Do Not Let Them Erase Our History
Ground Zero mosque imam a closet Islamist?
Friday May 28, 2010
So says Walid Shoebat, an Arabic speaker who says he found an Arabic-
language interview in which Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- the allegedly
liberal/moderate New York imam who wants to build a giant mosque near
Ground Zero to make a statement about religious tolerance and
reconciliation, and to spite radical Islam -- advocates turning
America into an Islamic state. Excerpt:
More recently -- in fact on May 26, one day after his Daily News
column - Abdul Rauf appeared on the popular Islamic website Hadiyul-
Islam with even more disturbing opinions. That's the same website
where, ironically enough, a fatwa was simultaneously being issued
forbidding a Muslim to sell land to a Christian, because the Christian
wanted to build a church on it.
In his interview on Hadiyul-Islam by Sa'da Abdul Maksoud, Abdul Rauf
was asked his views on Sharia (Islamic religious law) and the Islamic
state. He responded:
Throughout my discussions with contemporary Muslim theologians, it is
clear an Islamic state can be established in more than just a single
form or mold. It can be established through a kingdom or a democracy.
The important issue is to establish the general fundamentals of Sharia
that are required to govern. It is known that there are sets of
standards that are accepted by [Muslim] scholars to organize the
relationships between government and the governed. [emphasis added]
When questioned about this, Abdul Rauf continued: "Current governments
are unjust and do not follow Islamic laws." He added:
New laws were permitted after the death of Muhammad, so long of course
that these laws do not contradict the Quran or the Deeds of
Muhammad ... so they create institutions that assure no conflicts with
Sharia. [emphasis in translation]
In yet plainer English, forget the separation of church and state.
Abdul Rauf's goal is the imposition of Shariah law -- in every
country, even democratic ones like the U.S.
I said yesterday that I had no reason to doubt the imam's motives in
establishing this mosque. Let me retract that. It is absolutely par
for the course for American Muslim leaders to speak out of both sides
of their mouths on the question of peace, tolerance and their
intentions, and to get angry when anybody points that out (you really
should read this transcript), and tries to draw them out on what they
really believe. And many non-Muslim Americans, because they have an
emotional need to believe the words of duplicitous Islamic community
leaders, prefer to demonize those who raise perfectly legitimate
questions. I wouldn't say that what Shoebat has uncovered is
conclusive evidence that Rauf is a wolf in sheep's clothing, but I do
think it's enough evidence to be skeptical of him and his stated
intentions, and that he has some hard questions to answer -- among
them, the sources of his funding. If he receives any significant money
from the Muslim Brotherhood, he's radioactive, and here's why. I do
not expect The New York Times to put them to him, though. It could be
that Rauf is genuinely a religious liberal, in an Islamic context, and
was giving an Arabic audience the red meat they require. One way or
the other, he should be questioned hard about what he really believes,
and reporters should not be satisfied with bromides.
I thought just now, "Well, I'll see what Zuhdi Jasser says about this
mosque project and Imam Rauf. If he thinks it's a good idea, and if he
has confidence in this imam, then I'll feel a lot better about this."
Zuhdi is the Muslim-American physician who, with his American Islamic
Forum for Democracy, has taken a strong public stand against the
Muslim Brotherhood and its infiltration of the leadership class of
American Islam. He's suffered for his beliefs and his activism, and
for telling truths that many in the media don't want to hear; he has
credibility. So I just Googled do see if Zuhdi had made any comment
about this affair. Turns out he has published an op-ed about it, and
comes out against the project. Excerpt:
This is not about the building of a mosque or a religious facility. It
is not about religious freedom. This is about a deep, soulful
understanding of what happened to our country on 9/11.
When Americans are attacked, they come together as one, under one
flag, under one law against a common enemy that we are not afraid to
identify. Religious freedom is central to our nation - and that is why
the location of this project is so misguided. Ground Zero is purely
about being American. It can never be about being Muslim.
The World Trade Center site represents Ground Zero in America's war
against radical Islamists who seek to destroy the American way of
life. It is not ground zero of a cultural exchange.
By The Numbers
On September 11th, 2001 4 Flights were hijacked.
American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center.American Airlines Flight 77 which left
Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles
before being flown into the Pentagon.
United Airlines Flight 93 which left Newark, N.J., bound for San
Francisco before crashing in Stony Creek Township, Pa United
Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los
Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade
Center.
Why did the mastermind behind the attacks on America of September
11th, 2001 choose these particular flight numbers?
MY THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR
IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN
KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED
TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY
NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME
HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtmlMay 23, 2002
Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the
intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.
Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is
believed to be the source of the information. He is being
interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.
Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board
Flight 93.
United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset
County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the
ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers
before it went down.
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely
target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.,
near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to
have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials
said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp
in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the
Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had
direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.
He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at
U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a
Phoenix FBI agent.
The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu
Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is
believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in
Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the
U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.
Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of
associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11
hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three
members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are
still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of
Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtmlThe first attack on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993.
The February 26th, 1993 attack marked the 11th anniversary to the
day of the declaration by the Reagan-Bush Administration of February
26th, 1982 that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and
as such was eligible for American loans and grants, which it
subsequently got.
The February 26th, 1993 attack also marked the 2nd anniversary to the
day of the liberation of Kuwait by the U.S. in the first Gulf War.
Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the
Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait
(US Embassy) February 26, 2001
The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists associated with
Sheik Rahman on February 26th, 1993. It was Sheik Rahman's group
that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the 8th anniversary
to the day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 6th.
Sheik Rahman's son was subsequently found with bin Laden's group
in Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.
"White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and
credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon
was
originally intended to hit the White House."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-8.html#intended-targets
American Airlines Flight 77 which left Washington's Dulles
International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into
the Pentagon.
7/7 is one way to write the date July 7th
On July 7th, 1994 Yasser Arafat, PLO chairman drove from Egypt into
Gaza, after 27 years in exile. What Arafat was doing was using the
date of July 7th to re-write a perceived wrong he had felt some
years earlier on another July 7th. It was on July 7th 1986 that the
government of Jordan closed the offices of Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah.
Because a bus bombing occurred in London on July 7th, 2005 it struck
me that the nation that has endured more bus bombings than any other
nation is Israel. There may be a connection between the July 7th,
2005 attacks in London and the terrorists who have targeted Israel
with bus bombings for years.
Recently terrorists in Iraq murdered Egypt's envoy to Iraq.
"Zarqawi group reportedly killed Egyptian ambassador in Iraq
Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 7/7/2005
News reports from al-Jazeera and al-Arabia satellite TV stations
said that Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq to Iraq, Eyhab al-Sharif, had
been executed.
Meantime, Al-Qaida organization in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi, had threatened in a statement on the Internet to execute
the chairman of the Egyptian diplomatic mission al-Sharif.
The threat to execute Sharif came a short time after al-Qaida
organization in Iraq issued pictures for the identity cards of the
Egyptian diplomat as an evidence that they are the ones which
kidnapped him.
The statement said the legitimate court of al-Qaida organization in
Mesopotamia decided to "send the ambassador of the state of Egypt to
the Mujahideen (indivduals from Egypt and other states that go to
Iraq to fight with the insurgents) to execute the death penalty
against him." The statement considered that "the embassies in
Baghdad are but monitoring sites to snipe the arriving Mujahideen
and preventing them from having access to their brothers in Jihad in
the land of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and in Afghanistan."
In an attempt to prove that the Egyptian ambassador is their
possession, al-Qaida organization published documents including a
driving Sharif's license and a work card for him at the foreign
ministry and another one for health insurance. On Tuesday the
organization claimed responsibility for kidnapping Sharif."
American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center.
Saddam Hussein assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years
old. Fixated on the number 11 ever since then he easily focused on
the World Trade Center as a target because it looked so much like a
number 11 that WPIX TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center in its logo for years.
The World Trade Center also housed an office of the Bank of Kuwait.
Saddam used Rahman's group to punish Sadat for failing to defeat
Israel in the attack on Israel of October 6th, 1973. Saddam also
used Sheik Rahman's group to hit the Speaker of the Egyptian
Parliament during the first Gulf War when Egypt sided with America
against Iraq.
Saddam, acting like a child who is deprived of a toy, who
subsequently
breaks that toy, set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields as he was being
driven out of Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991.
"Aired 9/11/2001 "Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are
the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World
Trade
Center] Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated
the White House following a series of explosions."
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you
spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)
LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had
actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had
just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car
and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade
Center.)"
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things:
Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the
father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)
LAURA
BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually
spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at
the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen
them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out
about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They
were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,
and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to
Minneapolis."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html "September 11th, 2001 - The White House is
evacuated. White House Sealed"
http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg "try to avoid having the principal
travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The
Art
of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "
Saddam tried to kill former President Bush in 1993.
Former President Bush's Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11
years to the day before September 11th 2001 "In the early morning
hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait. The
crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move
toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled
times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge."
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and credible
information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was
originally intended to hit the White House."
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended
target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government
sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the
source of the information."
Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former
President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th
2001:
"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed
as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary
of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,
and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some
underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency
interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the
plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most
powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the
Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has
become unexpectedly important... there
is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this
private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its
founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.
President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and
former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has
counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi
Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile
clientele."
Shafig bin Laden is a half-brother to Osama bin Laden,
and was in attendance at the Carlyle Group's
Washington, DC conference at the
Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 11, 2001
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafiq_bin_Laden "The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."
To indicate September 1990 one might well write or type 9/90
It was in September of 1990 that President George Herbert Walker
Bush spoke to Congress on Iraq. On September 11th, 1990 in fact.
What of EgyptAir Flight 990?
Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
"The co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990
uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
"Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
An example of terrorists striking on an anniversary
came on October 7th, 2004 in Taba.
"Images of Destruction | Taba Hilton Before and After Terrorist
Attack on October 7, 2004"
According to initial findings Naveh said, a car bomb blew up at the
entrance to the Hilton Taba Hotel and there was a combined bomb and
shooting attack in two restaurants usually frequented by Israelis in
Ras Al-Satan."
http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4020867.htmlOn October 7th,2001 "America Retaliates for the September 11
Attacks. October 7, 2001 President George W. Bush Speaks to America
After the Strikes Begin.
"On October 7th, 1959, Saddam and others attempted, but failed, to
assassinate the prime minister of Iraq. Wanted by the Iraqi
government, Saddam was forced to flee. He lived in exile in Syria
for three months and then moved to Egypt where he lived for three
years."
http://history1900s.about.com/od/saddamhussein/p/saddamhussein.htm "President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th Cabinet Session Baghdad, Oct.
22, 2001 INA
President Saddam Hussein chaired on Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.
The Cabinet discussed recent events of Palestinian Intifadha and
praised Palestinians brave and
persistent struggle for liberating their lands. The cabinet reviewed
the current international
situation, especially the U.S aggression on Afghanistan. The Cabinet
brought back a historic
stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when it condemned the military Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq had then deep relations with the
Soviet Union and there was a
friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet
Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national
independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself
once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US
aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance
rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The
Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary
decisions and recommendations."
Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance " Saddam Hussein's
speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name
of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
"Middle East Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing
of the two
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to
the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd
airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?"
