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Injured Palestinian Girl: Hamas is the Cause of All Wars

December 30, 2008 |

I wish I could say this reflected the broader Palestinian sentiment, but that isn't the case. Consider this an interview with a human shield, her four-year-old sister one of the 60 civilians killed in IAF strikes so far (as opposed to over 300 Hamas personnel)



This did not air on Israeli networks, but rather Palestinian Authority TV. I have no reason to question the integrity of the clip, but some are suggesting it's a "Pallywood" attempt by Fatah aimed at undermining Hamas.

When Hamas starts to care more about protecting the people of Gaza (instead of using their bloodied corpses as PR tools), and less about the goal of destroying Israel, the Palestinians will be much better off.

I only wish America had the stomach, the will, the nationalist pride that the Palestinians have to fight and defend every inch of the land that is rightfully ours, instead of remaining complacent as the elite throw open our borders and tell us that sovereignty is an "anachronistic" concept.

When compared to the quislings in the United States, that particular facet of Palestinian culture is admittedly admirable.

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Hamas Ready for War

December 19, 2008 |

Hamas has declared an end to its ceasefire with Israel, which was largely meaningless given that Hamas has violated it on more than one occassion. More than likely what this means is that the Islamist group has simply had enough time to stockpile more weapons and ammunition to feel heroic again. Super.

From the Reuters report:
Hamas on Thursday declared an end to a six-month-old Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel in the Gaza Strip, raising the prospect of an escalation in cross-border fighting.

"The calm is over," Hamas official Ayman Taha said in an announcement after concluding talks with Palestinian factions in the coastal enclave controlled by the Islamist group.
Israel's Haaretz is also reporting that the Israeli military cancelled weekend leave for all troops near Gaza and is preparing for "mobilization." Why does Israel keep agreeing to these "ceasefires?" They know what happens every time: The Israelis stop fighting, the Islamists fire more rockets, and then use the "calm" to reload, re-arm, and re-recruit. Then, it begins again.

If Hamas wants to call off the ceasefire, I say let 'er rip Israel. Hamas doesn't want peace, they want the complete destruction of Israel (as they have officially stated). This is Jihad, and Jihad never ends.

If only Jimmy Carter could save us!

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Thanksgiving in Bombay: Terror Survivor Describes the Attacks

December 5, 2008 |

Details are emerging about the absolutely horrifying course of events for victims of the Islamic terror attack in Bombay. The following story is from the son of Apoorva Parikh, a 57-year old father who is still recovering from his injuries. Apoorva had gone to dinner that night with two friends, and upon hearing the initial gunshots, the hotel staff attempted to hurry the guests out of a kitchen exit.
"As the guests tried to rush into the kitchen, one terrorist burst into the restaurant and began to shoot anyone that remained in the restaurant. At this point my father was in the kitchen and, along with his two friends, rushed to the fire exit. They had barely descended a few steps when they were trapped from both ends by terrorists.

"The terrorists then rounded up anyone alive (about 20 people) and made them climb the service staircase to the 19th floor. On reaching the 18th floor landing they made the people line up against a wall. One terrorist then positioned himself on the staircase going up from the landing and the other on the staircase going down from the landing.

"Then, in a scene right out of the Holocaust, they simultaneously opened fire on the people. My father was towards the centre of the line with his two friends on either side. Out of reflex, or presence of mind, he ducked as soon as the firing began.

"One bullet grazed his neck, and he fell to the floor as his two friends and several other bodies piled on top of him. The terrorists then pumped another series of bullets into the heap of bodies to finish the job.

"This time a bullet hit my father in the back hip. Bent almost in double, crushed by the weight of the bodies above him, and suffocating in the torrent of blood rushing down on him from the various bodies my father held on for 10 minutes while the terrorists left the area.

"When he finally had the courage to wiggle his arms he found that there were four other survivors in the room. They communicated to each other by touch as they were too afraid to make a sound.

"My father moved just enough to allow himself room to breathe and then lay still. The survivors passed over 12 hours lying still in the heap of bodies too afraid to move.

"They constantly heard gunfire and hand grenades going off in the other parts of the hotel. They feared that any noise would bring the terrorists back.

"After approximately 12 hours, the terrorists returned with a camera and flashlight and joked and laughed as they filmed what they thought was a pile of dead bodies.

