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Colorado arrest warrant for radical cleric in Ft. Hood case dismissed in 2002

In 2002, the U.S. Attorney's office in Denver canceled an arrest warrant for radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki the day before he was detained entering the U.S.  Shortly after that,  he left the U.S. for good, according to ABC News. 

David ,Gaouette, the supervisor of terror cases in Denver, at the time,  was appointed U.S. Attorney in Denver in August by the Obama administration.

...The warrant was cancelled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver, even though Awlaki was on a terror watch list, and even though the office's supervising prosecutor for terror cases -- who has now been named by President Obama as the new U.S. Attorney in Denver -- had been fully briefed on Awlaki's alleged terror ties, according to investigators.

...Gaouette's office did not reply to a request for a copy of the Awlaki arrest warrant.  The clerk's office for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado was also unable to provide a copy of the warrant, citing the age of the case and the fact that the warrant was rescinded.

 The morning after the warrant was cancelled, October 10, 2002, Awlaki stepped off a Saudi Airlines flight from Riyadh to New York.

...After his release from JFK, Awlaki returned briefly to Northern Virginia. According to the Washington Post, while there he visited a radical cleric named Ali al-Timimi and asked about recruiting young Muslims for jihad. In 2003, federal agents raided al-Timimi's home and seized documents and cassettes. He is now serving a life sentence after being convicted of inciting 11 young Muslim men, most of them American citizens, to fight with the Taliban against the U.S. in Afghanistan after 9/11.

How odd is it the day after the warrant was rescinded, Awlaki gets on a plane from Saudi Arabia and comes back into the U.S.?   It was like he knew.

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Beauty supply stores caught up in NY terrorcase : NPR  

Sep 24, 2009 ... U.S. Attorney David Gaouette, left, talks to members of his team as they ... One of the beauty supply shops where terrorsuspect Najibullah ...

 

British tip off led to arrest of US Mumbai suspect David Headley

Telegraph.co.uk - ‎Nov 25, 2009‎

British intelligence was responsible for the arrest of another US terrorist suspect, Najibullah Zazi, 24, who was allegedly planning attacks on the New York ...

Four police officers killed at coffee shop in Washington state

Terrible news this morning from Parkland, Washington, a suburb of Tacoma (40 miles south of Seattle) where four police officers were gunned down in a local coffee shop, part of a a small chain owned by a former police officer, Brad Carpenter. 

Robbery was not a motive.

Video:

The coffee shop is located close to McCord Air Force Base as you can see on the snapshot of a google map:

 
 
Last month on Halloween, a Seattle police officer was shot and killed in a likely domestic terrorist attack.  His partner was injured.  See:  Court documents reveal more about note, evidence on Monfort:

On Friday, additional court documents were released in the case of Christopher J. Monfort, the man charged with killing Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton, wounding of his partner, Britt Sweeney, and attempting to kill detectives who confronted him six days after the shooting.

It also detailed the full text of the threatening note left at the Oct. 22 arson scene of three police vehicles. Monfort also has been charged in that case...

The note left threatened other police deaths.  It's not known if today's ambush was a copy-cat of the October attack.

Update 11/30/09 7:23 AM CT:  Maurice Clemmons has been named a suspect in Sunday's ambush.  He was tracked to a home in Seattle.  Police have the home surrounded and shots have been fired.  The AP reports he may be wounded or deceased.

Clemmons was sentenced to 60 years or more when he lived in Arkansas for a crime but he had his sentenced reduced to 11 years by then governor Mike Huckabee (Huckabee's statement), it has been reported.

Update 10:50 AM CT:  Clemmons was not found in the home.  It is believed he has been shot in the abdomen.

Update 12/1/09 6:12 AM CT:  Clemmons was killed by police in Seattle earlier this morning about 90 minutes ago.  The police had been zeroing in on the homes of family members who may have aided him.

Report: Princeton and Columbia cancel anti-Islamist speaker!

Princeton and Columbia Universities canceled lectures featured Nonie Darwish, an activist against Islamism.  It has been reported Princeton and possibly Columbia caved to pressure from on campus Muslim groups and their supporters. 

Below is a recap of this by OU history professor,Stephen H. Norwood:

Last week's last-minute cancellation at Princeton and Columbia Universities of a lecture by Arab feminist Nonie Darwish- an author who has strongly denounced Islamic intolerance and jihadism - brings to mind American universities' unwillingness to protect campus free speech rights for opponents of Nazism during the 1930s.

Shame on these supposed bastions of free speech for rolling over rather than courageously defending academic freedom.

Princeton's reason for shutting down the scheduled presentation by Darwish strikingly resembles those given by Queens College's president in April 1938 when he withdrew an invitation to anti-Nazi German Jewish exile Ernst Toller to speak on campus.

For its part, Columbia says it cancelled Darwish's talk for a technical reason, because her trip was planned without sponsorship from any recognized Columbia group. I have no doubt, however, that the university could have found a way to accommodate this speaker if it had wanted to.

...It is chilling that prominent American universities in our day and age provide platforms for virulently anti-Semitic speakers like Iran's leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust denier who threatens to wipe Israel off the map, while they shut down lectures by opponents of Islamic jihadists.

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Former Muslims United 

Nonie Darwish muzzled by Muslim Intimidation and Dhimmitude at Princeton ... One of these conditions is killing an apostate. by Nonie Darwish, ...

Egyptian activist's invitation withdrawn

Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - Hannah Martins - ‎Nov 18, 2009‎

A planned Wednesday talk by controversial Egyptian-American activist Nonie Darwishwas cancelled Tuesday evening when both of the event's ...

 

Nonie Darwish intimidated by Muslim guard at Toronto airport

Examiner.com - ‎Nov 5, 2009‎

Last night I went to hear ex-Muslim Nonie Darwish of Former Muslims United talk about creeping sharia, media misinformation and more at U of T. What sticks ... 

 

Keep Islamophobia off campus

Socialist Worker Online - François Laforge - ‎Nov 24, 2009‎

... NJ—A campaign by students at Princeton University forced the cancellation of a planned speech by the anti-Islam, pro-Israel conservative Nonie Darwish. ...

Care about democracy? Criticize political Islam and Sharia, Darwish urges

Jewish Tribune - Joanne Hill - ‎Nov 12, 2009‎

... and human rights have a responsibility to examine and criticize political Islam and its legal system, known as Sharia, says author Nonie Darwish. ...

Quote: State Senator Larry Shaw and CAIR's president called Christians extremists!

In an interview in the FayObserver posted yesterday, the president of CAIR, Larry Shaw, who is also a State Senator from North Carolina, was quoted as saying Christians were extremists:

"...You have extremists on the right," the seven-term senator said. "Christians, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis. All kinds of Islamic fanatics. All of them claim to speak for the majority, and that's unfortunate."

Shaw has been chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, since March. The 15-year-old advocacy group with about 15,000 members has been the target of critics, especially since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Unless Shaw was misquoted here and the paper issues a correction, or I am reading this entirely wrong which I don't think I am,  this senator owes a written apology to all Christians. He could have misspoken which requires a written clarification, as well.

 There are no global movements seeking to create a fundamentalist Christianic state in countries throughout the world.  Nor are there Christianic terrorists attackings others daily in the name of their religion. 

But there are Islamist movements. 

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

I wish you all a blessed Thanksgiving Holiday!

My posts will be few, if any.

z

Ten indicted in Hezbollah smuggling ring

Ten men were indicted in federal court yesterday for support of the terrorist group Hezbollah:

A Hezbollah political official and his son-in-law sought this year to smuggle 1,200 machine guns from the United States to the militant Islamist group via Syria, according to indictments made public Tuesday against 10 men in federal court in Philadelphia.

Hassan Hodroj and Dib Hani Harb, both of Beirut, were among four men accused of conspiring to support Hezbollah, a Shiite group with close ties to Iran and Syria that is on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy of Philadelphia said.

Five of the ten men are from New York and one is from New Jersey:

...Hamdan, Hamze el-Najjar and Alaa Allia Ahmed Mohamed of Brooklyn, New York, Moustafa Habib Kassem of Staten Island, New York, Maodo Kane of the Bronx, New York and Michael Katz of Plainsboro, New Jersey were charged with having purchased several thousands dollars worth of purportedly counterfeit goods.

Among the merchandise were over 5,500 pairs of Nike shoes and 334 Mitchell & Ness sports jerseys...

Picture of the Week: Gull

Photo credit:  Glenn Losack

Razi Hashmi's confusing outreach to Oklahoma Jews

The Edmond Sun published an article titled And Moses said to Muhammad... written by Razi Hashmi, the director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Moses never said anything to Muhammad so the title is very strange.  But anyway, Hashmi began his article about the media whom, he claimed, primarily covered divisive stories between Muslim and Jews and felt there was more to the story.  He concluded by asking Muslims, Jews and Christian to unite for justice against those who criticize Islam. (Ok, he didn't say it exactly like that - but it's real close). 

...Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in peace for centuries in Spain before the Spanish Inquisition and in the Middle East before European colonialism. Muslims respect both Jews and Christians as “People of the Book,” as mentioned in the Holy Qur’an.

I want to encourage my Jewish and Muslim brothers and sisters to explore new beginnings of friendship and mutual understanding, based upon the foundations of faith that unite these two Abrahamic traditions. If that may be difficult for you, consider justice as the call to unite us all.

Lou Dobbs in politics?

Will Lou Dobbs run for office - maybe even president?

Maybe.  Ex-CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is considering running for president in 2012

During an interview on WTOP radio in Washington, Dobbs fueled rumors he’s seeking a bid for public office, possibly the highest office in the land, when asked if speculation about an Oval Office bid is “crazy talk.”

“What’s so crazy about that?” Dobbs, 64, replied. “Golly!”

So, is it crazy talk or is it real, the radio station persisted.

“Well, I’ll tell you this much -- it’s one of the discussions that we’re having,” he said. “For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics.”

“I don’t think I’ve got the nature for it,” he added. “[But] we’ve got to do something in this country and I think that being in the public arena means you’ve got to be part of the solution.”

zTruth: Oklahoma most influential political blog - 12 week rolling

Blog Net News Oklahoma's Most Influential Political blogs of the past rolling 12 weeks:

Average Influence

This measure tracks each blog over the last twelve weeks in a rolling average, producing a more stable measure of influence that reflects a blogs longer-term impact on the blogospheric conversation rather than the "Official" single week results which can be influenced by a few really good or really controversial posts.

Rank	Blog	Prev
1	zTruth	1
2	Oklahoma Lefty	2
3	The Lost Ogle	3
4	Irritated Tulsan	4
5	The Musings of a Muskogee Politico	5
6	BatesLine	6
7	The McCarville Report Online	7
8	THE OTTER LIMITS	8
9	Stan Geiger	9
10	Bounded Rationality	10
11	Roemerman on Record	11
12	Oklahoma Legislator's Blog	12
13	Political Realities.	13
14	blue oklahoma	14
15	Fried Green Onions aka Pundant.com	15
16	Okie Funk	16
17	Okie Campaigns	17
18	Red S Tater	18
19	Peace Arena	19
20	jmbzine.com	20

9/11 suspects to plead not guilty - will use court to blame U.S.

Five 9/11 suspects plan to plead not guilty in federal court.  They will use the U.S. court system to put the U.S. government on trial.  Who would have thought?

Five men facing trial in the 9/11 attacks will plead not guilty so they can voice their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, an attorney for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, who's representing accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks, but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

Ali and four other men face a civilian trial just a few blocks from the World Trade Center site in the coming weeks. The men are accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.

Ali, also known as Ammar al-Baluchi, is a nephew of professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Mohammed, Ali and the others will explain "their assessment of American foreign policy," Fenstermaker said. "Their assessment is negative," he added...

To give these evil men a platform in New York City does fall in line, though, with the anti-American rhetoric President Obama heard from his own pastor, Jeremiah Wright, during the 20 years he belonged to Wright's church.  Wright actually published an article by a top Hamas leader in his church bulletin when Obama was a member.

Attorney General Holder what have you done? 

Officials investigate note threatening Ft. Hood-type massacre at Ft. Benning

A threatening note and package was found at Ft. Benning in Columbus, Georgia last Thursday, according to the Army Times today:

A box of hollow-point bullets and an anonymous note threatening an incident like the one at Fort Hood, Texas, were discovered Thursday at Fort Benning, Ga., sparking a criminal investigation and greater police presence, a witness told Army Times.

According to a witness at the scene, a box of 20 hollow-point shells and a handwritten note were found in the motor pool area between 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry, under the 197th Infantry Training Brigade.

“The note said ‘tell the commanding general to call off all charges or there will be a re-enactment of Fort Hood,’ ” the witness told Army Times. He spoke on condition he wouldn’t be identified.

After the discovery, he said, military police arrived with dogs, cordoned off a 20-foot perimeter around the box and began dusting for fingerprints and questioning people.

“They’re talking with anyone with a pending [Uniform Code of Military Justice] charge and people who are getting chaptered out to see if they can find out who it is,” the witness said.

Discovery of the package came on the same day Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Columbus for Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School graduation of 152 new second lieutenants at the Columbus Convention Center.

More Muslim Americans to be arrested in al-Qaeda linked case

In Minneapolis, Minnesota this afternoon a press conference announced the pending arrests of up to eight more Muslim Americans who allegedly have provided aid and assistance to an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia called Al Shabaab (al Shabab).

Federal prosecutors have announced charges against eight more people as part of a long-running investigation of young men who left the United States to fight in Somalia.

As many as 20 young Somali men have left Minnesota over the last two years for Somalia and are believed to have joined the Somali terror group al-Shabab. At least three have died.

The charges unsealed Monday in Minneapolis include allegations that the men provided financial support to those who traveled to the East African country to fight on behalf of al-Shabab. The charges also allege that they attended al-Shabab terrorist training camps and fought on behalf of al-Shabab.

One of the eight named Monday is Mohamud Said Omar, who is currently being held in the Netherlands...

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Somali militants al-Shabab 'seize southern town'

Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya

Daily Mail: Mattel backs exhibition of Burka Barbie

I can think of many other ways to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Barbie:

Wearing the traditional Islamic dress, the iconic doll is going undercover for a charity auction in connection with Sotheby's for Save The Children.

More than 500 Barbies went on show yesterday at the Salone dei Cinquecento, in Florence, Italy.

Makers Mattel are backing the exhibition which is the work of Italian designer Eliana Lorena.

The auction is part of Barbie celebrations for her 50th anniversary this year.

According to the Women in Islam page managed jointly by the Islamic Societies of Greater Oklahoma City and Tulsa,  the reason to cover up is to hide the shame of being a woman:  "The main purpose of covering the body is to cover the shame and other physical features so that they remain out of sight of others, to avoid drawing undue attraction, and to prevent the excitement of evil desires in others."

Shame on Mattel.  I have to take a stand on this and say I will never buy another product from this company.  There's nothing in the Quran that demands a woman cover her entire face or body - only to dress modestly.  Repressive Islamic regimes actually force women to dress in full face cover-ups.

Consider contacting Mattel and express politely how disappointed you are with their 50th anniversary decision.  Speak even louder with your pocketbook.

	Mattel, Inc. 333 Continental Boulevard El Segundo, CA 90245-5012 310-252-2000 tel

 

http://www.nndb.com/company/119/000057945/

Testimony: 30 homegrown terror plots disrupted; 8 in 2009 alone

Two counter-terrorism experts spoke out about the Ft. Hood massacre yesterday.

From Rand Corporation's Brian Jenkins' testimony to Congress: 

...Since 9/11, authorities in the United States have uncovered nearly 30 terrorist plots involving “homegrown terrorists.” This total includes plots to carry out attacks in the United States or abroad, as well as support for foreign terrorist organizations. Although not all of the plots, if undiscovered, are likely to have resulted in successful attacks, very little separates the ambitions of jihadist wannabes from a deadly terrorist assault. The essential ingredient is intent. Domestic intelligence collection remains a necessary and critical component of homeland security. Authorities uncovered eight of these terrorist plots in 2009; adding two actual attacks (the shooting in Arkansas and the Fort Hood case) puts the level of activity in 2009 much higher than of previous years.  Apart from common inspiration, there is no evidence of any organizational connection between these events. They appear to be individual responses to jihadist propaganda in the context of U.S. policy decisions. American foreign policy should not be determined by a handful of shooters and would-be bombers, but we must accept the fact that what America does in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Pakistan may provoke terrorism in the United States. Wars are no longer confined geographically“...

Orthodox priest murdered in Russia after being threatened

A young Russian priest, who had received threatening e-mails for preaching to Muslims about Christianity, was murdered last night in Russia by a man wearing a surgical mask who walked up to him in his church, Church of the Apostle Thomas in Moscow:

...The gunman approached priest Daniil Sysoyev, 34, in St Thomas Church in southern Moscow Thursday night, checked his name and then opened fire with a pistol, a spokesman for the investigating committee of the Prosecutor-General's office said.

...Sysoyev was from Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim region of Russia on the Volga river. He was threatened after preaching to Muslims and Christians from other denominations.

...Russia is home to Europe's largest Muslim community (about 20 million) and Islam is the country's second-biggest faith, something which Sysoyev criticized.

...Russia's Chief Mufti Ravil Gainuddin expressed his condolences to the Orthodox Church and to Sysoyev's family. He cautioned against assigning blame prematurely or speculating about the motives for the killing.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser speaks out against Islamism

Dr. Zuhdi Zasser is a physican and a Muslim whose relentless work against Islamism I respect very much.

After the Fort Hood massacre, Dr. Zasser was interviewed on MSNBC.  This is when Chris Matthews asked, rather stupidly; it's not a crime to call Al Qaeda, is it?

The point here, though, is that the danger in America from Islamism, which can led to Islamic martyr attacks, is very real:

Revolution Muslim, a radical Islamist website run by Muslim convert, Yousef Al-Khattab, labled Zasser an apostate. Last I heard Al-Khattab was a cab driver in New York City.

For reference, Sharia law is part of Islamism.

screen shot taken 11/19/09:

New chat feature added to zTruth

There are several readers who comment here regularly.  But it's rather difficult to carry on an on-going  conversation when you have to go to different posts to read the newest comments from the same person.

To make this easier (I hope),  I  added a chatbox on the right column to try out.  I'm not sure if this will work the way I want it but I'm willing to give it a try.

So we will see.  You do have to register but that shouldn't be any big deal.

Woman in Somalia stoned to death according to Islamic law

The brutal and sexist hand of Sharia law condemned a woman to death by stoning for adultery in Somalia.  The man received 100 lashes.

...Halima Ibrahim Abdirahman, a 29-year-old married woman, was executed after confessing to having had sex with a 20-year-old unmarried man, Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Abdirahman, the judge at her trial, told spectators at the execution yesterday at Eelboon in southern Somalia. Sheikh Ibrahim’s remarks were broadcast on Radio Hornafrik and monitored in the capital, Mogadishu.

The 20-year-old man, who was unidentified, was sentenced to 100 lashes, Sheikh Ibrahim said.

Most of southern and central Somalia is controlled by Islamist groups including al-Shabaab and Hisb-ul-Islam, following a two-year battle with the country’s Western-backed government. The Islamists are proponents of Shariah law, which operates under a code of Islamic principles first established in the Arab world by the prophet Muhammad in the seventh century.

More than 100 organizations oppose OIC's attempt to make criticism of Islam illegal!

The continued attempts by the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) at the United Nations to stop criticism of Islam has prompted, and rightly so,  a petition against it that was signed by more than 100 concerned organizations.

For the first time, the OIC seeks to make criticism of Islam a treaty which will be legally binding!  Freedom of religion and speech means no religion should be above criticism.  What the OIC is trying to do is exactly how Islamic countries keep their Muslims shackled to Islam.  Yes, shackled to Islam.  For these people, to criticize Islam could mean death. 

Free speech will end eventually, if the Saudi-based OIC is successful!  They have been in able to get non-binding resolutions passed at the U.N. - so wake up.  We already see political correctness in America that is detrimental to the publc good.

The OIC is the largest Islamist inter-government body in the world - it's second in size only to the United Nations.

The deliberate efforts of this Islamist caliphate in-the-making is taking place right under our noses while most Americans go about their daily self-absorbed cocooned life as if nothing is amiss. I don't know what it will take to wake more Americans up to the real danger a growing Islamist force in the world poses to our country.  9/11 was a big wake-up call and not just an anomaly.  15 deaths have occurred in American in the last 5 months by Islamists.  These are the first deaths since 9/11.

Muammar Gaddafi hires Italian models to lecture them on Islam

Al Jazeera video:

 

Report: Major Nidal Hasan wanted some patients tried for war crimes

According to the Dallas Morning News, Nidal Hasan, the major who murdered 14 people at Ft. Hood sought to have some of his patients tried for war crimes based on statements made to him when they were his patient.

Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes based on statements they made during psychiatric sessions with him, a captain who served on the base said Monday.

Other psychiatrists complained to superiors that Hasan's actions violated doctor-patient confidentiality, Capt. Shannon Meehan told The Dallas Morning News.

...Fort Hood officials did not respond to interview requests late Monday. They have declined in recent days to say anything about the major, citing the ongoing investigation.

Meehan said he learned of Hasan's prosecution requests from another base psychiatrist. That psychiatrist could not be reached for comment Monday...

This allegation has not been confirmed by officials.

"Obamao" T-shirt banned in China

A t-shirt in China with Obama's& face in place of Mao's: 

 ...Known as the “Obamao” shirt, the design juxtaposes two iconic silk screened images – putting Mr. Obama’s face between a Mao cap and the collar of a Mao jacket.

The item was selling like hot cakes in a Beijing souvenir shop until the government cracked down. “The Industry and Commerce Bureau came round last week and told us that if we sold this T-shirt we’d be closed down” said one hawker on a popular tourist street who preferred not to give his name...

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Obama Welcomes China's Expanded Role On World Scene

9/11 suspects will be brought to New York City for criminal trial!

President Obama and his far left administration are hell-bent to change the course of the fight against Islamic terrorism to a mere criminal act:

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday he would insist on an "exacting" form of justice for alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

An Obama administration official said earlier that Mohammed and four other men accused of helping to plot the attacks would be sent to criminal court in New York from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [ID:nN13453976]

Asked about that decision at a joint press conference with the Japanese prime minister, Obama said he did not want to pre-empt an announcement that will be made later by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Do you think to deliberately neutralize these horrific and violent attacks into mere criminal acts is a strong blow in the fight against Islamism and the steps it takes to get to Islamic supremacy - which are both violent and non-violent,  that are happening today under our noses? 

Soldier of Allah on business card of Nidal Hasan

From Fox News:

...Watchdogs say the first letters are shorthand among militant Muslims to "soldier of Allah." The last letters refer to "Subhanahu Wa Ta'all," which means "glory to God."

The business cards were among numerous discoveries in Hasan's apartment of interest to investigators, who also are looking into whether Hasan wired money to Pakistan before last week's massacre...

Four mosques, skyscraper to be seized by feds

A non-profit Muslim organization called the Alavi Foundation appears to be controlled or linked to or is a front group for the Iranian government.  The feds will seize control:

...The government is seeking the forfeiture of  more than $500 million in assets of the Alavi Foundationand Assa Corp., an alleged front company.

The property includes Islamic centers in New York City, Maryland, California and Houston, more than 100 acres in Virginia, and the 36- story Piaget Building on Fifth Avenue (New York). The tower, whose tenants include law and investment firms, was built in the 1970s by the shah of Iran, who was overthrown in 1979.

"For two decades, the Alavi Foundation's affairs have been directed by various Iranian officials, including Iranian ambassadors to the United Nations, in violation of a series of American laws," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement...

The president of the foundation, Farshid Jahedi, was indicted in May.

Will the government go after Muslim organizations controlled or financed by Saudi Arabia next?

Update 9/12/09:  CAIR Concerned About Government Seizure of U.S. Mosques

Update 9/13/09:  US Marshals serve notice to Potomac Islamic school

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Iranian Charity Head Loses Appeal of Charges

Courthouse News Service - Jonathan Perlow - ‎Nov 10, 2009‎

Farshid Jahedi is accused of impeding an investigation of the Alavi Foundation, an Iranian advocacy group that promotes Islamic culture and the Persian ...

US pursues 'Iran-linked' charity

Carmichael Mosque Seized By Feds, Has Alleged Ties To Iran

Alavi Foundation| AlaviFoundation.org  

The Alavi Foundation is a private not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion and support of Islamic culture and Persian language, literature and ...

Reports: Nidal Hasan was zealously over religious

The Washington Post has published Nidal Hasan's power-point presentation titled "The Koranic World View as it relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military" that he gave to fellow Army doctors in 2007.  The title states the Koranic world view- not the jihadist world view.

On page 48 of the presentation,  he presented a slide that began with Osama Bin Laden's name and ended with "We love death more than your life".  Notice, he didn't write they love death more but "we love death more than you love life".

Hasan concluded Allah expects full loyalty and to establish an Islamic state to please Allah even by force is condoned in Islam.

 
The AP reported last night Fort Hood suspect's superiors questioned his behavior which was described as zealously overly religious.  He also was reported to behave belligerent, defensive and argumentative, at times.

Hasan had contact with an Al-Qaeda-linked American born Imam, Anwar Awlaki, before this man got promoted to major in May!  What? Awlaki was arrested in Yemen in 2006 with Al-Qaeda militants and jailed, for crying out loud.

And what's all this about the spin going on that intelligent agents didn't pursue Hasan's e-mails to Awlaki they intercepted because he was merely seeking spiritual advice?   Are you kidding me?  Awlaki is an enemy of the United States, wants our soldiers dead,  and should be charged with treason.  There is nothing spiritual in contacting a known enemy of our country.  To even suggest this is an insult to our intelligence.

What in the hell is wrong here?

Update 4:59 PM CT:  Hasan Called Himself 'Soldier of Allah' on Business Cards

Update 11/13/09:  Hasan Paralyzed, in Guarded Condition

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Radical imam praises alleged Fort Hood shooter

...Awlaki is a native-born U.S. citizen who left the United States in 2002, eventually traveling to Yemen. He was released from a Yemeni jail last year and has since gone missing. He is on Yemen's most wanted militant list, according to three Yemeni security officials.

The officials say Awlaki was arrested in 2006 with a small group of suspected al-Qaida militants in the capital San'a. They say he was released more than a year later after signing a pledge he will not break the law or leave the country. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

On Dec. 23, 2008, Awlaki, on his Web site, encouraged Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Awlaki also used these postings to declare his support for the Somali terrorist group, al-Shabaab, according to the Homeland Security intelligence note, obtained by The Associated Press.

In December of last year, Customs officials intercepted a flash drive of Awlaki's lectures that his wife sent from Yemen to an Islamic publishing house in Denver, the intelligence note said...

Awlaki's Facebook page (cached screen shot):

Update 11/20/09:  Hasan Wrote of Joining Imam in "Afterlife"

Levin: Fort Hood probe may reveal more e-mails

The U.S. government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric. They were passed along to two Joint Terrorism Task Force cells led by the FBI, but a senior defense official said no one at the Defense Department knew about the messages until after the shootings. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence procedures.

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Accused Fort Hood shooter consulted with cleric born in Las Cruces (1:47 pm)

Exclusive | Ray Suarez: My Post-9/11 Interview With Anwar al-Awlaki

Lou Dobbs resigns on air; last of the original anchors at CNN

Lou Dobb has been at CNN since it first came on air nearly 30 years ago.  Tonight, abruptly, he resigned. 

I don't blame him.  CNN sucks. Tonight, of all nights on Veterans Day, not even a week after the Ft. Hood massacre, Larry King interviewed Nidal Hasan's attorney.  First thing that popped out of King's mouth was about Hasan getting a fair trial.  His attorney said  " I'm greatly concerned that in the memorial service that was conducted here yesterday, we had an assemblage of some of the most senior members of the military establishment present.  Oh my God,  even the President was there he went on and then King said: "Well, is it obvious, Colonel, that the defense is going to deal with the mental responsibility question"?

Mental health?  Hasan was very vocal about his religious idealogy.  I had to change the channel, at that point, which I do all the time with CNN.  You simply do not get the full story on this channel, at times,  or you get a seriously liberal-tainted story. 

Watch Dobbs' resignation below. 

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Veterans Day - honoring those who served to protect our freedom

 
 Words alone cannot express the thanks my family and I have for your service and sacrifice.

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The history of Veterans Day

Ft. Hood Army Base Memorial

Video of President Obama's speech at Ft. Hood today:

May God rest the souls of those who paid the ultimate price and comfort their family and friends

Detroit taxi asssociation sue airport: allege race discrimination

A taxi cab association in Detroit, Michigan has sued the Detroit Airport for discrimination they allege because they are foreign born Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs. 

Nabih Ayad is their attorney.  He is also the co-chair of ALPACT, Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust where Attorney General Eric Holder will speak on the 19th at their first annual awards banquet.  CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding trial,  is a member of ALPACT along with a number of other community organizations.

 The suit alleges:

A taxi drivers association says the Detroit and Wayne County has unconstitutionally barred them from the Detroit Metro Airport as of midnight Friday, Oct. 16 because the association's 340 members are overwhelmingly foreign-born and are Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.

The Detroit Metropolitan Airport Taxi Association says the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Authority has discriminated against its cab owners and drivers for years and have ordered them to keep away from the airport in violation of a 2007 contract.

In its federal complaint, the association airport officials have inflicted years of injuries, some petty and some major, because most of the association's workers are "minorities from the Middle East, India, Pakistan, Somalia and Bangladesh" and of "Hindu, Sikh and Muslim faith."

...The association seeks damages and an injunction. is represented by Nabih Ayad of Canton, Mich.

Airport officials claim the association did not pay a concession fee of $534,000.

Rep. Pete Hoekstra accuses Obama administration of withholding critical information

The ranking Republican on the House Intellgence Committee has accused the Obama administration of refusing to release "critical" information about the Ft. Hood Army Base shooting to Congress and to the public:

Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, announced Monday that he's asked the heads of the FBI, NSA and CIA to "preserve" all documents and material connected to the attack. He said the administration has "critical information" that it is "refusing to release" to Congress and the public about the attack, and that lawmakers will want to "scrutinize" how intelligence officials handled information about the shooter before the attack. 

"I intend to push for intense review of this and other issues related to the performance of the intelligence community and whether or not information necessary for military, state and local officials to provide for the security of the post was provided to them," the Michigan Republican said in a written statement. 

Hoekstra's announcement came as ABC News reported that intelligence agencies knew for months that Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was trying to contact people associated with Al Qaeda. The report said it was unclear whether the agencies informed the Army. 

But a U.S. intelligence official told Fox News it would be wrong to allege the CIA had information about Hasan contacting Al Qaeda that it did not share with the Army. 

"There's no sign at this point that the CIA had collected information relevant to this case and then simply sat on it," the official said. 

CIA spokeswoman Marie Hard also said in a statement that "any suggestion that the CIA refused to brief Congress is flat wrong." 

Military and intelligence officials are starting to come under pressure from lawmakers in the wake of the Texas attack, which killed 13 people and wounded 29... 

Is this political bluster or a serious and truthful allegation?

UPDATE 11/9/09:  I heard Hoekstra on CNN last night who said he was getting his information from the media and requests for a Congressional briefing when the House was in session on Saturday were ignored.

It appears that many red flags given out by Hasan were not properly handled.

UPDATE 11/10/09:  Senior Official: More Hasan Ties to People Under Investigation by FBI

A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki...

In Texas, an hour before a memorial service for the Fort Hood victims, four FBI agents showed up at the Killeen mosque where Hasan prayed and searched a trash bin outside. The mosque president was clearly upset when he had to return from traveling to the service to sign a document handed to him by agents, apparently authorizing the search.

...He recommended that Muslim soldiers be given the option of being released from the military as conscientious objectors to decrease what he called "adverse events." Under "comments," he wrote, "We love death more than you love life." 

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11/6/09:  Officials Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together  NPR

...INSKEEP: I understanding you've spoken with someone who knew him, worked with him at Walter Reed.

ZWERDLING: Earlier today, I spoke to a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan and knows him very well. And he said, you know, from the beginning -and Hasan was there for four years - the medical staff was very worried about this guy...They have grand rounds, right? They, you know, dozens of medical staff come into an auditorium, and somebody stands at the podium at the front and gives a lecture about some academic issue, you know, what drugs to prescribe for what condition. But instead of that, he - Hasan apparently gave a long lecture on the Koran and talked about how if you don't believe, you are condemned to hell. Your head is cut off. You're set on fire. Burning oil is burned down your throat... ZWERDLING: I want to add something else about Hasan at Walter Reed. The psychiatrist I talked to today said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway, saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird? And now, apparently, Walter Reed is in a lockdown mode where they've been instructed - all the staff has been instructed: Do not talk to anybody about this investigation, except military people. Do not talk to the FBI, because they're afraid, potentially, what if people decide investigating this that people missed potential warning signs about the guy?

Officials: US Aware of Hasan Efforts to Contact al Qaeda

ABC News - Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole - ‎5 hours ago‎

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief ...

10/22/09:  Hoekstra rebuked for bringing up Gitmo issue

American Islamic leader living in Yemen calls Major Hasan a hero

Imam Anwar Al Awlaki is a U.S. citizen (The 9/11 Commission Report, pg. 434, W.W. Norton, 2004) , who was an imam in Denver, Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. (area) and worked as the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington Univ. According to the NEFA Foundation he is major trouble:

...He was the “spiritual advisor” to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, and the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 reported that “the FBI agent responsible for the September 11 investigation informed staff that ‘there’s a lot of smoke there’ with regard to…[al Awlaki’s] connection to the hijackers...”

Al Awlaki lives in Yemen now.  In a blog post today titled "Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing", he called the mass shooter at Ft. Hood a hero:

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Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside and just pretend that it doesn’t exist. Any decent Muslim cannot live, understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims, and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.

Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.

The heroic act of brother Nidal also shows the dilemma of the Muslim American community. Increasingly they are being cornered into taking stances that would either make them betray Islam or betray their nation. Many amongst them are choosing the former. The Muslim organizations in America came out in a pitiful chorus condemning Nidal’s operation. The fact that fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty today cannot be disputed. No scholar with a grain of Islamic knowledge can defy the clear cut proofs that Muslims today have the right -rather the duty- to fight against American tyranny. Nidal has killed soldiers who were about to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in order to kill Muslims. The American Muslims who condemned his actions have committed treason against the Muslim Ummah and have fallen into hypocrisy.

It has been reported Hasan's mother's funeral or burial was at the mosque when Awlaki was an Imam in May of 2001. 

ABC News also reports Hasan was known to intelligence officials for his attempts to contact Al-Qaeda and that the AP reported Sunday Hasan attended the Falls Church (Virginia) mosque when Awlaki was there.

The investigation is still in its early stages and to jump to any firm conclusion is premature.  Nor should anyone ever take any frustration or anger out on another person.

The truth will come out. 

If you can, please take a moment to pray for the families who lost their father or mother, brother or sister, son or daughter at Ft. Hood Army Base.

Update 11/10/09:  Awlak's website may have been taken down but here is a link to his archived pages through August 2008.  His about page states: 

About Imam Anwar al Awlaki

Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki was born in New Mexico, USA.
He studied the Islamic sciences of Quran, hadith, and fiqh with scholars from Yemen. Imam Anwar served as an Imam in Denver, Colorado; San Diego, California; and Falls Church, Virginia. He is the author of the audio series on “The Lives of the Prophets”, “The Hereafter”, “The Life and Time of Abu Bakr”, “The Life and Time of Umar” , “The Messenger of Allah” along with other single lectures.
Imam Anwar also holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, and a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership from San Diego State University.
Currently he resides in Yemen.

This enemy of the United States even has his own YouTube channel where he has a lot of vidoes about the hereafter.  The last were uploaded on November 6 about, surprise, surprise, the hereafter.  The first video in the latest upload talks about the greatest  terror - the day of judgment.  Depending on the time of the upload, it could have been the 6th in Yemen but the 5th in the U.S. - the day of the Ft. Hood shooting.  One of his lectures is about the the war is against Islam is creepy because he acts as if he is in America.

Why has he not been charged with treason?

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Anwar al Awlaki: Pro Al-Qaida Ideologue with Influence in the West  (NEFA backgrounder 2/5/09)

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Jan 5, 2009 ... U.S. government agencies are increasingly concerned about the ability of pro-Jihad ideologues to use the Internet to incite U.S.-based Muslims to conduct terrorist attacks...

Oklahoma soldier, Jason Hunt, killed at Ft. Hood

Tipton, Oklahoma soldier, Jason Hunt, was one of the 13 killed at Ft. Hood Army Base in Texas.  Tipton is southwest of Oklahoma City.

God rest your soul, young man. 

Ft. Hood terrorist worn religious outfit morning of shooting

Below is a screen shot of the survallence video of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan buying coffee the morning of the shooting.

 

Hasan is alleged to have made the following comment in May after an article on martyrdom and suicide bombers :

There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE" and Allah (SWT) knows best.

It has been reported his comment and some of his anti-foreign policy actions were brought to the attention of officials but in what context or if it is even true, is not clear, at this point.

Hasan  is on a ventilator and in stable condition and may have hollered "Allahu Akbar!" before he started his killing rampage.

Fort Hood Army Base shooting: 12 dead

A violent shooting has taken place at Ft. Hood Army Base in Texas.  Seven people are dead and more than 15 have been injured.

There may have been more than one shooter involved.  The army base is in lock-down and the FBI is on the way to the scene.

Update 3:28 PM CT:  One news report (CNN) says 9 have lost their life and up to 30 injured. 

No official word has confirmed any deaths.

Update 3:49 PM:  12 have died now.

Update 3:53 PM:  News conference with Lt. General Bob Cone:  terrible tragedy today.  At about 13:30 a shooter entered the readiness area -- shooter killed -- lockdown still in effect.  Eye witnesses said there may have been more than one involved -- Individuals involved were U.S. soldiers but investigation is ongoing as to their motive.

Update 4:15 PM:  Two other people, (military personnel) are in custody as possible suspects or other shooters.  31 wounded.

Update 4:44 PM:  It has been reported the shooter may have recently converted to Islam.  This has not be confirmed by officials, though. 

Update 4:55 PM:  Shooter's name:  Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan.  He was a psychiatrist who was transferred from Walter Reed Medical Center to Ft. Hood this past summer.

Update 6:25 PM:  Hasan was born and raised in America and had always been a Muslim, according to his cousin who was interviewed on Fox News by phone.  He abruptly ended the interview after a few minutes. 

The two other suspects have been released.

Update 6:49 PM:  A new suspect has been picked up, per Fox News who interviewed Congressman John Carter in Texas.

Ft, Hood is still on lock-down.

No confirmation about any of this has been made by military officials.

Update 7:00 PM:  Lockdown has now been lifted.

Update 7:28 PM:  Hasan had apparently written some blog posts or comments about suicide bombers.  He also made a comment to a military colleague that Muslims should rise up against the aggressor (the U.S.)

Update 8:15 PM:  Official press conference:  The shooter is not dead but in stable condition in a hospital.  Day of mouring tomorrow.  12 dead 31 wounded. Only gave shooter's name and will say anything about him.  Believe he is the only shooter but is counter to how many shots fired.  Most victims were military.  The FBI is on base.  Cannot rule out terrorism but doesn't appear so.  Shooter is not speaking to investigators - he didn't clarify. 

Update 11/9/09:  Hasan Communicated With Radical Religious Leader, Official Says

The official said Hasan’s communications were with Anwar al Awlaki, who news reports said was the imam at a Falls Church, Virginia, mosque when Hasan and his relatives worshipped there. U.S. authorities, who intercepted the communications before the attack at Fort Hood, determined the messages didn’t pose a threat, said the official, who requested anonymity.

Earlier today, the New York Times reported the communications Hasan had with al Awlaki, who is known for his anti-American views. A Web posting purportedly from al Awlaki praised the shooting at Fort Hood...

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Rep. Pete Hoekstra accuses Obama administration of withholding critical information

American Islamic leader living in Yemen calls Major Hasan a hero

Ft. Hood terrorist worn religious outfit morning of shooting

Saudi Arabia, Libya, Qatar, Bahrain embassies helped fund CAIR's annual banquet

Daila Mogehed, the president's faith-based Muslim advisor, was originally scheduled to be a keynote speaker at CAIR's annual fundraising banquet.  Jessie Jackson spoke to the group in her place.  Funding for the event was paid, in part, by the embassies of Saudi Arabia, Lybia, Qatar and Bharian.  None of the "local businesses" were identified.

Highlights from the dinner were found at Muslimlinkpaper:

...Many of the evening's speeches included references to the recent sensationalist press conference by four House Republicans — Paul Broun (R-GA), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Sue Myrick (R-NC) and John Shadegg (R-AZ) — who claimed Muslims were “infiltrating” Capitol Hill through placing Muslim interns in congressional offices. Increasing the number of Muslim interns on Captiol Hill is indeed a part of CAIR's agenda, but its an open program implemented by most advocacy organizations. Scores of mainstream newspaper and cable commentators ridiculed the press conference.

“Our children are not terrorists, they are America's brightest prospects,” Mahdi Bray said of the interns.

Dr. Esam Omeish, who vied for a place in the Virginia House of Delegates in last summer's elections, called on Muslims to embrace their citizenship, and said “being Muslim and American are one and the same” because they are “based on the same values.”

CAIR played the video of Rachel Maddow's MSNBC segment deriding the Muslim intern spy before Executive Director Nihad Award took the stage. Awad said the anti-CAIR campaign is rooted in Islamophobia, and told the audience most of the daily hate mail CAIR receives contain attacks on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). 

Sponsoring the event were dozens of local and national organizations, businesses, families, and the embassies of Bahrain, Libya, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia...

Links added by Z.

Young Muslim woman run over by own father has died

(Myspace photo)

Noor Faleh Almaleki, the young Arizona Muslim woman who was run over by her father for being too westernized died last night.  She never regained consciousness.

Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki,  had fled to Britian by crossing the Mexican border.  He is now in custody in the U.S.

...Interviewed on arrival, Mr Almaleki told UK Border Agency officers that he was planning to spend a week visiting cousins in Glasgow, but he was denied entry because he had only $400 (£245) cash with him and his nominated sponsor in the UK was unemployed.

Officers also discovered on questioning Mr Almaleki that he lived in Arizona with his wife and seven children but when they tried to organise his return to the US they were told that he was wanted for assault over the attack on his daughter.

He was finally deported last Thursday and was taken to jail in Maricopa County, Arizona, to be held on charges of aggravated assault – charges that will now be upgraded.

"By his own admission, this was an intentional act and the reason was that his daughter had brought shame on him and his family," Stephanie Low, a Maricopa County prosecutor, told a court at the weekend. "This was an attempt at an honour killing."...

Sheriff Joe Arpalo will take great care of him.

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Ariz. sheriff's safety reviewed after (Lou) Dobbs scare

Saturday's march for Sharia law called off in London

Islam4UK had planned a march for Sharia Law in London last Saturday. It was cancelled.

Anjem Choudary, leader of the radical Islamic group Al Muhajiroun, said that organisers of the Islam4UK demo had cancelled the march from the Houses of Parliament to Trafalgar Square on 31 October 2009 because of security concerns.

The Islamic Society of Britain, which was planning to join other organisations in staging a "dignified, non-violent" counter-demonstration, hailed the cancellation as a "great success".

A spokesperson said: "Pressure from all sections of the community, including Muslims, has resulted in the Muhajiroun and the hot-heads rethinking their position. They realised very few people would turn up to support them and they would attract only very negative publicity. Old-fashioned pressure has worked."

Another group, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, was also planning a peaceful counter-witness to the sharia march.

"Our objection to Islam4UK is based on our belief in, and commitment to, those liberal values that define the British state," said BMSD spokesperson, Dr Shaaz Mahboob...

According to Islam4UK's press release it was cancelled because other groups would try to prevent the march.  This link includes several videos.

Martyrs strike terror in the world in October, as they do every month

Muslims carried out a large number of attacks in the world in October.  At no time in history have these attacks been so high.  Islamists and their minions, including terrorists want to weaken the resolve of others, take eventual control and make Islam rule.  They will continue to do this day after day, month after month, year after year unless the world stands up to them and those who mold these jihadists into who they become. 

Why do you think we are at war?

In America, about a dozen Muslims were either arrested, indicted or had their sentence upheld last month for their jihadist activities.  The list of arrests and plots this year is striking and proves the warning put out by the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year that "right-wing" extremists are the biggest terrorist threat in America was completely off the mark and a total embarrassment to the department.

The Saudi-based OIC is the largest Islamic inter-governmental body in the world.  Their own Fiqh Council has ruled martyrdom is acceptable according to Islamic scripture and law for the sake of Allah or to protect Islam or to seek Islamic justice and is never to be called terrorism or is terrorism.  Martyrdom is part of the literal teachings of Islam.

So when Muslim leaders in America speak at local faith meetings don't just accept their statement that terrorism is not acceptable.  Ask them specifically about Islam's mandate for martyrdom.  There are verses in the Quran and hadiths that support giving up their life for Allah.  What chapters the the Quran support war?  When is martyrdom allowed according to Islamic law?  They may become uncomfortable but these are the questions that must be asked. And you need to press on in a polite, steady quiet manner.   Will they denounce martyrdom?  Will they put that in writing?  Followup.

See list of attacks below:

Authors of Muslim Mafia went undercover at CAIR; face lawsuit

CAIR, an organization that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas infrastructure in America, apparently, has sued the authors of Muslim Mafia who allegedly went undercover at CAIR in order gather information to write the book, according Courthouse News Service of which I am not familiar.

The author of a book called "Muslim Mafia" had his son use an alias to get an internship with the Council on American-Islam Relations (CAIR), and use his position to steal thousands of sensitive documents and record meetings, CAIR claims in Federal Court. CAIR claims that Paul Gaubatz conspired with his son Chris Gaubatz to hatch what he calls in his book - "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" - "a 6-month counter-intelligence operation."

Chris Gaubatz told CAIR that he was a Muslim named David Marshall, a student at Ferrum College, and that his father was in the construction business, according to the complaint. As David Marshall, he signed confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.

While an intern, Chris Gaubatz routinely filled the trunk of his car with boxes of sensitive documents - more than 12,000 of them, CAIR claims.

...CAIR seeks punitive damages for trespass, breach of contract, conversion, and breach of fiduciary duty...

H/T/ Politico

CAIR and other Islamist organizations and some Democrats have blamed the right-wing for this book and the call to investigate CAIR.

According to Politico the case is being heard by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly.  She ordered the released of two Gitmo detainees this summer.

So far, CAIR has been silent on this suit.

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Guantanamo ex-inmate arrives in Kuwait: lawyer

AFP - ‎Oct 8, 2009‎

In July, US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered the government to release Mutairi. She ordered the release of another Kuwaiti inmate, ...

 

Muslim Public Affairs Council warns government agenices and media

The Muslim Public Affairs Council issued a press release, following the death of a controversial Imam in Detroit during a gun fight with the FBI, which warns the U.S. government about exploitation of the incident.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council today said it is "deeply disturbed" by the shooting death of a Detroit-area imam by FBI agents, who sought to arrest him and 11 other men on a host of criminal charges. MPAC called on the FBI and the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into the events that led to the death of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, leader of Masjid Al-Haqq.

...With so much left unknown in the developing case, MPAC is warning government agencies and media outlets of the alarming exploitation of this isolated incident that is stigmatizing Muslim American communities around the country. U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg today asked people not to connect the allegations brought against the group of men with Muslims in general.

"There is a clear and present danger in the escalating mob mentality against vulnerable Muslim Americans," said Salam Al-Marayati, MPAC Executive Director.

As is always the case with news reports regarding alleged terror plots, MPAC is concerned about the possibility of backlash against Muslim, African American, Arab, and South Asian Americans. Based on past experiences, we offer the following recommendations..."

The escalating mob mentality against Muslims?  Do they have specific examples?

The Muslim Brotherhood English website has featured MPAC's article as you can see in the screen shot I took today from their website.  Note the blue box which highlights the MB chair's statement that jihad is the path to liberate Al-Asqa mosque.  This mosque was built over a Jewish temple after Muslim invaded Jerusalem centuries ago.  Virtually, the whole Islamic world believes this land is their land.

 
MPAC has its own Hollywood Bureau where they seek to influence the mostly left-leaning industry and is another example how the left partners with Islamists.

MPAC has given media awards to Michael Moore, Alex Baldwin to name a few.  In fact,  Alex Baldwin is featured on the cover of their Hollywood brochure.

In May of 2007 MPAC spokeswoman appeared on CNBC's TV:

Here is a link to a copy of the newspaper which shows Lekovic lied during her TV appearance..

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Muslim Coalition Calls for Probe Into FBI Shooting Death of Mich. Muslim

"It is imperative that an independent investigation of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah's death make public the exact circumstances in which he died. And unless the FBI has evidence linking the criminal allegations to the religious affiliation of the suspects, we ask that federal authorities stop injecting religion into this case. The unjustified linkage of this case to the faith Islam will only serve to promote an increase in existing anti-Muslim
stereotyping and bias in our society."

AMT is an umbrella organization that includes American Muslim Alliance (AMA), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA), MAS-Freedom, Muslim Student Association-National (MSA-N), Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), and United Muslims of America (UMA). Its observer organizations include American Muslims for Civic Engagement (AMCE), Islamic Educational Council of Orange County (IECOC), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

Detroit Muslim leaders call shooting death of Imam entrapment

FBI fired upon; Islamic leader dead in Dearborn, Michigan!

As war on terror continues, Muslims in US feel unfairly implicated

Kansas City Star - Leila Fadel - ‎Oct 11, 2009‎

"It's not a guilty complex; it's the stigma of being a Muslim and constantly having to defend religion," said Edina Lekovic, the communications director for

 

FRONTLINE: the enemy within: interviews: salam al-marayati | PBS

  

Oct 10, 2006 ... salam al-marayati interview. photo of Al-Marayati. Salam Al-Marayati is executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). ...

 

 CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and more