"The 12th of October 2002 will for the rest of Australian history be
counted as a day when evil
struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery,"
"On October 12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives
carried out a
suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In
what President Clinton described as a "despicable and cowardly act,"
17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded."
After the liberation of Iraq terrorists struck the Baghdad Hotel on
October 12th.
If you add 1 to 9 you get 10. If you add 1 to 11 you get 12. Thus
the 9/11/2001 attack
was presaged by the attack on the U.S.S. Cole on 10/12/2000. The
terrorists were
engaging in what to them was a private joke regarding their plans
for 9/11/2001.
"Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the
attack
on the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have
been an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western
Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been
arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.
Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military
skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive
used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a
torpedo or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist
organizations, and
which may have come from a military stockpile."
4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA
"Authorities said Saffi" (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags
for four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator;
training
at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence
Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United
States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks."
"Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was
planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI
to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers."
"US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated
charges that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former
President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993."
"Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS
Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,
Europe October 4, 2001 [With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News]
PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who
allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on
Sept. 11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in
Prague
before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the
investigation
said."
United Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the
World Trade Center.
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 15 December 1988 43/175.
Question of Palestine
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 43/175 A: 123-2-20
Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004
What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would
have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert
Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from
Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary
of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination
attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail
cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took
power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979,
invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate
former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th
anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on
Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order."US plans to
dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world]
order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion
rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic
of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the
Iraqi Government." The World Trade Center looked so much like the
number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid
attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat,
criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was
assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom
Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American
Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years
after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion
of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as
Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas,
November 22, 1963
Source:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to
assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November
22nd, 2004,
the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some
examination.
BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former
President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had
offices in Peru, where
coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are
processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and
Baathist Iraq. Banks
did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval
of the tyrant.
"Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush
November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters
By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was
targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group
this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a
top Colombian official said on Saturday. "According to informants
and various sources, we had information indicating that various
members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an
attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto
Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of
the threat. The White House had no immediate comment.
The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does
not comment or release information regarding our protective
intelligence and protective methods." "We do not discuss any alleged
threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service
spokesman.
There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on
Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in
Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over
Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops
were shuttered."
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5
"In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents
from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,
describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22
Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have
been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military
buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the
transaction, which was to take place in August or September of
1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI
as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI
bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his
techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended
the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash"
customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia...."
Source:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm "The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On
October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the
night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit
was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti."
Page 22
"The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February
1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq,
where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known
popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine
intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to
turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the
army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of
the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members
immediately collaborated with the new regime..." Pgs 25-26
The November 18th, 1963 coup in Iraq happened just four days
before JFK was assassinated. The coup leaders retained
Saddam Hussein in his post as head of the official
Iraqi Assassination Bureau The Jihaz Haneen.
SEE ALSO:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3341739/ "JFK: The day that changed America" IN WHICH RAMSEY CLARK STATES
THAT HE, RAMSEY CLARK, WAS THE FIRST ONE INTO THE EAST ROOM OF THE
WHITE HOUSE AFTER THE JFK ASSASSINATION. "ABCNEWS: What do you make
of the idea that Oswald's uncle, Dutz
Murret, could have been the connection between Marcello and Oswald"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/WorldNewsTonight/JFK_Ralph_Salerno -3.htmlEx-Atty. General Would Aid Saddam Defense
Fri Dec 19,10:26 PM ET
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Friday
that he would be willing to provide legal counsel to Saddam Hussein
(news - web sites) if the ousted Iraqi leader requested Clark's
assistance.
"In his Texas days, the politically ambitious elder Clark was
cultivated as a useful connection by New Orleans Mafia kingpin Carlos
Marcello, and many feared Clark's new job would afford organized
crime
access to higher levels of power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in
corruption scandals.*** In 1947, after he had four convicted Chicago
mob bosses sprung from prison before their terms were complete,
Congress appointed a committee to investigate-and was effectively
road
blocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole records. "Roselli was a
Las Vegas based Mafia figure and a link in the CIA-Mafia chain. He
had
close ties to three Mafia bosses associated with the Kennedy
assassination: Sam Giancana of Chicago, Santos Trafficante of
Florida,
and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans. According to columnist Jack
Anderson, Roselli told him that mob leaders had ordered Jack Ruby to
kill Lee Harvey Oswald because they were afraid he might crack and
reveal their part in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. In
July
1976, shortly before Roselli was to be questioned by the Senate
Intelligence Committee, his body was discovered floating in
Dumfoundling Bay in Miami. He had been strangled and stabbed; his
legs
had been sawed off and stuffed into an empty oil drum along with the
rest of his body. It is believed that Roselli was killed by someone
working for Trafficante because he was talking too much about the
Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy" "Crime and Cover-Up (p. 44): Here
Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark. "One
of
Ruby's close personal friends' and character witnesses for his liquor
license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local
attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S.
Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)Robert L. Clark and
his law partner Maury Hughes. arranged the...parole in 1947 of John
Roselli."
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler4.
The Source Behind the Interview
CBS News is acknowledging that anchorman Dan Rather had help in
getting his
exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein from none other than Ramsey
Clark, the
onetime U.S. attorney general who has since been on the outer fringe
of the
American left. Clark, who bitterly opposed the Gulf War in 1991, has
since
accused the United States of war crimes in that conflict.... He
visited with
Saddam Hussein over the weekend, as he has done several times before,
and,
according to CBS News, put in a good word for Rather, whom he has
known for a
long time."THE GROUP CALLING ITSELF A.N.S.W.E.R.WAS SPUN OFF IT SEEMS
TO US FROM
the International Action Center. Ramsey Clark FOUNDED the
International Action Center.
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCH/clark_w.html "Testimony Of Dr. William Kemp Clark ... before the President's
Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy..."
http://www.webcom.com/ctka/pr1195-clark.html The Formation of the Clark Panel: More of the Secret Team at Work? By
Lisa Pease The Clark Panel was the medical panel convened almost
immediately after Ramsey Clark had been approved for his appointment
as Attorney General in 1967. The panel was clearly convened to put to
rest the growing doubts caused by the exposures of Mark Lane, Harold
Weisberg, other researchers and even in late 1966, LIFE magazine
itself. All of the above talked about the evidence of conspiracy, and
the implication is that the medical evidence would either show
conspiracy, or else, signs of tampering. What brought it to a crux
was
Jim Garrison's all-out investigation of the assassination, which, in
1967, was making official story proponents very nervous. One of the
key questions raised by the New Orleans DA was this: Why hadn't the
Warren Commission members examined the autopsy photographs and
X-rays?"
Ramsey Clark also dutifully backed the official findings that Lee
Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan each acted alone in the
assassinations
of the Kennedy brothers.*** Carlos Marcello biographer John Davis
asserts that the kingpin continued to funnel money to (Ramsey)
Clark(`s father Tom Clark) when he, (Tom Clark), sat on the high
court.*** "
http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0093.htmRFK was killed on the first anniversary of the Six Day War.
http://www.idf.il/english/history/sixday.stmFBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello had become one
of Bobby Kennedy's targets for deportation, the New Orleans don
contacted Santo Trafficante.). International Action Center-IAC-
Founder Ramsey ) "Clark represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by
the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot
and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by
Palestinian terrorists in 1986."
http://stopterror.org/lawsuits.html"The PLO, PA, and other related defendants are being represented by
former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark." "PLO attorney and former
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark." Clark also represented PLO
leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the
elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the
hijacked
Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986."
Another Ramsey Clark client was Sheik Rahman himself.
""In private legal practice since 1969, Mr. Clark has argued or
briefed a number of ... cases before the Supreme Court. In addition,
he has
defended a rogue's gallery of clients, including convicted 1993
World Trade Center bombing conspirator Sheik Rahman and presidential
fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche."—National Press Club Luncheon With
Ramsey Clark"
Who is Dan Rather?
"With the Zapruder film, came the frame by frame voice account of
the assassination. It was the voice of an obscure KRLD-TV Dallas
news reporter as the only journalist allowed to view the Zapruder
film and report on it to the public. The voice was that of Dan
Rather, and his frame by frame account of the head shot was that "
the bullet clearly entered the back of the President's head as then
the President's head lurched FORWARD with considerable force". His
account was precisely the opposite of what the film clearly showed,
and Dan Rather was lying to the public and the government was
sanctioning this!! We all three agreed that fall evening in 1971,
that Dan Rather was "going places". He did not disappoint us."
Source:
http://www.jfk-info.com/discus/messages/23/47.html "Dan Rather was spawned Halloween day, 1931, in Wharton, Texas. He
was the CBS news reporter covering the Kennedy visit to Dallas on
November 22, 1963. At the time, Rather was widely praised for his
coverage of the assassination. However, over the years, as elements
of the truth have been discovered, Rather's reporting has been
revealed to be less than truthful. Consider this: Rather was the
only newsman present at a private screening of the Zapruder film the
day after the assassination. He described what was in the film over
nationwide radio and was fairly accurate until he described the
fatal head shot. Rather stated Kennedy's head "went forward with
considerable violence," the exact opposite of what is in the film.
Several months later, Rather was promoted to White House
correspondent for CBS and by the 1980s, he was chief news anchorman.
Now, since the film was immediately bought from Abraham Zapruder by
Time-Life, and withheld from public viewing until 1975, that means
for over a full decade, Rather's bogus account of the fatal head
shot was taken as the gospel truth.
Another questionable statement by Rather involves his location at
the time of the assassination. In his book, "The Camera Never
Blinks," Rather wrote how he was waiting to pick up news film from
CBS cameramen in the Presidential motorcade. He wrote he was
standing on the west side of the Triple Underpass and missed
witnessing the assassination by only a few yards. However, recently
discovered film footage of the west side of the underpass has now
become public. This film plus still photographs show the Kennedy
limousine speeding through the underpass and on to Stemmons Freeway--
but no sign of Dan Rather.
Why did Rather lie about the fatal head shot? Why did Rather lie
about his whereabouts at the time of the assassination?"
Source:
http://members.aol.com/jfk55/jfk4.htmlWho is Dan Rather?
"With the Zapruder film, came the frame by frame voice account of
the assassination. It was the voice of an obscure KRLD-TV Dallas
news reporter as the only journalist allowed to view the Zapruder
film and report on it to the public. The voice was that of Dan
Rather, and his frame by frame account of the head shot was that "
the bullet clearly entered the back of the President's head as then
the President's head lurched FORWARD with considerable force". His
account was precisely the opposite of what the film clearly showed,
and Dan Rather was lying to the public and the government was
sanctioning this!! We all three agreed that fall evening in 1971,
that Dan Rather was "going places". He did not disappoint us."
Source:
http://www.jfk-info.com/discus/messages/23/47.html "Dan Rather was spawned Halloween day, 1931, in Wharton, Texas. He
was the CBS news reporter covering the Kennedy visit to Dallas on
November 22, 1963. At the time, Rather was widely praised for his
coverage of the assassination. However, over the years, as elements
of the truth have been discovered, Rather's reporting has been
revealed to be less than truthful. Consider this: Rather was the
only newsman present at a private screening of the Zapruder film the
day after the assassination. He described what was in the film over
nationwide radio and was fairly accurate until he described the
fatal head shot. Rather stated Kennedy's head "went forward with
considerable violence," the exact opposite of what is in the film.