"They then moved to the landing below where they set up explosives. On their departing, my father decided that it was too risky to remain where they were, due to the explosives."
The three survivors then climbed the rest of the stairs to reach an air-cooling plant room where they hid, drinking sips of water from the air-conditioning unit, until Friday morning when a commando team rescued them and took them to a hospital.

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Oh Snap: Al-Qaeda Talking Some Major Trash

November 19, 2008 |

Today, Al-Qaeda's second in command (if you think Osama is still alive), Ayman al-Zawahri, said that Obama's election has not changed the American policies he claims are aimed at "oppressing Muslims." But that was before he called him a Negro.

You crossed the line, son! I know you didn't just say that about no Barack!
Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.

In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect - along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice - "house negroes."

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
Daaaaaamn, no you didn't! Listen man, I know you like our black people when they're Muslims, but my cuz Obama was born Muslim, didn't you know? He even attended school as a Muslim in Indonesia - that don't count for nothin'? Can't we just chill?
"The Muslim nation received with extreme bitterness your hypocritical...stance toward Israel...You were born to a Muslim father, but you chose to stand with the enemies of Muslims."
Ohhhhh snap! What about Afghanistan n'all that?
"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them."
Shiiiiiiiiit...come on man, it ain't gotta be like that. This is my man Barack! Change! Y'know what I'm sayin? He's got all that hope n'shit, man!
"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always."
...Shit's cold as ice, son.

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Iran Threatens Suicide Attacks Against U.S.

October 31, 2008 |

Iran has a new parliamentary speaker, former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, who promised yesterday an "unexpected response" to U.S. aggression. Larijani threatened to use suicide bomber attacks against America, and even referred to a 13-year-old boy sent by the mullahs with a bomb strapped to him in the 1980s as a model for the fight against the U.S. From JPost:
"The US method and conduct, expressed by this aggression, will only be stopped by a clear-cut and unexpected response, whose grounds were set by the martyr Hussein Fahmida," Larijani said during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.

Fahmida was 13 when he detonated an explosive device he carried on him, destroying an Iraqi tank during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.

"America should be aware not to put its huge body on top of the suicide bombers' explosive devices," Larijani said.
I've been saying this for about a year now. There will be no Iranian fighter planes, no Persian infantry. An Iranian retaliatory measure will be one of focused and unrelenting terror. We will have on our hands an American intifada, and the perpetrators will have already been living here comfortably for years.

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Oh Yeah, The Government is Wiretapping Non-Terrorists After All

October 9, 2008 |

ABC News has some sigh-inducing interviews with NSA whistle-blowers who say that U.S. officers "intercepted" and eavesdropped on hundreds of calls from citizens overseas as they phoned family and friends back home. From the article:
"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.

"By casting the net so wide and continuing to collect on Americans and aid organizations, it's almost like they're making the haystack bigger and it's harder to find that piece of information that might actually be useful to somebody," she said. "You're actually hurting our ability to effectively protect our national security."
Here are some links to videos of the interviews:

Adrienne Kinne describes why it was "awkward" listening in on Americans...

Arab linguist David Murfee Faulk describes a day on the job...

Kinne says listening in on aid organizations was part of the job...

Jim Bamford tasks about how the NSA missed warning signs before 9/11...

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Persia-Pocalypse Update

September 22, 2008 |

Iran is ever-closer to the bomb and as resolute as ever. With Ahmadinejad heading to Manhattan, Israel's intelligence wheels spinning furiously, and Hamas and Hezbollah rearming themselves, we seem to have hit another crest in the up-and-down cycle of panic and apathy spurred on by the Iranian mullocracy.

On that note, here are a few related stories worth checking out:

Military Intelligence: Iran Halfway to First Nuclear Bomb :: According to the head of research for Israeli military intelligence, as Iran's progress toward a nuclear weapon speeds up, the West's dedication to stopping the Islamic republic slows down. He says Iran has already enriched one-third to one-half of the uranium needed for a bomb.

Iran exploits every second the ticking clock gives them, as every second exploits our weakness in the West.

IAEA Chief: Iran Could Be Hiding Nukes :: This one is a little more unnerving and slightly more believable, given the black-market proliferation that occurred after the Soviet union dissolved, and after Pakistan's A.Q. Khan sold the power of the stars to the highest bidder.

