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  • Michigan rep fights terrorism words ban

    07/23/2008 9:51:40 AM PDT · by NativeNewYorker · 14 replies · 375+ views
    upi via email no link | 6/23/8
    HOLLAND, Mich., July 23 (UPI) -- A Republican Michigan congressman is fighting a Bush administration ban on using words offensive to Muslims while describing terrorists. Rep. Peter Hoekstra offered an amendment last week to the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act that would ban financing for any restriction on use of words such as "jihadist" and "Islamist." Fellow Republican Michigan Reps. Joe Knollenberg and Thaddeus McCotter, and Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, supported the amendment which was approved by a 249-180 vote in the House, The Detroit News reported Wednesday. Some analysts say the words inadvertently honor terrorists while they are considered slurs...
  • Islamist Death Threats against Magdi Allam from Italy?

    06/20/2008 5:07:14 AM PDT · by tcg · 4 replies · 214+ views
    Magdi Allam, the Christian convert from Islam who was baptized by Pope Benedict XVI at an Easter service in April, has reacted to Islamist death threats posted on a web site said to be close to al-Qaeda. He has expressed particular concern that the writers of the threatening messages may be Italian. Allam, an Egyptian-born writer and deputy editor of Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, has been a controversial figure in Italy for his regular critiques of Islam. In fact, in his book “Long Live Israel,” Allam wrote “the root of evil is innate in an Islam that is physiologically...
  • Wife of 21 July plotter convicted

    06/11/2008 6:33:32 AM PDT · by Schnucki · 1 replies · 171+ views
    al-BBC ^ | June 11, 2008 | Staff
    The wife of a man who tried to bomb a Tube station has been convicted of failing to tell police about his plan. The Old Bailey was told Yeshi Girma, of Stockwell, south London, knew of her husband Hussain Osman's plot to bomb Shepherd's Bush station in July 2005. The court heard that Girma, 32, "had prior knowledge of the events of 21/7". Girma's brother Esayas, sister Mulumebet and her boyfriend Mohamed Kabashi, were all convicted of aiding Osman after the attempted attack. Kabashi's two Brighton flatmates, Shadi Abdelgadir, 25, and Omer Almagboul, 22, were cleared by the jury. Prosecutor...
  • 'Willful Blindness' to the Jihad

    05/01/2008 5:26:39 PM PDT · by lancer256 · 1 replies · 239+ views
    davidlimbaugh.com ^ | 05/01/08 | david limbaugh
    You might expect the lead prosecutor against the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing to tout the criminal justice system as the premier strategy to fight terrorism. If so, you're wrong. It is precisely because of Andy McCarthy's experience in that capacity that he understands -- in a way others can't -- the crippling limitations of law enforcement and criminal prosecutions in combating global terrorism. Though he led the Justice Department prosecution team that convicted Omar Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheik," McCarthy is painfully aware that "as a class, baby-boom attorneys know nothing of war. Prosecutors included." Even...
  • Michelle Obama's Name Removed from Terrorist Fundraiser's Web Page (Hamas on Obama's website)

    04/25/2008 9:20:27 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 33 replies · 1,627+ views
    Hatem El-Hady, former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts (closed by the US government in 2006 for terrorist fundraising), has now devoted himself to raising money for the Barack Obama campaign. He has a web page at the official Obama campaign site. On Wednesday when we posted about El-Hady, there were three “friends” listed on his page, and one of them was none other than Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama. Here’s the screenshot we took: But this morning, there are suddenly only two friends listed on that page. Guess whose name disappeared? There’s a lot of talk about William...
  • Islamist Uprising Kills 81 In Somalia

    04/20/2008 8:53:51 PM PDT · by blam · 5 replies · 431+ views
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-21-2008 | Mike Pflanz
    Islamist uprising kills 81 in Somalia By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi Last Updated: 3:06am BST 21/04/2008 Fresh fighting between Islamist insurgents and Somali government troops in Mogadishu has killed at least 81 people in two days, witnesses reported yesterday. A wounded man is brought to hospital in Mogadishu A further 119 wounded civilians and soldiers were being treated in hospital after a weekend of mortar attacks and small-arms battles. "There was a lot of fighting we could hear on Saturday, mostly guns and grenades, then much more today," said a doctor contacted by telephone yesterday at the Save Our Souls...
  • Welcome to 'Lawfare' - A New Type of Jihad

