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Monday, June 6, 2011
"Courting DIsaster" CIA Book exposes Obama... more damage to National Security in 1st 100 days than any president in history!!!
CIA book review
For the historical record...
As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published.
Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster":
Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m.
They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.
Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude.
And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster."
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."
Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information
was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was
acted upon."
And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied : "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.
But how many people know this???
For the historical record...
As President George W. Bush's top speechwriter, Marc Thiessen was provided unique access to the CIA program used in interrogating top Al Qaeda terrorists, including the mastermind of the 9/11 attack, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM).
Now, his riveting new book, "Courting Disaster", How the CIA Kept America Safe (Regnery), has been published.
Here is an excerpt from "Courting Disaster":
Just before dawn on March 1, 2003, two dozen heavily armed Pakistani tactical assault forces move in and surround a safe house in Rawalpindi . A few hours earlier they had received a text message from an informant inside the house. It read: "I am with KSM."
Bursting in, they find the disheveled mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in his bedroom. He is taken into custody. In the safe house, they find a treasure trove of computers, documents, cell phones and other valuable "pocket litter."
Once in custody, KSM is defiant. He refuses to answer questions, informing his captors that he will tell them everything when he gets to America and sees his lawyer. But KSM is not taken to America to see a lawyer Instead he is taken to a secret CIA "black site" in an undisclosed location.
Upon arrival, KSM finds himself in the complete control of Americans. He does not know where he is, how long he will be there, or what his fate will be.
Despite his circumstances, KSM still refuses to talk. He spews contempt at his interrogators, telling them Americans are weak, lack resilience, and are unable to do what is necessary to prevent the terrorists from succeeding in their goals. He has trained to resist interrogation. When he is asked for information about future attacks, he tells his questioners scornfully: "Soon, you will know."
It becomes clear he will not reveal the information using traditional interrogation techniques. So he undergoes a series of "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved for use only on the most high-value detainees. The techniques include waterboarding.
His resistance is described by one senior American official as "superhuman." Eventually, however, the techniques work, and KSM becomes cooperative-for reasons that will be described later in this book.
He begins telling his CIA de-briefers about active al Qaeda plots to launch attacks against the United States and other Western targets. He holds classes for CIA officials, using a chalkboard to draw a picture of al Qaeda's operating structure, financing, communications, and logistics. He identifies al Qaeda travel routes and safe havens, and helps intelligence officers make sense of documents and computer records seized in terrorist raids. He identifies voices in intercepted telephone calls, and helps officials understand the meaning of coded terrorist communications. He provides information that helps our intelligence community capture other high-ranking terrorists, KSM's questioning, and that of other captured terrorists, produces more than 6,000 intelligence reports, which are shared across the intelligence community, as well as with our allies across the world.
In one of these reports, KSM describes in detail the revisions he made to his failed 1994-1995 plan known as the "Bojinka plot" to blow up a dozen airplanes carrying some 4,000 passengers over the Pacific Ocean.
Years later, an observant CIA officer notices the activities of a cell being followed by British authorities appear to match KSM's description of his plans for a Bojinka-style attack.
In an operation that involves unprecedented intelligence cooperation between our countries, British officials proceed to unravel the plot.
On the night of Aug. 9, 2006 they launch a series of raids in a northeast London suburb that lead to the arrest of two dozen al Qaeda terrorist suspects. They find a USB thumb-drive in the pocket of one of the men with security details for Heathrow airport, and information on seven trans-Atlantic flights that were scheduled to take off within hours of each other:
* United Airlines Flight 931 to San Francisco departing at 2:15 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 849 to Toronto departing at 3:00 p.m.;
* Air Canada Flight 865 to Montreal departing at 3:15 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 959 to Chicago departing at 3:40 p.m.;
* United Airlines Flight 925 to Washington departing at 4:20 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 131 to New York departing at 4:35 p.m.;
* American Airlines Flight 91 to Chicago departing at 4:50 p.m.
They seize bomb-making equipment and hydrogen peroxide to make liquid explosives. And they find the chilling martyrdom videos the suicide bombers had prepared.
Today, if you asked an average person on the street what they know about the 2006 airlines plot, most would not be able to tell you much.
Few Americans are aware of the fact al Qaeda had planned to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 with an attack of similar scope and magnitude.
And still fewer realize the terrorists' true intentions in this plot were uncovered thanks to critical information obtained through the interrogation of the man who conceived it: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This is only one of the many attacks stopped with the help of the CIA interrogation program established by the Bush Administration in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Editor's Note: For other foiled terrorist plots, see page 9 of "Courting Disaster."
In addition to helping break up these specific terrorist cells and plots, CIA questioning provided our intelligence community with an unparalleled body of information about al Qaeda Until the program was temporarily suspended in 2006, intelligence officials say, well over half of the information our government had about al Qaeda-how it operates, how it moves money, how it communicates, how it recruits operatives, how it picks targets, how it plans and carries out attacks-came from the interrogation of terrorists in CIA custody.
Former CIA Director George Tenet has declared: "I know this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than what the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us."
Former CIA Director Mike Hayden has said: "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work."
Even Barack Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has acknowledged: "High-value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."
Leon Panetta, Obama's CIA Director, has said: "Important information
was gathered from these detainees. It provided information that was
acted upon."
And John Brennan, Obama's Homeland Security Advisor, when asked in an interview if enhanced-interrogation techniques were necessary to keep America safe, replied : "Would the U.S. be handicapped if the CIA was not, in fact, able to carry out these types of detention and debriefing activities? I would say yes."
On Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13491, closing the CIA program and directing that, henceforth, all interrogations by U.S. personnel must follow the techniques contained in the Army Field Manual.
The morning of the announcement, Mike Hayden was still in his post as CIA Director, He called White House Counsel Greg Craig and told him bluntly: "You didn't ask, but this is the CIA officially nonconcurring". The president went ahead anyway, over ruling the objections of the agency.
A few months later, on April 16, 2009, President Obama ordered the release of four Justice Department memos that described in detail the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists. This time, not just Hayden (who was now retired) but five CIA directors -including Obama's own director, Leon Panetta -- objected. George Tenet called to urge against the memos' release. So did Porter Goss. So did John Deutch. Hayden says: "You had CIA directors in a continuous unbroken stream to 1995 calling saying, 'Don't do this.'"
In addition to objections from the men who led the agency for a collective 14 years, the President also heard objections from the agency's covert field operatives. A few weeks earlier, Panetta had arranged for the eight top officials of the Clandestine Service to meet with the President. It was highly unusual for these clandestine officers to visit the Oval Office, and they used the opportunity to warn the President that releasing the memos would put agency operatives at risk. The President reportedly listened respectfully-and then ignored their advice.
With these actions, Barack Obama arguably did more damage to America's national security in his first 100 days of office than any President in American history.
But how many people know this???
Monday, February 21, 2011
Parvez Ahmed: UNF Professor & Apologist for Egyptians who Gang Raped Reporter Laura Logan
This article was written by Jacksonville Human Rights Commissioner Parvez Ahmed with rebuttal comments in RED by the ACT for America - Jacksonville Chapter Leader.
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Abuse of women is sadly endemic
by Parvez Ahmed*
Amidst all the euphoria about Egypt’s peaceful revolution, the news of CBS news reporter Lara Logan being sexually assaulted fell like a ton of bricks.
Parvez Ahmed makes the statement that the Assault fell like a ton of bricks yet a simple Google search of the assault shows nothing to support this statement… not a word of condemnation from CAIR, Egypt, or the Muslim Brotherhood in the mainstream media. I think the Bricks are beginning to fall on the Propaganda Parvez has been spewing for years via the FTU and Huffington Post, as well as his blogs.
The people of Egypt, especially its youth, have been such an inspiration that any hint of deviant behavior understandably elicits gasps and should provoke soul searching. Sadly, the incident is not that isolated.
Now the glorification and apologetics begin. Parvez speaks of the gasps when all we in the west hear is silence and the most he recommends is soul searching.
A 2008 survey by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights shows that 98 percent of foreign women and 83 percent of Egyptian women reporting being sexually harassed.
Notice how Parvez states the facts (which are staggering and appalling statistics of a morally corrupt culture) and then minimizes these attacks and rapes as simple assaults. Not quite what one would expect from a Human Rights Commissioner.
Six in 10 men admitted to such behavior. How is it that in Muslim societies, which often pontificate about conservative values and use such values to advocate gender segregation, women are denied the most basic of dignities?
Parvez, now poses the question in a manner that this is somehow not related to Islam and begins the scriptural apologetics…. As a good Muslim Brother he begins using Taqiyya or Holy Deception which is obligatory Islamic Doctrine to further cultural Jihad in the host Country.
The Islamic scripture is unequivocal that the proper treatment of women is a cornerstone in developing personal piety and societal harmony. In chapter 9 verse 71, the Quranic paradigm is clear: “The believers, men and women, are protectors, one of another: they enjoin what is just and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey God and His Messenger. On them will God pour His Mercy: for God is Exalted in power, Wise.”
Parvez selectively uses a benign verse from the Koran which tells the non-Muslim that men and women are protectors of one another, forbid evil… it does not address the specific treatment of women per sacred scriptures such as the few that follow:
Ishaq:496 "Ask the slave girl; she will tell you the truth.' So the Apostle called Burayra to ask her. Ali got up and gave her a violent beating first, saying, 'Tell the Apostle the truth.'"
Qur'an 24:34 "Force not your slave-girls to whoredom (prostitution) if they desire chastity, that you may seek enjoyment of this life. [And here's the freedom-to-pimp card:] But if anyone forces them, then after such compulsion, Allah is oft-forgiving."
Qur'an 4:15 "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them."
Qur'an 24:6 "And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth."
“Tabari IX:113 "Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an."
Tabari I:280 "Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."
Expounding on the subject of gender relations, noted Islamic scholar Jamal Badawi writes:
“Under no circumstances does the Quran encourage, allow or condone violence (against women). In extreme cases … it allows for a husband to administer a gentle pat to his wife that causes no physical harm to the body nor leaves any sort of mark. …. In the event that dispute cannot be resolved equitably between husband and wife, the Quran prescribes mediation between the parties through family intervention on behalf of both spouses.”
Badawi is attempting to contextualize the Quranic verse 4:34. And yet many Muslim religious leaders do not place this verse into its proper context, making it ripe for abuse both at the hands of Muslim men and by those who blame Islam for all that ails the Muslim world.
Jamal Badawi is a senior Muslim Brother member and sits on the Fiqh Council of North America which has its seal of a approval on the Umdat Al Salik or Reliance of The Traveler, which is the desktop codex to Sacred Islamic Law…. an accepted translation into english of sacred Islamic Law first translated in 1991, Which discusses Jihad, Treatment of Non-Muslims, Muslims, Women, Stoning and more. We have video of Badawi refusing to denounce this Islamic Law manual or any of these barbaric laws.
In addition you can hear him preach to his Muslim Audience on http://www.islamicity.com where in various sermons he states no man made law can be obeyed and talks about beating women among other topics.
Parvez makes apology that Muslim men again misunderstand their religion and the whole world picks on poor Islam for this one verse. Many Christians do not agree on many verses…but we do not see wholesale beatings and widespread terrorism and persecution in its name.
NOTE: Parvez Ahmed also refused to denounce these barbaric Laws on camera. You will understand why when you read Islamic law regarding to Apostacy in this manual, which makes it clear that they become apostates to Islam for doing so.
Contradictions between the teaching in sacred texts and the reality on the ground are not limited to Egypt or the gender-segregated and repressive Gulf states. In Turkey, four out of 10 women are physically abused by their husbands, according to a recent study titled “Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey.”
Now Parvez Ahmed uses another standard Muslim Brotherhood talking point when he said that these Muslims must somehow be misunderstanding the sacred texts.
In fact, Islamic apologist will systematically use earlier peaceful verses to obfuscate later verses which have authority or have abrogated earlier verses to deceive the western audience.
The fact is that the Umdat al Salik or Sacred Islamic Law manual is derived from the Quran (word of ALLAH), the Hadith (Traditions of Muhammad), Sira (Biography of Muhammad), Ijtihad (Human Reasoning in regard to the reliability of all the hadith RE: are they false, weak, or strong hadith (Bukari and Muslim being the strongest or most reliable), and finally these were given Ijma or Consensus. Since, then no laws are allowed to be changed or annulled.
Fatwas which are often used to confuse the facts regarding Islamic law are edicts or religious legal rulings in compliance within the confines of the laws previously discussed.
To be fair, abuse of women is not exclusively a Muslim problem. The same day that the Lara Logan story broke, news media also reported that female members of the US Navy were alleging the cover up of widespread rape. A US Justice Department study shows that one in six American women are raped during their lifetimes. Nearly half of all murders of women in the US are committed by a romantic partner. Abuse of women is just as problematic in conservative Muslim societies as they are in the liberal West. This underscores the need for less finger-pointing and ought to provide the impetus to collectively address the issue.
Parvez uses this technique above often…. Look it’s not just Islam, everyone is doing it, with little regard to how disparaging the differences between the particular group he mentions is; in this case 98% Egyptian Muslim abuses against women vs. 16% in America.
The abuse of women in Muslim societies is particularly jolting because of its stark contrast with the normative teachings of Islam. I often have the privilege of speaking to people of other faiths about Islam and Muslims. Such contradictions are what most troubles my audience and why they continue to harbor negative opinions about Islam and Muslims.
Here Parvez again deceives his readers about the normative teachings of Islam regarding women which was clearly shown with just a few of the Islamic teachings he failed to report above. He then paints Muslims as victims of negative or bigoted opinions.
