February 09, 2010

Here's Bill Gertz's report about this year's Army CT conference which notes that the alarm was raised about the threat of domestic jihadis to US forces two years ago. That warning, sadly, was ignored.

Even scarier? An insider tells me that the military continues to be in denial about the threat of Islamist infiltration and violence even after the Fort Hood massacre. In fact, several presentations at this year's CT conference echoing those earlier warnings were panned by some of the organizers and at least one presenter called a racist.

A racist. For suggesting that jihadis wish to do us harm. Months after Nidal Hasan. Sickening.

Washington Times:

Almost two years before the deadly Fort Hood shooting by a radicalized Muslim officer, the U.S. Army was explicitly warned that jihadism — Islamic holy war — was a serious problem and threat to personnel in the U.S., according to participants at a major Army-sponsored conference.

The annual Army anti-terrorism conference in Florida in February 2008 included presentations on the threat by counterterrorism specialists Patrick Poole, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Myers and Terri Wonder.

The meeting was organized by the Army's provost marshal general and included more than 350 force protection and anti-terrorism professionals who came from major Army installations and commands from around the world, according to participants.

Remember Louay Safi, a a top official for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) who was conducting classes at Ft. Hood on Islam to troops about to deploy to Afghanistan in the days following Nidal Hassan's act of terror? Well, military ties with Safi have finally been severed and an investigation into him has been opened:

Safi now faces a criminal inquiry by the military but has never been criminally charged. He denies wrongdoing. He also has described post-9/11 counterterrorism crackdowns as a "campaign against Islam."

Safi, for his part claims he's not an extremist but a moderate Muslim. I believe him. Unfortunately being a moderate Muslim does not put one into the mainstream of modern secular thought. Most moderate Muslims in this country who really are moderate by the measuring stick of American values are liberals when compared to the likes of Safi. And it's why the term moderate is meaningless when applied to Muslims in the West.

It's not moderate Muslims vs. radicals. Nor is it about liberals vs. moderates. The real test is commitment to secularism: Muslims vs. Islamists. Islamists are our political enemies, even the moderate ones.

Thanks to Creeping Sharia, who have more.

Related:
Congressional letter to SECDEF Gates demands end to Islamic lectures to troops by Louay Safi and ISNA
Extremist speaker lecturing on Islam to deploying Ft Hood troops

February 08, 2010

The teacher, Nicholas Dafuris, filled out a" Racist Incident Reporting Sheet" only to be told; 'If the child was older, say 15, I might take it more seriously, he's only nine, he's only doing it to wind you up."

UK's "Central Employment Tribunal" needs to view child training videos by terrorists...

Daily Mail

A Christian teacher told today how he lost his job after complaining that Muslim pupils as young as eight hailed the September 11 hijackers as 'heroes'.

Nicholas Kafouris said he was forced from his £30,000-a-year post because he would not tolerate the 'racist' and 'anti-Semitic' behaviour of children.

He said the predominantly Muslim youngsters openly praised Islamic extremists in class, and hailed the terrorists of the 2001 atrocities as 'martyrs'.

Mr Kafouris, 40, told how one pupil said to him, ‘Don’t touch me, you’re a Christian’, when the teacher accidentally brushed against him with his arm.

Others said, ‘We want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up', and 'the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you're a Christian', he added.

Mr Kafouris, who had taught at Bigland Green Primary School, in Tower Hamlets, East London, for 12 years, said there was a change in attitude of pupils at the school - where the majority of pupils are Muslim - after the World Trade Center attacks. more....

January 30, 2010

I'm going to have to answer that by saying, no.

The source of the claim is Ibrahim Sajid Malick's blog at the end of a typically Pakistani paranoid rant about the trial of Aafiya Siddiqui:

This ruling came a day after Pakistani Ambassador Hussain Haqqani, had a private meeting with Judge Richard Berman, which he described as “positive”.

He does make an unintentionally good point though: he claims that the judge is allowing Siddiqui's statements while she was detained in Afghanistan to be entered in as evidence. Statements given before she was read the Miranda warnings.

Which doesn't show that the trial is somehow unfair, but rather that it's the wrong venue. She should be tried in front of a military court, not flown half way around the world to New York for a civilian trial.

As Michelle Malkin has pointed out several times over the past few weeks, Siddiqui's trial is a shadow of what is to come when her uncle Khalid Shiekh Mohammad takes the stand.

Thanks to Creeping Sharia via Herr Oyal Whyness.

January 27, 2010

What could go wrong?

Via Telegraph

The move would help President Barack Obama achieve his elusive goal of closing the controversial US prison.

The issue will be raised for the first time in an international setting on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting in London on Wednesday[...]

A source close to the Obama administration said the Yemenis had agreed in principle to the establishment of a Reintegration and Risk Reduction Initiative, which would be internationally funded and monitored.

Aimed at steering detainees back into society, it would be modeled on previous efforts in Northern Ireland, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The project has support from within the US state department and is gaining ground among White House advisers, said the source....

God help us all....

January 26, 2010

A letter from three Democratic and three Republican Senators urging the AG to stop with the nonsense already and give the 9/11 conspirators a military trial for war crimes.

I'll go ahead and publish the entire press release of the letter found on Lieberman's website below the fold. I'll stick my comments about this and the Aafia Siddique trial below that.

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In light of recent events, we write to express our continuing concerns regarding the policies of this Administration with respect to those prisoners now detained at Guantanamo, and also any others who in the future might be charged with acts of international terrorism. We remain particularly concerned about using the U.S. criminal justice system for trying enemy combatants.

