Religion of Peas: Stop Posting About Islamberg or We'll Kill You.

Remember the recent stories about an Islamic compound in up-state NY? Well Scott of Scott's Blog over at borgnet has been following the story and It looks like he earned a Fatwa! The death threats started last week and they seem quite credible. In fact it appears they are already stalking him.

Scott of Scott's Blog: The first call I missed so I listened to my voice mail and a person with perfect English told me to answer the phone on the next ring and that it was very important. The phone rang and I heard chanting of some sort in the back ground and a middle eastern thick accent person started his hate rant to me.

The caller said “I had better stop making any further postings about Islamic compounds in the US and to remove the post I had made or I will be killed like the dogs in Iraq are.”

What makes this so creditable is the fact that this person described the vehicle I was in on Saturday going to the mall and the Auto shop that is across from me including that I have solar reflection film on my apartment windows with 3 a/c’s in all of them. That I wear glasses and was in blue knee high shorts.

OK, so that has to be distrurbing. I hope Scott has concealed carry permit.

Scott reported these threats to law enforcement with little action taken (they took a report of the threats) but the threats continued this weekend.

This time it was an exchange of insults because I didn’t give him enough time to spew out his Islamic chanting at me. This time they lasted longer and were more fun. By the time the second call ended he was all pissed off at me and telling me I was in “really big trouble this time” all because of my post about Muslim Mosques and the Islamic compounds being flags of conquer. OH !! and get this — he said they are peaceful LOLOLOLOL so I said “so you threaten to kill me and that’s peaceful ?” which caused more insults to be lashed out at me.

I have links to MPJ and Scott's original posts about Islamberg below the fold.

Scott has some done some great work digging up terror supporting Islamists links to this compound. It is no wonder they want to silence him. So surf around a bit while you are there.

These threats and intimidation will only result in more exposure not the silence the threats are meant to create.

ROPMA

Hat Tip: Ron.

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NYT Strains Mightilly To Find "Religious Motivation" For Fort Dix Six, Sadly Comes Up Empty

—Ace

But at least they tried. (Newsbusters link; click with a clear conscience.)

It is unclear what role, if any, religion played in the attack Mr. Shnewer and the five other men are charged with planning. (The sixth suspect, Agron Abdullahu, had no apparent connection with Al-Aqsa or the South Jersey Islamic Center.) The authorities have described the suspects as Islamic extremists, but the lengthy criminal complaint summarizing the F.B.I.'s 15-month undercover investigation of the group does not mention where -- or how often -- they prayed. Certainly there is no evidence that they picked up radical ideas at either mosque.

I'm kind of laughing at the idiocy of the NYT. Not just the obvious stuff -- they can't apparently see any religious motivation when Islamists are shouting "Allahu Akbar" as they fire guns at human silhouettes, but the less obvious stuff.

Apparently they think that criminal indictments usually do include the number of times the accused prayed in their bill of particulars. And therefore the lack of mention of such details is ipso facto evidence that the men did not pray at the mosque very often (if at all).

The only situation in which it would be proper to note such a thing in an indictment would be if the mosque -- or rather its leaders -- themselves being indicted as co-conspirators or on the related charge of advocacy to commit terrorism.

Little bit of legal knowledge for the New York Times: Most (nearly all) criminal laws have "state of mind" as part of their definition, usually (almost always) defined as "intent" to do the illegal thing. (In other words, even if you shoot your friend while hunting, you are not guilty of murder or attempted murder assuming you thought, incorrectly, he was a deer.)

Motive is not part of that "state of mind" for any crimes, with the notable exception of "hate-crime" penalty increases. (Which is why so many legal theorists find such laws unprecendented and wrong-headed -- they seek to penalize mere "thoughts" and "beliefs" rather than the age-old penalization of a simple intent to commit an illegal act.)

Another broad exception to the no-particular-penalty-for-motive can be found in death-penalty eligibility laws, which may specify stuff like a "motive to profit from the murder of the victim" as making a defendant eligible for the death penalty.

Those exceptions aside, "motive" is something cops look for in order to narrow a range of suspects -- but motive is almost never an actual element of a crime (and when it is mentioned in criminal law at all, it is not an element of the crime per se but an aggravating factor for increased penalties for that crime).

In the excellent book Homicide by David Simon, he notes that oftentimes cops have no idea what a drug-dealer's exact motive was in killing someone. And they're often annoyed at jurors' expectations that a precise motive will be provided. "Look," one cop says in Homicide (this is paraphrased), "I have no idea why Shortie the Crack Dealer shot Mickey the Shrimp. I just can prove he did it, and he intended to do it. I don't know what goes on in the minds of these idiots/lunatics/sociopaths, and the law simply doesn't require me to prove that. It only says I have to prove that Shortie the Crack Dealer did shoot Mickey the Shrimp, and that it was premeditated and intended. That's all. Motive is a crime-solving tool, but not an element of any crime."

Motive is often addressed in criminal trials, of course, but only to demonstrate intent, which is an element of most crimes. It's hard to claim you shot someone by accident when it just turns out you 1, hated that person and 2, stood to gain financially from his death and 3, went around for three weeks saying "I can't wait to shoot that son of a bitch because doing so will make me so happy I'll have a three-week full-body stroke-inducing orgasm."

So motive may be mentioned in an indictment, but simply as evidence as to what actually needs to be proved (intent).

When a bunch of guys are on videotape planning the murder of US soldiers, you simply don't need to delve deeply into motive. Because their intent is already proven conclusively.

I eagerly await the New York Times' page one story demolishing the "Bush Administration's claim" that Osama bin Ladin himself had "any religious motivation" in planning the 9/11 attacks.

That is where we're heading.

"Bullies:" Former co-host Karol actually knew the Duka brothers of the Dix Six plot back in her Brooklyn youth, and reports that they were thugs and bullies.

Which does sort of indicate that religion is only a contributing factor in the jihadist psychological profile. Essentially, these men are megalomaniacs, sadists, and psychopaths, animated, as many serial killers are, by their own sense of failure but the burning desire to "acheive something." (Most serial killers are lower-middle-class to middle-class types, often with civil servant jobs or some other lower-status job that pays the bills but is hardly associated with success, and the serial killer bug strikes them in those difficult 25-to-35 years when one begins to realize the cold hard truth that the dreams of one's youth have been beaten into a bloody pulp by the reality of life and one's own limitations.)

Animating all of these thugs is the fascist/psychopathic need to punish others for their own failures, losers pushed to prove they "matter" by imposing their otherwise-impotent wills on innocents to prove they can do so.

In that sense, religion isn't the primary animating motive for these guys. Simple brutish psychopathy borne of the Napoleon/loser complex is. But their religion -- by giving such vicious murder a spiritual and ideological justification -- is a very strong contributing factor, stripping away the usual social codes against killing and replacing them with a social code encouraging killing.

BONUS! Actually, there was strong evidence in the indictment the planned murders were religiously motivated. I even quoted this myself last week, but forgot it.

Volokh Conspiracy didn't:

“When it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying to attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad,” Eljvir Duka, 23, who also went by the nickname Elvis, is quoted as saying in the complaint.

Guess where that very quote was reported.

No, seriously, guess.

In the New York Times -- in a previous story about the Dix Six.

How bad is circulation at the New York Times? This bad: Not even fucking New York Times reporters read the fucking New York Times, even when they're covering the same story previously reported in the fucking New York Times.

They don't even read their own newspaper... for basic background.

And yet, you know, if you don't read it: You're a knuckledragging troglodyte.

More: Allah reproduces parts of the indictment noting a religious motivation.

So the very professional well-paid j-school-educated staff of the NYT was unable to read a fairly brief indictment, and yet the untrained blogger Allah managed this difficult trick.

Florida Trail Of Terror

By Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer

From dirty bomb plotter Jose Padilla - employed at a Ft. Lauderdale Taco Bell - to Padilla's alleged partner - Adnan El Shukrijumah [apparently fingered by recently captured senior al-Qaeda planner, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] - who was last sighted at a Subway sandwich shop in Tampa 2001, the trail of terror continues in Florida.

Fourteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers either came from or through Florida - The 3 main ringleaders - the "pilots" - Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi & Ziad Jarrah and 11 of the foot soldiers - Ahmad Al Haznawi, Ahmed Alnami, Satam M.A. Al Suqami, Wail M. Alshehri, Waleed M. Alshehri, Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad, Ahmed Alghamdi, Hamza Alghamdi, Mohand Alshehri (not related to Wail & Waleed Alshehri), Saeed Alghamdi, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi.

Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged 20th hijacker also has roots in Florida.

Other notable Floridians - Imran Mandhai, Shueyb Mossa Jokhan - accused of conspiring to bomb the Miami Israeli Consulate and Safraz Jehaludi - currently being held on charges of threatening to blow up the White House.

Despite elaborately embroidered rejections of radicalism and events constructed to showcase Islam's "moderate" nature, the fact remains that Federal investigators say they have heard it all before. One senses that the claims of moderation are ringing hollow with increasing frequency, and for good reason.

For residents of the area, it's déjà vu all over again. Virtually every Florida Mosque and Islamic Center has played host to one or more people who are either fugitives from the law, or in jail on terrorism related charges.

Florida universities continue to harbor professors with militant Islamist agendas. Professors like Mustafa Abu Sway - a documented member of Hamas and the FAU visiting Fulbright Scholar - are exploiting their positions at Florida universities. They further their radical Wahabi agendas, hiding behind the facade of "interfaith outreach." Sway teaches a course about Islam at the FAU Lifelong Learning Center; one of his lessons is entitled - "Jihad and Otherness."

Why Florida?

Why not?

For starters, Florida, especially South Florida, is home to 150,000 Muslims, mostly of Middle Eastern extraction.

The area is also home to at least 23 Mosques.

It is in many ways a transient society; nearly eight million tourists from all over the globe shuffle through the area each year, bustling amusement parks, cheap accommodations, miles of strip malls all offer plenty of cover in which to remain anonymous.

"It's a melting pot. It's not like in Montana where you would stick out like a sore thumb," said Ben Graber, a Broward County commissioner. "Here you just blend in with the population."

Quiero Plutonio?

Back in the good old - pre domestic terror - days your biggest concern about the guy behind the counter at a Taco Bell restaurant was that he might spit in your burrito. But this is the 21st century and now you have to worry if he's working for Osama bin Laden and trying to build a radiological weapon on nights and weekends.

Mohammed Javed Qureshi, the owner of a South Florida Taco Bell, employed Jose Padilla and his wife Cherie Stultz.

It was Padilla's association with the Pakistani born Qureshi that sparked his interest in Islam. It directly led to he and his wife's conversion. After their conversion to Islam, Padilla and his wife - now known as Al Muhajair and Marwa - continued working at the Taco Bell until leaving in 1994.

"If you had known him, you would have never thought of him as a violent person," said Raed Mousa Awad of the Al-Imam Mosque that Padilla attended in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "He was a polite, shy, serious gentleman, according to my observations." ABC News - June 17, 2002

Unfortunately, the pattern linking obfuscation, disinformation and sketchy characters continues, as Raed Awad was also under observation by law enforcement for his involvement in terrorist fundraising. He left South Florida around the time Padilla did and "moved to Alabama". His children claim they do not have his address.

Awad claimed he did not know when Padilla converted to Islam or who converted him. He says that he met Padilla in 1995 and that he attended services daily - sometimes once or twice a day.

"He [Padilla] was very active in the social activities of the Mosque and well known in the Muslim community." - ABC News

Yet Awad claimed not to remember him.

A leader at Awad's Mosque, Yusef Shakoor, remembers Padilla as shy and helpful, but went on to say that he had no standout qualities or personality.

In addition to attending prayers at the Mosque, Padilla studied the Koran on Saturday at the Dar Ul Uloom Institute in Pembroke Pines.

Maulana Shafayat Mohammed, the prayer leader at the Institute, described Padilla as an oddity who definitely stood out - "...he was a Hispanic who converted to Islam and always wore a red scarf over his head."

From no "standout qualities" to an "oddity," everyone in the Muslim community appears to have a different and conflicting story about Jose Padilla. There is an obvious reason for this subterfuge - to confuse the media, investigators, researchers and above all, the public. It is not an accident that Qureshi, Rafiq Mahdi and others have given varying accounts to the regarding South Florida events involving Muslim extremists.

It is now common practice for these people to go by two, three or more differing names; arranged in varying order - depending upon the demands of the occasion. For example - Mohammed Qureshi, Mohammed Javed and Mohammed Javed Qureshi - all the same individual.

In like manner, Qureshi never refers to himself as the owner of the Taco Bell that employed Padilla, he usually says that he was Padilla's supervisor, which is technically correct but seemingly calculated to avoid disclosure of the fact that he was not only his ultimate supervisor but his employer as well.

"Da' wa in North America begins with the packaging"

Muslims are called upon to be evangelical and the practice of Da' wa underlines that philosophy. It means reaching out through religious preaching to those not of the faith - attempting to convert them. The devout are supposed to spend at least two hours every week engaged in such activity.

Compared to Muslims, most fundamentalist Christians are pikers in that regard.

This "packaging" concept really is a marketing ploy and if truth in advertising were applied to the above statement - which was taken directly from the from the Islamic Foundation of South Florida website - it should be rephrased - "Da' wa in North America begins with lying."

To claim that Jose and Cherie Padilla weren't "well known in the community" is absurd. As a chubby Hispanic, red durag [a biker head scarf] coiffed, gangsta' - with a Jamaican born wife - it would stand to reason that Jose would have been remembered by the community who took him in.

However, after Padilla's arrest the community was struck by a bout of collective amnesia prompted, no doubt in no small part, by the nature of his overseas sales pitch to al-Qaeda.

Managing complex fabrications is difficult, sometimes the truth just slips out. One spokesman for the community, Sofian Abedelaziz Zakout, the director of AMANA, the American Muslim Association of North America, has spoken of meeting Padilla, Shukrijumah and two - now jailed - terror suspects.

Shukrijumah was particularly fond of employing a withering blizzard of aliases - El Shukrijumah, Jumah Adnan El Shukri, Muhammad Shir Muhammad Khan, Mohammed Essagh, Abu Arif, Ja'far Al-Tayer, Jaffar Al-Tayyar, Jafar Tayar, Jaafar Al-Tayyar.

Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout employs the same tactic.

In some cases the spelling is merely altered - as is the case with Shukrijumah's father, Gilshair - Shukri Jamal M.

After Adnan Shukrijumah had been identified as a dirty bomb suspect and Mohammed Atta's possible successor, the Mosque that employed his father, which is also the Islamic Caribbean American Society fired him due to the unwanted negative publicity.

Zakkout identified Gilshair as one of the directors of the Shamshuddin Islamic Center in North Miami Beach.

In 1999 Sofian Abdelaziz Zakout was the Vice President of a now defunct "charity" called Health Resource Center Palestine which solicited funding for the Islamic Association of Palestine on it's website - IAP is a virulently anti-Semitic group which distributes hate filled "news" content to the Arab press.

"I am in support of the Hamas movement" - Nihad Awad, the former PR director for the IAP and the current Executive Director of the Council on Islamic American Relations [CAIR].

The HRCP also listed the brother of the Islamic Center of Boca Raton's, Ibrahim Dremali - Ishaq - as its Gaza coordinator. His name was spelled Drimly instead of Dremali. Both Ibrahim Dremali and Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout testified as character witnesses on behalf of Adham Hassoun, who is accused of setting up the Florida office of the al-Qaeda front group, Benevolence International.

Hassoun is also the man authorities believe is responsible for financing Jose Padilla's trip to Egypt.

Dremali and Zakkout both made indignant statements to the media regarding Hassoun's detention.

After speaking with Hassoun by phone, Muslim community activist Sofian Abdelaziz said Hassoun's civil rights "have been broken."