The fact is, if Iran wanted to buy an off-the-shelf nuke, there are plenty of willing distributors. One of which, I regret to inform you, is Al-Qaeda.

Ahmadinejad: We'll Stop Any Attacker :: More rhetoric from Mr. Dinner Jacket as he claims that Iran is "not in a position to show softness toward its enemies." Coincidentally, Iran is also not in a position to be bombed into the bronze age.

The Speech Palin Never Gave :: From Haaretz, this is the text of the speech Palin was to give at the anti-Iran rally in New York. This was the rally Hillary turned down, evidently because her special "awkward" pantsuit wasn't back from the cleaners. In the speech, Palin talks of Iran's desire for a new "final solution," and speaks soberly about the threat Iran poses. From the speech:
Tomorrow, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will come to New York - to the heart of what he calls the Great Satan - and speak freely in this, a country whose demise he has called for.

Ahmadinejad may choose his words carefully, but underneath all of the rhetoric is an agenda that threatens all who seek a safer and freer world. We gather here today to highlight the Iranian dictator's intentions and to call for action to thwart him. He must be stopped.
Keep your eye on the chess game, folks.

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Pakistani Terrorists Replace Marriott Hotel Lobby With 60-Foot Crater

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In an attack believed to be perpetrated by Al-Qaeda, Islamabad's Marriott Hotel was gutted by a suicide bomber killing at least 40 people and injuring over 200 others, including 2 Americans. Saturday's attack was timed to occur as Muslims were packed into the hotel restaurants, breaking fast for Ramadan.


This also marks the second attack on Western targets in a week, after last week's attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen. Here's one of the early reports:
A massive truck bomb destroyed much of Islamabad’s most popular hotel this evening, killing at least 40 people, wounding at least 100 and leaving a crater more than 25 feet deep. Officials feared the death toll would increase by dozens as rescue teams continue work at the scene.

At approximately 8 p.m. local time, an apparent suicide bomber blew himself up as his vehicle was being checked at the security gate of the luxury Marriott Hotel. The bomb was felt as far as 15 miles away. Within 500 feet of the blast, buildings and trees were shredded by the bomb, which was believed to be the biggest in Islamabad’s history.

In the minutes after the blast, dozens of dead bodies littered what used to be the lobby of the hotel. Between the entrance and the security checkpoint, about 50 feet away, there were mounds of rubble under which more dead are feared to be buried.
Hours before the attack and less than a mile away from the hotel, Pakistan's new president Asif Ali Zardari made his first address to Parliament. Zardari, as well as Pakistan's Prime Minister, were due to dine at the Marriott the same evening, but changed their plans and avoided the blast.

Just hours after his first address as president of Pakistan, particularly stressing his desire to fight terrorism in his own country, Zardari would have been not only a victim, but a symbolic statement of the resiliance of the Islamists and their desire to use terror to dissolve democracy.

Update: The death toll is now at 53 and rising as dead bodies continue to be pulled from the rubble. Czech Ambassador Ivo Zdarek is among at least 21 foreigners killed in the blast.

Also read Bill Marriott on the bombing: "They [security personnel] had stopped the truck just outside the fortified gate. They were examining it when the bomb detonated. Sadly each member of the team was killed. These guys were defending the lives of hotel guests and their fellow co-workers. They were killed in the line of their duty."

Update: A surveillance video recorded moments before the bomb exploded has been released:



The camera didn't capture the blast - if you look at the resulting crater you'll understand why - but it caught everything leading up to the explosion, including the driver apparently self-detonating as hotel guards closed in. The flames couldn't be extinguished before they ignited the truck bomb itself.

So, let me get this straight: Zardari and his contemporaries were supposed to be dining at the Marriott at the time of the explosion, but plans were changed at the last minute. It's been long asserted by the CIA (amongst other intelligence entities) that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency has close ties to Al-Qaeda leadership.

Hmmmmm - I wonder who would have intimate access to Pakistani leadership and be interested in sharing that information with jihadis?

Just a reminder - there are nuclear weapons in this country, and with ISI in bed with the radicals as they have been for years, no one in Pakistan can be trusted with nukes.

