Osama bin Laden, master mind of the infamous attacks on the World Trade Center buildings in New York City and leader of Al Qaeda is dead, killed by forces of the United States of America. bin Laden’s body is in the possession of U.S. forces.
May the mother fucker rot in hell and may his followers meet a similar fate.
During the Labor Day weekend holiday, President Obama once again called Islam “a great religion” which has been “distorted” by a small number of “extremists” to justify committing acts of violence against the West.
But the Qur’an (or Koran) itself, the holy book of Islam, contains over 100 verses calling for violence against Christians and Jews. To give just one example, Sura 9:5 says, “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them.”
During a panel discussion sponsored by the Hudson Institute last January, retired Army Lt. Colonel Allen West, who did combat duty in Iraq, responded to a Marine who asked the question, how do you answer people who say that terrorists are following a “warped” version of Islam?
The panel consisted of a number of former military personnel, who fumbled around trying to answer the question. Col. West finally stepped forward answered the question directly and truthfully. Listen to the words of a former military man who understands the nature of the enemy we face:
Notice again Col. West’s straightforward assessment: “This is not a perversion. They are doing exactly what this book (i.e., the Qur’an) says.”
Col. West, by the way, was elected last week to Congress, to represent Florida’s 22nd congressional district. He will be the first African-American Republican congressman to represent Florida since 1870.
If you would like to add your signature to our “thank you” letter to Col. West for speaking frankly about the nature of the enemy we face, you can do so here. Don’t forget to give a special “thank you” on this Veteran’s Day to every member of the military you encounter.
If you’d like to see the full, unedited video of the exchange, which includes the Marine’s question and shows the discomfort felt by every other member of this panel in responding to the question, click here.
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.
Recent events, prompted by the publication of drawings of Muhammad in European newspapers, have revealed the necessity of the struggle for these universal values.
This struggle will not be won by arms, but in the ideological field.
It is not a clash of civilisations nor an antagonism between West and East that we are witnessing, but a global struggle that confronts democrats and theocrats.
Like all totalitarian ideologies, Islamism is nurtured by fear and frustration.
Preachers of hatred play on these feelings to build the forces with which they can impose a world where liberty is crushed and inequality reigns.
But we say this, loud and clear: nothing, not even despair, justifies choosing darkness, totalitarianism and hatred.
Islamism is a reactionary ideology that kills equality, freedom and secularism wherever it is present.
Its victory can only lead to a world of injustice and domination: men over women, fundamentalists over others.
On the contrary, we must ensure access to universal rights for the oppressed or those discriminated against.
We reject the “cultural relativism” which implies an acceptance that men and women of Muslim culture are deprived of the right to equality, freedom and secularism in the name of the respect for certain cultures and traditions.
We refuse to renounce our critical spirit out of fear of being accused of “Islamophobia”, a wretched concept that confuses criticism of Islam as a religion and stigmatisation of those who believe in it.
We defend the universality of the freedom of expression, so that a critical spirit can exist in every continent, towards each and every maltreatment and dogma.
We appeal to democrats and free spirits in every country that our century may be one of light and not dark.
Signed by:
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Chahla Chafiq
Caroline Fourest
Bernard-Henri Levy
Irshad Manji
Mehdi Mozaffari
Maryam Namazie
Taslima Nasreen
Salman Rushdie
Antoine Sfeir
Philippe Val
Ibn Warraq
Today, a New York City panel voted unanimously to reject landmark status for a building in downtown Manhattan, paving the way for its demolition — and for the construction of a 13-story, $100 million mosque near the World Trade Center site.
The Constitution of the United States (COTUS), that double-edged sword of sometimes loosely guaranteed freedoms, is used as the panel’s footing to vote unanimously for the building of the Muslim mosque.
This is a case where the COTUS works against the will of the people and for the spirit of the COTUS as defined by the vision of the document’s architects who wrote it over 200 years ago. The COTUS works to enforce separation of church (Islamic religion) and state (NYC city gov’t ). Mission accomplished.
