Month: November 2010

That's what Obama wanted all along: Gitmo detainee tried in civilian court cleared of terrorism charges

“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”   – Hussein Obama

Gitmo detainee tried in civilian court cleared of terrorism charges

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee tried in a U.S. civilian court, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy and cleared of 224 murder charges for taking part in an al-Qaeda terrorist cell’s deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

New York: First Gitmo detainee to face civilian trial acquitted of all but one charge

He worked for Osama bin Laden. He had a blasting cap in his room, and bought the gas tanks used in the truck bomb. And he is acquitted of everything but conspiracy.

This case shows how unequipped civilian courts are to deal with cases like this. “Gitmo detainee acquitted of all but 1 charge in NY,” by Tom Hays for The Associated Press, November 17 (thanks to JW):

The Blowback is Instant: Peter King rips the Ghailani verdict as a “total miscarriage of justice today in Manhattan’s federal civilian court.” He says it demonstrates the “absolute insanity of the Obama Administration’s decision to try al-Qaeda terrorists in civilian courts.” (Weekly Standard)

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San Fransicko Judge not of sound mind, but gets elected anyway….

Tranny Elected Judge

Mr. Kolayowski is a remarkable guy: both a transgender judge and a male lesbian. I would advise staying out of courtrooms in the Bay Area. (Moonbattery)

In other news:

Slick Willie Joins the TSA

The unacceptably intrusive new policies the TSA is using to make a show of supposedly doing something about the Muslim terror threat are drawing a new caliber of worker into the field of airport security:

(Moonbattery)

Soros & Chertoff Make a Killing On Controversial TSA Scanners

Well, what do you know…
Uncle George made a killing this year off of those controversial TSA scanners.
The Washington Examiner reported, via Free Republic (Gateway)

CNN Employee On TSA ‘Love Pats’: “I Felt Helpless, Violated and Humiliated”

"Image Problems"

Cops Thinking Cap Produces Mental Mush:

Former Met chief believes we “have to  shed our own certainty about being right, saying that doubt could be a counterbalance to “shrill conviction”.

Conflicts, crimes and violence are just some of the reasons why some people no longer see religion as a force for good, former Met chief warns.

Religion needs a new image, says former Met chief (Christian Today) thanks to Mullah

Lord Ian Blair has warned that violence, infighting and abuse are obscuring much of the good that people of faith are doing in the world today.

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Niqab "forbidden?" Not. What does the Koran really say about the veil?

Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowment Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: Wearing the Niqab Is Forbidden in Islam

Not so.  My Koran from the ‘King Fahd Academy’ must not be doubted. And besides, the Saudis call the shots:

Surah 33. AlAhzab,  59 O prophet! Tell your wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their cloaks  (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except eyes or one eye to see the way) that will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed.  And Allah is oft-forgiving, most merciful.

MEMRI

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowment Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq, which aired on Al-Hayat 2 TV on November 8, 2010:

Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: Wearing the niqab is completely forbidden in Islam.

Interviewer: It is forbidden.

Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: Yes.

Interviewer: So not only is it not a duty – it is even forbidden?

Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: It is not a duty, not part of the Sunna, and not recommended or anything.

[…]

There is another thing – the niqab prevents interpersonal communication. Islam strives to benefit society, and the spreading of the niqab is not in the best interest of society. The niqab is used to commit crimes. This has happened is several Islamic countries. In Somalia, for example, two veiled women blew themselves up in a large mosque, killing more than 50 people. Interpersonal communication is impossible unless people’s faces are visible. If I talk to somebody, I want to see how my words affect this person – whether what I say is accepted or causes anger, and so on. The niqab prevents us from communicating with one another.

Interviewer: What is your view on girls who are made to wear the hijab? In Egypt, it is very common these days to make 3-4 year old girls wear the hijab, and if you ask their parents, they say it is in order to get her used to the hijab.

Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq: First of all, this is not required by Islam. Let me tell you a story. The late Sheik Tantawi once told me that he went to inaugurate an Al-Azhar elementary school for girls, in Burj Al-Arab, I think. He told me that he was astounded to see all the girls there wearing the hijab. They were only six years old. So he asked: Why do you force them to wear the hijab? He was told that their parents insist upon it. This is a serious mistake, because a girl of this age wants to experience her childhood and play with her peers. Why would we deprive her of this? This hinders her development and her education. It is totally unnecessary.

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Germany: dismissive feeling gone

Germany warns of “concrete indications” of planned jihadist attacks on airports, railways

The “misunderstandings” of the Religion of Peace just keep on coming. Funny how that keeps happening, not to mention the uniformity with which Islam is so routinely “misunderstood.” “Germany tightens airport security over attacks threat,” from BBCNews, November 17: via JW:

Germany is increasing security at airports and railway stations in light of “concrete indications” of terrorist attacks being planned for the end of November. (continued below the fold)

Other news (in German)

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Mark Steyn & Liberal Society

Mark Steyn Quote:

A few months after 9/11, I was strolling along the Boulevard de Maisonneuve in Montréal. Across the street there was an “adult” shop with its window full of very explicit gay sex paraphernalia. Struggling past it, laden with shopping bags, was a Muslim woman covered from head to toe. It’s not hard to figure where we’re going:

In ten years’ time, the Muslim woman will still be here, along with many others. The gay sex shop will be gone.

Opposing the burqa will cause bloodbath

Burka Bloodbath (Gates of Vienna)

The video below is a news report from Norwegian TV. Part of it is English, and part in Norwegian with subtitles. It features the “British” Muslim firebrand Anjem Choudary and some of his Muslima disciples, discussing the severe consequences that await the kuffar if they attempt to ban the burka.

Many thanks to Kitman for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Indoctrination and terror threats are a package deal for this lot. These freaks mean what they say……

More burqa stories:

Jailed cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, one of two brothers who ran Islamabad’s radical Red Mosque, was caught fleeing the violence at his mosque dressed in a burka. This was after he told his students to sacrifice themselves. At least 100 people died, mostly students, when security forces stormed the mosque in a bid to end the siege and flush out pro-Taliban militants from the complex.(Gateway)

WTF are we fighting for?

Afghanistan: Convert from Islam to Christianity arrested, tortured, faces trial for apostasy

But wait! I thought all the learned analysts had assured us that there is no death penalty for apostasy in Islam! Isn’t that right, Dr. Bassiouni? Mr. Kruse? Ms. Heagney?

Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed government has done this before. Remember Abdul Rahman?

“Mossa’s day in court,” by Mindy Belz in World Magazine, November 13 (thanks to JW)

Absolute insanity. Not one of our soldiers should have to die to establish “Democracy Under Sharia” – Mission Impossible  in a corrupt and hopeless land such as Afghanistan.

Pakistan: Christian woman sentenced to death for “blasphemy” (not to worry, the pope is onto it. If he cannot save her, who will?

The family of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy is appealing the verdict with the Lahore High Court. Asia Bibi, a mother of two and field hand, was sentenced to death for allegedly making slanderous remarks about the Prophet Muhammad. (JW)

Update: “The campaign to confront the country’s blasphemy laws…is hampered by the danger of being accused of undermining Islam” (JW)

Religion of gun-fighting clerics

QUETTA, Pakistan — A shootout inside a mosque in southwestern Pakistan wounded 18 people Wednesday in a dispute over who should lead prayers for one of Islam’s most important holidays, police said. (Canadian Press)

Don’t judge this too harshly. After all, don’t we hear about shootouts in churches all the time, over who has to clean up after the potluck supper, or who gets to be head of the parish council? Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes, It’s Really A Religion of Peace Update: “Pakistan mosque shootout leaves 18 injured,” from the Associated Press, November 17:

A shootout in a mosque in south-western Pakistan, caused by a dispute over who should lead prayers on one of Islam’s most important holidays, has left 18 people injured, police said today.Followers of the two rival religious leaders pulled out weapons and began shooting after arguing over which one should start Eid al-Adha prayers at a small mosque in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan province, Javed Ahmed, a police official, said….

And given the ever-present journalistic imperative to whitewash Islam, AP hastens to assure us that this is not the norm in a paragraph that would never find a counterpart in a story about a pedophile priest or money-grubbing evangelist:

Millions of people throughout Pakistan have been peacefully celebrating Eid al-Adha….

Oh, well, then!

Turkish Muslims Steal Sheep for Eid ‘Sacrifice’… (TROP)

"Gangster Government"

U.S Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said Americans are seeking a halt to what she called “gangster government,” as she spoke at rally of fellow Republicans on the first day of a lame-duck session of Congress.

Bachmann, who founded the Tea Party Caucus in the U.S. House, said this month’s midterm election results show Americans want government to reduce spending and the control it exerts over the private sector.

She decried what she called “gangster government, when government goes in and takes over one private industry at a time.” (Newsmax)

Meet Michelle  Obama’s high-powered, Soros-friendly bundler-turned-chief of staff

Goodbye, Susan Sher. Hello, Tina Tchen.

Readers of Culture of Corruption are already familiar with the name “Susan Sher.”

Earlier today, the White House announced that Sher was stepping down and heading back to the Windy City.

Who’s filling her place?

Another left-wing Chicago crony, of course.  (Michelle Malkin)

Obama unhinged:

Hannity: Obama Detached, Obsessed With Critics, Sources Say

Obama Whines: American Journalists ‘Never Say Thank You’

Really? But they bend over and spread ’em like Tingles, when they don’t fawn and gush all over him:

Obama Is Upset That American Press Does Not Bow Down & Thank Him… Even Though American Press Does Bow Down & Thank Him

Obama’s comment reeks of arrogance. He seems to think that press access is a privilege, not a right, and that he is under no obligation to even speak to reporters.

But not for David Remnick from the New Yorker, who pisses & moans all over himself and puts Tingles to shame:

“God-given talents,  extraordinary:  Obama above all others“

Dejected House Dems wipe away tears as GOP celebrates victory

Defeated Democrat members of Congress cry on the House floor (Eye on the world)

First, they needed “grief counselors“, and now they uncontrollably cry on the House floor. You just can’t make this stuff up.

Come on, you sissies, there is no tears in bloodsport!

Dejected Democrats wiped away tears on the House floor Monday night while Republicans congratulated themselves on winning back control of the lower chamber.

House members returned to the nation’s capital for the first time since Republicans captured the House two weeks ago. (The Hill)

Moonbat Tony BLiar Promotes Islam in Beijing with Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric

From the Muslim Brotherhood Daily Report:

Bosnian Grand Mufti Speaks Guest Of Tony Blair Foundation In Beijing

File photo from a meeting back in 2007 when BLiar hosted a breakfast meeting with distinguished scholars and religious  Islamic leaders.

BLiar: I ask people in the country and wider to listen to them. They are the authentic voices of Islam,” he said.   “The voices of extremism are no more representative of Islam than the use in times gone by of torture to force conversion to Christianity represented the teachings of Christ.”  (Al Beep)

Many people believe BLiar is an intelligent man. In that case we must assume that he knows with whom he associates:

Mustafa Ceric makes no bones about the fact that Muslims must obey shariah law. “The Islamic convenant, the shari’ah, is perpetual, it is not negotiable and it is not terminable,” he writes. According to him, “a European Muslim imamate” should be established “as a way of institutionalising Islam in Europe”. (By ‘imamate’ he means the application of shariah law in practice.) (source)

The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has announced that Bosnian Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric was one of the speakers invited to the 2010 Beijing Forum. According to the report:

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