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Survivors of the Fort Hood massacre described today how Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down unarmed soldiers, and then shot them again as they lay wounded on the floor. Investigators believe more than 100 shots were fired from Hasan's gun in a matter of minutes. He was described as calm and methodical in his attack, pausing only to reload. Soldier Keara Bono survived the onslaught although she was wounded slightly in the back and grazed in the head. Bono told "Good Morning America" today that she initially thought the scene of Hasan standing up, praising Allah and starting to...

They were soldiers preparing to go to war, sometimes for the second or third time. They were also sons, daughters, fathers and a mother-to-be. They were 21-year-old Jason Dean Hunt, who his sister said was proudest behind the wheel of his Bradley Armored Vehicle, from rural Oklahoma; Francheska Velez, 21, who was looking forward to the birth of her first child, from Chicago; and Amy Krueger, 29, a sports and outdoors enthusiast, from tiny Kiel, Wis. These were three of the 13 people -- a dozen soldiers and a civilian Defense Department police officer -- killed Thursday when an Army...

Today, recruiting more Muslims is a top priority for many branches of the military. Under the Army's "09 Lima" program, Muslims willing to enlist and serve in Iraq and Afghanistan as military translators and cultural advisers receive hefty signing bonuses and expedited paths to citizenship. The Army recently established its first full unit of Muslim personnel recruited under the program, the 51st Translator Interpreter Company at California's Fort Irwin. The unit has more than 120 soldiers who are native speakers of Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Dari. In interviews in recent years, more than a half-dozen Muslim soldiers serving in Iraq...

Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack. Munley, described by neighbor Brooke Beato, as "very petite, with long blonde hair and a strong personality," was credited by base officials with preventing further carnage by aggressively engaging Hasan as he shot at her. She rounded a corner, took aim at Hasan and brought him down, officials said. "It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this...

A Muslim leader says the Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood asked him for advice on what he should tell soldiers who had concerns about going to fight Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Osman Danquah is the co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen. He says he had a bad feeling about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan after the two talked twice in late summer. Danquah says Hasan never mentioned any anger toward the Army or indicated any plans for violence but seemed incoherent during their second conversation. Danquah says he told Hasan that...

A cousin of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said that he began a stricter practice of Islam after his mother died nine years ago, observing the five daily prayers and taking other aspects of the faith more seriously after a loss that affected him deeply. "He became religious after the death of his mother. Before that he was more secular," said Mohammed Mounif Hasan. But "the idea that because he was a Muslim and there was pressure on him and because of the harassment, I don't think that is enough of an excuse," for what happened, Hasan said. "People are deeply...

Often when there is a mass shooting, people who knew the gunman find themselves wondering what warning signs they might have missed. So it is in the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, a 12-year veteran in the U.S. Army, a native-born American, a trained and practicing psychiatrist — and the man authorities say opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood. Those who look for a ready explanation for the murderous rampage at Fort Hood can choose between two broad narratives: Maybe it had to do with the travails of an Army psychiatrist, dealing with soldiers who had been traumatized,...

AL-BIREH, West Bank, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. "He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa Hamad told Reuters in an interview at his home in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh. "America made him what he is." "Whether he became angry or something else, I don't know... What I do know is that it is impossible that he would do something like...

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was declared "not a terrorist" before the facts were out - even before officials were sure whether the attacker was alive or dead. Failing to honestly name a terrorist attack despite the evidence is as destructive and dishonest as leaping to call an attack terrorism without the facts to support that. Apparently, the claim was based largely on the fact that Maj. Hasan appears to have been a lone gunman. However, terrorism is defined not by the number of people involved, but by the motivations and intentions of the attacker. If reports about him are true,...

(edit)Accounts filed at the Charity Commission show that the Government paid a total of £113,411 last year to a foundation run by senior members and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir — a notorious Islamic extremist group that ministers promised to ban. (edit) Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, last night described the disclosure as “astonishing and outrageous” and accused the Government of “sleeping on the job”. Hizb regards integration as “dangerous” and says that British Muslims should “fight assimilation” into British society. It wants to create a global Islamic superstate, or “caliphate”, initially in Muslim-majority countries and then across the rest...

MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A powerful Islamist group linked to al-Qaida on Wednesday ordered two radio stations in southwestern Somalia to stop broadcasts indefinitely. Al-Shabab delivered letters to Jubba and Warsan Radio stations early Wednesday ordering the shut down without giving any reasons, said Mohamed Adawe, a journalist with Jubba Radio. Another Jubba Radio journalist, Abdikarin Jakarta, said the letters threatened the stations with unspecified action if they disobeyed the closure orders.

