Robert Spencer's address at the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Wednesday Morning Club in Los Angeles 1/28/9.
Source: Jihad Watch
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Beware the "Stealth Jihad" - Robert Spencer's new book has been an eye-opener even for me.
By Joseph Farah
It would have been impossible to imagine in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks that they would actually stir sympathy for Islam – even radical Islam.
Yet there is no question, eight years later, that is exactly what happened.
Though accurate statistics are elusive, Islam is growing in America – both through immigration and conversion.
Islam has more effective lobbying groups in America than ever before.
There are efforts to be more "inclusive" of Islam in government, schools, academia and business.
There is more "sensitivity" to Islam in entertainment.
And there is an almost suicidal eagerness to assume the best about Islam, its adherents and its intentions.
Try to imagine what might have happened if (and, admittedly, this is very difficult to imagine) a group of Orthodox Jews crashed two planes into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania, killing about 3,000 Americans. Read more ...
It would have been impossible to imagine in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks that they would actually stir sympathy for Islam – even radical Islam.
Yet there is no question, eight years later, that is exactly what happened.
Though accurate statistics are elusive, Islam is growing in America – both through immigration and conversion.
Islam has more effective lobbying groups in America than ever before.
There are efforts to be more "inclusive" of Islam in government, schools, academia and business.
There is more "sensitivity" to Islam in entertainment.
And there is an almost suicidal eagerness to assume the best about Islam, its adherents and its intentions.
Try to imagine what might have happened if (and, admittedly, this is very difficult to imagine) a group of Orthodox Jews crashed two planes into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania, killing about 3,000 Americans. Read more ...
Source: WND
FBI Cuts Off CAIR Over Hamas Questions
By Mary Jacoby
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group's roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.
The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
CAIR and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad, were named un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF case. Both Ahmad and CAIR's current national executive director, Nihad Awad, were revealed on government wiretaps as having been active participants in early Hamas-related organizational meetings in the United States. During testimony, FBI agent Lara Burns described CAIR as a front organization.
The decision to end contacts with CAIR is a significant policy change for the FBI. For years, the FBI worked with the national organization and its state chapters to address Muslim community concerns about the potential for hate crimes and other civil liberty violations in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
But critics said the FBI improperly conferred legitimacy on CAIR by meeting with its officials, even as its own investigative files contained evidence of CAIR leaders' ties to Hamas.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper declined to comment Wednesday when the IPT called for comment. Before hanging up, Hooper said "We're more than happy to cooperate with legitimate media. But we don't cooperate with those who promote anti-Muslim bigotry."
In one letter obtained by IPT News, James E. Finch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Oklahoma City field office, canceled a meeting of the local Muslim Community Outreach Program, a state-federal program designed to enlist Muslims in terrorism prevention and investigate reports of civil liberties violations. Read more ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has cut off contacts with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) amid mounting concern about the Muslim advocacy group's roots in a Hamas-support network, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has learned.
The decision to end contacts with CAIR was made quietly last summer as federal prosecutors prepared for a second trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), an Islamic charity accused of providing money and political support to the terrorist group Hamas, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
CAIR and its chairman emeritus, Omar Ahmad, were named un-indicted co-conspirators in the HLF case. Both Ahmad and CAIR's current national executive director, Nihad Awad, were revealed on government wiretaps as having been active participants in early Hamas-related organizational meetings in the United States. During testimony, FBI agent Lara Burns described CAIR as a front organization.
The decision to end contacts with CAIR is a significant policy change for the FBI. For years, the FBI worked with the national organization and its state chapters to address Muslim community concerns about the potential for hate crimes and other civil liberty violations in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
But critics said the FBI improperly conferred legitimacy on CAIR by meeting with its officials, even as its own investigative files contained evidence of CAIR leaders' ties to Hamas.
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper declined to comment Wednesday when the IPT called for comment. Before hanging up, Hooper said "We're more than happy to cooperate with legitimate media. But we don't cooperate with those who promote anti-Muslim bigotry."
In one letter obtained by IPT News, James E. Finch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Oklahoma City field office, canceled a meeting of the local Muslim Community Outreach Program, a state-federal program designed to enlist Muslims in terrorism prevention and investigate reports of civil liberties violations. Read more ...
Source: IPT News
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Another "Honor Killing" in Pakistan: Man Slaughters his Mother on Suspicion of "Illicit Relations"
A youth slaughtered his mother on suspicion of illicit relations at Shaheen Colony in the Factory Area police precincts on Monday. The deceased was identified as 45-year-old Zarqa Sana.
