 By Sid Shahid Last year, Islamist anger over the mass distribution of the DVD Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West was quite predictable. As is their modus operandi, the Islamist cry focused on victimology and attacking the messenger, while avoiding any real debate over the message of the DVD itself. North Carolina proved to be particularly fertile ground for the validation of Islamist woes. One newspaper, the Greensboro News and Record, flatly refused to distribute the DVD, while another, the News and Observer, “allowed” the paid distribution of free speech but enclosed an editorial board op-ed, which served as an insert warning to readers. But that wasn’t enough for Islamists. Some are now fighting back with their own DVD, entitled The Fog Is Lifting (Part 1): Islam in Brief, produced by an Egyptian nonprofit group, the Bridges Foundation. Some 20,000 copies of the DVD were distributed to three zip codes within Wake County, North Carolina. Bundled in an issue of the News and Observer, the DVD aims to “repair the image of Islam” and is allegedly designed to counteract the Obsession DVD distributed in the same paper in September of last year. While marketed to “explain” Islamic precepts and theology, it does so from only a single point of view. Islamist apologist Omid Safi, a professor of religion at UNC-Chapel Hill, described the DVD as follows: It’s a full-throated defense of the tradition in which Islam is presented as the perfect egalitarian, scientific, pluralistic, modern religion that doesn’t have the flaws of all the other religions. … It remains to be seen if it will be seen as preaching to the choir, or if it will succeed in persuading people outside the Muslim community. Read more ... Source: PJM
 An Islamic supermarket in our country distributes terrorist literature advocating murder of innocent men, women and children. Will we stand on the sidelines and watch?Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is currently the Director of the Mapping Sharia Project and the Owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing (dgaubatz.blogspot.com). He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com. FP: Dave Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview. You have recently uncovered Muslim Brotherhood material in the U.S. Tell us about it. Gaubatz: Thanks Jamie. For several years I have reported publically and to law enforcement personnel that Halalco Books, located in Falls Church, VA, services and distributes Islamic terrorist material to Islamic Centers/Mosques throughout the U.S. Dar al Hijrah leaders in Fairfax, VA, had first informed me that in order to be a ‘Pure Muslim’ I must use only authorized and correct materials and these materials could be located at Halalco. During my many visits to Halalco I have been provided materials and been invited to the homes of Halalco employees. Halalco is managed by Sunni personnel and can be best described in their own words as ‘Pure Muslims’. The Shiite people are not recognized as Muslim. Read more ... Source: FrontPage Magazine
 Convicted: Shella Roma A woman who produced a leaflet inciting people to commit terrorist acts has been spared jail. Shella Roma urged readers to go abroad to fight a jihad or holy war. Manchester Crown Court heard that Roma, who was said to suffer from a 'dissociative disorder', produced two drafts of the document entitled The Call. It refers to conspiracy theories and suggests that 9/11 took place to benefit the Freemasons and ends: "Will you go to Jihad (holy war)? Jihad: the choice is yours." Prosecutor Jonathan Sharp said the leaflet written by the 'highly intelligent' mother-of-one referred to the events of 9/11 as 'an inside job'. He added: "She affirms that the loyalty of British Muslims should be to their religion and that she has no allegiance towards the country in which she was born and grew up." Read more ...Source: Asian NewsH/T: Weasel Zippers
 Muhammedgali KhuzinMoscow, March 6, Interfax - Some mosques in Moscow are selling extremist literature, Muhammedgali Khuzin, a Perm region mufti, told Interfax-Religion.
"Extremist literature printed by various militants and Caucasian groups can be bought freely in a couple of local mosques. We visited Moscow not long ago and saw it," the mufti said.
He welcomed a "black list" of extremist literature banned in Russia, Khuzin said.
"Heaps of pseudo-religious and extremist literature instigating religious hatred were published in Russia in the past 15-20 years. Regrettably, most of it is Islamic," the mufti said.
Commenting on repeated statements by the head of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin in which he questioned the reasons for putting a number of books on the "black list", the Perm mufti remarked that his reaction was understandable because a good deal of black-listed literature had been published under the auspices of the Council of Muftis.