The Principal of the School of Islamic Studies in Broward - Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah [co-founded by Mohammed Qureshi and associated with a Mosque on the same property which was attended by Padilla and Hassoun] made the following understatement:

"Hassoun has been an active part of the local Muslim community for many years"

Shocked, amazed and astonished!

"I'm astonished," Shah said of the arrest and of other recent arrests tied to federal investigations of possible terrorist activities in South Florida.

Qureshi and Imam Madhi of Masjid Al-Imam have given Islam friendly but conflicting versions of the conversion story to the media.

Qureshi said Padilla constantly marveled at how peaceful he seemed. "He asked me where could he go to be a Muslim." Qureshi allegedly told him - "to find a Mosque through the yellow pages" - a strange response, to say the least, from a devout Muslim who was the proprietor of a school/Mosque complex.

According to Querishi, Padilla stated that "something [at the Mosque] touched his heart. He said he had wanted peace of mind, and now he said he felt at peace with himself" and then added "He [Padilla]changed his demeanor."

Denial of associations reigned supreme - Imam Rafiq Mahdi of the Al-Imam Mosque in Sunrise held a press conference with Sheriff Ken Jenne and stated "that there was no record of Jose Padilla having attended any services".

Mahdi merely stated the obvious, since they don't register their worshippers, no record would exist. It's a poor ploy - several newspapers reported that Padilla and his wife were very much in attendance at Masjid Al-Imam.

Hassoun and Padilla worshiped at the same Fort Lauderdale Mosque, Masjid Al-Imam, through much of the 1990s, according to prayer leader, Rafiq Mahdi. Members of the Masjid Al-Imam - which has about 200 worshipers - said Padilla and his wife regularly attended.

The spiritual leader in those years, Raed Awad, was chief Florida officer of another charity targeted for possible terror links, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.

Peter Feaver, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies at Duke University, said it wouldn't be surprising if al-Qaeda sleeper cells and sympathizers are continuing to use Florida as a base. CBS news reports the same.

Local government officials there are more specific, openly speculating that there may be as many as 1,000 "sleepers" living outwardly normal lives.

It may be total happenstance, but Qureshi's Taco Bell is situated quite close to the offices of the Benevolence International Foundation, whose director - Adham Hassoun - was well known as a "Palestinian activist" in local Islamic circles.

Hassoun had been chosen by Ernaam Arnaout - bin-Laden's personal envoy - to set up an office for the al-Qaeda fundraising operation known as the Benevolence International Foundation. Hassoun, a Jordanian national, is now on jail on charges of funding terrorism and is fighting deportation from the U.S.

Arnaam Ernaout - a Syrian national married to an American - was recently sentenced to 12 years in jail for supporting al-Qaeda. He admitted to using money from BIF to buy tents, sleeping bags and boots for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Law enforcement officials believe that Hassoun met Jose Padilla at the Mosque belonging to the school for Islamic Studies in Broward. It was Hassoun who recruited Padilla, assisted him in acquiring an American passport and supposedly paid for his trip to Egypt - his "Arabic language study" sabbatical. Jose Padilla was arrested on May 8, 2002 at O'Hare airport in Chicago returning from Pakistan and is currently being held in a military brig, held as an irregular enemy combatant.

Before they left, Qureshi remembers the couple seeking advice on how to buy a car with the little money they were able to scrounge up. They were hoping to find better-paying jobs - she in office work, he in construction, he recalled.

"I mean from Taco Bell in Davie, the guy's boarding the plane in Pakistan?" he said. "What is going on in this world?"

What indeed, Mr. Qureshi?

Mohammed Javed Qureshi had kept in touch with Cherie Padilla after Jose left for Egypt in 1999. According to Qureshi, Jose was being taking care of by friends, listening and learning.

Padilla started calling himself "Ibrahim." Eventually he legally changed his name to Abdullah al Muhajir, even though "Jose" was tattooed on his arm.

He quit the Taco Bell in 1994, and by 1998 was headed to Egypt, telling friends he hoped to teach English in Cairo.

Javed said he would occasionally hear from Padilla's ex-wife that he was "doing fine, that someone had provided him shelter, that he was listening and learning."

The Padillas were divorced in 2001 with Jose giving an address in Egypt.

During the divorce, Padilla's wife Cherie, sought counseling with the father of Padilla?s alleged partner in terror, Adnan Shukrijumah.

Gilshair's own terror connections went back to the followers of Sheik Abdel Rahman [the 1993 World Trade Center bombing's mastermind, the [Blind Sheikh] in Brooklyn. In 1995 Gilshair testified as a character witness on behalf of Clement Hampton El who was convicted of plotting to blow up the Holland tunnel and the United Nations.

An enterprising tour guide could come up with a "Terror Tour" of South Florida. It would include at least 23 different Mosques in addition to schools and other dwellings within a 20 mile radius of the - "last seen" location - of some the FBI's most wanted terror suspects.

The tour could finish up at the empty homes of those currently matriculating at various federal - maximum security - gated institutions of higher learning.

The Qureshi name is ubiquitous in the school registry of the Islamic Foundation of South Florida - now the parent organization for Shah's School for Islamic Studies.

The IFSF site lists Pasha Qureshi as a registrar. Samina Qureshi on the Al-Falah [success committee] and Zahra Qureshi on the Youth and Camp Committee. The Principal of the Elementary School - Zulfiqar Ali Shah - is the president and CEO of the Universal Heritage Foundation in Kissimmee.

Shah showcased his new foundation with an inaugural - and highly controversial - Islamic conference the theme of which was supposed to portray Islam as a religion of peace and religious accommodation. The original list of conference speakers read like a who's who of radical Wahabis and the event ended up giving UHF a very black eye in the community.

Shah's organization is situated on a 31-acre parcel of land, which it shares with Pastor Lee Wasson's Kissimmee Christian Academy. The landlord is Super Stop Petroleum, Inc. It obtained the property in a bankruptcy proceeding. Wasson's tenancy considerably predates Shah's as he was a tenant of the party in bankruptcy, David Peoples, who operated a travel and culinary school on the property called the Southeastern Academy. It is this former Southeastern Academy that UHF now occupies.

Super Stop Petroleum is one of approximately 160 companies in which Denise Qureshi is the registered agent. In addition to Super Stop, the Florida Department of Corporations lists ? MAQ Financial Group, Q Research Group, Pembroke Park Investments, American Money Orders, 441 Investments, Homestead Subco, HWY 31 Investments, HWY 80 Investments, and on and on and on.

We have extensively covered this a previous article Will Of Faith which detailed how Zulfiqar Ali Shah and Mohammed Javed Qureshi - in an apparent display of anti-Christian bigotry - attempted to drive the Kissimmee Christian Academy into bankruptcy through legal harassment, primarily a frivolous eviction proceeding.

We must conclude, from the circumstances surrounding the court action, that Super Stop Petroleum is run not by Denise, but by Mohammed Javed Qureshi. In Pastor Wasson's only successful effort to talk directly with Super Stop Management, he was put in touch with Javed Qureshi, not Denise. After only briefly listening to the Pastor's request to attempt to work things out amicably, Javed abruptly ended the telephone call, snorting insolently "I am a busy man."

End of conversation.

In their only face to face conversation with Wasson, Dr. Shah made the claim that he didn't even know Qureshi, despite his numerous dealings with him.

Though this amounts to persecution by Muslims who are knee deep in associations with terrorists - against a struggling Christian School whose presence on the property predates UHF's arrival - local major media in Florida has shunned the story. PipeLineNews has even contacted Fox News in New York and they won't touch it either.

Zulfiqar Ali Shah has a long history of senior management positions with extremist Muslim organizations. He was the former president of the Islamic Circle of North America, about which Steve Emerson author of American Jihad, stated - ?openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organization, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia [Islamic code of law]."

So serious is the problem with the Islamic Circle, that in December, 2003 the Senate Finance Committee - under the leadership of Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) - requested from the IRS tax returns, lists of contributors, applications for tax-exempt status, and all materials from examinations, audits and criminal investigations on 25 noble sounding Muslim groups, one of which is Shah?s former haunt, the Islamic Circle of North America.

