committee of appropriations by default the University appears to be deliberately attempting to stifle the free speech both the organizers - The International Conservatives, and the speakers. . . .

http://www.thehollywoodliberal.com/2009/02/25/right-wing-outraged-at-chas-freemans-appointment-to-head-national-intelligence-council/
Right Wing Outraged At Chas Freeman's Appointment To Head National Intelligence Council
Last week, Laura Rozen reported (and Politico today confirmed) that President Obama has appointed Middle East Policy Council President Chas W. Freeman to become chairman of the National Intelligence Council — which is responsible for producing national intelligence estimates.

However, Freeman’s views have the right wing outraged (yet some are afraid to go on record) and have “provoked a fierce behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign to torpedo the appointment.” . . .

Leftwing in a tizzy. The right-wing might not have to go behind the scenes if the media would open the window on the foolishness of putting the wolf in the henhouse.---DOB

http://www.jacksonsun.com/article/20090224/NEWS01/90224013
Obama AWOL on terror war
President Barack Obama’s record in battling terrorism has proven so weak that one wonders if he really takes the issue seriously. [No, I don't wonder. I'm pretty sure he wants us to throw in the towel.---DOB]

Since he has taken office, the president has:
• announced closure of Guantanamo;
• declined to prosecute the mastermind behind the USS Cole bombing;
• closed all overseas CIA interrogation centers;
• appointed an attorney general and Justice Department officials on record as opposed to the use of ‘‘enhanced’’ interrogation techniques in terror investigations;
• granted Al Arabia television his first news organization interview and called Fatah Party leader and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbass in his first phone contact with any foreign leader.

And now he's appointed an anti-Israeli to the NIC.---DOB

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/22/obama-israel-holocaust-durban-opinions-contributors_united_nations.html
The Obama Administration Sacrifices Israel
The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban II delegation claimed the United States had worked actively to oppose efforts to brand Israel as racist in the committee drafting a Durban II declaration.

The trouble is that they didn't. . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/washington/24fbi.html?_r=3
Militants Drew Recruit in U.S., F.B.I. Says
The F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller III, said Monday that a Somali-American man who was one of several suicide bombers in a terrorist attack last October in Somalia had apparently been indoctrinated into his extremist beliefs while living in the United States.

“It appears that this individual was radicalized in his hometown in Minnesota,” Mr. Mueller said, speaking at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations. Minneapolis claims the country’s largest Somali population.

Where do you think this fellow got "radicalized"? In the First Baptist Church? Or do you maybe think it could've been by an imam in a mosque?---DOB

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1235410704401
Lion's Den: The deceits of Bridges TV
By DANIEL PIPES
On the occasion of its launch in 2004 from near Buffalo, New York, the Muslim television channel Bridges TV won the enthusiastic support of secretary of state Colin Powell's media assistant, Stuart Holliday: "I laud your expression of interest in promoting understanding and tolerance." And so it went; Bridges TV also met with euphoric media coverage, uncritical academic reaction and blessings from sports giants like Muhammad Ali and Hakeem Olajuwan.

From the start, however, Bridges TV amounted to a lie. . . .

Translation of "promoting understanding and tolerance": snooker the stupid Yanks.---DOB

Dorrie's Picks, 2/23/09

2009-02-24T18:58:00.000-08:00

http://anti-jihad.org/blog/2009/02/dennis-ross/
Leader in Group Seeking "Engagement" with Islamic Supremacism to Advise State Dept
By Jeffrey Imm
The appointment of Dennis B. Ross as a U.S. State Department advisor is yet another reason why the American public must demand that its government leaders wake up to the ideological threat of Islamic supremacism to equality and liberty around the world. . . .

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89898
Obama eyes intel pick [who’s] tied to bin Laden
Business dealing, close contacts with family of terrorist mastermindJERUSALEM – The Obama administration's reported pick for a top intelligence post has financial ties to the infamous bin Laden family – including dealings after Sept. 11, 2001.