According to Mirza Atif, another son of the victim, his elder but step brother Dilawar started exchanging harsh words with their mother over a family matter. During the process, the accused shot at and injured the victim. Later, he slaughtered her with a sharp-edged weapon. Rescue 1122 officials, after being informed, reached the scene and rushed the victim to the General Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. Meanwhile, police officials reached the scene and removed the body to morgue.
Police sources, however, claimed that the killer was suspicious that his mother had developed illicit relations with a local of the area. They alleged that Zarqa was going to meet her paramour on Monday and Dilawar stopped her but she turned a deaf ear to his words. Factory Area Circle ASP Sarfaraz Virak said they had arrested the killer, who confessed to committing the crime in police custody, alleging that his mother had a bad character.
Two dacoits killed in ‘encounter’: Two car thieves were killed in an ‘encounter’ with the Iqbal Town CIA on Monday and police seized a stolen car as well as two Kalashnikovs, one launcher, four launcher shells and bullets.
On Sunday night, four dacoits took away a car (HX-157 Islamabad) from the Moghalpura police area. Police received information that the dacoits intended to take this car as well as another car (LEA-5676-06) to the tribal areas. Three dacoits were riding one car. One of them fled while the other two opened fire at police.
The police retaliated as a result of which two dacoits were killed on the spot. The other stolen vehicle was chased which the criminal later abandoned at Huma Block and managed to escape. Police also seized two Kalashnikovs, one launcher, four launcher shells and bullets.
According to Mirza Atif, another son of the victim, his elder but step brother Dilawar started exchanging harsh words with their mother over a family matter. During the process, the accused shot at and injured the victim. Later, he slaughtered her with a sharp-edged weapon. Rescue 1122 officials, after being informed, reached the scene and rushed the victim to the General Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead. Meanwhile, police officials reached the scene and removed the body to morgue.
Police sources, however, claimed that the killer was suspicious that his mother had developed illicit relations with a local of the area. They alleged that Zarqa was going to meet her paramour on Monday and Dilawar stopped her but she turned a deaf ear to his words. Factory Area Circle ASP Sarfaraz Virak said they had arrested the killer, who confessed to committing the crime in police custody, alleging that his mother had a bad character.
Two dacoits killed in ‘encounter’: Two car thieves were killed in an ‘encounter’ with the Iqbal Town CIA on Monday and police seized a stolen car as well as two Kalashnikovs, one launcher, four launcher shells and bullets.
On Sunday night, four dacoits took away a car (HX-157 Islamabad) from the Moghalpura police area. Police received information that the dacoits intended to take this car as well as another car (LEA-5676-06) to the tribal areas. Three dacoits were riding one car. One of them fled while the other two opened fire at police.
The police retaliated as a result of which two dacoits were killed on the spot. The other stolen vehicle was chased which the criminal later abandoned at Huma Block and managed to escape. Police also seized two Kalashnikovs, one launcher, four launcher shells and bullets.
Source: The News
H/T: Weasel Zippers
School burnings in Swat can't be stopped, says minister
By Akhtar Amin
PESHAWAR: NWFP Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Sardar Hussain Babak said on Tuesday that it had become difficult for the government to stop Taliban from torching and bombing girls schools in the restive Swat Valley.
Commenting on destruction of yet another school by Taliban in Odigram, a suburb of Mingora city, on Monday, the minister said the government could not stop destruction of schools when the area people took up arms and wore suicide jackets to torch and bomb their own schools.
He blamed religious parties (JI and JUI-F) for providing moral support to Swat Taliban and ignoring the violence with which they treated innocent people of the valley.
“It is easy for leaders of religious parties to blame the provincial government for deteriorating law and order situation. But one should ask JI Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman why they remain silent on terrorist activities of Mullah Fazlullah in Swat district,” Babak said. Read more ...
PESHAWAR: NWFP Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Sardar Hussain Babak said on Tuesday that it had become difficult for the government to stop Taliban from torching and bombing girls schools in the restive Swat Valley.
Commenting on destruction of yet another school by Taliban in Odigram, a suburb of Mingora city, on Monday, the minister said the government could not stop destruction of schools when the area people took up arms and wore suicide jackets to torch and bomb their own schools.
He blamed religious parties (JI and JUI-F) for providing moral support to Swat Taliban and ignoring the violence with which they treated innocent people of the valley.
“It is easy for leaders of religious parties to blame the provincial government for deteriorating law and order situation. But one should ask JI Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and JUI-F Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman why they remain silent on terrorist activities of Mullah Fazlullah in Swat district,” Babak said. Read more ...
