By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview's guest today is Khalim Massoud, the president of Muslims Against Sharia, an Islamic reform movement. FP: Khalim Massoud, I would like to talk to you today about your group’s new project, the "Egyptian Gaza" initiative, which calls on Egypt to re-annex the Gaza Strip. Tell us about this initiative. Why Egypt? Massoud: Well, Egypt is the only way out. The Gaza Strip became an entity after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. There have been many different points of view on the Gaza crisis or lack thereof leading up to the 2005 Israeli withdrawal. However, most observers would agree that Gazans have been living in a perpetual state of crisis for the last three and a half years, which worsened with the election of Hamas. Hamas is a Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and its charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Israel considers Hamas a terrorist organization. Hamas constantly conducts terrorist operations, mostly firing rockets into Southern Israel; Israel periodically bombs or invades Gaza to destroy terrorist infrastructure. Both Israeli and Gaza civilians are caught in the crossfire with Gaza casualties being much higher due to Israeli military superiority and Hamas' tactics of using civilians as 'human shields.' Read more ...Source: FrontPage MagazineTo: President Hosni Mubarak and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
WHEREAS perpetual crisis in the Gaza Strip is the problem that neither Palestinian nor Israeli governments are able to resolve, and
WHEREAS two decades of Egyptian control was arguably the most peaceful period in recent Gaza history;
We call on the government of Egypt to annex the Gaza Strip and declare Egyptian rule over the area.
Furthermore, we call on the United Nations to pass a resolution accepting and allowing for the occurrence of this takeover by Egypt.
Up until this point, little has worked in regard to a peaceful settlement between Israel and Gaza. This problem, if not resolved, could only escalate tensions for the future. We feel that this is the best solution for what seems to be a never-ending bad situation.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam - Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 By FrontPage Magazine The following essay, adapted from the Introduction to this booklet, shows how, as early as the 1980s, operatives from the Muslim Brotherhood, parent group for al Qaeda and Hamas, formulated a blueprint for a "jihadist process" that would ultimately sabotage the "miserable house" of the United States. These Muslim Brotherhood operatives saw that the work of undermining the U.S. could be best accomplished by the use of front groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Students Association. But while CAIR was designed to work in the legal-cultural realm, posturing as another of the minority rights groups functioning in the public square, the MSA's role was to be restricted to college campuses, where it would advance the cause of radical Islam and lead the effort to stigmatize Israel. Over the next several days, Front Page will publish profiles of individual chapters of the MSA on a variety of campuses around the country, showing how specifically they achieve the broad goals of the organization. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 By Joe Kaufman This weekend, the University of South Florida (USF) and the town of Temple Terrace, a suburb of Tampa Bay, Florida, will once again be hosting the Muslim American Society's Olympics. Once again, the school known as Jihad U and the local area will be associating themselves with terrorism and radical Islam. On March 8th through the 9th, the Tampa chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS-Tampa) will be holding its 6th Annual Olympics, now referred to as MYathlon ("MY" meaning MAS Youth). The venues for the event are remaining the same as last year, when the boys used the sports facilities at USF, and the girls used those at the Temple Terrace Recreation Complex, which is owned by the city. Given the history of the Muslim American Society, and given the local chapter’s past, one can’t help but think how reckless and irresponsible it is for the venues to allow this event to take place. MAS was established in 1992, incorporated in '93. It was created by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), a global Islamist political/religious movement that is the forebearer of such terror groups as Al-Qaeda and Hamas. According to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, as stated in a December 2007 federal court brief, "MAS was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview's guest today is Abul Kasem, an ex-Muslim who is the author of hundreds of articles and several books on Islam including, Women in Islam. He was a contributor to the book Leaving Islam – Apostates Speak Out as well as to Beyond Jihad: Critical Views From Inside Islam. FrontPage MagazineSource: FrontPage Magazine