Several months later, Rather was promoted to White House
correspondent for CBS and by the 1980s, he was chief news anchorman.
Now, since the film was immediately bought from Abraham Zapruder by
Time-Life, and withheld from public viewing until 1975, that means
for over a full decade, Rather's bogus account of the fatal head
shot was taken as the gospel truth.
Another questionable statement by Rather involves his location at
the time of the assassination. In his book, "The Camera Never
Blinks," Rather wrote how he was waiting to pick up news film from
CBS cameramen in the Presidential motorcade. He wrote he was
standing on the west side of the Triple Underpass and missed
witnessing the assassination by only a few yards. However, recently
discovered film footage of the west side of the underpass has now
become public. This film plus still photographs show the Kennedy
limousine speeding through the underpass and on to Stemmons Freeway--
but no sign of Dan Rather.
Why did Rather lie about the fatal head shot? Why did Rather lie
about his whereabouts at the time of the assassination?"
Source:
http://members.aol.com/jfk55/jfk4.htmlSaddam Hussein and Ramsey Clark
Iraq's Hussein won't offer condolences to Bush
September 26, 2001
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein said Wednesday
he will not offer condolences to U.S.
President George W. Bush for
those
killed in terror attacks because the
United States is "launching a war
on us"
and his condolences would be
hypocritical.
In a meeting with a representative of
Russian President Vladimir
Putin, Hussein
said, "Bush wants us to pay our condolences, but if I were to do that
I would not be respecting my people. Bush is the president of a state
that is launching a war on us ... in a mean, terroristic manner.
"And if I offered condolences to its president, this would be
hypocrisy, and we are not hypocrites. Since offering condolences is a
kind of courtesy between states, but we offered condolences to small
organizations in America and to an American personality [Ramsey
Clark]
who came to extend condolences for America's calamities against us."
Hussein's remarks were reported by the Iraqi News Agency.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/vic.saddam.no.condolences/index.html dex.html
Ex-Atty. General Would Aid Saddam Defense
Fri Dec 19,10:26 PM ET
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Friday
that he would be willing to provide legal counsel to Saddam Hussein
(news - web sites) if the ousted Iraqi leader requested Clark's
assistance.
"In his Texas days, the politically ambitious elder Clark was
cultivated as a useful connection by New Orleans Mafia kingpin Carlos
Marcello, and many feared Clark's new job would afford organized
crime
access to higher levels of power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in
corruption scandals.*** In 1947, after he had four convicted Chicago
mob bosses sprung from prison before their terms were complete,
Congress appointed a committee to investigate-and was effectively
road
blocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole records. "Roselli was a
Las Vegas based Mafia figure and a link in the CIA-Mafia chain. He
had
close ties to three Mafia bosses associated with the Kennedy
assassination: Sam Giancana of Chicago, Santos Trafficante of
Florida,
and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans. According to columnist Jack
Anderson, Roselli told him that mob leaders had ordered Jack Ruby to
kill Lee Harvey Oswald because they were afraid he might crack and
reveal their part in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. In
July
1976, shortly before Roselli was to be questioned by the Senate
Intelligence Committee, his body was discovered floating in
Dumfoundling Bay in Miami. He had been strangled and stabbed; his
legs
had been sawed off and stuffed into an empty oil drum along with the
rest of his body. It is believed that Roselli was killed by someone
working for Trafficante because he was talking too much about the
Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy" "Crime and Cover-Up (p. 44): Here
Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark. "One
of
Ruby's close personal friends' and character witnesses for his liquor
license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local
attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S.
Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)Robert L. Clark and
his law partner Maury Hughes. arranged the...parole in 1947 of John
Roselli."
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler4"7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill
Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein,
escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist
coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street
fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting
between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist
regime..." Pages 312-313
"Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi
principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist
movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943"
(when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) "by two
Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim
Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German
national socialism" (Nazism) "and on Italian fascism." Page 199
"After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was
promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found
that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force
responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and
torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End').
Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and
revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments
of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the
summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of
creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This
was the Jihza Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and
certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed
Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed
assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup.
Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some
Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the
Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint
coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's
own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni." Pages 201-203
"The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz
Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested.
Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly
hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a
national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the
Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred
thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join
in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings.
This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours..." Page 206
Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel
Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991
ISBN 0-312-06530-2
"Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle
organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter
the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim
Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad.
In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb
of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the
bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused
to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt
with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip
displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they
made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the
studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera
would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where
Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on
the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio,
and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole.
The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever
remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier
grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat
full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in
this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old
message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do
the smae to you. The fact that it was on television extended its
reach..." Pages 58-59.
Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq by Samir
al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X
"An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which
provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan is the world's No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin,
and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for
By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author
Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the
Study of Corruption and the author of "Evil Money" (HarperBusiness)
and "Narco-Terrorism" (Basic Books).
Moving the money...
In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade
Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested,
Mohammed Salameh—the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant—
offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money?
The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the
same as the one that funded the eight men—arrested shortly
afterward—who planned to blow up Manhattan's tunnels and bridges
and to assassinate public officials?
Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11?
... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist,
international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the
same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves.
Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to
crack down on their financing.
Bin Laden's is only one among many hostile international criminal
organizations, often state-sponsored, that will do whatever they can
to diminish the status of the United States as the only superpower.
According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin
Laden's service, has the advantage of controlling the world's
largest heroin production and distribution in the world.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production
soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world
production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were
produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his
associates worldwide. First warning
The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of
England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the
world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This
criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi "to
fight the evil influence of the West"; to help with the creation of
the "Islamic Bomb"; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations;
and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug
trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms
trafficking.
When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that
Abu Nidal—the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that
now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden—had
accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the "special
services" provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian
and international development funds, as well as drug money
laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes.
A "Black Network," a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal
and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same
Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials
told the United States that they didn't know his whereabouts. And
the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State
Department's annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and
money laundering center.
Western blindness
Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and
British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The
bank "that would bribe God" was able to get away with its criminal
activities for decades due to Abedi's clever portrayal of the Muslim
nations as victims of Western—and particularly U.S.—
"imperialism." And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in
the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the
United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing
fiscal power of Muslim countries.
Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim
states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas,
Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric
to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward
the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western
bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that
makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and
international conventions to control this phenomenon.
The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about
the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist
organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and
drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East
terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of
London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor
illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud....
Clinton appeasement
Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the
Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the
20th century's most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army.
All are heavily involved in the drug trade.
On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO's
ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an
annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from "donations,
extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money
laundering, fraud, etc."
Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the
start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion
more from the United States and the international community, without
any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this
year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been
systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with
monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps.
The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the
beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash's able leadership
and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization
exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and
later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it
obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and
amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat,
who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin
Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that
promoted "suicide bombers" as a weapon.
Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical
Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat's Fatah branch of the PLO
and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by
George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran.
...It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the
contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking
countries, to entice Syria to join the "peace process" in the Middle
East.
The failure of that process and the compromises the United States
has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt
added to the Muslim radical terrorists' resolve to attack what they
see as a naive and vulnerable America.
In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate
with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana's "land for
peace" initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting
Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal
enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of
cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market.
This second Clinton "land for peace" initiative gave half of
Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to
diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the
country...."
Source:
http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/0109/30/a17-306400.htmIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian Authority
a "gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists." "There is an obstacle
[to peace] with the gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists that
lead the Palestinian Authority," Sharon said in a televised speech
in Israel. "The only way to peace is to remove this murderous
posse." – Source:
New York Daily News -
http://www.nydailynews.comSharon raps Arafat `assassins' By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, August 8th, 2002
"Bush back from surprise Iraq trip
President Bush has arrived back in the United States after a
surprise trip to Baghdad, where he spent two hours with US troops
celebrating Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Bush told troops the US would not be swayed by ongoing attacks
in Iraq.
"We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a
bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate
25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and
assassins," he told 600 US soldiers.
Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3245584.stm "President Bush and his wife, Laura, along with former president
George H. W.
Bush, welcome the King and Queen of Spain, Juan and Sofia Carlos, to
their ranch
Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Lawrence
Jackson)"
Source:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/041124/480/txlj10111241820
A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador
Monday,November
22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll
road light
tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby
Airport, killing
the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of
Tulsa, Okla.,
came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when
the wing and
the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway
road....."
"Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html "The
co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html "Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html "The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the
south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."
Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.htmlSaddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on
Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama
bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President
Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th,
2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in
Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White
House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes
of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in
Pennsylvania.
Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush.
We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former
President
Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President
Bush,
along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and
former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to
Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back.
Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence
building
in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers
were
caught in Kuwait.
We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President
George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his
henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001.
September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When
September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the
day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America.
Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal
Budget Deficit September 11, 1990.
We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as
significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August
2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam
Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting
and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf,
as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an
historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our
fifth
objective-a new world order-can emerge. ***" READ THE WHOLE OF
DUBYA'S
DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ "Note: The President spoke at 9:09
p.m.inthe House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on
nationwide television and radio."
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq
Cheers September 11th Attacks on America "Wednesday, September 12,
2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against
Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11
Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over
footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With
thanks
to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the
fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the
history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes
and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The
massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the
Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop
their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on
peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was
destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have
broken
through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the
century
and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread
among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following
a
series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State
Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government
institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of
the
US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world
Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the
Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world
under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are
the
fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade
Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television
in
Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government]"
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3"BLITZER: That's Osama bin Laden's group. Now you also have some
new information, David, about Mohamed Atta. He's the suspected
ringleader of the September 11th hijackings.
ENSOR: Well, that's right. As you know, he was one of the suicide
hijackers who died on September 11th on one of those aircraft. And we
had previously reported on September 19th that he met with an Iraqi
intelligence official somewhere in Europe. Well, I'm now able to tell
you, based on information from U.S. sources, he met not once but
twice
with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague in the Czech Republic:
once
last year in June of 2000 and once in April of 2001."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.htmlImagine that you lost a loved one on September 11th, 2001
and you have gone to the Ground Zero area. What
will you hear.
Ground Zero is not Hevron. There will be no one
there to play music to drown out the sounds of
the Mosque's Loudspeakers.
Hevron's Noisy War: Mosque Loudspeakers vs. Jewish Music
by Maayana Miskin
Follow Israel news on and .
Hevron resident Baruch Marzel is sick of being disturbed by Muslim
prayers, which are broadcast through loudspeakers atop the Tomb of the
Patriarchs (Maarat Hamachpelah) and other local mosques five times a
day. So the veteran Land of Israel activist has rented his own sound
system and says he will play chassidic music 24 hours a day until his
Muslim neighbors agree to turn down the volume while praying.
"They got money from Saudi Arabia to get a loudspeaker system just to
make us miserable. I rented a powerful system and put on Carlebach
every hour of the day. The [IDF] Civil Administration asked me to
stop, I told them that when they stop I'll stop – and believe me,
they'll stop," Marzel explained.
Local Arabs have filed a complaint over Marzel's music, with help from
the pro-Arab organization Yesh Din.
