Four men piled into a sports utility vehicle in May 2009 and planted what they believed were working explosives outside a Bronx synagogue in hopes of committing a terrorist attack, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
What they didn’t know at the time was a fifth man in the vehicle was a paid FBI informant who had been watching them for months. The four alleged plotters from Newburgh, N.Y., were arrested moments later.
“They were prepared to go all the way through with their destructive and murderous plan,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Hickey said.
But Vincent L. Briccetti, a lawyer for alleged plotter James Cromitie, argued that the men never would have engaged in the plot if not for the informant, Shaheed Hussain.
This guy puts the fruit in fruitcake.
Michael Bloomberg shamed those who oppose the Ground Zero Victory Mosque and told a Ramadan audience this week, “We are all Muslims.” CNN reported:
We are now in the Islamic holy month of fasting called Ramadan, and Bloomberg hosted last night an annual iftar, or fast-breaking dinner, at Gracie Mansion. Â (Gateway)
Bloomberg was also dumb enough to come out in support of  a Muslim cab-driver who was attacked by a far left loon, in what he perceived to be a hate-crime against Muslims:
The Ground Zero Victory Mosque imam thanked Obama this week for his support for the mosque.
Someone please tell me I’m dreaming.
CAIR Muslims Rally Their Useful Idiots to the Rescue of the Ground Zero Mosque
Vomit inducing stupidity:
NEW YORK — The planned mosque and Islamic center blocks from ground zero got a new boost Wednesday from a coalition of supporters that includes families of Sept. 11 victims.  (AP)
Interfaith Kook “Rabbi” Waskow: Â ‘I’m cooking my own private Islam, not the one of the terrorists…”
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, director of New York’s Shalom Center, said the project will show the world a form of Islam that espouses peace — not the Islam of the terrorists.
Faiza Ali, center, affairs director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations of New York, speaks at a news conference organized by the Coalition of New York Neighbors for American Values, as Rabbi Arthur Waskow, far left, director of the Shalom Center, listens, Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010, in New York. Ali offered support for the proposed lower Manhattan Islamic center and said, “The controversy over Park 51 and centers nationwide reveal a new wave of anti-Muslim sentiment.” (AP)
So AP writer Allen Breed begins his recent mosque piece by defining the word, “tolerance.” It’s a traditional rhetorical device, one learned back in sixth grade while plagiarizing the Encyclopedia Britannica.
His piece focuses on religion, of course, – but not Islam, Christianity or even my favorite, “the universal life force of the Grand Unicorn.”
His all powerful religion? Tolerance.
Of course, for him, tolerance can only play one way. As Yanks we must kneel before the alter of acceptance, while everyone else uses us as a footrest. (Greg Gutfeld, The Media Busters)
Useful idiots protest at a book-signing event in DC:Â The Welcome Wagon
Ferals against the counter jihad, bitches for the peace of Islam…..
9/11 Truther: Stop The Hate And Intolerance Over Mosque
MSNBC: Donna Marsh O’Connor, of the coalition New York Neighbors for American Values, explains why she supports the Park 51 Islamic Center.
MSNBC’s “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann omitted the fact that Ms. O’Connor is a member of the “9/11 Truth” movement, which believes the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. (Real Clear)
In a post from a couple of days ago, there is a screen shot of a McDonald’s with a sign that says they will not serve Muslims during Ramadan. Below, is the video from which that screen shot was taken. Keep in mind, that while this is systemic in as much as the state itself imposes these charges, in Spain, France and other nations where Muslims reach a certain critical mass, sharia law to one degree or another is imposed on the Islamic community by appointed sharia police and somewhat unabashedly. In fact, many Canadian Imams have been quoted as saying they will obey Canadian law so long as it does not conflict with Islamic ones, which of course, they do in pretty much any and every meaningful way.
An internet message posted in July delivered a deadly ultimatum to pharmacy owners.
A self-proclaimed “lover of al-Qaeda and Jihad” has given Moroccan pharmacy owners one month to remove cross symbols from storefronts or else face beheading.
“In 2009, crusade France lured owners of pharmacies with financial benefits and discounts in medications in return for placing the green cross along the green crescent,” said a letter published in late July by several online forums. “We demand you remove the crosses off the façades of your pharmacies and to respect our religion,” the web threat continued.
“Forewarned is forearmed,” the unnamed writer said. “We give you and those who work with you an interval of one month to return to your true nature and nation.”
Nadja Benaissa, German (Muslim) Â pop singer with the girl band ‘No Angels’ has been found guilty in assault trial after being accused of having unprotected sex and not informing her sexual partners she had HIV.
Nadja Benaissa, a member of the popular German girl band, won’t be heading to prison despite being found guilty of having unprotected sex with men and failing to inform them she was HIV positive.
A court in Germany spared the 28-year-old of jail time, and instead sentenced her to a two-year suspended sentence, according to the German news agency, dd (NYDaily News)
(TIME) For most of the 105 years it’s been in force, France’s secularity law has endeavored to segregate private religious belief from the strictly agnostic sphere of public life — usually without too much friction. But that relative harmony has given way to tension and conflict in recent years as secularists turn their attention to the spreading influence of Islam, now France’s second-largest faith.
It’s hard to imagine Time ever asking this in regard to Christianity in public life, in any country. No, this, they ask, because French secularism keeps butting heads with Islam. Never mind the screaming double standard. Some belief systems, after all, are “more equal than others.”
Do they pepper in other examples? Yes. But would this article have been written if not for the demands of Islam on French society? Unlikely. “Are the French Taking Secularism Too Far?” from Time, August 23/thanks to JW
Legal bid: Hasina Patel, whose husband was plot mastermind Mohammed Sidique Khan, is challenging the refusal to provide her with legal aid
The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims’ inquest – saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity.
Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner’s decision to exclude Khan’s death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings.
If the mother of one’s application is granted, October’s long-awaited inquest could be delayed by months of legal wrangling, to the distress of those who have waited more than five years for it to take place.
Islamo logic, Islamo chutzpah:
a man is up in court for killing his mother and father, he pleads to the court for leniency,  because he is an orphan,  now that’s  what we call  chutzpah…!
Lawyers for Miss Patel claim there should be ‘no material distinction’ between her and the families of those killed, because she ‘equally suffered the loss of a relative’.
But the move will anger bereaved families, who do not want the deaths of the terrorists included in the same inquest as the 52 innocents whose lives they took.
Miss Patel hopes to overturn the decision made by Lady Justice Hallett in May to hold a separate hearing into the deaths of the four bombers – Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Hasib Hussain, 18, and Jermaine Lindsay, 19.
The Government has already agreed to give legal aid to the families of the 52 victims. But Miss Patel’s request for equal funding was refused in May this year.
Protecting her ‘Reputation’
Yesterday Ashley Underwood QC, representing the Lord Chancellor, said Miss Patel wanted legal aid only to defend her reputation.
Clifford Tibber of Oury Clark Solicitors, which represents several victims’ families, said: ‘They have waited for more than five years for this and for them to wait any longer would be devastating for them.’
Miss Patel, who was born in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, married Khan in 2002 after they met at Dewsbury College, where both were studying to work in the education sector.
She has described her husband as a ‘good person’ who was brainwashed by Islamic militants.
Meet Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, who calls all you infidels ‘ignorant Islamophobes’ because you don’t  understand the “spiritual principles of Islam…”
“Islam forbids terrorism…”
Andy McCarthy: “What We Call Terrorism, They Don’t”
Big surprise. “Another ‘Moderate’ GZ Mosque Supporter Can’t Bring Himself to Call Hamas a Terrorist Organization,” by the peerless Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review, August 25/Jihad Watch
Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam Kringle, who seems like a nice enough fellow, reeled off the usual talking points about how Islam forbids terrorism and, therefore, if someone commits an act of terrorism that act is, by definition, un-Islamic.Then came the moment of truth: the very simple question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?” Have a look at the YouTube clip below. Like his friend Imam Feisal Rauf, Imam Kringle won’t answer the question. I pressed him, pointing out that it is a very simple question. And it is: Quite apart from the fact that Hamas is formally designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law, Hamas’s own charter makes abundantly clear — indeed, wears like a badge of honor — that Hamas exists solely for the purpose of driving Israel out of Palestine by violent jihad. Yet the imam cannot bring himself to say Hamas is a terrorist organization….
In “Inventing Moderate Islam” at National Review, August 24, Andrew McCarthy skewers the general tendency to dismiss as “Islamophobia” statements by non-Muslim analysts that are taken for granted as true when they’re made by Muslim leaders:
‘Secularism can never enjoy a general acceptance in an Islamic society.” The writer was not one of those sulfurous Islamophobes decried by CAIR and the professional Left. Quite the opposite: It was Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual guide and a favorite of the Saudi royal family. He made this assertion in his book, How the Imported Solutions Disastrously Affected Our Ummah, an excerpt of which was published by the Saudi Gazette just a couple of months ago.This was Qaradawi the “progressive” Muslim intellectual, much loved by Georgetown University’s burgeoning Islamic-studies programs. Like Harvard, Georgetown has been purchased into submission by tens of millions of Saudi petrodollars. In its resulting ardor to put Americans at ease about Islam, the university somehow manages to look beyond Qaradawi’s fatwas calling for the killing of American troops in Iraq and for suicide bombings in Israel. Qaradawi, they tell us, is a “moderate.” In fact, as Robert Spencer quips, if you were to say Islam and secularism cannot co-exist, John Esposito, Georgetown’s apologist-in-chief, would call you an Islamophobe; but when Qaradawi says it, no problem — according to Esposito, he’s a “reformist.”
And he’s not just any reformist. Another Qaradawi fan, Feisal Rauf, the similarly “moderate” imam behind the Ground Zero mosque project, tells us Qaradawi is also “the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.”…
Sophia Nelson of Essence magazine, the self-described “voice of reason,” explains how the term Muslim has become the new n-word    “It isn’t about religious tolerance in my opinion,” she said.
“Has Muslim become the new pejorative word out there?” Sophia Nelson questions
Some counterterrorism experts say the anti-Muslim sentiment that has saturated the airwaves and blogs in the debate over plans for an Islamic center near ground zero in Lower Manhattan is playing into the hands of extremists by bolstering their claims that the United States is hostile to Islam. Â (NYT )
Rachel Maddow on Wednesday mocked the math skills of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie only seconds before she made the exact same arithmetic mistake she bashed him for.
He makes a few points, but I still find this schmuck terribly unfunny:
