Jihadi websites - hosted in the USA :: The QandO Blog

Here's a little factoid that MEMRI has provided:

...all Islamist/Jihadi websites are hosted by Western - primarily American - Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

Interested in seeing what's in Al-Qaeda's online military magazine Mu'askar Al-Battar (The Al-Battar Training Camp)?

Should be an easy connection, since it's hosted out of Nevada by R & D Technologies, LLC.
Interested in a course on manufacturing explosives and even guides for making homemade dirty bombs? Again, an easy hookup. And it's ISP host? SiteGenie,LLC, out of Minnesota.

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The Lighthouse: Building the Case of the Left's Culpability

The Lighthouse: Building the Case of the Left's Culpability: "When posting 'Of Political Entertainment and Slumber' a few days ago, on the ludicrous dithers and slithers taken by the U.S. Democrats, so as to convince the anti-war grassroots of the Democrat defeatist credentials, in an update I linked to the latest Works and Days article by Victor Davis Hanson 'Defeat and Flight from Iraq'. His comments and outline of the inevitable, long term, geopolitical consequences of white-flagging the Iraq war, are very ominous indeed.

Going through the entire article again I stumbled upon two 'angry' letters he received - otherwise known as hate mail - that are quite revealing. One is from a 23 year old postmodern who in a quite unreasonable tone, based on his exploits in Chinese, claims to be more capable of reasoning than the accomplished writer himself: it is of course typical of people in certain stage of development to make such miscalculations."

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Michelle Malkin: strong on illegal aliens, weak on obstreperous guests By Lawrence Auster

Michelle Malkin had a worthwhile column the other day about the government's failure to deport criminal aliens--meaning legal immigrants and illegal aliens who have been convicted of a crime--once they have finished their jail term. She tells of various freed criminal aliens who have gone on to commit further horrible crimes against Americans. Scandalously, there is still no unified national data base to keep track of criminal aliens in the U.S. prison system. Authorities thus have no way of knowing who the aliens are, where they are incarcerated, and when their term will be over, and thus are unable to prevent their simply being released back into society. Truly, truly, if we cannot get our act together enough to deport criminal aliens, then every other type of enforcement that was promised by Team Busheron in the great immigration "compromise" was a total fraud. (Of course, we already knew that, 70 times over.)

But here's something else.

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The Left Is Brain-Dead by Burt Prelutsky

"I spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make sense of the world. Which is probably all the proof anyone needs to prove that I’m certifiably loony. Even though I know that one of the most obvious symptoms of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over again in the foolish belief that the end result will be different this time, I can’t help myself.

For instance, a question that constantly plagues me is: why are there still people who long to see Communism prevail? Even back in the 1930s, when America was suffering through the Great Depression, very few American leftists packed their bags and moved to the Soviet Union. They certainly paid lip service to the so-called worker’s paradise, the Communist Eden, trying to peddle it to the masses, but they, themselves, Stalin’s “useful idiots,” chose to remain here, in Chicago and New York, Philadelphia and Detroit. A few of them went over there, but they didn’t stay long. All in all, they seemed to think it was a nice place to visit, but they didn’t want to die there. So why do so many people continue to promote the vile system?"

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14 Years Later, Mystery Still Remains in the Death of Vince Foster by Kathy Miller

"14 years ago today, on July 20, 1993, the body of Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. was found in a Virginia park, next to a civil war cannon, with an unidentified revolver lodged in the right hand. Vincent Foster died of a small-caliber gunshot wound to his head.

Vince Foster was not only deputy White House counsel but also the personal attorney to Bill and Hillary Clinton. On the night of Foster’s death, top Clinton aides made a frantic effort to enter and remove documents from his West Wing office. In the days that followed, federal investigators were stymied in their investigation of Foster’s office and strange death.

The following happened within weeks of his death. Vince Foster finally files the missing Whitewater tax returns. On July 19, FBI director William Sessions is fired. Clinton personally orders him by phone to turn in his FBI property and leave headquarters.

That evening, Clinton security aide Jerry Parks' wife Jane says she overhears a heated telephone conversation with Vince Foster in which her husband says, 'You can't give Hillary those files, they've got my name all over them.'
On July 20, Clinton names Louis Freeh as Sessions' successor.

That same day, the FBI raids David Hale's Little Rock office and seizes documents including those relating to Capital-Management.

Just hours after the search warrant authorizing the raid is signed by a federal magistrate in Little Rock, Vince Foster apparently drives to Ft. Marcy Park."

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Up against the warming zealots By Martin Durkin

WHEN I agreed to make The Great Global Warming Swindle, I was warned a middle-class fatwa would be placed on my head.

So I wasn't shocked that the film was attacked on the same night it was broadcast on ABC television last week, although I was impressed at the vehemence of the attack. I was more surprised, and delighted, by the response of the Australian public.

The ABC studio assault, led by Tony Jones, was so vitriolic it appears to have backfired. We have been inundated with messages of support, and the ABC, I am told, has been flooded with complaints. I have been trying to understand why.

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The Daily Star - Lebanon - Switching off the Iraq war is not an American option By Michael Young

"So alarming are the implications of an American debacle in Iraq, that the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, felt the urge to intervene last Monday and warn: 'Great caution should be taken for the sake of [the] Iraqi people. The international community cannot and should not abandon them. Any abrupt withdrawal or decision may lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Iraq.' An Iraqi tribal leader fighting Al-Qaeda who was recently interviewed by the BBC Arabic service said more or less the same thing. If the United States withdrew from Iraq, he warned, his men would find it difficult to defeat their adversaries. "

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Fred Thompson's Progress By Robert Novak

"In advance of a formal solicitation for funds or an announcement of his candidacy, Fred Thompson's presidential campaign is quietly organizing its first Washington fund-raiser at the downtown J.W. Marriott hotel the last week in July.

This event will give the clearest signal so far of how successful the actor-politician will be in his late-starting drive to finance his run for president. It will be watched carefully to see whether Thompson picks up important lobbyists and other Washingtonians who earlier had lined up for Sen. John McCain's fading campaign for the presidential nomination.

A footnote: Thompson may not announce officially as a candidate until September, although an 'exploratory' committee may soon be unveiled."

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Brief History Lesson for Chickendove by Jules Crittenden

MSNBC’s Olbermann thinks Iraq is the “most disastrous geopolitical tactic since Austro-Hungary attacked Serbia in 1914 and destroyed itself in the process.” With a good Kraut name like Olbermann, you’d think he’d know better.  

Somebody needs to tell Olbermann about World War II, European and Asian-Pacific theaters. Hard to know where to start with that one. Germany’s bloody and tragic overreach starting in 1939, or Japan’s going back to 1931?  Germany’s 1941 invasion of Russia has to be near the top of anyone’s list, if you want to narrow it down to a single campaign. How about the pair of them, Germany and Japan, forcing the United States into the war. Then there’s the Holocaust.  Very disastrous geopolitical tactic that Germany is paying for, in cash and shame, to this day.  On the Allies’ side, the betrayal of eastern Europe at Yalta and the initiation of 45 years of Cold War with periodic hot flashes wasn’t exactly a stellar moment. That was in large measure a certain sainted Democrat’s doing, so Olb can be forgiven for overlooking that one.  

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Clinton's Hostile Preschool Takeover BY DARCY OLSEN AND BRUCE FULLER

Sen. Hillary Clinton ignited few fireworks, speaking before the nation's largest teachers union over the July 4 holiday. But one proposal is proving explosive: state-run preschool for all families.

Clinton's proposal — introduced Thursday in the Senate — would give states $28 billion over five years to incorporate the nation's 120,000 preschools now run in firms, churches and storefronts into a government-run system. The former Goldwater girl has come a long way from the western ways and neighborhood values she once embraced.

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The Persistence of Islamic Slavery By Robert Spencer

The International Criminal Court recently issued warrants for the arrest of Ahmed Haroun, the minister for humanitarian affairs of Sudan, and Ali Kosheib, a leader of that country’s notorious janjaweed militia. The Sudanese government has refused to hand over the two for prosecution. Charges include murder, rape, torture and “imprisonment or severe deprivation of liberty.” Severe deprivation of liberty is a euphemism for slavery. Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly observed not long ago that in Sudan, “slavery, sanctioned by religious zealots, ravaged the southern parts of the country and much of the west as well.”