That said, there comes a time when the definition of religion, in this case Islam, has to be closely examined and judged on its merits and its socially redeeming values to determine whether it truly qualifies as a religion in the classic sense and not a political ideology wrapped up in religious doctrine. In this case of Islam, I see it in the latter category worthy of it being outlawed. Yes, I am on a very slippery slope here but not when Islam is a cloaked political system.
Looking at it another way, the combined effect of the portion of the COTUS which applies in this case, the well established liberalism in this country and the toleration of an opposing political body which has consistently proven over time to be an enemy of democracy and whose Imams have declared a Jihad for the destruction of the West, will evolve toward the eventual destruction of this country.
A Hate Crime?
Back in October of last year and amid protests against it, Obama passed the so-called “hate crimes bill”. Eric Holder described the nature of the bill this way:
As WND reported, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder admitted a homosexual activist who is attacked following a Christian minister’s sermon about homosexuality would be protected by the proposed federal law, but a minister attacked by a homosexual wouldn’t be.
Ignoring the context on sexuality and instead focusing on the issue of religion-inspired speech spawning acts of violence directed against a population not sharing views of that religion, it would appear this bill would be a very nice tool to be used to defeat the plans to build the mosque and more importantly, outlaw Islam in America.
I believe Americans need to stop looking at Islam as a religion and start looking at it as a political system, which is what it really is. It has its own laws outside of civil law of its host country called sharia law and has the over arching goal of replacing local and national government with their own.
Most important, it would be child’s play to show how Islam and their imams, especially the imam who will not describe Hamas as a terrorist organization and who will be presiding over the Mosque in question, are consistent in their message to not only destroy Israel but also the West, meaning mostly America.
Questions About Its Financing
Claudia Rosett, a journalist with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who writes a weekly column on foreign affairs for Forbes, devoted a column to raising questions as to the source of the funding for the effort. Some U.S. politicians such as Republicans Peter T. King and Rick Lazio, and Independent Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman, asked for an investigation of the group’s finances, especially its foreign funding. King said: “The people who are involved in the construction of the mosque are refusing to say where their [$100 million] funding is going to come from.” Lazio said: “Let’s have transparency. If they’re foreign governments, we ought to know about it. If they’re radical organizations, we ought to know about it.”
Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, also noted:
There should be transparency about who those investors are, whether that money is coming from domestic interest or not, and if it’s coming from foreign interests we need to know, because I think that’s a liability, and it shows that there is another agenda rather than domestic security and tranquility.
Abdul Rauf said he would raise money from the local Muslim community, foundations, and bonds, but NBC and The New York Post reported that in contrast he also told a London-based Arabic-language newspaper that he would seek funding from Muslim nations.
Newt Gingrich and others assailed the name of the project. It harked back to 8th century Córdoba, Spain, the Islamic seat of power after Muslim conquerors defeated Western Christians and occupied and ruled Spain. The name proved to be inflammatory, and the project’s investors subsequently renamed the project “Park51″
I have been following terrorism since 1970 when I read in the “Pacific Stars and Stripes” about a band a ruthless scum belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who had hijacked 3 commercial aircraft, landing them at gunpoint in the Jordanian desert and them blowing them up.
After watching decades more of their murderous ways conducted under the name of Islam’s “Muhammad”, I have arrived at the conclusion that this band of morally bankrupt excuses for human beings have to be utterly and unequivocally destroyed to never draw another breath and to never rise again.
Let there be no mistake; we are in a global war; a “soft” World War III of sorts. This is a war of ideology, not religion, and if Islam wins the imams will be in a seat of power to establish the same type of political system we see in Iran, today.
What we are looking at in New York represents another line of battle. If America’s values haven’t been too diluted by the ACLU and the Army of Political Correctness, then we might be able to push them back up Manhattan where they can build their Mosque somewhere else.