In an authoritative essay published in The Wall Street Journal, Abdurrahman Wahid, the first president of newly democratic Indonesia from 1999 to 2001, described what constitutes "right Islam" as distinct from "wrong Islam." He warned people of good will to recognize that "a terrible danger threatens humanity." This peril, Wahid wrote, emanates from an "extreme and perverse ideology in the minds of fanatics," specifically "Wahhabi/Salafist ideology -- a minority fundamentalist religious cult fueled by [Saudi] petrodollars." The importance of this essay, and the warning in it, comes from the prestige of the author. Abdurrahman Wahid is an Islamic scholar who...

The FBI has cut off all contact with CAIR,the Council on American-Islamic Relations citing the group's ties with terrorist organizations particularly Hamas. But all the FBI's evidence wasn't enough for Congressman Keith Ellison, D-Minn. Ellison, the first Muslim congressman, ignored pleas from moderate Muslim Groups to show his support for the terrorist supporting CAIR last month. "It makes my work 10 times harder when these groups are legitimized by a congressman," said Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Jasser and others say CAIR was labeled as a front group for Hamas by an...

Obama’s Afghanistan policy is the result of a political expediency, but may also be driven by a personality disorder. The expediency is easy enough to explain. Most Americans accept the premise that we must actively pursue, engage and destroy known terrorists, especially those with any connection to the 9/11 attacks. Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden were in Afghanistan and that was the place to go. Hence, Afghanistan became the “good war”. While this may have upset the extreme anti-war, anti-American faction that backed Obama’s candidacy, it was necessary to attract more reasonable voters. If Obama were not the malignant...

Michelle Malkin asked "Who’s behind “Islam on Capitol Hill?” today. Part of the answer is Sheikh Ahmed Dewidar who, shortly after 9/11, implied Jews were complicit in the mass-murder of the 2,976. On June 6, 2006, the Steven Stalinsky wrote about it in the New York Sun: Within weeks of September 11, 2001, an Egyptian sheik serving as Al-Azhar University's representative in America and an imam at the Islamic Cultural Center and Mosque of New York City, Muhammad al-Gamei'a, was interviewed at an unofficial Al-Azhar University Web site, www.lailatalqadr.com. Sheik al-Gamei'a returned to Egypt shortly after his interview was translated....

"Homosexuality is one of the most disgusting sins and greatest crimes.... It is a vile perversion that goes against sound nature, and is one of the most corrupting and hideous sins.... The punishment for homosexuality is death. Both the active and passive participants are to be killed whether or not they have previously had sexual intercourse in the context of a legal marriage.... Some of the companions of the Prophet stated that [the perpetrator] is to be burned with fire. It has also been said that he should be stoned, or thrown from a high place." Saudi Textbook Jurisprudence (Fiqh)...

Sweden’s Aftonbladet started it. The fact that both the article’s author and the paper’s editor already admitted they had no corroborating evidence meant little to “antiZionists”. Now the libel is spreading, like wildfire, throughout Islamic lands. The Bangladeshi Weekly Blitz reports: The anti-Semitic blogosphere as well as many Arab and Muslim media outlets are abuzz these days with accusations of an international Jewish conspiracy to kidnap Algerian children and harvest their organs. Unlike the multiple conspiracy theories about Jews circulating among radical fringe organizations online, this one seems to be gaining momentum on mainstream Arab and Muslim Web sites. According...

Muslims who are working to state the "Our Day Has Come"day of prayer at the U.S. Capitol have discussed views that include an Islamic takeover of the White House, from where they say President Barack Obama is providing their inspiration . . .

Muslims who are working to stage the "Our Day Has Come" day of prayer at the U.S. Capitol have discussed views that include an Islamic takeover of the White House, from where they say President Barack Obama is providing their inspiration...

Alongside the internationally better known National-Democratic Party of Germany or “NPD,” the German People’s Union (DVU) is one of the two main German political parties of the so-called “extreme Right.” As discussed in my earlier PJM report here, in German usage this expression is, in effect, just a euphemism for neo-Nazi currents and organizations. Both the NPD and the DVU are officially classified as “right-wing extremist” organizations by Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the so-called Office for the Protection of the Constitution or “Verfassungsschutz.” A statement published by the DVU on Wednesday, however, makes clear just how misleading it is to...