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An Immigration Tragedy in Tacoma By Nathan Tabor

For all those who protest any effort to crack down on illegal immigration, and for those who claim that we should pursue an open borders policy at all costs, I can only hope that you will study the story of Zina Linnik and reconsider a situation which is putting our children at serious risk.

        Police believe that 12-year-old Zina was kidnapped on the Fourth of July while watching a fireworks display. She was a child who was enjoying freedom, and the best of what America has to offer.

        Now, investigators are questioning a 42-year-old convicted sex offender from Thailand in connection with her death. Terapon Adhahn had been living in the United States illegally. And now police are wondering whether he caused the death of an innocent girl.

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Don’t let the Dems kill the John Doe amendment Update: House Dems kill John Doe amendment…fight moves to the Senate Update: 8:55pm Senate Dems kill John Doe amendment…roll added :: Michelle Malkin

7/20 1:25pm update. Video of Rep. Pete King ripping the Dems over their opposition to the John Doe amendment.

7/20 9:30am update. Read Debra Burlingame: “We disarm ourselves when we succumb to political correctness - which encourages us to second guess our common sense and look the other way. It is an outrage that Pelosi and Reid would allow individuals to be punished when they come forward to protect us all.”

If you see something, say something:

Congress switchboard: 202-224-3121
Nancy Pelosi’s office: 202-225-4965
Reid’s office: 202-224-3542

7/20 7:40am update: Andrew McCarthy assails the Death Wish Caucus–the cowardly, reckless, feckless Democrats who want John Doe citizen whistleblowers to shut up or be sued.

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Citizen Media: Media Literacy And The State Of Citizen Journalism - Dan Gillmor Reports :: Robin Good

Citizen Media: where are we?

Dan Gillmor does a wonderful job of distilling and identifying the state of citizen media which keeps growing and broadening its interest at a relentless pace.

In this article Dan published just a few days ago, he not only outlines with insight the many developments, successes and failures occurred in the citizen media universe, but he also underlines and compares such developments with the parallel free-fall experienced by traditional media. Even independents who have repeatedly failed to listen and look at the changing rules of the vast media landscape are now paying an increasingly high price to their own lack of analysis.

But the good news is that the grassroots inspired citizen media projects are rife with experimentation and new ideas, and nonetheless only few succeed, the opportunities opened to the many that do have those ideas is indeed huge.

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China official's closed meetings with candidates' advisors raise eyebrows :: EAST-ASIA-INTEL.COM

A senior Chinese government official's closed meetings with top foreign policy advisers to leading U.S. presidential candidates have come under fire from critics of U.S. policy towards China.

China’s Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo met on June 19 with advisers to Democrats candidates, including New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. He also met Republicans including Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the Washington Post reported June 28.

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God and freedom assaulted in the Senate By Janet Folger

America, America, God shed His grace on thee. Why? It wasn't because we were His favorites. Nor because we were the richest. But there was something about America that wasn't found in other Western nations.

Blessed more than Mexico, Canada or any nation in South America that came looking for gold, as you can see at the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, America came looking for God.

Why has God blessed us so richly? Get a glimpse into Western Hemisphere history from a 1789 snapshot:

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Now, An American Vision in Iraq By Charles Krauthammer

Amid the Senate's all-night pillow fight and other Iraq grandstanding, real things are happening on the ground in Iraq. They consist of more than just a surge of U.S. troop levels. Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker have engaged us in a far-reaching and fundamental political shift. Call it the 20 percent solution.

Ever since the December 2005 Iraqi elections, the U.S. has been waiting for the central government in Baghdad to pass grand national accords on oil, federalism and de-Baathification to unify and pacify the country. The Maliki government has proved too sectarian, too weak and perhaps too disposed to Iranian interests to rise to the task.

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Cop Killers in High Places Heather Mac Donald

New York police officers have yet to hold a “no justice, no peace” rally in Brooklyn, where three black thugs in a stolen BMW fatally gunned down Officer Russel Timoshenko on July 9. Nor have New York’s Finest stopped patrolling Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Central Harlem, where they put their lives at risk every day to protect residents from violent crime.

Yet under the race-baiting precedents established by Al Sharpton, New York City Councilman (and former Black Panther) Charles Barron, and New York Times columnists and editors, the police have more than enough grounds for racial complaint. Blacks are blowing away police officers at rates far exceeding their own numbers. Nationally, blacks made up 40 percent of all cop killers from 1994 to 2005, even though they are only 13.4 percent of the American population.

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Dennis Prager: We Could Lose

video The nationally syndicated radio host talks to PJM’s Aaron Hanscom about the real limits of a Fairness Doctrine, taking oaths, a pernicious victim mentality, and how “we could absolutely lose” the war on terror.

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New Hot Air campaign ad: www.deportthemnow.com

Please watch our new public service announcement for a grass-roots campaign to pressure the government to deport criminal aliens now–and then sign up to help us at www.deportthemnow.com. We’ll be doing a series of PSAs based on Patterico’s excellent series spotlighting the thugs who have benefited from the criminal alien revolving door. Enough is enough. Time to act.

Update (MM): Check out my column on the campaign here.

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Immigration Deception Reveals SPP Threat to America By John Lewandoski

When the common sense approach to a public issue is conspicuously avoided by Washington power brokers, it’s a good time to suspect ulterior motives. Such is the case with our Mexican border and why it “can’t” be secured. Bottom line: border control is not designed to remedy the security problem. Rather, the border is designed to be eliminated.

Unnoticed by much of mainstream America, there is an unholy cabal that’s slithering past them. Among the geo-economic power elite in Washington, with our President at the core, is an effort that if not averted will, by 2010 or thereabouts, lead America into a hardened amalgam of tri-national partnership, and eventually into international organization. The result of this could, and more likely will, be the abolishment of our Constitution and national sovereignty; i.e., America in name, but a “nation-less” country. It appears that Mr. Bush doesn’t want a common border between Mexico and the U.S., and thus is doing his best to win and maintain favor with the Mexican government and its people, who have everything to gain by border dissolution.

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The Dunkirk Democrats :: INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

His terms of surrender stymied, a petulant Harry Reid pulls a defense authorization bill from the Senate floor. Even the U.N. secretary-general warns of the consequences of a precipitous withdrawal. Democrats don't care.

The Democrats insist that they support our troops in Iraq, even if they don't support what they're doing there. Never mind that Rep. John Murtha thinks our troops are cold-blooded murderers, or that Sen. Ted Kennedy thinks they're operating places like Abu Ghraib "under new management."

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Holy Land Foundation…Dispelling the Myths By Dennis Lormel

The U.S. based charity Holy Land Foundation (HLF) went on trial this week, along with seven individuals who were principals of HLF. They were indicted in 2004 for providing material support to terrorists, namely to HAMAS. The trial began with the jury selection phase. Thus far, the trial has generated moderate media coverage. As it progresses, the trial will garner more intense coverage. This is an extremely complex and document intensive case. The trial should last a minimum of five months. To date, the media coverage has spawned a series of myths that warrant being dispelled.

The bottom line is that HLF did in fact fund HAMAS. HAMAS is a masterful organization at exploiting and manipulating charities for financial and logistical support, as well as for recruitment and marketing, in the sense of winning the hearts and minds of the Palestinian people.

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Kristof’s Sick Column Davi Bernstein

A few months ago, before Nicholas Kristof’s appearance in the Tufts University Hillel’s “Moral Voices” lecture series, a Tufts student asked him to define his own “guiding moral doctrine.” The New York Times columnist was able to articulate only this in response: “I don’t think I have any sort of, you know, particularly unusual or even sophisticated moral doctrine.” Kristof proves this, abundantly, in his column today: “Cheney’s Long-Lost Twin.”

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Laughing in the face of 9/11 conspiracy theorists By John DeSio

At some point in the past few years, everybody has run into one of “those guys.” When somebody brings up the topic of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, they immediately jump into a high-octane diatribe about “just what really happened” on 9/11. Government cover-ups. Bush family business dealings. Military espionage. All very sexy stuff.