    04/15/2008 5:02:33 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 5 replies · 435+ views
    MEForum ^ | April 14, 2008
    Welcome to 'Lawfare' - A New Type of Jihad by Brooke Goldstein Family Security Matters April 14, 2008 The Islamist movement has two wings – one violent and one lawful, which can operate apart but often reinforce each other. While the violent arm attempts to silence speech by burning cars when cartoons of Mohammed are published in Denmark, the lawful arm is skillfully maneuvering within Western legal systems, both here and abroad. Islamists with financial means have launched a "legal Jihad," filing frivolous and malicious lawsuits with the aim of abolishing public discourse critical of Islam and with the goal...
  • The Three Revolutions

    04/07/2008 6:26:32 AM PDT · by Puzzleman · 5 replies · 450+ views
    Real Clear Politics ^ | April 7, 2008 | Henry Kissinger
    The long-predicted national debate about national security policy has yet to occur. Essentially tactical issues have overwhelmed the most important challenge a new administration will confront: how to distill a new international order from three simultaneous revolutions occurring around the globe: (a) the transformation of the traditional state system of Europe; (b) the radical Islamist challenge to historic notions of sovereignty; and (c) the drift of the center of gravity of international affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Indian Oceans...
  • Over 25,000 Twisteed Islamists Rage Against "Fitna" In Pakistan

    04/07/2008 12:52:45 AM PDT · by stevelackner · 3 replies · 157+ views
    STEVELACKNER.COM ^ | April 7, 2008 | Steven W. Lackner
    More than 25,000 people rallied Sunday in the largest protest in Pakistan so far against the film made by the Dutch lawmaker, "Fitna," urging their government to expel the Netherlands ambassador. Organizers claimed more than 100,000 people turned out. (Visit stevelackner.com to see the photos). They were wearing headbands that said, "We are ready to sacrifice our lives for the sanctity of the prophet." This is the cult of death that the followers of Mohammed adhere to. They rage against a film showing Islamic violence being justified by Islamic preachers and texts, and their backwards response is that they are...
  • Obama's Muslim Connection

    03/26/2008 12:57:13 PM PDT · by tedbel · 14 replies · 1,619+ views
    Israpundit ^ | Mar 26/08 | Ted Belman
    This post is a compilation of the known connections. On Feb 15/08 Usama K. Dakdok, President of The Straight Way of Grace Ministry called Obama's Church I then asked her what I needed to do to join. She told me that I needed to attend two Sunday School classes in a row and then I would walk the aisle. I replied, "That sounds easy. One last question please. IF I AM MUSLIM AND I BELIEVE IN PROPHET MOHAMMED, PEACE BE UPON HIM AND I ALSO BELIEVE IN JESUS, PEACE BE UPON HIM, DO I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY ISLAMIC...
  • Top Obama adviser: NYC, Miami Jews 'the problem"

    03/25/2008 9:23:26 PM PDT · by Sammy67 · 74 replies · 3,094+ views
    Worldnet Daily ^ | 03/25/08
    Also compares Muslim terrorists to religious 'radicals' in Oregon JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's military adviser and national campaign co-chairman has implied U.S. politicians are afraid of Jewish voters in Miami and New York City and that American Jews are the "problem" impeding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Merrill A. McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff, also compared the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist organizations to what he described as religious radicals in Oregon and claimed "born-again [Christians]" supported the war in Iraq to help Israel. Discussing Middle East politics during a 2003 interview with the Oregonian newspaper...
  • Obama Connection to Terrorists Revealed by Talk Show Host

    03/23/2008 6:12:16 AM PDT · by Sammy67 · 37 replies · 2,694+ views
    by Jim Kouri There is a far-reaching scandal brewing for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, thanks to a radio talk show host based in Oregon. Syndicated talk host Laurie Roth’s revelations make the news story about Obama’s relationship with a racist, anti-American pastor look like child’s play. A top official at the Pentagon during former-President George H. W. Bush’s Administration and a former CIA intelligence officer maintain that Barack Obama and former Weather Underground honcho William Ayers funneled money to Professor Rashid Khalidi, a known terrorist sympathizer. Khalidi serves on the faculty of Columbia University in New York and is...
  • CAIR trains FBI agents as new report cites links to terror