If we lose this battle, they will forever squat near “Ground Zero” to stick their Muslim fingers in our eyes.
If these Muslims had any sense of what is holy and decent and exhibited an iota of compassion, they would realize that what they are doing is wrong and would move on to build elsewhere while they would be generating a little bit of goodwill in the process.
But, they are incapable of doing that. You see, Muhammad does not teach that.
Police Shoot Man Attacking Muhammad Cartoonist
COPENHAGEN — Police shot a Somali man wielding an ax and a knife after he broke into the home of an artist whose cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb-shaped turban outraged the Muslim world, the head of Denmark’s intelligence agency said Saturday.
Jakob Scharf said in a statement that a 28-year-old man with ties to Al Qaeda entered Kurt Westergaard’s home in Aarhus Friday night. But Westergaard pressed an alarm and police arrived minutes later.
The attack on the artist, whose rendering was among 12 that led to the torching of Danish diplomatic offices in predominantly Muslim countries in 2006, was “terror related,” Scharf said. He said the man would be charged with attempted murder.
Westergaard, whose 5-year-old granddaughter was in the home on a sleepover, sought shelter in a specially made safe room when the suspect broke a window of the home, said Preben Nielsen of the Aarhus police.
Officers arrived two minutes later and tried to arrest the assailant, who wielded an ax at a police officer. The officer then shot the man in a knee and a hand, authorities said. Nielsen said the suspect was hospitalized but his life was not in danger.
The suspect’s name was not released in line with Danish privacy rules.
“The arrested man has, according to PET’s information, close relations to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab and Al Qaeda leaders in eastern Africa,” Scharf said. PET is Denmark’s intelligence agency.
Scharf said without elaborating that the man is suspected of having been involved in terror-related activities in east Africa. He had been under PET’s surveillance but not in connection with Westergaard, he said
The man, who had a permit to stay in Denmark, was to be charged Saturday with attempted murder for trying to kill Westergaard and the police officer, Scharf said.
The suspect got inside the home of the 75-year-old cartoonist in Denmark’s second largest city, 125 miles northwest of Copenhagen.
Westergaard could not be reached for comment. However, he told his employer, the Jyllands-Posten daily, that the assailant shouted “revenge” and “blood” as he tried to enter the bathroom where Westergaard and the child had sought shelter.
“My grandchild did fine,” Westergaard said, according to the newspaper’s Web edition. “It was scary. It was close. Really close. But we did it.”
Westergaard was “quite shocked” but was not injured, Nielsen said.
An umbrella organization for moderate Muslims in Denmark condemned the attack.
“The Danish Muslim Union strongly distances itself from the attack and any kind of extremism that leads to such acts,” the group said in a statement.
Westergaard remains a potential target for extremists nearly five years after he drew a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. The drawing was printed along with 11 others in Jyllands-Posten in 2005.
The drawings triggered an uproar a few months later when Danish and other Western embassies in several Muslim countries were torched by angry protesters who felt the cartoons had profoundly insulted Islam.
Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet, even favorable, for fear it could lead to idolatry.
Westergaard has received death threats and is the subject of an alleged assassination plot.
The case “again confirms the terror threat that is directed at Denmark and against the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard in particular,” Scharf said.
In October, terror charges were brought against two Chicago men whose initial plan called for attacks on Jyllands-Posten’s offices. The plan was later changed to just killing the paper’s former cultural editor and Westergaard.
In 2008, Danish police arrested two Tunisian men suspected of plotting to murder Westergaard. Neither suspect was prosecuted. One of them was deported and the other was released Monday after an immigration board rejected PET’s efforts to expel him from Denmark.
Throughout the crisis, then-Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen distanced himself from the cartoons but resisted calls to apologize for them, citing freedom of speech and saying his government could not be held responsible for the actions of Denmark’s press.
The fact that Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged with trying to blow up a plane, was not considered to be a viable threat despite being in many of the government’s terror databases is positive proof we have yet to come to full terms with the nature of this enemy called Islam.