Just like President Obama and his crew want to silence the opposition, so does the Council on American Islamic Relations, (CAIR). It is very telling that neither Obama or CAIR has said a word about the Islamic preachers of hate in America. Just like in Europe, the left and Muslims will work hand in hand to try and destroy life as we know it.

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Yale has run up the white flag to terrorism. ... American universities have no problem questioning the most cherished Western values and American cultural norms. At times, the ivory tower seems to relish flouting propriety, self-righteously proclaiming that the mission of higher education is to push the boundaries of convention and defending their acts in the name of academic freedom. We are certain that if a book raised the ire of conservatives, Christians, gun owners or other politically incorrect members of society, Yale would double down on whatever made the work controversial. However, for whatever reason, whether financial motives or...

Title of Huffington Post article: "Mike Huckabee Bashes America on Foreign Soil" Complete lie. Huck is taking issue with Obama's foreign policy that emboldens the Islamists, and undermines our ally Israel. He has never said one bad thing about America. That in contrast to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who said,"....", well, you know what he said. Or for that matter the current First Lady who spoke about the, "first time", - she was proud of her country. And there are about 400 or so commenters on that moonbat article. Nearly all of them fanatically upset that Huck would go to...

One of the few "achievements" of Jimmy Carter's presidency is the fact that we now have a bunch of Islamic crazies running Iran who want to violently put down their people's desire for freedom and to control the entire Middle East. The continuing violent oppression of those who oppose the Iranian government will be part of the Jimmy Carter legacy. Two years ago there was an interesting analysis` in the JPost which said in part: Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the...

“Let me correct a little bit of what I said yesterday,” Gibbs told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Indiana. “I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say it’s not for me to pass judgment on.” Gibbs said it is a fact that Ahmadinejad had been inaugurated. He was sworn in for a second four-year term Wednesday. The ceremony in Iran’s parliament was boycotted by opposition leaders who accuse the regime of rigging the June election. “Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that and we’ll...

Editor's note: This story is based on interrogation reports that form part of the prosecution case in the forthcoming trial of six Belgian citizens charged with participation in a terrorist group. (CNN) -- On September 10, 2007, almost exactly six years after al Qaeda attacked the United States, Bryant Neal Vinas, a 24-year-old American citizen born in Queens, New York, boarded a flight from the city en route to Lahore, in eastern Pakistan, determined to fight jihad in neighboring Afghanistan. Brought up a Catholic by his Latin American immigrant parents, who divorced when he was young, Vinas tried to join...

Mabye it was because the interview was with the Dubai based Al-Aribiya instead of Western media, and Martin Day, British government spokesman, was more than candid of his governments "anti-Israel political activities" inside the State of Israel: There is this report today in JPost that the rest of the MSM, at the time of this post, has not bothered to cover: "British spokesman Martin Day said in an interview in Dubai with Al-Arabiya television last week that the British government was "taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities." "For instance," Day said, "we finance projects aimed at halting settlement activities....

Today, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled 'Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’: The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in,' Debra Burlingame writes: On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities. Eight days earlier [June 9, 2007 pdf file at link], the U.S. Attorney’s office in Denver filed notice in federal court that the Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) which applied to that prisoner -- Richard C. Reid, a.k.a. the “Shoe Bomber” --...

What is it that these people do not understand? House Democratic protect terrorism caucus, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder whining about grievances from Islamist groups many of which have associations with the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah and/or were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism funding case. The group of Radical Islamist groups include: American Muslim Alliance (AMA) American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Islamic Educational Center of Orange County (IEC) Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA) Muslim American Society-Freedom Foundation (MAS-FF) Muslim Student...

“These bogus charges and fines the State of Maine has imposed are nothing but an attempt to stifle our free speech and silence our organization from speaking out about the steady creep of radical Islam in America." -president of the Christian Action Network

Like a Wolf Overtaking His Prey - Radical Islam on Our Doorstep Have you seen the promotional material for the "Khilafah Conference USA 2009: Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA)" symposium that was just held in Oak Lawn, Illinois? It's a melding of "something wicked this way comes" with a dash of "The Walton's" and good ol' American family values. On Monday, July 20, 2009, Janet Levy alerted us to the conference having been held the day before in a suburb of Chicago, President Barack Hussein Obama's old stomping grounds (is there a connection here? Hmmm). It was time to take a...