They are the 9/11 Truth movement—or “truthers” as some might prefer to call them—and they’re convinced that there’s more to the official story of 9/11. Rather than believe the obvious—that 19 Muslim Middle Eastern men hijacked four airliners and crashed them into the WTC and the Pentagon—they believe instead that the government spent years rigging those buildings with explosives. Rather than see the attacks as an act of terrorism on American soil, they prefer instead to believe that the United States government faked the attacks to accomplish something, be it a pretense for the invasion of Iraq, to steal the gold in the towers or for a number of other reasons, depending on who you ask on that specific day.

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I Don’t Need Church to Lead a Moral Life By Mike S. Adams

Last summer, I was sitting by the pool with a friend I will call Scott. We were at a wedding in Dallas and were staying at the Crescent Hotel on the same floor with the Phoenix Suns. We spent most of our time at the pool, which had nothing to do with the fact that Steve Nash’s wife also spent most of her time there in a bikini. Fortunately, though, our conversation did eventually center on issues of personal morality and ethics.

Scott told me he had raised his kids in the church and believed in God although he had not been to church regularly in a number of years. He said he felt no guilt over his absence from church. After all, it was a weekend business that kept him from attending. And, besides that, he said he was leading a “moral life” without going to church.

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Obama Is A Radical Liberal Who Wants To Expose Kindergartners To Sex And Force You To Pay For Abortions By John Hawkins

I'm of the opinion that Barrack Obama would be a complete joke in the general election. The guy's nothing but a very liberal empty suit, with a little bit of charisma who's doing OK in the Democratic primaries because he's not Hillary Clinton and because of his empty talk about bipartisanship, not a word of which he actually believes.

In reality, B. Hussein Obama is an extremely inexperienced, screamingly liberal candidate who doesn't do a good job of hiding his radicalism. That's why, in a general election, pretty much any Republican candidate would easily pulverize Obama.

For example, here's Obama on sex ed for kindergartners,

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Flying Imams -- Are Democrats Trying to Sink Pete King's Amendment? By Andy McCarthy

In November 2006, six Islamic leaders were removed from a U.S. Airways flight in Minneapolis after they were observed acting suspiciously-including not sitting in their assigned seats, asking for seatbelt extenders although not needing them, and making anti-American statements.  The men were questioned by authorities and then cleared.  However, in March 2007, with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the imams filed suit — not only against the airline but against the heroic "John Doe" passengers who reported their suspicious behavior. 

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Pentagon Rebukes Sen. Clinton on Iraq By DEVLIN BARRETT

The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.

In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.

A copy of Edelman's response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote.

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Radical Islamism or Islam? By Marie Jon'

In the last days God's judgment will befall all man made religions. There is only one true God. He alone created the heavens and the earth. Because of the tumultuous days in which we live, there are many who believe that the world we know today is coming to an end. Bible theologians refer to this prophetic time, as the glory of the Second Coming of Christ. (Revelation 1:7)

There are no new concepts of religion loosened upon this earth. The devil has impacted mankind to believe his wicked deceit and lies. "If it were possible, Lucifer would deceive even the most elect." (Mark 13:22)

Within the hearts of all human beings there is a desire to believe in a higher power. We were created with this desire from the very beginning by God Himself. Because of the fall of man into sin, there came confusion and falsehoods that surrounded the claims of the Almighty. However, The Ten Commandments of God point to His wisdom, love and deity.

There should be no tiptoeing lightly while seeking the truth. We need to be open while dialoguing matters of differing faiths. Let's put the disclaimer up front: "Not all Muslims are terrorists." However, is it a reasonable question to ask: Is Islam radical because of its teaching found in its holy book called the Koran?

America, the United Kingdom, and the rest of the free world could be facing a very real threat and dilemma. Mosques are sprouting up with every passing day, all across the United States and Europe. The Pew Research Institute reported that there is a substantial number of young American Muslims. who could cause chaos in our own country because of their religious beliefs.

Everyone should know what Islam's holy book calls for pertaining to infidels. It demands murder, torture, rape, and plunder of all infidels. It teaches that all who do not embrace this belief system will suffer and be meted out the cruelest of treatment, even death by beheading or stoning. The Koran teaches a holy war called a jihad.

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Excerpts from American Thinker:
The Missing Moderate Muslims

"I am already against the next war," read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe and the "moderate Muslims" are either actively supporting them, placing the blame on the West, or simply looking the other way. This war aims to wipe out everything that free people cherish, including the right of expressing their sentiments. Banishing war has been the perennial dream of mankind's best, while its worst have been frustrating its realization. To renounce war unilaterally and unconditionally is surrender and death.

"Humanity has suffered horrific wars in the past. Yet, the present multi-form and multi-front war waged by Islamists has the potential of inflicting more suffering and destroying more lives than any before it. Ruthless Islamic forces are advancing rapidly in their conquests while those of freedom are acquiescing and retreating. Before long, Islamism is poised to achieve its Allah-mandated goal of cleansing the earth of all non-Muslims. Any and all means and weapons are to be enlisted in the service of this final holy war that aims to establish the Islamic Ummeh." Full Article

Islam is the fasted growing religion in the word. People are born into the faith in countries where there are no other choices allowed.

As a nation under attack, we must ask many questions. Because Muslims believe in their book of faith, it is understandable why many people perceive the Koran as a manual for terrorism. It would also be reasonable to believe that only those who discarded a faith fettered upon them have become rational and peaceful people and eager to embrace the country that has given them a place to live and have their being. Indeed, one would think that they would be content and happily assimilated.

As long as practicing Muslims continue to believe in Islam's prophet and the book he put forth, they most likely are extremists at heart. There are too many living in our homeland who embraces terrorists groups. Thousands of Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, rally around Hezbollah. What's with that?

There are 7,000 plus in the area who are active members of the Bint Jbeil cultural center, a Lebanese American Heritage Club of Hezbollah supporters. The club is frequented by the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.

The war on terror must be seen as a fight for our own peaceful way of life. Islam, therefore, will need to reform in order to live side by side with Judeo-Christian believing Americans. When will true reform take place? One homegrown Jehadist is one too many.

We already have been warned by Al Qaeda what they have in store for our great nation. Believe what you hear from Osama Ben Laden's own lips. A fatwa entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans," is all you need to understand how serious matters have become.

Instructions to Muslims about Unbelievers from the Koran:

Koran 9:29
Fight those who do not profess the true faith (Islam) till they pay the jiziya (poll tax) with the hand of humility.
So here Prophet Mohammed is instructing a true Muslim to fight people of other religions until the unbelievers debase themselves and pay tax for their existence. So the greatness of Islam is revealed only when followers of other religions are humiliated.

Koran 8:12
Remember Thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the believers, I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips of them."
Here Mohammed is giving step by step instruction on how to torture and kill Kafirs if they don't follow Islam.

Koran 9:5
"Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolators wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful."
In the above verse Prophet Mohammed is clearly instructing his followers to kill the idolators in any brutal way possible until the idolators submit themselves to Islam. Allah is indeed merciful.

Koran 9:73
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their Home: an evil fate.
Here Mohammed is trying to justify his brutal acts. He conveniently claims divine justification for the expression of his hatred by saying Allah himself revealed to him personally that people of other religions are evil and belong in Hell. Therefore, according to Mohammed any barbaric act against the unbelievers is completely justified.

Koran 4:144
Believers, do not choose the unbelievers rather than the faithful as your friends. Would you give Allah a clear proof against yourselves?
This verse clearly states that a Muslim can only befreind a Muslim. Mohammed in order to ensure that his followers will not befriend and get influenced by people of other religions, revealed this verse. This verse illustrates that if a Muslim befriends a Non-Muslim than the wrath of Allah will be on him. Therefore in Islam, people of other religions should be treated with contempt, disrespect and cruelty. — The Koranic verses have been taken from works of Abdullah Yusuf Ali and N.J. Dawood (Koran verses )

Because our Constitution supports freedom of religion, we must be extremely prudent and cautious. Unfortunately, if another attack takes place in the United States, we will demand surveillance of all mosques by our government.

Just asking — radical Islamism or Islam?

