Under Bush: Somalia's Islamic Courts Union Designated a Terrorist Group. Under Obama: Viewed as Moderates

By Dr. Hamad Al-Majid

The new Obama administration is pushing forward at the helm of American politics, especially with regards to Islamists of various orientations.

The features of Obama's presidency have started to become clear before the end of his first 100 days in office, upon which traditionally the performance of the new US President is assessed. The Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, and with Obama's blessing, is courting the Taliban leadership, promising them that those that chose peace with his government will be involved in power. While in Somalia, Sheik Sharif Ahmed of the Union of Islamic Courts [UIC] has become the new President of Somalia, the UIC was viewed as a terrorist organization by the Bush administration, but is viewed as moderate by the new US Obama administration. And so as I noted in my previous article [The Somalization of Hamas] Obama gave his blessing to Sheik Sharif Ahmed's appointment as President, while the following article expands upon a number of issues raised in that one. Read more ...

Source: Asharq Al-Aswat
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The Bush administration looks to be converting to Shariah-Islam

SANE and many others have written about this on so many occasions it is hard to believe it even qualifies as news but the Bush administration just doesn't get it. The Saudis hosting a conference on religious tolerance. The Saudis--the most Shariah compliant country in the world! Even this news reporter gets it! But not Bush and Rice. Goodness.

Note the focus in this article on the real move to introduce the issue of criminal laws against insulting "Shariah-Islam" a la the UN Human Rights Council. If it weren't so Orwellian it would be Saturday Night Live material. But this demonstrates we are making headway. Normally, this would have just been a cheerleading piece. Fox has not been any better on these issues than any of the others. But Jennifer Lawinski nails it. Good for her!

We're willing to go out on a limb here and say that it would be hard to believe that even Obama would go as far and be as stupid as the Bush administration on this issue. But hey, we've been wrong before when it comes to underestimating the stupidity of government officials. And, the fact that Shimon Peres is going to attend is no surprise given his commitment to the destruction of Israel's national existence simply. Read more ...

Source: SANE
H/T: Shariah Finance Watch

Score one for the Muslim Brotherhood

By Clare M. Lopez

SPECIAL REPORT: The Bush administration has decided that calling the enemy by his name is too risky, too politically incorrect, or oddly, somehow too laudatory.

And so, henceforth federal agencies of the United States government are to refrain from identifying the Islamic jihad with words that in any way convey genuine understanding about the links between terrorism and religion in the war that has been launched against Western liberal democratic civilization. Read more ...

Source: Middle East Times

Call radical Islam by its name

BY TAWFIK HAMID

Recently, the Bush administration opened up a sad new front in the war on terrorism: a battle against words. Yes, the federal government has begun a concerted effort to make certain terms effectively off-limits in official communications. It's all included in a new memo prepared by the Extremist Messaging Branch of the National Counter Terrorism Center, called "Words that Work and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counterterrorism Communication."

"It's not what you say but what they hear," says the memo, in bold, italic lettering.

Among the verboten (or think-twice-before-you-say-them) words: "Jihadist" and "Mujahedeen" (which should be replaced by "violent extremist" or "terrorist") and "Islamo-fascism."

In the eyes of the feds, the use of such terminology boosts support for radicals by giving them an air of religious credibility, and turning off moderate Muslims who might otherwise sympathize with our anti-terror cause.

As a Muslim reformer - who once counted himself among the world's Islamists and jihadists before turning away from terrorism and toward liberalism - I consider this a tragically flawed understanding of the war on terrorism in which we are now engaged. Read more ...

Source: NY Daily News
H/T: Shariah Finance Watch

US Rewarding Arab Terrorism

By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

The Bush Administration's search for partners to promote "peace" and "democracy" within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen's "blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat - which isn't there". Read more ...

Source: Nativ

U.S. AID for Terror

By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

The Bush Administration's search for partners to promote "peace" and "democracy" within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen's "blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat -- which isn't there." Read more ...

Source: FrontPage Magazine