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  • Jihadis using religious visa to enter US, experts warn

    03/14/2017 8:36:31 PM PDT · by topher · 25 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | Published March 14, 2017 | By Hollie McKay
    A U.S. visa program designed to temporarily admit religious workers from other countries may be letting jihadists into the country, security experts and religious leaders warn. The R visa program is for non-immigrant clerics and religious workers and allows successful applicants to stay in the U.S. for up to five years. They are then allowed to apply for a permanent residency under their R-1 status. But some critics say the visa raises red flags and has long been abused by leaders with extreme views.
  • Trump national security adviser wants to avoid term 'radical Islamic terrorism', sources say

    02/25/2017 9:58:21 AM PST · by GonzoII · 64 replies
    The Guardian ^ | Feb 25, 2017 | Spencer Ackerman
    Donald Trump’s new national security adviser has told staff at the White House he does not wish to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism” to describe the terrorist threat the US faces, according to multiple sources.
  • H.R. McMaster Breaks With Administration on Views of Islam (Won't Say Radical Islamic Terrorism)

    02/24/2017 10:14:20 PM PST · by Pinkbell · 155 replies
    New York Times ^ | February 24, 2017 | By MARK LANDLER and ERIC SCHMITT
    WASHINGTON — President Trump’s newly appointed national security adviser has told his staff that Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion, rejecting a key ideological view of other senior Trump advisers and signaling a potentially more moderate approach to the Islamic world. The adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, told the staff of the National Security Council on Thursday, in his first “all hands” staff meeting, that the label “radical Islamic terrorism” was not helpful because terrorists are “un-Islamic,” according to people who were in the meeting. That is a repudiation of the language regularly used by both...
  • Exclusive: NSA pick McMaster told the National Defense University that “the Islamic State is not Isl

    02/21/2017 10:59:05 AM PST · by Jyotishi · 26 replies
    Jihad Watch, jihadwatch.org ^ | Monday, February 20, 2017 | Robert Spencer
    President Trump has confirmed that retired Lt. General H.R. McMaster is his new choice to be his National Security Adviser. Score one from the swamp. A source that has asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals has informed me that he was present in August 2014 when McMaster was the featured speaker for the President's Lecture Series at National Defense University in Washington, D.C. McMaster addressed an assembly of all the students in the colleges of the National Defense, including the National War College, the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security...
  • US Mosque Holds Memorial For Islamist Assassin

    02/17/2017 6:14:52 PM PST · by kevcol · 12 replies
    The Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | February 17, 2017 | Russ Read
    A Maryland-based mosque held a memorial celebration Sunday for an Islamist assassin who was convicted of murdering a Pakistani governor for criticizing the country’s blasphemy laws. The Gulzar E Madina mosque hosted an “Urs” for convicted murderer Mumtaz Qadri, reported Ehsan Rehan of the Rabwah Times, a Pakistan-based news agency. Urs is a traditional death anniversary usually reserved for Sufi saints celebrated by Muslims in South Asia. A Pakistani high court charged Qadri with murder after he killed Salman Taseer, the former governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Qadri, who was part of Taseer’s bodyguard, shot him 27 times with an...
  • Five Ways Donald Trump Is Wrong About Islam [Globalist Barf Alert]

    02/17/2017 10:54:47 AM PST · by markomalley · 22 replies
    Foreign Policy ^ | 2/17/17 | Stephen M. Walt
    Donald Trump took up so bandwidth during the 2016 election cycle that we all paid insufficient attention to the people lurking within his campaign operation who have now moved into key policymaking positions. Foremost among these worrisome characters is White House political strategist Stephen Bannon, the former Goldman Sachs employee, Hollywood producer, and Breitbart chairman who appears to be behind much of Trump’s chaotic approach to foreign policy. But you could add oddballs like self-promoting national security “experts” like Sebastian Gorka (who falsely claimed to have been an expert witness at the Boston Marathon bombing trial) and nutcase Islamophobe Frank...
  • The End of Countering Violent Extremism, the Start of Countering Islamic Jihad

    02/09/2017 1:00:12 PM PST · by heterosupremacist · 7 replies
    https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 02/09/2017 | Brian Thomas
    "...While they carried on their endless discussion of the completely tangential list of exactly which countries citizens had their nonexistent “right” to enter the United States curtailed, the administration continued to pursue its clearly defined purpose. That purpose is to focus the full resources of the federal government on the only ideology that threatens the republic at this time." From Reuters: The Trump administration wants to revamp and rename a U.S. government program designed to counter all violent ideologies so that it focuses solely on Islamist extremism, five people briefed on the matter told Reuters. The program, “Countering Violent Extremism,”...
  • Useful Idiots No More: The Trump administration pulls the plug on official Islamophilia