As a nation under attack, we must ask many questions. Because Muslims believe in their book of faith, it is understandable why many people perceive the Koran as a manual for terrorism. It would also be reasonable to believe that only those who discarded a faith fettered upon them have become rational and peaceful people and eager to embrace the country that has given them a place to live and have their being. Indeed, one would think that they would be content and happily assimilated.
Related Readings:

Islam's Global War against Christianity
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First Muslim Democrat congressman excites crowd in "Hezbollah City" USA, a.k.a. Dearborn,
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Michigan Terrorists training in North America
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Islam studies required in California district
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A San Diego school adjusts its schedule to accommodate Muslim worship                        CLICK HERE

 

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Murdering Freedom | The Brussels Journal

"Last week, the Italian interior minister, Giuliano Amato, hosted a conference in Rome on “Islam and Integration.” Italy, one of Europe’s southern border states, has 1 million Muslims out of a population of 58 million people. Illegal immigrants arrive in Italy in huge numbers. According to a recent survey, the country could count almost 7 million Muslims by the end of the next decade.

The Italians, however, have a way of dealing with illegal immigrants. They regularly transform them into legal residents by granting them official papers. Since 1988 Italy has organized six amnesties for illegal aliens — the last one in 2006, when 500,000 people were given permission to stay. Most of them leave Italy shortly afterward. Since Italy belongs to the European Union and since the EU adheres to the principle of the free movement of persons, an amnesty gives immigrants the right to freely enter all EU member states. Italy allows the immigrants in so that they move out, to EU nations with more generous welfare systems."

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An Inconvenient Issue: Illegal Immigration & The GOP

"The GOP leadership is waking up to a persistent reality, and it’s one that has fundraisers and strategists at the RNC up at night. Conservatives, the core constituency of the Republican Party are irate. Far from a passing hobbyhorse, the illegal immigration issue has galvanized Republican voters like no single issue in recent memory, and conservatives are refusing to let it go.

The Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill, backed by the President and pushed by the GOP establishment was more than a mere legislative miscalculation, is was the straw that broke the conservatives’ back. Moreover, to listen to conservatives, it wasn’t merely the legislation itself, but the strategy used by those trying to sell the bill. Conservatives are hopping mad at what they regard as unparalleled arrogance on the part of their Party’s own leadership - arrogance that has rank and file Republicans digging in their heals, and vowing to go all the way in their efforts to defeat anyone associated with the bill."

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More cases of terrorists 'baking' children cited By Bob Unruh

"Although the recent WND report of al-Qaida terrorists allegedly baking a young boy and serving him as a meal to his relatives was too horrific for some to believe, a major Christian ministry is citing another example – and also claims such a practice has its roots in the historical stories of Islam.

The issue has come into focus following a report from Michael Yon, a Special Forces soldier now in Iraq to report on the successes there. He told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt he was inspired by a 'news cycle that seems to pander toward the terrorists.' "

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Blacks, Banks and "Institutional Racism"::By Larry Elder

"As I drove through the city of Los Angeles on a lovely day, I listened to an interview on National Public Radio. I heard something disturbing. The NPR host interviewed a lawyer with the NAACP who said that he had filed a lawsuit against several banks.

Studies show, said the lawyer, that mortgage lenders charge black home loan borrowers higher rates of interest when compared with white borrowers. Even where whites and blacks have identical financial profiles, according to the lawyer, banks still charge blacks higher rates of interest. "

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How Labor Rules::By Robert D. Novak

"Ignoring pleas from outraged South American governments, Democratic leadership of the House this week was adamant about Congress going into its August recess without taking action on free trade agreements with Peru and Panama as promised. Instead, two senior Democratic House members appear determined to travel to those two rare Latin American friends of the United States, to hector them into passing domestic legislation as a prerequisite for approving already negotiated bilateral trade pacts.

Why did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi renege on her previous commitment? She dances to the tune of AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, who preaches outright protectionism. Hostility toward not only the Peru and Panama pacts but also a vital agreement with Colombia can be traced to influence on U.S. unions by South America's leftist labor leaders, originating in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela. "

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Recognition for the Silent Jewish Refugees By Andrew G. Bostom

"The bicameral Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) will hold a landmark hearing on Thursday July 19th regarding the hundreds of thousands of Jews forced to flee their communities in the Arab Muslim nations as a result of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Oriental Jews suffered profound violations of their basic human rights under the Islamic regimes throughout North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf Region.

This persecution -- including pogroms and expropriations -- caused their subsequent flight despite longtime residences in these countries. The two decades following World War II witnessed a rapid dissolution of the major Jewish communities in the Arab Muslim world (and beyond, including Afghanistan, as well as the significant attrition of the Jewish population in Turkey). Even the first decade after World War II saw a reduction by half in the overall Jewish population of the Arab countries. "

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Democratic Death Wish By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.

"It looks like a death wish to me. The Democrats' recent all-night debate to confect legislation for pulling our troops out of Iraq immediately if not sooner suggests that they are, en masse, afflicted with a death wish -- and if their retreat gets more of our troops killed while transforming Iraq into bloody anarchy, they do not seem to care. Hysteria has seized them. Not long ago most of them were prepared to give General David Petraeus's new strategy a chance. After all, the Senate returned him to Iraq by an 81 to 0 vote. Now the Democrats want the general to begin a retreat even before tendering his agreed upon September report -- a death wish, I say."

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An Insider's View of the Holy Land Foundation Trial by Nicholas Van Zandt

"The future of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America and the North American Islamic Trust, and other Islamic “charities” could depend upon the trial playing out right now in Texas. These unindicted co-conspirators could be the next to follow the Holy Land Foundation into a courtroom…if that organization is found guilty of providing material support to Hamas. "

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The epic narcissism of Cindy Sheehan By Niall Stanage

"Even the American left's netroots are getting tired of Cindy Sheehan. It's a shame it took them so long.

Sheehan, the epic narcissist who became the face of the anti-war movement, has been banned from posting any further entries on Daily Kos, arguably the most influential of all liberal blogs in the US.

The Kossacks have pulled the plug on Sheehan because of her threat to challenge the speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, for her congressional seat.
Sheehan has said she will decide on July 23 whether to go ahead with her attempt to oust Pelosi - who is, incidentally, about as liberal as congressional Democrats get - from her San Francisco district. 'Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership,' Sheehan recently proclaimed with her customary certitude."

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TWISTING INTEL By RALPH PETERS

"DEMOCRATS on Capitol Hill have complained for years that the White House 'cherry-picks' intelligence. Yesterday, that's exactly what the Dems did themselves with the just-declassified summary of a National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism.

While preparing for their congressional pajama party Tuesday night (D.C. escort services reportedly had a slow evening), the Dems showed once again that, as wretched as the Bush administration can be, it remains a safer bet in the Age of Terror.

The Dems want to have it both ways. They claim we're not fighting al Qaeda. Then they insist we abandon Iraq to al Qaeda.

And, as a capper, no leading Democrat praised our military when it was revealed yesterday that we captured the senior Iraqi in al Qaeda, Khaled al-Mashhadani. Wouldn't want any good news reaching the voters . . . "

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The Enemy That Must Not Be Named :: Foehammer's Anvil

From journalist Paul Kelly comes an outstanding editorial that has many good insights, ‘An Enemy In Belief’, although some parts I do not think are expounded upon enough, nor do I always agree (my comments abound), and I encourage you to read it all, as well as the mentioned Robert E. Kaplan article (linked below). With much thanks to Australian Anvil regular Gramfan for pointing these articles out:

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The Bosnian Connection by Brendan O’Neill

In a recent Vanity Fair feature, Christopher Hitchens bemoaned the transformation of London into “Londonistan.” He wrote about Finsbury Park, a shabby, multicultural corner of the capital, where the old sights of Irish immigrants staggering from dingy pubs and Greeks trying to hawk kebabs have been replaced by young Muslim men sporting beards and women cloaked in the black hijab.

Then there is the notorious Finsbury Park mosque. Abu Hamza al-Masri, the hook-handed, one-eyed former Mujahi-deen of the Afghan-Soviet War, was the imam there until his arrest and imprisonment in 2006 for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. The 7/7 bombers were inspired by Hamza’s rancid rhetoric. Other visitors to the mosque included Richard Reid, the failed shoe-bomber, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the French-Moroccan found guilty of being the “20th hijacker” of 9/11.