Marzel said he welcomed the complaint. "I'm waiting for them to bring
this complaint forward, to bring this up for public debate." However,
he criticized Yesh Din for taking up the cause, calling members of the
group "anti-Semites and traitors."
Loud chassidic music is an appropriate response to the Muslim muezzin,
said Marzel, who said he was acting "measure for measure," a synomyn
to the concept of an "eye for an eye." Marzel also complained about
Muslim weddings in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, which he said often
continue until 3 a.m., while Jews are asked to end their ceremonies by
11 p.m.
"This is the only way to put an end to Arab abuse of Jews. And it
isn't just here – the muezzin bothers residents of Ramat Shlomo as
well," Marzel said. Even residents of Tel Aviv hear the call to prayer
blasting from the Hassan Bek mosque, he added, "but in Tel Aviv they
don't want to impinge on the sanctity of Islam. So let them keep
suffering."
"We will not suffer. We will fight back," he concluded.
A similar battle took place earlier in the year in the town of Kfar
Veradim in the Galilee. Residents of the town took to playing loud
classical music in response to noisy weddings in the nearby Arab
village of Tarshiha.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
If you are an avid reader you may have read 1984 by Eric Blair writing
as George Orwell.
In that classic book you may come across the statement that
he who controls the past controls the future
he who controls the present controls the past.
Santayana is quoted as having said that those who
do not remember the mistakes of the past are condemned
to repeat them. If our very past is erased what do we
have left. We must make certain that we safeguard our
history. That we safeguard our past. We must make certain
that our past is not erased.
Injured officer: Terrorists shouted Allahu Akbar
Border Guard officer recovering from Saturday's shooting attack in
Jerusalem receives visit from internal security minister, says
experience 'was just like watching a movie'
Efrat Weiss
Published: 05.27.07, 16:53 / Israel News
Isam Abu-Rish, the Border Guard officer wounded in Saturday's shooting
attack in Jerusalem, knows things could have been much worse.
"I was at the checkpoint with a few of the other guards when two
ordinary looking guys showed up," he recalled from his hospital bed on
Sunday. "There was nothing suspicious about them, and then all of a
sudden one of them shot me in the back, from point-blank range.
Dichter visiting wounded officer at hospital (Photo: Haim Zach)
"I pulled away, and I saw he was trying to take another shot, but his
gun jammed, and I shot him. The other terrorist started running at me,
so I shot him too.
"It was like something out of a movie," he added. "They were even
shouting 'Allahu Akbar'."
Rish said he has every intention of returning to full service as a
Border Guard offices when he recovers.
Security forces continued their investigation into Saturday's
shooting, finding that both terrorists were from the village of Jabel
Mukaber near Jerusalem.
Both were 23, and carrying Israeli IDs. The death of a third
Palestinian, believed a bystander, is still under investigation.
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter visited the two wounded
security personnel at Hadassah Ein Kerem Sunday, accompanied by top
police brass.
"The fact that the attack was carried out by Arabs carrying Israeli
IDs makes last night's event that more serious," said Dichter.
"Unfortunately, this isn't an unusual event, we must prevent such
things from reoccurring," he added.
TO NEWS VIDEO OF SOLDIER AT FORT HOOD REPORTING THAT SHOOTER STOOD UP
AND YELLED ALLAHU AKBAR IN ARABIC AND OPENED FIRE
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/09/fort.hood.foster/index.html After 9/11, the FBI released a handwritten hijackers' letter found in
three separate copies—at Dulles, at the Pennsylvania crash site, and
in Mohamed Atta's suitcase. It included a checklist of final reminders
for the 9/11 hijackers. An excerpt reads: "When the confrontation
begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this
world. Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts
of the non-believers." Also, in the cockpit voice recorders found at
the crash site of Flight 93, the hijackers are heard to be reciting
the Takbir as the plane plummeted toward the ground. [3] [4] [5] [6]
When in March 2002 Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat of Hamas, popularized
as "Umm Nidal" (and subsequently elected to the Palestinian
Legislative Council), [7] learned that her 17-year-old son had been
killed on a suicide mission in which he killed five teenagers, she
celebrated by proclaiming "Allahu Akbar!" and giving out boxes of
halva and chocolates. [8] [9] [10] In 2003, when Imam Samudra became
the second Bali bomber from a violent Islamist group to be sentenced
to death for his role in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202
people, Samudra greeted the sentence with chants of "Allahu Akbar".
[11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
In 2004, in an execution video of Nick Berg being beheaded in Iraq, as
one man sawed off Berg's head the other captors shouted: "Allahu
Akbar!". [16] And in the 2007 Fort Dix attack plot, a group of radical
Islamists who were convicted of plotting an attack on the Fort Dix
military base in New Jersey had videotaped themselves shooting weapons
and shouting Allahu Akbar. [17] [18] [19] During the 2009 Fort Hood
shooting, witnesses reported that gunman Nidal Malik Hasan shouted
"Allahu Akbar" before opening fire, killing 13 people and wounding 30
others. [20]
2. 3. Egyptian usage
See also: Yom Kippur War
In Operation Badr (1973), where the Egyptians decisively defeated
Israel in the first battle in the Yom Kippur War. At 14:20 on October
6, 1973; 4000 Egyptian assault infantry began crossing the Suez Canal,
crying "Allahu Akbar...Allahu Akbar..." (God is Great).[u
This is Sweden: Muslims shout "Allahu akbar" as Lars Vilks is attacked
2010
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/05/this-is-sweden-muslims-shout-allahu-akbar-as-lars-vilks-attacked.html Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoon artist allegedly targeted by 'Jihad
Jane' for portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog, was attacked
Tuesday when he showed an Iranian film that depicts the Prophet in a
gay bar. Are radical Muslims succeeding in muzzling free speech?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyExaO4jzD0Lars Vilks Attacked - FULL CLIP Latest Muslim Muhammad Cartoon
Violence Shocking!
Five-year-old Ukrainian boy slaughtered by Muslim shouting "Allahu
akbar"
And authorities are worried that this horrific slaughter will "ignite
tension" -- instead of calling upon the Muslim community to renounce
once and for all any and all teachings involving any kind of violence
against Infidels. "Ukrainian Boy, 5, Slaughtered 'Like a Goat' by
Religious Fanatic," from NewsCore, June 22 (thanks to DJM):
A 5-year-old Ukrainian boy was slaughtered by an alleged religious
fanatic as he played in a sandpit with his friends, Pravda reported
Tuesday.
The stranger strolled up to little Viktor Shemyakin before pointing to
a tree and saying: "Look, there is a bird up there."
When the youngster glanced upward the maniac plunged a knife into his
throat, Pravda said.
The June 18 killing has threatened to ignite tension in the town of
Dneprovka, in Ukraine's Crimea region, after it emerged that the 27-
year-old knifeman was a suspected Muslim fanatic, the Russian online
newspaper reported.
The victim's three-year-old sister Lena Shemyakina and her five-year-
old friend were among a group of young children who witnessed the
horrifying attack.
Viktor's mother, named only as Angelina, heard their screams and ran
out of the house to find her child lying in a pool of blood.
Police arrested Server Ibragimov, three hours later at his parents'
house, where he was reportedly hiding in the loft.
"The man screamed Allahu Akbar (Arabic for 'God is great') when
killing the boy, "said a shocked local. "The kid was slaughtered like
a goat."
The Muslim call to prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7uWUmkwj2cOne of the most tragic elements involved in the Ground Zero Mosque
controversy is the polarization the controversy is creating.
We need always to love the actors even though we may
despise their actions. We need to act in ways that can heal
the actors. We are, sadly, at war against some very evil people.
Not all Moslems are evil. Nor were all Germans in Nazi Germany
evil. But there were far too few "Good Germans" then who were
willing to stand up to Hitler and there are far too few "Good Moslems"
now who are willing to stand up to the murderers who are slaughtering
people around the world. Islam is not, ipso facto, an evil religion,
but
it is being used for evil purposes by some, not all, Moslems.
Sometimes we act as individuals or in groups, out of anger.
I always seek to put a D in front of the word anger to spell
Danger. Our anger, either individually or collectively can be
dangerous
to others or to ourselves as indivudals or as groups, or both.
A very angry video and the link to it is below.
We have titled it IS AMERICA LOSING ITS MIND.
We do not by any means agree with every word of the
video but much of it is thoughtful and much of it is though provoking,
or should be. We need also to remember that we all need to reach
out to one another with love. We all also need to stand up to the
murderers. We are at war. We hope one day to live in a world
at peace. Building a Mosque at Ground Zero is unfortunately
not a pathway to peace. It is instead another act of war against
the civilized world. Such acts of war do not lead to peace.
They only lead to more war. No thoughtful person, be she or he Moslem,
or of any other faith, or no faith, should support the act of war
that building a Mosque at Ground Zero is.
IS AMERICA LOSING ITS MIND
http://richarddawkins.net/videos/476560-pat-condell-no-mosque-at-ground-zero?page=7 n the Name of Allah
Why terrorists do what they do... in their own words.
I am one of the servants of Allah. We do our duty of fighting for the
sake of the religion of Allah. It is also our duty to send a call to
all the people of the world to enjoy this great light and to embrace
Islam and experience the happiness in Islam. Our primary mission is
nothing but the furthering of this religion.
Osama bin Laden, May 1998
Aside from pursuing mass murder plots against innocent populations in
every corner of the planet, Islamic terrorists have one other thing in
common:
They credit their motivation and success to religion.
This distinguishes Islamic terrorism from mere criminal activity, and
it is part of what makes Islam so very, very different from other
religions.
Many people would prefer to bury their heads in the sand or look for
ways to recast Islamic terror to fit their own political agenda, but
the fact is that violent Muslims are quite explicit about the
religious certainty that compels and justifies their actions.
The teachings and history of Islam that explain the violence are
discussed elsewhere on this site. Here we just want to show that, as
far as Islamic terrorists are concerned, their acts are done
specifically in the name of Allah and for the cause of Islam and
Islamic rule... across the globe.
Afghanistan
In the name of Allah the Avenger, I swear on the holy book to perform
my sacred duty as a soldier of Islam in this Jihad to restore to this
world the light of divine justice... Allah demands no less. For to
die in the cause is to be sent immediately to paradise.
A Taliban official, explaining why the group is violent.
Algeria
But the coming Islamic caliphate country will not rise except at the
hands of the fighting sect who raises the flag of Allah and Jihad.
Statement from the Salafi terrorist group, one of several
fundamentalist cells responsible for the slaughter of 150,000 men
women and children in the 1990's.
Our Jihad consists of killing and dispersing all those who fight
against Allah and his Prophet.
Throat-slitting and murder until the power is Allah's!
Both quotes from leaders of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The first
spoken by Sid Ahmed Mourad, the second from Abdelkader Hattab.
Chechnya
True resistance is helped by Allah the Supreme and the battles are for
His just cause
Abu Hafs, Mujahideen and one of the region's most prolific killer
Egypt
Allah is our objective, the Quran is our Constitution, the Prophet is
our leader, Jihad is our way, and death for the sake of Allah is the
highest of our aspirations.
