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Since MSM is all but certain to ignore this story, it's up to us in the blogosphere to get the word out. Captain's Quarters has had two independent translations done.
First, we have Nabil Bouitieh:
Top secret memoranda sent to Al-Kadisseiya Military branch No.2205 dated 04/03/2001 and to the Headquarters of Zee karr military branch No. 246 dated: 08/03/2001 that we were informed by another memo from Ali Unit military branch No. 154 dated: 10/03/2001. We urge you to inform the above mentioned unit of the names of people wishing to volunteer for suicide action to liberate Palestine and strike American interests according to the following below for your information and to let us know.Now here's the translation of the same passage from Hamania H:
A confidential letter of Qadisya Military Branch, that holds the number 2205 dated on 4/3/2001, notified upon a confidential letter issued by Thi Kar military command, that holds the number 246 dated on 8/3/2001 and notified to us upon a confidential letter issued by Ali squad military command, that holds the number 154 dated on 20/03/2001. Kindly provide the aforementioned squad with the names of persons desiring to volunteer in the suicidal act in order to liberate Palestine and to strike the American interests in accordance with the following details. You are informed and we therefore expect you to notify us.
Tell everybody.
From Brigitte Gabriel:
I was invited to give a lecture sponsored by Professor David Patterson of the Judaic Studies Program. When news about my appearance spread, the Muslim community both on and off campus launched a full-scale campaign to stop my lecture. They demanded that Dr. Patterson cancel my speech. E-mails flooded the University of Memphis administration and Dr. Patterson from Muslim students on campus and Muslims in the community and mosques.
Thinly veiled threats of violence were used:
Here are some of their comments [sent to the administration to shut down the speech]:
..."Do you honestly think the scheduled lecture will serve any useful purpose other than inflaming the Muslims, insulting them and spilling poison in the community?"
And some not-so-thinly veiled threats of violence were also used:
Dr. Patterson introduced me by telling the audience what an eye opener this lecture had become because of the reaction. He stated that he never realized that here in Memphis a speaker should be threatened for his/her safety just to speak on a college campus. He introduced me and I delivered my speech with police officers on both sides as well as about eight others in the lecture hall and around the building.
...At the end of the lecture the Muslims immediately in front swarmed over me questioning and intimidating me. Police officers quickly moved in and pulled me out straight to the police cars as the enraged Muslims started shouting.
Gabriel shows the hypocrisy of such behavior:
It is interesting to see the reaction of the Muslim community to someone with Muslim shrapnel in her body who speaks against butchering innocent people in the name of Allah. If they would put the same energy into condemning the radical element within Islam and join us in saying that slaughtering people in the name of Allah is murder not Jihad, maybe we wouldn't question their loyalty as American citizens.
The American right to free speech was defended:
Dr. Patterson refused to bow to their intimidation and insisted on going on with the scheduled speech.
Gabriel got tough and commanded the room:
Fed up, I went straight to the podium and ordered everyone to sit. I told them, this is my lecture and I run the show. If they didn't like the way I conducted my lecture and my questions they could leave the room, now. Shocked at my behavior and authority they shut-up. The non-Muslim members of the audience applauded.
The anti-U.S. sympathies of this Muslim community in Memphis have already given birth to at least one would-be lethal terrorist living among them:
Unknown to me, a Muslim student attending the University of Memphis was arrested weeks prior to my lecture for, among other things, possession of DVD's on pilot training and charts on the layout of the Memphis airport. They found links on his computer to sites associated with a radical Sunni Muslim organization in Iraq, and searches for information on how guns and bombs can be smuggled past airport security. After witnessing the Muslim reaction to my lecture and what happened few weeks ago at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill when an Iranian Muslim student drove into, for Allah's sake, innocent students gathering on university grounds, the Memphis police was not going to take any chances.
I'll tell you what. I think we Americans are going to have to get tougher. Immigrants here are going to have to hear from us in no uncertain terms that we live by a code that includes freedom of speech, and that immigrants who threaten violence in opposition to freedom of speech, are going to pay consequences, possibly including arrest and/or deportation.
The utter absurdity of the terrorist's pretense that Israel is the aggressor, occasionally becomes blatantly obvious. Per Reuters:
In statements issued in quick succession on Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas denounced Israel for branding the Palestinian Authority a "hostile entity".
Considering that, per the same article, "Hamas is sworn to destroy Israel," and that Hamas is now leading the Palestinian Authority, you really can't beat that for sheer absurdity.
