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Osama bin Laden, in tape, threatens to kill Americans(9am ET)
DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) - Osama bin Laden, in a fresh audiotape, threatened to execute any Americans taken prisoner by al Qaeda if accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed, al Jazeera television reported on Thursday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE62O18C20100325?type=hotStocksNews
UPDATE:
12:32 p.m. CDT
Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans if US executes alleged Sept. 11 mastermind
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-bin-laden,0,929336.story?track=rss
Oklahoma House Advances Legislation Banning Sharia Law...
Naturally, the left is outraged by this mostly symbolic legislation designed to strengthen our Judeo-Christian heritage...
OKLAHOMA CITY – State lawmakers have voted to allow Oklahoma voters to prevent judicial rulings in foreign countries from impacting local court decisions through approval of the “Save Our State” constitutional amendment.
House Joint Resolution 1056, by state Rep. Rex Duncan, would allow Oklahomans to vote to amend the Oklahoma Constitution to require the courts to “uphold and adhere to the law” as provided in the United States Constitution, the Oklahoma Constitution, the United States Code and federal regulations, Oklahoma Statutes and rules, and established common law.
The proposed amendment would prohibit all Oklahoma courts from considering the legal precepts of other nations or cultures, even in cases of first impression.
“Unfortunately, some judges in other states and on the federal bench have begun to cite international law in their court decisions, effectively undermining our own democratic system of government,” said Duncan, a Sand Springs Republican and attorney who chairs the House Judiciary Committee. “Our nation’s laws were developed through a democratic process and should not be undermined by haphazard reliance on foreign rulings developed in autocratic societies. Oklahoma court decisions should be based on the U.S. Constitution, Oklahoma Constitution, and our state and national laws – period.”
The proposed amendment declares that courts “shall not consider international law or Sharia Law.”
Loan caters to Minneapolis Muslim business owners By Katherine Lymn at MNDaily.com
The Alternative Finance Program respects Islamic law by offering fixed-rate loans. An Islamic law enacted centuries ago was an obstacle for modern Minneapolis businesses until Minneapolis partnered with an African business resource group to allow Muslim business owners a way to both comply with their beliefs and invest in their businesses.
Since April 2007, the city of Minneapolis, in partnership with the African Development Center, has given out 38 loans in a way that is compliant to Islamic law by using a fixed rate in place of a variable interest rate.
Through the system, called the Alternative Finance Program, businesses pay a set rate of return, which corresponds with Islamic practices. The program is a slightly altered version of the common “Two-Percent” loans also offered by the city’s Department of Community Planning and Economic Development.
“It really amounts to the same thing,” Bob Lind, CPED director of business finance, said. “But it’s … just a different way of looking at it.”
Recipients of the loan operate businesses that lie mainly in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood and along Lake Street, “typical strongholds for the Somali community,” Lind said.
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Jihad Jane’s in the classroom
Posted on March 25, 2010
Mary Grabar
In the days after the 9/11 attacks, average Americans donated money and festooned American flags to vehicles in a show of unity and support. Educators, in contrast, took advantage for further anti-American indoctrination and plastered school walls with “Understanding Islam” posters. They did this at the University of Georgia where I was finishing up my Ph.D. program.
Since then, the Islamists have wormed their ways into our culture, reaching the most vulnerable: our children.
It is no surprise to me that blonde American women, like Jihad Jane and Jihad Jamie, would be converting to Islam and supporting jihad. The most depraved murderers on death row attract the support of soft-hearted and weak-minded women. They are aided by educators and the propagandists they invite into the classroom.
In fact, proselytizing occurs in high schools and colleges without a peep from principals or college presidents, who fret about such Christian symbols as Christmas trees on their campuses.
For example, for the second year, the Muslim Student Association is holding their Islamic Awareness Week at the Clarkston campus of Georgia Perimeter College in the Atlanta area. MSA Advisor Shyam K. Sriram, who teaches American Government and Political Science, in an email encourages faculty members to allow their students “to obtain extra credit for attending these myriad of events” and adds that he is “happy to sign off on any extra credit sheets.”
Not only is Sriram sending this to all instructors on campus through the e-mail list, but his Islamic Awareness Week provides the theme for the college’s home page and posters about the events plaster bulletin boards on campus. The student who wants to learn more about the event can click on a link and see the following list and the note, “Faculty are encouraged to give students extra credit for attending.”