Ah, those ingenious Islamists. Ya gotta give em’ points for inventiveness. Imagine yourself as a dutiful Iranian thug theocrat that has to get rid of a few teenaged girls that just won’t toe the Islamist line. Is your religion of peace a tad too peaceful to help you in that noble, government duty? Is it telling you that you aren’t allowed to execute virgin girls for “crimes” against the state? What are ya gonna do, Bunkie? Then, after a carefully considered few seconds, it hits you. Marry ‘em off before you slaughter them! See, after the “husband” and “wife” have...

2 weeks after being released from an 18 month arrest, I now receive an official warning about threats against my life. The question is; do you stand with your fellow Englishman and ally, who has had his life threatened by Islamic militants living within Great Britain, or do you ignore the reality of what that means? Today it is me - Tomorrow it is you!

The International NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is once again proving once again why its top banana Ken Roth is a perennial nominee for the Self Hating Jew Awards. They have a simple strategy, Advocacy not Accuracy. HRW is famous for inventing and/or twisting facts to slander Israel. They tend to use Palestinian sources only, without bothering to verify. HRW refuses to recognize terrorist attacks against Israel as provocative. For example, a year before the Gaza War they objected to Israel's limited response to the rocket attacks on Sedrot. In Jan 2008, Joe Stork of HRW wrote a 34 paragraph...

Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing threatened on Tuesday to take revenge on France for its opposition to the burka, calling on Muslims to retaliate against the country. "Yesterday was the hijab (the Islamic headscarf long banned in French schools) and today, it is the niqab (the full veil)," Abu Musab Abdul Wadud, head of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was quoted as saying. "We will take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters against France and against its interests by every means at our disposal." The group also called on Muslims to retaliate for what it called French "hostility"...

Washington has sent weapons to Somalia's government to thwart Islamist insurgents, who cut hands and feet off thieves on Thursday and paraded the severed limbs in the streets of Mogadishu. Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents are seen as a proxy for al Qaeda and Western nations fear they could destabilise the region and provide safe havens for hardline Islamists from abroad. When a moderate Islamist was elected president in January, there was hope he could end nearly two decades of bloodshed in Somalia by reconciling with hardliners who want to impose a strict version of Islamic law across the country.

A young Christian man was raped and brutally murdered in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam, and police are doing nothing about it, the victim's brother and minister told FOXNews.com. Pakistani police reportedly found the body of Tariq "Litto" Mashi Ghauri — a 28-year-old university student in Sargodha, Pakistan — lying dead in a canal outside a rural village in Punjab Province on May 15. He had been raped and stabbed at least five times. "They have sexually abuse him, torture him with a knife on his testicle and genitals," Ghauri's brother, 24-year-old Salman Nabil Ghauri, said. "They have...

Just today there was an article written by Jpost staffer Elie Leshem entitled " MK's To Peres: Stop Talking Peace." That article has now completely disappeared from the Jpost site. It has the same link, but the link now leads to an entirely different article alltogether entitled, "Officials: Speech Reports Baseless", written by Herb Keinon. Below is the letter that was sent to Elie Lesham via editors@jpost.com: To Elie Leshem, Just read your article on the Jpost website: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371075266&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull You chose a "title" for your article that is both journalistically dishonest and factually incorrect. That title gives the false impression...

BAGHDAD – Insurgents are increasingly using teenagers to stage attacks against American and Iraqi security forces, the U.S. military said Saturday. At least five youths between the ages of 14 and 19 have been involved in grenade and suicide attacks in recent weeks in northern Iraq, according to a military statement. The military has frequently said it believes al-Qaida in Iraq and other insurgent groups are recruiting youths and women because of their ability to avoid scrutiny and evade heightened security measures. But Saturday's statement was the first to provide detailed allegations of specific teenage attackers in what the military...

On January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama issued his first executive order: He was closing the detention center at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba and calling a halt to the military commissions created in late 2001 to try terrorist suspects detained there. Like the startling opening chord of a Beethoven symphony, Obama’s action was intended to herald a new tone in America’s “war on terror” and a restoration of America’s moral standing. Then several strange things happened. Obama’s order “closing” Gitmo actually left it open for a year, ostensibly until new arrangements could be made for the 240...