    03/22/2008 7:23:35 AM PDT · by Sammy67 · 20 replies · 563+ views
    By Rowan Scarborough, Insight An American Muslim group identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in a criminal terrorism case is being used by the FBI to train its agents about Islam. The FBI declined to respond to Insight’s questions about this seeming disconnect, as one of the pre-eminent anti-terrorist research centers in America is set to release an extensive report on the same prominent U.S. Muslim group, accusing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of being a foe, rather than an ally, in the war on terror. The 10-part report on CAIR from The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), led by...
  • Jihad, Islamism, and Non-Interventionism (Part 2 of 3)

    03/20/2008 7:15:15 AM PDT · by K-oneTexas · 1 replies · 89+ views
    Family Security Matters ^ | 20 March 2008 | Jeffrey Imm
    Jihad, Islamism, and Non-Interventionism Part Two of Three Jeffrey Imm3. Non-Interventionism: U.S. Foreign Policy to Blame for Islamist Terrorism3.1. Occidentalism and Non-Interventionists - Islamist Terrorism as a Reaction to U.S. Foreign PolicyIn his book "Marching Toward Hell", Mr. Scheuer mocks those concerned about Islamism as "Cold Warriors" (p. 148), while adopting a Cold War mentality towards Islamism himself. In Mr. Scheuer's efforts to promote Non-Interventionism, his argument is that Islamist terrorism is exclusively a reaction to U.S. foreign policy. Since logical contortion is inconsequential to the larger Non-Interventionist cause of preventing America from recognizing an enemy, Mr. Scheuer does not...
  • “Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death” (on Islamic Terrorism ... great read)

    03/04/2008 5:38:25 AM PST · by jdm · 63 replies · 429+ views
    Hot Air ^ | March 04, 2008 | by Ed Morrissey
    Not long ago, my son and I had a dinner argument over the war against radical Islamist terrorism. He’s a brilliant academic, about to enter graduate school for either math, physics, or both, but he sometimes gets trapped in his rationalism — which, to be honest, isn’t exactly the worst thing a father could wish for his son. He insisted that violence only made the problem worse, and that we had to find a negotiated settlement with Islamist terrorists.Alan Dershowitz had an answer for that in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal. In an essay entitled “Worshippers of Death,” Dershowitz argued that...
  • Obama to Israeli paper: I’m a committed Christian, not a Muslim

    02/27/2008 10:15:32 AM PST · by Victory111 · 146 replies · 433+ views
    Cross Action News ^ | 2-27-08 | Stan Goodenough
    United States Democrat and presidential hopeful Barak Hussein Obama told the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot in comments published Wednesday that he is “a committed Christian” and has “never been” a Muslim.
  • Wearing Blinders

    02/07/2008 5:08:04 AM PST · by NewMediaJournal · 35+ views
    The New Media Journal ^ | February 7, 2008 | Paul R. Hollrah
    The Clinton-Obama debate from California promised to produce a lot of interesting “fireworks,” but it didn’t. With Wolf Blitzer moderating, it turned out to be just another CNN “softball game,” proving nothing more than that CNN actually does stand for “Clinton News Network.” As usual, what the CNN questioners didn’t ask, and what Clinton and Obama didn’t say, was far more important than what they said. For those who are new to the political trenches and who are just beginning to understand Liberals and Democrats, this is the most important thing to know about them. Liberals and Democrats will jump...
  • International computer hackers threatening to hold cities ransom

    01/18/2008 11:42:50 PM PST · by Sammy67 · 10 replies · 100+ views
    Saturday, January 19, 2008 International computer hackers threatening to hold cities ransom January 18, 2008 CIA says hackers pulled plug on overseas power grid Overseas attacks recently declassified, but some details obscure By Robert McMillan (IDG News Service) -- Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week. Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong. Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power...
  • Foul Play [More on the Fired Pentagon Analyst]