Why was Abdulmutallab allowed to obtain a visa while on a government terror database? Who is administering that data and if we aren’t acting on the information within it then what is it being used for?
On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdulmutallab managed to board Northwest Flight 253 despite having been in one of the U.S. government’s largest terror databases since November, when his father brought him to the attention of embassy officials in Nigeria.
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, former chairman off Nigeria's First Bank, was said to be worried about his son's increasingly 'extreme' religious views, a Nigerian newspaper reported.
As the plane approached Detroit, Abdulmutallab went to the bathroom for 20 minutes. When he returned to his seat, he complained of an upset stomach and covered himself with a blanket.
Passengers heard a popping noise, similar to a firecracker. They smelled an odor, and some passengers saw Abdulmutallab’s pant leg and the wall of the airplane on fire. Passengers and the flight crew used blankets and fire extinguishers to quell the flames. They restrained Abdulmutallab, who later told a flight attendant he had an “explosive device” in his pocket. He was seen holding a partially melted syringe.
The airplane landed in Detroit shortly after the incident.
Abdulmutallab claimed to have received training and instructions from Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, law enforcement officials said. He is also believed to have had Internet contact with militant Islamic radicals.
While intelligence officials said Saturday that they are taking seriously Abdulmutallab’s claims that the plot originated with Al Qaeda’s network inside Yemen, several added that they had to yet to see independent confirmation. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is incomplete.
Four weeks ago, Abdulmutallab’s father told the U.S. embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, that he was concerned about his son’s religious beliefs. This information was passed on to U.S. intelligence officials.
Abdulmutallab received a valid U.S. visa in June 2008 that is good through 2010.
His is one of about 550,000 names in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database, known as TIDE, which is maintained by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center and was created in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Intelligence officials said they lacked enough information to place him in the 400,000-person terror watch list or on the no-fly list of fewer than 4,000 people who should be blocked from air travel.
The only reason authorities were able to arrest Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was because he failed at his attempt to blow up the aircraft in which he as flying as a passenger. If he had been successful at executing his plot there would have been hundreds of deaths, including the innocents on the ground. The West will not be able to fight this enemy by reacting to acts of terrorism after the fact. It does no good to close the barn door after the horse is out.
This is the 7th Islamic, Muslim-fascist terror plot to take place in America since Obama took office in January of this year (2009). (Read full list here) It would appear that he and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano are clueless about the nature of this threat. Obama needs to pull his head out of his ass and Napolitano should resign immediately.
The West had better wake up.
Meanwhile, we’ll listen to the outcry from Muslim leadership against Abdulmutallab for misrepresenting Islam when he conducted his act under its name.
Muhammad ud-Deen
The raid in Yemen’s east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. U.S. officials believe radical cleric Anwar Awlaki was “probably” one of dozens of militants killed in the strike.
Reuters quoted an unnamed Yemeni official as saying,
“Awlaki is suspected to be dead [in the air raid]“
Over several months, Major Hasan communicated 10 to 20 times with Awlaki, but the “general tenor” of the communications was “fairly benign” and fit with research he was conducting at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C., one U.S. official said last month.
The head of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi and his deputy, Saeed al-Saudi Shahrani, were present at the meeting and are believed to have died, but their deaths could not immediately be confirmed.
“The raid was carried out as dozens of members of Al Qaeda were meeting in Wadi Rafadh,” a source told AFP, referring to a rugged location about 400 miles east of the capital.
“Members of the group’s leadership, including Saad al-Fathani and Mohammad Ahmed Saleh al-Omir, were among those killed,” he was quoted as saying.
“Saudis and Iranians at the Wadi Rafadh meeting were also among the dead,” said the source, without going into detail.
Awlaki was once the imam at the prominent Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Virginia, where the FBI says he had a close relationship with two of the 9/11 hijackers. He fled the U.S. in 2002, eventually returning to Yemen, where he promoted the Iraqi and Afghan insurgencies to a growing religious following in sermons and online.