    02/05/2017 6:29:08 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 61 replies
    american spectator ^ | George Neumayr
    “A Sinister Perception of Islam Now Steers the White House,” blared a Thursday headline on the front page of the New York Times. Could anyone imagine it running an equivalent headline about Obama’s White House and Christianity — “A Sinister Perception of Catholicism Now Steers the White House”? Later, the paper changed “sinister perception” to “dark view of Islam.” Whether or not leading imams hold a “sinister perception” of the West never figures into the story. Not a single one of their open declarations of jihad is quoted in the article. How Muslims define their own religion is of no...
  • Muhammad and Forced Conversions to Islam

    02/03/2017 8:30:58 PM PST · by markomalley · 6 replies
    Raymond Ibrahim ^ | 2/3/17 | Raymond Ibrahim
    What are we to make of the glaring contradiction between the Koran’s claim that “there is no compulsion in religion” (2:256) and the many other verses that call for war, slavery, and death to those who refuse to submit to Islam (9:5, et al)—to say nothing of the militant behavior of the prophet of Allah, Muhammad?  This is the question Stephen M. Kirby examines in his new book, Islam’s Militant Prophet: Muhammad and Forced Conversion to Islam.  Rather than offer speculations or cite nearly 1,400 years of Islamic history that is heavy laden with forced conversions, Kirby answers the question...
  • Trump to make radical Islam focus of Obama anti-extremism program: Report

    02/01/2017 5:29:17 PM PST · by markomalley · 13 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 2/1/17 | Victor Morton
    President Trump will reportedly make good on one of his major critiques of the Obama administration by refocusing the program “Countering Violent Extremism” to concentrate on radical Islam. Citing “five people briefed on the matter,” Reuters news agency reported Wednesday that the “CVE” program would be changed to “Countering Islamic Extremism” or “Countering Radical Islamic Extremism.” The program would no longer have as a priority target groups such as white supremacists, Reuters reported. Mr. Trump, and many other Republicans, frequently attacked the program as a politically-correct whitewash growing out of the Obama administration’s refusal to use any form of the...
  • Shocking Background of ‘Women’s March’ Organizer EXPOSED… Media CENSORS It

    01/21/2017 9:45:07 PM PST · by montag813 · 43 replies
    TRN ^ | 01/22/2017 | Brooke Bosca
    by Brooke Bosca | Top Right NewsApproximately 450,000 people participated in a ‘Women’s March’ in D.C. on Saturday. But a shocking controversy has emerged after the disturbing background of one of the march's four organizers was revealed. Linda Sarsour, a "Palestinian Muslim activist," is a strong proponent of Islamic "Sharia Law" that oppresses women, and has also been linked to the terrorist group Hamas, and radical Muslim pressure group CAIR, which also has been targeted for its terrorist connections. Sarsour is very vocal about her utter hatred for Israel. Sarsour is a very active anti-Trump activist, who opposes the new President's policies of "extreme...
  • The Muslim Veil, not pink p**sy cap was the real symbol behind Big Women’s MARCH

    01/22/2017 7:12:42 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 21 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 01/22/17 | Judi McLeod
    Meanwhile the ideal should not be “almost” feeling sorry for them, but organizing a strong resistance to protect America from a Muslim president, forced upon it by the hidden agenda of a so-called Big Women’s March Movement Despite the sea of pink p**sy caps seen on worldwide streets during the Big Women’s’ March yesterday, the pink cap was not the real symbol of the march—the Muslim veil was. The Muslim veil and a hijab made out of the highly revered American flag were the real symbols of the day. There was one march organizer far more worrisome than Mama Michael...
  • Women’s March Organizer Recently Met Ex-Hamas Operative, Has Family Ties To Terror Group

    01/22/2017 7:16:01 AM PST · by grundle · 13 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | Janaury 21, 2017 | Chuck Ross
    Salah Sarsour (left) with Linda Sarsour (right) at MAS-ICNA convention. Via Facebook Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers behind Saturday’s Women’s March, being held in Washington, D.C., was recently spotted at a large Muslim convention in Chicago posing for pictures with an accused financier for Hamas, the terrorist group. Sarsour, the head of the Arab American Association of New York and an Obama White House “Champion of Change,” was speaking at last month’s 15th annual convention of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America. While there, she posed for a picture with Salah Sarsour, a member of...
  • ‘Fear of Muslims is rational’: What Trump’s new national security adviser has said online (November)