Credo of the Muslim Brotherhood, which has spawned attacks and
numerous subsidiary terrorist organizations
India
Democracy is among the menaces we inherited from an alien government.
It is part of the system we are fighting against… It is not possible
to work within a democracy and establish an Islamic system… If Allah
gives us a chance, we will try to bring in the pure concept of an
Islamic Caliphate.''
The notion of the sovereignty of the people is anti-Islamic. Only
Allah is sovereign.''
Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist
organization.
Yes! We - the terrorists of India – THE INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN, - the
militia of Islam whose each and every Mujahid belongs to this very
soil of India - have returned, to execute the compulsion of Allah:
Fight them (the disbelievers), Allah will punish them by your hands
and bring them to disgrace, and give you victory over them and He will
heal the hearts of those who believe. (Qur'an 9:14).
Here we begin ... raising the illustrious banner of Jihad against the
Hindus and all those who fight and resist us...
All Praise and Glory be to Allah, Who Alone Helps His slaves, Who
Alone Fulfils His Promise, and Who Alone Defeats the enemy....
While hoping for the Help and Victory from Allah we declare that such
and more severe attacks shall continue irrespective of what the
blamers blame us for.
The hosts (of the Kafir) will all be routed and will turn and flee.
[Qur'an 54: 45].
We ask Allah to forgive us and Have Mercy on us and Aid us to conquer
the unbelievers and Guide us to raise His Word and degrade His enemies
with His Will Alone.
And peace be upon His Messenger, and all those who follow the
Guidance.
The Indian Mujahideen, claiming credit for a brutal series of bombings
that left dozens of civilians dead and hundreds more in agony.
Iran
Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against
war. Those who say this are witless. Islam says: 'Kill all the
unbelievers just as they would kill you all! Kill them, put them to
the sword and scatter their armies.'
The Ayatollah Khomeini
Indonesia
Keep on fighting for the application of Islamic law. If this state and
nation wants to become great, safe, and at peace then it has to return
to Islam one hundred percent without bargaining. If not, then it will
be destroyed.
Abu Bakar Bashir, spiritual leader of the Indonesian Mujahideen
Iraq (Sunni)
There is no doubt that Allah commanded us to strike the Kuffar
(unbelievers), kill them, and fight them by all means necessary to
achieve the goal. The servants of Allah who perform Jihad to elevate
the word (laws) of Allah, are permitted to use any and all means
necessary to strike the active unbeliever combatants for the purpose
of killing them, snatch their souls from their body, cleanse the earth
from their abomination, and lift their trial and persecution of the
servants of Allah. The goal must be pursued even if the means to
accomplish it affect both the intended active fighters and unintended
passive ones such as women, children and any other passive category
specified by our jurisprudence.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Sunni terrorist known for cutting captives'
throats
Iraq (Shia)
My motivation is a sense of duty toward my religious faith to fight
against any hostile enemy of Islam.
Abu Deraa, Shitte terrorist known for drilling into captive's heads
Iraq (al-Qaeda)
We are defending Islam and its sanctity
Woman training to be a suicide bomber
Israel
The Islamic Resistance Movement: Islam is its way. It is from Islam
that it derives its ideas, concepts, and perceptions concerning the
universe, life, and man, and it refers to Islam's judgment in all its
actions. It is from Islam that it seeks direction so as to guide its
steps.
The covenant of the bloody Hamas terrorist organization (Islamic
Resistance Movement)
Jordan
Terrorism is a badge of honour on our chests until Judgement Day. In
the name of Allah, we're pursuing the path of jihad until we uproot
you, exterminate your state until the rule of the king vanishes. We
follow the steps of the Prophet (Muhammad)... Allah is our Lord; you
have none.
Hassan al-Smeik, leader of the cell that plotted a chemical weapons
attack intended to kill 80,000 Jordanians
Lebanon
We are… linked to the Muslims of the whole world by the solid
doctrinal and religious connection of Islam, whose message God wanted
to be fulfilled by the Seal of the Prophets, i.e., Muhammad
From the charter of the Hezbollah terrorist group, which has
kidnapped, tortured and killed numerous non-Muslims.
The Netherlands
What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. I was motivated
by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults
Allah and his Prophet.
Mohammed Bouyeri, explaining in court why he stabbed Dutch filmmaker
Theo Van Gogh to death. (Bouyeri was holding a Qur'an at the time).
Pakistan
I will go back to wage jihad. I pray Allah fulfils my desire of
embracing martyrdom next time,
Hizbul Mujahideen cadre, when asked why he kills the Indian people
With regard to Osama and Al-Zawahiri, I never met them, but I have the
utmost love and respect for them, because of their enmity towards the
Jews and the Christians. The Muslims must be harsh towards the
infidels and compassionate among themselves. These two men reflect
this Koranic verse... We place our trust in Allah. Soon, we will
witness the miracles of Jihad.
By'atullah Mahsoud, the Emir of the Pakistani Taliban
Our whole struggle is for the enforcement of Sharia law
Muslim Khan, Spokesperson for the Pakistani Taliban, responsible for
hundreds of bombings, shootings and abductions.
The Philippines
We may be small in number, but we have plenty fighting with us--the
angels and the hand of Allah. We dream of an entire Islamic world,
and we will achieve it. Allah is with us.
Abu Sayyaf terrorist group leader, Khadaffy Janjalani, responsible for
church bombings and beheadings.
Saudi Arabia
One of the greatest virtues in Islam is jihad for the sake of God.
Ramadan is the month of jihad and battles, and most Muslim battles
took place during the blessed month. This is your season, o people of
jihad. Jihad during the fasting month of Ramadan has a great taste --
for what better way to break your fast than to kill infidels and
relish the sound of the weeping of the despicable tyrants and
infidels.
Saudi-based terrorist magazine, al-Jihad
Somalia
And your brothers of the Mujahideen Movement are on their way, going
forth in Jihad against the occupiers and disbelievers so that the word
of Allah is the highest and there is no more fitnah on earth and the
religion is solely for Allah.
Deadly Somali terrorist group calling itself, Youth Islamic Movement
Know that I am doing this martyrdom operation only for the sake of
Allah and for his religion.
A 21-year-old member of al-Shabaab and former British college student
who murdered 20 Africans.
Spain
Allah, may he be praised, said… 'Kill them wherever you find them, and
drive them out from where they have driven you out; for internal
strife [Fitna] is worse than killing.'
The Qur'anic verse quoted by the Abu Hafs Al-Masri Brigades in
explaining the murder of 202 Madrid train commuters
Sudan
To Fight and Conquer. Death in the name of Allah.
The unit logo of the Janjaweed militia, responsible for cleansing
Darfur of African people along with the rape of thousands of women.
Long live the Mujahideen
Sudanese President, Omar al-Bahir, at a meeting of Janjaweed fighters.
Jihad is a duty.
The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Sudan
Syria
Our hero [the suicide bomber] believed in Allah and died while
fighting for Allah
Islamic Jihad leader, Abu Ayman
Thailand
….Martyrs, how glorious we will be if we fall as warriors of our land.
When Martyrs are killed, they are not dead but alive next to Allah.
They will watch and listen to every piece of news to see if their
children will follow in their footsteps….
Berjihad di Pattani, calls for a holy war to liberate Pattani from
'colonists'. It is liberal in employing metaphoric references and
verses from the Quran. ...a significant and clear articulation of the
radical religious dimension of the conflict in south Thailand used
within the context of Malay-Muslim resentment of the central
government. It engages in Takdir (the labeling of fellow Muslims as
infidels) and makes direct calls for Martyrs to attack fellow Muslims
perceived to be collaborating with the occupation, or the Jahili
(people of the ignorance). It views the practice of religious
obligations of these hypocrite Muslims as a disguise hiding hearts
filled with fury and hatred against Islam…
Turkey
The Koran says: 'Fight them until evil disappears and all religion
becomes Allah's [religion].' The suicide activists who blow
themselves up are carrying out the Koran's commandment.'
Ali Osman Zor, Great East Islamic Raiders Front terrorist organization
United Kingdom
Our religion is Islam - obedience to the one true God, Allah, and
following the footsteps of the final prophet and messenger Muhammad...
This is how our ethical stances are dictated.
Mohammad Sidique Khan, London subway bomber, explaining his motives on
a pre-recorded video tape.
Know that, I did what I did for the pleasure of Allah alone.
From the will of Bilal Abdulla, a Glasgow suicide bomber.
We are doing this in order to gain the pleasure of our Lord and Allah
loves us to die and kill in his path. Anyone who tries to deny this,
then read the Koran and you will not be able to deny this because this
is the words in the Koran and the words of our the messenger of Allah,
prayers and peace upon him.
We love to die in the path of Allah... On top of this is to punish and
to humiliate the Kuffar [non-believer]
Thank God Allah accepted my duas [prayers] yeah, and provided me a
means to do this.
From the farewell videos of those convicted in the plot to kill
thousands of airline passengers over the Atlantic in 2006.
United States
I did not act out of hatred for Americans, but love for Allah
instead. I live only to serve Allah by obeying all of Allah's
commandments, of which I am aware by reading and learning the contents
of the Koran.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, explaining (in his words) reasons for
premeditating and attempting to murder citizens and residents of the
United States of America. He also quoted 141 verses from the Qur'an.
We, Muslims, are content with God's book, the Quran, to fight you
with. God has granted us to fight... In God's book, He ordered us to
fight you everywhere we find you... We ask to be near to God, we fight
you and destroy you and terrorize you. The Jihad in God's cause is a
great duty in our religion.
The 9/11 Shura Council - 9/11 planners held at Guantanamo Bay - in a
March 2009 letter.
I wasn't insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this Act...
[it was] justified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic
Religion. Jihad to fight those who wage war on Islam and Muslims.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, explaining why he gunned down an unarmed soldier
outside a recruiting station in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Muslim war will continue until Islam is spread throughout the
whole world.
Faisel Shahzad, in his farewell tape, made shortly before the attempt
to mass murder hundreds of New Yorkers at Times Square.
Uzbekistan
We have declared a jihad to create a religious government in
Uzbekistan
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader, Tahir Yuldeshev
Yemen
We will implement the rule of Allah on earth by the tip of the sword.
American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is said to have
inspired multiple bombing and shooting plots in the U.S. from his base
in Yemen.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful... Praise
is to Allah, the glory granter to Islam with His victory and the
disgracer of the unbelief with his Might... and I bear witness that
Muhammad is His slave and messenger who said:
'I have been inspired between the hands of the hour until Allah alone
is worshiped and my sustenance has been made under the shade of my
spear, and disgrace and humiliation has been prescribed for the one
who disobeys my command.'
al-Qaeda al-Jihad in Yemen taking credit for a brutal suicide attack
and quoting the words of Muhammad to explain why.
September 11th Attacks
We killed them outside their land, praise be to Allah. Today, we kill
them in the midst of their own home.
O Allah, revive an entire nation by our deaths. O Allah, I sacrifice
myself for your sake, accept me as a martyr. O Allah, I sacrifice
myself for your sake, accept me as a martyr. O Allah, I sacrifice
myself for your sake, accept me as a martyr.