By Jamie Glazov As the David Horowitz Freedom Center unveils its Declaration Against Genocide in Washington on February 9, we are inviting campus groups of all types to join us in condemning the genocidal impulse within Islamo-Fascism. This Symposium discussion of the term "Islamo-Fascism" takes on a new urgency in light of that Declaration and of the upcoming second Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will hit campuses nationwide the week of April 7. The usefulness and accuracy of this term, and the general necessity of naming the enemy properly as a prerequisite for defeating it, became a subject of national debate during the first Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, and that debate is certain to continue this April. This Symposium is dedicated to many of the issues involved. FrontPage MagazineSource: FrontPage Magazine
By David Horowitz  As the head of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and Editor-in-Chief of Frontpagemag.com, I welcome the bipartisan "Libel Terrorism Protection Act" (A-9652 and S-6687), which was introduced two weeks ago in the New York Assembly and Senate by Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D) and Senator Dean Skelos (R). The bill was introduced to protect New York authors and publishers who expose terrorism and terrorist financiers from meritless defamation lawsuits filed in foreign courts. A wealthy Saudi has now successfully silenced more than 40 authors and publishers, including many Americans, through threats and lawsuits in the U.K., which has notoriously plaintiff-friendly libel laws. Dr. Ehrenfeld, author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It (http://www.acdemocracy.org) was sued by Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz in a London court, despite the fact that the book was never published in England and neither Ehrenfeld nor bin Mahfouz reside there. Ehrenfeld refused to acknowledge the British court which ruled against her by default. The Court ordered large monetary damages, a "declaration of falsity" against the book, a demand for a public apology, an injunction against U.K. publication, and the destruction of the book. Read more ...Source: FrontPage MagazineMuslims Against Sharia encourage every moderate Muslim to vocally support this initiative.Dean G. SkelosDeputy Majority Leader for Legislative Operations 9th Senate District 55 Front Street Rockville Centre, NY 11570 (516) 766-8383 Fax: (516) 766-8011 Assemblyman Rory LancmanNew York State Assembly, 25TH District 77-40 170th Street Fresh Meadows, NY 11366 Tel: 718-820-0241 Fax: 718-820-0414 718-820-0241 (District Office) rlancman@nyad25.org The chair persons of the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees: John A. DeFranciscohttp://senatordefrancisco.org/50/default.aspx (Senate) jdefranc@senate.state.ny.us Fax: 518-426-6952 or 315-472-4157 Helene E. Weinsteinhttp://assembly.state.ny.us/mem?ad=041 (Assembly) weinsth@assembly.state.ny.us Fax: 718-769-4846
By Jamie Glazov  Frontpage Interview's guest today is Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed six documentaries on the Palestinian Intifada. One of his recent documentaries, Suicide Killers, explores the psychology of suicide bombers. It is based on interviews with the victims of suicide bombers, the families of suicide bombers, would-be bombers themselves, and experts on suicide killer mentality. He is currently in Iraq filming a new documentary on the psychology of suicide killing. FP: So let's begin with why you decided to go to Iraq. Rehov: After the success of Suicide Killers, and you have to remember that I invented the term by contraction of "Suicide Bombers" and "Serial Killers," I decided to make a new film about the "proliferation" of suicide killing. After addressing this dangerous trend in "Suicide Killers," I decided to go deeper into the psychopathology of individuals who are ready to sacrifice their lives as long as they kill others. The question I am asking myself in making this film is: "What do kamikazes from WWII, Palestinian suicide killers, the murderers of Columbine, Cho at Virginia Tech and other suicide criminals around the world have in common?” "Proliferation" (The tentative work title for now) is a new survey of this phenomenon. I am trying to answer another very important question: "How do we stop it?" Knowing that the US attacked Iraq in part as a response to 9/11, I wanted to see how this was handled. That's why I went to Iraq. But we also went to Japan to interview former Kamikazes, to Virginia Tech to understand what really happened there, to Gaza so we could follow the "making" of a suicide killer, to Bethlehem to find families and neighbours of these killers, and also to interview the family of Professor Librescu -- who sacrificed his life also at Virginia Tech, not to kill others, but to save as many lives as he could. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. It is now well-established in Washington that any scandal, no matter how seemingly innocuous, soon is given the suffix "-gate," establishing a lineal connection to the mother of all scandals, Watergate. Well, let me be the first to suggest that a recent scandal in the Pentagon be known hereafter as "Front-gate" in recognition of the central role played in the drama by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization designated by the Justice Department as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan). With the House and Senate both back in business this week, Front-gate should be subjected to close congressional scrutiny since it may involve the most strategically ominous case of official misconduct since the Clinton administration's China-gate. The Front-gate saga began with the firing last month of Stephen Coughlin, a major in the Army Reserves working as a civilian contractor for the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he ran afoul of one Hashem Islam, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England's point-man on Muslim community outreach. Hashem Islam is also evidently an admirer of ISNA. He arranged for Mr. England to address one of the group's meetings last year - a huge help to an organization reeling from its designation by the Bush Justice Department not only as a Brotherhood front but as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing conspiracy. Read more ...Source: The Washington TimesH/T: FrontPage Magazine
By Michael Reagan  Here we have the humiliating spectacle of a president of the United States begging an Arab potentate to increase our supply of oil while Democrats, who bear the major responsibility for the problem, scoff at him as a mendicant groveling at the feet of a foreign monarch. As humiliating as it is for the United States to be put in a position where our economy is held hostage to foreign oil producers who can make or break our nation simply by limiting their petroleum production, thus causing the price of oil to skyrocket, it is even more shameful that we have allowed the so-called environmental movement to escape the blame for our predicament. Make no mistake about it, you are paying exorbitant prices at the gas pump solely because the environmental terrorists and their Democrat allies in Congress have all but shut down our domestic oil production while refusing to allow the exploration and creation of new sources of this resource so vital to our economic health. Read more ...Source: FrontPage MagazineH/T: TFO News
By Jamie Glazov  Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Azar Majedi, the chair of Organization for Women’s Liberation-Iran. She has also been active in opposing the establishment of Sharia in Canada. She has recently published a book, Women’s Rights vs. Political Islam, a collection of political writings. She was nominated for the Emma Humphrey memorial prize in 2007. FP: Tell us a bit about your background. Majedi: I was born in Iran. My father was an atheist and left political activist, my mother a religious Muslim. I was influenced by my father a great deal and became an activist from my teen years, both against the dictatorship in Iran and for women’s rights. The Iranian revolution had a great impact on my life as on many others. I became more absorbed in political activities. I opposed the Islamic regime from the outset. I was working actively against the restriction the regime was imposing on women, and also working with a left political organization. In 1982 the security forces were pursuing my husband and I, so we had to escape. In 1984 we moved to Europe. In Europe I have continued my activities uninterruptedly against the Islamic Republic, against political Islam, for women’s rights, for secularism and a more egalitarian and libertarian society. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Mark D. Tooley  When others in his church and nation are often blinded by multiculturalism and rigid political correctness, the Church of England’s ethnically Pakistani Bishop of Rochester often speaks boldly. His recent column in The Daily Telegraph warning against encroaching self-segregation and even the growing practice of Islamic Sharia law within British Islamic communities has aroused the ire of some Muslim clerics in Britain. “There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism,” Nazir-Ali wrote. “One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into ‘no-go’ areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability.” The Islamization of some parts of British cities has happened thanks to high immigration from Muslim countries, low birth-rates among the native British, and the growing secularization of once Christian British society, where only about ten percent or less are Christian church-goers. As Nazir-Ali noted: “In fewer than 50 years, Britain has changed from being a society with an acknowledged Christian basis to one which is increasingly described by politicians and the media as ‘multifaith.’” Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
The very expectations of glittering shari’a finance (Islamic banking) profits hypnotize financial institutions, securities exchanges, and banks--and there are few regulatory or monitoring protections against abuses. So why did United Arab Emirates (UAE) government IP address 92.97.131.110 send some 30,000 to 40,0000 spam messages on December 8, 2007, soliciting Islamic finance clients among U.S. citizens and small businesses? Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 By Jamie Glazov Frontpage Interview's guest today is Ibn Warraq, an independent researcher based at a humanist think tank in the USA. He is the author of Why I am Not a Muslim (1995), and editor of anthologies of Koranic criticism, The Origins of the Koran (1998), What the Koran Really Says (2002), and the forthcoming Which Koran? (2008) -- all Prometheus Books. He also edited an anthology of testimonies of ex-Muslims, Leaving Islam (2003). Warraq's op-ed pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal in America and The Guardian in London, and he has addressed distinguished governing bodies round the world, including the United Nations in Geneva on the subject of apostasy. His latest book, entitled Defending the West is a critical study of the thought of Edward Said. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