Source: Daily Times
Al Qaeda Killer Makes Veils Jibe from Prison Cell
By Chris Riches
A MURDERING Al Qaeda terrorist has sparked outrage after threatening legal action under the Human Rights Act unless women prison wardens in his presence wear veils.
Kamel Bourgass, 33, was jailed for life in 2004 after stabbing brave Special Branch officer Stephen Oake to death in a police raid.
Now Bourgass is not only recruiting extremists to his twisted cause in Wakefield prison but is claiming that women wardens without veils infringe his human rights.
He has even cracked sick jokes about the bravery medal DC Oake received posthumously, sneering that it was made from the “metal of my knife”.
The Algerian had been preparing a deadly ricin poison attack on Bri tain when father-of-three Detective Constable Oake, 40, arrested him. Read more ...
A MURDERING Al Qaeda terrorist has sparked outrage after threatening legal action under the Human Rights Act unless women prison wardens in his presence wear veils.
Kamel Bourgass, 33, was jailed for life in 2004 after stabbing brave Special Branch officer Stephen Oake to death in a police raid.
Now Bourgass is not only recruiting extremists to his twisted cause in Wakefield prison but is claiming that women wardens without veils infringe his human rights.
He has even cracked sick jokes about the bravery medal DC Oake received posthumously, sneering that it was made from the “metal of my knife”.
The Algerian had been preparing a deadly ricin poison attack on Bri tain when father-of-three Detective Constable Oake, 40, arrested him. Read more ...
Source: Daily Express
Moves to ban radical Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group in UK
By Victoria Huntley
Moves have begun to try and get the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group banned in Britain after the ruling group on one local authority in East London voted to get it proscribed.
The Labour members on Tower Hamlets Council agreed last night (Monday) by a casting vote to get the controversial organisation outlawed.
Council cabinet members abstained from the vote, while the rest of the Labour members were split on the issue, inside sources have told the East London Advertiser tonight.
Half voted to get Hizb ut-Tahrir formerly banned, the rest voted against.
Labour Group chairman Carli Harper-Penman used her casting vote, the sources said.
Many felt the controversial organisation was causing strife and division in the community, while others challenged whether an all-out ban might not drive Islamic radicals underground. Read more ...
Moves have begun to try and get the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group banned in Britain after the ruling group on one local authority in East London voted to get it proscribed.
The Labour members on Tower Hamlets Council agreed last night (Monday) by a casting vote to get the controversial organisation outlawed.
Council cabinet members abstained from the vote, while the rest of the Labour members were split on the issue, inside sources have told the East London Advertiser tonight.
Half voted to get Hizb ut-Tahrir formerly banned, the rest voted against.
Labour Group chairman Carli Harper-Penman used her casting vote, the sources said.
Many felt the controversial organisation was causing strife and division in the community, while others challenged whether an all-out ban might not drive Islamic radicals underground. Read more ...
Source: East London Advertiser
PLO Executive Committee Secretary Yasser Abd Rabbo Accuses Hamas of New Atrocities Against Fatah Members in Gaza
Al-Jazeera TV, January 22, 2009: "Today, Hamas Gangs Are Unleashed Like Packs of Animals on the Streets of Gaza Against Fatah Members"
Yasser Abd Rabbo: "Yesterday, we heard Khaled Mash'al talking from Damascus about new, additional preconditions for national reconciliation - the only goal of which is to hinder the achievement of reconciliation.
[...]
"Today, Hamas gangs are unleashed like packs of animals on the streets of Gaza against Fatah members. Because the military bases and the prisons have been destroyed, they have turned Gaza schools, Al-Nasser Hospital, the radiology department at Shifa' Hospital, Al-Aqsa University, and other places, including mosques, into centers for the detention, interrogation, and torture of Fatah members and members of other national Palestinian factions. Read more ...
Yasser Abd Rabbo: "Yesterday, we heard Khaled Mash'al talking from Damascus about new, additional preconditions for national reconciliation - the only goal of which is to hinder the achievement of reconciliation.
[...]
"Today, Hamas gangs are unleashed like packs of animals on the streets of Gaza against Fatah members. Because the military bases and the prisons have been destroyed, they have turned Gaza schools, Al-Nasser Hospital, the radiology department at Shifa' Hospital, Al-Aqsa University, and other places, including mosques, into centers for the detention, interrogation, and torture of Fatah members and members of other national Palestinian factions. Read more ...
Source: MEMRI
Saudi Textbooks Incite Hatred & Violence against non-Muslims
By Dr. Sami Alrabaa
Ahmed Al-Sarraf cited in Al-Qabas (June 2, 2007) some passages from a Kuwaiti school textbook taught at the first secondary grade. Here is an English translation of passages from the book, "Jurisprudence", p. 38:
Who is, or who is not, punished in a Muslim society:
• A Muslim who kills an apostate or someone who commits adultery against an infidel is not punished.