To the Garden of Eden, our first house. We shall meet in the eternal
Paradise with the prophets, honest people, martyrs and righteous
people. They are the best of companions. Praise be to Allah. Allah's
peace, mercy and blessings be upon you.
Ahmad al-Haznawi, Flight 93 Hijacker
Those 19 brothers who left us made efforts and offered their lives for
the cause of Allah. Allah has favored them with this conquest, which
we are enjoying now
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's Number Two, explaining the motives for
the plot.
Be cheerful, for you have only moments between you and your eternity,
after which a happy and satisfying life begins...
Remember: it is a raid for the sake of Allah. Recite the prayer. As
you take the seat, recite the prayer. Mention Allah a lot. When the
hijacking begins, Shout Allah is great because this shout strikes
terrors in the hearts of the infidels
And the moment of death should be accompanied by the basic statement
of belief recited by all Muslims at the call to prayer. Seconds
before the target, your last words should be, 'there is no god but
Allah. Mohammed is his messenger!.
Written instructions to the hijackers.
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!
Last words from the cockpit of Flight 93.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/In-The-Name-of-Allah.htmBROOKLYN MOSQUE TORMENTS WITH LOUDSPEAKER
So outta hand. How can this be construed as freedom of religion? OUT
OF CONTROL. This deliberate infringement on people's lives has to
stop. The line in the sand keeps moving. Everyday. hat tip Muslim call
to prayer irks some residents Park Slope Courier
Mosque loudspeaker disturbs peace and quiet in the neighborhood, they
say
It is precisely 2:45 p.m. Friday afternoon, and an evocative male
voice penetrates the cold winter air.
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, the man sings in simple and repetitive
musical notes. The message is in Arabic, and translates to, God is the
greatest.
The Islamic call to prayer, or Adhan, summons Muslims for ritual
prayers five times each day.
In Kensington, the call to prayer is amplified by a loud speaker
perched atop the Masjid Nur Al-Islam mosque at 21 Church Avenue.
The broadcast continues for about two minutes, resonating through a
part-commercial, part-residential section of the neighborhood.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/02/brooklyn_mosque.htmlIMAGINE FOR A MOMENT IF YOU CAN THAT YOU LOST A LOVED ONE ON SEPTEMBER
11TH, 2001. IMAGINE THAT YOU HAVE GONE TO GROUND ZERO TO REMEMBER THAT
LOVED ONE. IMAGINE HEARING
THE LOUDSPEAKERS FROM THE PROPOSED GROUND ZERO MOSQUE Allahu Akbar!
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! IT IS THE TRADITIONAL MOSLEM CALL TO
PRAYER ISSUED FROM MOSQUE LOUDSPEAKERS ALL OVER THE WORLD
The Islamic Call to Prayer
The Muslim is called to prayer five times a day. The call to prayer is
heard at dawn, at the midday, about the middle of the afternoon, just
after sunset, and at night fall about two hours after sunset.
The muezzin, a man appointed to call to prayer, climbs the mineret of
the mosque, and he calls in all directions, Hasten to prayer. Many
mosques no longer require the muezzin to climb the mineret. Instead, a
loud speaker carries the message.
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Last words from the
cockpit of Flight 93
ZOA Criticizes Obama & Clinton For Sending Israel-Hater,
Terror Apologist Salam Al-Marayati To Speak For U.S. Overseas
February 4, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Morton A. Klein
Phone: 212-481-1500
Marayati condemned pre-9/11 U.S. strikes on Al-Qaeda
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama
Administration and Secretary Clinton's State Department for sending
the director
the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Salam Al-Marayati, overseas
to speak
on behalf of the United States. Al-Marayati is a vocal Israel-hater
and
apologist for Islamist terrorism who has who has called for Israel's
destruction; suggested Israel be placed on a suspect list as the
possible
perpetrator of the 9/11 acts of terrorism; condemned already in the
1990s
American air strikes of Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Sudan; and
defended the
rights of Holocaust deniers.
According to MPAC, "Executive Director Salam Al-Marayati traveled to
Europe at
the invitation of the State Department to speak about religious
freedom and free
speech. He spoke at UNESCO in Paris and at the U.S. mission to the
United
Nations in Geneva" (`Al-Marayati Explores Religious Freedom & Free
Speech in
Paris & Geneva,' MPAC News release, January 28, 2010).
MPAC was established initially in 1986 as the Political Action
Committee of the
Islamic Center of Southern California whose key leaders are believed
to have had
their origins in the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim
Brotherhood has
been a leading intellectual force behind the Islamist phenomenon and
its leading
figures, like Sayyid Qutb, inspired Al Qaeda figures like Ayman al-
Zawahiri,
Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command.
MPAC has opposed virtually every counter-terrorist initiative
undertaken or
proposed by the U.S. government, claiming often that U.S. counter-
terror efforts
were aimed at the U.S. Muslim community. MPAC has developed extensive
relationships with the U.S. government which have included numerous
meetings
with the Department of Justice and the FBI.
Renowned terrorism expert Steven Emerson has published long essays
about the
deeply troubling statements and actions of MPAC and Al-Marayati
himself.
Salaam Al-Marayati's record:
· Calls for Israel's destruction: "the establishment by force,
violence
and terrorism of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948" was "unjust" and
"a crime"
and vowed to "work to overturn the injustice" (MPAC co-signed public
statement,
Sep. 17, 1993).
· Condemns pre-9/11 American military strikes upon Al-Qaeda in
Afghanistan and Sudan: Said these strikes, following the al-Qaeda
bombings of
U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were "illegal, immoral and
illogical" (MPAC
press release, August 24, 1998).
· Israel might be perpetrator of 9/11: "If we're going to look at
suspects, we should look to the groups that benefit the most from
these kind of
incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the
suspect list,
because I think this [the 9/11 attacks] diverts attention from what's
happening
in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their
aggression and
occupation and apartheid policies" (David Firestone, `A NATION
CHALLENGED:
RELIGION; For Some Jewish Leaders, Partnership With Muslims Is a
Casualty of
Sept. 11 Attacks,' New York Times, October 22, 2001).
· Calls Israel's supporters Nazis: comparing Israel's supporters to
Hitler; MPAC displayed a campus exhibit stating that "Zionism is
Nazism"
(Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June 1994; L.A. Jewish
Journal,
November 2, 2001).
· Defends French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy: Described France's
fining of Garaudy for Holocaust denial as "persecution of his right to
express
an opinion" (The Minaret, Vol.20, No.3, 1998).
· Gives anticipatory justification of Islamist terrorist assaults on
America: "Where Israel goes, our government follows ... What is
important is
whether the American people are aware of and ready for the
consequences" (MPAC
article, `What Do We Expect?,' Apr. 5 1997).
· Blames Palestinian terrorism on Israel: Jews murdered by
Palestinians
are "the expected bitter result of [Israel's] reckless policy" (Jewish
Exponent
[Philadelphia], October 18, 2001).
· Calls for extradition of Israelis who killed a rampaging Muslim
terrorist in Jerusalem: When in February 1996 a Palestinian, Muhammad
Hamida
shouted the war cry, `Allahu Akbar' (Allah is Great), drove his car
intentionally into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem, killing one
Israeli and
injuring 23 others and was shot dead, Marayati said not a word about
Hamida's
murderous attack while calling his killing "a provocative act," and
demanded the
extradition of his executors to America "to be tried in a U.S. court
on
terrorism charges."
So extreme is Al-Marayati's record that some of these statements
caused
Marayati's 1999 appointment to a U.S. congressional committee on
terrorism to be
rescinded.
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, "It is deeply disturbing
and
offensive that the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton's State
Department
would go out of its way to select a man with long record of Israel-
bashing and
apologetics for terrorism, who even called for Israel's destruction
and
described its creation a "crime," to go overseas speaking on behalf of
the
United States.
"Back in 1999, when the U.S. Congress become aware of Al-Marayati's
record,
after reviewing information about him released by Steve Emerson and
the ZOA, his
appointment as a member of the U.S. Congress Committee on Terrorism
was
rescinded.
"Such an ill-conceived decision calls into question the Obama
Administration's
commitment to combating Islamist extremists. Indeed, in the
Administration's
refusal to even refer to Islamist extremists and its tendency to refer
to
terrorist acts perpetrated by Islamists as `man-made disasters,' we
see a deeply
concerning blindness to the threat. In the invitation to Al-Marayati
to speak
overseas, we see further lack of seriousness about dealing with the
problem.
Such spokesmen and organizations should be shunned, not courted and
never given
the credibility of the imprimatur of the U.S. government."
http://www.zoa.org/sitedocuments/pressrelease_view.asp?pressreleaseID=1810 The Muslim Public Affairs Council is a group
founded and
headed by Salam Al-Marayati.
He's the man whose views on terrorism were so problematic that, after
an outcry, Rep. Richard Gephardt withdrew his support for Mr.
Al-Marayiti as a nominee to a federal anti-terrorism commission.
According to an article in the August 22, 1998, Los Angeles Times,
the Muslim
Public Affairs Council called America's 1998 missile strikes on
Osama Bin
Laden's training camps in Afghanistan "illegal" and "immoral."
Again, Daniel
Pipes, in an article posted on
DanielPipes.org, is instructive.
Mr. Pipes writes of Mr. Al-Marayati:
"Here are three elements of his radicalism: First, he wraps the
American flag around some of the least attractive features of Middle
Eastern life. In 1993, he memorably asserted that 'When Patrick Henry
said, "Give me liberty or give me death," that statement epitomized
jihad [Islamic holy war].'
In 1996, he made the silly and inaccurate
observation that 'American freedom fighters hundreds of years ago
were also
regarded as terrorists by the British.' Mr. Al-Marayati's intent
here is
obvious: to render jihad and terrorism acceptable to
Americans." Mr. Pipes continued: "Second, Mr. Al-Marayati apologizes
for the most ghastly Middle Eastern regimes and draws moral
equivalencies between them and America. In his view, Iraq is no
better or worse
than America: 'Saddam Hussein's behavior in and around Iraq has been
characterized as reckless. The same can be said about U.S. policy as
a result of
its reactionary mode.' . . .
Third, Mr. Al-Marayati turns a blind eye to terrorism if it is of a
fundamentalist Muslim persuasion (not a great credential for someone
hoping to serve on a counter-terrorism commission).
Take the February
1996 incident when a Palestinian named Muhammad Hamida shouted the
fundamentalist war cry, Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great), as he drove
his car
intentionally into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem, killing one
Israeli and
injuring 23 others. Before he could escape or hurt anyone else,
Hamida was shot
dead. Commenting on the affair, Mr. Al-Marayati said not a word
about Hamida's
murderous rampage but instead focused on Hamida's death, which he
called 'a
provocative act,' and demanded the extradition of his executors to
America 'to
be tried in a U.S. court' on terrorism charges."
Who Is Really Politicizing Ground Zero
by Daniel Greenfield
After crunching the numbers and realizing that backing a mosque near
Ground Zero, plays to average Americans about as well as flag burning
on 4th of July, the Dems have emerged with a new talking point. The
Republicans are "politicizing" Ground Zero.
Thanks to the exposure of Journolist, we've already seen how liberal
media pundits and Democratic campaign strategists collaborate to
develop and distribute talking points in response to a setback. Now
we're seeing the same thing at work as Time's Mark Halperin goes
around promoting the "politicizing Ground Zero" talking point.