Of special importance due to time constraints and location, we strongly urge you to reconsider your decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged conspirators in the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The attacks of 9/11 were acts of war, and those who planned and carried out those attacks are war criminals. Today, those who subscribe to the same violent ideology as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed continue to plan and execute attacks against innocent civilians all over the world. It is not in our national interest to provide them further publicity or additional advantage.

We and many others have already expressed serious concerns about whether a trial in civilian court might compromise classified evidence, including revealing sources and methods used by our intelligence community. We are also very concerned that, by bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists responsible for 9/11 to the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, only blocks away from where the Twin Towers once stood, you will be providing them one of the most visible platforms in the world to exalt their past acts and to rally others in support of further terrorism. Such a trial would almost certainly become a recruitment and radicalization tool for those who wish us harm.

The security and other risks inherent in holding the trial in New York City are reflected in Mayor Bloomberg’s recent letter to the administration advising that New York City will be required to spend more than $200 million per year in security measures for the trial. As Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Kelly know too well, the threat of terrorist acts in New York City is a daily challenge. Holding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s trial in that city, and trying other enemy combatants in venues such as Washington, DC and northern Virginia, would unnecessarily increase the burden of facing those challenges, including the increased risk of terrorist attacks.

As you acknowledged in your testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in November, your decision to prosecute enemy combatants captured on foreign battlefields like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is without precedent in our nation’s history. The challenges of containing and defeating international terrorism do not give us the proper moment to break that precedent. Given the risks and costs, it is far more logical, cost-effective, and strategically wise to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in the military commissions that Congress and the President have now established for that very purpose.

Sincerely,

Senator Joseph Lieberman

Senator Lindsey Graham

Senator Blanche Lincoln

Senator Susan Collins

Senator Jim Webb

Senator John McCain

In related news, this is what the trial might look like.

The al Qaeda sympathizers in the audience are organized. I know, I've been following their screeds for months urging people to show up at Aafia's trial.

One of the men originally calling for Muslims to show up to her trial for support is none other blogger and arrested al Qaeda supporter Tarek "Abu Sayaba" Mehenna. He was in the audience for some of the pre-trial hearings --- that was before he was arrested. Who else might we expect at, say, Khalid Shiekh Mohammad's hearing?

Remember the story about Google censoring it's auto-fill function for "Islam is" but not for "Christianity is" and "Hinduism is" etc? If you'll recall, when one typed in "Christianity is" a number of negative phrases popped up into the auto fill box, including "is bullshit" and "is a lie".

Here's a screenshot I took on Jan. 7th to confirm the story.

Well, Gharqad emails me to say that Google has apparently stopped censoring the phrase "Islam is". Type in "Islam is" now and you get nearly the same results as typing in "Christianity is", with "Islam is bullshit" being the top recommendation from the auto-fill function.

I took the following screenshot to confirm it.

Way to go Google. Now if you'll just stop helping terrorists by allowing them to use your YouTube and Blogspot services to spread their vile terrorist propaganda, then you and I would be squared away.

In any event, watch your sixes Google employees. The Religion of Peace tolerates no dissent.

January 25, 2010

(Yorkshire, England) The Brits are nuts.

AN Iraqi immigrant who stabbed two doctors to death at a Yorkshire hospital has won the right to remain in Britain – after judges ruled that he would pose a danger to the public in his homeland.

Paranoid schizophrenic Laith Alani, 41, has been kept in secure hospitals for 19 years after he killed consultant cosmetic surgeons Kenneth Paton and Michael Masser at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield.

The Home Office wanted to deport him to Iraq on his release, but an immigration tribunal decided such a move would breach his human rights and put people in the Middle Eastern country at risk.

Alani, who told police he carried out the attack because he had received a "command from Allah", could be set free next year.

How crazy is that? What happens next year when he's freed and given another "command from Allah?"

January 21, 2010

I mean, really, isn't that the argument here? An informant goes to a mosque to see if some alleged wrongdoers are actually up to wrongdoing. In the process he discovers that yes they are up to no good.

We're supposed to be upset about this because, um, it turned out that the alleged criminals were actual criminals? Or because the criminals happened to meet in a mosque? WTF?

If the FBI were to pull back all observations of mosques, I'm sure the bad guys are too stupid to realize that the mosque would then become the perfect place to plan all sorts of evil. Like terrorism. So, let's just go ahead and do that. What could possibly go wrong?

In related news the CAIR [Columbian-American Ironic Relations] raised concerns over civil-rights violations today when it was discovered that the DEA was allegedly sending undercover agents into the Columbian-American community. CAIR also denies that there is any relationship between Columbia and cocaine trafficking.

January 20, 2010

Muslims in "moderate" Indonesia on Geert Wilders

The suck my balls comment is a paraphrase, of course. But it's not far off the mark if not a little terse. Here's the written statement that Geert Wilders has up on his website addressing the court before which he appeared today defending his right to criticize Islam.

It makes me sick to even have to write that. A guy in front of a court for criticizing a religion. What is this, the freaking Middle Ages? [No one suspects the Spanish Inquisition!]:

Mister Speaker, judges of the court,

I would like to make use of my right to speak for a few minutes.

Freedom is the most precious of all our attainments and the most vulnerable. People have devoted their lives to it and given their lives for it. Our freedom in this country is the outcome of centuries. It is the consequence of a history that knows no equal and has brought us to where we are now.