During Shah's period of leading the ICNA, Ashrafuzzman Khan was its Vice President - as well as the head of the ICNA local chapter in Queens New York.

To many immigrants, however, Khan was better known as the mad-dog leader of a death squad active in the Bangladesh war.

On 24th September 1997, a criminal complaint [case no. 115/1997 Ramana Thana] was filed against Asrafuzzaman Khan, as a result of war crimes allegedly committed by him during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

It is alleged that Khan personally murdered at least 7 intellectuals during that war, that he was a member of the much feared Al-Badr terror squads.

Professor Giasuddin Ahmed was killed as a result of the death squad activity. His sister, Mrs. Farida Banu, filed the case in Bangladesh.

In the complaint Mrs. Banu claims that Khan, along with others, kidnapped Ahmed. His body was found later at the Rayar Baazar killing fields, a disposal site used by the Al Badr death squads.

"Asrafuzzaman Khan, was one of the chief Al-Badr executioners. It has been clearly proved that he himself shot to death 7 teachers of the Dhaka University in the killing fields at Mirpur. A certain Mofizzuddin, who drove the vehicle, which took these helpless victims of Asrafuzzaman to Mirpur, has clearly identified Asrafuzzaman as the "chief executer" of the intellectuals. After Liberation, Ashrafuzzaman's personal diary was recovered from 350 Nakhal Para where he resided. On two pages of the diary, the names of 19 teachers of the University have been entered, as well as their addresses in the University quarters" - From the Weekly Thikana, a Bengali print journal published from New York December 15, 2000

This really is only a cursory glance at what is going on, not just in South Florida, but also in many other parts of the country.

Connect the dots and follow the associations.

Fact: The Wahabi brand of thought dominates Islam in the Middle East. Wahabi Saudis are directly and primarily responsible for funding the majority of US Islamic institutions.

In his book, Inside Islam, Reza F. Safa states that the majority of American Mosques are funded by jihadist Saudis, that over the last 25 years they have spent nearly $90 billion on such projects in the US and the West and that 80% of this nation?s 1,200 Mosques were built as a result of this effort.

Islam is a supremely aggressive religion. The Muslim American Society has single handedly converted 1 million American Blacks to Islam, the Saudis have contributed $8 million towards building Los Angeles' biggest Mosque.

From their mouths, to Allah's ear

"Either the best Muslim will get power, or the worst Kaffir [worst infidel, etymology - comes from an African Islamic usage - extreme pejorative for black person, on the level of "nigger," not at all surprising since it was the Muslims who were the primary sellers of slaves for the New World] Allah has created us as the Khaleefah [leaders] and we do not know Biology, Chemistry, Geology, when the Muslims knew those sciences they rules those lands and controlled them. We need to learn these sciences then we know how to control this earth. Rasool (S) struggled for 13 years, he was tortured abused, made sacrifices, even lost his uncle. Victory will not come sitting down. We need to prepare ourselves in all aspects." - Zulfiqar Ali Shah from remarks on the History of Islam prepared for the consumption of young Muslims.

Anyone with a critical eye who has evaluated the manner in which the Islamic world has operated for a millenium-and-a-half will note that Islam fosters little tolerance for other religions.

This intolerance, in the face of 911 and increased public scrutiny, continues unabated. Supposedly mainstream Islamic institutions expressly created for educating Muslim youth, in reality operate as thinly disguised Madrassas - little factories of fundamentalist religious bigotry and hate.

"...The fundamental theme of Islam throughout history has been - there is no god but Allah - Islam alone can provide the power for Muslims to liberate oppressed peoples from the control of those who worship the false gods of modernist and postmodernist cultures, namely, from taghut, so that these false gods will no longer be in a position to persecute or put obstacles in the way of sincere people and so all religion will be exclusively for Allah.

Our task in general is to stand against the flood of modernist civilization overflowing from the swamp of materialistic and sinful desires...Western secularism moved into a Muslim world already estranged from its Qur'anic roots, and delayed its advancement for centuries, and will continue to do so until we drive it from our lands. Moreover, we will not stop at this point, but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world." Jan 18, 2004 Young Muslims USA Newsletter.

The Young Muslim USA organization busses Muslim teenagers to Washington, DC so they could add their voices in protest against the war in Iraq, which liberated 25 million of their Islamic brothers and sisters.

The slick looking signs these kids were given were obviously done by professionals.

The placards they held carried familiar leftist slogans such as "Defend Iraq Against US Imperialist Attack" - "For Class Struggle Against US Capitalist Rulers" and "No Justice, No Peace" many complete with the logos of the Socialist Worker's Party, a communist front group.

Unbelievably, only a few years ago, Muslim youth organizations were actually soliciting impressionable Islamic kids to participate in Summer Jihad Camps, here it the headline of a flyer, from the Young Muslim USA organization.

Young Muslims North East Region

presents...

Jihad Camp

August 20th - 26th, Pennsylvania

Note that the date was exactly two weeks before September 11, 2001.

The Summer camps continue, albeit under a different guise. Sometimes now they are called Akhira camps. Akhira is the Arabic word for afterlife. Nice concept - Summer Death Camps.

"Our [Young Muslim USA] Summer Camp will help educate and prepare the youth with the proper understanding of the concept of the Akhira (The Hereafter) in Islam. This camp is for brothers with ages ranging from 14 to 25 years"- from the flyer

Curious...healthy young people - males only - preparing to meet Allah.

The speakers at these events always include radical jihadis.

For example, in addition to Zulfiqar Ali Shah, three of the speakers at the 'Jihad' and Akhira [afterlife] camps were:

Sirraj Wahaj - a member of the advisory board of CAIR and in 1995 was declared an unindicted co conspirator in the attempt to blow up New York City monuments.

Imam Abdul Malik who runs the radical Masjid Tarwhid in New York. He also spoke at the UHF's 'Islam for Humanity' inaugural event Malik recently produced an audio tape entitled "Thugz in the Masjid" which "explores issues related to thug life and it's adaptation by Muslim Youth."

The activities at these Muslim youth camps?

Wrestling - Archery - Paintball Combat Sports

For some reason the paintball images have been pulled from the Young Muslim USA site, but the following comes from similar Muslim paintball activity, this from of all places, Kentucky.

Makes you feel all warm and cozy, brings you right back to...Afghanistan?

Had enough? Feel reassured now that you understand the Islam is the religion of peace?

This is the real problem when dealing with Islam in a Western setting. The religion is not being truthfully evaluated because an invidious process has been set in motion. Our own loss of intellectual vigor is partly to blame. It is manifested as an inability [or even desire] to critically reason about such demanding subjects, but the main antagonist is the left's multiculturalism/moral relativism, which causes many to take at face value high sounding statements by Muslim spokesmen, like CAIR, Shah, Qureshi and others.

As has been written here in the past until we see significant and meaningful - concrete - demonstrations of good faith by the Muslim community, we remain unconvinced of the sincerity of claims of moderation. Until we see Imams stand before their followers and reject Hamas, Yasir Arafat, religious martyrdom and the Palestinian Intifada, until we see young Muslim men demand to join the US Armed Forces so they can participate in the war on terror and rid the world of those who have allegedly defiled the true spirit of Mohammed, we remain unconvinced.

We remain unconvinced because it is all cheap lip service, frosting on a poison tart, marketing, packaged Da'wa.

"...Law enforcement officials are not sure what exactly El Shukrijumah may be planning, but they say he could target gas stations, fuel trucks, subway systems, trains, or bridges. "Our No. 1 priority," Larry Mefford, assistant director of the FBI's counter terrorism division, told U.S. News, "is to find sleeper cells if they exist"

Since Mr. Mefford broached the subject, let's pursue it a bit - we don't advocate giving people ideas but this type of speculation is already out there.

There is absolutely no doubt that al-Qaeda and other Islamic terror groups are actively planning further, even more devastating attacks against the United States. Unless we are 100% effective in stopping them, the question is only a matter of when the next attack will occur, not if.