Charles "Chas" Freeman, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, is slated to head the National Intelligence Council, according to multiple reports. Freeman has come under fire in the Israeli media and on some pro-Israel blogs for his sharp criticism of the Jewish state. He also reportedly heavily criticized American anti-terrorism policy. . . .

http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/1800/128/
Aqsa to grind
by Mark Steyn
. . . “if it weren't for the frothing loony ranting wackjob haters of the blogosphere a 16-year old girl murdered for not wanting to be imprisoned by her family's culture would be entirely forgotten.” . . .

http://www.thenews.com.pk/print3.asp?id=20404
Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s husband breaks his silence after six years
After six years of silence, Dr Muhammad Amjad Khan, ex-husband of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, has finally spoken up and says that most of the press reports that relate to his former wife as well as his children are false.

In an exclusive talk with The News, he said that most claims are being propagated to garner public support and sympathy for Dr Aafia but are one-sided and in most instances untrue.

Dr Aafia Siddiqui, suspected of having links to terrorist organizations, has been charged in a criminal complaint filed in a court of New York on account of attempting to kill US personnel during interrogation and on a charge of assaulting US officers and employees in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 17, 2008. Subsequently Dr Aafia was imprisoned in Bagram for 18 days before being taken to the US for a trial. . . .

http://concess.blogspot.com/search/label/United%20States
U.S. Government Allows Muslims to Determine What American Textbooks Are Allowed To Say About Islam
I'm sure it sounded reasonable in the beginning — history book publishers of U.S. textbooks should consult with Muslims when they write anything about Islam, just to make sure it is correct. Check with the experts on the subject. . . .

Looking at the long term, if you were an Islamic supremacist and you wanted to soften up Americans for an eventual takeover, and if you wanted to keep them from stopping you until it's too late, you would be hard pressed to find a more promising project than influencing school children to think Islam is benign. These future American leaders and voters will not be very willing to learn about the real nature and scope of The Third Jihad . . .

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/jihadist-recruitment-techniques-are-changing/
Jihadist Recruitment Techniques Are Changing
New terrorism trends prompt a dramatic shift in British government policy.

Notwithstanding the embarrassing denial of entry of Dutch parliamentarian and anti-jihad activist Geert Wilders to the country earlier this month, a new report by the director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King’s College London and a new British government policy tackling the growing problem of Islamic extremism in the UK give evidence of major changes in understanding and addressing the roots of terrorist recruitment.

These positive developments, along with new UK government policies to combat extremism — again, apart from the hypocritical banning of Wilders after admitting a long string of Islamic radicals — are important for U.S. researchers to understand terrorist network trends and what measures could be taken here. . . .

Dorrie's Picks, 2/23/09

2009-02-23T19:49:00.000-08:00

http://www.internationalfreepresssociety.org/2009/02/ifps-and-geert-wilders-call-for-an-international-first-amendment/
IFPS and Geert Wilders Call for an International First Amendment
On Friday, February 27, 2009, Dutch Member of Parliament Geert Wilders, founder and floor leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), and the International Free Press Society (IFPS), in conjunction with the Center for Security Policy, will discuss recent attacks on free speech worldwide, especially the recent legal actions against Wilders and other political leaders and journalists.

The International Free Press Society will announce a global initiative to protect free speech from laws that criminalize any criticisms of Islam or the doctrines of Shariah. . .

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3676504,00.html
US lawmaker hosts screening of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam film
US Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is hosting a film screening at the Capitol building on Thursday for Geert Wilders, a Dutch lawmaker whose film claims that Islam inspires terrorism.

Kyl agreed to facilitate the event because "all too often, people who have the courage to point out the dangers of militant Islamists find themselves vilified and endangered," said spokesman Ryan Patmintra. (AP).