 By Daniel Pipes Palestinians have a hidden history of appreciating Israel that contrasts with their better-known narrative of vilification and irredentism. The former has been particularly evident of late, especially since Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, floated a trial balloon in October about transferring some Arab-dominated areas of eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority. As he rhetorically asked about Israeli actions in 1967, "Was it necessary to annex the Shuafat refugee camp, al-Sawahra, Walajeh, and other villages, and then to state that these are part of Jerusalem? One can ask, I admit, some legitimate questions about this." In one swoop, this statement transformed pro-Israel statements by Palestinians (for a sampling, see my 2005 article, "The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat") from the mostly theoretical into the active and political. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Jamie Glazov  Nonie Darwish, author and founder of ArabsForIsrael.com. She grew up in Cairo and Gaza, the daughter of a high-ranking Egyptian army officer. She now lectures around the country to civic organizations, universities, churches, and synagogues. She is the author of the new book, Now They Call Me Infidel: Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror. FP: Nonie Darwish, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Darwish: My pleasure. FP: Tell us some of the things you were taught as a child in the Arab Middle East. Darwish: I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt and the Gaza Strip. I attended Gaza elementary schools where I learned hatred, vengeance and retaliation. Peace was never as an option; it was considered a sign of defeat and weakness. Those who wanted peace and compromise were called traitors. Jews were described as monsters, apes and pigs and the enemies of God from the pulpits of mosques. When I asked: "why do we hate Jews?" The answer was: "aren't you a Muslim?" Read more ...Source: FrontPage MagazineH/T: Citizen Warrior
By Jamie Glazov FP: Abul Kasem, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Kasem: Thank you. I am pleased to be interviewed by Frontpage magazine. FP: Tell us a bit about your spiritual and intellectual journey. Kasem: Born in Bangladesh , I attended the secular schools as well as underwent strict religious discipline, and digested religious preaching. Taught by my father, during my childhood, I learned the basic Qur’an without understanding a single word, because like almost all Muslims of Bangladesh, my father did not know the meaning of Arabic words. He only knew how to read the Qur’an in Arabic, and recite it. When I was nine, a typical Mulla taught me the Islamic rituals (like prayer, ablution, fasting), and how to recite the Qur’an correctly. He also taught us that Muslims are the only inheritors of the earth, that we must never mix with the non-Muslims, we must hate them, humiliate them verbally, and if possible, physically. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
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FP: Homa Arjomand, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Arjomand: Thanks for giving me this opportunity. FP: You are originally from Iran . Can you tell us a bit about your background and how you ended up leaving Iran ? Arjomand: I was born and raised in Iran . At the age of 17, I started my social/political activities with a group of medical students and became a dissident against the Islamic regime. I studied in England with the sponsorship of the National Iranian Oil Company. I returned back to Iran and worked as a teacher in various colleges and universities. In the winter of 1989, I fled Iran through the mountains because my life was endangered by the Islamic Regime. I have lived in Canada since 1990 and have attended and organized countless meetings, international conferences, panel discussions and forums on issues related to women’s, children’s and gay and lesbian rights. I did many interviews with leading newspapers and TV programs in Europe and North America defending secularism. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Jamie Glazov  Just recently, the Muslim Brotherhood released its political platform, part of which would establish an Iranian-style mullah council overseeing Egypt's democratic institutions. It also prohibits Christians and women from serving as President. What does this particular development signify? What does it highlight in regards to what U.S. policy should be toward the Muslim Brotherhood? A heated debate among policymakers and analysts is in progress at the moment about how the U.S. should deal with the group. Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke, for instance, have advanced arguments about “the moderate Muslim Brotherhood,” emphasizing that the U.S. should see the group as a notable opportunity, to nurture engagement with it and not to treat it automatically as it would treat terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda. Other experts, such as Patrick Poole, firmly disagree with this approach, arguing that the Muslim Brotherhood is anything but moderate and that it needs to be designated as a terrorist organization and to be treated like one. Read more ...Source: FrontPage Magazine