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What Motivates Morning Sedition? :: Gates of Vienna

Dymphna and I live in the back of beyond. As a matter of fact, we have to drive about fifteen miles to get to the back of beyond. From there it’s still quite a hike to actual civilization.
So, back before the internet, our primary source of information was beamed into our home by the powerful state-supported transmitters of public radio. That is, we had to get most of our news from — ugh! — NPR.
We developed an amusing family terminology to help us bear up under the load of what we listened to. “Morning Edition” became “Morning Sedition”, and the Saturday version was “Weakened Condition.” We awaited with a special frisson of distaste the commentary dished out by people like Daniel Schorr.

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Part I: Waiting for War in the Shards of Shattered Illusions - Israel News Analysis by Ruvy in Jerusalem

On Sunday, 15 July 2007, Israel installed her ninth state president, Shim'on Peres. Yediot Ahronot, on the front page of its Sunday edition (the Friday edition of the newspaper is the weekend edition here - the Sunday paper is analogous to the Monday edition elsewhere), carried a photo of Peres, presumably taking the oath of office, with the Hebrew headline, yomó hagadól (his big day). Congratulations poured in from throughout the world, from the American president to the pope on his accession to what is likely his final role in the history of the country. But while for Shim'on Peres, it was a big day, for the rest of us in Israel, it was just one more day being cut by the shards of shattered illusions.

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'Sicko' On Life Support :: IBD

Moviegoers who were urged to "send a message" by seeing Michael Moore's "Sicko" have stayed away in droves. Now the film that was supposed to spark a health care revolution is barely breathing.

Few movies have gotten as much free advance publicity as "Sicko." Seemingly endless media coverage predicted it would change the terms of the health care debate, galvanize a public sick of the nation's broken health care system, bust down industry roadblocks to real reform. The New York Times said the movie "was likely to have broad political impact."

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Political Correctness Continues Support of Terrorist Factions Against West By Sher Zieve

On 6 June 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered one of the most arguably powerful prayer speeches in history given by an American president. Over Radio, Roosevelt’s speech was given as allied forces comprised of Americans, Brits and Canadians battled valiantly on the beaches of Normandy. This was D-Day in World War II. If the same speech were given today, in an ACLU and terrorist-accepting (if not terrorist-friendly) society, current presidents—most specifically Republican presidents—would be vilified. As a matter of fact, President George W. Bush has already been soundly denounced by the media and those who would placate the opponents of humankind for one word he used to describe a campaign against these enemies of humanity.

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The Lake Effect :: New York Sun Editorial

Those who want to comprehend the import of the new National Intelligence Estimate on the terrorist threat have two choices. They can look at the dispatch by our Eli Lake on page one of yesterday's Sun, which reported its conclusion that one of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils meets regularly in eastern Iran. Or they can go with the version being retailed by the official briefer of the press, Ted Gistaro, who, when asked about Mr. Lake's report yesterday, went out of his way to mumble something about how he didn't know anything about it.

Our advice is go with Mr. Lake. One of the hottest potatoes in the intelligence community right now is the gathering evidence that not only is Iran operating against us in Iraq but that leaders of Al Qaeda are operating against us from inside Iran. This is not information anyone is eager to put his or her name to, lest they get accused of ginning up support for a war. We'll leave it to those in a higher pay grade to decide whether there ought to be a war. But Mr. Lake's assignment is to cut to the facts, and the fact is that our intelligence community has concluded that Al Qaeda leaders are operating inside Iran.

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DeportThemNow.com By Michelle Malkin

My fellow Americans, we have a problem. We spend billions of dollars on homeland security, but our government can't even track and deport convicted criminal aliens. These are not the well-meaning "newcomers" who just want to "pursue economic opportunities" by "doing the jobs no one else will do." These are foreign-born thugs, sex offenders, murderers and repeat drunk drivers who are destroying the American Dream.

If our immigration and entrance system cannot effectively monitor, detain and kick out convicted criminal aliens -- including illegal border-crossers, illegal visa overstayers, fugitive deportees, and green card holders who have committed serious crimes and aggravated felonies -- what good is it?

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The "war on terror," brought to you by Lyndon Johnson by Lawrence Auster

According to an absorbingly interesting article in the July 16 New York Times (which for once I actually purchased and read on paper), the U.S. has a five-year, $750 million program aimed at--get your Digitalis out--raising living standards in the mountainous region of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan, where the Taliban and al Qaeda are centered. It is one of the most backward, primitive, dangerous, and Islamo-intensive areas of the world, and we think that spending money on water treatment, hospitals, roads, and schools will make the people in that area more resistant to Islamic extremism. The area is so wild and lawless that the Pakistan government has virtually no sway there, and even the people involved in designing the program fear that most of the money will just go to enriching local warlords. But we're doing it anyway.

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The new Stalins must be kept in check By Alex Goldfarb

As Britain awaits Russia's retaliation for the expulsion of four of its diplomats, all the talk is of a return to the Cold War.

No wonder. The Russian handling of the Litvinenko affair seems familiar in its madness. Despite being caught practically red-handed performing an act of nuclear terrorism in their ally's capital, the Russians took the confrontational path.

They have obstructed investigation, conjured propaganda campaigns accusing MI6 of the murder and snubbed the British by calling their legal representations "foolishness".

What should Britain do in response to such unpredictability? Should it keep telling Russia that it is not in anyone's interests to escalate the crisis? Let the diplomatic salvoes subside and close the whole episode, with so many billions at stake on both sides?

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War Footing by Monica Crowley

The religion of  “peace” strikes again.  Over the past week, three stories have demonstrated once again what current Islam is all about, and “peace,” it isn’t.
First, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Islamic militants laid siege to the central Red Mosque, using it as a base of terrorist operations.  Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ordered the militants to leave the mosque compound, or, he said, “you will die.”  When they refused, he ordered the Special Services Group commandos to remove them by force.  When the battle had ended, over 100 people lay dead, including the militants’ leader, pro-Taliban cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi, and hundreds of weapons had been seized, including automatic firearms, mines, grenades, and booby traps.

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ICNA’s Overseas Ties and Lies By Joe Kaufman

“Islamic Circle of North America is a U.S. based Islamic organization. We have no relations – no links – to any organization or any country outside the United States.” These were the words of Naeem Baig, the Secretary General of ICNA, after a July 8th protest was held outside the center where ICNA and the Muslim American Society (MAS) were celebrating their 32nd Annual Convention. It was nothing more than a lie from a desperate individual attempting to cover-up his group’s terrorist connections.

The protest calling on the United States to freeze ICNA’s funds and to place Jamaat-e-Islami on the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations went on as planned. As well, the protest brought attention to bigoted and violent statements made by MAS and ICNA’s youth wing, Young Muslims. Outside the Connecticut Convention Center, in Hartford, Connecticut, signs read “SHUT ICNA DOWN,” “ICNA: DONOR TO HAMAS,” “JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI, THE ICNA-HAMAS CONNECTION,” “YOUNG MUSLIMS, YOUNG HAMAS” and “MAS: Anti-Christian, Anti-Jew, Pro-Terror, Pro-Hamas.”

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Citizen Journalism Part 2, Localized News - Buffalo Rising and PerthNorg by Richard MacManus

In our introductory post on Citizen Journalism (CJ), we reviewed Newsvine - an innovative and well-designed citizen journalism web site. In this post we'll review two examples of 'localized' CJ: Buffalo Rising (Buffalo, New York) and PerthNorg (Perth, West Australia). A note for our Canadian readers: NowPublic is coming in a future post :-)

Buffalo Rising is a colorful CJ site run by a company called Hyperlocal Media. Their motto is "Local matters", which tells you a lot about their focus. Buffalo Rising is described as using "hyperlocal content produced by a team of contributors to market the city to itself--to remind people why they live there." They cover Buffalo, the second largest city in New York - which has a population of 250,000. Buffalo Rising has 7,000 registered users, they get a little over 24,000 visits every weekday and serve 250,000+ pages/weekday. Since their redesign in February, Buffalo Rising has had around 10% month over month growth.