• If a Muslim kills an infidel or a slave, he is not punished.
• If a Muslim man, father, or grandfather kills someone from his offspring, he is not punished.
I went through the school textbooks taught in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Here is an English translation of some passages from these books. Read more ...
Ahmed Al-Sarraf cited in Al-Qabas (June 2, 2007) some passages from a Kuwaiti school textbook taught at the first secondary grade. Here is an English translation of passages from the book, "Jurisprudence", p. 38:
Who is, or who is not, punished in a Muslim society:
• A Muslim who kills an apostate or someone who commits adultery against an infidel is not punished.
• If a Muslim kills an infidel or a slave, he is not punished.
• If a Muslim man, father, or grandfather kills someone from his offspring, he is not punished.
I went through the school textbooks taught in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia. Here is an English translation of some passages from these books. Read more ...
Source: Islam Watch
Ohio Terror Charity Threatens Legal Action After PJM Exposé
Group admits funding Hamas terror labs, but is angry that Pajamas Media reported it.
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By Patrick Poole
On December 29, aircraft of the Israeli Defense Forces bombed Hamas terror labs located at the Hamas-run Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) that the IDF said were used by IUG faculty members to make explosives for the terrorist group. The following day I reported exclusively here at Pajamas Media that the bombed terror labs were financed and built by the Dublin, Ohio-based Arab Student Aid International (ASAI). As I noted, ASAI is chaired by Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, half brother to Saudi King Abdullah, who is also the organization’s primary benefactor.
In response to our reporting, the Columbus Dispatch published an article two weeks ago by reporter Dean Narciso quoting ASAI director Ishaq Y. Al-Qutub that they are considering taking legal action against their detractors - namely, Pajamas Media:
On December 29, aircraft of the Israeli Defense Forces bombed Hamas terror labs located at the Hamas-run Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) that the IDF said were used by IUG faculty members to make explosives for the terrorist group. The following day I reported exclusively here at Pajamas Media that the bombed terror labs were financed and built by the Dublin, Ohio-based Arab Student Aid International (ASAI). As I noted, ASAI is chaired by Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, half brother to Saudi King Abdullah, who is also the organization’s primary benefactor.
In response to our reporting, the Columbus Dispatch published an article two weeks ago by reporter Dean Narciso quoting ASAI director Ishaq Y. Al-Qutub that they are considering taking legal action against their detractors - namely, Pajamas Media:
“There has been a serious misunderstanding and misinterpretation of what we do,” he [Al-Qutub] said, adding that they eventually will consider legal action.Is it likely that ASAI will follow through on their legal threats? Not really. Read more ...
Source: Pajamas Media
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LTC Allen West (USAR) on Geert Wilders
By Lt.C. Allen West
I recently read of the travails of my fellow IFPS board member Geert Wilders. A day later my attention was drawn to President Barack Hussein Obama signing an executive order to shut down operations at the Guantanamo detention facility.
The irony struck me that here we have the new President seeking to extend US Constitutional protections to Islamic terrorists, the enemy. We plan to provide them legal rights under the equal protection clause. Yet in Holland, a fellow democracy, the government is ordering the criminal prosecution of an elected representative for exercising one of the Western world’s most precious freedoms, freedom of speech; and in this case, freedom of speech to discuss the jihadist ideology of the enemy.
What is happening in Western civilization? Have we become so enamored with this illness called multiculturalism that we are embarrassed to honor and defend our own cultural principles? Can nothing be more shocking than to charge a member of the Dutch Parliament with “hate speech” for speaking the truth? Read more ...
I recently read of the travails of my fellow IFPS board member Geert Wilders. A day later my attention was drawn to President Barack Hussein Obama signing an executive order to shut down operations at the Guantanamo detention facility.
The irony struck me that here we have the new President seeking to extend US Constitutional protections to Islamic terrorists, the enemy. We plan to provide them legal rights under the equal protection clause. Yet in Holland, a fellow democracy, the government is ordering the criminal prosecution of an elected representative for exercising one of the Western world’s most precious freedoms, freedom of speech; and in this case, freedom of speech to discuss the jihadist ideology of the enemy.
What is happening in Western civilization? Have we become so enamored with this illness called multiculturalism that we are embarrassed to honor and defend our own cultural principles? Can nothing be more shocking than to charge a member of the Dutch Parliament with “hate speech” for speaking the truth? Read more ...
Source: Diana West
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