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In his passionate defenses of the planned mosque near Ground Zero, New York City Mayor Bloomberg depicts the issue as a simple case of freedom of religion. "People have a right to pray, and I think, you know, we have a quarter of a million Muslims that live In this city . . . These are our citizens and they have a right to have their own place of worship," he said on the John Gambling radio show last week. He even invoked America's earliest days, saying that "the Pilgrims came here because they couldn't practice their religion back 3,000...

Suspect in mosque arson could be in country illegally The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Muslim man charged with setting fire to a Marietta mosque may be in the country illegally, law enforcement officials confirmed Thursday. Arson investigators work to find out if a fire was deliberately set at the Masjid Al-hedaya on Powder Springs Street in Marietta Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The fire was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Monday. The building is also known as the Islamic Center of Marietta. Enlarge photo Mosque leaders said Tamsir Mendy, who describes himself as a “devout Muslim,” had attended their prayer services for...

New York politicians are bending over backwards and violating protocol to build a mega mosque at Ground Zero. In warped speed they are ramming it through, removing every obstacle to expedite the process and erect a triumphal mosque at Ground Zero in time for it to meet its stated opening date, the tenth anniversary of September 11. Why? Would they do this for a church? A synagogue? This is an outrage. Wednesday night, on less than a week and a half’s notice (at a time when most people who care are not even around), the Lower Manhattan Community Board 1...

Video: A mosque is about to be erected on the hallowed acreage of lower Manhattan's Ground Zero. Where we Americans weep, they rejoice and intend to erect a shrine to the 9/11 terrorists they hail as martyrs.

MARIETTA - Marietta Police say a 25-year-old African immigrant who prayed at the Masjid Al-Hedaya mosque in recent weeks has been charged with setting the fire that destroyed the it earlier this week. "We do know that he acted alone," Tucker said at the media gathering, which was also conducted at fire headquarters. "Why he did it was something that only he knows. We've got some information as to how he did it, but the exact motive is unclear. We know that it wasn't somebody from the outside that was interested in a hate crime type of situation, because he...

An Islamist preacher barred from Britain for his radical views has warned France against passing a Muslim veil ban, or risk increasing support for al-Qaeda. "Look what happened in Belgium and in France," Omar Bakri said...The Syrian-born preacher, who settled in Britain in 1985, was banned from re-entering the country in 2005 ... Bakri had headed the radical al-Muhajiroun group, and praised the hijackers involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States as the "magnificent 19".

NASA administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world. He told Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the TOP TASKS President Obama assigned him.

The Islamic attack that took place on 911 was part of the violent jihad, that Muslims are waging across the world. There is another aspect of the jihad though, it is the legal jihad, where Muslims use our freedoms against us to advance Islam. This is the most dangerous weapon our enemy has, as it is all done within the law, and this is what we need to concentrate on. Please do your part! Here are some examples showing how the tri-state area, is under attack by Islam. Brooklyn NY: “Non-Muslims Come out in Force Against Mosque~ Photos” Massachusetts: “Governor...

The web site Favstocks.com has published what amounts to propaganda for the financial jihadists. In an online article published on July 1st, the site “explained” “Islamic investing,” touting it as “socially responsible.” This affords us a teaching moment. We will go through the various aspects of the article and deconstruct the propaganda:

On the surface of it they seem to have very little in common. The left claims to be progressive, embraces gay bars, abortions, feminism, worker’s rights civil rights, multiculturalism and obscene slogans. The Islamists throw acid in women’s faces, hang gays on every streetcorner and repress minorities and freedom of expression. This seeming contrast baffles many who demand to know how for example the left can champion Islamic regimes which mandate the death penalty for homosexuality. The answer is very simple. The people asking the question have mistaken the facade for the reality.

The White House has announced the appointment of 13 men and women to serve as White House Fellows. Atop the list in the release issued by the White House is an attorney named Samar Ali. Ms. Ali specializes in advising clients on “Shariah-compliant” transactions and was a founding member of the first U.S. delegation to the World Islamic Economic Forum.