In an interview posted on Al Jazeera’s Web site, Awlaki said he received an e-mail from Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Hasan on Dec. 17, 2008, “asking for an edict regarding the [possibility] of a Muslim soldier [killing] colleagues who serve with him in the American army.”
Awlaki, who was born in Las Cruces, N.M., said subsequent e-mails “mentioned the religious justifications for targeting the Jews with missiles.” He told the Washington Post in an interview that Hasan eventually came to regard him as a confidant.
A Yemeni official, also speaking on condition of anonymity to AFP, said those attending the meeting “planned to launch terrorist attacks against economic installations in Yemen, in retaliation for Yemeni strikes launched last week.”
On Dec. 17, warplanes and security forces on the ground attacked what authorities said was an Al Qaeda training camp in the area of Mahsad in the southern province of Abyan. Saleh el-Shamsy, a provincial security official, said at least 30 suspected militants were killed. Witnesses, however, put the number killed at over 60 in the heaviest strike and said the dead were mostly civilians.
Much like the effort with Pakistan’s Frontier Corps, the U.S. military has boosted its counterterrorism training for Yemeni forces, and is providing more intelligence, which probably includes surveillance by unmanned drones, according to U.S. officials and analysts.
The Yemeni Interior Ministry said 25 suspected Al Qaeda members were arrested Wednesday in San’a and it has set up checkpoints in the capital to control traffic flow as part of a campaign to clamp down on terrorism.
The United States has repeatedly called on Yemen to take stronger action against Al Qaeda, whose fighters have taken advantage of the central government’s weakness and increasingly found refuge here in the past year. Worries over the growing presence are compounded by fears that Yemen could collapse into turmoil from its multiple conflicts and increasing poverty and become another Afghanistan, giving the militants even freer reign.
The country was the scene of one of Al Qaeda’s most dramatic pre-9/11 attacks, the 2000 suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the Aden coast that killed 17 American sailors. The government allied itself with Washington in the war on terror, but U.S officials have complained that it often strikes deals with militants.
UPDATE:
A source tells Fox News that the FBI now thinks that radical cleric Anwar Awlaki is still alive.
Awlaki was believed to have been killed in a Yemen airstrike that was also thought to have taken out the region’s top Al Qaeda leader and 30 other militants.
The raid in Yemen’s east targeted an Al Qaeda leadership meeting held to organize terror attacks. U.S. officials believe radical cleric Anwar Awlaki was “probably” one of dozens of militants killed in the strike, a source confirmed to FOX News.
I believe most Americans don’t “get it” about Afghanistan and why we’re there.
I know that the relationship between al Qaeda and the Taliban is a close one. Their differences lie in ambitions. The Taliban want to govern Afghanistan again while al Qaeda wants a borderless, all-Muslim Middle East.
The Taliban was formed by the orphaned children of Russia’s involvement in Afghanistan. During those early days of formation several Taliban leaders received funding from al Qaeda and wealthy Arabs which continues today.
Earlier this month Hillary Clinton acknowledged al Qaeda’s ambitions to gain access to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. I know too, that Iran has given safe haven to senior al Qaeda leadership and continues to supply them with funding and weapons.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated his desire to see Israel wiped off the map. I believe Iran will not hesitate to hand over a nuclear weapon to al Qaeda. That belief is reinforced by observing US policy against Iran’s nuclear ambitions as opposed to our behavior against North Korea’s program. But al Qaeda doesn’t seem willing to wait while Iran develops their bomb, several years away from a test-detonation. Al Qaeda’s ambitions are demonstrated by its three attacks on Pakistan’s nuclear storage facilities since November 2007.
I believe Americans fail to accurately weigh the importance of containing Iran while also preventing al Qaeda from destabilizing Pakistan which is to make it easier to gain access to her nukes. It is why we are still in Afghanistan. It isn’t about bringing civilization to Afghanistan. Our presence there has nothing to do with that.