And that's it, folks. That's all there is to this story.---DOB

http://www.star-telegram.com/245/story/1218281.html
GOLDBERG: Journalists — and politicians — live in fear of some groups
Just look at Britain. It is currently harboring a gaggle of non-British Muslim preachers who call for, among other things, the slaughter of Jews and the imposition of Sharia law in Britain. These people are accepted, sometimes even given welfare benefits, in the name of pluralism, multiculturalism, and tolerance.

But when Geert Wilders, a documentary maker and member of the Dutch parliament, was invited by British members of Parliament to screen his documentary critical of the Quran in London, the government said, in effect: "Whoa, whoa, whoa! We can’t tolerate that." Wilders has been barred from the country because his ideas "threaten community harmony." . . .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29343120/
Clinton's candor abroad draws mixed reviews
. . ."I don't think it should be viewed as particularly extraordinary that someone in my position would say what's obvious."

I think it would be extraordinary if she actually said something obvious, like: "Get back, Jack!" to the Saudis.---DOB

http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1978070&Language=en
UK police preparing to face a "summer of rage"
British police are preparing to face a "summer of rage" in the UK as people join protests over the economic downturn, a senior Metropolitan Police officer said Monday.

"Known activists" were likely to foment unrest, with the recession creating more "footsoldiers" to join them, Superintendent David Hartshorn told The Guardian newspaper today.

The G20 meeting of leading and developing nations in London in April is expected to be a focus of protests.

How do rage-filled protests help fix the economy, I wonder? And who do you suppose will be leading these protests? Members of the First Anglican Church, maybe?---DOB

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2009/02/ahmadinejad-vs-netanyahu.html
Ahmadinejad Vs. Netanyahu
Middle East: The global stage is set for a confrontation reminiscent of Churchill vs. Hitler and Reagan vs. Gorbachev. How long will Benjamin Netanyahu tolerate an Iranian nuclear threat before acting? . . .

Note that this article comes from Muslims Against Sharia. Cool.---DOB

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB1fojEUW5E
It’s tough to be the straight man against Bill Maher, but Brigitte Gabriel (ACT! for America) gave it a good try in this appearance on his show.

http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/586519.html
A history of abuse preceded Orchard Park beheading
“I think of Aasiya as a martyr,” said Faizan Haq, a local professor who helped launch Bridges TV, the station in Orchard Park that the Hassans started in 2004. “She has given [?] her life to protect the image of American Muslims. And as an American Muslim community, we owe it to her not to let this happen again.”

Is this guy just weird or what? She has "given her life"? Mr. Haq, I don't think she had any choice in the matter.---DOB

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6882701
Afghan Court Upholds Sentences in Quran Trial
Afghan appeals court upholds 20-year sentences for publishers of translated QuranAn appeals court in Afghanistan upheld 20-year prison sentences for two men who published a translation of the Quran that drove religious leaders to call for their execution.

The panel ruled Sunday that the men were guilty of modifying the Quran — a crime punishable by death. However, the three-judge panel reiterated a lower court ruling giving the men 20 years each.

And we worry that waterboarding gives us a bad image to the rest of the world. With these people as the standard bearers, why do we worry about our image?---DOB

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/23/AR2009022301850.html?hpid=topnews
FBI Director Warns of Terror Attacks on U.S. Cities
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III today warned that [Islamic!] extremists "with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons" to sow terror, raising the specter that recent attacks in Mumbai that killed 170 people last year could embolden terrorists seeking to attack U.S. cities.

At a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, Mueller said that the bureau is expanding its focus beyond al-Qaeda and into splinter groups, [Islamic!] radicals who try to enter the country through the visa waiver program and "home-grown terrorists.". . .

One particular concern, the FBI director said, springs from the country's background as a "nation of immigrants." Federal officials worry about pockets of possible [Muslim!] radicals among melting-pot communities in the United States such as Seattle, San Diego, Miami or New York.

"The prospect of young men, indoctrinated and radicalized in their own [American!] communities . . . is a perversion of the immigrant story," Mueller said. . . .

Yes, it is. Now, if he'd just start naming these groups and monitoring the mosques, we might just have a chance at stopping that indoctrination.---DOB