Staten Island, N.Y. -- The Muslin American Society, in the name of the Muslim community, has issued a response to the bid by the Rev. Keith Fennessy of St. Margaret Mary R.C. Church, Midland Beach, to undo the sale of the parish's vacant convent to the MAS, which would build a mosque at the site. The MAS response is dated today and bears a Washington dateline. The text reads as follows: In reference to Rev. Keith Fennessy's letter withdrawing his support for the mosque purchase sale in Staten Island, N.Y., we feel strongly that much of what is taking place...

Lilburn’s Hood Road carries new Gwinnett into old Gwinnett. The mile of asphalt begins with a mosque at U.S. 29 and turns into a byway of houses, trees and gardens. But now, when the sun goes down, tension grows in this tidy, middle-class neighborhood. Some residents opposed to a mosque expansion on Hood Road say for the past seven months, they've been the frequent targets of harassment, mostly by those they describe as "Middle Eastern men". But a founder of the mosque says the claims are unfounded and the city's mayor, who lives on Hood Road, hasn't witnessed anything unusual....

In a 1997 Middle East Quarterly article titled "Prince Charles of Arabia," Ronni L. Gordon and David M. Stillman looked at evidence that Britain's Prince Charles might be a secret convert to Islam. They shifted through his public statements (defending Islamic law, praising the status of Muslim women, seeing in Islam a solution for Britain's ailments) and actions (setting up a panel of twelve "wise men" to advise him on Islamic religion and culture), then concluded that, "should Charles persist in his admiration of Islam and defamation of his own culture," his accession to the throne will indeed usher in...

In his fiercest defense yet of the mosque proposed near Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg declared yesterday that it must be allowed to proceed because the government "shouldn't be in the business of picking" one religion over another. "I think it's fair to say if somebody was going to try, on that piece of property, to build a church or a synagogue, nobody would be yelling and screaming," the mayor said. "And the fact of the matter is that Muslims have a right to do it, too."

The area around the former World Trade Center is a sacred space. It is a place where thousands of Americans' lives were taken by the purveyors of a hostile ideology based on Islam. The Cordoba House, a 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center planned for a site near Ground Zero, is at best inappropriate, and at worst an attempt to hijack the memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.... The United States should ban any overseas funding for construction of religious sites originating in countries that do not allow religious freedom and end the one-way relationship that allows those promoting...

<p>The US president's national security strategy is to highlight homegrown terrorism for the first time, an adviser to Barack Obama says.</p> <p>John Brennan said the document being unveiled on Thursday explicitly recognised the threat posed by "individuals radicalised here at home".</p>

Brandishing his libertarianism, Glenn Beck told listeners this morning that the government shouldn’t interfere with the plans to build a giant mosque at Ground Zero. His argument is that the government shouldn’t be allowed to tell churches what to do. His flawed logic reflects a profound misunderstanding of Islam. It’s not a religion, it’s a dangerous ideology using religion as cover. The radicals are not the Muslims who behead infidels–the radicals are the ones who don’t. Those Muslims who reject the bloodthirsty ideology found in the Koran are the radicals. Those who live peaceful and productive lives are the extremists....

MONTICELLO — Members of a four-year-old mosque are suing the Village of Monticello, claiming officials have continuously thrown up red tape and purposely harassed them. According to papers filed in state Supreme Court this week, a group called the Islamic Culture Center of Monticello Inc. claims it has spent nearly $1 million converting an old house on Cottage Street into a mosque and cultural center in an otherwise blighted neighborhood. Judge Frank LaBuda granted a temporary restraining order against the village this week and will hear the case on June 14. The group, mostly Yugoslavian immigrants, is asking the judge...

A new mosque is now being planned in New York near "Ground Zero," two blocks from where the World Trade Center used to be. This mosque is headed by an Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf... It is crucial to study the supremacist ideology of Islam and to recognize, for example, that the building of a mosque especially at Ground Zero is viewed by Muslims as a decisive victory over the infidels in Islam's march to establish its ultimate goal: the submission of all others to Islam and to Sharia Law. On a daily bases, in so many parts of the world,...