Islamophobia cannot be overcome by merely preaching Islam. It will require Muslims to live Islam and their societies to reflect Islam’s values and ethics.
Parvez, then uses the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) talking points and the word they coined in their “10 Year Plan” Islamophobia. Islamophobia is part of the OIC strategy to make speech critical of Islam or the Prophet a crime. It has worked over the past six years wonderfully as the UN has just passed their resolution to do just that.
While Muslim preachers rail against those who prevent women from wearing headscarves or hijab, they are largely silent on the endemic abuse of women.
In western Society in general, we have freedom to wear what we want with few exceptions, like say driver licenses and school dress codes at some private schools. The wearing of the Hijab is a way to insinuate Sharia Law in America via law fare. It is strictly enforced in many Islamic Countries by Dress Code Police with sever punishments and many women do not have a choice or are beaten. However, Parvez paints them as victims who are not allowed this freedom.
While Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, are quick to defend gender segregation as a way to “protect” women, they have taken few measures to stem the pervasive mistreatment of women in their own backyards.
This is an interesting term “Protect” and quite different than how it is perceived in the west. Under Islam women are property which is to be protected and they are always under the “Protection” of a Muslim Male. The Husband, Son, or other male relative.
"Protection" is used similarly when addressing people of the book (Christian and Jews) who live as Dhimmi (3rd class citizens) under the “Protection” of their Muslim conquerors by paying the Jizya or Poll Tax. The Jizya allows Christians and Jews to practice their religion as long as they pay the Tax with WILLING SUBMISSION.
It is akin to a Mafia type “Protection” and really extortion, and once the monies run out or the dhimmie are no longer useful they are forced to convert or die as other who were not of the book were forced to do so.
In the general gloom and doom of the Middle East, once again it is the educated and enlightened Muslim youth that is providing a ray of hope. Visit the Facebook page titled “Lara Logan: An apology from Egypt.” The messages of apology seem heartfelt. Many Egyptians are rightfully ashamed of this ignominy. My fervent hope is that they turn this moment of shame into motivation for positive change that eradicates this “social cancer.” Can Arabs and Muslims once again turn their hopeful eyes towards Egypt in leading the path to civilization? CNN producer and camerawoman Mary Rogers gives voice to the hope of many, “Perhaps it will be people power -- the same people power that brought down a regime -- that will successfully combat sexual harassment. But the only real protection women can have is when the attitudes of men change.”
In this final paragraph Parvez puts the hope of the Arab world in the hands of the enlightened Muslim youth… the same youth who overwhelmingly support Sharia law and Jihad according to both Gallup and Pew polls.
He makes the unequivocal statement most Egyptian are rightfully ashamed, yet has no way to confirm this assertion other than a single face-book page and no mainstream media or polls to corroborate or offer any type of back up.
Then Parvez talks about Egypt leading the path to “Civilization”. This statement sounds benign until you realize the context in which the Muslim Brotherhood in America understands it.
In a previously secret document “The Strategic Goals for the Group in North America” the Muslim Brotherhood laid out its plan to wage a “Civilization Jihad” and went further to state:
“The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan (Brotherhood) must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions.”
Document entered into evidence by FBI in Justice Department Holy Land Foundation Trial.
keep in mind Parvez Ahmed led CAIR Florida for several years before becoming its National Chairman for four years. CAIR was designated a Muslim Brotherhood entity in the largest terror funding trial in U.S. history.
You must do your own unbiased reasoning to come to a rational conclusion of probability and ask yourself…. Is Parvez Ahmed a mild mannered professor or a soft spoken stealth Jihadist promoting Sharia Compliant Finance or Jihad with Money as the Muslim Brotherhood refer to it?
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Professor Parvez Ahmed is a Fulbright scholar and associate professor of finance at the University of North Florida.
2011-02-21
Muhabir: Parvez Ahmed
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All Commentary in Red was made by Randy McDaniels of ACT for America’s Jacksonville Chapter.
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Abuse of women is sadly endemic
by Parvez Ahmed*
Amidst all the euphoria about Egypt’s peaceful revolution, the news of CBS news reporter Lara Logan being sexually assaulted fell like a ton of bricks.
Parvez Ahmed makes the statement that the Assault fell like a ton of bricks yet a simple Google search of the assault shows nothing to support this statement… not a word of condemnation from CAIR, Egypt, or the Muslim Brotherhood in the mainstream media. I think the Bricks are beginning to fall on the Propaganda Parvez has been spewing for years via the FTU and Huffington Post, as well as his blogs.
The people of Egypt, especially its youth, have been such an inspiration that any hint of deviant behavior understandably elicits gasps and should provoke soul searching. Sadly, the incident is not that isolated.
Now the glorification and apologetics begin. Parvez speaks of the gasps when all we in the west hear is silence and the most he recommends is soul searching.
A 2008 survey by the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights shows that 98 percent of foreign women and 83 percent of Egyptian women reporting being sexually harassed.
Notice how Parvez states the facts (which are staggering and appalling statistics of a morally corrupt culture) and then minimizes these attacks and rapes as simple assaults. Not quite what one would expect from a Human Rights Commissioner.
Six in 10 men admitted to such behavior. How is it that in Muslim societies, which often pontificate about conservative values and use such values to advocate gender segregation, women are denied the most basic of dignities?
Parvez, now poses the question in a manner that this is somehow not related to Islam and begins the scriptural apologetics…. As a good Muslim Brother he begins using Taqiyya or Holy Deception which is obligatory Islamic Doctrine to further cultural Jihad in the host Country.
The Islamic scripture is unequivocal that the proper treatment of women is a cornerstone in developing personal piety and societal harmony. In chapter 9 verse 71, the Quranic paradigm is clear: “The believers, men and women, are protectors, one of another: they enjoin what is just and forbid what is evil: they observe regular prayers, practice regular charity, and obey God and His Messenger. On them will God pour His Mercy: for God is Exalted in power, Wise.”
Parvez selectively uses a benign verse from the Koran which tells the non-Muslim that men and women are protectors of one another, forbid evil… it does not address the specific treatment of women per sacred scriptures such as the few that follow:
Ishaq:496 "Ask the slave girl; she will tell you the truth.' So the Apostle called Burayra to ask her. Ali got up and gave her a violent beating first, saying, 'Tell the Apostle the truth.'"
Qur'an 24:34 "Force not your slave-girls to whoredom (prostitution) if they desire chastity, that you may seek enjoyment of this life. [And here's the freedom-to-pimp card:] But if anyone forces them, then after such compulsion, Allah is oft-forgiving."
Qur'an 4:15 "If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them."
Qur'an 24:6 "And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth."
“Tabari IX:113 "Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an."
Tabari I:280 "Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."
Expounding on the subject of gender relations, noted Islamic scholar Jamal Badawi writes:
“Under no circumstances does the Quran encourage, allow or condone violence (against women). In extreme cases … it allows for a husband to administer a gentle pat to his wife that causes no physical harm to the body nor leaves any sort of mark. …. In the event that dispute cannot be resolved equitably between husband and wife, the Quran prescribes mediation between the parties through family intervention on behalf of both spouses.”
Badawi is attempting to contextualize the Quranic verse 4:34. And yet many Muslim religious leaders do not place this verse into its proper context, making it ripe for abuse both at the hands of Muslim men and by those who blame Islam for all that ails the Muslim world.
Jamal Badawi is a senior Muslim Brother member and sits on the Fiqh Council of North America which has its seal of a approval on the Umdat Al Salik or Reliance of The Traveler, which is the desktop codex to Sacred Islamic Law…. an accepted translation into english of sacred Islamic Law first translated in 1991, Which discusses Jihad, Treatment of Non-Muslims, Muslims, Women, Stoning and more. We have video of Badawi refusing to denounce this Islamic Law manual or any of these barbaric laws.
In addition you can hear him preach to his Muslim Audience on http://www.islamicity.com where in various sermons he states no man made law can be obeyed and talks about beating women among other topics.
Parvez makes apology that Muslim men again misunderstand their religion and the whole world picks on poor Islam for this one verse. Many Christians do not agree on many verses…but we do not see wholesale beatings and widespread terrorism and persecution in its name.
NOTE: Parvez Ahmed also refused to denounce these barbaric Laws on camera. You will understand why when you read Islamic law regarding to Apostacy in this manual, which makes it clear that they become apostates to Islam for doing so.
Contradictions between the teaching in sacred texts and the reality on the ground are not limited to Egypt or the gender-segregated and repressive Gulf states. In Turkey, four out of 10 women are physically abused by their husbands, according to a recent study titled “Domestic Violence against Women in Turkey.”
Now Parvez Ahmed uses another standard Muslim Brotherhood talking point when he said that these Muslims must somehow be misunderstanding the sacred texts.
In fact, Islamic apologist will systematically use earlier peaceful verses to obfuscate later verses which have authority or have abrogated earlier verses to deceive the western audience.
The fact is that the Umdat al Salik or Sacred Islamic Law manual is derived from the Quran (word of ALLAH), the Hadith (Traditions of Muhammad), Sira (Biography of Muhammad), Ijtihad (Human Reasoning in regard to the reliability of all the hadith RE: are they false, weak, or strong hadith (Bukari and Muslim being the strongest or most reliable), and finally these were given Ijma or Consensus. Since, then no laws are allowed to be changed or annulled.
Fatwas which are often used to confuse the facts regarding Islamic law are edicts or religious legal rulings in compliance within the confines of the laws previously discussed.
To be fair, abuse of women is not exclusively a Muslim problem. The same day that the Lara Logan story broke, news media also reported that female members of the US Navy were alleging the cover up of widespread rape. A US Justice Department study shows that one in six American women are raped during their lifetimes. Nearly half of all murders of women in the US are committed by a romantic partner. Abuse of women is just as problematic in conservative Muslim societies as they are in the liberal West. This underscores the need for less finger-pointing and ought to provide the impetus to collectively address the issue.
Parvez uses this technique above often…. Look it’s not just Islam, everyone is doing it, with little regard to how disparaging the differences between the particular group he mentions is; in this case 98% Egyptian Muslim abuses against women vs. 16% in America.
The abuse of women in Muslim societies is particularly jolting because of its stark contrast with the normative teachings of Islam. I often have the privilege of speaking to people of other faiths about Islam and Muslims. Such contradictions are what most troubles my audience and why they continue to harbor negative opinions about Islam and Muslims.
Here Parvez again deceives his readers about the normative teachings of Islam regarding women which was clearly shown with just a few of the Islamic teachings he failed to report above. He then paints Muslims as victims of negative or bigoted opinions.
Islamophobia cannot be overcome by merely preaching Islam. It will require Muslims to live Islam and their societies to reflect Islam’s values and ethics.
Parvez, then uses the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) talking points and the word they coined in their “10 Year Plan” Islamophobia. Islamophobia is part of the OIC strategy to make speech critical of Islam or the Prophet a crime. It has worked over the past six years wonderfully as the UN has just passed their resolution to do just that.
While Muslim preachers rail against those who prevent women from wearing headscarves or hijab, they are largely silent on the endemic abuse of women.
In western Society in general, we have freedom to wear what we want with few exceptions, like say driver licenses and school dress codes at some private schools. The wearing of the Hijab is a way to insinuate Sharia Law in America via law fare. It is strictly enforced in many Islamic Countries by Dress Code Police with sever punishments and many women do not have a choice or are beaten. However, Parvez paints them as victims who are not allowed this freedom.
While Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, are quick to defend gender segregation as a way to “protect” women, they have taken few measures to stem the pervasive mistreatment of women in their own backyards.
This is an interesting term “Protect” and quite different than how it is perceived in the west. Under Islam women are property which is to be protected and they are always under the “Protection” of a Muslim Male. The Husband, Son, or other male relative.
"Protection" is used similarly when addressing people of the book (Christian and Jews) who live as Dhimmi (3rd class citizens) under the “Protection” of their Muslim conquerors by paying the Jizya or Poll Tax. The Jizya allows Christians and Jews to practice their religion as long as they pay the Tax with WILLING SUBMISSION.
It is akin to a Mafia type “Protection” and really extortion, and once the monies run out or the dhimmie are no longer useful they are forced to convert or die as other who were not of the book were forced to do so.
In the general gloom and doom of the Middle East, once again it is the educated and enlightened Muslim youth that is providing a ray of hope. Visit the Facebook page titled “Lara Logan: An apology from Egypt.” The messages of apology seem heartfelt. Many Egyptians are rightfully ashamed of this ignominy. My fervent hope is that they turn this moment of shame into motivation for positive change that eradicates this “social cancer.” Can Arabs and Muslims once again turn their hopeful eyes towards Egypt in leading the path to civilization? CNN producer and camerawoman Mary Rogers gives voice to the hope of many, “Perhaps it will be people power -- the same people power that brought down a regime -- that will successfully combat sexual harassment. But the only real protection women can have is when the attitudes of men change.”
In this final paragraph Parvez puts the hope of the Arab world in the hands of the enlightened Muslim youth… the same youth who overwhelmingly support Sharia law and Jihad according to both Gallup and Pew polls.
He makes the unequivocal statement most Egyptian are rightfully ashamed, yet has no way to confirm this assertion other than a single face-book page and no mainstream media or polls to corroborate or offer any type of back up.
Then Parvez talks about Egypt leading the path to “Civilization”. This statement sounds benign until you realize the context in which the Muslim Brotherhood in America understands it.
In a previously secret document “The Strategic Goals for the Group in North America” the Muslim Brotherhood laid out its plan to wage a “Civilization Jihad” and went further to state:
“The process of settlement [of Islam in the United States] is a "Civilization-Jihadist" process with all the word means. The Ikhwan (Brotherhood) must understand that all their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" their miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all religions.”