    01/11/2008 5:22:52 AM PST · by PurpleMan · 15 replies · 98+ views
    Washington Times ^ | 11 Jan 08 | Diane West
    "...lifting that PC curtain on Islam and its jihadist tenets is precisely the effect of Stephen Coughlin's Pentagon brief. It goes against what political correctness tells us; it also goes against what Islamic advocacy groups tell us."
  • Britain to Drop 'War on Terror' Terminology

    12/30/2007 7:20:07 PM PST · by John Semmens · 12 replies · 28+ views
    AZCONSERVATIVE | 30 Dec 2007 | John Semmens
    The term "war on terror" will no longer be used by the British government says the country's chief prosecutor, Sir Ken Macdonald. This decision follows a determination made earlier in 2007 to replace the word “Islamic terrorist” with “differently-faithed naughty person.” Macdonald said he sees the revised language as a way of “deescalating the situation.” “Calling it a war on terror merely encourages them,” Macdonald insisted. While immediate replacement terminology was not forthcoming, Macdonald said they would be “test marketing” several candidate descriptions in the ensuing months. Among the descriptions leaked to the media, “action against unpleasantness” appears to be...
  • Begin the Debate: Nine-Point Guide to Discern Islamist from Non-Islamist Schools (Excellent read)

    12/01/2007 9:26:45 AM PST · by nuconvert · 7 replies · 98+ views
    Family Security Matters ^ | Nov. 26, 2007 | M. Zuhdi Jasser
    Begin the Debate: Nine-Point Guide to Discern Islamist from Non-Islamist Schools By M. Zuhdi Jasser Islamism is a veiled political insurgency Last month, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released specific concerns about the Saudi Academy in Northern Virginia. The USCIRF raised a number of issues of concern for American security in their October 19 release not least of which is the operation of a school for high school age children, The Islamic Saudi Academy, on American soil in northern Virginia administered and funded by a foreign embassy. The USCIRF also specifically brought attention to hate and...
  • Debate on Islamism and Liberalism in the Arab World (Deteriorates to an Exchange of Curses

    11/11/2007 9:00:50 AM PST · by dervish · 26 replies · 77+ views
    Money quotes -- Nidal Na'isa on why 89.6% of the voters voted for the Islamic platform over the modern Western platform: "these voter are a bunch of people misled and numbed by the proselytized, generalized, deceptive, romanticized discourse which promises them Black-eyed virgins and Boys in Paradise" and "If these voters had managed to get a job and Visa to America, none of them would have voted, and nobody would have watched your show. You would be fired from Al-Jazeera and would be left jobless" Response by toothless Egyptian cleric Al-Khouli: When they [Wahabbist Bedouins] entered Andalusia they got Europe...
  • Naming the enemy: Islamist terrorists are learning from Iraq. So must we.

    10/27/2007 11:44:10 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 7 replies · 95+ views
    The Australian ^ | October 27, 2007
    THE death of Special Air Service soldier Sergeant Matthew Locke on Thursday in Afghanistan is a terrible reminder that there is rarely such a thing as a war without casualties. Sergeant Locke died fighting a barbaric enemy that seeks not just to take Afghanistan back to the dark ages but to use it as a base from which to destroy us. Worryingly, the death of two Australian soldiers in three weeks is not just a tragic coincidence. Things are not going well in the poorly named war on terror. As Frank Furedi writes in Inquirer today, we have been unable...
  • The Leftist/Marxist/Islamist Alliance Aligns Against Jerusalem

    10/20/2007 7:51:50 AM PDT · by NewMediaJournal · 11 replies · 39+ views
    The New Media Journal ^ | October 20, 2007 | David J. Jonsson
    The West has a worldview based on the analysis and actions influenced by looking through the lenses of politics and economics, whereas the Islamists looks at the world through the lens of ideology. It is time for the West to place importance on looking at events happening around the world through the lens of ideologies. In the case of the Muslims, their worldview and subsequent actions are shaped by their vision for world domination, the establishment of Islamic kingdom of God on Earth – the creation of worldwide Caliphate and the End Times. An inability to understand the ideology behind...
  • Dearborn's latest jihadi

    09/20/2007 10:11:54 AM PDT · by ChuckHustmyre · 14 replies · 86+ views
    Court TV's CrimeLibrary.com ^ | 9-20-07 | Chuck Hustmyre
    Education or jihad? Read my new article on Court TV's CrimeLibrary.com about Dearborn's little covered most recent jihadist. http://www.crimelibrary.com/news/original/0907/2002_Houssein_Zorkot.html
  • Islamic Unity: Bin Ladin's Version v. Khameini's