I believe with all my heart and soul that the freedom in the Netherlands is threatened. That what our heritage is, what generations could only dream about, that this freedom is no longer a given, no longer self-evident.

I devote my life to the defence of our freedom. I know what the risks are and I pay a price for it every day. I do not complain about it; it is my own decision. I see that as my duty and it is why I am standing here.

I know that the words I use are sometimes harsh, but they are never rash. It is not my intention to spare the ideology of conquest and destruction, but I am not any more out to offend people. I have nothing against Muslims. I have a problem with Islam and the Islamization of our country because Islam is at odds with freedom.

Future generations will wonder to themselves how we in 2010, in this place, in this room, earned our most precious attainment. Whether there is freedom in this debate for both parties and thus also for the critics of Islam, or that only one side of the discussion may be heard in the Netherlands? Whether freedom of speech in the Netherlands applies to everyone or only to a few? The answer to this is at once the answer to the question whether freedom still has a home in this country.

Freedom was never the property of a small group, but was always the heritage of us all. We are all blessed by it.

Lady Justice wears a blindfold, but she has splendid hearing. I hope that she hears the following sentences, loud and clear:

It is not only a right, but also the duty of free people to speak against every ideology that threatens freedom. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States was right: The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I hope that the freedom of speech shall triumph in this trial.

In conclusion, Mister Speaker, judges of the court.

This trial is obviously about the freedom of speech. But this trial is also about the process of establishing the truth. Are the statements that I have made and the comparisons that I have taken, as cited in the summons, true? If something is true then can it still be punishable? This is why I urge you to not only submit to my request to hear witnesses and experts on the subject of freedom of speech. But I ask you explicitly to honour my request to hear witnesses and experts on the subject of Islam. I refer not only to Mister Jansen and Mister Admiraal, but also to the witness/experts from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Without these witnesses, I cannot defend myself properly and, in my opinion, this would not be an fair trial.

The prosecution of Geert Wilders is a two fold attack on freedom. First, it violates free speech. Second, if violates freedom of religion. The second point being nearly universally missed since the first point usually suffices as a defense. But think about it: freedom of religion is also about the ability to criticize religions which you don't agree with. The broad religious freedoms enjoyed in the United States have led not only to greater religiosity, but also to a wider diversity of religious creeds. The history of the creation of sects is the history of one group of adherents disagreeing with another set of adherents.

To single out Islam as the sole religion which cannot be criticized is to give it state sanctioned protection not enjoyed by other religious communities. It is, in fact, just what many of the critics say it is: creeping sharia.

Because in the Netherlands, just like in Saudi Arabia, it is perfectly legal to criticize Christianity. But it is against the law to criticize Islam!

Again, I think many so-called examples of creeping sharia that are sent to me are pretty way off base. In fact, some of the email I get is from the paranoid fringe who think there is a super-secret Islamic conspiracy. A bunch of rubbish, all of it. There are much simpler explanations for the underlying motives of groups of people than conspiracy. Like try stupidity. Or maybe fear. As in: the Dutch really are afraid of offending Muslims who have some adherents who will kill you. Offending Christians? Not so much.

In any event I support Geert Wilders. And when I say that it doesn't mean I support everything he says or does, only that I support his right to freedom. Which I do. Unequivocally.

Thanks to Robert Spencer who is pretty much going all Geert Wilders all the time today so there's not a solitary post to point you to. Just go read all of them!

A rare glimpse of sanity within the Obama Administration?

[Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair] noted that the administration has created a special team for interrogating high-value terrorism suspects and that it wasn’t used -- but should have been -- after the arrest of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of attempting to take down the Northwest Airlines flight traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit.

"That unit was created exactly for this purpose," Blair told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “We did not invoke the [High Value Interrogation Group] in this case. We should have. Frankly, we were thinking more of overseas people. And, duh ... the decision was made on the scene."

Thanks to DrewM.

January 15, 2010

Steve Schippert alerted me to this earlier, but frankly I'm at a place where nothing the Obama Administration does any more surprises me. In his words, "I think maybe less than 1% of Americans understand just how important Hambali is, how deep his connections are, how broad his Indonesian leadership was/is, or just how massive a fish he is. He is a whale amongst fish. And the Obama Administration wants to try him in DC. This guy is bigger than KSM, in my opinion.I don't know about him being as big as KSM, but pretty big. Jamaah Islamiya is kind of like the Taliban and al Qaeda all rolled up into one: part terrorist organization and part shadow government in waiting. This guy was over all their terrorist plots.

I think Ed pretty much covers all the bases here. I seriously have nothing to add.

Strike that, I only have this thought that's been troubling me: Is it not the greatest of hypocrisy to say that we can kill at will men like Hambali so long as said killing is done with a Predator drone; yet should we give him the gift of life and not kill him then we must treat him as innocent until proven guilty, provide him with a free lawyer, and notify him that no, he really doesn't have to talk?

It seems to me that the one thing I can say -- without reservation -- that I support under President Obama is the increase in Predator attacks on suspected terrorists. So, we can kill suspected terrorists and that is okay, but we can't hurt them a little?

Also, we can give someone in the CIA or DOD the go ahead to make the decision whether or not a suspect deserves life or death -- which is effectively what you are doing when you give the go ahead for a Predator strike, the suspect being immediately executed from the air? But we cannot trust a military tribunal, with many more procedural safeguards, to do the same?

