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Biggest Counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history: Feds Seize N.Y. skyscraper, 4 mosques

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:25:24 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: Religious backlash possible
It is extremely rare for U.S. law enforcement authorities to seize a house of worship, a step fraught with questions about the First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

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Breaking news: Feds move to seize N.Y. skyscraper, 4 mosques

Prosecutors say building owners helping to illegally funnel money to Iran MSNBC hat tip pon

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company.

The assets include Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, more than 100 acres in Virginia, and a 36-story office tower in New York.

Seizing the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and seeking a nuclear bomb.

Tags: islam, terrorism, iran, usa, religion, freedom

Major Muslim Hasan's Six Figure Paycheck: Zakat to Pakistan?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:22:26 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: where did all Major Hasan's money go? He was living in near poverty.

Also: where can we get a high paying gig like that..?..where you make lame powerpoint presentations and cram your own beliefs down the throats of your patients and call it 'counselling'.

CRAZY.

Clip Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

Did you see Hasan's barebones $325 a month pathetic apartment? It made you wonder where he sent his close to six figure salary. What Islamic charity was the lucky recipient?

Fort Hood shootings suspect may have wired money to Pakistan Dallas Morning News

Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one senior lawmaker said would raise serious questions about Hasan's possible connections to militant Islamic groups.

Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, would not identify the sources. But he said "they are trying to follow up on it because they recognize that if there are communications – phone or money transfers with somebody in Pakistan – it just raises a whole other level of questions."

Tags: terrorism, finances, fort hood massacre, pakistan

Media Roundup of Fort Hood Shooting

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:24:12 GMT

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Clip Source: bighollywood.breitbart.com

Investigation: Ft. Hood Killer Had Access to Fox, Talk Radio, Right-Wing Blogs

Receipts show killer’s apartment had cable

‘03 Nissan registered to Hassan had AM radio

Napolitano: “I told you so”

Sources: Despite 17 citations as Countdown’s ‘Worst Person In The World,’ FBI failed to detain Limbaugh

Defiant Palin rejects calls to apologize

INEVITABLY, ANOTHER SOLDIER SNAPS

Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know

Newsroom experts: stress, violence, stupidity, tragedy a way of life for GIs

Former M*A*S*H stars say it’s finally time to disarm the military

Hollywood insiders: Sean Penn early favorite for lead in planned Oliver Stone biopic

Another Typical Day in Dixieland U.S.A.

In the land of cotton, some hear echoes of Civil War in latest violent redneck rampage

American-born killer was son of the Jim Crow South

NASCAR may have been involved

Britons warned: limit U.S. travel to safe areas such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

Tags: dead stream media, muslim, killer

Words chosen carefully

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:18:28 GMT

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Clip Source: us.asiancorrespondent.com

Words chosen carefully

Following the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, some Muslim forums have been advising commenters to show restraint – for example here:

would just advise everyone to choose their words very carefully. Regardless of how you feel, certian words can be construed as sedition. Why be locked up for celebrating on the forum the death of 12 people? not worth it.. so think about it

So having thought about it carefully, here are some of the responses:

OMG! 12 Maggots got killed, 31 squashed but still alive!

And from “Abu Abrahim” of Talahassee Florida:

Ameen. al- Haqq. Do not delude yourselves into thinking we will not be called to account for our complacency and participation in the overt war against Allah and His deen, and yes I mean all of us living in the US, UK, AUS, NZ and the other houses of kufr and shirk.

And from Al-Siddiq of Boulder:

Prayer for Muslims

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:03:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kairosjournal.org

A Prayer for the Muslim World—Samuel Zwemer (1867 – 1952)

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, who hast made of one blood all nations and hast promised that many shall come from the East and sit down with Abraham in thy kingdom: We pray for thy prodigal children in Muslim lands who are still afar off, that they may be brought nigh by the blood of Christ. Look upon them in pity, because they are ignorant of thy truth.

Take away pride of intellect and blindness of heart, and reveal to them the surpassing beauty and power of thy Son Jesus Christ. Convince them of their sin in rejecting the atonement of the only Savior. Give moral courage to those who love thee, that they may boldy confess thy name.

Hasten the day of religious freedom in Turkey, Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa.

Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son in the Muslim world, and fulfill through him the prayer of Abraham thy friend, “O, that Ishmael might live before thee.” For Jesus’ sake. Amen.²

Tags: islam, missions

Time to Surrender in Afganistan

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:58:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There's no sense putting our troops in harm's way in the field if we won't protect them in Texas.

Clip Source: www.americanthinker.com

It's time to surrender in Afghanistan. Yep, that's right. Surrender.

Let's sign a document of surrender, apologize for our "aggression," withdraw the troops, and let Osama and the Taliban have a ticker-tape parade in the streets of Kabul before they force women back into their burkas, outlaw education for girls, and start executing homosexuals and Christians again.

The assassination of thirteen American troops at Ft. Hood by a Muslim officer in the U.S. Army is the last straw. Despite the overwhelming evidence, our political and military leaders refuse to acknowledge that Maj. Hasan was motivated by militant Islamist ideology.

And Gen. George Casey -- unbelievably -- actually said that if "diversity" in the military were to suffer, it would be an even greater tragedy than the Ft. Hood murders.

The enemy has not defeated us in battle. They can't. But the Ft. Hood assassinations show that we've already surrendered.

Tags: islam, political correctness, military, afganistan, surrender

Radical Muslim Cleric Who Defended World Trade Center Bombers a Guest of NYC Mayor

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:50:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Oops! How close to be a defendant is a "Unindicted co-conspirator"? He wants all Americans to become Muslim....God help the universe if this ever occurs. We'd be part of the dark force.

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg welcomed to City Hall an "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, later claiming he didn't know the radical Muslim cleric had been invited, the New York Post reported.

Siraj Wahhaj has called the FBI and CIA the "real terrorists," defended the convicted World Trade Center attack plotters and said his hope is that all Americans will become Muslim.

Wahhaj was among a group of religious and community leaders who met Wednesday with Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly to talk about the Fort Hood massacre that killed 13 last week in Texas.

In 1995, Wahhaj was identified as one of 170 who are "unindicted co-conspirators" in the World Trade Center bombing two years earlier, the Post said. He has denied involvement in the conspiracy.

Film based on Ayaan Hirsi Ali halted due to 'angry muslims'

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:49:55 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: *rolls eyes*

Clip Source: gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

Angry Muslims stop filming of Ayaan movie

By Marlou Visser

The filming of the life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Kenya has been stopped after unrest in the African country. Parts of the script in which Islam is criticized were leaked.

Commissioned by the Dutch broadcaster VPRO, IDTV is working on a biography about a Somali woman whose life closely resembles that of former politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A quote from the script was published in the Muslim magazine The Friday Bulletin [pdf]. In this scene “Ayaan” strikes her mother around the ears with a Koran and exclaims that she will wipe her behind with it.

Furious

Imams responded angrily and said that they perceive the filming as an insult to all Kenyan Muslims.

the Kenyan casting agency that IDTV had involved, does not want to cooperate [pdf] any further on the film after all the criticism. The film production company does not know how to proceed with the project, a spokesman said. The company in any case will not return to Kenya.

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Tags: ayaan hirsi ali, infidels makin muslims mad

The Camel In The Room

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:59:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: His former imam from the Falls Church, Virginia mosque where he once worshipped has said so, and indeed has said that, as a Muslim, Major Hasan could do nothing else other than what he did.

Note this phrase from the title: “US Terrorist Army Base.” Major Hasan is a psychiatrist, so he should know that projection–literally, “throwing off on the other person”–is one of the most common defenses that people employ when they think, or especially do, things of which they should, at the very least, be ashamed.

But the most damning piece of evidence was Hasan’s infamous “Grand Rounds” that he delivered back in 2007 while at Walter Reed Hospital, titled “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” In that presentation, which any reader can view in its entirety at the above link, Hasan repeatedly cited and often quoted surah and ayah (i.e., chapter and verse) from the Koran to justify some very forthright, even brazen commentary on the relationships

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President Obama spoke at that event, as he could hardly have failed to do. But neither he nor anyone else present seemed to want to discuss the camel in the room, which is terrorism.

It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know: no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. For what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice–in this world, and the next.

Obama did say one correct thing in the above paragraph: that no just and loving God looks with favor on acts of this kind. A careful read of the Koran and the Hadiths shows that the Allah of Islam is anything but loving, and that Allah’s idea of justice is simple: Follow My law, or My servants will make sure that you die slowly and painfully.

This statement, however, is incorrect: that no faith justifies such acts. Wrong, Mr. President. Classical Islam not only justifies such acts; it commands them.

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Tags: fort hood, islam, military, white house, terrorist, treason, jihad, brother mujahid, quran, allah is great

McDonald's Around the World

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:14:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

It all started with the Samurai Pork Burger. I saw this advertised outside a McDonald's in Bangkok back in 2004 and was somewhat perplexed. Why is it a Japanese name when I’m in Thailand? And what do Samurai have to do with pork? Actually, why is it called Samurai at all? Sadly, I never actually found out any of the answers, but it made me start paying closer attention to McDonald's every time I went to another country in Asia.

In Singapore, the national obsession with rice extends to having rice cakes in your burger.

Seaweed Flavoured Fries

Also, see below-right: the tasty tentacle snack from Japan. Yum.

In Indonesia, as the world’s largest Muslim country, chicken is far more popular than beefburgers (and, of course, the Samurai Pork Burger would be completely taboo). Hence you get combo sets of chicken, rice and Coke:

Spaghetti - Soaked In - Sugar!

In the middle of Moscow, on a busy Arbat street, you can get a take-out for your horse:

Heartbreaking: Fort Hood soldiers remembered, in pictures (21 images)

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sacbee.com

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) -- Sketching out lives that ended too soon, President Barack Obama remembered those slain at Fort Hood as husbands and fathers, immigrants and scholars, optimists and patriots -- an expectant mother, a granddaughter of veterans, a music teacher. Just below his speaking platform Tuesday, before thousands of mourners, the dead were remembered in a traditional Army way: 13 pairs of combat boots, each with an inverted rifle topped with a helmet. A picture of each person rested below the boots. "Neither this country, nor the values that we were founded upon, could exist without men and women like these 13 Americans," Obama told the throng. "And that is why we must pay tribute to their stories." (21 images)

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Tags: ft hood, massacre, muslim fanatic, murder, soldiers, america, land that i love, terrorist act

Best analysis on Fort Hood tragedy and our reaction

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:07:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I recommend you read the whole article at the source, it makes sense.

Clip Source: lynch.foreignpolicy.com

Since the Ft Hood atrocity, I've seen a meme going around that it somehow exposed a contradiction between "political correctness" and "security." The avoidance of Nidal Hassan's religion out of fear of offending anyone, goes the argument, created the conditions which allowed him to go undetected and unsanctioned in the months and years leading up to his rampage. American security, therefore, demands dropping the "political correctness" of avoiding a confrontation with Islamist ideas and asking the "tough questions" about Islam as a religion and the loyalty of Muslim-Americans.

This framing of the issue is almost 100% wrong.

Tags: army, united states

We Must Be On Guard For Extremism

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:38:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "When dealing with soldiers far from their homes and families and subject to the greatest imaginable stress, the Army needs to be on the watch for the predatory inroads of any form of political or religious extremism -- whether it be the jihadism to which Hasan was drawn or the Christian identity nonsense that inspired Timothy McVeigh."

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

There is a profound difference between watchfulness and a witch hunt.

In the aftermath of the Ft. Hood shootings, that's a crucial distinction, though nothing the authorities -- and particularly the U.S. Army brass -- have said so far has done much to help people make it

federal anti-terrorism operations intercepted 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al Awlaki

On Monday, he praised Hasan as a "hero" on his website and urged other American Muslim soldiers to emulate his example.

Clearly, the FBI screwed up here, but so did the Army.

The Army's apparent willingness to ignore this may have had less to do with promoting "diversity" or "multiculturalism" than it did with the service's large financial stake in Hasan's medical training and the hard time the military has in recruiting competent mental health professionals.

there is a need for perspective that doesn't impugn the more than 3,000 Muslim soldiers now serving their country in the Army

Get this: Muslims actually contributed to science 800 years ago

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:30:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And don't you freakin forget it. Funny how they are Muslim scientist, not Arab scientists.

Clip Source: entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

scientists using the Hubble space telescope reported the first sighting with visible light of a planet circling a star other than our own sun. It orbits 25 light years away around one of the brightest stars in the sky, called Fomalhaut.

Isn't that a curious name for a star? Not obviously mythological, it sounds as if it derives from some forgotten French astronomer. Not so; it is, in fact, from the Arabic fum u'l haut, meaning “mouth of the fish”. And Fomalhaut is not alone in having an Arabic derivation - there are well over 100 others, including Betelgeuse, Aldebaran and Deneb. How did the Arabs get to name stars?

The answer, as these two revealing books make clear, is that they once led the world in astronomy. Muslim scientists were mapping the heavens, and pondering our place in them, while Europeans were still gazing at the night sky with baffled awe.

Muslim Dad Jailed for Threats against Daughter

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:01:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “Mr. Al Mezel has threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her safety in the name of honour,”

Clip Source: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com

Taxi boss jailed for threats against daughter The Sun hat tip Sounder

The city’s taxi union boss was handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an “honour crime.”

Yusef Salam Al Mezel, 44, had pleaded guilty to criminally harassing his 23-year-old daughter, Eman, over three weeks in July 2007.

“Mr. Al Mezel has threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her safety in the name of honour,” Judge Lynn Ratushny wrote. “He has committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour.”

Al Mezel admitted to pushing his daughter, threatening to break her legs and kill her and smashing her computer. When she fled marriage to a Syrian man for a $9,000 dowry, he stalked her to a shelter

In Canada, they jail the Muslim fathers of runaways who threaten their daughters. In Ohio, they move to return them to their fathers. Perhaps Rifqa ought to go to ....Canada. Oh yeah, I forgot, she is under house arrest, sharia law enforced in Ohio

Tags: lack of honor, islam, violence against women, rifqa bary