Some insist that “jihad” is misunderstood, that according to the Koran it involves moral cleansing and an intellectual effort. If so, we’ve got Jihad Janes in the classroom, proselytizing to already indoctrinated children and teenagers. This is indeed a “war” on the hearts and minds of students.
Read it all for more detail and examples.
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KFC diner told 'you can't have bacon in your burger here - we're now halal'
By Katherine Faulkner
A diner was left fuming after a KFC restaurant took his favourite meal off the menu because it breached their new halal regulations. Alan Phillips was told he would have to travel five miles to another branch if he wanted the Big Daddy, a chicken burger, topped with bacon, cheese and salad. The branch, in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is one of 86 KFC restaurants which is running trials of a scheme where they sell nothing but halal food.
The company has taken the burger off the menu because Islamic dietary law forbids Muslims to eat anything which has been prepared on the same premises as pork, which is itself strictly forbidden.
It said it was responding to 'increased demand' for a halal menu in the areas of Britain with growing Muslim populations.
Mr Phillips said he found the change 'extremely unfair' on non-Muslim customers. 'I can't believe a chain like this has taken this stance,' he said. 'Staff told me that due to the dietary laws halal meat could not be prepared in the same place as other meats, so I couldn't have my bacon.
It was like they were saying I couldn't buy bacon because it might offend people.' Mr Phillips was told he would have to travel to another KFC five miles away to buy his bacon burger. He protested that this was too far for him to travel. 'It is getting silly,' he said. 'I have many friends who are black, white and Muslim but they wouldn't be forced to eat non-halal meat.
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The Professor's Islamist Call to Battle [on Sherman Jackson]
Cinnamon Stillwell
Frontpage Magazine
Sherman Jackson, also known as Abdal Hakim Jackson, is a professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan.
Jackson specializes in Islamic law and has written and spoken extensively on the subject. Soon after the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, Jackson took the line popular among apologists, stating at a September 2001 University of Michigan Teach-in titled, "Terrorism: A Perversion of Islam," that "the killing of innocent peoples is forbidden by the law of Islam and it has been from the beginning of Islam."
But it turns out that not only is Jackson an apologist, he an outspoken proponent of the Islamist subversion of Western civilization.
Jackson made this abundantly clear at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit – 8th Convention in Toronto, Canada in December 2009, as a participant in the panel, "The New We: Muslims in Future of Western Society." Jonathan Usher, who attended and wrote about the conference for Campus Watch, described Jackson's speech as nothing less than "a call to battle." As he put it, "It had little to do with peaceful co-existence with the West, but was an exhortation for Islam to dominate the West." According to Usher, Jackson…believes that the Muslim and Western worlds are in conflict and competition, and that only one can end up dominant. Put simply, he wants to replace Western culture with Muslim culture.
…Jackson expressed a desire to be included in American society—but not if any sort of cultural sacrifice were required. He said that adapting to Western culture would lead to being a Muslim in name only and advocated defining America by Muslim standards and imposing cultural and intellectual supremacy. He urged Muslims not to follow Western cultural authority, but rather to achieve their own cultural authority from the inside, as part of the system.
…Lastly, to cheers, he said that his primary commitment was to Allah, not to America.
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Coming our way soon.
Firmly embedded for the past three years.
University Bank of Ann Arbor expands Muslim lending unit
Snip: About 36 percent of the bank's business is Sharia financing, including residential and commercial lending, he said, while 28 percent of the bank's deposits are Islamic.
Shorebank, Sharia law and bank bank bailous
Snips: We all know what the words “debt,” “taxpayer,” and “interest” mean, but how many people know what the words “jizya”, “dhimmi” and “Grameen” mean?
The jizya amounts to a tax paid by Non-Muslims to Muslims in order that they may live in peace.
....dhimmi – a willingly subservient protected group of third class subjects. Let’s just call this what it is – extortion based slavery. Let us also understand that this is an endgame of this thing called “jihad”.
Please add this for next thread?
Counter-terror officials name the 20 most influential Islamic blogs
We post the same links -g-
Israel as Czechoslovakia
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5827/pub_detail.asp
Nuclear Terrorism: ‘The Arrows of Allah’ (Part Three of Ten)
Parts I & II linked here also
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5822/pub_detail.asp
Taliban-Linked Group to Meet With United Nations Officials
AP
Mohammad Daoud Abedi, a spokesman for the Hizb-i-Islami faction, said Wednesday night the United Nations asked the delegation for a meeting, which follows talks the Taliban-linked group had with President Hamid Karzai earlier this week.