It's not just hypocrisy, it's the height of moral stupidity!

UPDATE: Wow, it's like I'm psychic: ACLU Wants to Know the Legal Basis for CIA Drone Strikes

Uh, it's called war. Dumbasses.

January 14, 2010

Thanks to Robert for allowing me to post this:

Heh..

January 13, 2010

There's nothing new in Bill Whittle's expose of radical Islam's influence in Washington, D.C. Long time readers of The Jawa Report will have known this from countless stories. Knowing this, then why am I still reeling? Go check them out at the links below.

The Islamic Infiltration, Part 1: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets

The Islamic Infiltration, Part 2: From Influence to Insurrection

I'm not 100% on board with the conclusions made by Bill Whittle's sources. I think much of the influence the Muslim Brotherhood has on US policy is made not so much out of a concerted effort of misinformation as much of it is out of a real belief that the faulty information is true. Such as: Islam is in no way connected to the vast majority of terrorism. I actually think Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR believes the drivel that often comes out of his mouth. In his mind Islam does = peace.

Which goes to the point that just because CAIR has supported Hamas charities in the past does not mean that the group exists solely as the propaganda arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood has a propaganda arm in the U.S. It's called the Islamic Society of North American.

Most of the damage done by CAIR comes through its constant denial that Islam is linked to terrorism or in inflating some of the most minor offenses as major civil rights violations. Its sensitivity training withing the federal government is dangerous because what they are selling simply isn't true, not because CAIR is secretly plotting the overthrow of the US government.

The danger of CAIR's deny-that-Muslims-are-behind-most-terror attitude can be seen in the Christmas Day bomb plot. Can someone tell my why, again, Abdulmuttalab was given secondary screening?

And that, I believe, is the real danger of CAIR.

January 10, 2010

An oldie but goodie:

January 08, 2010

Wow, how stupid does this administration think we are???

Sun-Times

Updated and clarified....

WASHINGTON--Illinois GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mark Steven Kirk on Thursday said
"All the major leaders" of the Taliban opposition in Southern Afghanistan are former Guantanamo prisoners who have been released.

The Obama White House, asked to reply, made the point that the detainees released on their watch--about 42 in the past year--are not the detainees who have gone back into the terrorism business.

Sun-Times Political Writer Abdon Pallasch's report on Kirk speaking in Chicago Thursday here

Here is Mark Kirk, who has apparently hurt the ones feelings:

A little tidbit from Pallasch's report:

While Kirk was deployed at his then-undisclosed location, one of Kirk’s primary rivals, Andy Martin, released a radio commercial questioning whether the recently-divorced Kirk is gay. Kirk said Thursday that ad was “untrue.”

“It’s ironic that I was there fighting for his rights while he was using his free speech rights to say something that wasn’t true,” Kirk said.

January 07, 2010

So, a buddy of mine sent me this link to a Blame it on The Voices demotivational poster. I'll send you over there to see the whole thing, but here's a partial of it.

It goes on and on like that with Judaism, Buddhism, and Hinduism all with similar Google suggestions. Like, "Judaism is false" and "Hinduism is wrong".

But what of Islam? Islam is ....

And yes, I double checked Google to see if it was real. It is.

I'm pretty sure people have sent me something on this before in the past, and maybe we've covered it, but if we have let me just reiterate what I think is obviously going on here: Google is scared.

Because even if the suggestions are automatically generated based on a proprietary algorithm someone could get killed for suggesting that "Islam is Bullshit". Which is pretty good motivation for overriding the system.

December 28, 2009

How dare the IDF splode terrorists.

Via Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM -- The Obama administration yesterday demanded the Israeli government explain why its military eliminated three terrorists in an operation this weekend.

"This is sheer chutzpah and is an unprecedented and strange request," said an Israeli security official familiar with the U.S. request.

Over the weekend, three terrorist suspects, all members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization, were killed in an Israeli raid intended to arrest the suspects upon information they killed an Israeli civilian last Thursday. The three Fatah terrorists were heavily armed and refused to surrender to the Israeli soldiers, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel had information that all three were responsible for the terrorist shooting of Meir Hai, a 40-year-old West Bank Jewish teacher and father of seven, who was murdered on a road near his home in an area where Israel had recently lifted a roadblock restricting Palestinian movement [Requested by Obama and others....ed]

December 27, 2009

No biggy, he just wanted to do his part by helping out his akhis in the jihad by sploding some local businesses in the Memphis area.

Nothing to see here, move along..

December 21, 2009

Earlier this month we were the first to report, along with JihadWatch, that terror-tied Islamic speaker Louay Safi had just given a lecture at Ft Hood on Islam to troops departing for Afghanistan. Andy McCarthy at NRO followed up on that reporting, as did other media outlets. Safi subsequently complained of being the victim of smears for us reporting that he had been recorded on FBI wiretaps talking to terrorist leaders and such (which is all a matter of public record).

Now a group of congressmen have sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates demanding that all lectures by Safi and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) to military troops be halted immediately.

Hey, here's an idea: let's end ALL lectures on religion to military personnel. Anyone remember the frickin' First Amendment? No doubt if troops were receiving lectures on the 1400 years of Islamic invasion and occupation, and the heroics of Western Civilization repulsing the Islamic jihad from the Spanish Reconquista to the defense of Vienna, Safi, ISNA and their various Islamist cohorts would be screaming bloody murder (and/or engaging in it). And the ACLU would have filed lawsuits to stop such long ago.

Text of the letter (provided by FSM) below the fold:

17 December 2009

The Honorable Robert Gates
Secretary of Defense
The Pentagon
Washington, D.C.

Dear Secretary Gates:

It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense has invited Louay Safi, a top official at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), to give lectures on Islam to our troops at Fort Hood. If this is indeed true, we respectfully request that you end this practice.

According to the Justice Department, ISNA is a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization with a network of known and suspected Islamic terrorist organizations spread throughout the world. The Brotherhood and its partner organizations regularly espouse violent jihad and anti-Semitism.

More specifically, ISNA was identified by the Justice Department at the successful Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing conspiracy trial as an unindicted co-conspirator. Literature distributed by ISNA at its annual convention in Washington in July featured books and pamphlets portraying prosecution of terrorist and terror-supporters as “anti-Muslim bigotry;” revisionist history that denied Arab and Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel; and anti-Semitic tracts.

Safi himself has been connected to an entity called the “Safa Group.” Search warrants executed in 2002 were supported by an affidavit alleging its involvement in moving large sums of money to terrorist fronts. He was also caught on a 1995 FBI wiretap of Sami al-Arian. Safi was concerned that an executive order, issued by President Clinton prohibiting financial transactions with terrorist organizations, would negatively affect al-Arian. In April 2006, al-Arian pled guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad – a specially designated terrorist organization.

The Muslim Brotherhood is dedicated in its own words to “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands.” What better way to carry out its plans to “sabotage” our efforts than to have one of its own invited to lecture on Islam to the very troops called to defend this country against those the Brotherhood supports. We ask that you immediately stop any lecturing by Louay Safi or ISNA affiliated speakers.

Sincerely,


W. Todd Akin
Member of Congress

Sue Myrick
Member of Congress

Trent Franks
Member of Congress

Todd Tiarht
Member of Congress

Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Member of Congress

Jeff Miller
Member of Congress

Phil Gingrey
Member of Congress

Paul C. Broun
Member of Congress

Rodney Alexander
Member of Congress

Steve King
Member of Congress

Kenny Marchant
Member of Congress

John B. Shadegg
Member of Congress

Ralph M. Hall
Member of Congress

December 18, 2009

Want to know exactly how incidents like the Ft Hood massacre happen? Look no further than this article by Paul Sperry in yesterday's Investor's Business Daily:

The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack.

An honored guest of the Ramadan dinner at the Pentagon this September was Hesham Islam, who infiltrated the highest echelons of the Ring despite proven ties to U.S. terror front groups and a shady past in his native Egypt.

As senior adviser for international affairs to former deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, Islam ran interference for the Islamic Society of North America and other radical fronts for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, the subject of my new book "Muslim Mafia."

For example, Islam persuaded brass to sack a Pentagon analyst, Stephen Coughlin, after he advised cutting off outreach to ISNA, which he accurately ID'd as part of a covert terror-support network in the U.S. — something the Justice Department recently confirmed in a major terror finance trial.

Islam invited ISNA officials to lunch with the avuncular England, known by insiders as Gullible Gordon, who in turn spoke at ISNA confabs. Islam also helped set up a Pentagon job booth at one recent ISNA convention to recruit Muslim chaplains and linguists.

Most disturbing, Islam met regularly with Saudi and other embassy officials lobbying for the release and repatriation of their citizens held at Gitmo. He in turn advised England, who authorized the release of dozens of Gitmo detainees. Some have resumed terrorist activities.

No one really knew who Islam was when he was promoted — in fact, the Pentagon removed his bio from its Web site after reporters noted major inconsistencies in it — yet he was allowed to get inside the office of the Pentagon's No. 2 official.

"In effect," a senior U.S. Army intelligence official told me, "we've got terrorist supporters calling the shots on our policies toward Muslims from the highest levels."

Meanwhile, politically incorrect prophets like Coughlin have been frozen out. After the betrayal at Fort Hood, the military could use his analysis of Islamic doctrine more than ever.

READ THE WHOLE FRICKING THING.

December 16, 2009

Jeff Imm has more on the Hizb ut-Tahrir America meeting this Sunday in the Chicago suburb of Lombard that I told you about last week. R.E.A.L.:

Hizb ut-Tahrir America has sought to intimidate those who would exercise their Constitutionally-protected religious freedom by stating that in the global “Khilafah” of Muslims those who “publicly abandon Islam” should know “that they will be killed for it.” According to Hizb ut-Tahrir America’s handouts in the Chicago suburbs, those who choose such religious freedom are committing “an open attack on the basis of the state which is Islam, essentially it is viewed as treason and a political attack on the Khilafah in order to undermine it”… which according to Hizb ut-Tahrir America deserves “the death penalty.” On July 19, 2009, in full view of local law enforcement (and reportedly federal law enforcement) in Oak Lawn, Illinois, Hizb ut-Tahrir handed out this brochure calling for “the death penalty” against “apostates” from Islam to a reported 700 attendees at this conference.

The place where they are meeting, the Lombard Park District community building, is a public facility. Your tax dollars at work!

December 14, 2009

Via Chicago Sun

WASHINGTON -- The White House will announce Tuesday that President Obama will seek to acquire the Thomson Correctional Center in northwestern Illinois to house detainees now held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Do you live in Thomson, Illinois?