Suppose that entire chains of - lets say - gas stations or fleets of fuel tanker trucks - or both - come under surreptitious control of al-Qaeda types.

The standard gasoline transport tractor trailer rig features two stainless steel containers, each with the capacity of approximately 8,500 gallons, for a combined single vehicle capacity of 17,000 gallons of gasoline. According to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission - that amount of gasoline is equivalent in energy content to over 100,000 pounds of TNT.

A similar load of liquid hydrogen would be far more deadly, it has over twice the energy content of gasoline and its laminar flame velocity is nearly 10 times as fast [2.7 to 3.3 m/s for hydrogen vs. .37 to .43 m/s for gasoline] hence a far higher potential explosive effect.

Of course that number is theoretical and you are not going to get these kinds of yields by simply tossing a few books of matches in front of fuel carrying semis. However, with the proper amount of oxidizer and correctly applied ignition, the energy release from such potential mobile bombs would be massive.

Imagine the effect that would be caused by the simultaneous detonation of hundreds of gas stations during rush hour while gasoline, liquefied natural gas and propane transports were set off on major bridges, as well as outside political and military targets?

There are many other possibilities along these lines, the point is merely that in a high tech society such as the United States it is impossible to control every potential source of destructive energy available to crafty, scientifically aware, foes.

Absent that we have to judge people by what they do, what they say in private, when they think they are not being overheard by outsiders and by their associations.

On these three fronts American Islam, not to mention the Islamic movement outside of the United States, stands looking very suspect.

© 1999-2005 Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer.

US: University Says Printing Facts of Islam is Form of 'Harassment'

Factual Statements=Unprotected Harassment!? A Terrifying Precedent at Tufts

by Greg Lukianoff

May 11, 2007

Today, FIRE announced the decision by a disciplinary panel at Tufts to find the conservative student newspaper, The Primary Source, guilty of “harassment” for, among other things, publishing a satirical ad that listed less-than-flattering facts about Islam during Tufts’ Islamic Awareness Week. You can see the ad here, and Eugene Volokh has also published it with excellent commentary over at his blog, but, just to make sure people see the ad for themselves, I have reprinted the full text:

Islam

Arabic Translation: Submission

In the Spirit of Islamic Awareness Week, the SOURCE presents an itinerary to supplement the educational experience.

MONDAY: “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.” – The Koran, Sura 8:12

Author Salman Rushdie needed to go into hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeni declared a fatwa calling for his death for writing The Satanic Verses, which was declared “blasphemous against Islam.”

TUESDAY: Slavery was an integral part of Islamic culture. Since the 7^th century, 14 million African slaves were sold to Muslims compared to 10 or 11 million sold to the entire Western Hemisphere. As recently as 1878, 25,000 slaves were sold annually in Mecca and Medina. (National Review 2002)

The seven nations in the world that punish homosexuality with death all have fundamentalist Muslim governments.

WEDNESDAY: In Saudi Arabia, women make up 5% of the workforce, the smallest percentage of any nation worldwide. They are not allowed to operate a motor vehicle or go outside without proper covering of their body. (Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2001)

Most historians agree that Muhammed’s second wife Aisha was 9 years old when their marriage was consummated.

THURSDAY: “Not equal are those believers who sit and receive no hurt, and those who strive and fight in the cause of Allah with their goods and their persons. Allah hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit. Unto all Hath Allah promised good: But those who strive and fight Hath He distinguished above those who sit by a special reward.” – The Koran, Sura 4:95

The Islamist guerrillas in Iraq are not only killing American soldiers fighting for freedom. They are also responsible for the vast majority of civilian casualties.

FRIDAY: Ibn Al-Ghazzali, the famous Islamic theologian, said, “The most satisfying and final word on the matter is that marriage is form of slavery. The woman is man’s slave and her duty therefore is absolute obedience to the husband in all that he asks of her person.”

Mohamed Hadfi, 31, tore out his 23-year-old wife Samira Bari’s eyes in their apartment in the southern French city of Nimes in July 2003 following a heated argument about her refusal to have sex with him. (Herald Sun)

If you are a peaceful Muslim who can explain or justify this astonishingly intolerant and inhuman behavior, we’d really like to hear from you! Please send all letters to tuftsprimarysource@gmail.com.

So does this paint Islam in a nice light? No. Is it one-sided? Yes, but that was kind of the point. The students were responding to what they thought was a one-sided and overly rosy depiction of Islam during Islamic Awareness week. But is it unprotected harassment!? One certainly hopes not, or else “harassment” just became a truly lethal threat to free speech—an “exception” that completely swallows the rule.

This is perhaps the most troubling and far-reaching aspect of this case. The Primary Source published a satirical ad filled with factual assertions and because this angered people it was ruled to be unprotected harassment. If what the complaining students wanted to say was that the TPS facts were wrong, then—while this still would not be harassment—that could have been an interesting debate. But instead, in sadly predictable fashion, the students plowed ahead with a harassment claim that, based on the hearing panel’s decision, appeared not even to raise the issue of whether or not the statements in the ad were true, but turned only on how they made people feel. A panel consisting of both faculty and students found the publication guilty in flagrant abuse of what harassment case law and regulations actually say, and demonstrating total ignorance of the principles of a free society. Even in libel law (one of the oldest exceptions to the rule of free speech is that you can be punished for defaming people) truth is rightfully an absolute defense. Here, the fact that TPS printed verifiable information—with citations—was apparently no defense, nor was the fact that the ad concerned contentious issues of dire global importance. Such an anemic conception of free speech should chill anyone who cares about basic rights and democracy itself.

I doubt that the Tufts disciplinary board thought through the full ramifications of their actions. If a Muslim student had published these same statements in an article calling for reform in Islam, would that be harassment? If Tufts wished to be at all consistent (a dubious bet here), it would be.

Since those students and faculty obviously did not think about the ramifications of this decision, we put it to you, President Bacow: do you think the publication of factual assertions should be a punishable offense if they hurt the wrong people’s feelings, regardless of whether or not they are true? I hope he will think hard on what the U.S. would look like if that was the law of the land. It’s not a country that most of us would recognize or even want to live in. We ask again for President Bacow to live up to the best principles of a liberal university in a free society and overturn this dangerous decision.

Another reason the anti-war nutroots against the good guys handing defeat to the jihadies should be marginalized for the insanity and defeatitude they espouse... this deuschbag ended up aiding the UK bombers because of his personal zealotry.

What a dolt.

I think the anti-war "activist" did find like minds... and he became pro-war for the scourge of Allah.

-JS

Video: Anti-War Computer Expert's Rude Awakening

Anti-war activist Martin Gilbertson thought he’d found people of like minds, when he started working in the Muslim community of Beeston. He produced anti-western propaganda videos, and helped to secure websites and encrypted emails for Muslims at the Iqraa Bookshop—and for 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer.

His multicultural anti-war fantasy had become a jihad nightmare, and he tried to alert the police—but he never heard back from them until after the London bombings.

LGF operative Kasper has another clip from UK TV, telling Gilbertson’s story.

Paintball Jihadies on American soil - thank God the dorks of Allah were stupid enough to take their Jihad video to commercial DVD video house

Back to headlines

Witness testifies against Al-Timimi

By Debra Erdley
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, April 10, 2005

FAIRFAX, Va. -- He never made it to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban, but Yong Ki Kwon -- a Northern Virginia engineer who fled the United States nine days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks -- said it wasn't for lack of effort.

Kwon, 29, is a South Korea-born graduate of Virginia Tech who is serving an 11-year prison sentence as a result of his guilty plea last year on federal conspiracy and weapons charges. He has emerged as the prosecution's star witness in the case against Ali Al-Timimi, an American Islamic scholar charged with recruiting soldiers for the Taliban just five days after Sept. 11.

Al-Timimi, 41, who maintains his innocence, sat quietly with his attorneys as the case against him unfolded last week during Kwon's testimony in an Alexandria, Va. courtroom. Al-Timimi was indicted last year on 10 counts, including charges of soliciting others to levy war and inducing others to join the Taliban. If convicted on all counts, he could face life in prison.