It's already been picked up by Senator Robert Menendez and Governor
Christie, who worked to help Hamas linked Imam, Mohammad Qatanani,
stay in America.
But let's talk about who's really been politicizing Ground Zero. The
mosque's biggest supporter, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, had aggressively
tried to politicize Ground Zero back in 2005 with the International
Freedom Center, with George Soros and the ACLU pushing exhibits on
Islamophobia and the loss of civil liberties in America.
Governor Pataki shut down the IFC's plans to politicize Ground Zero
over Bloomberg's loud protests. Meanwhile the current plans for
exhibits commemorating 9/11 at the site are being attacked by liberals
complaining about a "lack of context", which is their way of saying
that they want to politicize the site by suggesting that America was
to blame.
The New York Times has added its voice to the chorus of complaints
about "politicizing Ground Zero". But in 2005, the Times editorial
complained that Campaign America's call to refrain from politicizing
Ground Zero is Un-American. The cynicism here is virtually
unbelievable.
The entire "Politicizing Ground Zero" talking point is a response to
the fallout from Obama's own attempt to politicize Ground Zero by
pandering to a Muslim crowd. When the polls number turned red, the
media rushed to attack Republicans for politicizing Obama's own
politicization of the issue. They claimed that Obama had just been
functioning as a Constitutional law professor, delivering an abstract
lecture on law at a White House event aimed at pandering to Muslims.
The transparent ridiculousness of this excuse is almost lost in the
clamor of self-righteousness, as the biggest supporters of the IFC
suddenly discover a heartfelt desire not to allow politics to intrude
on Ground Zero.
But just as with the IFC, the real politicization comes from Islam and
the Left. It was Imam Rauf's plan for a Cordoba House mosque near
Ground Zero that was a deliberate attempt to politicize the site, with
an Islamic message. Rauf himself emphasized the location, "New York is
the capital of the world, and this location close to 9/11 is iconic."
In response to Governor Patterson's suggestion that he move the mosque
elsewhere, Rauf backtracked claiming that, "this has always been about
serving Lower Manhattan". But there is no actual Muslim community in
Lower Manhattan, certainly not one that requires a 100 million dollar
mosque.
Rauf himself had previously admitted that his mosque does not cater to
any Lower Manhattan community:
"The people who come here for jum'a [prayer] come from within the New
York tri-state area. Of course, the majority work around here, but a
number of them come from Uptown, Brooklyn or New Jersey, specifically
to participate in the Friday prayer here and to hear my sermon."
The mosque he has now serves Muslims who work in the area. Commuters.
This isn't about serving a phantom Muslim community in Lower
Manhattan. And commuters don't need a 100 million dollar mosque and
community center. Based on the likely number of his worshipers, Rauf
would be spending roughly a million dollars per Muslim for a facility
that very few of them even live near to.
Imam Rauf and his media defenders have compared this to building a
Jewish community center.
But there are over 25,000 Jewish households in Lower Manhattan, or
almost 20 percent of the population. There is no statistically
significant Muslim population in the area. The 2000 census showed
3,522 people living in the Ground Zero mosque zip code, 375 of whom
identified as Asian.
Considering the proximity of Chinatown, it's likely that they actually
are Asian, as opposed to Pakistani or Bangladeshi. (And the director
of Al Arabiya has confirmed that: "there are no practicing Muslims in
the area who need a place to worship".) What the census numbers also
show is that the mosque is being built in an area with a small
residential population, that is heavily commercial, with far more
offices than homes.
Even if everyone living in that zip code were a Muslim, Rauf would
still be proposing to spend nearly 30,000 dollars per Muslim on the
mosque. But since they are not Muslims, what Rauf is proposing is a
100 million dollar expansion in an area whose Muslims are outside
commuters and generally use basement and storefront mosques.
Building a 100 million dollar facility for Muslims that most of them
can only use on their lunch break or briefly after work, before they
go home to Brooklyn or New Jersey, is not about serving the community.
It's about making a statement. There would be no way to raise that
kind of money otherwise.
Rauf is not building a facility that local Muslims need. His flock
comes from different boroughs and states entirely. They hang around
Lower Manhattan as part of the Hallal Mafia, peddling unhygienic
burned food from carts, or in storefronts selling cheap knockoffs of
brand name merchandise, pirated DVDs and used clothes below Broadway.
Some of them work as financial analysts helping Wall Street get the
whole Sharia Finance thing right.
There might be a call for a 100 million dollar facility aimed at
Muslims in Jersey City or off Atlantic Avenue, but no need or use for
it near Ground Zero.
There is no reason to build a Mosque there, except to make a
statement. Rauf admitted as much early on, billing the mosque as part
of a campaign of tolerance or healing, knowing that most liberals
would not look past such euphemisms and enthusiastically embrace the
project to showcase their vaunted tolerance, and rejection of "right
wing extremists".
That Rauf himself is quite the extremist has not interested them at
all. The same Time Magazine which wrings its hands over the
"politicization" of Ground Zero has whitewashed Rauf and his own plans
to politicize the site. Just as the rest of the media has ignored the
inconsistencies in Rauf's changing story, questions about where the
money is coming from, and the most elementary question—who actually
needs the Ground Zero Mosque.
But the media's endorsement for the Ground Zero Mosque is radically
out of step with most Americans and with most New Yorkers. When the
ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center both rejected the mosque, they
were in line with the 66 percent of Jewish New Yorkers who oppose the
mosque.
Their leftist critics on the other hand were out of step and wrong.
And as a sign that Jewish New Yorkers are ahead of the curve in
recognizing what Islam is, a higher percent of Jews, than Catholics or
Protestants, said that Islam encourages violence. Despite the leading
questions, nearly a tie at 41 to 42 percent. Catholics were not very
far behind at 31- 48. New York City Protestants on the other hand
insisted that Islam was peaceful at a ratio of 68 to 12.
Latinos oppose the Ground Zero Mosque in higher numbers than even
whites at 60 percent to 56 percent. Jews oppose it by 66 percent. 49
percent of them have an unfavorable view of Islam.
New York Women were more likely to have an unfavorable view of Islam
than men. Women were more likely to think that Islam encourages
violence, and less likely to see it as a peaceful religion. And they
were more likely to oppose the mosque than men, 54 to 50. Statistics
that can probably be explained by Muslim gendered violence and attacks
on women. But what these numbers mean is that even Democrats in one of
the more liberal cities in America, can't win on this issue with
Latino, Jewish, Catholic or Women voters. And without those votes,
their only base of support is located on the Upper East Side.
This is why Congressional Democrats and their media defenders are
running scared. Because they can't win on this, and they know it. And
so after endorsing Rauf's politicization of Ground Zero, they're now
claiming that it's Republicans who oppose his Islamist politicization
of Ground Zero that are the ones politicizing it.
It's a repeat of the same cynical game they played 5 years ago with
the IFC. The only right answer is to stand up to the Cordoba House's
attempt to politicize Ground Zero. But instead of doing that, they've
tried to take the issue off the table. Which just means silencing
anyone who dares speak out against the Ground Zero Mosque.
The facts are in. We know Imam Rauf's support for Islamic law, which
treats Christians, Jews and Women as inferior. We know that the Ground
Zero Mosque has no legitimate purpose. That it does not exist to serve
a local community. We know that the money is coming from the same
countries that financed Al Queda.
We know. And we know who's really politicizing Ground Zero. It's the
Left and Islam who refuse to let the dead rest, without shoving in
their revisionist history into the mix. Without trying to hijack the
site to suit their own agenda.
Enough is enough. We know the truth. And we will not be silenced.
source:
http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/ OBAMAS RADICAL GUESTS
by Joseph Klein
With all of the hubbub surrounding President Obama's apparent
endorsement of the Ground Zero mega mosque and community center
complex at last week's White House Ramadan dinner, none of the cable
talk shows that I have watched have bothered to examine the guest
list. I think that is a mistake because the guest list gives some
insight into what Obama really believes.
Amongst all of the ambassadors and other dignitaries, two "community"
leaders with a radical Islamic agenda stand out.
The first was Dr. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of
North America (ISNA).
ISNA was named as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land
Foundation for Relief and Development, an Islamic "charity" which was
convicted in 2008 by a federal jury for giving more than $12 million
to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
One month after 9/11, Dr. Mattson described the extremist Wahhabism
ideology that inspired the 9/11 terrorists this way:
It is the name of a reform movement that began 200 years ago to
rid Islamic societies of cultural practices and rigid interpretation
that had acquired over the centuries. It really was analogous to the
European Protestant Reformation.
In a September 2002 interview with PBS, Mattson stated that she did
not see "any difference" between Christian leaders criticizing Islam
or al Qaeda on the one hand, and Osama bin Laden citing "Islamic
theology to justify violence against Americans" on the other.
And apparently, President Obama is following Mattson's advice in
purging the phrase "Islamic terrorism" from his administration's
lexicon. Is it any wonder that she was on Obama's guest list for the
Ramadan dinner?
Salam Al-Marayati, a co-founder and director of the Muslim Public
Affairs Council.
This is an individual who likes to speak about building bridges and
inter-faith dialogue, but only as a cover for his more radical views.
What Islamists such as Al-Marayati like to do is invert the meaning of
American ideals and history to suit sharia (Islamic law) and the
Islamic narrative of the oppressed victim. For example, he said that:
When Patrick Henry said, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' that
statement epitomized jihad [Islamic holy war].
Al-Marayati has also excused Palestinian terrorism and condemned
Israeli acts of self-defense. Back in 1996, for example, a Palestinian
named Muhammad Hamida shouted Allahu Akbar (Allah is Great) as he
drove his car intentionally into a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem,
killing one Israeli and injuring 23 others. He was shot dead before he
could wreak any further mayhem.
Who did Al-Marayati choose to condemn? Not the terrorist, but rather
the person or persons who ended his rampage, whom Al-Marayati demanded
be extradited to the United States for trial in an American court on
terrorism charges!
This so-called "moderate" was so bad that in 1999 then-House
Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri decided to withdraw his
nomination of Salam Al-Marayati to the 10-member National Commission
on Terrorism that was being formed.
It gets even worse. Al-Marayati's Muslim Public Affairs Council has
issued policy papers which argue for the removal of Hezbollah and
Hamas from U.S. terrorist designations.
And on the very day of the horrific 9/11 attacks, on a Los Angeles
radio program al-Marayati said
If we're going to look at suspects, we should look to the groups
that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we
should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think
this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian
territories so that they can go on with their aggression and
occupation and apartheid policies.
Now, this same Salam Al-Marayati is a guest in President Obama's White
House along with his fellow radical Islamist Dr. Ingrid Mattson.
You can learn a lot about someone by the company he keeps – or, in
President Obama's case, the people he invites to dinner at the White
House.
source:
http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/Ground Zero Mosques Hidden Websites Follow the Shariah
by Christine Brim
Do the math. The 15 floors planned for the Ground Zero Mosque just
don't add up.
What's the goal?
Maybe the Imam's goal is not simply to force a provocative
"insensitivity" about 9-11 on the American public, with the help of
America's elites. Maybe the Imam's long-term goal is to force Shariah
law on the American public – of course, again, with the help of
America's elites.
