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From Pakistans National Assembly Today:

Our ‘Moderate Pakistani Allies’ are seething:

ISLAMABAD: The treasury and opposition members in National Assembly (NA) Wednesday have made it clear on US that one billion Muslims will turn into suicide bombers if the holiest places of Makkah and Madina are attacked and warned Vetican City will not remain secure if any such threat is materialized.

They said this unanimously while participating in debate on foreign policy. Opposition legislator Ghulam Murtaza Satti said US was pursuing double standards. Those talking of launching any military offensive against Makkah and Medina are accursed. This will not happen nor will we allow it to happen.

Treasury member Rozina Tufail said Benazir Bhutto was striking deal with government and was seeking guarantee from US. If US presidential candidates are giving offensive statements then our candidates can also say that Vetican be attacked during the election campaign in the upcoming elections “, she added.

JUI-S legislator Hamid ul Haqqani said Muslim Ummah was facing the situation the sketch of which was presented by the last prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) 1400 years back.

Treasury member Ejaz Chaudhry said US was not friend of any one. ” We will teach the lesson to US if it dares to come forward to attack upon us. Americans are coward nation and they can do nothing. Army should not target their brethren. US aid is like killer disease AIDS We curse it. The whole nation does not want US aid. Those who are targeting humanity and justice are terrorists. Those who are engaged in freedom war are freedom fighters. US ship is close to sink. It is hurling threats like a coward.

Looks like Tancredo hit a nerve…

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Robert Spencer has more, here

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Hugh Fitzgerald comments, here

Read it all from the Pak Tribune

In other news:

UK: Whatever it takes to shut up the whistle blowers:

Attempted Censorhip under Gordon Brownnose

Channel 4 mosque programme ‘distorted’

By John Steele, Crime Correspondent

Police and prosecutors have made a formal complaint to the broadcasting watchdog, Ofcom, over a Channel 4 programme about extremism in mosques which allegedly “completely distorted” the views of those involved.

The Green Road Mosque in Birmingham was one of those featured in the programme
The complaint was made after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring a charge against the broadcaster under the 1986 Public Order Act, following an inquiry by West Midlands Police.

The CPS also found there was not enough evidence to support charges against those featured in Undercover Mosque, which was shown in the Dispatches slot in January.

Police expanded the initial inquiry into those featured in the programme to investigate those who made it.

In a joint statement, the force and the CPS said a formal complaint about the documentary had been lodged with Ofcom.

This prompted a robust response from Channel 4, which said: “We believe the offensive views expressed by the people revealed in the programme speak for themselves. We didn’t put these words into people’s mouths and all extracts were carefully contextualised.

“The West Midlands Police have provided no evidence whatsoever to support their allegations.”

The question is: Who instigated this, how corrupt and infiltrated is the police and will this intimidation attempt prevent further investigative reporting?

Read it all

Weasel Zippers has more, here

UK Police: Hate Preachers Sermons “Taken out of Context”…

Taken out of context?  Here are a few quotes from the documentary, explain to me how these could have been taken out of context?….

Dr Ijaz Mian on the subject of non-muslim laws: “You cannot accept the rule of the kaffir [non-Muslim], We have to rule ourselves and we have to rule the others”
Abu Usamah saying of apostates: “Whom ever changes his religion from Al Islam to anything else kill him”.
Abu Usamah speaking on the deficiency of women’s minds: “Allah has created the woman, even if she gets a PhD, deficient. Her intellect is incomplete, deficient. She may be suffering from hormones that will make her emotional. It takes two witnesses of a woman to equal the one witness of the man.”
Praises the killer of a British soldier serving in Afghanistan, stating “The hero of Islam is the one who separated his head from his shoulders.”
Sheikh Al Faisal: “You have to bomb the Indian businesses, and as for the Jews you kill them physically”
Advocates violent Jihad against the non-muslims and predicting that an army of Muslims will arise against the non-muslims in England.

The British police have not only reported Channel 4 to regulators, but they also decided not to charge any of the preachers.  How wonderful….

 Al Bebeeceera sux real big:

 C4 ‘distorted’ mosque programme

“All the speakers featured in the film were offered a right to reply and none denied making these comments, nor have any of them complained to Ofcom to our knowledge.” 

 The question is: Who are the brain police?

Kudo’s to Chanel 4 for sticking by its guns.

Charles from LGF put the whole kaboodle up just in case you missed it, here

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Saudi Jihad On Free Speech

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY has a piece on the lawsuit jihad by Saudi terror financier Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, a Saudi billionaire who’s threatened to sue them for good press. After 9/11, dozens of books and newspaper articles cited U.S. government officials and other sources who alleged that bin Mahfouz was under investigation as a “suspected terrorist financier.” Namely, the allegation that he helped fund Osama bin Laden’s operations through Saudi banks and charities. he negative press hurt his family business in the West, and Mahfouz marshaled a team of lawyers to threaten the publishers to retract the allegations and print apologies. Those who didn’t lie down were sued in courts in the U.K., which has more lenient libel laws than the U.S.

Read it all

Mahfuz is quite successful with his intimidation/blackmail:

* Here is Julia Gorin refuting lies, propaganda and false accusations;

Fact is: a US-Nato mission has gone horribly wrong. Giving Kosovo, part of the Christian heartland of Serbia to the Muhammedans will simply result in wetting their appetite. Eurabia is much closer now than it ever was in history.

‘Ah yes, my agenda. My nefarious agenda that we should be fighting the terrorists instead of helping them. ‘

Hiding Genocide in Kosovo:

A Crime against God and Humanity

is not a typical book of the current events or international affairs genre. Nor is it a journalistic expose. It is simply a book of stories, true stories of what has taken place in Kosovo since the end of the 1999 war: shooting, beheading, burning, bomb attack, maiming, rape, abduction, torture, desecration, theft, mutilation, and harassment.

While Western policymakers (the U.S., EU, UN, NATO,OSCE, etc.) delude themselves that they are buying the goodwill of the Muslim world by the sacrifice of a small Christian community in Kosovo, the perpetrators know this is yet another step toward Islamic dominance of all Europe.

This is a struggle for the soul and future not just for Kosovo, not just for Serbia, but for an entire continent.
That we shouldn’t be staking our future on a Greater Albania, whose “nominal” Muslim loyalties face toward Mecca, as Jesse Petrilla–founder of the United American Committee–wrote in his recent article, “My Trip to Bosnia and Kosovo.”

Is it a devious agenda to convince Americans to discontinue helping Muslims cleanse Christians from Kosovo, and to quit sacrificing a small Christian community in the hopes of winning jihadist good will?

 Clitman Bungle in the Balkan Jungle:

Julia Gorin answers her critics today on Front Page

The Farce of our Kosovo Mission

After my article exposing the farce of our Kosovo mission ran in American Legion Magazine last month, I heard from a soldier in Kosovo who was incredulous that someone was actually and finally talking about the region. I proceeded to publish two letters from him in this space, about his experiences and observations there, some of which confirm the free run that jihadists have in Kosovo, the fact that Albanians are being radicalized, and the notion that we should not have intervened in Kosovo as we did. Only there since November, the National Guard soldier stopped short of confirming the ethnic cleansing and slow genocide of Kosovo’s Christians that I’ve described in my articles.

Unfortunately for the deniers, the facts are also now chronicled in a book by a member of the international mission in Kosovo, entitled Hiding Genocide in Kosovo—a Crime Against God and Humanity.

But a National Guard soldier named Nicki Fellenzer, who runs a blog and also read the Legion article, found the piece to be at odds with her experiences in Kosovo. She (along with fellow military blogger Brad Staggs), wrote that my commentary was “filled with wild accusations, inaccuracies, distortions and downright lies that serve only to hurt our peacekeeping mission in Kosovo and shed a negative light on the Soldiers who are carrying out said mission…We’re disappointed in [Julia Gorin]…for holding [her] agenda as more important than the troops who are sworn to protect [her] freedom to promote it.”

Be sure to read it all…

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* We have in our midst some of the most delusional, demented distortionists, spin-doctors, appeasers and suckers for anarcho-socialism and Islamic causes in the history of mankind. One of them, a doctor Gideon Polya, believes he should be the self-appointed spokesman for Muhammedan causes in Australia.

Doc Polya shamelessly waves the black flag of Islamofascism and tells us we got it all wrong. We are racist, xenophobic, rednecks and jihad is nothing but ‘inner struggle’-

In some cases a simple laxative does the trick, but unfortunately it doesn’t cure the mental flatulence of this good doctor.

‘Inner struggle’ also doesn’t work very well against the global jihad…

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Australian racism & jihad-terror conflation

By Dr. Gideon Polya, MWC chief political editor

AUSTRALIA has just had another politician and Mainstream media feeding frenzy of salivation, Islamophobia and threat to the beleaguered Muslim community as a result of intemperate and abusive comments made by an Australian Muslim cleric Sheikh Feiz Muhammed, leader of the Global Islamic Youth Centre, Liverpool, Sydney (for a recent report ).

In short, Australia-born Sheikh Muhammed variously made comments on “jihad” (actually Islamic spiritual struggle but to racist, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic Western media and politicians a “red button” synonymous with “terrorism”). However his sermon also included words that could have IMPLIED “violent jihad” as opposed to “spiritual struggle” (and hence possibly violating Australia’s anti-terrorism laws with a possible sentence of 15 years in prison – the maximum punishment for intentionally recruiting (including inciting and encouraging) a person to participate in terrorism, according to a top human rights lawyer Lex Lasry QC).

Jihad literally means struggle in the way of God and is sometimes referred to as the sixth pillar of Islam. Thus jihad is a spiritual struggle against weakness and darkness. However jihad has the connotation of more active, collective struggle as in the Christian term “crusade” – thus Christians can have non-violent “crusades” against poverty, ignorance and injustice based on Words and certainly had a succession of violent Middle Ages “crusades” (Deeds) against Indigenous Muslims living in the Holy Land. Notoriously assisted by anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic Western politicians, Racist Zionists and media, jihad has become synonymous in the West with “terrorism”.

A pro-peace, anti-racism agnostic humanist analysis

Vastly more serious than heat-of-the-moment intemperate racial abuse by an unwisely abusive and intemperate cleric (serious as that is, of course) were the comments by politicians and others getting on the Islamophobic bandwagon (good politics in currently disturbingly anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and xenophobic Australia) e.g. take away his residence, citizenship, passport, job etc. – thus fanning the flames of xenophobia even further.

The harsh reality is that Muslims in Australia are constantly abused (a) collectively by politicians and other commentators through the Mainstream media on any pretext – as this episode illustrates – and (b) at a personal level – e.g. a mosque burned down; a crowded mosque room full of women and children shot at;

* When and where, doctor Polya? Last time we checked, synagogues were attacked, Jews were bashed and 4 churches shot up and burned in the Muhammedan backlash to the Cronulla ‘riots’- which caused the ‘backlash’ in the first place.

These stupid Christian soldiers brought it on themselves, right?

* Let me guess, doctor: When have you ‘reverted’ to the Muhammedan faith? You wouldn’t be an enemy agent on the Arab payroll?

Read it all. This guy gives you the creeps…

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Here’s the latest on the Smiling Mugshot “Just Fireworks” Muslim Terrorists, Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed and Yousef Samir Megahed:

* They did NOT have “just fireworks.” They had pipe bombs. What were they going to do with them just 7 miles from a Naval installation?

* What was on their laptop, also seized by police? Which terrorist group’s stuff is on it?

Smiling Muslim Terrorists Mugshot: We’re Laughing at You, Stupid Americans

There’s no (terrorism link). . . . We don’t think there’s that much to it.

Well, the FBI told the two men’s neighbor that they are TERRORISTS, after all. Hello . . .? Terrorists “not linked to terror,” indeed. Chalk up this tremendous catch to alert deputy sheriffs in a South Carolina County, NOT the Famous But Incompetent PC Keystone Koppery run out of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. Which terrorist group is it? My thoughts: HAMAS/Islamic Jihad, Al-Qaeda, or Hezbollah. Likely one of the first two, since they are from countries where Shi’ites are in the vast minority and since University of Sami’s Friends, er . . . South Florida, attracts Sunni terrorist plotters.

* The Smiling Mugshot “Just Fireworks” Terrorists already have a lawyer, Dennis James Rhoad, who has his own problems. He was charged with coke possession and, for a time, suspended from the practice of law in South Carolina. (Thanks to reader William for the tip.)

More interesting, scary stuff on the terrorist duo and the University of South Florida, from Tampa Bay’s 10 News (thanks to reader Duane for the tip):

Above:  Having fun in court: CAIR’s Ahmed Bedier sez they’re ‘really good kidz’

When 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed and 21-year-old Yousef Megahed appeared in court, there was no question in the prosecutor’s mind what this was all about. She says Mohamed was in possession of pipe bombs and materials that could have been made to make more bombs.
Sherri Jackson who was Megahed’s neighbor until March says FBI agents told her they were terrorists.

Jackson says the FBI came to question her Sunday.

Jackson says things seemed suspicious

She says she saw lot of traffic, a lot of people going back and forth, oxygen tanks being delivered UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and a lot going on.

Read it all from Debbie Schlussel

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“Your Black Muslim Bakery” Killer Killed One Of The Most Respected Black Journo’s in America

* Strange only that the MSM, who usually throws hissy fits when one of theirs is murdered, hardly reports on this case:

Paul Harris in New York
Sunday August 5, 2007
The Observer

Devaughndre Broussard, 19, Assassin

For Chauncey Bailey, one of the most respected black journalists in America, last Thursday morning’s trip to work should have been like any other. The editor of the Oakland Post was strolling down the pavement in Oakland, a mostly black city next to San Francisco. It was 7.30am and Bailey, 57, lived just a few blocks away.
Suddenly, a man dressed in black and wearing a mask appeared. Shots rang out and Bailey collapsed from three bullet wounds. He was dead before an ambulance arrived; the apparent victim of an assassination.

Bailey’s murder has shocked the San Francisco Bay Area. It has also rippled out into the rest of America as the country comes to grips with the daylight murder of a senior newspaper editor. There is little doubt that Bailey was executed. It was the kind of ruthless murder more likely to be found on the streets of Moscow than northern California. ‘This was no random act,’ said Sergeant Derwin Longmire, an Oakland police spokesman.
Bailey’s routine was well-known and it is likely that his killer had been monitoring his movements for some time before he struck. After the shooting, the killer was picked up by a van.

More here

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Or link to Michelle Malkin

* It is a disgusting indictment of the British political classes who have allowed Islamofascism to fester unchecked in the UK, and have let thousands of Islamists into the country; the British left who cynically supported Islamic extremism to further their vendetta against Israel; and the politically correct British media who failed to carry out their duty of informing the nation.

The words ‘stable door’ and ‘bolted’ spring to mind. It will take a generation to put this right. And the first step should be to neutralize our own dhimmis.

From a posting on LGF

Video: Radicalized British Muslims

A British TV investigation into the frightening extent of radical Islam in the UK, in five parts; here’s part one:

The other four parts of this well-done show are available here.

The Muslim Public Affairs Committee goes into damage control mode and instructs the believers to defend their faith:

MPACUK is seething:

Dispatches: Muslim viewers – make your voices heard!

Its all the ‘misguided policies of the British government that are causing Muslims to take up arms against their host country’- the usual drivel from the ummah…. 

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Amil Imani doesn’t buy any:

A Bridge to “Moderate” Islam Is In Fact a Road to Hell 

Islam is a religion of peace and the great majority of Muslims are not party to any plans and actions of the radicals’- so claim academic pundits, leftist journalists, and hired Islamic apologists. The incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts the people into a sleep of complacency.

Complacency and appeasement on the part of the free world and those well-meaning, non-practicing Muslims, can only serve Islam. There is no chance for co-existence with Islam. All one needs to know is to see what is happening in Islamic countries. That is exactly what is in store for the presently free people of the world if Islam is not held in check.

The average free person, who is busy with all manner of demands on his time and resources, would hardly want to worry about the very real threat which mainstream Islam poses to his life and to his future. It is so much easier to accept the claims of authorities who assure us not to worry; ‘it’s just a tiny minority of extremists’, and ‘soon the great majority of “moderates” will triumph over the crazy zealots’. So we lull ourselves back to the comfort of our pretenses, serene in knowing that the “experts” have it all under control.

Wait! Aren’t these the same experts who told us Hitler could not possibly be crazy enough to attack Russia or Britain? Aren’t these the same “experts” who tried to cover up Mao Tse Tung’s reign of terror in China, or Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia? Isn’t this the same “expertise” that assured us in the 1970’s that inflation was good, and could never be accompanied by recession?

Aren’t these the same folks who tell us the Saudis are our best friends in the Middle East, that the Titanic was unsinkable, that we should not succumb to our racist impulses by reporting suspicious Muslim men who are learning to fly jumbo jets, and that goods imported from China are perfectly safe? Or that if we just “open up dialogue with our enemies”, we can create peace?? Hmmm…It seems like we have much to worry about when the “authorities” begin to disseminate their collective wisdom. And don’t bank on the politicians either. They are the master practitioners of the art of the politically correct.

Muslims believe that those who resist conversion to Islam and the establishment of the prominence of Islamic global domination are Islam’s enemies who can never be trusted or treated as equals.

There is more, much more. Read it all 

One of many such verses of hate: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 196:

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Apostle said, ” I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ and whoever says, ‘None has the right to be worshipped but Allah,’ his life and property will be saved by me except for Islamic law, and his accounts will be with Allah, (either to punish him or to forgive him.)”

Forget all you know about spiritually uplifting ideals of brotherly love and peace (the word “love” is nearly absent in the Quran). Peace and earthly enlightenment only comes after slaughter and victory in a war in which Islam is victorious. If, in any battle or time period, Islam is not victorious, Muslims must lie in wait until the right time and then ambush their enemies and establish Islamic rule. Until that time, policies of terrorism and deceit are both sanctioned and advised.

* Apostates of Islam tell the truth. That’s why they must be killed. 

Winds of Jihad Vice President Shem depicts the suicidally corrupt jerks from the MSM in his latest cartoon:

Creeping Sharia: Criminalizing Free Speech

When was the last time someone in America was arrested for flushing pages of a book down the toilet? “How pitiful it is that the Judeo-Christian community has become so intimidated, insecure, and cuckolded that one of the primary defenders of our culture, a person willing to fight the Islamic propagandists face-to-face and head-on, is Christopher Hitchens, an atheist.” Indeed.

ACADEMIC FREEDOM By Rabbi Aryeh Spero

In today’s America, you can burn our flag but you can not mistreat the Koran. Burning the flag is freedom of expression, a form of allowable speech our courts tell us, but mistreating the Koran is a criminal felony punishable under hate-crime legislation. If you are a Moslem you can, together with your brothers, wave posters at public protests on college campuses calling for “Killing the Jews”, “Destroy Israel” and declare “Jews are Sons of Apes”. This our college administrators tell us is “free speech”. However, you have no right, even in private, to demean a book if it is the Koran. If you do, you go to jail. This is a form of expression unallowable — perhaps America’s only remaining prohibition.

Last week, a student at Pace University in New York was formally charged with a felony for stuffing a Koran in a commode.

CAIR, a Muslim organization, filed suit, claiming it constituted a hate-crime. Was this hate directed at a person? No. Was it painted on the walls of an institution where people of a specific race congregate? No. Was anyone threatened? No. It was simply one person’s rejection, in a physical way, of a philosophy. People do it and have done it, all the time, with the Christian Bible, the Constitution, our flag, the Republican Platform. When was the last time you ever heard of someone in America possibly going to jail because he flushed some pages of a book down a toilet?

This case is important not only because an American is going to be criminally charged for an act that, while not nice, is simply not criminal but because, in the name of political correctness, we are changing centuries of legal definitions in order to appease bullies who are now telling us what we can do and what we can’t. Worse, they are making us submit to a double standard where what is allowable for them is not allowable for us. For example, people can burn the Christian Bible but not soak a Koran. While American museums can display depictions of Mary in dung and Jesus in urine, one is prohibited from demonstrating disapproval and horror regarding verses in the Koran. Somehow it is not a hate crime when young and middle-aged Moslems publicly call for the deaths of our children and raise signs on our streets threatening a Holocaust, here, against non-believing “infidels”.

Read it all.

Link to Atlas

Immediately covering for Muslims with explosives. Western media aligning itself with the terrorist forces. Riehl World has the whole story and photos too here. Larwyn writes, “one bomb ready to go, materials for another using chemicals.”

But NO, it’s NOT terror. So WTF is terror?

‘No Link to Terrorism ‘- ABC NEWS

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Sunday that there was no evidence of a terrorism link in the case of two college engineering students who possessed explosive materials in South Carolina over the weekend.

The two men, described in local media reports as non-U.S. citizens of Middle Eastern descent, were taken into custody late on Saturday near Charleston, South Carolina, after local police noticed what looked like explosives in their Toyota sedan during a routine traffic stop.

The FBI said the material proved to be for making homemade fireworks, not dangerous munitions.

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* Middle Eastern men seem to have a cultural thing with homemade fireworks.

Not to worry then, all’s well in Berkeley, right?

The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed (seen in the video attachment) were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176. Among the explosive devices found were igniters and fusers. Few details about the suspects are known at this time. They are believed to be students at a Florida college. They are of Middle Eastern descent and are NOT US citizens. Neither man has been charged, but charges are expected Monday. A press conference will be held in Berkeley County on Monday morning. Among the potential charges is possession of unlawful explosives. Officials are not at this time releasing any additional information. Highway 176 in Goose Creek was shut down and has since reopened. Stay tuned to ABC News 4 and for details as they become available.

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Update:

Pipe-bomb’s, not firecrackers

‘One man’s pipe-bomb is another man’s firecracker’ 

While the MSM just can’t be interested in the increasing jihad activities in the US, CAIR the front for Hamas, spokesman Ahmed Bedier already started making a mockery of the justice system and the general ignorance in law-enforcement and the judiciary with regards to the jihad ideology:

Thank You, America, for Arresting Us. . . . Soon We Will Urinate All Over Your “Justice” System, Stupid InfidelsAhmed Abda Sherf Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Yousef Samir Megahed is Egyptian. They were stopped, initially, for speeding on U.S. Highway 176 near Goose Creek, South Carolina. The highway was closed by authorities for seven hours thereafter. They were found in possession of incendiary and explosive devices, which they claimed were for fireworks (Memo to Muslim Terrorists: the Fourth of July was a month ago; get your stories and timing for attacks, straight). Is there a fireworks-and-hotdogs holiday on the Fourth of August I never knew about? What’s more, they are college students at the USF–the University of South Florida a/k/a the University of Sami’s (Terrorist Professor Al-Arian) Friends. Same school as not only Al-Arian, but also the two Saudi students who entered a schoolbus of children in Tampa as a dry run.There is more on Debbie Schlussel

Winds of Jihad reader Savitch once again demonstrates his extraordinary talent and humor:

The presence of Islam in our education system is absurd and suicidally insane.

Click on link to enlarge images or go to the maestro’s site

While we’re at it: Make sure the hijab goes too

By Daniel Pipes

Once-exotic forms of Muslim women’s head and body garments have now become both familiar in the West and the source of fractious political and legal disputes.

The hijab (a hair-covering) is ever-more popular in Detroit but has been banned from French public schools, discouraged by the International Football Association Board, and excluded from a court in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The jilbab (a garment that leaves only the face and hands exposed) was, in a case partly argued by Tony Blair’s wife, first allowed, then forbidden in an English school.

Sultaana Freeman wanted her Florida drivers license to show her in a niqab, but an Orlando court said no.

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The jilbab (a garment that leaves only the face and hands exposed) was, in a case partly argued by Tony Blair’s wife, first allowed, then forbidden in an English school.

The niqab (a total covering except for the eyes) became a hot topic when Jack Straw, a British Labour politician, wrote that he “felt uncomfortable” talking to women wearing it.

Which resulted in death-threats and the most absurd accusations as we can see above

If Quebec election authorities disallow the niqab from voting booths and a judge disallowed it from a Florida driver’s license, it is permitted in British courts and a Dutch candidate for municipal office wore one. A British hospital even invented a niqab patients’ gown.
The burqa (a total head and body covering) has been barred from classrooms in the UK, is illegal in public places in five Belgian towns, and the Dutch legislature has attempted to ban it altogether. Italy’s “Charter of Values, Citizenship and Immigration” calls face coverings not acceptable. A courtroom in the United States has expelled a burqa’ed woman.

In brief, no general rules govern Islamic headwear in the West.

Some observers would ban hijabs from public places, but what legal grounds exist for doing so? Following my rule of thumb that Muslims enjoy the same rights and obligations as other citizens, but not special rights or obligations, a woman’s freedom of expression grants her the option to wear a hijab.

* But usually its not their ‘freedom of expression’-, its a certain type of man who whack the females into this ‘freedom..’

In contrast, burqas and niqabs should be banned in all public spaces because they present a security risk. Anyone might lurk under those shrouds – female or male, Muslim or non-Muslim, decent citizen, fugitive, or criminal – with who knows what evil purposes.

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Former speaker says energy independence is key

By BOB DEANS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Washington — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday the Bush administration is waging a “phony war” on terrorism, warning that the country is losing ground against the kind of Islamic radicals who attacked the country on Sept. 11, 2001.

A more effective approach, said Gingrich, would begin with a national energy strategy aimed at weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil and some of the regimes that petro-dollars support.

“None of you should believe we are winning this war. There is no evidence that we are winning this war,” the ex-Georgian told a group of about 300 students attending a conference for collegiate conservatives.

Gingrich, who led the so-called Republican Revolution that won the GOP control of both houses of Congress in 1994 midterm elections, said more must be done to marshal national resources to combat Islamic militants at home and abroad and to prepare the country for future attack. He was unstinting in his criticism of his fellow Republicans, in the White House and on Capitol Hill.

“We were in charge for six years,” he said, referring to the period between 2001 and early 2007, when the GOP controlled the White House and both houses of Congress. “I don’t think you can look and say that was a great success.”

Thursday’s National Conservative Student Conference was sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation, a Herndon, Va.-based group founded in the 1960s as a political counterpoint to the left-leaning activists who coalesced around the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War.

Gingrich retains strong support among conservatives and ranked fifth among possible Republican nominees behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, with the backing of 7 percent of those queried in a ABC News/Washington Post poll taken last week. The poll surveyed 403 Republicans and Republican-leaning adults nationwide and has a 5 percentage-point margin of error.

“I believe we need to find leaders who are prepared to tell the truth … about the failures of the performance of Republicans … failed bureaucracies … about how dangerous the world is,” he said when asked what kind of Republican he would back for president.

* Sounds better than Giuliani already, what say you?

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Al Qaeda Trumpet Adam Gadahn Threatens  Embassy Jihad

(CNN) — U.S. Embassies and American interests “at home and abroad” are prime targets for terrorist attacks, American al Qaeda member Adam Yahiye Gadahn said in a newly released al Qaeda-produced video.

“We shall continue to target you at home and abroad just as you target us at home and abroad … ,” Gadahn — also known as Azzam the American — says in the video provided to CNN by www.LauraMansfield.com, a Web site that analyzes terrorism.

Later in the video, which is about an hour long and takes the form of a documentary, the self-proclaimed American jihadist makes explicit threats against the United States and U.S. interests, singling out embassies and consulates.

“These spy dens and military command and control centers — from which you plotted your aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq and which still provide vital moral, military, material and logistical support to the crusade — shall continue to be legitimate targets for brave Muslims … until and unless you heed our demands: Stop the crusade and leave the Muslims alone,” he said.

Link to CNN