Kwon, one of nine men convicted last year in the so-called "paintball jihad" network, told a chilling tale of the birth of an American jihad.

The holy war was conceived in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the dawn of the 21st century and was born at a meeting in his Fairfax, Va. apartment Sept. 16, 2001, when Kwon said he and several companions decided to heed the call of spiritual adviser Al-Timimi and to be trained to join the Taliban.

Four days later, Kwon was on a flight to Karachi, Pakistan.

The call to holy war took Kwon, who became a U.S. citizen in August 2001, to the mountain training camps of Lashkar-e-Taiba -- known as the LET -- a group that the U.S. placed on its terrorist list in December 2001.

Under the guidance of militants who trained holy warriors for battle in Afghanistan, Kwon honed his skills with semi-automatic weapons and learned to fire a grenade launcher.

Kwon, though, said he never was able to join the Taliban. He was simply too late. The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan closed as U.S. forces took control of Afghanistan shortly before Kwon completed his training at the LET camp.

He said his mentors offered him another option: Go back to the United States and gather information for the mujahadeen, or holy warriors.

Kwon has become a key part of the government's case against the "paintball jihad" following his arrest in 2003.

He testified last year against several members of the group; has cooperated with terrorism investigators in Great Britain and Australia; and now is testifying against Al-Timimi -- all in hopes of earning a reduced sentence.

Dressed in a dark-green prison jumpsuit, the tall, bearded Kwon told jurors how he first heard Al-Timimi speak in 1997 at an Islamic Assembly of North America conference in Chicago.

Born to Christian parents, Kwon converted to Islam in 1997 and quickly found scholar Al-Timimi lecturing regularly near his Northern Virginia home.

Al-Timimi was known in strict Muslim communities across the word for his taped and Internet lectures. Supporters point to well-known lectures calling for peace in the wake of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993.

Al-Timimi also was listed as an advisory board member of Assirat Al-Mustaqueem -- an international Arabic language magazine published in Pittsburgh from 1991 to 2000.

The magazine called for holy war against Christians and Jews. It also lauded the international army that Osama bin Laden assembled for the Taliban in Afghanistan. The magazine once featured an article lauding Shamil Basayev, the Chechen rebel who took credit for last fall's bloody Beslen school massacre in which more than 300 people -- many of them school children -- were slain.

Kwon said he grew to know and respect Al-Timimi as he regularly attended lectures at Dar Al Arqam mosque in Falls Church, Va.

Al-Timimi's lectures on such topics as the purification of the soul and the new world order were only one side of Kwon's pursuit of Islam.

The other side played out among Kwon and a small group of Muslim friends on the paintball fields and target ranges ringing Washington. That side focused on jihad -- violent holy war. And that focus turned to an obsession among Kwon and his friends long before Sept. 11, 2001, Kwon testified.

The group, which included two U.S. military veterans and several engineers, gathered regularly, starting in early 2000, to talk about or prepare for jihad.

"Russian Hell" -- a jihad video that featured bloody clips of a Chechen Muslim rebel leader executing a Russian prisoner of war -- was a favorite among the videos that the group exchanged and discussed.

"They (the videos) motivated us. It was like they gave us inspiration," Kwon testified.

Martyrdom, too, was a topic.

"As a Muslim, it's something you aspire to," Kwon said, answering questions from assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Kromberg. "We talked about it. I don't know how realistic we were, but we talked about it because it was very noble," Kwon told the jury of nine men and five women before U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema.

Members of the group wanted to be ready to take up arms -- should the need to defend Islam arise, Kwon said -- and they began traveling to shooting ranges for target practice and to paintball fields to execute military maneuvers.

Al-Timimi never was a part of their games, Kwon said, but he and other witnesses said the man they characterized as a respected mentor was aware of them. Indeed, they consulted Al-Timimi when the FBI visited one of the members of their group with questions. Al-Timimi's advice: Be more circumspect about their activities, Kwon and others testified.

Kwon recalled driving Al-Timimi home from the mosque Sept. 11, 2001 after the terrorist attacks. He said Al-Timimi and another scholar argued, with Al-Timimi characterizing the attacks as a punishment of America from God, while his fellow scholar decried the attacks.

That night, as they drove from the mosque, Kwon said Al-Timimi had a request.

"He told me to gather some brothers, to have a contingency plan in case there were mass hostilities toward Muslims in America," Kwon said.

Five days later, Al-Timimi met with Kwon again, this time at the young engineer's apartment where he gathered a small group of friends.

"He told me to unplug the message machine and turn off the phones."

Then, Kwon said, Al-Timimi advised the group that the effort to spread Islam in the United States was over and that the only other options open to them were to repent, leave the U.S. and join the mujahadeen -- the holy warriors preparing to defend Afghanistan against the coming U.S. invasion.

Four days later, Kwon was on the plane to Pakistan, embarking on a jihad that would land him in prison.

"I made the decision to go, but (Al-Timimi) was a big part of my decision to go," Kwon said.

Debra Erdley can be reached at derdley@tribweb.com or 412-320-7996.

The Salafi Ideology goes beyond direct Al Qeada links and furthers the global Jihad agenda

New Jersey Terror Plot

Update by Jane: Yes, here I am, somewhat cranky I must say. Five of the suspects lived in Cherry Hill and all are Albanian, the Asbury Park Press reported. They had also considered attacking Fort Monmouth (which I pass on my way to the beach) before settling on Fort Dix. Apparently the feds were up on the group for some time:

The Star-Ledger of Newark reported on its Web site that the men had agreed to buy AK-47 assault rifles from an arms dealer who was secretly cooperating with the FBI. The Star-Ledger report cited a law enforcement source granted anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak about the arrest.

I have to agree with Rusty, the radical Islamists' ideology is what defines America's enemies, not the logistical substructure of al-Qaeda. Its an ideology of self-defined superiority and fatalism that terms all Shiites as rejectionists, engages in Takfir-ism against Muslims who hold less violent views, and views the US as the source of the modernism that corrupted Islam leading to the diminished power of the Ummah. Radical Salafism defines the US as the aggressor, Americans as sub-human, and death in combat against the US as noble and altruistic. There are no civilians and children deserve no mercy.

It is a war of ideas, viewpoints, definitions, and explanations. That these six planned to attack US soldiers on US soil, and kill anyone who got in their way, demonstrates the ability of hard core Salafi ideology to impact every American's life and invade every town, even Cherry Hill. The essential component of the terrorist threat is the ideology not the network.

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NJ Terror Plot (UPDATED)

Breaking news! Six men were arrested last night for a terror plot to kill soldiers at Ft. Dix, New Jersey.

From NBC10.com:

Investigators said the men planned to use AK-47s to storm Fort Dix and open fire on soldiers and civilians stationed at the New Jersey base, noting that other military locations were scouted by the terrorist cell.

Three of the unnamed suspects are brothers who are all believed to be Islamic radicals, according to sources. Some of the six arrested men were also born in Albania and the former Yugoslavia, but have spent a significant amount of time living and training in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, according to authorities.

All six men were expected to face terror conspiracy charges Tuesday in federal court in Camden, N.J.

Living and training in New Jersey and Pennsylvania!

Update by Rusty: Newark Star Ledger, via Allahpundit:

The men - several of whom were in the same family - had videotaped their practice sessions in the Poconos, the source said. That videotape, in which they railed against America, led to their arrests.

The men made the mistake of bringing it to a retail store seeking to get a copy burned to a DVD, according to one of the sources. A store employee who later watched the tape called the FBI who began immediately investigating.

Dumb jihadis--the best kind!

The article also notes the six practiced by using paintball guns. Hmmmm, sounds familiar.

Allah seems to think that these guys aren't al Qaeda. But I think that misses the point of al Qaeda 3.0. Anyone can be "al Qaeda" now just by claiming to be, that's the nature of a non-hierarchical network.