Thanks JP!
You have know idea what an asset you are do you? Look, you just sent me something that was HUGE , been trying to make it go viral. You are precious. You hit on big things M’Dear
S.Korean navy ship sinking, North suspected-media
26 Mar 2010 16:25:59 GMT
Source: Reuters
* S.Korean ship with 104 aboard sinking near disputed border
* South Korea holds emergency security meeting
* Possibility of North Korean attack under investigation
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SGE62P0GW.htm
Amil Imani: Jews as scapegoats
The courageous Iranian freedom fighter Amil Imani writes about the Muslim scapegoating of Jews:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/amil-imani-jews-as-scapegoats.html
“That Hussain has memorized the Koran is impressive. It remains to be seen whether he is equally familiar with the U.S. Constitution.”
Minneapolis adopts Sharia-friendly loan program
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/minneapolis-adopts-sharia-friendly-loan-program.html
Obama humiliates Netanyahu, kowtows to Pakistan over air security
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/obama-humiliates-netanyahu-kowtows-to-pakistan-over-air-security.html
It’s 3:AM in the WH but no one is there except the man-child.
Hey guys — do either of you know a lawyer here who is well versed in Canadian Free Speech law?
It’s about time to nuke North Korea!
Not me CMC, not Canadian
A call to help Muslims in need of health care
When Imam Siraj Wahhaj was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago and discovered that his health insurance did not cover treatment, the word went out. "People all over the world called me and said, 'I'm praying for you,' " said Wahhaj, head of the Muslim Alliance in North America. "But what about the little guys? No one is praying for them. No one is raising money for them."
Yesterday, the national social service organization announced intentions to create a network of free clinics - some existing, others new - staffed by volunteers in underserved Muslim communities nationwide, starting in Philadelphia.
Gay-hate imam to speak at Swedish conference
US-born preacher Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick, who has described Jews as "filthy" and advocates the execution of homosexuals, is scheduled to speak at the Sveriges Unga Muslimer ('Sweden's Young Muslims') conference this Easter weekend.
Terror recruits seduced by Jihadi Cool
The Internet has made making that pitch easier than ever. The web is littered with jihadi rap videos, and message boards like the ones that enticed Jihad Jane. “We have ethnographies where they actually ask militants what drew you to this movement,” says one Georgetown professor. “The top three answers were motorcycles, guns and access to women. You had to go pretty far down the list to get to religious motivation.”
Taliban using iPhones to overthrow Australian forces in Afghanistan
Here's an interesting story coming out Australia. It appears that Taliban forces in Afghanistan have been using iPhones with multiple SIMs and applications to overthrow Australian defenses, which use much more expensive and sophisticated technology.
At the Australian Computer Society (ACS) Canberra Branch conference this morning, Department of Defence chief technology officer (CTO) Matt Yannopoilos said "bad guys" in the war-torn country were making better use of available data by "using iPhones and applications — and multiple SIM cards — and going much faster than we are", despite the fact that Defence had more intelligence at its fingertips.
In a perhaps related matter, the US Army's technology command visited Apple in Cupertino last week to discuss the use of Apple products in Army business and battlefield operations.
I'll admit it. I am a little bit miffed that Taliban forces in Afghanistan are getting coverage while my town, 30 minutes from New York City, is a black hole on AT&T's 'network'.
Obama successful in turning friends into enemies
All hell is breaking loose in Mexico
"The Cartels now own Mexico and Juarez" - Cartel message from across the border, stating that El Paso Border Patrol, ICE, and local police were now targets, and that their wives and children were not safe in the US or Mexico... and to stay out of Mexico.
India's internal security is under fresh threat, both from terrorists and Maoists. On Monday last, three States -- Maharashtra, West Bengal and Karnataka were put on terror alert. This follows interrogation of Indian Mujahideen (IM) suspect Salman Ahmed, who has "revealed" that plans are afoot to engineer serial blasts in three cities, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata and in particular "target foreigners." Hence, the State governments have been asked to tighten security, as the Centre does not want to take any chances given its past bitter experience of not reacting to available information.
Terrorists planning simultaneous attacks in many cities - ATS
Mumbai: The latest plan of terrorists involved in the ‘Karachi Project’ could be to simultaneously attack multiple cities. It will not give the police the time to react, and will cause maximum damage, feel the terrorists.
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