    01/13/2017 2:54:02 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    Washington Compost ^ | November 13, 2016 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff
    President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security adviser, among the most important jobs in the still-forming Trump administration, has said some pretty incendiary things on the Internet. Before being tapped to advise Trump on national security issues, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn was an intelligence officer and head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama until he was removed from his command in 2014 over his leadership style. Flynn went on to criticize some of his superiors, including Obama, regarding their stances on Islamist extremism. He also traveled to Russia on a trip paid for by state-run media...
  • BREAKING: Gunman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' opens fire in Spanish supermarket

    01/11/2017 10:36:05 AM PST · by wtd · 102 replies
    UKExpress ^ | January 11, 2017 18:26
    BREAKING: Gunman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' opens fire in Spanish supermarket A GUNMAN has opened fire in a Spanish supermarket while shouting "Allahu Akbar", police have said. The man was reportedly carrying gasoline and gunpowder in his pockets as he entered the Mercadona shop, in As Lagoas. Numerous shoppers were inside making their purchases when the armed assailant entered and fired several shots. A supermarket employee said the man, who was standing just a few metres from him, yelled "Allahu Akbar", which translates to "God is greatest". Police arrived at the scene to arrest the attacker. One witness told local media:...
  • Airport Shooter Converted to Islam, Identified as Aashiq Hammad Years Before Joining Army

    01/11/2017 11:25:28 AM PST · by WENDLE · 38 replies
    Judicial Watch ^ | 1/10/2017 | Judiacial Watch
    Information is slowly trickling out that links the Ft. Lauderdale Airport shooter to radical Islam while the official story from authorities is that the gunman is a mentally ill, Hispanic Army veteran named Esteban Santiago that became unhinged after a tour in Iraq. Only one mainstream media outlet mentions the possibility of Santiago’s “jihadist identity,” burying it in a piece about New York possibly being his initial target. A paragraph deep in the story mentions that investigators recovered Santiago’s computer from a pawn shop and the FBI is examining it to determine whether he created a “jihadist identity for himself...
  • Trump’s National Security Pick Sees Ally in Fight Against Islamists: Russia

    01/10/2017 6:15:54 AM PST · by Innovative · 25 replies
    NY Times ^ | Jan. 10, 2017 | MATTHEW ROSENBERG, MARK MAZZETTI and ADAM GOLDMAN
    Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, traveled to Moscow about a year after he took charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency to cultivate what he saw as natural allies in the fight against Islamist militants: Russia’s spy agencies.
  • Merkel: Respond to jihad massacres with love and compassion

    01/02/2017 12:38:16 PM PST · by heterosupremacist · 54 replies
    ANGELA Merkel was branded “mad” and “off her rocker” today after giving a bizarre New Year’s Eve speech telling Germans to fight the bombs and guns of Islamic State with love and compassion. The embattled Chancellor, who is surrounded by armed guards around the clock and travels everywhere in a bullet-proof car, said terrified citizens should meet the ISIS terror threat with “openness”. Her remarks come less than two weeks after a failed asylum seeker drove an articulated truck into families at a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 and seriously injuring dozens more. In her annual New Year’s Eve...
  • Does Trump Grasp the Reality of ‘Radical Islam’?

    12/31/2016 2:15:26 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 114 replies
    NRO ^ | Andrew McCarthy
    While candidate Trump was demanding that the enemy be named, and me-too Hillary was thus goaded into the occasional mention of “jihadists,” Obama tried to defend his refusal to invoke radical Islam. The defense was classic Obama. Part One was flat wrong: “There’s no religious rationale,” he maintained, that would justify” the “barbarism” in which terrorists engage — something that could only be right if we ignore scripture and adopt Obama’s eccentric notion of “religious rationale.” Part Two drew on Obama’s bottomless supply of strawmen: “Using the phrase ‘radical Islam,’” he lectured, will not make the terrorist threat “go away”...
  • French Police Arrest Radical Muslims Planning to Commit Terror Attacks on New Year's Eve

    12/28/2016 10:55:09 AM PST · by Michael van der Galien · 5 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 12-28-2016 | Michael van der Galien
    Political commentators in the rest of the world frequently wonder why Marine Le Pen and her populist Front National continue to rise in the polls in France. Well, I'm guessing news like this may have something to do with it. Police in south west France have arrested a man suspected of having planned an attack on New Year's eve, a police source said on Wednesday. Two other people, one of whom is suspected of having planned an attack on police, were arrested in another police raid in south west France, in Toulouse, the police source said. In what comes as...