    09/10/2007 4:29:59 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 4 replies · 175+ views
    History News Network ^ | September 10, 2007
    Islamic Unity: Bin Ladin's Version v. Khameini's September 10, 2007 History News Network Timothy R. Furnish Usamah bin Ladin’s September 2007 video address has been analyzed five ways from Friday: as an anti-capitalist screed; yet another indictment of Bush administration Middle East policy; a coded go-ahead for another attack on the U.S.; vindication of Noam Chomsky and Michael Scheuer; and even as a fashion statement (journalists have not been so agog over a beard since Lincoln ran for President). But considering that Bin Ladin is in effect one of two global poles of authority for anti-Western Islam, it would be...
  • Cops: Editor's killer confesses

    08/04/2007 10:26:35 AM PDT · by LdSentinal · 6 replies · 431+ views
    MercuryNews.com ^ | 8/4/07 | Harry Harris, Kristin Bender and Kelly Rayburn
    OAKLAND — A 19-year-old handyman at Your Black Muslim Bakery admitted to police Friday night that he ambushed and killed Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, investigators said. Police said Devaughndre Broussard told them he killed Bailey because he was angry over stories the journalist had written about the bakery, its employees and leaders in the past. Investigators said Broussard was also concerned about stories that he thought Bailey might be working on. Bailey had apparently been working on a story about the group and its finances, authorities said. Broussard made the admission to Sgts. Derwin Longmire and Lou Cruz.Broussard had...
  • CA: Brothers indicted on terrorism-related charges

    08/02/2007 7:14:46 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 243+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 8/2/07 | Jason Dearen - ap
    Two brothers were indicted Thursday on terrorism-related charges after one allegedly provided money, guns and two-way radios to the other who was battling troops in the Philippines as a member of a terrorist group. FBI agents arrested Rahmat Abdhir, 43, of San Jose, outside his office in Sunnyvale on Thursday morning, federal authorities said. His brother, Zulkifli Abdhir, 41, remains at large in the Philippines, and is wanted on a $5 million reward. Both were charged in a 16-count indictment including conspiracy to support terrorists. Rahmat Abdhir also was charged with making false statements and contributing goods and services to...
  • CA: San Jose man and brother indicted for providing support to terrorists

    08/02/2007 6:40:52 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 6 replies · 338+ views
    Two men, including a San Jose resident, have been indicted on charges they provided support to terrorists in the Philippines, the Department of Justice announced this afternoon. Zulkifli Abdhir - aka "Zulkifli Bin Abdul Hir," aka "Hulagu," aka "Marwan" - was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and providing material support to terrorists. He is a fugitive and is believed to be in the Philippines, according to the DOJ. Abdhir's brother, San Jose resident Rahmat Abdhir, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, providing material to terrorists, contributing goods and services to a Specially...
  • Exclusive: Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument

    07/28/2007 8:25:41 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 5 replies · 367+ views
    Family Security Matters ^ | July 27, 2007 | M. Zuhdi Jasser
    Accommodation as an Islamist Political Instrument By M. Zuhdi Jasser The Family Security Foundation, Inc. July 27, 2007 Political Islam’s ideological battle fronts are many. They can include the obvious like the liberation of Iraq or the rampant domestic and foreign policy speeches given under the guise of Friday sermons in mosques around America . However, an ideological front which is gaining traction among Islamists is that of religious accommodations (or demands) in our free society. Every week, it seems we are seeing new iterations of the same issue. Soon we must all ask -- at what point do Muslim...
  • Italian police arrest 3 terror suspects (running terror school at a mosque)

    07/21/2007 4:57:41 PM PDT · by Wiz · 10 replies · 368+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2007 Jul 22 | Ariel David
    ROME - Police on Saturday arrested three Moroccans — a Muslim imam and two of his aides — and accused them of running a "terror school" at a small mosque in central Italy, where they allegedly trained in combat, learned about bombs and stashed away chemicals. ADVERTISEMENT Italian anti-terror police said they found barrels of chemicals and instructions on how to pilot a Boeing 747 in the Ponte Felcino mosque on the outskirts of Perugia, a city known for its Renaissance architecture and idyllic countryside. A fourth suspect was being sought. "The investigation has shown that, in the Ponte Felcino...
  • If You Support Terrorism in Any Way You Are a Terrorist!