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Islamists Attack U.S. Embassy in Yemen: 10 Dead, 6 Enjoying Their Virgins

September 17, 2008 |

The U.S. embassy in Yemen was attacked by "Islamic militants" believed to be from the Yemen branch of the Islamic Jihad Organization, killing 6 Yemeni soldiers and 4 civilians. Oh, and the 6 thugs didn't survive either. At first this seems like the 1983 attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut (also perpetrated by the IJO, with a little help from Iran), which ending up killing 241 Americans.

Similarly, a disguised truck filled with explosives was driven into the embassy compound before being detonated. However, the jihadis weren't satisfied with a lone truck bomb:
Several rocket-propelled grenades were fired and a gun battle broke out that is believed to have killed and wounded both guards and attackers.

"It was a well-organised and well-planned attack."

A senior US official said there had been up to five explosions and that the Yemeni authorities who first responded were ambushed by snipers.

He said it appeared some of the attackers were dressed as Yemeni troops, and that the first emergency personnel to arrive on the scene were hit by heavy sniper fire from riflemen laying in wait across the street from the embassy.

Sky News can reveal that the US and British embassies in Sanaa had received a threat from the Yemen branch of the Islamic Jihad Organisation on September 14.

"We will strike against all foreign interests, especially American and British interests, accurately and quickly," it said.
I'm sure Obama will be able address the terror group's "legitimate claims."

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America: No Israel, You Can't Have Bombs to Attack Iran.
Israel: Please?
America: Okay.

September 16, 2008 |

About a month ago the U.S. opted to turn down requests from Israel for "military hardware" for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. U.S. officials continue to say that the military option isn't "the right thing to do at the moment," but will also say that the military option shouldn't be taken off the table.

I believe there are some people in power who are willing to live with a nuclear Iran. There are others who want to bomb Iran's nuclear sites yesterday. The Iranian crisis ends in war, and Iran is buying time to further their messianic global ambitions, to bring about an Iranian (and Muslim) victory after nearly 40 years of clandestine conflict with the United States.

It's not going to be pretty, and it doesn't matter who we elect in November.

Now, the Department of Defense has prepared a $77 million potential arms deal to Israel, to sell the Jewish state "1,000 smart bombs capable of penetrating underground bunkers."

Time is running out. If the pattern of "testing new presidents" with terrorist attacks continues (1993 WTC bombing in Clinton's first year, 9/11 in Bush's first), and we're hit in 2009, look for two things: Iran to have helped (as is now being revealed in respect to 9/11), and American leadership to use the attack to rally the people behind the idea of an Iranian strike.

If Iran is provoked, the problem of terrorism will mean more than "that time those planes crashed in Manhattan" - innocent people will be targeted. They want this war, because they know that however ugly it might be for them, it will be devastating for Americans. It will be Iran's national suicide belt.

Update: For all of you who think Iran and other Shia entities don't cooperate with Sunni groups like Hamas and Al-Qaeda, get a clue. Hatred of the West and non-believers is a universal value of radical Islam. See also:

Captured Documents Show Iran Working Al-Qaeda
Iran: Hezbollah and Tehran's Sunni Gambit
BBC News: Iran Sending Weapons to Taliban

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Attention Teachers: When Talking About Terrorism, Try Not to Use the Sole Muslim Kid as an Example

September 15, 2008 |

In fact, if your goal is to keep your job, it might be a good idea to just not talk about airline terrorism in class at all. A Chicago public school teacher could be finding another line of work after deciding it was necessary (and "politically permissible") to describe how the only Muslim in the room could "hypothetically" sneak bombs onto a plane.

Naturally, CAIR is on the case. Rest assured offended Muslim child - the Saudis have your back. The article doesn't state whether or not she made him take off his shoes:
The teacher allegedly used Saleh as an example when she described a hypothetical homicide bombing, saying that he would carry explosives on board a plane and blow it up.

Though the 13-year-old declined to speak to the media about the ordeal, his brother Mohammad Fahad Choudhary said that "before he even took his backpack off, he had tears in his eyes already" when he came home from school that day.

The older brother said that Saleh was then relentlessly mocked by the other students after the classroom incident in April.

"Everybody started teasing him and calling him a terrorist after the comments were made by the teacher," Mohammad said.
Surprisingly, this lesson came right after a lecture entitled "MONUMENTAL FAILURES OF COMMON SENSE." Come on, man.