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The New McCarthyism: Lefty Witchhunt Against MinuteMan's Appointment to Parks Board By Debbie Schlussel

"Welcome to the new McCarthyism (with apologies to Senator McCarthy, who was somewhat right about many in Hollywood who truly hated America).

If you are for secure borders and don't like illegal alien criminals running rampant all over our country, you will be the object of the new witch hunts.

Take Frances Semler. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the 73-year-old woman was appointed by Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Mark Funkhouser to serve on the city's Parks and Recreation board."

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HLF’s P.R. Blitz: “Islamophobia” and Apple Pie By By Steven Emerson :: Counterterrorism Blog

"Yesterday, jury selection began in the largest terrorism financing case in U.S. history, against alleged Hamas-front group, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).

Yesterday also witnessed the launch of the defense’s public strategy, a dual-track approach consisting of self-appointed Muslim leaders (in this instance, many are implicated in the case themselves, as the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] was named as an un-indicted co-conspirator), and some in the media, claiming the prosecution is “Islamophobic,” while family members of the defendants wrap themselves in the American flag.

In today’s New York Times, Neil MacFarquhar, parroting the tactic of Islamist organizations like CAIR and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), pretends to speak for all American Muslims, writing:"

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Not Their Finest Hour By Lisa Fabrizio

"Sir Winston Churchill once said, 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' Although he did indeed write, as well as make, much history, it will be of no avail to him personally now that he has been dropped from the official list of persons required for study by English school students from the ages of 11 to 14.

In an effort to improve the minds of their youth, in lieu of studying the man who was dubbed 'The Greatest Briton of Them All' in a 2002 BBC poll, they will instead concentrate on 'debt management, the environment and healthy eating.' That's right. One of the men most responsible for English still being spoken in England is to be shunted into the dustbin of schoolroom history in favor of more time to teach the kiddies about the evils of global warming and red meat. "

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The Iraq War is Over by Scott Malensek

"Yep, the Iraq War is over…the political war. Sure, people will still fight and die in Iraq, but that will continue long after Americans leave regardless of whether the current surge in operations is a success or if there is genocide. Killing in Iraq is irrelevant to the bigger, more important, strategic, political war.

It is a tragic and disgusting fact of asymmetric warfare – like in Iraq – that today 3-5 American soldiers will be killed and as many as 100 Iraqis will die. No one likes to see the killing. No one wants to be killed or lose a friend or loved one, but death in Iraq doesn’t determine the outcome of the war. Politics decides that, and the outcome of the war as decided by politicians is what will determine if millions die in post-occupation genocide or if the Iraqi government is stabilized so that a 3rd invasion of Iraq isn’t necessary.

It’s true that Americans might die in Iraq in the pursuit of success there, but military forces can only create conditions for political success; conditions where one nation can impose its political will upon another (the definition of war). Military forces fight battles, politicians determine if wars are won or lost and it’s much easier to surrender than to fight.

Last week, the House of Representatives called for retreat from a battlefield with Al Qaeda. For those who politically oppose the war, there are really two camps:"

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Squaring Off Against Islam by Burt Prelutsky

"Some people used to refer to Ronald Reagan as the Teflon president because no matter how much mud his political foes threw at him, nothing stuck. That was because he was so much wiser, more principled, charming and charismatic, than his left-wing detractors.

These days, those who seem to come equipped with Teflon are the world’s Islamics. What’s so mystifying about this is that they share none of Reagan’s finer qualities. Theirs is a religion which calls for the domination of all others, and yet the majority of Christians, Jews, atheists and agnostics, continue treating them with the utmost respect and sensitivity. Frankly, I don’t think it’s even appreciated. Instead, I believe it’s perceived as fear and cowardice.

Although Muslims are committing acts of barbarism all over the globe, our leaders continue paying lip service to the followers of Allah. These people blow up trains, planes and pizza parlors, and the British prime minister orders his cabinet members never to use the term “Islamic terrorists,” while our own president and secretary of state feel compelled to keep reminding us that Islam is a religion of peace. Funny how often they need to keep reminding us. When is the last time that anybody needed to be told that Buddhism, for instance, or Shintoism is a religion of peace? Do we require constant reassurance that the Amish mean to do us no harm? But, then, when’s the last time that a Buddhist blew up a busload of children?"

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Stopping the presses, permanently By Joseph Farah

Having just authored a book called "Stop the Presses! The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution," I could hardly have asked for a more timely plug from BusinessWeek magazine.

Its July 24 issue will feature a column titled "When Do You Stop The Presses?" – which, not surprisingly, by the time you read this, has been available online for a solid week.

The column by Jon Fine asks the question: "Which major American newspaper should be the first to throw up its hands and stop publishing a print product?"

Why is he asking?

"This could be the worst year for newspapers since the Great Depression," he explains. "The double-digit revenue declines long forecast by doomsters have arrived. While nearly all the major papers still post profits, albeit smaller than before, a few prominent ones are losing boatloads."

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Hillary calls claim of felony 'fantasy' By Art Moore

Sen. Hillary Clinton's legal team denies a "smoking gun video" captures the New York Democrat and her campaign in the act of committing a felony, calling the assertion "pure fantasy" and "much ado about nothing."

As WND reported, the tape of a July 17, 2000, phone call was submitted as evidence to a California appeals court last month in a civil fraud suit by business mogul Peter Franklin Paul against the New York Democrat and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. WND reported in April that Paul charged the tape shows Sen. Clinton – despite denials throughout six years of investigation – taking an active role in the production of a lavish Hollywood fundraiser in August 2000 that eventually cost him nearly $2 million.

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Time to find out what's going on down at your local mosque By Dave Gaubatz

I want to make one point crystal clear: mainstream Islam is a peaceful religion that deserves the respect of all Americans. It has a proud history and many of the people who follow its beliefs here in the United States are hardworking, patriotic citizens.

My professional career has required me to learn Arabic and to spend many years in the Middle East, developing human intelligence to learn who, what, where, and how the terrorists want to kill Americans and destroy our nation.

The first thing I learned was that the political ideology of winning over the West and the world for an Islamic Caliphate is NOT specific to some extremist group of Muslims. This is mainstream Islam and Shari’a. Historical, traditional and authoritative Islamic law mandates every Muslim to work to that end through personal development (or internalized Jihad), and outreach (or dawa), and external Jihad or war.

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Author claims anti-war groups gave material support to terrorists Chad Groening

A New York Times best-selling author says members of the supposed "peace movement" delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and supplies to terrorists engaged in a bloody street battle against United States Marines in Iraq.

The latest book by Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson (U.S. Air Force-Ret.) is called War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror. In the book, he claims that two anti-war groups -- "United for Peace & Justice" and "CODEPINK: Women for Peace" -- literally gave aid and comfort to terrorists when they delivered $600,000 in cash and supplies they claim was humanitarian aid to civilians.

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I Respectfully Disagree with Peggy by David Limbaugh

While I've had strong policy disagreements with President Bush, I am unafraid to say I am still grateful he is commander in chief at a time when more and more people are losing sight of the big picture in the global war against Islamist terrorists.
It is difficult even for the most hawkish not to be dispirited by the unrelenting negativity against the war by Democrats and the mainstream media, especially since it has gone on longer than we'd hoped.
It's important that those who have realistically assessed the almost-inevitably devastating consequences of our precipitous withdrawal from Iraq resist the seductive pressure to jeopardize our long-term security in exchange for the quick-fix withdrawal option.

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DARK AGES OF BROADCASTING By: Frederick Meekins

Don Imus’ comments that the Rutger’s ladies basketball team were a bunch of tattooed nappy-headed hoes might not have been the kindest thing to say about these athletes, though one must note the claim has not been entirely refuted as interestingly in appearances before the press the players have decided to conceal themselves behind jumpsuits so the American people can’t determine for themselves whether or not the team at least merits the tattooed classification. However, the response to these remarks, especially on the part of renowned rabblerousers such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, has gone far beyond the momentary discombobulation such a guffaw might elicit from more balanced people.

Not content to enjoy his victory, Al Sharpton now seeks to enshrine himself in a position as some kind of grand inquisitor with power greater than any elected office as from such a station there would be little way for the American people to drive him from his position of power as Sharpton plans to “...have a broad discussion about what is and is not permitted in terms of the airwaves.”