    07/16/2007 8:12:05 AM PDT · by NewMediaJournal · 8 replies · 894+ views
    The New Media Journal ^ | July 16, 2007 | JB Williams
    Following rather than leading Britain and Europe, America is indeed well on its way to losing the international war on terrorism. Though each of these nations has stated the correct position on terrorism on many occasions for benefit of their respective voters, they have all failed to adhere to those words in practice. Each remains under increasing threat of terror attack as a result. â–ª If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist. â–ª If you assist with the arming and or training of terrorists, you are a terrorist. â–ª If you provide logistical or financial support for terror activities,...
  • Balkans: Wahabis seen as growing regional threat

    07/10/2007 10:35:49 AM PDT · by Doctor13 · 5 replies · 398+ views
    AKI (Italy) ^ | 7 July 2007
    Novi Pazar, Serbia, 7 July (AKI) - Although still a small group, Wahabis, followers of a fundamentalist school of Islam, are increasingly seen by officials and observers as a growing threat to the Balkans. Tensions between Wahabis and mainstream Muslims have been simmering for the past 18 months as Wahabis seek to gain influence in Bosnia-Heregovina and also in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. In the past months, seven suspected militants were arrested in southern Serbia and a radical Islamist training camp and weapons cache uncovered. Evidence, the Serbian interior ministry says, that Wahabis are trying to recruit potential terrorists and...
  • Iraqi troops arrest "emir" of Al-Qaeda in heart of capital

    07/03/2007 5:21:48 AM PDT · by Wiz · 21 replies · 753+ views
    Iraqi troops have detained a senior official and operator in Al-Qaeda network in Karrada, central Baghdad, during a military operation, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said in a statement on Tuesday. Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained the alleged Al Qaeda Emir in Karrada during the operation, carried out June 28, it said.
  • Iraqi civilian death toll falls in June

    07/01/2007 7:17:32 AM PDT · by Wiz · 7 replies · 243+ views
    Associated Press via Yahoo! News ^ | 2007 Jul 1 | Sinan Salaheddin
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Around 1,200 Iraqi civilians were killed in violence in June, a 36 percent drop from the previous month and the lowest monthly toll this year, according to Iraqi government figures obtained Sunday. The decrease comes amid a U.S. troop increase in Baghdad that began in February and has been building since, with the military launching simultaneous offensives in mid-June aimed at uprooting insurgents in the capital and neighboring provinces to the northeast and south. A U.S. military spokesman said the decrease was encouraging but that it was too early to attribute it to the crackdown. "The synchronized...
  • Islamic pressure in Paris forces. Evangelical congregation to vacate building

    06/15/2007 1:14:41 PM PDT · by WmShirerAdmirer · 5 replies · 637+ views
    Jihadists Having Their Way in France. See what happens when a country ignores the "jihadists"! Comment by Do The Right Thing/Townhall.comEvangelical congregation to vacate buildingAfter a long struggle against Islamic intimidation, an evangelical church in the outskirts of Paris has been forced to vacate the 1,000-square-foot facility where it had been meeting. The Temple de Paris Church has been located in the Paris suburb of Bagnolet. Christine Thabot, the wife of the pastor, says Muslims have been trying to get rid of them since 2005, but local authorities had permitted the church to remain in the facility, paying 8,000 euros...
  • Report: U.S. hits militants' Somali base

    06/01/2007 11:30:48 PM PDT · by Wiz · 6 replies · 351+ views
    MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S. warships bombarded a remote, mountainous village where Islamic militants had set up a base, officials in the northern Somali region of Puntland said Saturday. The attack from a U.S. destroyer took place late Friday, said Muse Gelle, the regional governor. The extremists had arrived Wednesday by speedboat at the port town of Bargal. Gelle said the area is a dense thicket, making it difficult for security forces from the semiautonomous republic of Puntland to intervene on its own. A local radio station quoted Puntland's leader, Ade Muse, as saying that his forces had battled with the...
  • Spain arrests 16 over recruiting Islamist fighters