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Snore: Concern About Terrorism Lowest Since 9/11

September 11, 2008 |

What's surprising is that the number of people who think a terrorist attack will happen in the next several weeks seems fairly high - 30%. Remarkably though, 86% of Americans don't believe that it's only a matter of time until we're hit again.

Here's the story from (gulp) CNN:
Concerns about an impending terrorist strike are at the lowest point on record since the attacks on September 11, 2001...

Seven years after the attacks of September 11, just 30 percent of Americans said they thought an attack on American soil is likely sometime over the next several weeks - a number that's down 11 points since last year at that time and down 30 points since the first anniversary of 9/11. Only 14 percent of Americans say an impending terrorist attack is likely in their community.
Come to think of it, this poll is pretty misleading. Notice how the question is whether an impending terrorist attack is likely "in their community." While I think the next 9/11 is a question of "when," not "if," I wouldn't place my bets on such an attack taking place in Parkville, Missouri or Milford, Pennsylvania.

For your own edification, here is a list of the nineteen major terrorist attacks thwarted by the United States since 9/11.

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Depressing: Majorities in Only 9 of 17 Countries Surveyed Believe Al-Qaeda Was Responsible for 9/11

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The following poll released by WorldPublicOpinion.org reveals that majorities in only 9 of 17 surveyed countries believe that Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It also reveals that these statistics make for one ugly looking graph. Sorry. A couple things:

First, notice how apparently the pillar of Middle East rationality is the Palestinian territories. Second, should our European allies be embarrassed by how far they lag behind Kenya and Nigeria?
If this is accurate, Osama should really consider increasing Al-Qaeda's advertising and public relations budget. Crap-quality audio tapes sporadically released? Videos shot a decade ago? It's just not doing the trick. How is the world supposed to be aware of their...er, "accomplishments?"

Really though this is freaking stupid.

Update: The BBC decides it's a good time to explain why fire doesn't have to melt steel to make buildings collapse.

Update: Apparently bin Laden and the gang have decided to take my advice. From the Jerusalem Post:
Seven years after September 11, 2001, al-Qaida as an organization is seen by many analysts to be in some disarray. One prominent observer of the network depicts it as having been reduced to a core of 200-300 operatives. Yet al-Qaida as an idea and as a franchise remains healthy and is still a threat.

Responding to this changed reality, the al-Qaida leadership is investing increased resources in propaganda, with the intention of radicalizing large numbers of young Muslims throughout the world. And these efforts are proving successful, though it is doubtful whether this success will produce real-world political benefits for al-Qaida.
Continue Reading...

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Cease-Fire Schmease-Fire

June 24, 2008 |

Well, you gotta hand it to them. I was predicting something in the range of 24-48 hours, but Palestinians managed to go an entire five days without attempting to murder civilians. Way to go!


Militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fired at least two rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday, breaching a five-day-old ceasefire after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The Egyptian-brokered truce, which took effect last Thursday, calls on Hamas to prevent cross-border rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, which it seized by force a year ago.

The deal, under which Israel agreed to halt its own attacks in the Gaza Strip and to ease its economic blockade of the impoverished coastal enclave, does not apply to the West Bank.

An Israeli police spokesman said one of the makeshift rockets fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house in the border town of Sderot, causing damage but no casualties. The second rocket fell in an open area.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli army confirmed that Palestinians fired a mortar shell into Israel from Gaza overnight in the first reported violation by militants of the ceasefire.
I'm surprised Reuters didn't say it was poor Palestinian children playing with toy rockets, which suddenly became filled with ball bearings, and mysteriously crashed into an Israeli house. Why is it that "militants" fire rockets, but when Israel bombs them in return, they are suddenly "Palestinians" again?

Hamas has claimed that it still maintains the cease-fire, because the origin of the rockets was Islamic Jihad. So, if you and I are neighbors, and we sign a truce, and then your brother who is also my neighbor throws a grenade through my kitchen window, the truce isn't broken?

Lucy has pulled the football away from Charlie Brown for the 1,000th time. It's easy to call off peace when you don't want peace, but rather dead Jews.