Besides that, focusing on whether or not a particular terrorist cell is being directed by Ayman al-Zawahiri unintentionally misleads the public into thinking our only global enemy is "al Qaeda". It's not. It's the global jihad network.

Anyway, hopefully we'll get a comment of two from our own Jane, who blogs from New Jersey.

UPDATE II by Rusty: Confederate Yankee has a media roundup.

UPDATE III by Rusty: Jane is having computer problems this morning, but chimes in here.

UPDATE IV by Rusty: Michelle Malkin notes that a) 3 of the plotters are illegal alilens and b) that Fort Dix had been used extensively Ethnically Albanian refugees from Kosavo which is stunning.

UK - NYC Terror cells connected

Al-Muhajiroun terror network

UK fertiliser bomb plot-from BBC News 5/01/2007 hat tip Bill Warner

Babar arrested Queens NY

Mohammed Junaid Babar from the Islamic Center of Queens aka Masjid al-Fatima

More see

Go here for Pictures: Fertiliser bomb plotters
The back yard of Mohammed Junaid Babar's Pakistan house where a test explosion was carried out.

Babar arrested in Queens ------> Read this for the backstory, all of it.

Riots in France the MSM isnt telling of - A great victory for conservative Sarkozy to the socialist sharia lovin losers

Update: How Many Cars Torched? (Media Lies)

Not only did the Associated Press bury their report that 367 cars had been torched in France, now it turns out that the media have been lying about the violence.

Because the actual number of cars destroyed by “youths” last night was 730—about twice the number reported by the AP.

This Reuters article also says 78 policemen were injured by the “youths,” and the violence was much more widespread than we’ve been told: Police hurt in French election violence.

PARIS (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were arrested in France overnight in clashes between police and protesters angry over conservative Nicolas Sarkozy’s victory in Sunday’s presidential election, police said.

Official figures released on Monday said demonstrators set fire to 730 cars and injured 78 policemen across France, with 592 people arrested in the violent protests against the tough-talking former interior minister.

The tally was revised sharply upwards after an initial report appeared to downplay the clashes and was at odds with local police figures and eyewitness reports, which suggested widespread troubles in numerous French cities.

This comes as no surprise, because French media have openly stated that they will cover up the true extent of the violence. And the French Constitutional Council recently passed a law criminalizing the reporting of acts of violence by anyone other than professional journalists.

Tehran, Iran Conference - "MUSLIM WORLD - Victim of Terrorism"

So much irony here that it's hard to know where to begin.

73 percent confident that America will convert to Islam

JWT, Largest Ad Agency in the U.S., Conducts First Extensive Study of Muslim-American Attitudes

Surprising Study Reveals Muslim Communities Long to Be Acknowledged As Part
                         of Mainstream America

  NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many American Muslims

feel simultaneously overexposed in the media and invisible as part of the
American mainstream. But while they generally perceive themselves to be
under constant suspicion, a new study shows that Muslims still believe in

the American dream and are quietly living out traditional American values.

  "One of the most crucial things to emerge from the study is that
American Muslims want to feel less singled out and to be simply

acknowledged and accepted," says Marian Salzman, executive vice president
and chief marketing officer of JWT Worldwide. "They're hyphenated Americans
in a country where religious observance is normal."


  JWT, the largest advertising agency in the U.S. and the fourth-largest
in the world, commissioned this wide-ranging study on America's estimated 6
to 8 million Muslims; it includes in-depth interviews with noted American

Muslims, ethnographies of ordinary Muslims and a survey of 350 Muslims that
used face-to-face interviews. An adapted version of the survey was also
fielded online to more than 450 Americans representing the general

population.

  "We quickly found out that Muslims have become wary of discussing
themselves and their faith," notes Salzman. "Many have felt a lot of
hostility directed at them and didn't want to risk expressing opinions on

anything vaguely controversial. It took a lot of effort to convince enough
Muslims that our study was purely market research, not for political
purposes."

  Participants balked most notably at questions related to 9/11 and its

effects, adds Ann Mack, JWT's director of trendspotting. "America's
post-9/11 focus on Muslims has forced them to grapple with some tough
questions that few other Americans have had to face: How public should they

be about their faith? Should they stand up for it or avoid confrontation?
Are there conflicts of loyalty between their faith and their country?"
  Among the key quantitative findings:

  * Over two-thirds (69 percent) of American Muslims say they are often

    judged by events outside their control, a view of Muslims shared by 60
    percent of the general sample. At a time when Arabic names or Muslim
    attire routinely attract unwelcome attention, more than half of Muslims

    (53 percent) fear that their right to express their religion is under
    attack, and 39 percent of the general population agrees with them.

  * Much of Muslim angst is driven by widespread perceptions of anti-Muslim

    bias in the media. Well over half of Muslims (57 percent) feel that
    media coverage is always/mostly biased, and another third (34 percent)
    feel it is occasionally biased. The general public senses an anti-Muslim

    slant as well, with 25 percent agreeing that coverage is always/mostly
    biased and 48 percent saying it's occasionally biased. More than
    three-quarters (78 percent) of Muslims say they are increasingly angry

    about the way the media characterizes and portrays Muslims.

  * When it comes to the stuff of everyday life, however, Muslims are like
    other Americans. Both Muslims and the general population place a high

    priority on feeling safe outside their home (89 percent of both
    samples), personal freedom (89 percent of Muslims vs. 93 percent of the
    general sample), education (90 percent vs. 88 percent) and, to a lesser

    extent for both, career (75 percent vs. 69 percent).

  * On the topic of advertising, Muslims generally reflect mainstream
    American views, with a slant toward the conservative. A little over 70

    percent of both samples agreed advertisers should accept greater
    responsibility for setting a moral standard. Sixty-nine percent of
    Muslims vs. 59 percent of the general sample feel that most advertising

    sets a low moral tone for younger and more easily impressed viewers; 60
    percent of Muslims vs. 47 percent of the general sample agree that the
    advertising they see is too suggestive or immodest.


  * Muslims' biggest gripe with advertising is that it doesn't acknowledge
    their existence: A high 71 percent of Muslims (vs. 34 percent of the
    general sample) agreed that "Advertisers rarely show anybody of my

    faith/ethnicity in their advertising," and 72 percent said that if they
    felt advertisers generally wanted or appreciated the business of
    Muslims, they would pay more attention to ads.


  * While most Muslims (61 percent) feel that it's hard to be a Muslim in       America, many are optimistic; indeed, 73 percent said they are confident
       that Western society would one day accept Islam.

  Muslims are not necessarily looking for marketers to provide any
specially targeted products, although Islam does require specific food and

packaged goods (halal), clothing (modest) and financial transactions
(shariah- compliant). What they are primarily looking for is acknowledgment
from marketers, says Mack. "The challenge and the opportunity for brands

are to connect with Muslims in a low-key way that recognizes their
American-ness and seeks to understand their particular attitudes."

  "Every step of this study has been hugely instructive for us and for

our clients," says Salzman. "We started out with the intention of learning
about the 'Muslim community.' We quickly found out that there is no such
thing as a single American Muslim community, much as there is no single

Christian community. Muslims vary hugely by ethnicity, faith, tradition,
education, income and degree of religious observance, to name a few
factors."

  JWT will make the study available to key clients and will also sell the

findings on its proprietary "smarts" Web site (http://www.jwtintelligence.com)
starting May 1. A comparable study of the Muslim market in the U.K
. will be
launched on May 21. The study was done in collaboration with Market Probe,
NoFormula and Attention Space.

  About JWT

  JWT ranks as the largest advertising agency brand in the United States

and as the fourth-largest full-service network in the world. Its parent
company is WPP (NASDAQ: 
WPPGY). JWT's heritage of brand-building excellence
extends back to 1864, making us the world's oldest advertising agency
brand. In 1939, JWT pioneered the first national consumer research panel.
In 1988, we created the first research study of consumer lifestyles, "Life

Stages." We believe in being anthropologists first, advertising people
second.