    05/28/2007 1:14:33 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 190+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/28/07 | Ben Harding
    MADRID (Reuters) - Spain said on Monday it had arrested 16 people suspected of recruiting Islamist fighters for Iraq and North Africa. The 14 Moroccans and two Algerians were alleged to have indoctrinated others with radical Islamic teachings and about "jihad," or holy war, the government said in a statement. "Moreover, (the group) was allegedly linked with the financing and sending of combatants to different terrorist organisations in North Africa and other countries in conflict like Iraq." Thirteen were arrested in Barcelona and nearby towns, two in Aranjuez, 50 km (30 miles) south of Madrid, and one in the resort...
  • Inside the jihadi worldview

    05/24/2007 5:23:16 PM PDT · by Jedi Master Pikachu · 3 replies · 298+ views
    BBC ^ | Thursday, May 24, 2007 | Dominic Casciani
    Absconded: But what drives their ideology? Three terrorism suspects on the run. One man tells of what it is like to think like a terror suspect - a man who spent his teenage years as an Islamist extremist.Ed Husain is studying for his PhD. But as a teenager he became embroiled in the emerging Islamist political scene in East London and he says he became a leading activist opposing Western and British values. The 32-year-old quit 10 years ago, and after spending years thinking about religion, society and his own past, has written a book of his experiences as...
  • Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state

    05/16/2007 12:37:06 PM PDT · by stevie_d_64 · 61 replies · 1,419+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | May 11, 2007 | Paul L. Williams Ph.D.
    Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden. The 70 acre complex is surrounded with "No trespassing" signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats. Muslim Lane The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on...
  • The lessons we can all learn from British Muslims (Barf Alert)

    05/12/2007 5:52:24 PM PDT · by Hadean · 19 replies · 650+ views
    Guardian Unlimited ^ | May 13, 2007 | David Cameron
    Tory leader David Cameron writes of the benefits of integration after staying in Birmingham Sunday May 13, 2007 The Observer The challenges of cohesion and integration are among the greatest we face. I wrote in these pages in January that we cannot bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them. Last week, I spent two days staying with Abdullah and Shahida Rehman and their family in Birmingham. The experience has strengthened my conviction about the right way to build a more cohesive Britain. First, a concerted attack on racism and soft bigotry. You can't even start to talk...
  • Will Turkey Have an Islamist President? Part II

    05/02/2007 6:45:47 AM PDT · by forty_years · 15 replies · 355+ views
    http://netwmd.com ^ | May 2, 2007 | Andrew Jaffee
    The question of the day: Will Turkey have an Islamist president? This question is important because of Turkey's strategic position in the Middle East, its potential accession to the EU, and perhaps most importantly, whether the current conflict between the country's Islamists and secularists can be settled peacefully and democratically. Yes, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (AKP), with his "autocratic tendencies," was elected democratically, but he has been steadily moving Turkey away from its secular roots, planted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and towards Islamist "ideals." To reframe the question: Can there be an Islamic democracy? In Islam's current state, I...
  • Let's call them what they are

    05/01/2007 8:36:08 PM PDT · by Bostons Patriots · 2 replies · 355+ views
    In his book, “Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War”, one of the subjects that J. Michael Waller discusses is how this enemy is adept at using language to further their cause. As part of their campaign they are effectively using certain words and phrases to associate with their organizational goals and activities. This strategy is implemented to manipulate both the subconscious and conscious acceptance and reinforcement of those terms by their supporters and enemies alike. The purpose of this effort is to better position themselves in the mindsets of these audiences, i.e. empowering their supporters and weakening...
  • Walker's World: Turks near coup

    05/01/2007 8:06:08 PM PDT · by TigerLikesRooster · 13 replies · 1,071+ views
    UPI ^ | 04/30/07 | MARTIN WALKER
    Walker's World: Turks near coup By MARTIN WALKER UPI Editor Emeritus WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- Turkey is currently one of the most important hubs of the diplomatic universe. Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf flew in for the weekend for fence-mending talks with his neighbor, Afghan President Hamid Karzai. They might just be in time to witness a military coup. The Turks have also been playing a crucial role in the discreet talks about a new dialogue between Iran and the United States, and last week hosted a meeting between the European Union's top diplomat, Javier Solana, and Ali Larijani, secretary...
  • Turkey: Protesters and military see red as Islamist heads for the presidency