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Hamas Fires Peace Rockets

June 18, 2008 |

With just one day to go before the "cease-fire" (which is nothing more than an opportunity to re-arm without fear of an Israeli attack), Hamas thought it appropriate to send another day's worth of rockets into Israel:
Despite the formal announcements from Jerusalem, Gaza and Cairo announcing the ceasefire agreement will go into effect at 6:00 am on Thursday, it was the routine of incessant attacks Israel's South awoke to on Wednesday. In the most recent attack a house in Sderot was hit directly, and ten residents suffered from shock. A woman lightly injured her leg while running for cover.

The Air Force (IAF) attacked two different rocket-launching cells in the northern Gaza Strip, which Palestinian sources said were responsible for the rocket barrage. The IDF stated that in both cases hits were identified.

With less than 24 hours to go before the ceasefire, Palestinian terror groups opened fire at Israelis on the border and launched at least 29 Qassam rockets and ten mortar shells towards the western Negev. Seven rockets were fired within the space of 15 minutes and landed in open spaces south of Ashkelon and in the Sderot area.
Before the announcement of the cease-fire, the Israeli Air Force also decided to bomb a car in the southern Gaza Strip. Inside this car were five members of the Army of Islam, the group responsible for the abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Schalit and BBC reporter Alan Johnson. Good riddance.

How many hours should we give Hamas until they violate the so-called "cease-fire?" As long as it takes them to truck in as many Iranian-made weapons as possible.

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Update: Islamic Saudi Academy Director Arrested

June 17, 2008 |

Abdullah Al-Shabnan, the director of the Islamic Saudi Academy in Virginia, has been arrested for failing to report the sexual abuse of a child and attempting to "eliminate any traces of the report." If you are still unfamiliar with this radical school, you can either read these posts, or peruse the official report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, in which the commission expresses "concern about the promotion of religious intolerance and religion-based violence."

Al-Shabnan was arrested on June 9th, with pretty much zero coverage from the national media. Patrick Poole at PJM detailed the events following a raid on the school by state authorities:

According to a local news report [video] on June 3, the female student reported her claims to her teachers, and a report on the matter was drawn up by the teachers and the school’s principal and submitted to administrators. But when the allegations reached the desk of school director Abdullah Al-Shabnan, he didn’t believe the girl and failed to report the sex abuse claims to law enforcement within the 72 hours required by state law.

Apparently tipped off on a cover-up, law enforcement authorities raided the school on May 23 to seize computers and look for evidence after Al-Shabnan ordered the original report deleted from school computers.

Just three days before the raid, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to renew the academy’s lease of county property, ignoring multiple reports of the school’s promotion of violence and hatred.

Luckily, the locals are having none of it, reportedly protesting outside the school with signs that read "Saudi hate is not an American value" and "Islamic sharia teaches violence and hate." If you ask me, every student taught with those textbooks is suffering a form of child abuse.

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Iran Can't Stop, Won't Stop

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In case you've been living in a well (perhaps alongside the twelfth Imam), today Iran further confirmed that it will never give up its nuclear ambitions and that "suspension of [uranium] enrichment is not on the agenda."
You should note that the leaders of Iran are apocalyptic zealots with a messianic dream of genocide and a new Islamic world - a "world without America and Zionism." If you don't understand this by now, you should probably stop reading and pick the bong back up. From Reuters:

Iran said on Tuesday uranium enrichment was its "red line" and would continue, despite an enhanced offer of incentives from big powers to stop activity the West fears could yield nuclear bombs.

"We have repeatedly said that enrichment is our red line and we should enjoy this technology. The work will be continued," deputy foreign minister Alireza Sheikhattar told reporters, according to the state news agency IRNA.

The incentives package offers Iran the chance to develop a civilian nuclear program with light water reactors — seen as harder to divert into bomb-making than the technology Tehran is now developing — and legally binding fuel supply guarantees.

"We will give our answer as soon as possible. But we do not know exactly when it will be," the Iranian official said. "It will be a discussable response. We might accept some elements of the proposal and reject some others," he said. "But suspension of enrichment is not on the agenda."
The mullahs are buying time, as they have been for the last four years. This is exactly like every other "We need some time to think this over" statement they have offered up in the past. Meanwhile, we are practically allowing them to hold the world hostage by offering them package after package of incentives, all of which are rejected because they depend on the suspension of uranium and/or the removal of portions of the nuclear fuel cycle from Iranian soil.

Every day the United Nations' hamsters spin their wheels is another day the centrifuges at Natanz do the same; another day closer to an Iranian bomb.

These fresh "incentives" include trade and economic benefits, the chance to develop civilian nuclear power with light water reactors, and guaranteed supplies of nuclear fuel. It also mentions "the possibility of Iran buying civil aircraft from the West," which is good, because when Iranian airliners aren't being shot down, they are dangerously old and plagued with safety concerns.

All of these demands, offers, and negotiations have been going on for years, but apparently Captain Change thinks that because Bush hasn't chosen to engage in "direct presidential diplomacy" with the likes of Ahmadinejad, there's still a chance Iran can be bargained with.

It is as if he thinks that by repackaging these stipulations and adding the presidential seal, a fresh new smile, and a firm handshake, the Hitler of our time will give up his atomic ambitions. Allow me to reprise some of the words from the man Obama will ask to play nice:

"Do you think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?"

"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets."

"Do the removal of Israel before it is too late and save yourself from the fury of regional nations."

"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."

"With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine...by God's will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future."

The question isn't "if" this will end violently - it's "when." We shouldn't forget that the Persians invented the game of chess, and have been carefully calculating each sequential move to lead a crippled superpower into a checkmate.

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Update: Doors Remain Open for Fundamentalist Islamic School

June 16, 2008 |

From the Washington Times:

"State Department officials said Thursday they have no plans to close a Saudi-financed Islamic school in Northern Virginia that has failed to eliminate violent and intolerant language in textbooks."

In case you were MIA last week, there is a private Saudi-backed Islamic school teaching hatred of Jews and the merits of killing adulterers, apostates, and non-Muslims. The State Department has been having "discussions" with the government of Saudi Arabia, and after being told that the schools would "revise the textbooks by the 2008 school year," they don't plan to take "additional action."

In other words, the school will remain open, and more Saudi-sponsored throwback extremism will remain inside our borders. According to the new article, here are some of the peaceful and tolerant messages found in the textbooks:
  • A passage in a 12th-grade Koranic interpretation textbook that states it is permissible for a Muslim to kill those who have left the faith, an adulterer or someone who has murdered a Muslim intentionally: "He (praised is He) prohibits killing the soul that God has forbidden (to kill) unless for just cause." The commission said the text defines "just cause" as "unbelief after belief, adultery and killing an inviolable believer intentionally."
  • A social sciences track that states, "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated (the Muslims). He was 'Abd Allah b. Saba' (from the Jews of Yemen)."
  • An excerpt in first-grade textbooks telling teachers to explain "that all religions, other than Islam, are false, including that of the Jews, Christians and all others."

So, what future awaits alumni of the Islamic Saudi Academy? According to this article, in 2002, Mohammed Osman Idris and Mohammed El-Yacubi were denied entry to Israel over "concerns about their ties to a potential suicide bombing." They were both graduates of this esteemed Islamic institution.

Then there is the case of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the 1999 valedictorian. It only took 6 years for the school's top student to be indicted on charges of providing material support to terrorists. He is currently serving a 30 year prison sentence "after being convicted on charges that included plotting to assassinate President Bush." Oh, did I mention he joined al-Qaeda?

According to a document from the US Department of Justice, Abu Ali joined a "clandestine al-Qaeda cell in Saudi Arabia." The document continues, "The defendant [Ali] discussed plans for assassinating President of the United States George W. Bush with a member of the al-Qaeda cell."

Just keep bringing in that Saudi money...keep bringing in that Saudi hate. Any legitimate government would not permit this to happen, but we don't have a legitimate government. We have politically correct quizzlings who preach "tolerance" while their neighbors preach "death to adulterers."

We are losing our country.

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Eight Reasons Why Bush is Losing America's War Against Radical Islam

June 13, 2008 |

George Bush attests that the United States is currently engaged in a "war on terror." Not declaring war on radical Islam itself has potentially been the biggest mistake of the entire endeavor, as our enemy is not a terrorist tactic, but rather a religiously-inflamed ideology bent on the destruction of our nation and its nonbelievers. However, there are many, many reasons which lead me to think Bush seems hellbent on sinking this ship, having effectively left no one at the helm.

Bin Laden owes Bush quite a lot.