The U.S. General in charge of providing "security" training for the Fatah PA, Keith Dayton, has openly acknowledged what many have suspected all along in regards to this program: The likelyhood of those U.S.-trained Islamists attacking our ally Israel. Glick has more: "... Keith Dayton, who is responsible for training Palestinian military forces in Jordan, indicated that if Israel does not surrender Judea and Samaria within two years, the Palestinian forces he and his fellow American officers are now training at a cost of more than $300 million could begin killing Israelis..." If Israel were to give up Judea and...

Join us tonight at 8 PM Eastern for a NiteCap at Freedom Radio with Michael Tremoglie, Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, and Peter Connors. Mr. Tremoglie has written a series of tremendous essays about our military for the Philadelphia Bulletin and is the author of an amazing novel, 'A Sense of Duty.' Dr. Jasser and Mr. Connors will discuss their very important movie, "The Third Jihad." Jasser is the president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy as also has served as the Muslim representative on the Board of the Arizona Interfaith Movement since December 2001. Connors is the Executive Director...

On September 10, 2003 almost two years to the day after the horrors of 9/11 the Law firm of Cozen O'Connor sued the Saudi Government for funding the Islamist charities which trained and funded the 9/11 terrorists. The lawyers argued that the Saudis not only had funded and controlled the charities, but had been warned that the charities helped launder money into al-Qaeda. The Royal family countered that there was no evidence that the Saudi government had supported acts of terrorism, and that the kingdom itself had been a victim of extremist groups, including al-Qaida. But Judge Casey dismissed the...

"Islamic death threat targets U.S. radio host 'We will see his fat rotting torso dumped on the side of the road or in some swamp'" Posted: May 27, 2009 3:24 pm Eastern JERUSALEM – SNIPPET: "The author of the online threat apparently confused Humphries for Rusty Shackleford, the pseudonym used by the proprietor of the popular My Pet JAWA Report website, which focuses on exposing online support of Islamic terrorism." SNIPPET: "Threats tied to pro-al-Qaida website? The registrar information for the "Jew Report" blog with the threat against Humphries is currently private. The author of the blog identifies himself as...

May 28, 2009, 0:00 a.m. The War Against ModernityAnd why Islamists are not tempted by “peace.” By Clifford D. May The war being waged against the West also is a war against modernity. For nearly a thousand years, Islam reigned supreme in much of the world. But with the coming of the modern era — generally seen as beginning in the 18th century — Christendom outpaced the Muslim world by almost every measure. Islamists believe the destruction of modernity is necessary if Islam is to regain the power to which it is entitled. “Those who know nothing of Islam...

Back during Obama's campaign (which, admittedly has never ended,) he made lots of noise about outsourcing. He didn't like it. He though it should stop. He said he would nail companies with higher taxes who practice it. Which is a strange position for anyone on the left, since they are very much into the one world concept. But, when it comes to outsourcing, Obama is the king. He is outsourcing auto jobs to China. He outsourced the Generational Theft Act to Nancy Pelosi and Company. And, he is outsourcing interrogation, and possible torture The United States is now relying heavily...

FORMER President George W. Bush's policy of en couraging Middle East democratization has just produced spectacular results in the Kuwaiti general election. In a major victory for the secular reformists over the Islamists, women -- four of them -- were elected to the 50-seat national parliament for the first time. The Islamists' share of Sunday's vote dropped almost 30 percent from the last general election, held just more than a year ago. The radical Muslim Brotherhood lost three of its four seats, while the hard-line Salafis dropped to two from four. The election of women represents a political earthquake in...

It's scant comfort that the four men ar rested Wednesday night as they car ried out what they thought was their own private jihad -- attempting to car-bomb two Riverdale synagogues and shoot down military planes in upstate Newburgh -- were not trained terrorists. Don't be misled by the amateurish nature of their misadventure. What the four lacked in brains, they more than made up for in malign intent. And the fact that their plot went as far as it did -- the men actually had planted what they thought were deadly bombs before the feds moved in -- dramatically...

VP Joseph Biden is on a tour of the Balkans this week. With stops in Bosnia, Serbia,-- and Serbia's "Kosovo" province, that Islamists have claimed for themselves, with Bush, Obama, and Biden's blessing. There are protests to Biden's visit. One political oposition leader said : "He [Biden] personifies all the crimes committed against Serbia starting with the 1999 bombing to the snatching of Kosovo and Metohija and new crimes that will be committed against Serbia, such as taking Vojvodina and partitioning Serbia into seven regions."-Todorovic Another said Biden should be taken on a walking tour of all the places destroyed...