Document entered into evidence by FBI in Justice Department Holy Land Foundation Trial.
keep in mind Parvez Ahmed led CAIR Florida for several years before becoming its National Chairman for four years. CAIR was designated a Muslim Brotherhood entity in the largest terror funding trial in U.S. history.
You must do your own unbiased reasoning to come to a rational conclusion of probability and ask yourself…. Is Parvez Ahmed a mild mannered professor or a soft spoken stealth Jihadist promoting Sharia Compliant Finance or Jihad with Money as the Muslim Brotherhood refer to it?
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Professor Parvez Ahmed is a Fulbright scholar and associate professor of finance at the University of North Florida.
2011-02-21
Muhabir: Parvez Ahmed
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All Commentary in Red was made by Randy McDaniels of ACT for America’s Jacksonville Chapter.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Is Grover Norquist an Islamist? :: Daniel Pipes
Is Grover Norquist an Islamist? :: Daniel Pipes
IT just keeps getting better... you cant make this $#@@ up!
P.S. I have spoke to Samah... and she is definitely an Islamist Apologist in my opinion.
P.S.S. SAMAH is the code word used by HAMAS Operative in the 1993 FBI wire taps. Is it a coincidence that HAMAS backwards is SAMAH?????
IT just keeps getting better... you cant make this $#@@ up!
P.S. I have spoke to Samah... and she is definitely an Islamist Apologist in my opinion.
P.S.S. SAMAH is the code word used by HAMAS Operative in the 1993 FBI wire taps. Is it a coincidence that HAMAS backwards is SAMAH?????
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The PJ Tatler » Video: ACU’s Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
An operation by a team with the Florida Security Council gets Suhail Khan to make the OUTRAGEOUS CLAIM that there is NO Muslim Brotherhood in America... despite mountains of evidence to the contrary.
More videos will follow soon!!!!!!!!!
The PJ Tatler » Video: ACU’s Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
More videos will follow soon!!!!!!!!!
The PJ Tatler » Video: ACU’s Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
Thursday, January 13, 2011
CAIR Cartoon and statement not to talk to FBI Makes Obstructionist Goal Clear :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Leading Muslim Rights Advocacy Group..... Advocates Muslims NOT TO TALK to FBI... Americas 1st line of defense against domestic terrorism. Maybe they have an ulterior motive after all..... No Parvez Ahmed and his dozens of former friends who are serving time or have said they want to replace the constitutution with Sharia Law.... they are just kidding or there statments taken out of context.... probably like this post and Cartoon warning against helping the FBI in protecting America. The FBI must be the bad guys.... Islamaphobes..
CAIR Imagery Makes Obstructionist Goal Clear :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
CAIR Imagery Makes Obstructionist Goal Clear :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
American Conservative Union Board Member: ‘We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam’
American Conservative Union Board Member: ‘We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam’ click to see full article and video
American Conservative Union Board Member: ‘We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam’
Posted by Dave Reaboi Jan 10th 2011 at 12:00 pm in Islamic extremism, sharia Comments (34)Today’s New York Post carried a story about GOP activist Suhail Khan’s connections with known terrorists and organizations with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Khan– along with Grover Norquist– is a board member of the American Conservative Union, the organization that hosts the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ACU, plagued by allegations of corruption and rocked by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations pulling out of CPAC, should finally have to come up with some answers about Khan’s radical ties.
Suhail Khan’s associations with radicals, terrorists, and groups linked in a federal court to both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas can’t be easily wiped-away. Among the troubling clips showing Khan sharing the stage with terrorists and Islamists, a video obtained by the Post shows Khan in 1999 addressing the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial:
“The early Muslims loved death, dying for the sake of almighty Allah, more than the oppressors loved life,” said an impassioned Khan, who wiped away tears throughout his speech. “This must be the case when we are fighting.”
He added: “What are our oppressors going to do with a people like us? We are prepared to give our lives for the cause of Islam.”
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vimeo Direkt
It’s alarming that Khan used the “loving death more than life” figure of speech; it’s a pretty standard exhortation of the Mujaheddin and Islamists. Perhaps the best-known examples of the phrase: a slide by the Fort Hood jihadist, Maj. Nidal Hasan; the al Qaeda tape claiming responsibility for the 2004 Madrid bombings; and the speeches of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; and the words of Osama Bin Laden.
Also in the speech (posted in full here), Khan notes proudly his own father’s role in founding ISNA and his time with the Muslim Student Association, the first Muslim Brotherhood front created in the United States. This story is told in detail in Shariah: The Threat to America. As Paul Sperry notes in The Post:
“Khan’s father also helped found the Muslim Community Association in Santa Clara, Calif. This Khan family mosque is listed in the Muslim Brotherhood’s own documents as one of “our organizations.” In the 1990s, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, it hosted Ayman al-Zawahiri – now al Qaeda’s No. 2 — as he toured the US raising money.
For years, Frank Gaffney, Michelle Malkin and others have written in detail about the troubling Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood associations of both Norquist and Khan, only to be attacked ad hominem as bigots. Tellingly, Khan and Norquist sought refuge not with the conservative movement– but at Politico, Salon, and with Andrew Sullivan and others; over the course of years, the only answer to these accusations has been to shout, “Islamophobe!”
Conservatives– and, indeed, paying attendees at CPAC– should be reminded of the attacks leveled by these same media outlets against the Tea Party, Andrew Breitbart and others, and sense that something’s fishy here.
Read the whole thing at the New York Post…
American Conservative Union Board Member: ‘We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam’
Posted by Dave Reaboi Jan 10th 2011 at 12:00 pm in Islamic extremism, sharia Comments (34)Today’s New York Post carried a story about GOP activist Suhail Khan’s connections with known terrorists and organizations with close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Khan– along with Grover Norquist– is a board member of the American Conservative Union, the organization that hosts the yearly Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). The ACU, plagued by allegations of corruption and rocked by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations pulling out of CPAC, should finally have to come up with some answers about Khan’s radical ties.
Suhail Khan’s associations with radicals, terrorists, and groups linked in a federal court to both the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas can’t be easily wiped-away. Among the troubling clips showing Khan sharing the stage with terrorists and Islamists, a video obtained by the Post shows Khan in 1999 addressing the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing trial:
“The early Muslims loved death, dying for the sake of almighty Allah, more than the oppressors loved life,” said an impassioned Khan, who wiped away tears throughout his speech. “This must be the case when we are fighting.”
He added: “What are our oppressors going to do with a people like us? We are prepared to give our lives for the cause of Islam.”
embedded by Embedded Video
Khan: "We Are Prepared to Give Our Lives for the Cause of Islam" from NOMB2011 on Vimeo.
vimeo Direkt
It’s alarming that Khan used the “loving death more than life” figure of speech; it’s a pretty standard exhortation of the Mujaheddin and Islamists. Perhaps the best-known examples of the phrase: a slide by the Fort Hood jihadist, Maj. Nidal Hasan; the al Qaeda tape claiming responsibility for the 2004 Madrid bombings; and the speeches of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; and the words of Osama Bin Laden.
Also in the speech (posted in full here), Khan notes proudly his own father’s role in founding ISNA and his time with the Muslim Student Association, the first Muslim Brotherhood front created in the United States. This story is told in detail in Shariah: The Threat to America. As Paul Sperry notes in The Post:
“Khan’s father also helped found the Muslim Community Association in Santa Clara, Calif. This Khan family mosque is listed in the Muslim Brotherhood’s own documents as one of “our organizations.” In the 1990s, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, it hosted Ayman al-Zawahiri – now al Qaeda’s No. 2 — as he toured the US raising money.
For years, Frank Gaffney, Michelle Malkin and others have written in detail about the troubling Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood associations of both Norquist and Khan, only to be attacked ad hominem as bigots. Tellingly, Khan and Norquist sought refuge not with the conservative movement– but at Politico, Salon, and with Andrew Sullivan and others; over the course of years, the only answer to these accusations has been to shout, “Islamophobe!”
Conservatives– and, indeed, paying attendees at CPAC– should be reminded of the attacks leveled by these same media outlets against the Tea Party, Andrew Breitbart and others, and sense that something’s fishy here.
Read the whole thing at the New York Post…
Sunday, December 26, 2010
What sharia is - and isn't | jacksonville.com
Florida Times Union.... tries to put its slant on SHARIA but Bloggers set the record straight
What sharia is - and isn't | jacksonville.com
What sharia is - and isn't | jacksonville.com
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Indiana Grandma on Terrori Watchlist....wants to wage JIHAD
Terror
Indiana Grandma on Watchlist
By Jana Winter
Published December 21, 2010
| FoxNews.com
PrintEmailShareComments A 46-year-old, blue-eyed grandmother and U.S. citizen from Indianapolis, Indiana is being monitored by international law enforcement who are concerned that she’ll become the next ‘Jihad Jane,’ FoxNews.com has learned.
Intelligence sources told FoxNews.com that the Muslim-convert, Kathie Smith, married a known German jihadist on the U.S. no fly list—and that she’s become increasingly violent in her online anti-American, pro-terrorist rhetoric. She also has been training in martial arts—and was taken to court for still owing an Indiana Karate instructor thousands of dollars.
On Facebook, YouTube and Islamist forums Smith—now known as Zabaida—has posted videos by Anwar al Awlaki, written in support of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and suicide attacks while repeatedly calling for jihad against the West and the deaths of American citizens and members of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On MySpace she wrote, “As salamu alaikum akhi.. it is time for Jihad and it is now Fard ayn for ALL Muslims whether their in the United Snakes or else where...Insha'Allah!!!!”
Intelligence sources tell FoxNews.com she returned to Germany on Dec. 6 to visit her husband, but her current whereabouts are unclear.
Law enforcement is concerned that she’s gone operational after being radicalized by her husband and is or will soon be providing material support to help her husband plan terrorist attacks against the U.S. and is rallying support from within the U.S. and elsewhere to help—which is exactly what Philadelphia native Colleen LaRose “Jihad Jane” was charged with.
In an ongoing and lengthy email exchange with FoxNews.com, Smith, writing from an unknown location, alternatively defended her online postings, denied being anti-American, called the Sept. 11 attacks an inside job, the U.S. a terrorist organization and invited this reporter to listen to the sermons of Anwar al Awlaki.
Earlier this month, Smith appeared alongside her husband, known online as Salahudin Ibn Ja'far, in a video uploaded on his YouTube account that featured a montage of terrorist propaganda and leaders.
It also features members of the German cell of Islamic Jihad Union, a U.S. designated terror organization, who were convicted in March for plotting terror attacks three years ago against U.S. targets in Germany, including Ramstein Air Force Base, and calls for jihad against the West.
(In an email to FoxNews.com Smith described the men in the video—known members of Islamic Jihad Union convicted in terror plots against U.S. —as childhood friends of her husband.)
Indiana Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Emily Norcross told FoxNews.com that the video is being investigated by the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center, a joint agency counterterror center, and would passed along to appropriate enforcement for further investigation.
Norcross recommended contacting the FBI for more information.
FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer said:
“As you’re aware, FBI and DOJ policy precludes us from confirming or denying the existence of an investigation.”
In the nearly six-minute video, Smith and her husband appear wielding machine guns and swords, posing amid a montage of known terrorists. Included in the photo array is an Anwar al Awlaki sermon album cover, photos of convicted Ramstein plotters Daniel Martin Schneider, Eric Breininger and Houssain Al-Malla, among other men who appear to have left for jihad.
In an email to FoxNews.com, Smith said of the Ramstein plotters featured in her video:
“The so-called "jihadists" you have mentioned are actually personal friends of my husband from childhood. In the video he was expressing his love and gratitude to his friends, who have died fighting for freedom. Just like any other American or European citizen who displays pictures of soldiers who have died on their videos. There is no difference in gratitude and love. It is just that your government has deemed these noble men as "terrorists" because they are not on the same side. Least us not forget the Mujahideen who fought the Russians for the US. They were deemed "heroes" and lead by Osama Bin Laden at that time, and now because the government says so..they are "terrorists.””
Intelligence sources tell FoxNews.com that the see Smith’s increasingly hostile online rhetoric as a sign of radicalization and fear she as traveled to Germany to
provide material support to her husband’s terrorist plots—and that she and her husband may be on their way to jihadist training camps in Pakistan.
On Facebook, Smith “likes” Anwar Awlaki, is friends with Sheikh Faisal, the spiritual leader of Revolution Muslim; Yousef al-Khatab, Revolution Muslim’s co-founder; Ansar al Jundullah, the group tied to suicide bombings earlier this month in Iran; supporters of Al Shabaab. Her pro-jihadist postings are numerous.
But in email messages, Smith told FoxNews.com she was just speaking her mind.
“I am exercising my right, as an American citizen to freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bare arms. I have the right in America to say what ever I want. That is what makes America so great, right?”
Her husband posted in support of Usama bin Laden and Anwar al Awlaki, and earlier this month posted videos including one claiming to show exercises at a Taliban training camp in Pakistan, and another outlining orders for the wives of jihadist soldiers who go off to fight.
Smith wrote via email:
“I live a simple life, a life where I fear Allah first and try hard to do what is right for mankind. I am not some "horribly misguided, or brainwashed" individual. I have lived a long life and have seen many things. And I will always stand up for what is right, no matter who is trying to say the contrary.
“The US and its Ally's are abusers. They live only for the almighty dollar and power. I must ask you to think of it this way. When you are an abuses woman, you are either going to lay down and take it. Or your going to get up and fight the abuser. The Muslim community has been abused for far too long…Does this sound like Democracy to you or the American way? I would hope not but it is sad but true. And the American population needs to stand up to such tyrany.
“As a human being with a conscious, I can not idly stand by and watch "innocent" people being tortured and genocide which is what is happening to the Islamic world. This includes Palistine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indoneasia, Somaila to name a few.”
Indiana Grandma on Watchlist
By Jana Winter
Published December 21, 2010
| FoxNews.com
PrintEmailShareComments A 46-year-old, blue-eyed grandmother and U.S. citizen from Indianapolis, Indiana is being monitored by international law enforcement who are concerned that she’ll become the next ‘Jihad Jane,’ FoxNews.com has learned.
Intelligence sources told FoxNews.com that the Muslim-convert, Kathie Smith, married a known German jihadist on the U.S. no fly list—and that she’s become increasingly violent in her online anti-American, pro-terrorist rhetoric. She also has been training in martial arts—and was taken to court for still owing an Indiana Karate instructor thousands of dollars.
On Facebook, YouTube and Islamist forums Smith—now known as Zabaida—has posted videos by Anwar al Awlaki, written in support of the Sept. 11 terror attacks and suicide attacks while repeatedly calling for jihad against the West and the deaths of American citizens and members of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq.
On MySpace she wrote, “As salamu alaikum akhi.. it is time for Jihad and it is now Fard ayn for ALL Muslims whether their in the United Snakes or else where...Insha'Allah!!!!”
Intelligence sources tell FoxNews.com she returned to Germany on Dec. 6 to visit her husband, but her current whereabouts are unclear.
Law enforcement is concerned that she’s gone operational after being radicalized by her husband and is or will soon be providing material support to help her husband plan terrorist attacks against the U.S. and is rallying support from within the U.S. and elsewhere to help—which is exactly what Philadelphia native Colleen LaRose “Jihad Jane” was charged with.
In an ongoing and lengthy email exchange with FoxNews.com, Smith, writing from an unknown location, alternatively defended her online postings, denied being anti-American, called the Sept. 11 attacks an inside job, the U.S. a terrorist organization and invited this reporter to listen to the sermons of Anwar al Awlaki.
Earlier this month, Smith appeared alongside her husband, known online as Salahudin Ibn Ja'far, in a video uploaded on his YouTube account that featured a montage of terrorist propaganda and leaders.
It also features members of the German cell of Islamic Jihad Union, a U.S. designated terror organization, who were convicted in March for plotting terror attacks three years ago against U.S. targets in Germany, including Ramstein Air Force Base, and calls for jihad against the West.
(In an email to FoxNews.com Smith described the men in the video—known members of Islamic Jihad Union convicted in terror plots against U.S. —as childhood friends of her husband.)
Indiana Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Emily Norcross told FoxNews.com that the video is being investigated by the Indiana Intelligence Fusion Center, a joint agency counterterror center, and would passed along to appropriate enforcement for further investigation.
Norcross recommended contacting the FBI for more information.
FBI spokeswoman Jenny Shearer said:
“As you’re aware, FBI and DOJ policy precludes us from confirming or denying the existence of an investigation.”
In the nearly six-minute video, Smith and her husband appear wielding machine guns and swords, posing amid a montage of known terrorists. Included in the photo array is an Anwar al Awlaki sermon album cover, photos of convicted Ramstein plotters Daniel Martin Schneider, Eric Breininger and Houssain Al-Malla, among other men who appear to have left for jihad.
In an email to FoxNews.com, Smith said of the Ramstein plotters featured in her video:
“The so-called "jihadists" you have mentioned are actually personal friends of my husband from childhood. In the video he was expressing his love and gratitude to his friends, who have died fighting for freedom. Just like any other American or European citizen who displays pictures of soldiers who have died on their videos. There is no difference in gratitude and love. It is just that your government has deemed these noble men as "terrorists" because they are not on the same side. Least us not forget the Mujahideen who fought the Russians for the US. They were deemed "heroes" and lead by Osama Bin Laden at that time, and now because the government says so..they are "terrorists.””
Intelligence sources tell FoxNews.com that the see Smith’s increasingly hostile online rhetoric as a sign of radicalization and fear she as traveled to Germany to
provide material support to her husband’s terrorist plots—and that she and her husband may be on their way to jihadist training camps in Pakistan.
On Facebook, Smith “likes” Anwar Awlaki, is friends with Sheikh Faisal, the spiritual leader of Revolution Muslim; Yousef al-Khatab, Revolution Muslim’s co-founder; Ansar al Jundullah, the group tied to suicide bombings earlier this month in Iran; supporters of Al Shabaab. Her pro-jihadist postings are numerous.
But in email messages, Smith told FoxNews.com she was just speaking her mind.
“I am exercising my right, as an American citizen to freedom of speech, religion, and the right to bare arms. I have the right in America to say what ever I want. That is what makes America so great, right?”
Her husband posted in support of Usama bin Laden and Anwar al Awlaki, and earlier this month posted videos including one claiming to show exercises at a Taliban training camp in Pakistan, and another outlining orders for the wives of jihadist soldiers who go off to fight.
Smith wrote via email:
“I live a simple life, a life where I fear Allah first and try hard to do what is right for mankind. I am not some "horribly misguided, or brainwashed" individual. I have lived a long life and have seen many things. And I will always stand up for what is right, no matter who is trying to say the contrary.
“The US and its Ally's are abusers. They live only for the almighty dollar and power. I must ask you to think of it this way. When you are an abuses woman, you are either going to lay down and take it. Or your going to get up and fight the abuser. The Muslim community has been abused for far too long…Does this sound like Democracy to you or the American way? I would hope not but it is sad but true. And the American population needs to stand up to such tyrany.
“As a human being with a conscious, I can not idly stand by and watch "innocent" people being tortured and genocide which is what is happening to the Islamic world. This includes Palistine, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indoneasia, Somaila to name a few.”
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Dawud Walid Unhinged :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
CAIR OFFICIAL ACCUSES FBI of TERRORISM????
Dawud Walid Unhinged :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Dawud Walid Unhinged :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Monday, December 20, 2010
CAIR Asks DOJ to Review Use of Muslim-Bashers as Terror Trainers - Yahoo! News
CAIR is referring to the TEAM B II report in which it says unqualified folks are teaching about Islam and Counter Terrorism to federal agencies. The group is comprised of the national cutting edge experts. This is a direct assault on the agenda of CAIR/HAMAS and as such they will make every effort to stop this training.
Once again, CAIR is on the wrong side of protecting the nation... I have yet to see them endorse any activity which supports national security.
CAIR Asks DOJ to Review Use of Muslim-Bashers as Terror Trainers - Yahoo! News
Once again, CAIR is on the wrong side of protecting the nation... I have yet to see them endorse any activity which supports national security.
CAIR Asks DOJ to Review Use of Muslim-Bashers as Terror Trainers - Yahoo! News
Friday, December 10, 2010
Parvez Ahmed exposed by Preeminent Terrorism Expert
Part 1 of 2 part video exposing Jacksonville Human Rights Commissioner as a HAMAS operative according to Former FBI Special Agent who established FBI training program on the Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic Doctrine, and the Islamic Movement.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Now That Obama Administration Is Taking Terrorism ‘More Seriously,' Airport Security ‘Significantly Improved’ This Christmas, Lawmaker Says | CNSnews.com
Obama administration as littel late in the game..but things are better than they were since they have realized this a result of TERRORISM not man caused disasters.
Now That Obama Administration Is Taking Terrorism ‘More Seriously,' Airport Security ‘Significantly Improved’ This Christmas, Lawmaker Says | CNSnews.com
Now That Obama Administration Is Taking Terrorism ‘More Seriously,' Airport Security ‘Significantly Improved’ This Christmas, Lawmaker Says | CNSnews.com
ACT! Claims Video of Muslim Commissioner Shows Extremist Views | Firstcoastnews.com | Local News
Read and make comments on this post after reading and see video once released.
ACT! Claims Video of Muslim Commissioner Shows Extremist Views | Firstcoastnews.com | Local News
ACT! Claims Video of Muslim Commissioner Shows Extremist Views | Firstcoastnews.com | Local News
Jacksonville ACT! head discusses call to oust Muslim man from Human Rights Commission « Florida Independent: News. Politics. Media
See comments after these articles to get to know just who is Parvez Ahmed and then see video when released.
Jacksonville ACT! head discusses call to oust Muslim man from Human Rights Commission « Florida Independent: News. Politics. Media
Jacksonville ACT! head discusses call to oust Muslim man from Human Rights Commission « Florida Independent: News. Politics. Media
Sunday, November 28, 2010
National Writers Syndicate - Islamic Apartheid Muslims Only
The Saudi government forbids Non-Muslims to enter Mecca and Medina per Qur’an 9:28, “O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year; and if you fear poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He please; surely Allah is Knowing Wise.” —Qur'an, Sura 9 At-Tawba, ayah 28.
This Ayah or verse regarding Allah enriching you of his grace.....is followed by Ayah's or verses... which explain Muslims are obliged to raid/rob the Non-Muslim for these lost Taxes or JIZYA lost from the Dhimmies (Christian & Jewish Slaves to Islam) who were now forbidden to enter these cities.
Alan, does an incredible job in breaking down this Islamic Aparteid.... a must read.
National Writers Syndicate - Islamic Apartheid Muslims Only“Islamic Apartheid is a crime against humanity.”
Islamic Apartheid Muslims Only
Written by Alan Kornman
The politics of Mecca and Medina is the window to understanding how most all Muslims view us 5.4 Billion Non-Muslims.
Every living breathing non-Muslim on the planet can be arrested if caught inside Mecca or Medina under any circumstances. The world population is approximately 6.8 Billion people of which 1.4 Billion are Muslim leaving 5.4 Billion people who are not legally pure enough to step foot on Mecca or Medina soil - this is Islamic Apartheid by their own hands.
Islamic Apartheid in Mecca and Medina is a legal, political, and religious segregation enforced by the Shariah compliant country of Saudi Arabia, under which the rights of the majority Muslim population were maintained and minority rights by everyone else are severely restricted. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign country and has the right to engage and enforce any type of bigoted hateful policies they see fit towards non-Muslims.
Advocates of tolerance and pluralism here in America have an obligation to speak out against bigotry and hatred wherever it is found - yet these groups remain silent on Islamic Apartheid resulting in a double standard that merits further discussion regardless if you are liberal or conservative.
The Islamic apartheid problem in America exists because every Mosque and Muslim Advocacy group in America promotes the bigoted exclusionary practices of Mecca and Medina with their silence.
The wholesale promotion of Mecca and Medina bigotry is embraced and accepted by Islamists because of the fifth pillar of Islam or pilgrimage called the Hajj. Performance of the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) is required of every adult Muslim, male or female, if physically and financially possible. Many Muslims spend their entire lives saving and planning for this journey. Every Mosque in America who promotes the Hajj endorses the Islamic Apartheid bigotry that is currently in force inside Mecca and Medina.
It is well past time for all the Mosques in America and their respective Imams to condemn the exclusionary and bigoted practice of Islamic Apartheid in Mecca and Medina in the name of pluralism and tolerance. Imagine the outrage if the Vatican only allowed Catholics or Christians access to their most holy of sites, and rightfully so.
At the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 9/25/2010, the statement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia delivered by their Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.R.H Prince Saud Al-Faisal, exposes Saudi Arabia’s dangerous double game. Prince Saud Al-Faisal delivers pluralistic platitudes for Western consumption to the United Nations while the Apartheid Shariah laws of Mecca and Medina shed valuable insight into how Saudi Arabia, and more importantly, Shariah Law, views non-Muslims with actions rather than meaningless words.
Prince Al-Faisal said: “My country (Saudi Arabia) believes in the importance of full, universal commitment to the fundamental principles of the United Nations, including the regulation of relations between States, the maintenance of international law, and the international legitimacy and rejection, of all forms of violence and extremism.
These noble goals are fully in keeping with magnanimous Islamic Shariah, since the eternal message of Islam is unificatory and non-divisive, just and equitable, and NON-DISCRIMINATORY, and advocates co-operation among ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, in order to further their welfare and happiness, and safeguard their rights and dignity.”
The double game being played here is neither subtle or hidden for those who choose to see it. Saudi Arabia is proselytizing the message that Islamic Shariah Law is just, equitable, non-discriminatory, and advocates cooperation among all peoples of the world.
The previous message of pluralism is exactly what the American people must hear to feel safe and secure with the dark cloud of Islamist Jihad casting a dark, looming shadow over the United States of America.
Prince Al-Faisal goes on to say, “Accordingly, the Government of the Two Holy Mosques, emphasizes the need to put the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations into actual and effective practice, in a non-selective manner, without any double standard.”
Prince Al-Faisal’s statement is a lie! Those in America who take refuge in this falsehood do so at their own peril. Unfortunately, there are many in the current administration, State Department, universities, Synagogues, Churches, and Islamic Interfaith Initiatives, all across the country, who are knowingly, under their watchful and complicit eye, perpetuating the lies of Saudi pluralism, as Islamic Apartheid is being practiced in the Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, aka government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, have made it illegal for any person, who is non-Muslim, to enter Mecca and Medina. This policy makes a mockery of Prince Saud Al-Faisal’s claim, that the eternal message of Islam and Shariah Law, is “ Non-discriminatory”. It is a colossal joke and insult to the 5.4 billion inhabitants of earth who are not Muslim. The former South African Apartheid racial hatred issue pales in comparison to the Apartheid of Mecca and Medina.
Islamic Apartheid of Mecca and Medina is important because Political Islam makes it obligatory for all Muslims in the world to be co-conspirators in the bigotry and hatred heaped upon any Non-Muslim who dares to set foot inside the borders of either city. Obligatory is the key word here when it comes to Islamic Doctrine. Islamic doctrine states the Qur’an is the uncorrupted word of God/Allah, and is the last divinely inspired document on earth. All previous religious and political texts have been corrupted by man, and are believed by “good” Muslims to be inferior to the Qur’an.
Those corrupted texts include the Bible, Torah, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and any other political and religious texts men use to guide them in all matters of life and politics. Agnostics, Atheists, and Secular Humanists are not given a pass either. Islamists view Atheists and Secular Humanists as weak and without faith in the one true God, Allah, and have a special hellish place reserved for you too.
The politics of Mecca and Medina is the window to understanding how most all Muslims view us 5.4 Billion Non-Muslims. We have learned non-Muslims are not permitted to enter Mecca or Medina under Shariah Law. The Saudi government supports their position using Qur’an 9:28, “O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year; and if you fear poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He please; surely Allah is Knowing Wise.” —Qur'an, Sura 9 At-Tawba, ayah 28.
The Saudi government Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques see all 5.4 Billion non-Muslims as “nothing but unclean.” You know it is true, because no matter how much you may not like me for saying it - YOU will be arrested if you enter Mecca or Medina. Every Mosque and Islamic Center in America is complicit in this Islamic Apartheid, because it is obligatory for them to help and encourage every Muslim to make the Hajj and teach the 5th Pillar of Islamic Apartheid. Islamic Apartheid is a crime against humanity.
All people who believe in pluralism and tolerance must lead the way in demanding American Muslims and their Imams stop supporting this abhorrent Islamic Apartheid practice with their silence.
http://nationalwriterssyndicate.com/content/view/2294/2/
Alan Kornman, ACT For America Orlando Chapter
Email: actorlando1@gmail.com
This Ayah or verse regarding Allah enriching you of his grace.....is followed by Ayah's or verses... which explain Muslims are obliged to raid/rob the Non-Muslim for these lost Taxes or JIZYA lost from the Dhimmies (Christian & Jewish Slaves to Islam) who were now forbidden to enter these cities.
Alan, does an incredible job in breaking down this Islamic Aparteid.... a must read.
National Writers Syndicate - Islamic Apartheid Muslims Only“Islamic Apartheid is a crime against humanity.”
Islamic Apartheid Muslims Only
Written by Alan Kornman
The politics of Mecca and Medina is the window to understanding how most all Muslims view us 5.4 Billion Non-Muslims.
Every living breathing non-Muslim on the planet can be arrested if caught inside Mecca or Medina under any circumstances. The world population is approximately 6.8 Billion people of which 1.4 Billion are Muslim leaving 5.4 Billion people who are not legally pure enough to step foot on Mecca or Medina soil - this is Islamic Apartheid by their own hands.
Islamic Apartheid in Mecca and Medina is a legal, political, and religious segregation enforced by the Shariah compliant country of Saudi Arabia, under which the rights of the majority Muslim population were maintained and minority rights by everyone else are severely restricted. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign country and has the right to engage and enforce any type of bigoted hateful policies they see fit towards non-Muslims.
Advocates of tolerance and pluralism here in America have an obligation to speak out against bigotry and hatred wherever it is found - yet these groups remain silent on Islamic Apartheid resulting in a double standard that merits further discussion regardless if you are liberal or conservative.
The Islamic apartheid problem in America exists because every Mosque and Muslim Advocacy group in America promotes the bigoted exclusionary practices of Mecca and Medina with their silence.
The wholesale promotion of Mecca and Medina bigotry is embraced and accepted by Islamists because of the fifth pillar of Islam or pilgrimage called the Hajj. Performance of the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) is required of every adult Muslim, male or female, if physically and financially possible. Many Muslims spend their entire lives saving and planning for this journey. Every Mosque in America who promotes the Hajj endorses the Islamic Apartheid bigotry that is currently in force inside Mecca and Medina.
It is well past time for all the Mosques in America and their respective Imams to condemn the exclusionary and bigoted practice of Islamic Apartheid in Mecca and Medina in the name of pluralism and tolerance. Imagine the outrage if the Vatican only allowed Catholics or Christians access to their most holy of sites, and rightfully so.
At the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 9/25/2010, the statement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia delivered by their Minister of Foreign Affairs, H.R.H Prince Saud Al-Faisal, exposes Saudi Arabia’s dangerous double game. Prince Saud Al-Faisal delivers pluralistic platitudes for Western consumption to the United Nations while the Apartheid Shariah laws of Mecca and Medina shed valuable insight into how Saudi Arabia, and more importantly, Shariah Law, views non-Muslims with actions rather than meaningless words.
Prince Al-Faisal said: “My country (Saudi Arabia) believes in the importance of full, universal commitment to the fundamental principles of the United Nations, including the regulation of relations between States, the maintenance of international law, and the international legitimacy and rejection, of all forms of violence and extremism.
These noble goals are fully in keeping with magnanimous Islamic Shariah, since the eternal message of Islam is unificatory and non-divisive, just and equitable, and NON-DISCRIMINATORY, and advocates co-operation among ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, in order to further their welfare and happiness, and safeguard their rights and dignity.”
The double game being played here is neither subtle or hidden for those who choose to see it. Saudi Arabia is proselytizing the message that Islamic Shariah Law is just, equitable, non-discriminatory, and advocates cooperation among all peoples of the world.
The previous message of pluralism is exactly what the American people must hear to feel safe and secure with the dark cloud of Islamist Jihad casting a dark, looming shadow over the United States of America.
Prince Al-Faisal goes on to say, “Accordingly, the Government of the Two Holy Mosques, emphasizes the need to put the principles embodied in the Charter of the United Nations into actual and effective practice, in a non-selective manner, without any double standard.”
Prince Al-Faisal’s statement is a lie! Those in America who take refuge in this falsehood do so at their own peril. Unfortunately, there are many in the current administration, State Department, universities, Synagogues, Churches, and Islamic Interfaith Initiatives, all across the country, who are knowingly, under their watchful and complicit eye, perpetuating the lies of Saudi pluralism, as Islamic Apartheid is being practiced in the Kingdom.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, aka government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, have made it illegal for any person, who is non-Muslim, to enter Mecca and Medina. This policy makes a mockery of Prince Saud Al-Faisal’s claim, that the eternal message of Islam and Shariah Law, is “ Non-discriminatory”. It is a colossal joke and insult to the 5.4 billion inhabitants of earth who are not Muslim. The former South African Apartheid racial hatred issue pales in comparison to the Apartheid of Mecca and Medina.
Islamic Apartheid of Mecca and Medina is important because Political Islam makes it obligatory for all Muslims in the world to be co-conspirators in the bigotry and hatred heaped upon any Non-Muslim who dares to set foot inside the borders of either city. Obligatory is the key word here when it comes to Islamic Doctrine. Islamic doctrine states the Qur’an is the uncorrupted word of God/Allah, and is the last divinely inspired document on earth. All previous religious and political texts have been corrupted by man, and are believed by “good” Muslims to be inferior to the Qur’an.
Those corrupted texts include the Bible, Torah, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and any other political and religious texts men use to guide them in all matters of life and politics. Agnostics, Atheists, and Secular Humanists are not given a pass either. Islamists view Atheists and Secular Humanists as weak and without faith in the one true God, Allah, and have a special hellish place reserved for you too.
The politics of Mecca and Medina is the window to understanding how most all Muslims view us 5.4 Billion Non-Muslims. We have learned non-Muslims are not permitted to enter Mecca or Medina under Shariah Law. The Saudi government supports their position using Qur’an 9:28, “O you who believe! the idolaters are nothing but unclean, so they shall not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year; and if you fear poverty then Allah will enrich you out of His grace if He please; surely Allah is Knowing Wise.” —Qur'an, Sura 9 At-Tawba, ayah 28.
The Saudi government Custodians of the Two Holy Mosques see all 5.4 Billion non-Muslims as “nothing but unclean.” You know it is true, because no matter how much you may not like me for saying it - YOU will be arrested if you enter Mecca or Medina. Every Mosque and Islamic Center in America is complicit in this Islamic Apartheid, because it is obligatory for them to help and encourage every Muslim to make the Hajj and teach the 5th Pillar of Islamic Apartheid. Islamic Apartheid is a crime against humanity.
All people who believe in pluralism and tolerance must lead the way in demanding American Muslims and their Imams stop supporting this abhorrent Islamic Apartheid practice with their silence.
http://nationalwriterssyndicate.com/content/view/2294/2/
Alan Kornman, ACT For America Orlando Chapter
Email: actorlando1@gmail.com
Friday, November 26, 2010
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
English Muslims...... work, raise money 8-9 months of year, then go to Afganistan to fight the english. ASSIMILATION....at its finest... now we see Somali's and other Americans doing the same thing. But thank to Sen Kerry and the Obama Administration, we have a mandate to bring more Jihadis to America under the guise of worker visas...to make up for the fact we have not brought them over proportionately with other countries.
Now with Al Qeada's recruitment tool of "INSPIRE MAGAZINE" and the popularity of American Born Cleric Anwar Al Walaki on the US capture/Kill list... we will see more LONE WOLF attacks on our soil. HEY KERRY, CLINTON, OBAMA, keep em coming, keep giving HAMAS (oops Palestinian Authority)money, and dont secure the borders... GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY!!!!! You Guys ROCK!!!!!!!!
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Now with Al Qeada's recruitment tool of "INSPIRE MAGAZINE" and the popularity of American Born Cleric Anwar Al Walaki on the US capture/Kill list... we will see more LONE WOLF attacks on our soil. HEY KERRY, CLINTON, OBAMA, keep em coming, keep giving HAMAS (oops Palestinian Authority)money, and dont secure the borders... GREAT NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY!!!!! You Guys ROCK!!!!!!!!
UK-based Taliban spend months fighting Nato forces in Afghanistan | World news | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Abu Toameh: What the Western Media Misses | FrumForum
30 Year Arab Journalist... who know True Reporting. A worthwhile read!
Abu Toameh: What the Western Media Misses | FrumForum
Abu Toameh: What the Western Media Misses
November 12th, 2010 at 8:26 am Arsen Ostrovsky | 4 Comments |Share | Print
A few days ago, I was fortunate to attend a talk by Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh in Jerusalem.
Toameh gave an incredibly wide ranging talk about the peace process, the double standards rife in the West and the media when it comes to coverage of the Middle East and his perspective as a Muslim Arab of Palestinian descent living in Israel (and you thought you had identity issues!).
Toameh has been working as a journalist for almost 30 years now, covering Palestinian affairs, focusing predominantly on the West Bank and Gaza, including for the Palestinian press under the PLO and for various international media outlets in the US and Europe. He is currently at the Jerusalem Post writing on Palestinian issues. Toameh is also an Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem. In other words, he is aptly qualified to comment on the issues of his discussion.
However, if you expected Toameh to jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon with the familiar cries that Israel is an un-democratic apartheid state responsible for all that is wrong including the bubonic plague or to have a single-minded focus on the occupation, you would have been sorely disappointed.
Instead, he spoke openly, courageously and in his words, said it “as it is”. Asked what he thought was the essence of the conflict, Toameh said it was not about money or even settlements, as many so called pundits often imply, as a precursor to blaming Israel. Rather, his answer was very simple: “This conflict is about Israel’s very existence in this part of the world.”
But before you get any conclusions, Toameh is not a card carrying Zionist or as somebody once asked him “when did you get on the Israel lobby payroll”. In his own words, he says:
I’m not pro-Israel, I’m not pro-Palestinian and I’m not pro-American. But as a journalist, I’m pro the facts and pro the truth.
Here are some of Toameh’s illuminating comments:
I asked Toameh how, as an Arab Muslim Israeli, he responds to accusations that Israel is an apartheid state.
His response:
Israel is not an apartheid state. But there are problems and some discrimination with the Arab minority inside Israel. If Israel were an apartheid state, I, for example, would not be allowed to work for a Jewish newspaper or live in a Jewish neighborhood or own a home. The real apartheid is in Lebanon, where there is a law that bans Palestinians from working in over 50 professions. Can you imagine if the Knesset passed a law banning Arabs from working even in one profession? The real apartheid is also in many Arab and Muslim nations, like Kuwait, where my Palestinian uncle, who has been living there for 35 years is banned from buying a house. The law of Israel does not distinguish between a Jew and an Arab.
As for the uniqueness of the Israeli media in the middle East, Toameh added:
Israel is a free and open country with a democracy, that respects the freedom of the media. You can basically write any anti-Israel story and still walk in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv without having to worry about your safety. Anyone can be a journalist in Israel.
Toameh says he finds it ironic that as an Arab Muslim living in this part of the world, the only place he can express himself freely is in a ‘Jewish newspaper’, noting that:
We don’t have a free media in the Palestinian area, we didn’t have one when I was working there in the late 70’s and early 80’s, we didn’t have one when the PLO came here after the signing of the Oslo accords and we still don’t have one under Fatah and Hamas.
But what about the media’s need for an anti-Israeli angle on stories? Toameh says that when he tried to alert many of his foreign colleagues that Palestinians were dying because of an internal power struggle or gross corruption by Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, their reflex response was:
Where’s the anti-Israel angle to the story? Give us an anti-occupation story. Make our lives much easier. An Arab killing an Arab, that’s not a story for us.
Toameh notes that the same foreign journalists would then ask him: “are you on the payroll of the Israel lobby?” Do they [the Jews] pay you to say these things against Arafat and the PLO?’ Toameh’s response to them:
what do the Jews have to do with this? I’m telling you what the Palestinians are saying about there being corruption in the Palestinian Authority. I’m even telling you that the PA is saying that the PA is corrupt.
It is a sad reflection on the state of society, and in particular, the media industry, that not only are they not sufficiently concerned or outraged at the death of Arabs by Arabs (which coincidentally has claimed many more lives than the Israel – Palestinian conflict), but that they will only muster even an iota of concern if they can put in an ‘anti-Israel’ angle.
On the proposed loyalty oath as well, Toameh offered a pragmatic response: “I have no problem with it because it applies equally to both Jews and non-Jews alike.”
One of the biggest and most intractable sticking points has consistently been the Palestinian demand for a right of return, which Israel will not agree to because it would mean the death knell of Israel as a Jewish state.
However, Toameh offers a very simple and pragmatic three stage solution, where the Palestinian refugees could:
1. Go to the future Palestinian state;
2. Resettle elsewhere, including other Arab states; and
3. Be offered compensation.
Most tellingly though, and in a statement seldom ever heard from Arabs (or the West), Toameh then asked: “and what about Jewish refugees that were forced to flee Arab nations”, suggesting that the issue of Jewish refugees must also be part of any future solution.
Focusing on the problem from Arab dictatorships and their insistence on inciting their people against Israel, Toameh says that we have a problem in the West in failing to believe what people tell us.
If Hamas say they want to destroy you, you have no reason not to believe them. And if Ahmadinejad says he wants to destroy you, there’s no need to start analysing what he means by that. Stop fooling ourselves and if anyone thinks that Hamas will ever recognise Israel’s right to exist, you’re also living in an illusion. Take it from their mouth directly…the PLO however is different – they will tell you one thing in English and then another in Arabic.
On the subject of Arab dictatorship, Toameh says:
Arab dictators survive by constantly blaming the misery of their people on Jews and the West and never accepting responsibility for anything. And by inciting against Israel and the West, you divert attention from problems at home. Why? Because you always need to make sure that your people are busy hating someone else. If they’re not hating Israel and the West, they might wake up one day and come to you, and God forbid, demand reform and democracy.
The crux of the message is:
If you keep inciting your people, then they ask ‘well, why are we then making peace with the Jews?’ We should be killing them as Hamas is saying’.
So what does Toameh think about Mahmoud Abbas, the PA President?
Abbas is corrupt, discredited, weak and does not have much power. He is reliant on Israel, who’s presence in the West Bank is ironically the only reason he has managed to stay in power.
And if Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders as demanded by Abbas and the PLO:
Abbas will collapse and Hamas will take over the West Bank in less than a day. If I were Israel, I would not give Abbas one inch of land in the West Bank – not for ideological reasons, but to avoid a situation where Hamas and others would take over the area.
When we asked him how best to defeat the extremists, radicals and terrorists like Hamas and Hizbullah, Toameh answered:
The first and most important thing is you go to the Arab governments and tell them stop the incitement that’s feeding these radicals and driving people into their hands. Sometimes there’s no difference between what is written about Israel and the Jews in the papers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia with what is written by Hamas.
Noting again the billions of dollars in aid provided by the US and EU to various Arab dictatorships, Toameh says in other words, and even clearer, they should tell them: “Stop calling for my death with my money.”
I asked Toameh about what steps were needed to move forward. According to him, the answer is “very simple” and involves the following steps:
1) The Palestinians must start investing money (provided to them mainly by the US and EU) for the welfare of their people instead of incitement. Then dismantle all militias, establish a free press and democratic institutions, end the infighting, insist on good governance and speak with one voice so at least we know who we’re talking to. And then he suggests they should go speak with Israel and see what it has to offer them.
2) Deal with the enemies of peace – if you weaken the enemies of peace, like Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas, the moderates will rise and start speaking out. But as long as Iran is breathing down the neck and threatening, together with Hamas and Hizbullah, who are threatening to kill anyone who makes concessions, no moderate Arab will ever dare sign an agreement with Israel. Toameh says:
I don’t even rule out military action against any of them because this is the only language these guys understand. Talking to them and appeasing them is even more dangerous.
3) “We can’t move forward when you don’t have a clear, strong, reliable and credible partner on the Palestinian side” says Toameh. According to him: “Abbas is not a partner. He and Fayaad might be nice guys with good intentions – but they cannot deliver. So the PA are not partners because they cannot deliver and Hamas are not partners because they don’t want to be partners.”
Addressing the issue of whether there was a clear and credible partner on the Israeli side, Toameh said:
I don’t care who is in government in Israel. There is a partner. And my partner is the Jewish people. Why? Because a majority of Jews have already accepted a 2 state solution. I see a majority of Jews who don’t care anymore about Gaza. I see a majority of Jews who want to disengage from the Palestinians. I see a majority of Jews over the last 15 years marching toward moderation and pragmatism. I don’t know today of one Jewish mother that wants to send her son back to the streets of Ramallah or Gaza. I don’t know of one Jew who wants to control the lives of the Palestinians and run their education and health system. Sadly though, while the Jewish public has been marching towards pragmatism and realism and moderation, on the Arab side the message remains no, no and no.
In an incredibly candid address, for me perhaps the most defining statement Toameh made was when I asked him – would you rather continue living as a member of a minority in Israel or move to another Arab country? Toameh’s response was simple, honest and telling:
Israel is a free and open democratic country. I enjoy living here and I would rather live as a second class citizen in Israel, even though I’m not, than a first class citizen in any Arab country.
In a world where it’s all too easy to turn a blind eye to courage, Khaled Abu Toameh is a welcome breath of fresh air. A man, deeply committed to peace, who is seen as a traitor by many and who bravely continues to put his own life on the line each day, Toameh perhaps says it best himself:
I’m not pro-Israel, I’m not pro-Palestinian and I’m not pro-American. But as a journalist, I’m pro the facts and pro the truth.
Abu Toameh: What the Western Media Misses | FrumForum
Abu Toameh: What the Western Media Misses
November 12th, 2010 at 8:26 am Arsen Ostrovsky | 4 Comments |Share | Print
A few days ago, I was fortunate to attend a talk by Israeli Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh in Jerusalem.
Toameh gave an incredibly wide ranging talk about the peace process, the double standards rife in the West and the media when it comes to coverage of the Middle East and his perspective as a Muslim Arab of Palestinian descent living in Israel (and you thought you had identity issues!).
Toameh has been working as a journalist for almost 30 years now, covering Palestinian affairs, focusing predominantly on the West Bank and Gaza, including for the Palestinian press under the PLO and for various international media outlets in the US and Europe. He is currently at the Jerusalem Post writing on Palestinian issues. Toameh is also an Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem. In other words, he is aptly qualified to comment on the issues of his discussion.
However, if you expected Toameh to jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon with the familiar cries that Israel is an un-democratic apartheid state responsible for all that is wrong including the bubonic plague or to have a single-minded focus on the occupation, you would have been sorely disappointed.
Instead, he spoke openly, courageously and in his words, said it “as it is”. Asked what he thought was the essence of the conflict, Toameh said it was not about money or even settlements, as many so called pundits often imply, as a precursor to blaming Israel. Rather, his answer was very simple: “This conflict is about Israel’s very existence in this part of the world.”
But before you get any conclusions, Toameh is not a card carrying Zionist or as somebody once asked him “when did you get on the Israel lobby payroll”. In his own words, he says:
I’m not pro-Israel, I’m not pro-Palestinian and I’m not pro-American. But as a journalist, I’m pro the facts and pro the truth.
Here are some of Toameh’s illuminating comments:
I asked Toameh how, as an Arab Muslim Israeli, he responds to accusations that Israel is an apartheid state.
His response:
Israel is not an apartheid state. But there are problems and some discrimination with the Arab minority inside Israel. If Israel were an apartheid state, I, for example, would not be allowed to work for a Jewish newspaper or live in a Jewish neighborhood or own a home. The real apartheid is in Lebanon, where there is a law that bans Palestinians from working in over 50 professions. Can you imagine if the Knesset passed a law banning Arabs from working even in one profession? The real apartheid is also in many Arab and Muslim nations, like Kuwait, where my Palestinian uncle, who has been living there for 35 years is banned from buying a house. The law of Israel does not distinguish between a Jew and an Arab.
As for the uniqueness of the Israeli media in the middle East, Toameh added:
Israel is a free and open country with a democracy, that respects the freedom of the media. You can basically write any anti-Israel story and still walk in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv without having to worry about your safety. Anyone can be a journalist in Israel.
Toameh says he finds it ironic that as an Arab Muslim living in this part of the world, the only place he can express himself freely is in a ‘Jewish newspaper’, noting that:
We don’t have a free media in the Palestinian area, we didn’t have one when I was working there in the late 70’s and early 80’s, we didn’t have one when the PLO came here after the signing of the Oslo accords and we still don’t have one under Fatah and Hamas.
But what about the media’s need for an anti-Israeli angle on stories? Toameh says that when he tried to alert many of his foreign colleagues that Palestinians were dying because of an internal power struggle or gross corruption by Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, their reflex response was:
Where’s the anti-Israel angle to the story? Give us an anti-occupation story. Make our lives much easier. An Arab killing an Arab, that’s not a story for us.
Toameh notes that the same foreign journalists would then ask him: “are you on the payroll of the Israel lobby?” Do they [the Jews] pay you to say these things against Arafat and the PLO?’ Toameh’s response to them:
what do the Jews have to do with this? I’m telling you what the Palestinians are saying about there being corruption in the Palestinian Authority. I’m even telling you that the PA is saying that the PA is corrupt.
It is a sad reflection on the state of society, and in particular, the media industry, that not only are they not sufficiently concerned or outraged at the death of Arabs by Arabs (which coincidentally has claimed many more lives than the Israel – Palestinian conflict), but that they will only muster even an iota of concern if they can put in an ‘anti-Israel’ angle.
On the proposed loyalty oath as well, Toameh offered a pragmatic response: “I have no problem with it because it applies equally to both Jews and non-Jews alike.”
One of the biggest and most intractable sticking points has consistently been the Palestinian demand for a right of return, which Israel will not agree to because it would mean the death knell of Israel as a Jewish state.
However, Toameh offers a very simple and pragmatic three stage solution, where the Palestinian refugees could:
1. Go to the future Palestinian state;
2. Resettle elsewhere, including other Arab states; and
3. Be offered compensation.
Most tellingly though, and in a statement seldom ever heard from Arabs (or the West), Toameh then asked: “and what about Jewish refugees that were forced to flee Arab nations”, suggesting that the issue of Jewish refugees must also be part of any future solution.
Focusing on the problem from Arab dictatorships and their insistence on inciting their people against Israel, Toameh says that we have a problem in the West in failing to believe what people tell us.
If Hamas say they want to destroy you, you have no reason not to believe them. And if Ahmadinejad says he wants to destroy you, there’s no need to start analysing what he means by that. Stop fooling ourselves and if anyone thinks that Hamas will ever recognise Israel’s right to exist, you’re also living in an illusion. Take it from their mouth directly…the PLO however is different – they will tell you one thing in English and then another in Arabic.
On the subject of Arab dictatorship, Toameh says:
Arab dictators survive by constantly blaming the misery of their people on Jews and the West and never accepting responsibility for anything. And by inciting against Israel and the West, you divert attention from problems at home. Why? Because you always need to make sure that your people are busy hating someone else. If they’re not hating Israel and the West, they might wake up one day and come to you, and God forbid, demand reform and democracy.
The crux of the message is:
If you keep inciting your people, then they ask ‘well, why are we then making peace with the Jews?’ We should be killing them as Hamas is saying’.
So what does Toameh think about Mahmoud Abbas, the PA President?
Abbas is corrupt, discredited, weak and does not have much power. He is reliant on Israel, who’s presence in the West Bank is ironically the only reason he has managed to stay in power.
And if Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders as demanded by Abbas and the PLO:
Abbas will collapse and Hamas will take over the West Bank in less than a day. If I were Israel, I would not give Abbas one inch of land in the West Bank – not for ideological reasons, but to avoid a situation where Hamas and others would take over the area.
When we asked him how best to defeat the extremists, radicals and terrorists like Hamas and Hizbullah, Toameh answered:
The first and most important thing is you go to the Arab governments and tell them stop the incitement that’s feeding these radicals and driving people into their hands. Sometimes there’s no difference between what is written about Israel and the Jews in the papers in Egypt and Saudi Arabia with what is written by Hamas.
Noting again the billions of dollars in aid provided by the US and EU to various Arab dictatorships, Toameh says in other words, and even clearer, they should tell them: “Stop calling for my death with my money.”
I asked Toameh about what steps were needed to move forward. According to him, the answer is “very simple” and involves the following steps:
1) The Palestinians must start investing money (provided to them mainly by the US and EU) for the welfare of their people instead of incitement. Then dismantle all militias, establish a free press and democratic institutions, end the infighting, insist on good governance and speak with one voice so at least we know who we’re talking to. And then he suggests they should go speak with Israel and see what it has to offer them.
2) Deal with the enemies of peace – if you weaken the enemies of peace, like Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas, the moderates will rise and start speaking out. But as long as Iran is breathing down the neck and threatening, together with Hamas and Hizbullah, who are threatening to kill anyone who makes concessions, no moderate Arab will ever dare sign an agreement with Israel. Toameh says:
I don’t even rule out military action against any of them because this is the only language these guys understand. Talking to them and appeasing them is even more dangerous.
3) “We can’t move forward when you don’t have a clear, strong, reliable and credible partner on the Palestinian side” says Toameh. According to him: “Abbas is not a partner. He and Fayaad might be nice guys with good intentions – but they cannot deliver. So the PA are not partners because they cannot deliver and Hamas are not partners because they don’t want to be partners.”