    04/30/2007 11:34:48 AM PDT · by kiriath_jearim · 18 replies · 773+ views
    Times Online (UK) ^ | April 30, 2007 | Suna Erdem
    Hundreds of thousands of secularist Turks took to the streets for the second time in two weeks yesterday after a dramatic intervention by the military in an attempt to stop Abdullah Gul becoming the first Turkish President with an Islamist past. Demonstrators in Istanbul carried blood-red national flags and posters of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of a secular Turkey. Banners read: “Sharia (Islamic law) shall not rise to the Presidential Palace.”
  • Pakistan Islamist wants action against Rahul

    04/29/2007 7:23:29 AM PDT · by Valin · 4 replies · 188+ views
    Islamabad, Apr 28: A top militant leader has flayed the Pakistan government for trying to improve relations with India instead of taking action against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his statement on "dismemberment of Pakistan". Action should have been taken on the statement of Rahul Gandhi regarding "conspiracy for dismemberment of Pakistan", said Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), at a prayer meeting in a Rawalpindi mosque yesterday. Instead of taking action against the Congress leader, the government of Pakistan is strengthening friendship with India, said Saeed, who is also the head of an Islamist charity group...
  • Abramowitz: Major Political Clash in Turkey between ‘Secularists’ and ‘Islamists’

    04/27/2007 4:13:27 PM PDT · by a_Turk · 27 replies · 1,043+ views
    Council on Foreign Relations ^ | 4/27/2007 | Bernard Gwertzman
    Morton I. Abramowitz, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey during the first Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991, says many Turkish “Secularists” fear a government headed by the “Islamist” party of Prime Minister Erdogan could turn back the clock and introduce religion into public life. Abramowitz thinks these concerns are exaggerated. He adds that Turkey's nominee for president, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, is well known to the West for his conciliatory positions. Turkey’s political scene is in an uproar these days over the choice of a new president. The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the leader of the so-called Islamist party, the Justice...
  • Turkish Ruling Party Warns Army

    04/28/2007 4:00:45 PM PDT · by blam · 5 replies · 271+ views
    BBC ^ | 4-28-2007
    Turkish ruling party warns army Turkey's army chief (left) is said to have talked to the PM by phone Turkey's ruling party has sharply criticised an army threat to intervene in politics, saying the military must remain under civilian control. Cemil Cicek, spokesman for the Islamist-rooted party, was commenting after an unusual statement by the army vowing to defend the secular system. The army, which led coups in the past, said it was concerned by the party's choice of presidential candidate. Mr Cicek said any army intervention was "inconceivable in a democratic state". "The chief of the general staff is...
  • PBS’ Islamist Apologists Muzzle Muslim Moderates

    04/23/2007 2:04:35 AM PDT · by Sergeant Tim · 7 replies · 322+ views
    9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America ^ | April 23, 2007 | Tim Sumner
    After the Center for Public Broadcasting spent $675,000 of taxpayers' money for Martyn Burke to create 'Islam vs. Islamists', Washington's PBS affiliate, WETA, led the effort to remove the documentary from the 'America at a Crossroads' series. WETA's President and CEO is Sharon Percy Rockefeller, the wife of Senator John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV of West Virginia. ... Burke explained how WETA influenced PBS' decision ... "What PBS/WETA attacked us on was they wanted us, in our opinion, to become virtually apologists for the Islamists, those who are the fundamentalists in this world. Basically, the attitude of this one small...
  • Bombers seek "second Iraq" in Algeria: Islamist

    04/16/2007 3:09:29 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 246+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 4/16/07 | Lamine Chikhi
    ALGIERS (Reuters) - The founder of the group that claimed responsibility for last week's deadly Algiers bombings called on militants to put down their weapons under a government amnesty and stop trying to turn Algeria into a "second Iraq." Hassan Hattab made the comments in a letter to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika published on Monday by Echorouk daily after three bombs exploded in Algiers on Wednesday killing 33 people. He described the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings, which changed its name in January from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) to al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic...