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In November, 2009, an Islamic jihadist shouting "Allahu Akbar" (which means "Allah is Greatest," not "God is Great") opened fire at the Fort Hood army base, killing 8 soldiers. From Time Magazine:
"We asked him pointedly, 'Nidal, do you consider Shari'a law to transcend the Constitution of the United States?' And he said, 'Yes,' " a classmate told TIME on Monday. "We asked him if homicidal bombers were rewarded for their acts with 72 virgins in heaven and he responded, 'I've done the research — yes.' Those are comments he made in front of the class." But such statements apparently didn't trigger an inquiry. "I was astounded and went to multiple faculty and asked why he was even in the Army," the officer said. "Political correctness squelched any opportunity to confront him."
In a huge win against the political correctness that cost American lives at Fort Hood, and continues to endanger Americans, eighty-three victims of Nidal Hasan have filed lawsuits seeking $750 million in compensation from the Army, "alleging that wilful negligence enabled psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan to carry out a terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas."
This political correctness that blinds Americans to the facts about Islam must end. Any reading of the Koran and the Hadith (the holy works of Islam), reveals quickly that these documents absolutely urge all Muslims to do everything they can, including violence, murder, etc., and including subversion of the targeted society from within, in order to make Shariah Law the ruling law of the land, and to make those of all other religions, as well as Athiests, second-class citizens with brutally reduced legal rights.
For more info on this, click through to read "A Brief Introduction To Islam, Using The Words Of Islamic Scholars, And Of The Islamic Holy Texts."
From our Egyptian correspondent, Huda N. (not her real name):
My fears from an Islamic Rule in Egypt
Let me tell you about my feelings during this awful time of waiting. Waiting for whether Egypt will cross this difficulty and reach the light at the end of the tunnel or whether Islamists will rule and turn our lives upside down. I can really relate to the Jews in Germany with their anticipation during the 1930s, their fears and their despairs. Each morning I run to read the newspapers looking for good news, but all I find is that the Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood are more and more in control of the country. All parties seemed to disappear only Islamists are applying for the upcoming Parliamentary elections. The Islamic rule in Egypt seems so real now.
Last night I had a nightmare, I dreamt I was in bed in a pitch dark room with my two children in my arms, knowing that dangerous dinosaurs are on the loose looking for people to devour them. I kept looking out of the window and listening to their growling noises from far wondering was it our turn. At any time I expected them to come crashing through the window, so scared for my children. I woke up with my heart pounding, the nightmare was so real, yet I understood the meaning right away. I was so afraid of the Islamists getting hold of the government, that I imagine how my life is going to be in the few coming months. My girlfriends and I joke about how next summer we will be at the beach wearing our Hijab and swimming with the Saria (lawful) swimming suit that consists of 32 parts.
All my friends have applied for immigration whether to USA, Canada or Australia. 12 thousand Christian families have already immigrated since January 2011. I keep thinking whether to do the same? and where shall I apply, to Canada, no I hate the cold. I think to myself I could never find a beautiful warm weather like the one in Egypt. What about USA or Australia, then it must be a state that overlooks the ocean, for I can’t live away from the sea (Although oceans can never be compared to the Mediterranean Sea). Thoughts keep me awake at night, will we have time to sell all our possessions if we wish to immigrate. Are they going to allow us to take our money and jewelry on our way out or are they going to seize all our belongings and kick us out empty handed. It had been done before to the Egyptian Jews after the 1952 coup d’état. Jews were obliged to leave all their belongings and possessions and flee Egypt with only 5 pounds. At this age am I able to start all over again? Although I have a master's degree in my profession it is useless in a foreign country. What will I work, what kind of job would be offered to an immigrant? Am I able to make enough money to provide my children with the same standards of living they had in Egypt? Will I have enough money to put them in college? If we succeed to go out of Egypt, what about the rest of my family? What is going to happen to them? What about poor Copts, what will be their fate? I am afraid they might be pressured into becoming Muslims.
One time I envisioned my self having to denounce my Egyptian nationality in order to receive another, I came to my senses with tears running down my cheeks. I am proud of my Egyptian nationality. But I am unable to teach my children to do the same. They tell me how can you love a country that does not return your love?
Other times I say, we must remain in Egypt whatever the outcomes may be. We are the true owners of Egypt, it is our country and we are not going to leave it to them. We are going to suffer under Islamic law, I know they will discharge us from our jobs, force us to pay the jiziah [tax on non-Muslims - ed.], raze churches and apply the Sharia law, but we have endured it before for 1400 years. I will suffer twice as a Christian and as a woman. I know my children will never have a future in such a country. I remind myself of the scripture of Isaiah 19:19 “in that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the heart of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD at its border”. The words of the Lord are eternal and the Churches in Egypt will never cease to exist.
Everybody who still thinks that Islam is the same as Christianity is burying their head in the sand, covering their eyes with their hands, and chanting sounds to keep from hearing the facts that are published daily everywhere. Islam is a religion that has at its foundation, the persecution of all non-Muslims.
Earlier this week the Muslim Brotherhood announced an alliance with another Egyption party, the Wafd party:
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood forms coalition with liberal party
CAIRO — Egypt’s most organized and powerful Islamist movement on Monday announced it intends to join forces with one of the nation’s oldest liberal parties, presenting a formidable coalition for upcoming parliamentary elections.
The alliance would unite the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party and the Wafd Party, a liberal party established just after World War I, to run on one candidate list in the elections scheduled for September. The move is likely to be a significant boost for the Brotherhood, a well-organized political group that expects to take a third of parliament’s seats.
More than two months after a popular revolt, Egyptians now want tourists to come back to their country.
The move surprised some analysts because of the long-standing rivalry between the two groups, and likely startled some secularists and liberals.
I asked our Egyptian correspondent, Huda N. (not her real name), for what this alliance looked like from her view on the ground in Egypt. She responded:
The coalition between the Muslim brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party with the Wafd Party is a sign of fear from the brotherhood. For months now the Muslim brotherhood has been threatening that they would run for more than half the seats in the parliament, and that they would get them. But lately they have sensed that their assets in the streets are decreasing, and they have heard that most liberal parties are going to form coalitions together and run for parliament in a fixed list to be able to face the brotherhood. That’s why they have changed their policies and won’t run as individuals. The coalition with the Wafd is going to give them a boost in the future elections. They have been trying to contact other liberal parties for more coalition but were refused especially by Free Egyptians Party which is going to form coalitions with other liberal parties except the Wafd.
The strange thing is that the Wafd branch in Alexandria is refusing to ratify this coalition, and is skeptical of the brotherhood intentions, especially that some of their leaders have declared their intention of applying the Strict Shariaa laws and have indicted the liberals and the socialists of being infidels and devils.
Why is it important for the Muslim brotherhood to gain more than third the seats in Parliament? Having the third of seats in the Parliament means that they have the power to veto any decisions as well as the power to pass any laws. At the same time it is the responsibility of this newly formed parliament to choose the committee responsible for legislating the new constitution which will decide the form of government in Egypt whether it is Presidential or Parliamentary. For the Brotherhood being in control of the Parliament means forming the constitution as they desire and there is no guarantee for freedoms and equality among all citizens.
Many politicians (even the Prime Minister Essam Sharaf) and liberal parties have been pressing in an attempt to postpone the Parliamentary elections so that the constitution could be legislated first. But the Military council does not listen. Muslim brotherhood are against it of course. They say that this is an attempt to circumvent the will of the people who voted in the March referendum on the constitutional amendments. Their plan is clear, Parliamentary elections first, they gain more than third of the seats and be the ones responsible for drafting the new constitution and of course in the end apply the Shariaa law against the will of most Egyptians.
N.B: The Wafd Party is the continuation of the old Wafd Party which was the ruling party before the 1952 coup. It was supported by many people at the time. In 1953 Gamal Abdel Nasr abolished all political parties Wafd included. It was re-established in 1978. It is a liberal Party headed by Mr. Elsayed Elbadawy from May 2010. It was one of the paper parties during the Mubarak period.
It's fascinating to learn from Huda that things aren't going as well for the Muslim Brotherhood as they had hoped. But their alliance with the Wafd party gives them an opportunity to continue their mission of implementing Shariah Law, which oppresses women and non-Muslims in the historically Islamic, and brutal, fashion.
Our correspondent in Egypt, Huda N. (not her real name), emails the following update:
It seems with the 25th January revolution we have opened the gates of hell on ourselves. The serial of Christian killing is still going on and the government sees no evil, and hears no evil.
On Saturday 14th May, two people fired guns at the peaceful Christian Protestors gathered infront of Television building in Mespiro Cairo whom were later joined by others who started throwing Molotov bombs in addition to the shooting. The assault resulted in 78 wounded and the burning of 12 cars. The shooting took place from bridge near by. The police were very late in coming to protect Christian protestors (5 hours) which raises a lot of question marks.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered infront of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo yesterday Sunday 15th May to support the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. The protestors tried to crash into the Embassy in an attempt to remove the Israeli flag from the top of the building. Policemen used tear gases against the protestors and tried to disperse them wounding 353 people.This is just a taste of what is to come if the Muslim Brotherhood win majority of seats in the next Parliamentary elections in September. So God be with us.
US mainstream media ignores these murderous atrocities committed by Muslims against Christians.
Our correspondent in Egypt, Huda N. (not her real name), emails the following, under the subject line, "Christian blood is shed daily:"
Egypt has been graded as the worst country with religious intolerance.
Last Saturday Muslim fundamentalist burnt another church (Saint Mary's Church) in Imbaba Cairo.
Killing 12 and wounding over 200. This is because the temporary government has a soft hand on these fundamentalists. They did not punish them for their former offensives against Christians which gave them a green light on attacking Christians and churches.
Two weeks ago in Qena (Upper Egypt) these muslim fundamentalists refused to accept the newly appointed Christian mayor and rioted until the prime mister suspended him temporarily for three months.
Again Christians are protesting infront of the Television building in Cairo until serious actions are taken by the government to stop these acts, or it will turn into a civil war.
Some Christians are protesting infront of the American Embassy requesting for foreign interference in protecting the Christian minority. Others are protesting in front of the Saudi Embassy implying that Saudi Arabia is the one supporting and funding terrorism in Egypt.
We are not very hopeful for the future. Parliamentary elections are going to be held next September. All new political parties are not yet ready for these elections only the Muslim Brotherhood are the ones who are prepared and have the fund to win these elections. To my surprise Mrs. Clinton announced that America is going to cooperate with any type of government even if it is an Islamist government. America does not know who she will be cooperating with. They are deceiving, lying devils. They will not allow any freedoms. Egypt will have replaced one dictator with a dictator party. We need a miracle and lots of praying.
From reader Huda N. (not her real name) in Egypt:
Two days ago a police officer mounted a train coming from Upper Egypt to Cairo, searched the train for Christians and shot 6 of them while screaming Allah Akbar 3 times. One was killed and the other five were wounded. You know what did our goverment say, that he is mentally unstable. You know what else the people in the streets were stoning the ambulance that carried them to the hospital and they stoned the hospital itself for trying to save Christians.
The incident is documented in news accounts:
it's absurd to contend that Muslims who kill in the name of Allah are madmen acting outside the strictures of Islam when such incidents are repeated on a weekly basis somewhere in the world or other. We have to face up to what Islam is.
Look how some of these reporting organizations tried to sugarcoat it. The Washington Post doesn't even reference the train event in the headline. And the Washington Post article contains this egregious attempt to blind the public to the dangers of Islam:
It was not immediately clear whether the gunman knew his targets were Christians.
In order to make that attempt to blind the public stick, the article completely omits that the gunman shouted "Allah Akbar," which by now everybody knows means the shouter is a Muslim who is going to attempt to kill non-Muslims specificially because they are non-Muslim.
The MSNBC article, while not identical to the Washington Post article, contains the identical attempt to blind the public, in the same words:
It was not immediately clear whether the gunman knew his targets were Christians.
Both articles cite AP as the reporting organization. AP, the Washington Post, and MSNBC are seeking to keep the public in the dark on the greatest danger to freedom of our time.
We often discuss what's going in Islamic schools in the UK, but rarely do we have a view of it from one of the students. What are Islamic youth there being taught to believe? Two comments came in last month, evidently from a 14-year-old Islamic boy named Samir, living in England. According to a plugin I run (the ip2nation plugin for the ExpressionEngine blog engine), the ip address is indeed from the UK. I'm still thinking about these comments.
You all do not understand Islam. It is very gentle, kind, non politics religion of peace and loves. Media tells lies about muslims. Muslims love Allah and he sees that they loves him, he helps them to get better in life and makes muslims get good house and jobs in Kafir countries.
In uk muslims even dont haf to work for allah provides money from government benefits. They efen can wer their own cloths without problems, but burka sometimes little problem in schools and places like this.
Allah has made muslims strong in west, and he is teaching kafir leaders how to respect ALL religion but most of all ISLAM.It is allahs will that ALL countries will become muslim, and one day there will be enuf muslims to take over all europ.When this happens you will see how good it is to be muslim, for allah will take alcohol away and immorals who go with own sex will be executed, no music or dancing except Islam music. Everybody will then say to Allah Thank you, we did not understand how good it is to be muslim.
I tell you all there is no reason to be afraid of Islam, just accept and see how allah will change your lifes.
peace to you all Allua Ackbar
Second comment, posted within an hour of the first:
Sorry forget to say I am 14 only but already I no the way to be happy without trubles. If only everybody see with my eyes, it is so sample if you just bleve what allah says. No body want to go hell so sample thing is just trust allah and the prophet mohammed (pbuh). One thing for shure is if you try verry hard to do good, allah will try his best to take you to paradise with servants there to serve you, and wine to. If anybody want to here about islam I will be happy to tell them.
peace to evry country samir
It's a very revealing set of comments. First of all:
In uk muslims even dont haf to work for allah provides money from government benefits.
Rather than seeing welfare as a safety net for those temporarily out of work, Samir sees welfare as a benefit from Allah so that Muslims don't have to work at all. Is Samir aware that the government benefits come from taxes paid by working Brits? His teachers surely are. It appears that, if not Samir himself, then most likely his teachers, see the welfare payments as tribute paid by a public, subservient to Islam, which works hard so that Muslims in the UK don't have to.
This suggests that in the UK, welfare is a factor that operates powerfully against assimilation of Islamic populations into the broader UK culture. In successful western cultures the need for money forces immigrant populations to assimilate so as to get along with their neighbors, work for them and with them, and make a living. It appears, on the evidence of Samir's comment, that this may not be operational in the UK today.
Also, the comments provide multiple examples of something which has been identified as a characteristic of Islamic teaching - specifically, a tendency to argue in favor of two contradictory things at the same time. Samir says that Islam is a "very gentle, kind, non politics religion of peace and loves." At the same time, he believes that Islam will force people to stop drinking, outlaw music and dancing, and 'execute' gays.
Samir says that Islam is a "non politics religion", and at the same time argues that "Allah has made muslims strong in west, and he is teaching kafir leaders how to respect ALL religion but most of all ISLAM," and says that "one day there will be enuf muslims to take over all europ."
He says that "When this happens you will see how good it is to be muslim," and "Everybody will then say to Allah Thank you, we did not understand how good it is to be muslim." This presumably does not apply to the gays who have been "executed."
His repeated use of the term "kafir" is also notable, since it is a derogatory term, i.e. a term that is "expressive of low opinion." Per Wikipedia:
In cultural terms, it is seen as a derogatory term used to describe an unbeliever, non-Muslims, apostate from Islam and even between Muslims of different sects.
To summarize, this appears to be a window into the Islamic teaching of at least one Muslim youth in the United Kingdom. Samir is being taught that:
If the United Kingdom wishes to protect its citizens, it must put an end to schools that teach that Islam requires Muslims to take over Europe, enforce Islamic law, and kill non-Muslims.
This morning Drudge is linking a report on a news conference held yesterday by Israel's UN Ambassador, Dan Gillerman: "Israel's UN ambassador calls Jimmy Carter 'a bigot'". I'd been invited to attend that news conference, by telephone hookup, and can report on a lot more that Gillerman had to say. From my typed notes (not expected to be verbatim):
Today I believe we are no longer in a clash of civilizations... but in a clash of civilization, singular. In most of the bloodshed within the Muslim world, the vast majority of the victims are Muslim. Every day hundreds of Muslims are slain by their brethren.
What worries me is the eerie silence of the Muslim world. No Muslim leader, secular, religious, or academic, gets up and says, 'What are we doing?'
[On press coverage of this:] When Westerners kill Muslims, it's a crusade. When Jews kill Muslims, it's a massacre. When Muslims kill Muslims, it's the weather channel.
But there is a shot of optimism. I don't know what woke them up. Maybe it was the war in Lebanon in 2006, which most of the Arab nations realized was only a preview of a something coming soon to a theater near you. They realized that the real threat, is Iran, with its ambitions of spreading Shia extremism and terrorism, and generating it all over the world. They came to Annapolis defying Iran, and forming a coalition of the moderates, with a view toward being more pragmatic and realistic regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel has no war with the people of Iran. We respect and admire the history and the people of Iran. We feel the people of Iran were dealt a very raw deal, with the extreme, reactionary leaders of Iran, including a president who denies the Holocaust while preparing the next one.
Iran is a danger to the stability and civilization of the world as we know it.
We have no war with Iran, but Iran has a war with us.
Iran is a thousand miles away from Israel, but it has proxies on our borders. Iran's proxy Hezbollah is on our northern border, and its proxy Hamas is on our Southern border, armed and controlled and trained by Iran. 60 years after its birth, Israel is under real threat from Iran. All Israelis - seven million Jews, Muslims and Christians, are under range of missiles, mainly supplied by Iran.
The world realizes this, and the Muslim world realizes this, and realizes that there is a limit to what Israel will take. Hamas continuously shells Israeli cities and villages and schools, trying to kill and maim Israeli civilians and children. And all this is done with very direct supplies from Iran.
Not only most of the world, but most of the Muslim world, will choose to side against the Iranian extremists.
It is important to bolster and embolden the moderates, while marginalizing extremists. So I am very happy with Abbas' visit to Washington and the support he's getting from Washington.
What would be the ramifications in the event that the majority of Arab nations sided with the US against Iran, and joined us in an effort to halt Iran's sponsorship of extremism and terrorism in the world? Gillerman also stated that "Basically, Syria and Iran, together with Hamas and Hezbollah, are the main axes of terror and evil in the world." If this is correct, the elimination of Iran as the principal driver of extremism and terrorism, could contribute substantially toward cutting the heart out of the global Islamist and extremist movement.
From Islam Watch via Fox News:
A report posted on Islam Watch, a site run by Muslims who oppose intolerant teachings and hatred for unbelievers, exposes a prominent Islamic cleric and lawyer who support extreme punishment for non-Muslims — including killing and rape.
A question-and-answer session with Imam Abdul Makin in an East London mosque asks why Allah would tell Muslims to kill and rape innocent non-Muslims, including their wives and daughters, according to Islam Watch.
"Because non-Muslims are never innocent, they are guilty of denying Allah and his prophet," the Imam says, according to the report. "If you don't believe me, here is the legal authority, the top Muslim lawyer of Britain."
The lawyer, Anjem Choudary, backs up the Imam's position, saying that all Muslims are innocent.
Click here to watch the interview with Islamic lawyer Anjem Choudary.
"You are innocent if you are a Muslim," Choudary tells the BBC. "Then you are innocent in the eyes of God. If you are not a Muslim, then you are guilty of not believing in God."
Choudary said he would not condemn a Muslim for any action.
"As a Muslim, I must support my Muslim brothers and sisters," Choudary said. "I must have hatred to everything that is not Muslim."
This cleric isn't in some Islamic nation. He's in an East London mosque, preaching specifically for the killing and rape of his non-Muslim fellow Brits.
Permitting him to continue isn't permitting freedom of speech - it's permitting a very small subset of freedom of speech, specifically, freedom to incite murder of non-Muslims.
If it's easy to accept the rule against shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, it should be easy to pass a law saying that it's illegal to call for people to kill those who aren't part of one's own organization - in this case, the organization of radical Islamists.
Dr. Wafa Sultan Speaks at a Private Residence in Los Angeles
Shockingly, on U.S. soil, a citizen of this country has had to go into hiding due to threats from an organized group - radical Islamists:
Dr. Wafa Sultan has been forced to go into hiding with her family following a fatwa (religious edict) from an Islamic scholar, according to Omedia. Sultan faces the fatwa following a recent debate on Al-Jazeera in which she challenged Egyptian Islamist Talat Rheim over Dutch cartoons of Mohammed, who Muslims revere as a prophet. Sultan argued that Denmark had the right to print the cartoons.
Click here to see Sultan's March 4 interview on Al Jazeera.
Last week, at a private residence in Los Angeles, Sultan appeared. Here is an excerpt from her remarks (transcribed from an audio recording, and presented here with the permission of Dr. Sultan):
You need to jump the gap between you and them. Bridge this gap, and begin to understand this mindset. You cannot win this war until you understand the Muslim mindset.
You know, prior to my first interview on Al Jazeera in 2005, I thought I only needed to educate my people in the Arab world. But right after that interview, unfortunately, I found out that the West is lacking knowledge about the realities in the Arabic world. They don't know anything about the Muslim mindset. At a very early age, we are brainwashed to believe, that we are here, to spread Islam. We are here to fight, for Allah's sake, and to kill or to be killed in his army.
They're very different. Their concept of time is so very different from your concept. They are well-trained to be patient. They believe time is at their side. It doesn't matter how long they wait. One day they're going to reach their goal.
And there is a very well-known in Islam called al-Taqiyya. I don't know if you're familiar with it. Al-Taqiyya means Muslims are allowed to lie, to cheat, to deceive, in order to reach their goals.
In my first interview on Al Jazeera, the host asked me the question, "Why are you trying to be American, more than Americans? I said, "Believe it or not, I am American more than Americans. I was born in hell. I know the difference between hell, and paradise. But unfortunately, most Americans don't. [APPLAUSE]. They take their American lives for granted.
Just greeting my next-door neighbor - walking freely down the street - you take it for granted; I don't. So please, defend your life. Defend your values. This war is a very tough war. I have no doubt, that we are going to win this war.
Thank you so much!
[APPLAUSE]
Dr. Sultan asked us for our help in defending her against a fatwa issued against her by Al-Qaradhawl, a radical Islamist and resident of Qatar. You can help by submitting the following letter, drafted by one of her many supporters, to the embassy at Qatar. Use this link, and paste the letter into Feedback:
Embassy of Qatar:
As an American citizen I am appalled by the rage, threats and hateful rhetoric leveled against Dr. Wafa Sultan by Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Al-Qaradawi does not have the right to issue religious edicts, or "fatwas" against persons residing in the U.S., who express their opinions in an attempt to uphold the truth. In fact, it was this type of hateful rhetoric, threats and rage that compelled Dr. Sultan to speak out in the first place. As a result of al-Qaradawi's actions to exact revenge and incite hatred against Dr. Sultan, she has now been forced into hiding.
These are extraordinary charges against Dr. Sultan made by al-Qaradawi, who states them in a manner which his fellow jihadists understand perfectly. In fact, we all understand exactly what he is threatening.
Given that al-Qaradawi has justified suicide attacks against innocent civilians and American soldiers in Iraq, it is abundantly clear that he encourages violence and threats of death over civil discourse and free speech.
Law enforcement officials should take this latest threat against Wafa Sultan very seriously indeed.
Signed...
I've also drafted a variation on the above letter, which can be sent to the U.S. Embassy in Qatar. Use this email address to reach Michael Alan Ratney, currently the Chargé d'Affaires at the embassy while GWB's nominee for incoming Ambassador to Qatar, Joseph LeBaron, awaits nomination hearings.
Dear Mr. Ratney,
As an American citizen I am appalled by the rage, threats and hateful rhetoric leveled against Dr. Wafa Sultan by Egyptian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
Al-Qaradawi does not have the right to issue religious edicts, or "fatwas" against persons residing in the U.S., who express their opinions in an attempt to uphold the truth. In fact, it was this type of hateful rhetoric, threats and rage that compelled Dr. Sultan to speak out in the first place. As a result of al-Qaradawi's actions to exact revenge and incite hatred against Dr. Sultan, she has now been forced into hiding.
These are extraordinary charges against Dr. Sultan made by al-Qaradawi, who states them in a manner which his fellow jihadists understand perfectly. In fact, we all understand exactly what he is threatening.
Given that al-Qaradawi has justified suicide attacks against innocent civilians and American soldiers in Iraq, it is abundantly clear that he encourages violence and threats of death over civil discourse and free speech.
As an American citizen, I urgently request that the U.S. Embassy in Qatar take every step to protect the lives of American citizens from death threats issued against them which emanate from Qatar.Signed...
Just yesterday LiveLeak acted courageously in the face of death threats, to post the film, FITNA. We in this country must demand that our government take every step to defend our freedom of speech from threats against our citizens, and we must champion those who courageously defend our freedom of speech - from our soldiers fighting overseas, to LiveLeak, and to Dr. Sultan.
LiveLeak today courageously restored hosting of FITNA, the powerful film that shows how many Imams, preaching hate per their understanding of the Koran, radicalize Muslims so that individual radical Islamists feel compelled to attempt to kill non-Muslims. I previously posted that only Islam produces such numbers of mass murderers; this video shows why that is.
LiveLeak previously removed FITNA from its servers due to death threats it received from radical Islamists. It restored the video after taking security measures to protect its employees:
On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but to remove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats to our staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantly on upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection for our staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided to once more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules.
The primary duty of the government is to protect the safety and security of the citizens.
At this time government is falling short of achieving these goals. Our government is not yet doing enough to protect our rights to free speech. LiveLeak has had to courageously defend our free speech by using it in the face of such threats.
This is becoming like the wild west, when many citizens had to carry guns on a daily basis to defend themselves from attack - because there was little protection for citizens from those who threatened them.
The government must catch up to the strategy used by radical Islam, a strategy which has never before been used to attack the freedom of this country.
As in the first sentence of this post, the strategy is easy to describe:
Relevant supporting links:
According to one FBI agent interviewed in Ronald Kessler's new book The Terrorist Watch, about one in ten of the United States' 2,000 mosques are believed to preach hatred. That number was higher before 9/11, however, as radicals now seek to evade U.S. intelligence agencies.
But the problem extends beyond mosques. Islamic schools play a role, too. According to scholar Daniel Pipes, a Saudi textbook at the Islamic Saudi Academy of Alexandria, VA, teaches first graders that, "all religions, other than Islam, are false, including that of the Jews [and] Christians," while books used by New York City's Muslims schools include, "sweeping condemnations of Jews and Christians."
A new report issued by the New York Police Department indicates that radical Islam continues to have an appeal among Manhattan's Muslims, often through "informal groups or clusters of young men…usually associated with a particular venue - community center, non-governmental organization, university group, housing project, café or even a particular mosque." NYPD also noted the, "growing trend of Salafi-based radicalization that has permeated some Muslim student associations (MSA's)."
This environment has undoubtedly impacted America's Muslims. According to a Pew Research Poll, roughly one-quarter of young Muslims (ages 18-29) in the United States believe that suicide bombing is justified under certain circumstances.
We as a people are coming to grips with the fact that under the guise of religion many mosques house preachers of mass murder.
There can be no tolerance for such preaching in a civilized society.
There can be no tolerance for such preaching in a society that seeks to protect its freedom of speech.
There can be no tolerance for such preaching in a society that protects its civilians from death threats.
The answer: our government must prosecute, expel, ban, arrest, and jail Islamist leaders who preach that the Koran says Muslims must kill non-Muslims, and who preach that the Koran says that our freedoms must be overthrown, and that Shariah must replace the American Constitution; and our government must do so regardless of whether such preaching is done under cover of freedom of religion.
See also this previous post:
To Eradicate the Islamist Killers, We Must Destroy the Mechanism that Produces Them
This week the David Horowitz Freedom Center is launching a Declaration Against Genocide, with a call "to student governments, to campus human rights organizations, to Muslim Students Associations and to individuals in the academic community, to join us in drawing a collective line in the sand against barbarism and to declare ourselves for civilization and hope." From an email distributed by the Center:
David Horowitz Freedom Center Announces Declaration Against Genocide
The David Horowitz Freedom Center announced that it will distribute a Declaration Against Genocide and ask individuals and groups, particularly those on American college campuses, to sign it. The Declaration notes that the Sudanese and other Africans have been victims of a slow motion genocide, and that Islamo fascists in the Middle East are preparing a new genocide against the Jews and can be found here: http://terrorismawareness.org/petitions/140/declaration-against-genocide .
In describing the objectives of this new initiative, David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, said: "We are asking all campus groups to repudiate the genocidal passage in the Islamic Hadith which reads: "The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: 'The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'"
Horowitz continued: "We are also asking all campus groups, including the Muslim Students Association, to condemn the Hamas Charter which says: `Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.' Signers of the Declaration will also be asked to repudiate the Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has said `The accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible.' And Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, who called the Jews `a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment,' and has said, "If the Jews `all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' These are hateful doctrines that threaten the lives not only of Jews, but of all Americans."
In addition to condemning the genocidal agenda of these leaders and organizations, the Declaration calls on campus groups to affirm "the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to change religions or have no religion at all; the equal dignity of men and women; and the right of all people to live free from violence, intimidation and coercion."
"Although a Declaration Against Genocide should be seen as a document with universal appeal," Horowitz notes, "a coalition of groups with ties to the Islamo-fascist jihad are bound to protest this effort. Our goal is to test universities' claims that they support religious and ethnic tolerance, and to challenge the campus left, which consistently overlooks statements by Islamic radicals which are nothing less than an invitation to mass murder."
Click here to sign the Declaration.
Islamic and leftist organizations on university campuses, will have the opportunity to show that they support tolerance and stand against genocide. Will they sign the Declaration?
People frequently try to excuse Islam by saying that those who commit murder in its name are radicals who are corrupting the true teachings of that religion. Islam bears no responsibility for the actions of such radicals, claim the apologists.
But what is not even remotely debatable, is that Islam is the only religion that produces such numbers of mass murderers who kill in the name of their religion. It is time for the apologists for Islam to be held to account for this.
I was recently having a discussion on the comments section of this site with a poster who argued that with regard to the subject of abortion, Christianity was comparable to Islam. I responded:
Per the site religioustolerance.org, the total number of murders or attempted murders committed with regard to abortion clinics, from 1989 to 2004, was 24. Compare this to 4,989 killed an injured by radical Islamists in just the past two months.
Compare it to the 142,174 (56,000+ killed, 85,000+ injured) killed or murdered by radical Islamists since 9/10/01. (Link to source - and supporting spreadsheet).
Citing numbers from the same link (http://www.thereligionofpeace.com), Say Anything posts:
More people are killed by Islamists each year than in all 350 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined. (source)
More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 36 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. (source)
Islamic terrorists murder more people every day than the Ku Klux Klan has in the last 50 years. (source)
19 Muslim hijackers killed more innocents in two hours on September 11th than the number of American criminals executed in the last 65 years. (source)
The notion that Islam is not unique among religions in the number of such extremists it produces is comforting, but inaccurate. Only Islam produces mass murderers in such numbers. This is a hard truth for which apologists for that religion must be held to account.
A year-long investigation in England has documented (once again) that mosques there teach hatred towards Christians and Jews.
An authoritative new report by Policy Exchange, the UK's leading centre-right thinktank, entitled The Hijacking of British Islam: How extremist literature is subverting Britain's mosques, reveals the worrying extent of extremist penetration of mosques and other key institutions of the British Muslim community. The report is the most comprehensive academic survey of its kind ever produced in the UK and is based on a year-long investigation by several teams of specialist researchers into the availability of extremist literature and covers more than a hundred mosques and Islamic centres throughout the UK.
Among the reports findings are:
* Most of the extremist literature is published and distributed by agencies linked to the Saudi Arabian government.
* Some of the most high-profile and prestigious mosques in Britain are among the worst offenders; in many of them, it is openly available.
* Separatist literature is distributed at the East London Mosque - which is closely associated with the Muslim Council of Britain (which purports to be the main body representing British Muslims).
Shocking statements
Pamphlets, books and leaflets obtained from mosques and Islamic centres contain an assortment of shocking statements including:
* "Jihad against a tyrant, oppressors, people of bid'ah [Muslim innovators], or wrongdoers. This type of jihad is best done through force if possible."
* "The Jews and the Christians are the enemies of the Muslim."
* "Whoever changes his religion, kill him."
Although some of the hate literature is in English, a proportion is written in Arabic. The translations commissioned by Policy Exchange have been independently verified.
Many of the publications encourage British Muslims to segregate themselves from non-Muslims. So-called unbelievers are to be treated as second-class and avoided wherever possible.
There are also repeated calls for gays to be thrown from mountains and tall buildings and for women to be subjugated.
Radical Islamists are using the same tactics here in the U.S.
It's happening here, but to a lesser extent. According to one FBI agent interviewed in Ronald Kessler's new book The Terrorist Watch, about one in ten of the United States' 2,000 mosques are believed to preach hatred. That number was higher before 9/11, however, as radicals now seek to evade U.S. intelligence agencies.
But the problem extends beyond mosques. Islamic schools play a role, too. According to scholar Daniel Pipes, a Saudi textbook at the Islamic Saudi Academy of Alexandria, VA, teaches first graders that, "all religions, other than Islam, are false, including that of the Jews [and] Christians," while books used by New York City's Muslims schools include, "sweeping condemnations of Jews and Christians."
A new report issued by the New York Police Department indicates that radical Islam continues to have an appeal among Manhattan's Muslims, often through "informal groups or clusters of young men…usually associated with a particular venue - community center, non-governmental organization, university group, housing project, café or even a particular mosque." NYPD also noted the, "growing trend of Salafi-based radicalization that has permeated some Muslim student associations (MSA's)."
This environment has undoubtedly impacted America's Muslims. According to a Pew Research Poll, roughly one-quarter of young Muslims (ages 18-29) in the United States believe that suicide bombing is justified under certain circumstances.
The British report makes the following excellent recommendations:
i) The Saudi Arabian government must be told to stop distributing extremist literature in Britain or else risk its good relations. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is currently on a state visit to the UK and the British government should address this matter directly with him.
ii) Mosques and other Islamic institutions must act immediately to remove extremist literature from their premises.
iii) The government, local authorities, police forces, other institutions and prominent individuals should have nothing to do with mosques that continue to sell or distribute extremist literature.
iv) Islamic schools must be subject to clear and rigorous regulation and made part of a genuinely shared system of national education.
Teaching of hatred isn't tolerated in America with regard to any ethnic or cultural heritage. It must be wiped out of the mosques here.
Today a group of Muslim scholars has issued a warning to the non-Islamic world: play by our rules or face continued Islamist violence:
Prominent Muslim scholars are warning that the "survival of the world" is at stake if Muslims and Christians do not make peace with each other.
In an unprecedented open letter signed by 138 leading Muslim scholars from every sect of Islam, the Muslims plead with Christian leaders "to come together with us on the common essentials of our two religions."
...The Muslim scholars state: "As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes."
From the passage quoted, it appears that the Muslim scholars don't
say they are not at war with Jews. It appears to be implied that
genocide against Jews is just fine with these Islamic scholars.
The scholars don't say that they will ask their co-religionists to turn away from violence - even though violence in the name of Islam is being committed in nations around the world on a weekly basis. This shows that these scholars do not seek peace.
The scholars say: "As Muslims, we say to Christians that we are not against them and that Islam is not against them - so long as they do not wage war against Muslims on account of their religion, oppress them and drive them out of their homes." They conditionally aren't at war with us. If we don't do whatever they say we have to, then, these scholars say, they are at war with us. This isn't an invitation of peace. It's a threat of war.
The Muslim scholars demand that Christians not do anything that Muslims might consider oppresses them - including, as we know, having freedom of speech.
The Muslim scholars demand that Christians do not "oppress Muslims" or "drive them out of their homes." But the Muslim scholars don't mind that Muslims routinely oppress Jews and Christians. State-sanctioned genocidal policies are the norm throughout Arab lands, such that, per Wikipedia:
Mass murders of Jews and deaths due to political instability did however occur in North Africa throughout the centuries and especially in Morocco, Libya and Algeria where eventually Jews were forced to live in ghettos. Decrees ordering the destruction of synagogues were enacted in the Middle Ages in Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Jews were also forced to convert to Islam or face death in Yemen, Morocco and Baghdad at certain times.
...In 1945, there were between 758,000 and 866,000 Jews (see table below) living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 7,000. In some Arab states, such as Libya (which was once around 3% Jewish), the Jewish community no longer exists; in other Arab countries, only a few hundred Jews remain.
Please read that last paragraph carefully: 800,000 Jewish people, driven from their homes, so that less than 7,000 remain in the Arab world today.
Christians in Arab nations have not fared much better. Per the Wikipedia article, "Islam and Anti-Christian persecution:"
Christians under Islamic law would have been under the status of Dhimmi. Dhimmi had more rights than other non-Muslim religious subjects, but fewer legal and social rights than Muslims.
The Muslim scholars are declaring that Islam will continue to make war on non-Muslims, and that if the non-Muslims defend themselves, the "survival of the world" will be at stake.
In fact, it is the Islamist world that is in danger; as a death cult that threatens everyone else on earth, the days of Islamism are numbered.