Addressing the issue of whether there was a clear and credible partner on the Israeli side, Toameh said:
I don’t care who is in government in Israel. There is a partner. And my partner is the Jewish people. Why? Because a majority of Jews have already accepted a 2 state solution. I see a majority of Jews who don’t care anymore about Gaza. I see a majority of Jews who want to disengage from the Palestinians. I see a majority of Jews over the last 15 years marching toward moderation and pragmatism. I don’t know today of one Jewish mother that wants to send her son back to the streets of Ramallah or Gaza. I don’t know of one Jew who wants to control the lives of the Palestinians and run their education and health system. Sadly though, while the Jewish public has been marching towards pragmatism and realism and moderation, on the Arab side the message remains no, no and no.
In an incredibly candid address, for me perhaps the most defining statement Toameh made was when I asked him – would you rather continue living as a member of a minority in Israel or move to another Arab country? Toameh’s response was simple, honest and telling:
Israel is a free and open democratic country. I enjoy living here and I would rather live as a second class citizen in Israel, even though I’m not, than a first class citizen in any Arab country.
In a world where it’s all too easy to turn a blind eye to courage, Khaled Abu Toameh is a welcome breath of fresh air. A man, deeply committed to peace, who is seen as a traitor by many and who bravely continues to put his own life on the line each day, Toameh perhaps says it best himself:
I’m not pro-Israel, I’m not pro-Palestinian and I’m not pro-American. But as a journalist, I’m pro the facts and pro the truth.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Rebuttal to PARVEZ AHMED OP ED in FL Times
Mr William S. Morris IVPresident & CEOMorris Publishing Group Dear Mr Morris:
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The recent Parvez Ahmed OpEd in the Florida Times-Union begins as an essay on US-India economic affairs, but wastes no time injecting make-believe Muslim grievances.
This is to be expected, since Mr Ahmed is an Islamic missionary. However, the Times-Union should know better – by now you know that Hamas-linked Ahmed is fulfilling the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal of “strengthening [Hamas’] influence . . . by infiltrating the American media outlets, universities and research centers” (transcribed from the FBI wiretaps); he is doing well on all counts, and, with your conscious assistance, is using the Times-Union as his propaganda tool.
Mr Ahmed begins his article on-topic, but then descends into Islamic grievance – the constant torment of the unhappy Muslim psyche. Grievance, real or imagined, is a compulsory element of all Ahmed articles. Here are examples:
· “Obama did not visit the [Sikh] Temple . . . fear[ing] that a head covering would further fuel . . . persistent rumors that he is a Muslim. Caving into fear-mongers only emboldens them.”
Reply. Mr Ahmed claims that this conjecture is fact. However, we have no idea why Obama skipped the Sikh temple (just as the cost of the Obama excursion is unknown, as Ahmed points out). And, Team Obama certainly would never offer the reason Mr Ahmed claims. This is merely an opportunity to fabricate a Muslim grievance.
Ahmed could have addressed a real affront: Obama shunned the Jewish Chabad House whose inhabitants were among the few Americans butchered by Muslims during the 2008 Mumbai attack. And, Mr Ahmed could have mentioned that, in India and in Pakistan, his Sunni Muslim sect persecutes the Ahmadiyya (Ahmadi) Muslim sect – that is factual, and a true grievance.
· “Sikhs . . . have been targets of anti-Muslim discrimination in the U.S. A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, a Sikh-American was killed in Arizona by a man who mistook him for a Muslim.”
Reply. The events surrounding Mr Balbir Singh Sodhi’s death are described correctly. Nevertheless, in this nation of 350 million people, such occasions are rare. According to the latest FBI hate crime statistics, there were 1,732 offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. Of those, 66.1 percent targeted Jews; 8.7 percent targeted Christians, and 7.5 percent targeted Muslims.
American Jews were 9 times more likely to be victims of hate crimes than Muslims. Yet, no Jewish economist would ever commandeer a professional Times-Union forum to denounce grievances against his ethnic group (as Mr Ahmed does).
In addition, crimes against Muslims have declined dramatically since 911. A 2008 survey by Human Rights First, entitled “Violence Against Muslims”, found only two assaults based on anti-Muslim sentiment in 2007 and 2008. Nearly all "backlash" against Muslims, following acts of domestic Islamic terrorism, has consisted of unkind blog postings, added scrutiny of mosques and enhanced airport security.
Even the Sikh Coalition, which encourages the reporting of anti-Sikh “hate crimes”, cites relatively few violent events since 1975 – most acts are perceived harassment. The Sikh Coalition records can be searched at http://www.sikhcoalition.org/ListReports.asp. Mr Ahmed is, of course, a Muslim missionary, and Islamic grievance is his bread and butter.
In Europe, most attacks against Jews are perpetrated by Muslims. Entire Jewish communities are fleeing Muslim-caused assaults, depopulating whole Jewish neighborhoods. And, often the news agencies censor the Islamic ethnicity of the perpetrators. The European pattern will occur here. The new anti-Semitism is transported to Europe by means of the new wave of Middle East immigration, which is coming this way.
· “Many Muslims took refuge during their arduous migration to Pakistan.”
Reply. Of course, this is a biased Muslim perspective. A similar number of non-Muslims suffered during the migration. And, the cause of the Partition and subsequent migration can be placed squarely upon the shoulders of Muslims, who opposed the leadership of the India independence movement. Gandhi and his adherents struggled to avoid Partition, and, in the process, enraging both Hindu Nationalists and Indian Muslim nationalists. Gandhi was assassinated soon after Partition by a Hindu nationalist, who believed that Gandhi had appeased Muslims at the cost of Hindus.
· “Prior to colonial rule, India was the world's economic superpower.”
I have a small point to make regarding this Angus Maddison theorem. Please refer to the Post Script.
Former CAIR chairman Parvez Ahmed LIED to your editorial board (an Islamic mandate called “taqiyya”) during your staff’s three-hour meeting with him – the meeting which endorsed his appointment to the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission.
Your related editorial reports Mr Ahmed’s deceit: “Ahmed denies he has supported terrorism or advocated violence in any way, either before, during or after his involvement with CAIR” (emphasis added). On the contrary, Mr Ahmed, a CAIR leader since the mid-1990’s, and national chairman of CAIR (a Muslim Brotherhood organization), has defended terrorists with zeal.
During the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trials, in 2007 and 2008, he defended the criminals (who were later convicted on all 108 counts), stating: "The case against HLF was a political witch-hunt that had nothing to do with America's security”. According to Ahmed, the HLF trial was a "classic case of guilt by association [a false argument he uses in his own local defense] and a political vendetta against American [Muslim] citizens to carry out the agenda of a special interest group, the Israel Lobby." CAIR, which Parvez Ahmed led as Chairman during the two trials, was a co-conspirator in the Hamas-funding conspiracy, which, according to the Court, was an “ unlawful conspiracy . . . from which CAIR never withdrew”.
Further, Parvez Ahmed sought to defend the conspirators by means of his Hungry for Justice organization, which he co-founded and for which he served as media contact. Mr Ahmed was not a novice to CAIR and its operations. He joined in the early 1990’s, knew of CAIR’s origins, and knew well its founders: Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, both of whom were present at CAIR’s 1993 founding meeting with Hamas leaders (in fact, Ahmed replaced Omar Ahmad as the organization’s second national chairman). The 25-member gathering, including both Ahmad and Awad, represented, according to the FBI, “a meeting . . . among senior members of Hamas, the HLFDR and IAP [Islamic Association for Palestine]”. A FBI analysis noted: “all attendees of this [1993 Philadelphia] meeting are Hamas members”.
CAIR founder Nihad Awad in a 2000 AMEU article (who collaborated with Parvez Ahmed) admits to the IAP (and thus Hamas) origins of CAIR. Awad describes how he “worked closely with IAP president Omar Ahmad”; how “Ibrahim Hooper . . . join[ed] the project”, and how together they “open[ed] the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . . . in June 1994.” More on CAIR’s Hamas origins at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and at CAIR Observatory, a division of the prestigious Center of Security Policy.
According to retired FBI special agent John Vincent, “There is no question CAIR funds Hamas”. A new report maintains that CAIR's national organization in late 1995 contributed at least $40,000 to a Holy Land Foundation (HLF) subsidiary, InfoCom Corp, just months before HLF wired exactly $40,000 to the Islamic Relief Committee, a conduit to Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
Only the Times-Union and the ultra-liberal Huffington Post regularly run Mr Ahmed’s essays. Mr Ahmed is a charming fellow, and he likely has had many meetings and direct conversations with your staff, to gain its trust. He is charming, because that is his job as an Islamic missionary.
It is clear that Mr Ahmed has become an informal member of the editorial staff. And, the Times-Union staff assists Mr Ahmed in “infiltrating the American media outlets” by sanitized his background – hiding his enormously significant CAIR and Hamas connections, and the fact that he is a Muslim missionary. This furtiveness is unprofessional, subversive journalism, and it needs a full evaluation within the local and parent Morris staffs. There is just so much of this Leftist activism and deception that your readers will tolerate before they cancel their subscriptions.
Best Regards,
Post Script. A point of clarification. Ahmed condemns colonialism (and the West, of course) by stating: “Prior to colonial rule, India was the world's economic superpower”. No doubt, colonialism of itself was not a good thing. However, bad institutions sometimes produce significant worthwhile results for the subject peoples, as in the case of Rome’s subjugation of Gaul which benefited from the Pax Romana which followed (and enjoys those benefits till the present time).
Colonialism was the unexpected vehicle which brought to India the blessings of Western civilization, among them the language of freedom – and the tools by which Indians were encouraged to rebel against the British, and eventually gained independence. The Indian leaders were products of Western Civilization. Gandhi studied in England and South Africa; Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was a product of Harrow and Cambridge. By exposing Indians to the ideas of the West, British colonialism prepared India for the global economy and the freedoms of the 21st century.
A common language, roads, shipping docks, railroads, irrigation systems, and government buildings were all British legacies, as well as the British legal system, with all its procedural novelties, like "innocent until proven guilty".
The colonialists brought things to India that have immeasurably enriched the lives of the descendants of colonialism. It is doubtful that India would have acquired those good things by themselves or as quickly. It was the British who, applying a universal notion of human rights, in the early 19th century abolished the ancient Indian institution of suttee – the custom of tossing widows on their husbands' funeral pyres.
Most of the British (and thus Indian) social thought was derived from Christian values. In contrast to the Hindu caste system, Christianity's precept of "universal brotherhood" altered the Indian psyche.
In contrast, Islam adopted Western thought for only a brief 90-year period, during the Mu’tazilah episode of the 9th century, when books of Western philosophy were captured during Islamic conquest, and their ideas adopted. Then, after this short time, Islam banned Mu’tazilah philosophy upon pain of death, and abandoned Western thought forever (as did Pakistan a millennium later).
Contrast India with Pakistan (or Israel with the remainder of the Middle East), and there you have a revealing laboratory experiment: Peoples of the same or similar origins, but different religions. The Outcome: The backwardness of Islamic nations versus the freedom, progress and prosperity of the West.
Of course, missionaries like Parvez Ahmed will complain that this backwardness is caused by a West determined to undermine Islam – with foreign occupations, neglect, affronts to Islamic ideology, personages and literature, and Islamophobia – the never-ending train of grievances from an unhappy people (and unhappy people are predisposed to evil and violence).
A sampling of the West vs Islam disparity (upon request I will send all source links):
· Despite their oil wealth the gross domestic product (GDP) of the 22 Arab nations combined is little more than that of Spain (the smallest economy in Europe), and less than half that of Italy. Italy has 55 million people, whereas Arabs number 300 million.
· The illiteracy rate in the Arab world is higher than that of the backward developing world, and more than three times higher than that of Latin America and the Caribbean. And, illiteracy in the Arab world is increasing.
· In the entire Arab world approximately 330 books are translated into Arabic each year, whereas little Greece translates over 1,500 books into Greek, and Spain translates 100,000 books into Spanish, each year.
· Scientific research and technical developments in the Arab world are less than one percent of the world’s total. Between 1980 and 2000, a total of 370 technology patents were granted to the entire Arab world, while South Korea alone was awarded over 16,000 patents during the same period.
· Although Muslims represent 25 percent of earth’s population, Muslims have won only two Nobel Prizes for science. Jews, which represent 0.2 percent of the world’s population, have been awarded one-fourth of all Nobel science prizes. The entire Muslim world contributes barely 1,000 research articles out of a total 2,000,000 research articles published each year.
· What of Islam’s “historic contribution to science . . . math and engineering”, claimed by the Obama administration? NASA Administrator was instructed by the president to help Muslims “feel good” about their historic contributions to technical.
But, the evidence suggests a minuscule contribution. Toby E. Huff, chancellor professor of policy studies at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and author of studies in the rise of science, writes: “Islamic science was almost totally dependent upon translations, frequently made by non-Muslims of the achievements of pre-Islamic cultures, Greeks, Egyptians, Indians, etc. Moreover, a striking number of Muslim thinkers were Persians who owed more of their pre-Islamic heritage than they did to Islam.”
Professor Stanley L. Jaki, author of many books on science, observes that Islamic additions to the Greek body of scientific knowledge were “never substantial.” David Storobik, editor of Global Politician, the journal of international politics, has stated: “[It is] an historical fact that the scientific revolution happened in Europe, not India, China, or the Middle East. There was also nothing quite like the medieval university in the Roman Empire. Whatever existed of real science in Roman times was almost entirely of Greek origin. The medieval [European] University then represented a real innovation.”
· Take away their oil exports (which the West discovered and developed), and what does the Arab world export other than terrorism, suicide bombers and grief – and the celebrations of the deaths of Americans and Jews. While the West pursues labor-saving technology, cures for dreadful diseases and the rescue of earthquake and tsunami victims, oil-rich Saudi sheikhs, instead of alleviating suffering, spend millions on self-aggrandizing mosques, Islamic schools and higher education centers which promote a radical ideology which threatens to cause vast destruction in the Western world.
Education centers? Arab museums, such as the Palestinian Museum at al-Najah University in Nablus, display pictures of savagely mutilated bodies and severed heads in pools of blood, and show videos that glamorize booby traps, spilled blood, and martyrs enjoying the bliss of heaven. The Middle East is lagging behind, not because Arabs are created unequal in God’s eyes. It is lagging because of social and religious values.
This letter must be read in Rich Text (HTML) in order to utilize the imbedded links.
The recent Parvez Ahmed OpEd in the Florida Times-Union begins as an essay on US-India economic affairs, but wastes no time injecting make-believe Muslim grievances.
This is to be expected, since Mr Ahmed is an Islamic missionary. However, the Times-Union should know better – by now you know that Hamas-linked Ahmed is fulfilling the Muslim Brotherhood’s goal of “strengthening [Hamas’] influence . . . by infiltrating the American media outlets, universities and research centers” (transcribed from the FBI wiretaps); he is doing well on all counts, and, with your conscious assistance, is using the Times-Union as his propaganda tool.
Mr Ahmed begins his article on-topic, but then descends into Islamic grievance – the constant torment of the unhappy Muslim psyche. Grievance, real or imagined, is a compulsory element of all Ahmed articles. Here are examples:
· “Obama did not visit the [Sikh] Temple . . . fear[ing] that a head covering would further fuel . . . persistent rumors that he is a Muslim. Caving into fear-mongers only emboldens them.”
Reply. Mr Ahmed claims that this conjecture is fact. However, we have no idea why Obama skipped the Sikh temple (just as the cost of the Obama excursion is unknown, as Ahmed points out). And, Team Obama certainly would never offer the reason Mr Ahmed claims. This is merely an opportunity to fabricate a Muslim grievance.
Ahmed could have addressed a real affront: Obama shunned the Jewish Chabad House whose inhabitants were among the few Americans butchered by Muslims during the 2008 Mumbai attack. And, Mr Ahmed could have mentioned that, in India and in Pakistan, his Sunni Muslim sect persecutes the Ahmadiyya (Ahmadi) Muslim sect – that is factual, and a true grievance.
· “Sikhs . . . have been targets of anti-Muslim discrimination in the U.S. A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, a Sikh-American was killed in Arizona by a man who mistook him for a Muslim.”
Reply. The events surrounding Mr Balbir Singh Sodhi’s death are described correctly. Nevertheless, in this nation of 350 million people, such occasions are rare. According to the latest FBI hate crime statistics, there were 1,732 offenses motivated by religious bias in 2008. Of those, 66.1 percent targeted Jews; 8.7 percent targeted Christians, and 7.5 percent targeted Muslims.
American Jews were 9 times more likely to be victims of hate crimes than Muslims. Yet, no Jewish economist would ever commandeer a professional Times-Union forum to denounce grievances against his ethnic group (as Mr Ahmed does).
In addition, crimes against Muslims have declined dramatically since 911. A 2008 survey by Human Rights First, entitled “Violence Against Muslims”, found only two assaults based on anti-Muslim sentiment in 2007 and 2008. Nearly all "backlash" against Muslims, following acts of domestic Islamic terrorism, has consisted of unkind blog postings, added scrutiny of mosques and enhanced airport security.
Even the Sikh Coalition, which encourages the reporting of anti-Sikh “hate crimes”, cites relatively few violent events since 1975 – most acts are perceived harassment. The Sikh Coalition records can be searched at http://www.sikhcoalition.org/ListReports.asp. Mr Ahmed is, of course, a Muslim missionary, and Islamic grievance is his bread and butter.
In Europe, most attacks against Jews are perpetrated by Muslims. Entire Jewish communities are fleeing Muslim-caused assaults, depopulating whole Jewish neighborhoods. And, often the news agencies censor the Islamic ethnicity of the perpetrators. The European pattern will occur here. The new anti-Semitism is transported to Europe by means of the new wave of Middle East immigration, which is coming this way.
· “Many Muslims took refuge during their arduous migration to Pakistan.”
Reply. Of course, this is a biased Muslim perspective. A similar number of non-Muslims suffered during the migration. And, the cause of the Partition and subsequent migration can be placed squarely upon the shoulders of Muslims, who opposed the leadership of the India independence movement. Gandhi and his adherents struggled to avoid Partition, and, in the process, enraging both Hindu Nationalists and Indian Muslim nationalists. Gandhi was assassinated soon after Partition by a Hindu nationalist, who believed that Gandhi had appeased Muslims at the cost of Hindus.
· “Prior to colonial rule, India was the world's economic superpower.”
I have a small point to make regarding this Angus Maddison theorem. Please refer to the Post Script.
Former CAIR chairman Parvez Ahmed LIED to your editorial board (an Islamic mandate called “taqiyya”) during your staff’s three-hour meeting with him – the meeting which endorsed his appointment to the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission.
Your related editorial reports Mr Ahmed’s deceit: “Ahmed denies he has supported terrorism or advocated violence in any way, either before, during or after his involvement with CAIR” (emphasis added). On the contrary, Mr Ahmed, a CAIR leader since the mid-1990’s, and national chairman of CAIR (a Muslim Brotherhood organization), has defended terrorists with zeal.
During the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trials, in 2007 and 2008, he defended the criminals (who were later convicted on all 108 counts), stating: "The case against HLF was a political witch-hunt that had nothing to do with America's security”. According to Ahmed, the HLF trial was a "classic case of guilt by association [a false argument he uses in his own local defense] and a political vendetta against American [Muslim] citizens to carry out the agenda of a special interest group, the Israel Lobby." CAIR, which Parvez Ahmed led as Chairman during the two trials, was a co-conspirator in the Hamas-funding conspiracy, which, according to the Court, was an “ unlawful conspiracy . . . from which CAIR never withdrew”.
Further, Parvez Ahmed sought to defend the conspirators by means of his Hungry for Justice organization, which he co-founded and for which he served as media contact. Mr Ahmed was not a novice to CAIR and its operations. He joined in the early 1990’s, knew of CAIR’s origins, and knew well its founders: Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, both of whom were present at CAIR’s 1993 founding meeting with Hamas leaders (in fact, Ahmed replaced Omar Ahmad as the organization’s second national chairman). The 25-member gathering, including both Ahmad and Awad, represented, according to the FBI, “a meeting . . . among senior members of Hamas, the HLFDR and IAP [Islamic Association for Palestine]”. A FBI analysis noted: “all attendees of this [1993 Philadelphia] meeting are Hamas members”.
CAIR founder Nihad Awad in a 2000 AMEU article (who collaborated with Parvez Ahmed) admits to the IAP (and thus Hamas) origins of CAIR. Awad describes how he “worked closely with IAP president Omar Ahmad”; how “Ibrahim Hooper . . . join[ed] the project”, and how together they “open[ed] the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) . . . in June 1994.” More on CAIR’s Hamas origins at the Investigative Project on Terrorism and at CAIR Observatory, a division of the prestigious Center of Security Policy.
According to retired FBI special agent John Vincent, “There is no question CAIR funds Hamas”. A new report maintains that CAIR's national organization in late 1995 contributed at least $40,000 to a Holy Land Foundation (HLF) subsidiary, InfoCom Corp, just months before HLF wired exactly $40,000 to the Islamic Relief Committee, a conduit to Hamas in the Palestinian territories.
Only the Times-Union and the ultra-liberal Huffington Post regularly run Mr Ahmed’s essays. Mr Ahmed is a charming fellow, and he likely has had many meetings and direct conversations with your staff, to gain its trust. He is charming, because that is his job as an Islamic missionary.
It is clear that Mr Ahmed has become an informal member of the editorial staff. And, the Times-Union staff assists Mr Ahmed in “infiltrating the American media outlets” by sanitized his background – hiding his enormously significant CAIR and Hamas connections, and the fact that he is a Muslim missionary. This furtiveness is unprofessional, subversive journalism, and it needs a full evaluation within the local and parent Morris staffs. There is just so much of this Leftist activism and deception that your readers will tolerate before they cancel their subscriptions.
Best Regards,
Post Script. A point of clarification. Ahmed condemns colonialism (and the West, of course) by stating: “Prior to colonial rule, India was the world's economic superpower”. No doubt, colonialism of itself was not a good thing. However, bad institutions sometimes produce significant worthwhile results for the subject peoples, as in the case of Rome’s subjugation of Gaul which benefited from the Pax Romana which followed (and enjoys those benefits till the present time).
Colonialism was the unexpected vehicle which brought to India the blessings of Western civilization, among them the language of freedom – and the tools by which Indians were encouraged to rebel against the British, and eventually gained independence. The Indian leaders were products of Western Civilization. Gandhi studied in England and South Africa; Nehru, India’s first prime minister, was a product of Harrow and Cambridge. By exposing Indians to the ideas of the West, British colonialism prepared India for the global economy and the freedoms of the 21st century.
A common language, roads, shipping docks, railroads, irrigation systems, and government buildings were all British legacies, as well as the British legal system, with all its procedural novelties, like "innocent until proven guilty".
The colonialists brought things to India that have immeasurably enriched the lives of the descendants of colonialism. It is doubtful that India would have acquired those good things by themselves or as quickly. It was the British who, applying a universal notion of human rights, in the early 19th century abolished the ancient Indian institution of suttee – the custom of tossing widows on their husbands' funeral pyres.
Most of the British (and thus Indian) social thought was derived from Christian values. In contrast to the Hindu caste system, Christianity's precept of "universal brotherhood" altered the Indian psyche.
In contrast, Islam adopted Western thought for only a brief 90-year period, during the Mu’tazilah episode of the 9th century, when books of Western philosophy were captured during Islamic conquest, and their ideas adopted. Then, after this short time, Islam banned Mu’tazilah philosophy upon pain of death, and abandoned Western thought forever (as did Pakistan a millennium later).
Contrast India with Pakistan (or Israel with the remainder of the Middle East), and there you have a revealing laboratory experiment: Peoples of the same or similar origins, but different religions. The Outcome: The backwardness of Islamic nations versus the freedom, progress and prosperity of the West.
Of course, missionaries like Parvez Ahmed will complain that this backwardness is caused by a West determined to undermine Islam – with foreign occupations, neglect, affronts to Islamic ideology, personages and literature, and Islamophobia – the never-ending train of grievances from an unhappy people (and unhappy people are predisposed to evil and violence).
A sampling of the West vs Islam disparity (upon request I will send all source links):
· Despite their oil wealth the gross domestic product (GDP) of the 22 Arab nations combined is little more than that of Spain (the smallest economy in Europe), and less than half that of Italy. Italy has 55 million people, whereas Arabs number 300 million.
· The illiteracy rate in the Arab world is higher than that of the backward developing world, and more than three times higher than that of Latin America and the Caribbean. And, illiteracy in the Arab world is increasing.
· In the entire Arab world approximately 330 books are translated into Arabic each year, whereas little Greece translates over 1,500 books into Greek, and Spain translates 100,000 books into Spanish, each year.
· Scientific research and technical developments in the Arab world are less than one percent of the world’s total. Between 1980 and 2000, a total of 370 technology patents were granted to the entire Arab world, while South Korea alone was awarded over 16,000 patents during the same period.
· Although Muslims represent 25 percent of earth’s population, Muslims have won only two Nobel Prizes for science. Jews, which represent 0.2 percent of the world’s population, have been awarded one-fourth of all Nobel science prizes. The entire Muslim world contributes barely 1,000 research articles out of a total 2,000,000 research articles published each year.
· What of Islam’s “historic contribution to science . . . math and engineering”, claimed by the Obama administration? NASA Administrator was instructed by the president to help Muslims “feel good” about their historic contributions to technical.
But, the evidence suggests a minuscule contribution. Toby E. Huff, chancellor professor of policy studies at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and author of studies in the rise of science, writes: “Islamic science was almost totally dependent upon translations, frequently made by non-Muslims of the achievements of pre-Islamic cultures, Greeks, Egyptians, Indians, etc. Moreover, a striking number of Muslim thinkers were Persians who owed more of their pre-Islamic heritage than they did to Islam.”
Professor Stanley L. Jaki, author of many books on science, observes that Islamic additions to the Greek body of scientific knowledge were “never substantial.” David Storobik, editor of Global Politician, the journal of international politics, has stated: “[It is] an historical fact that the scientific revolution happened in Europe, not India, China, or the Middle East. There was also nothing quite like the medieval university in the Roman Empire. Whatever existed of real science in Roman times was almost entirely of Greek origin. The medieval [European] University then represented a real innovation.”
· Take away their oil exports (which the West discovered and developed), and what does the Arab world export other than terrorism, suicide bombers and grief – and the celebrations of the deaths of Americans and Jews. While the West pursues labor-saving technology, cures for dreadful diseases and the rescue of earthquake and tsunami victims, oil-rich Saudi sheikhs, instead of alleviating suffering, spend millions on self-aggrandizing mosques, Islamic schools and higher education centers which promote a radical ideology which threatens to cause vast destruction in the Western world.
Education centers? Arab museums, such as the Palestinian Museum at al-Najah University in Nablus, display pictures of savagely mutilated bodies and severed heads in pools of blood, and show videos that glamorize booby traps, spilled blood, and martyrs enjoying the bliss of heaven. The Middle East is lagging behind, not because Arabs are created unequal in God’s eyes. It is lagging because of social and religious values.
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