By Patrick Poole The Fiqh Council of North America unveiled a new fatwa against terrorism last Friday at an event held at the National Press Club, though this fatwa is nearly identical to the one they issued in July 2005. But the most notable addition to the present document is its forbidding any association with “any group of individual in any act of terrorism or violence” – a proscription that members of the Fiqh Council flagrantly violate on regular a basis. As I reported back in September, two of the fifteen members of the Fiqh Council, Salah Sultan and Jamal Badawi, not only attended a conference in July in Doha, Qatar honoring Yousef Al-Qaradawi, who has been listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the US government since 1999, but both were noted by Qaradawi as honored guests at the event. Salah Sultan delivered a tearful speech praising his mentor, as well as a paper expounding on Qaradawi’s intellectual contributions, both of which have been published on Qaradawi’s personal website. The Fiqh Council’s former chairman, Taha Jaber Al-awani, was also present at the Qaradawi conference and was included in the list of honored guests roasting the terrorist leader. Al-Awani was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami Al-Arian terrorism trial One prominent speaker at the event was Khaled Mash’al, the political director of the terrorist group HAMAS and another Specially Designated Global Terrorist identified by the US government. The video of Mash’al’s speech, where he praised Qaradawi for his fatwa endorsing suicide bombings, has been translated and transcribed by MEMRI. In that video of Mash’al’s speech, Salah Sultan can be seen sitting on the speakers’ dais just feet away from the two terrorist leaders. The Islamonline website also features a picture of Qaradawi and Sultan sharing a private moment during the conference. Back in May, I reported here at FrontPage that Sultan had been a speaker at a pro-HAMAS rally in Istanbul in July 2006, where he spoke with HAMAS head Ismail Haniyeh. And during the recent Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing trial, a 1992 phonebook entered as evidence listed Jamal Badawi as one of the executive board members for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America. The Muslim Brotherhood is the ideological progenitor of the modern Islamic terrorism movement. While several other Fiqh Council members have been tied to terrorism, the activities of one member, Muhammad Al-Hanooti, deserves special attention. Hanooti was listed by US Attorney Mary Jo White as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, due in no small measure to his open association with “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life term in federal prison for his terrorist activities and was a regular fixture at Hanooti’s then-New Jersey mosque. The rental agreement for the van used in the 1993 bombing bore the address of Hanooti’s mosque. One classified 2001 FBI memo by the agency’s counterterrorism director identifies Hanooti as a major operative for HAMAS, as reported in an extensive 2002 investigative article by the Albany Times-Union. That same report states that he raised $6 million for HAMAS in 1993 alone, and that year Hanooti was one of the attendees at the infamous Philadelphia HAMAS meeting where he served as a representative for the terror organization. And just weeks after 9/11, Hanooti penned an editorial published by the Times Union saying, “Yesterday's freedom fighters are today's terrorists and vice versa”. Apart from the glaringly obvious duplicity of the Fiqh Council’s new terror fatwa by having its members openly associating with known terrorists, the fatwa itself suffers from the same defects as the previous version – it fails to define terrorism, doesn’t identify or condemn any actual terrorists, and doesn’t address the jihadist ideology that breeds Islamic terrorism. Steve Emerson of The Investigative Project had rightly called the previous version a “bogus fatwa” for these same reasons. That the Fiqh Council of North America has added association with terrorists to the prohibitions of its “Terror Fatwa 2.0”, while its members continue to openly associate with designated terrorists, demonstrates the Fiqh Council’s flagrant hypocrisy when it comes to confronting Islamic terrorism. No one should be fooled that the Fiqh Council is actually serious about reforming its terror-loving ways. Source: FrontPage Magazine
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