Pakistan’s future is tied to our success at totally destroying al Qaeda’s senior leadership. The Taliban must also be destroyed to prevent it from destabilizing Afghanistan’s government.
The security of the U.S. is contingent upon that success and is why I believe we will be there in some manner for a long, long time. Indeed, we may never fully vacate the area.
Comparing the messages and teachings of the Old Testament against the New Testament reveals a God of fear whose message and persona change to one of loving, acceptance, forgiveness and spiritual growth.
It shows that the message of Christianity has reformed itself for a modern world wishing to advance compassion and healing.
It is time for Islam to do the same to its Qur’an. Here is why.
Minarets
A question comes out of this. Why is one of the most democratic countries in Europe voting for a law to ban minarets? What is it they are so concerned over which we cannot see from our vantage point?
One of two things will happen next; the law is struck down (actually, it’s a constitutional amendment) or church bell towers will have to be silenced or taken down to make the law agnostic to the issue. No pun intended.
If I were a cigarette smoker, my right to smoke ends where the non-smoker’s nose begins. There are laws which support this idea by banning cigarette smoking in restaurants, office buildings and other places.
The rights of Muslims to broadcast calls to prayer end where the non-Muslim’s ear begins. In a modern day world, there is no valid reason to broadcast these calls which forcefully imposes this aspect of Muslim culture upon non-believers, aka, “Kafirs”.
The will of the majority was exercised when they cast their votes. Their system of democracy is working as designed. We should be glad.
Generally, liberals don’t automatically understand the threat Islam and radicalized Muslims pose to America.
Under Islam, dissenting opinion would not be allowed. Muslims do not want Western civilizations to quote the Qur’an to prove the point about its hate-filled verses. You see, to do that is blasphemous and if they have their way, it will be punishable by law. If this were to become law. the host country will have lost a bit of freedom and now must subjugate themselves to the will of Islam.
Under this situation, whose rights are being denied? Careful, the thought police which will be in place to enforce this law may be listening.
If you look into it – maybe you have already – you will read that there has been a term coined by Europeans to describe the on-going immigration of Muslims. They now refer to their continent as Eurabia.
Some label Europe’s alarm as “Islamophobic” which is an unfortunate term against those concerned with preserving their own identities and cultural values. It’s their country. They have an inherent right to preserve its values and culture against a foreign set of values. Their concern is born from observing the nature of the advance of the population across Europe. Where ever Muslims make a concentrated populace with enough mass and political influence, they begin making demands for Sharia law which effectively usurps the nation’s legal system, especially in areas of family law. When the host country’s citizens protest, the Muslim leadership always cite bigotry, racism, hatred and intolerance toward Muslims. This is the origin of the term “Islamophobic” comes from and is quite effective against spineless populations stricken with politically correct paralysis.
While Switzerland is attempting to preserve itself Great Britain has already adopted Islamic law where sharia courts have been given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.
Muslim tribunal courts started passing sharia judgments in August 2007. They have dealt with more than 100 cases that range from Muslim divorce and inheritance to nuisance neighbors.
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, said: “If it is true that these tribunals are passing binding decisions in the areas of family and criminal law, I would like to know which courts are enforcing them because I would consider such action unlawful. British law is absolute and must remain so.”
It means that British Muslims are subject only to Sharia law which could result in fines or punishment not in line with the nation’s laws.
So, Britain is now a nation of two laws and two court systems. What’s to follow next?
If a female Muslim can get a driver’s license while wearing a burka, will the ACLU come to my aid if I walk into a bank wearing a ski mask? I wonder if that will be alright. Ok, ok, this was just a word problem, nothing more.
Back to being serious, I can recall another nation whose populace did little to combat an encroaching ideology which advanced hatred, intolerance and a ridged set of values for others to follow “or else”. It eventually consumed her and led to her destruction.
If the populace had put up a meaningful resistance then, would it have looked to those on the outside as being a bit Naziphobic?
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