Or perhaps he is simply as much of a dupe as Carter, Reagan, and Clinton were in the last quarter century during their exchanges with the Muslim world in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Serbia, and Kosovo. Here are eight ways in which the Texan is screwing us over:

1. By turning a blind eye to the Southern border, he has allowed the single largest alien invasion to occur on his watch, which has not only resulted in well over twelve million known illegal immigrants crippling our prisons, hospitals, and schools, but numerous "undocumented" aliens who are not exactly planning on cozying up to lady liberty.

2. He has thrown the country into one of the most poorly planned wars in our history, causing the deaths of thousands of Americans, in order to sedate a violent country that was set back centuries after the devastation and corruption following the Gulf War, and to prop up a replacement government that has more and more friendly ties to Iran every day. The mistakes in this war have been true blunders, and they have been numerous.

3. After failing to secure the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and allowing swarms of al-Qaeda personnel to simply "slip out the back door," he neglected to apply pressure to President Pervez Musharraf to allow the CIA to interrogate Pakistani nuclear scientists who worked with al-Qaeda, including the father of the so called "Islamic bomb," Abdul Qadeer Khan.

4. Due to his pesky lack of a Congressional Declaration of War, he is content (along with John McCain and, as of yesterday, the Supreme Court) with terrorist prisoners being treated like incarcerated paperboys from Queens. Captured by Uncle Sam? No worries, they'll let you borrow their Constitution.

5. He has twiddled his green thumbs while the poppy fields of Afghanistan remain in full bloom under the noses of U.S. forces, providing millions of dollars in funding from the heroin trade for al-Qaeda to buy weapons and train terrorists.

6. He has completely ignored al-Qaeda cells in the following countries - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Surinam, Venezuela - and in doing so allowed them to create a network of drug, human, and weapons trafficking which is infiltrating our country through our border with Mexico...all for the cause of cheap labor and liberal voters.

7. He opposes the use of classified intelligence evidence or "secret documentation," and has stated, "Arab Americans are racially profiled in what's called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that."

8. He has raised a petroleum-slicked umbrella to protect the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia from any scrutiny or consequences for their sponsoring of terror and radical Islamic schools. American lives and energy independence apparently aren't worth sacrificing a relationship with the Saudi royal family that has seen over $1 billion reach individuals and businesses closely connected to the Bush family.

Can you think of a Presidential candidate you would trust with these grave issues? I don't see one anywhere.

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Welcome Saudi-American Jihadists, Class of 2008

June 12, 2008 |

Have I not warned you of Saudi money (essentially your money) flowing back into this country to fund radical schools that teach hatred of nonbelievers? Finally the Associated Press is taking notice. A report has surfaced on their web site, with the watered down headline "Troubling Passages in Texts at Va. School."

The article states that the textbooks teach students that "it is permissable for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam," that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people," and that "Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed 'polytheists.'"

The Islamic Saudi Academy (whose name should have immediately triggered alarm bells) teaches 900 students in grades K-12 at two separate Virginia campuses, and "receives much of its funding from the Saudi government." The same Saudi government we have been cozy with for much of the last century (that is, ever since oil was discovered there).

The article continues: "The academy has come under scrutiny from critics who allege that it fosters an intolerant brand of Islam similar to that taught in the conservative Saudi kingdom...The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a panel formed by Congress, last year recommended that the school be closed amid concerns that it promotes violence and too closely mimics the conservative Saudi educational system."

Can I ask why we are permitting the doors of this school to remain open, when a non-Muslim can't even obtain residency in Saudi Arabia, much less practice his or her religion without persecution? If you are unfortunate enough to die in Saudi Arabia, you are prohibited from even being buried there; they will ship your lifeless non-believing corpse back to the States.

"A social studies text offers the view that Jews were responsible for the split between Sunni and Shiite Muslims: "The cause of the discord: The Jews conspired against Islam and its people. A sly, wicked person who sinfully and deceitfully professed Islam infiltrated (the Muslims)."

MSNBC decided to join the party and is currently conducting a poll which asks, "Should an Islamic school be allowed to lease county property while using textbooks that teach intolerance?" First, the word isn't "intolerance," it's murder. Second, an alarming 12% of useful idiots (or perhaps simply the entire population of Berkeley, California) have replied, "Yes. One way to teach tolerance is to show tolerance." Aw, I feel better already.

It's suprisingly easy to show tolerance when you're throat has been cut.

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