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Belabor the Point JOHN FUND

The new Democratic Congress has finally found a government agency whose budget It wants to cut: an obscure Labor Department office that monitors the compliance of unions with federal law.

In the past six years, the Office of Labor Management Standards, or OLMS, has helped secure the convictions of 775 corrupt union officials and court-ordered restitution to union members of over $70 million in dues. The House is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to chop 20% from the OLMS budget. Every other Labor Department enforcement agency is due for a budget increase, and overall the Congress has added $935 million to the Bush administration's budget request for Labor. The only office the Democrats want to cut back is the one engaged in union oversight.

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Why Bush Will Be a Winner :: Conservatism With Heart

Support for Bush is non-existent among liberals and weak among many Conservatives. I've had to endure "so-called" Conservative blogs that have Ron Paul videos on them comparing Bush to Hitler, the Townhall cartoon page being full of Conservative cartoonists making fun of Bush and numerous abandonments of Bush over immigration. As I've taken all of this in I've been stubborn in my support for Bush. I may not agree with him on all the issues but he has done too many awesome things during his Presidency to deserve the treatment that he now receives.

Through all of this the list of names I have been called is endless. I have been called a whore, an idiot and gotten a death wish all for my support of Bush. I realize its a very unpopular view to take right now, that doesn't make it any less right. So when I stumbled upon Bill Kristol's latest column in the Washington Post, entitled, Why Bush Will Be a Winner, it was nice to see someone else seeing the bigger picture. My take has always been that history will view George W. Bush much more favorably than the polls do now and that is exactly what Kristol points out. Here are his 3 main points that he spends the whole article backing up:

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'Jihad will destroy us if we don't act now' :: Ed West

Academics don’t write books with titles like The Truth About Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades) without expecting some harsh criticism, and Robert Spencer has heard it all.
“The major death threat came from Adam Gadahn of al-Qaeda,” he says. In a September 2006 video Gadahn invited Spencer and various other “Zionist crusader missionaries of hate and counter-Islam consultants” to “abandon their unbelief and repent and enter into the light of Islam and turn their swords against the enemies of God”.
That is, in the gang mentality of fundamentalist Islam, an offer you can’t refuse. “The problem is, inviting me to join up is a veiled threat in itself,” Spencer explains. “According to traditional Islamic law, the invitation to Islam, if refused, becomes a mandate to wage war against the one who refuses.”

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Balkanization of America Accelerating By Frosty Wooldridge

A hundred years ago, President Teddy Roosevelt said, "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing as a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."

Following that wisdom, the USA immigrated 175,000 people annually from compatible countries from 1924 through 1964. They assimilated by speaking English and became a part of our fabric of life. They met the criteria for religion, culture and similarities with America.

In 1965, Senator Teddy Kennedy committed the greatest act against the continuation of America by stealth introduction and passage of the Immigration Reform Act that countered Roosevelt's wisdom. From 175,000 compatible immigrants annually, he added a "human Tsunami" of one million people from the four corners of the globe--annually. They included people from third and fourth world cultures still living in grass huts, those who never saw a toilet or water from a spigot, ethnic-strife-ridden countries and religions totally at odds with America which maintained Christianity as its major religion for 231 years. At that point, the Balkanization of America began.

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The Objective of the Propagandist :: Gates of Vienna

Knowing that we would be interested, a reader recently sent us a an article entitled, “A Broader Conceptualization of Islam and Terrorism” by J. Keith Akins. It can be found here (in pdf format), as a part of Issue 45 (2nd Quarter 2007) of Joint Force Quarterly, which is published by the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) under the aegis of National Defense University.
Mr. Akins’ article makes excellent reading. It is a thorough and well-documented overview of 21st century jihad terrorism as it is practiced all over the world, not only by Al Qaeda, but by all the loosely-connected radical groups which are found wherever Muslims live.
The current manifestation of Great Jihad, which I call the Third Wave, is largely waged as form of a fourth-generation warfare. On page 67 of his article, referring to Insurgency and Terrorism: Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare by Bard E. O’Neill, Mr. Akins writes:

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The Education of Bill O’Reilly :: Hot Air

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Once There were Heroes By Lars Walker

A little while back, somebody quoted a line from T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to me. I was thinking what a marvelously prissy name "J. Alfred Prufrock" is, and then it struck me -- how the heck did a name like "Alfred" slide to a place where it evokes images of skinny gentlemen ("But how his arms and legs are thin!") with weak chins and pince nez?

To a guy like me, who spends a lot of weekends as a hobby reenactor, dressing up as a Viking and whacking (and being whacked) with blunt swords, the name Alfred has very different associations. Alfred (c. 849-899) is the only Anglo-Saxon king to whom we apply the descriptive "the Great." A mighty and shrewd warrior, he prevented the subjugation of his country by the Danes (known to us reenactors as "our guys"), forcing them to accept Christian baptism and the partition of the country after whomping them at the Battle of Edington.

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Preventing the West from Understanding Jihad By Walid Phares

In the years that followed 9/11, two phenomena characterized the Western public's understanding of the terrorists' ideology. The first characteristic stemmed from the statements made by the jihadists themselves. More than ever, Islamist militants and jihadi cadres didn't waste any opportunity to declare, clarify, explain, and detail the meaning of their aqida (doctrine) and their intentions to apply Jihadism by all means possible. Unfortunately for them, though, those extremely violent means changed the international public opinion: the public now was convinced that there was an ideology of Jihadism, and that its adherents meant business worldwide.

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The Creep of a Crisis By George Handlery

Bad news share a feature: today’s festering sores began as neglected pickles. An issue that might upset Europe in the future flows from a casually committed earlier global error. Colonial empires and the treaties ending the world wars have created states with artificial boundaries. These deals ignored the foundations of good and stable settlements: these leave all parties relatively satisfied. A stable state has consenting inhabitants have reasons see it as representing them. It helps if the populace is ethnically, by faith and culture homogenous. Ignoring this created contemporary problems such as in Iraq and Africa. Recent symptoms include the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia (actually a Greater Serbia) and the still fermenting issue of Kosovo. Historically, the origins of the world wars were states seen as prisons by their subjects and the territorial rivalries this fueled.

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The Threat From Sino-America By Dave Kopel

In June, Costa Rica ended nearly sixty years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan in order to establish diplomatic relations with China. Not only a victory in Beijing's efforts to smother Taiwan's independence, the Costa Rican switch is further evidence of China's growing influence in Latin America—a growing threat to democracy and to U.S. interests.

Announcing the diplomatic switch, Costa Rican president Oscar Arias cited a desire to strengthen commercial ties and "attract investment" from China. Arias then thanked Taiwan for its "solidarity and co-operation" over the last sixty years, noting that Taiwan has been "very generous."

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The Patriot’s Dream and The American Spirit by Curtis J. Wright

“Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

In today’s America, such words spoken by a public advocate or elected official would render one labeled as a “political radical”.

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government”.

In today’s America, such words spoken by a public advocate or elected official would render one labeled as a “threat to national security”.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”

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We’re Celebrating—and Planned Parenthood Knows Why by Jim Sedlak

For the last week, we here at American Life League have been celebrating the enactment of a law in Missouri that deals, in part, with human sexuality education in schools. The specific wording in the new law that has us in a joyous mood is:
No school district or charter school, or its personnel or agents, shall provide abortion services, or permit a person or entity to offer, sponsor, or furnish in any manner any course materials or instruction relating to human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases to its students if such person or entity is a provider of abortion services.
These words will block Planned Parenthood from being able to come into Missouri schools with its sex education programs. It cannot even provide its pamphlets or brochures for use in the schools. Thus, this new law shuts off a major means Planned Parenthood uses to get to Missourians’ children.

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A Habitable World? By MARK STEYN

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, is it because Al Gore and a bunch of elderly rockers organized an all-star stadium gala on its behalf? The colossal flopperoo of Live Earth is a heartening reminder that there are some things too ridiculous even for global pop culture, and one of them is the Reverend Almer Gortry speaking truth to power ballads.