As for the books published by the Central Spiritual Department of Muslims, none of them has appeared on the above list because "this is strictly controlled," Khuzin said. Source: InterfaxMufti Muhammedgali Khuzin
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 By Dr. Sami Alrabaa I think all of us, including FamilySecurityMatters.org, the Front Page Magazine, Jihad Watch, Faith Freedom, Islam Watch, Europe News, Islamist Watch, Canada Free Press, South Asia Forum, The New Media Journal and all the others, are preaching to the converts. Who reads what Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, Ali Sina, Nonie Darwish, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and the other anti-Islamists? From comments on articles by these writers, you can tell that it is predominantly readers who already agree with these writers. According to a survey by Bielefeld University, Germany, which was conducted in five Arab countries, in 2008, the majority of Arabs – all of them adult Muslims of different occupations, education, and social classes – more than 80% of them consume Saudi and Qatari- owned international TV channels, like Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, and MBC. Seven percent read Arabic newspapers, and only 2% checkout diverse websites. 186 of them check out once in a while articles by the aforementioned writers. Hence, the mass of Muslims – the great majority of them are illiterate – are easy prey for Islamist chaplains, who preach hatred and violence against non-Muslims all over the Arab media. Read more ...Source: Family Security Matters
 "Killing... [t]he ones who are armed, the ones who are soldiers, the ones who are in occupation, that's different. That's resistance" Former PLO Spokesman Rashid Khalidi, New York Sun, Jul 23, 2003 By Lawrence M. Reisman The January 8 edition of The New York Times contained a provocative op-ed article by Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi entitled "What You Don't Know About Gaza.". It presumes to inform its readers of "a few essential points that seem to be missing" from the public knowledge of the recent conflicts in Gaza. Several observers have already noted that Professor Khalidi has played with the facts, even to the point of offering outright falsehoods. The media watchdog group, CAMERA, has two beautiful articles refuting the good professor. However, missing from his "few essential points" are some other facts which would illuminate the public's knowledge of Gaza and what has been going on. About the Gazans, Professor Khalidi writes that "Most of the people living in Gaza are not there by choice," that they are the descendants of those who lived outside of Gaza and were driven there "by the Israeli Army in 1948." Whether they were expelled from their homes by the Israeli Army, the fled from the fighting, or they left at the urging of Arab leaders is a question that will be debated for years to come. However, the fact that they were kept in Gaza for the past 60 years is due to the Arab regimes that have ruled Israel's neighbors since 1948. In the wake of Israel's War of Independence, the United Nations was ready to resettle all the Palestinian refugees in other countries. This would have been similar to the exchange of Greeks and Turks after World War I or the exchange between Hindus, Moslems, and Sikhs in the wake of India's independence from Great Britain and the creation of Pakistan. Initially, Syria, was planning to resettle Palestinian refugees in its northern regions. Palestinians, whenever they have been able to leave their refugee camps, have thrived and made a positive contribution to their new places of residence. The current prosperity of the Gulf States would not have been possible without the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have gone there. Read more ... Source: Jewish World Review
 By Melanie Phillips Last night’s BBC TV News at Ten featured a highly partisan report about Gaza by Jeremy Bowen. Making no mention of the direct hit yesterday by a Hamas rocket on a kindergarten in Ashdod (which was empty for fear of precisely such an occurrence) Bowen concentrated heavily on the growing civilian casualty toll among Palestinians, making no acknowledgement of any Hamas operatives among these figures. The piece de resistance of this item was a report from Gaza’s Shifa hospital by a Gazan BBC producer, Rushdi abu Alouf. He claimed that ‘hundreds of kids, women and children’ had been brought to the hospital for medical treatment. Undoubtedly there are many casualties -- tragically, including children -- and the hospital is obviously under pressure. This though may help explain some of that pressure: Hamas has set up an independent hospital in the Gaza Strip to treat its operatives wounded in fighting with the IDF - and, according to Israeli estimates, it is pilfering a significant portion of the medicine allowed into the Strip. But the BBC did not tell its viewers the important fact that every single journalist and media utterance coming out of Gaza is controlled by Hamas. In other words, you can’t believe a thing that anyone there tells you. Read more ...Source: Spectator
 By William Mayer December 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a filing by Michael Paulson in the Boston Globe's religious section [see, Articles of Faith, December 28] statements by MPAC [Muslim Public Affairs Council] and CAIR [Council on American Islamic Relations] regarding Israel's long-postponed, much needed move to end Hamas' incessant jihad against the Jewish state, were included. There are a number of serious difficulties appended to such a practice. One of these is that neither of these groups speak for Islam on a religious basis, hence their inclusion is inappropriate. Both CAIR and MPAC are political organizations, CAIR bills itself as a "civil rights" group and MPAC self-identifies as an "institution which informs and shapes public opinion." More fundamental however is the nature of both of these groups. CAIR can no longer escape it closely being linked to Islamic terrorism, having been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the recently concluded, successful prosecution of Hamas terror funder the Holy Land Foundation, a fraudulent Muslim charity which funneled at least $12 million to Hamas. One of those found guilty in this case was Ghassan Elashi, the founder of the Texas Chapter of CAIR. It's hard to imagine a more clear connection between a domestic organization and Islamic terrorism. MPAC similarly serves as a mouthpiece for radical Islam. In a September 11, 2001 radio broadcast originating in Los Angeles, a statement attributed to MPAC reads, "If we're going to look at suspects we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies," and others, equally guilty of fraudulently operating under the mantle of moderation. [source, New York Times] MPAC has been an ardent supporter, along with CAIR of confessed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami Al-Arian, "The Muslim Public Affairs Council today welcomed the release of former professor Sami Al-Arian from federal custody...Since his arrest five years ago, Al-Arian's case has become an example of what many American Muslims perceived to be numerous post-9/11 political persecutions of individuals using tactics that amount to little more than guilt by association..." Read more ...Source: Militant Islam Monitor
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