The "moderate" Islamists of Hisb ut-Tahrir will be holding a forum this Sunday, December 20th @ 5:00 - 6:30 PM in the Chicago suburb of Lombard. They will be at 433 E. St. Charles Rd (corner of St. Charles Rd & Grace St.). By "moderate" I mean they wish to establish shariah law "through peaceful means". After that their stated agenda is to get rid of democracy (harem, you know) and then proceed to institute the death penalty for apostasy, adultery, blasphemy, etc.

These people are no different than the Taliban, save for falling short of calling for violence as a means to the same end. They speak the language of al Qaeda, calling terrorists martyrs and betraying their own country in word if not in deed. They are quite literally the enemy among us.

The purpose of this particular "discussion" is to talk about who is really behind the civilian bombings in Pakistan. I'm going to guess they're with Adam Gadahn on this one.

Any Chicago natives embarrassed to admit where they're from lately?

Thanks to d_m.

December 09, 2009

The Blotter reports that Eric Holder is in New York helping set the ground for th trial of the century. There are also rumors that a grand jury is already hearing testimony against the conspirators.

There are many reasons why the 9/11 trials shouldn't be held in New York City. This has to be right near the top:

Elements of the security plan are already in effect, and it is expected to draw heavily from the resources of the counter terrorism and intelligence divisions that the NYPD beefed up after the 9/11 attacks, committing more than 1,000 officers and analysts to the effort. The security plans also contains details like sniper teams, heavy weapons deployments, barricades, traffic diversions and the use of undercover officers and surveillance measures. ...

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly stated Tuesday that the security plan will cost far more than the $75 million that Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., presented at a Senate hearing last month.

Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne told ABC News, "That $75 million was a preliminary, back of the envelope estimate. It is expected to cost significantly more."

December 07, 2009

I haven't been following the case of Air Tran Flight 297 all that closely. In fact, I declined to comment it since the first day that I started receiving panicked emails talking about a "dry run".

As I told a few of those who forwarded the now viral email describing the events of loud men behaving badly at the gate: Um, it's not people speaking Arabic loudly you have to worry about.

Quite the opposite, in fact. Muhammad Atta did not broadcast his intentions by being loud.

But it does seem that Air Tran handled the case poorly with a policy of deny everything. No doubt they are fearful of a repeat of the flying imams who sued not only the airline for removing them from the flight after a similar incident, but also the passengers who reported their odd behavior.

Note to Air Tran: You can deny the details of the incident all you want, but you're still going to be sued.

Yes, it's come to that. And for that you can thank Congress who declined to give airlines immunity from such lawsuits.

But more to the point, the evidence seems pretty solid that the men in question were acting strangely.

Were they terrorists on a "dry run"? Um, no. In fact, the description of their behavior seems kind of right in line with what you might expect from any flight from Vegas. I should know, I've been on dozens of these flights filled with passengers behaving similarly. As if the airplane was the last leg of a weekend long party in which they forgot all manners and just assume that every one is as loud and obnoxious as they are.

What's the difference here? They were speaking Arabic.

If after 9/11 native Arabic speakers don't get why the rest of us get nervous around them on an airplane then they are living in a fantasy world.

Yes, you make us nervous. Especially when you behave in ways normally considered rude. We tend to overlook rudeness to varying degrees depending on the context of the situation.

And the language you speak does add an extra layer of context.

I certainly don't approve of racism. But I'm also quite aware that hijackers are thousands of times more likely to be Muslims than of any other religious identity. And that a great number of Muslim hijackers are also Arabs. Like, all 19 on Sept. 11th.

So, note to readers: Arabs speaking loudly and ignoring the requests of stewardesses are probably not hijackers, just assholes.

But note to native Arabic speakers: show a little self control and sensitivity. You make a lot of people very nervous when you behave rudely. Some might call this fear irrational and they may have a point. But no more irrational than, say, instructing passengers how to use the airplane cushions as a flotation device. The odds of being hijacked and surviving a crash long enough to need them probably being similar.

Yes this sucks. We don't live in an ideal world. It could be much worse. Embrace the suck.

Anyway, here's the column by Laura Armstrong in the Marietta Daily Journal which seems to confirm the major details of the initial email:

Even as people scrambled to substantiate the e-mail, Muslim and leftist Web sites began characterizing the writer and anyone who thought it might have merit as "right wing racists." They immediately initiated a campaign to discredit and ridicule the writer, who actually had the audacity to speak boldly about the escalating fear and anger on the flight, though he admitted to me yesterday he'd taken artistic license with a couple points, never imagining it would travel beyond his circle of friends. He's not a journalist, and has no wish to become the next Joe the Plumber, he said.

His account, not intended for publication, focused on Arabic-speaking men using a number of tactics to upset the aircraft, such as taking photos of passengers, getting up and down from their seats at inappropriate times and intimidating others. The e-mail has, unfortunately, overshadowed the real story.

Oops: I had another point I was going to make but had to run off. I think the best point that I might have the most sympathy for is that in the wake of the flying imams case this could have been a case of Arabs looking to get thrown off the flight so they could sue the company.

That is, these men were doing things that normally will get you thrown off a flight, what makes them so special?

I'll buy that. Most rude people don't get thrown off, though. But some do. It's up to the crew to make that call.

I'm just pointing out that this was not a terror dry run. If it was they would be trying not to get noticed.

December 05, 2009

In the annals of people unclear on the concept, this woman may take the cake.

Meet, uber-dhimmi. A woman who hates her own country so much, she embraces not only the enemy, but a system of law which would outlaw her criticisms of the Islamic state.