Why did so few people feel the urge to rock against climate change? Touchingly enough, the organizers put it down to the weather. Dismal TV ratings? "The BBC blamed the poor figures on Saturday's good weather." Sluggish ticket sales for the live events? "Organisers of Live Earth Johannesburg are convinced climate change is to blame for the paltry turn-out at the Coca Cola Dome today. Promoter John Langford claims it snowed last week for the first time in a quarter of a century, and the freezing conditions are keeping people away." Too hot to stay in and watch it on TV, too freezing to go out and watch it in person: clearly, climate change is rampaging out of control.

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Ruben Navarrette: Racism Is "Straight Talk" And An "Accurate Description" When Americans Are The Target By Rob Sanchez

Columnist Ruben Navarrette’s op-ed titled When work isn’t a priority, [July 8, 2007] defends Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in response to one of my newsletters :Elaine Chao: American workers stink and have bad attitudes No. 1721—July 2, 2007.

The controversy began with the publication of a Parade Magazine interview of Elaine Chao titled “How Safe is Your Job?”. [By Lyric Wallwork Winik, July 1, 2007 ]] Chao, herself an immigrant from China, was quoted criticizing American workers in scathingly dismissive terms:.

"American employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal hygiene," says Chao. "They need anger-management and conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction. Too many young people bristle when a supervisor asks them to do something."

After reading that Chao quote, there are plenty of you who might need to enroll in one of those classes.

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Is Powerline approaching its own Peggy Noonan moment? by Lawrence Auster

While the general raison d'etre of Powerline has been proximity to the powerful (it isn't called "Power-line" for nothing), its specific raison d'etre has been the care and protection of President Bush. On the rare occasions when the three neocon attorneys who author the site have disagreed with their man, as in the case of the recent immigration bill, they've done so in a restrained and regretful way. But now get this. Concerning a speech the Decider gave Monday on the Israeli-Palestinian process, Scott of Powerline writes:

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Memo to Pentagon: China is not a 'People's Republic' and Hu Jintao is not a president By Lev Navrozov

The Pentagon (the U.S. Department of Defense) began to produce its “annual reports to Congress on the military power of the People’s Republic of China” in 2002, and so its report of 2007 is its sixth.

First, take note that the dictatorship in China is ingratiatingly referred to by the U.S. Department of Defense as “the People’s Republic of China.”

Marx, Lenin, and Mao defined this “form of government” as the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” and Lenin stated that one person (such as Lenin) could impersonate the proletariat. But today, after Hitler, “dictatorship” and “dictator” are bad words, while the U.S. Department of Defense uses only those words which the dictators of China would like and which would help the people of the United States and other non-dictatorships to believe that no dictatorship in China exists. Quite on the contrary, China is “the People’s [Democratic?] Republic” [!].

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Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq By CHARLES J. HANLEY

The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles.

The Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a video console 7,000 miles away in Nevada.

The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones, in aviation history's first robot attack squadron, will be a watershed moment even in an Iraq that has seen too many innovative ways to hunt and kill.

That moment, one the Air Force will likely low-key, is expected "soon," says the regional U.S. air commander. How soon? "We're still working that," Lt. Gen. Gary North said in an interview.

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The Anti-Islamist Manifesto by Selwyn Duke

Perhaps some of you have seen the document titled, “Manifesto: Together Facing a New Totalitarianism,” which is being disseminated widely on the Web. Originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, of Mohammed cartoon fame, it’s a vow to resist Islamism signed by 12 individuals hailed as “brave intellectuals.” I read it, and while I have no idea whether or not the signatories are brave, their musings certainly illustrate why modern intellectuals are sorely lacking in intellectualism.
The proclamation’s primary flaw is evident in the first two sentences:
“After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism. We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.” [emphasis mine]

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Congressman Keith Ellison Compares Bush To Hitler

America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.

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Al Gore's Whine: What Really Happened on the Mall By John Berlau

Now it's official. Global warming alarmism has indeed "jumped the shark", as revealed by the dismal failure of the Live Earth concerts to galvanize the general public. In particular, the puny turnout in Washington, DC, where Gore himself personally showed up, has proved an acute embarrassment.

But although Al Gore's Live Earth concerts have failed in the ratings, he appears to have partially succeeded at doing what does best: shifting blame for his woes to his political opponents and getting the media to go along. Since last weekend, the Net has been abuzz with stories of how Gore overcame Republicans who allegedly did everything they could to stop the concert from being performed on Washington's National Mall.

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UK al Qaeda bomb plot investigation extends to… Toledo, Ohio BY Douglas J. Hagmann

The Northeast Intelligence Network was first to confirm during the June 30, 2007 edition of the Homeland Security Report that last month’s failed London car bomb plot had its tentacles reaching far into the United States. Now, NBC24, a television station in Toledo, Ohio is reporting that the FBI has questioned a Muslim doctor who recently moved to Toledo from the UK. Toledo also happens to be the corporate home of KindHearts for Charitable Humanitarian Development, an Islamic charity chaired by Hatem El-HADY, a Toledo physician, and a charity that has been the subject of an investigation for its reported ties to terror organizations.

The Toledo doctor was questioned by the FBI on July 4, 2007, less than a week after the failed bomb plot in London. According to information obtained through additional investigation conducted by the Northeast Intelligence Network, authorities are focused on a number of subjects in the U.S., including Muslim doctors, and others in the Toledo area who are also associated with a specific Toledo, Ohio mosque. When contacted by this agency, a spokesperson for the mosque declined to speak with this Northeast Intelligence Network investigator.

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If You Support Terrorism in Any Way You Are a Terrorist! By 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.

▪ If you harbor terrorists, you are a terrorist.
▪ If you assist with the arming and or training of terrorists, you are a terrorist.
▪ If you provide logistical or financial support for terror activities, you are a terrorist.
▪ If you work against those who are trying to hunt, capture or kill terrorists, you are a terrorist.

Terrorism is defined in general terms as the use of violence or the threat thereof, specifically aimed against unsuspecting civilian targets, for the purpose of coercing entire societies by way of fear, for political purposes. In short, it’s the use of extreme violence against defenseless targets in an effort to force an extreme agenda upon the masses through death, destruction and fear.

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The Muslim Congressman and the Constitution by Robert Spencer

Upon assuming office, United States Congressmen swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is on the job, zeroing in on a large-scale plan to subvert the Constitution, led by none other than George W. Bush. Speaking last week in Minnesota to a meeting of a group called Atheists for Human Rights, Ellison said of September 11: “It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”

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Western Civilization and its Discontents: Part 1 By Stephen W. Browne

The fact that a great many of the most privileged members of our country and our civilization hate and resent it is beyond dispute. Their words and, more importantly, their actions give them away no matter how much they protest. An observer from the hypothetical "man from Mars" point of view would have to consider this seriously weird, if not insane. Why on earth would people who are arguably the luckiest individuals in the history of the human race, hate and resent their good fortune?
High-minded explanations have been advanced, usually involving guilt for the quality and comfort of their lives in the face of the poverty and misery of so many others on earth, the crimes of America in particular and the West in general, etc. None of these explanations are satisfactory and I will deal with them in another place.
Two men, living centuries apart, may have foreseen the course of our civilization. Francis Bacon defined the scale of honors available to men as members of a society and Abraham Lincoln foresaw what the thirst for those honors would do to it.

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Moderate Islam Is No Islam By Amil Imani

We humans are torn each day by conflict, sometimes in our profession, other times in our family, sometimes in our country and in the world at large. Humans are unique. We are driven to search for meaning of things. We want to make sense out of things and find a purpose to continue.
I believe that there is an unfathomable Being who is the Fashioner of this universe, including us. We refer to this Being as God, He, and so forth, in a futile attempt to encapsulate this Being into our extremely finite minds.
I also believe that this Being is not a dot commer. He doesn't sit around and wait to fill orders or requests. Neither does he interfere in the details of our lives. What he has done and does, to my understanding, is to establish certain rules and parameters that give each one of us a tremendous leeway on how to play the game of life.
Each one of us, according to these rules and parameters, receives a "hand" for playing the game. It really doesn't matter what kind of hand we start with, it matters how well we play the hand we are dealt. Do we enlist ourselves in the service of good and combat evil, or do we just squander away our time?

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