  Press Contact:
  Alan Fox, Planned TV Arts
            212.593.5851 
  foxa@plannedtvarts.com

An Open letter to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission to DENY McMaster University Renewal License for its nuclear reactor

MAGIC CITY MORNING STAR

To: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission By Michael Devolin Apr 22, 2007 - 1:56:35 PM

I’m writing this letter as an ordinary Canadian citizen, to officially voice my objections to McMaster University’s application for a seven-year renewal of its operating license for its nuclear program.

I strongly object to McMaster University being granted license for a seven year extension of its nuclear research program precisely because of the fact that many of its staff are not only Muslims, but also, and more importantly, because these same Muslims originate from countries where the generally desired efficacy of Islam as a religion is hatred and acts of violence, not only against Muslims of opposing sects and doctrines, but also against all non-Muslims, and especially Jews. These Muslims I’m referring to - Muslims involved in McMaster Univerity’s nuclear research program-were surely inculcated by what is known most commonly by now as Islam’s culture of violence and hatred during their years living in those countries where this same malefic violence and hatred [of the West] is regarded as unremarkable.

I am most anxious about the fact that these particular Muslims now have access to Canada’s "nuclear capabilities." Has the staffs (those who are of the Muslim faith) of McMaster University with access to the Nuclear facilities been fully investigated as to what sect of Islam is their personal choice? Please consider that those of the Wahhabists sects of Islam (and there are many) are not at all forthcoming about this fact. Fanaticism within Islam is widespread, and this same fanaticism does not remain in the Muslim Middle East immediately those who follow its tenets immigrate to our Canada.

CISIS has been warning for quite some time that Islam’s fanaticism is now a reality for Canada. Luc Portelance of CSIS has stated, "Terrorism is dangerous ideology, and a global phenomenon...Canada is not immune from this ideology." What is missing in his statement is the fact that, without exception, the terrorism Mr. Portelance refers to is an Islamic phenomenon. We are told that "Islamist" is now the preferred, politically correct term for the adherents of Islam who choose to murder innocents as means of palliating their religiously-inspired and discomposing contempt for the less observant and less-enlightened of mankind, Muslim and non-Muslim alike. But the truth of the matter-a most portentous truth, in my opinion-is that these so-called "Islamists" are inconspicuously invariably of those whom we refer to in the politically-correct, phrasal idiom as "moderate" Muslims, and only later (and this is the security imbroglio we are now facing as a nation) do they become the terrorists and insidious elements we read about daily in the newspapers.

Raheel Raza (Their Jihad, Not My Jihad) has written of Islam’s many extreme and varied ideologies that, "It had been happening here in Canada to the extent that hate was being spouted through places of worship and by people who make it their day job to incite young people in this hatred. Towards what they perceive to be the imperial powers, the western occupation of parts of the world." My questions to these Muslims involved in McMaster University’s nuclear research program would be in regards to how they deem this democracy they live in, the values it espouses, and how compatible is their preferred sect of Islam to this same democracy. Are these same Muslims perhaps of those who "make it their day job to incite young people in this hatred"? What other Islamic organizations are they involved with? What are their preferred politics? Do they condone and/or advocate Islam’s barbaric Sharia Law, as opposed to our Western style justice system? Sharia Law is not a justice system I would ever welcome into this country. Neither would I welcome those of Islam who condone its implementation into our present justice system. Much of the Middle East and Africa is suffering from the insalubrious effects of this atrocious "rule of law."

As part of my objection to McMaster University being granted another seven years to continue its nuclear research program, I ask that his commission give much thought to the words of the journalist Steven Stalinsky, who wrote, "As the war on terror continues, the voices from the Arab and Muslim world celebrating death over life have been heard more often than those criticizing this philosophy." I would ask you to consider how active have these Muslim scientists been or with what manners of voice have they protested against the bloodshed and carnage perpetrated upon innocent Muslim, Jews, and Christians around the world? If not actively and loudly contumacious toward those of Islam’s more disagreeable and dark side, then in what measure does their religion figure in their involvement in McMaster University’s nuclear research program? Is there even the slightest possibility of the knowledge they garner from McMaster Univerity’s nuclear research program one day becoming complicit in catastrophic acts of terrorism not only against Canada and innocent Canadians, but also against our Western allies and their civilian populations?

The above are prudent questions indeed. I believe these are not the questions, however uncomfortable and politically incorrect, the governing body of McMaster University are asking those Muslims involved in their nuclear research program. I also believe that now is far too late to begin asking these questions: the advantage and safety of prudence has already been forfeited by the incautiousness of those of McMaster University who cannot see beyond their zeal for discovery the grave and threatening possibility of a cataclysmic terrorist attack as a direct consequence of their foolish obduracy.

I beg this commission to consider that there is nothing for you to lose in refusing McMaster University another seven years to wilfully endanger the entire continent of North America, and maybe beyond. And there is only prestige for you to gain in preventing acts of terrorism upon Canadian soil against Canadian citizens who deserve to feel safe within the borders of this great and noble country we call home.

"Why do expressions of tolerance, moderation, rationalism, compromise, and negotiation horrify us [Muslims], but when we hear fervent cries for vengeance, we all dance the war dance... Why do other people love life, while we love death and violence, slaughter and suicide, and even call it heroism and martyrdom? -- Al-Afif Al-Akhdar, Tunisian intellectual

With sincerity and respect and an intense love for my country.

Michael Devolin

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Another UK Muzzie Jailed for plot to shooot down airplanes with SAM's

Another British Muslim Secretly Jailed for Airline Plot

Following the conviction of five Muslims on conspiracy and terrorism charges, the UK government has also announced that a Muslim who tried to buy SAMs to shoot down airplanes was recently sentenced to nine years in prison.

Secretly.

A Briton who allegedly tried to buy missiles to shoot down airliners has been jailed, it has emerged following the Old Bailey fertiliser bomb trial.

Reporting restrictions covering the conviction of Kazi Nurur Rahman have been lifted.

Rahman, 29, was arrested in November 2005 after trying to buy three Uzi sub-machine guns in a police sting. He pleaded guilty and was jailed for nine years but details were kept secret because of his links to the defendants.

Rahman was arrested only four months after the 7 July attacks in London and when sentencing him in May last year (2006) the judge, Mr Justice David Calvert-Smith, said: “These negotiations were conducted in the immediate aftermath of the worst terrorist outrage ever perpetrated on these shores.

”What was intended was the deaths of large numbers of people in this country.“

When Rahman’s home in Manor Park, east London was searched police found literature relating to the 9/11 ”martyrs" and details of guerrilla warfare and how to execute prisoners.

UK Jihadies protest arrest of 6 Muslim leaders hell bent for British Jihad

Islamists Demonstrate Against Al Muhajiroun Arrests

The associates of the 6 arrested Al Muhajiroun members demonstrated today outside the Paddington Green Police Station, chanting “Hands off Muslims!” and “UK — You will pay!”

About 100 Muslim men and women, some with scarves obscuring their faces, others waving placards and flags, walked from Regent’s Park Mosque to Paddington Green Police Station, where they believe outspoken Islamic militant Abu Izzadeen is being held with five others arrested Tuesday. ...

The protest began shortly after midday prayers at Regent’s Park Mosque, where Anjem Choudary, the former leader of the outlawed militant group al-Ghurabaa, addressed the crowd, demanding that they join him in protesting the detention of Izzadeen — a former spokesman for his group.

“You are living under oppression, the government is terrorizing the Muslim community,” he told worshippers. “It’s about time you stand together.”

The crowd, escorted by police, made its way to Paddington Green, waving placards and shouting slogans. Abu Saliyah, one of the speakers, said the British government was at war with Islam.

“They bomb us, and occupy our land, and here they arrest at you early in the morning!” he said, to cries of “UK — You will pay!” and shouts of “Allahu Akbar! (God is Great)”

But he predicted the ultimate victory of Muslims over their enemies. “One day, my dear Muslims, the flag of Islam will fly over Downing Street!” he said, to renewed shouts of “Allah Akbar!”

Also see:
The Jawa Report: Muslims Publicly Demonstrate Six Arrests as ‘Crusade’, Privately Support Terror.