Thanks to Mike.

December 01, 2009

I've been getting a lot of email lately about Paul Sperry's book Muslim Mafia. Mostly I've just ignored those emails since the vast majority of them have pretty much been press releases from WND. And since WND has gone Birther, I've pretty much been ignoring them.

How wrong I was. At least, wrong to discount everything they publish because some of what they publish I consider total BS. You might call this my inner Charles Johnson. It's a curse.

Consider this a mea culpa of sorts :

The possible new spy ring involves several Arabic linguists, some also Egyptian and Syrian immigrants. They’re suspected of, among other things:

* Omitting valuable intelligence from their translations of interrogations.

* Slipping notes to detainees inside copies of the Koran.

* Coaching detainees to make allegations of abuse against interrogators.

* Meeting with suspects on the terror watchlist while back in the United States.

We need Muslims.

But we also need to realize that Muslims are statistically much more likely to be sympathetic to Islamic extremists than, say, Lutherans. And that means heightened scrutiny and background checks which may seem unfair in theory, but in practice are necessary steps for our national security.

Anyway, I think I might need to pick up a copy of Sperry's book.

Thanks to Michelle who has more.

November 26, 2009

Like I've said before, I'm agnostic on Rifqa Bary's motive for running away from home and just how much danger she is there. What I do have a problem with is a judicial system turning a blind eye to the threat of honor killing and allowing CAIR attorney's to be present when Rifqa's parents were interviewed.

Cultural sensitivity is a nice sentiment, but so is truth. And the truth is there are a significant minority of Muslim immigrants who have brought with them customs that have no place in America.

Robert Spencer:

Salah Sultan, formerly of the Noor Mosque in Columbus, Ohio, (before he himself was barred from entering the United States), and Anwar al-Awlaki, Nidal Hasan's jihadist imam, led a Hajj trip together in 2002....

Yet we are told that Rifqa Bary won't be in any danger, as a convert from Islam to Christianity, if she is returned to her father, who attends this mosque and who she says threatened to kill her.

And the mosque Rifqa's parents attends once was presided over by a friend of al-Awlaki.

No, this doesn't prove that Rifqa's life is in danger. But it is evidence that the kind of Islam that her family practices would be more suited to Saudi Arabia than her parent's native Sri Lanka. And that I think is something the court needs to look into.

November 21, 2009

Via Jammie Wearing Fool

Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.

This trial is indeed going to be a circus thanks to AG Holder living in a 9/10 fog.

November 14, 2009

(Actually Cass started it after BSC Beth brought it up.)

A trend or just a blip on the radar screen?

Western governments are beginning to wake up to dangerous or “barbaric” practices among immigrants—especially among Muslim immigrants. Whether such practices are pre-Islamic, non-Islamic, even anti-Islamic (and people have argued all of the above), the truth is that certain “barbaric” practices are most often committed by Muslims against Muslims. Sikhs and Hindus, to a much lesser extent, also commit honor murders.

So, if the Fort Hood massacre isn't worth investigation by Congress then what is? Bush-hitler, of course!

UPDATE: Good point in the comments that I hadn't thought of:

Yeah right Congress would do its usual great job in investigation. PUHLLEEEZE NOOOO!! I would prefer to have the FBI and the military do the investigations.

The one and only one thing Congressional investigations do is shame those that need shaming. And in this case a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves.

November 12, 2009

NPR's Morning Edition was in full defensive mode this morning with at least three separate segments devoted to the Fort Hood massacre. One segment, though, was surprising. An interview with an American Muslim who says that, yes, religion was a motivating factor for Nidal Hasan:

"To say it has nothing to do with the faith of that individual would be dishonest," [Irfan] Nourredine said. "It may not represent the faith of Muslims around the world or American Muslims, but it does represent his faith and probably people of like mind — the fringe of the community, people who are on the outskirts, who we may not pay as much attention as we need to."

There are extremist Islamist elements in America, he says. And he wishes Muslims would accept that and begin dealing with it. For too long, some Muslims have stayed silent about radical beliefs they may not endorse because they don't want to appear un-Islamic, he says. For some Muslims in the government or in the military, that's a battle that can't be won.

"You're looked at as a suspect in your own society," he said. "Then you're looked at as a hypocrite in your community."

November 11, 2009

Apparantly, in his country, grabbing someone's crucifix while wildly yelling is considered normal. Which, unfortunately, might actually be true, making the excuses given for Hamid by his family all the more plausible (if not irrelevant):

Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward appeared before Judge Christine Moruza yesterday for an arraignment on charges of battery, grand theft, terrorist threats and exhibition of a deadly weapon....

Hamid, 22, who works at a kiosk in the mall, was arrested by Pleasanton police Nov. 4 after he reportedly yelled "Allah is power" and "Islam is great," while holding a pen in a fist over his head and then allegedly grabbing and breaking a crucifix off a man's neck. Witnesses also said he had been shouting anti-Christian comments, according to police....

Hamid's family members, who declined to give their names, say it was all a misunderstanding....

His family also said that he's only been in the country a few months and is still learning the language and the laws.

I'm reminded of half a line from the movie Office Space, "This isn't Riyadh." Indeed.

November 10, 2009

Children from military families waiting to get into the White House Halloween party.

Benjamin, whose work prolonging the insurgency in Iraq with humanitarian aid and political support for the terrorists is believed by many military families to have led to the maiming and killing of thousands of American soldiers in Iraq, has now focused her energies on helping our terrorist enemies defeat America in Afghanistan by propagandizing against reinforcements for our troops.