Why don't the 15 floors add up?
How many floors does Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf need for the mosque
portion of this triumphal Islamic command center planned for the two
building sites at 45-47 Park Place in New York City? Think about it:
maybe 2 floors for the mosque itself and related offices. A 3rd floor
for the swimming pool, a 4th for the 500 seat auditorium, a 5th for
the halal restaurant and halal culinary school, a 6th for the art
studios, the childcare center and library, a 7th for the gym and
basketball court. Add an 8th floor for miscellaneous storage and
offices. And then add a 9th floor for the September 11 memorial, an
after-thought that was recently added to the Imam's plan, although
that may in fact be more of a room off to one side than a whole floor.
That leaves six mystery floors empty – or dedicated to other
activities. Six floors – that's a lot of offices, a lot of employees,
maybe more than half of the 150 full-time and 500 part-time jobs the
Imam says he'll bring to Lower Manhattan. What are Imam Feisal Abdul
Rauf's plans for those six mystery floors?
Follow the Shariah Index Project to solve the puzzle of the 6 mystery
floors:
We found two hidden websites with copiously deleted information, all
about the Imam's Cordoba Institute Shariah Index Project. For
reference, here's the Imam's most recent hidden website (also
available here as a pdf). And here's the Imam's earlier hidden website
(also available here
http://bigpeace.com/files/2010/08/http___174.132.114.190_arkdev__qcontent_shariah-index-project.pdf as a pdf). The information on those websites – information that the
Imam tried to hide with a new whitewashed version – suggests that the
six mystery floors of the Ground Zero Mosque will be dedicated to the
Imam's long-term goal: the Shariah Index Project, designed to
benchmark Shariah compliance, to distribute Shariah propaganda, and to
enforce Shariah law in America and worldwide.
Drawing from those hidden webpages and other sites, we've constructed
a timeline for the Shariah Index Project and a partial list of Rauf's
partners in the Project. In Part 2, we'll reveal the disturbing
background and views of those partners. And in Part 3, we'll present
the bottom line – how this all ties together as a historic Islamist
effort to market and to enforce Shariah in America, starting from
Ground Zero.
Numbered Documents, for everyone's convenience!
Below, from the hidden websites, is the evidence Rauf tried to cover-
up. We've even numbered the Shariah Index Project documents he
mentioned, to make it easy for the Imam and his staff – for example,
Courtney Erwin, attorney and director of the Shariah Index Project and
corporate contact for the Cordoba Institute - to provide copies to the
American public.
Courtney Erwin could end the cover-up of these documents today, given
her leading role in the Shariah Index Project since its inception.
Erwin, by the way, has been working in Doha (Qatar, home of jihad-
supporter Sheik Qaradawi, so admired by Imam Rauf) for the past three
months. She states that her team includes a "Qatari legal researcher,"
presumably for ongoing work on the Shariah Index Project.
She may also be working with one of the core Shariah experts
partnering in the Shariah Index Project, Dr. Jasser Auda, since
January 2010 an Associate Professor in the Public Policy Program,
Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation in Qatar. (Qatar is also
one of the countries Imam Rauf is scheduled to visit on his State
Department-funded trip this summer.) Look for much more on Erwin and
Auda in Part 2.
American citizens and their elected officials should ask Rauf, Erwin
and their associates to end the Shariah Index Project cover-up, and to
disclose all documents, meeting notes, emails and attendee lists from
2006 to the present day. You don't ask, you don't get.
August 2006 – The Planning Meeting – Meeting #1
We know from the first hidden website that the Shariah Index Project
(SIP) had its initial meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August
2006. Attendees explored the idea of creating an "index" to measure
the degree of Shariah governance for ALL nations, and deliverables
from the meeting were (1) a "vision" statement and (2) a roadmap for
the project. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf convened and chaired this meeting,
which included "four scholars from India, Malaysia, and Pakistan."
From the second hidden website, we know that these first four
participants Rauf recruited were international leaders affiliated with
the Muslim Brotherhood - and on key advisory boards in Shariah
Compliant Finance:
Professor Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, Pakistan, (Chairman of the Shariah
Board for the State Bank of Pakistan and former president of
International Islamic University);
Professor Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Malaysia (Dean of the
International Institute of Islamic Thought & Civilization and Former
Interim Chairman, Constitutional Review Committee, Afghanistan);
Professor Dr. Tahir Mahmood, India (Founder/Chairman, Amity University
Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, New Delhi, and former Dean of
the Faculty of Law, Delhi University);
Dato' Abdul Hamid Mohamad, Malaysia (Judge, Federal Court of Malaysia
… Malaysian Supreme Court). [Such a small world here at Big Peace -
this is the same judge honored by Elena Kagan in the Al-Sanhuri
lecture series at Harvard on November 11, 2008, as we reported here a
couple weeks ago.]
February, 2007 - Expanding the Core Group – Meeting #2
The original five Shariah authorities (1 from Pakistan, 3 including
Rauf from Malaysia, 1 from India) met again, adding five more members
from Indonesia, Iran (to "represent the Shi'a perspective," possibly
Mohammad Javad Larijani – see Bayefsky's research below for August
2008), Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia. This new Group of Ten Shariah
Index Authorities created a new (3) Roadmap (2.0), and a new (4) Basis
for Evaluation Document,which sets out an initial list of Islamic
legal principles relating to governance. The group also distributed
(5) Research Assignments, which would support the project and which
they would present at the next meeting.
May 2007 – The First Draft of the Shariah Index – Meeting #3
This was a very productive session, involving the same ten Shariah
experts. They refined the Basis for Evaluation document, resulting in
the "creation of two new documents: (6) Essential Features of Shariah-
Compliant Governance and the first iteration of the (7) Shariah Index
(1.0), inclusive of seventy-four principles of Islamic governance
derived from Islamic law."
"Additionally, the group developed a (8) Strategic Plan for the
project, which highlighted key dates and tasks. They also identified a
(9) short and long-list of scholars to approach for support."
October 2007 - Expansion and Operations Plans – Meeting #4
The Core Group of Ten grew to at least 14 members, with new Shariah
authorities from Bahrain, England (possibly Dr. Jasser Auda who may
have been in the UK at the time?), Morocco, and Lebanon (to "include
the Arab Shi'a perspective"). Interestingly, it also included three
ratings experts – identified later as unnamed representatives from
Gallup Organization, Pew Research Center, and Dr. Robert Rotberg of
Harvard University. The meeting's deliverables were closing in on the
final product:
"the group further refined the (10) Index [ie, Shariah Index 2.0],
which they organized into four major sections—1)Normative
Declarations, 2) Qualifications ofLeaders, 3) Governance, and 4)
Maqasid al Shariah—with each of these sections broken down into a
number of measurable principles derived from Shariah. "
The group also revisited and refined their (11) strategic plan [2.0]
and committed to (12) three detailed research and writing tasks: 1)
long articles, 2) sourcing and citing principles, 3) proxy questions
for each principle.
November 2007 – July 2008 – Building the Shariah Index Apparatus –
Individual Meetings #5
Over the next eight months, the Cordoba Initiative staff worked with
the 14 Shariah experts – and the 3 "ratings experts" from Gallup, Pew
and Harvard – to write the (13) Preamble to the Project and "further
refine the philosophy, overall structure, and organization of the (14)
Index [ie, Shariah Index 3.0] as well as each of the principles."
August 2008 - Final Publication Plans – Meeting #6
Anne Bayefsky identified the Iranian participant in Shariah Index
Project from this photo from the August 2008 meeting: Iranian Mohammad
Javad Larijani, who has justified torture of Iranian dissidents as
legal punishments under Shariah law. This August 2008 meeting planned
the publication of the Shariah Index Project book – and associated
polls done by Gallup and Pew – for March 2009:
At the most recent meeting in August 2008, the scholars agreed that
the index would be a Maqasid al Shariah Index [the influence of Jasser
Auda who had possibly joined in October 2007], measuring a state's
Islamicity through both its governance and society. Representatives
from the Gallup Organization governance index pioneer, Dr. Robert
Rotberg, joined the discussion by phone on the second day.
Following these conversations with rating and indexing specialists,
the scholars worked to (15) finalize the index, including its
methodology and measurable indicators [ie, Shariah Index 4.0].
The scholars also finalized preparations for the book to be published
concurrently with the Index and findings. After the formal meetings
concluded, Cordoba staff worked one-on-one with a number of the
scholars, soliciting additional information requested by the ratings
experts prior to their formal work on the Index as well about the
Indexing methodology and the book, with significant work with Gallup
and Dr. Rotberg as well as production of the book scheduled for the
upcoming 6 months. The target date for the (16) Index results and book
is March 2009, with the public launch to follow.
November 21, 2008 – The Book Launch Celebration with the Muslim
Brotherhood's IIIT- Meeting #7
The International Institute of Islamist Thought (IIIT), a Muslim
Brotherhood-affiliated organization in Northern Virginia, met to
launch the publication (pdf here) of an abridged edition of Rauf's
"What is Right with Islam is what is Right for America." The meeting
was chaired by IIIT Vice President Jamal Barzinji, and the publisher
of the abridged edition is a group called American Muslims for
Constructive Engagement (AMCE).
Also promoted in that series of "Reader's Digest Condensed Islamism":
Harvard's Noah Feldman's "Fall and Rise of the Islamic State," "1) Who
Speaks for Islam: By John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Dalia Mogahed is
head of the Gallup project on Muslim public opinion, the most likely
contact at Gallup for the earlier meetings on the Shariah Index
Project (more on that relationship, and on the AMCE and their U.S.
government backers in Part 2).
The book series, by the way, was funded by the Kingdom Foundation – as
in the Alwaleed Bin Talal Kingdom Foundation of Saudi Arabia.
December 19, 2008 – Final Coordination with the Muslim Brotherhood's
IIIT – Meeting #8
Rauf met with Muslim Brotherhood's IIIT leadership to discuss the
Shariah Index Project (here as pdf). A key figure, Dr. Jasser Auda,
met with Rauf at IIIT Headquarters in Northern Virginia. Auda has the
background and the brains to be coordinating the Shariah Index Project
behind the scenes from Qatar, making Rauf simply a U.S. salesman for
an effort that may actually be directed by others. More on Auda in
Part 2.
Let's Review. All those numbers begin to add up:
The Ground Zero Mosque has at least 6 mystery floors. We suggest that
they'll be used by the Shariah Index Project.
The Shariah Index Project was built by at least 14 Shariah experts. We
have the identities probably of 7 of them, and Rauf should reveal the
other 7 right away.
The Shariah Index Project generated at least 16 documents and maybe a
final book, and Rauf should release all of these – right away.
The issues at stake in the Ground Zero Mosque and the Shariah Index
Project are not about Americans supporting the Constitution's
protection of religious freedom. Americans support that protection.
The issues at stake here are about Americans protecting the
Constitution from Shariah-adherent groups using the protective guise
of religious freedom to attack the Constitution itself – using a
triumphal Ground Zero mosque as "the base" for a project to
institutionalize Shariah in America.
source:
http://thewestislamandsharia.blogspot.com/ --
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