Dressed in fatigues with a bloody bandage wrapped around her head, Benjamin loudly moaned as she emoted being a ‘zombie soldier’, while holding a black cut-out of a rifle and wearing a pink sign that read, “The White House is haunted by the ghosts of Bush’s war.”

What absolute scum these people are. These shining examples of upright excrement are so awful, even state run Reuters was appalled.

Thanks to Shark4.

November 09, 2009

Fresh satire from Sense of Events:

DES MOINES, IA--Upset by killings at Ft Hood, Texas, by a suspect believed to have been motivated by his Islamic faith, a Methodist minister pulled his car next to the car of a Muslim woman attempting to change a flat tire. The minister changed the tire while the Muslim woman made sure her first-grade Muslim child did not stray out into traffic.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, immediately demanded that the woman's husband beat her severely with a rod no thicker than his thumb for spending time in the company of a man to whom she was neither married nor related by blood. It is not known whether the husband has yet complied.

MONTGOMERY, ALA.--Southern Baptists of this deep South city, enraged that a Muslim had apparently shot more than three dozen people at Ft Hood, gathered boxes of Gideons New Testaments and walked through Muslin neighborhoods passing them out and inviting them to Christian worship come Sunday.

The imam of Montgomery's largest mosque has filed a complaint with state authorities demanding that the Baptist churches' tax-exempt status be revoked for engaging in political activities. "It is takfir for Muslims even to touch infidel books," he said, "so their gesture was extremely offensive to us. This incident just illustrates how hard Muslims have it in America."

HOPE, ARK.--After three known white supremacists were arrested while trying to set fire to the only mosque in the same town where Bill Clinton grew up, men of a local African Methodist Episcopal Church began patrolling the mosque's perimeter 24 hours per day.

The men are equipped with cell phones to call police and two-way radios to contact one another. AME Pastor Andrew Thomas said that no one would permit anything to happened to the mosque like happened to a few black churches in the 1950s.

"We don't know how long we'll walk these patrols," he said. "We have several men who served in the Army and Marines since Nine-Eleven who say that this is nothing compared to what they had to patrol in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Other local churches volunteered to bring hot food and drink to the AME men. "The Church of Christ has been very helpful," said Pastor Thomas.

"The only thing we have to be careful about is not to set foot on the mosque's actual campus," he continued. "The congregants here told us that would defile their mosque."

Will the madness ever stop??

November 05, 2009

James Gadiel
February 3, 1978
A gentleman and a gentle man
Lifelong resident of Kent
Murdered by Moslem extremists
September 11, 2001

The above is what was suppose to be inscribed on James Gadiel's memorial in the town of Kent. But resident Catherine Posselt appealed to the city to reject the wording because the wording is "racially insensitive". The town granted Posselt's appeal and rejected the memorial.

This is absolutely insane. We can't even name the barbaric throwbacks who killed more than 3,000 people on September 11th because we might hurt their feelings. First off, how is the memorial "racially insensitive"? "Moslem extremists" are not a race, they're a bunch of islamic supremacists who kill innocent people in order to establish shariah law.

From NBC

Peter Gadiel lost his son James when planes struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. He has asked for a memorial planned in the town to be inscribed with the phrase that has divided the town and gotten national attention, the Waterbury Republican-American reports.

Kent resident Catherine Posselt Bachrach led a citizens' appeal to reject the wording, the Republican-American reports, and town officials agreed with her.

First Selectman Ruth Epstein told the the Torrington Register Citizen that the inscription would be racially insensitive and not appropriate for a monument paid for with taxpayer dollars.

“I feel it was such a catastrophic episode for the United States, and we lost one of our own, that it is a good idea to memorialize James. But we could not condone that wording for anything on public land,” she told the Register Citizen.

October 30, 2009

A federal judge today gave convicted al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali al-Marri an 8 year prison sentence -- half of what was sought -- because of "severe treatment".

The "severe treatment"? Was he tortured? Waterboarded? Forced to listen to New Kids on the Block for hours on end?

Nope:

His lawyers report that al-Marri has described being subjected to extreme cold, with insufficient bedding and clothing. He has been deprived of all reading material, except a Qur'an. Unlike the cells at Guantanamo Bay, which all have an arrow painted on the floor that points toward Mecca, his guards reportedly decline to inform him of which direction is East. In addition to his cell's window being merely translucent (rather than transparent), he also claims to have no clock, preventing him from knowing the proper times to say prayers. He has also reportedly been deprived of personal hygiene items. [9] The lack of such items have reportedly also rendered him unable to pray as a result of ritual impurity.

Ass pounding? Not a problem. Not knowing which way is Mecca? Nooooo!

The justification the judge gave for the lite sentence?

"My personal belief as a judge is that that was totally unacceptable," Mihm said. "That's not who we are."

In fact, I know this is who we are and as long as we're bringing up personal beliefs, it is my personal belief that U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm should be impeached.

Because Marri has already been held for six years, he'll be let go by 2011. Remember, he was an al Qaeda sleeper agent here in the U.S. who committed credit card fraud on behalf of his good buddy Khalid Shiek Mohammad.

This is the lunacy of treating terrorists as criminals.

October 23, 2009

Chesler:

The New York Times does not tell us whether Tareq Mehanna, the 27-year-old Massachusetts pharmacist who was just arrested on federal terrorism charges, is or even might be a Muslim.