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The shameless phenomenon of Western leftist feminists abandoning millions of persecuted Muslim women under Islamic gender apartheid continues. Naomi Wolf has now come forward to say that she finds the Islamic chador sexy and supports its institutionalization throughout the Islamic world. Never mind that Muslim women in most cases do not have a choice of whether or not to cover themselves, and face bodily harm and death if they do not veil. How much, one wonders, does Wolf care about Aqsa Parvez, a 16-year-old Muslim girl who was murdered by her father for refusing to wear the veil? Does...

The leftist cable programs have been, for some time now, completely fixated upon the idea of prosecuting members of the administration of former President George Bush--especially former Vice-President Dick Cheney--for their role in the enhanced interrogation techniques (or, “torture,” in the leftist lexicon) of captured Islamist terrorists. From far-left Rachel Maddow to ultra-left Amy Goodman and her Marxist Democracy Now! network, there has been a concerted effort to link Cheney’s name with the “torture” of prisoners’ accused of being al-Qaeda operatives and sympathizers. Goodman’s Democracy Now!, for example, reported last week that a recently released 2004 CIA report on prisoner...

Maybe it's because her dad served in the U.S. Marines ... or because her high school mascot is a fierce-looking eagle ... or because she plans to enlist in the Army next summer after graduation to defend her country ... whatever the reason, when Heather Lawrence saw a fellow student refuse to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and recite it with the class, the 16-year-old Junior ROTC member saw a teachable moment and took it. And for that, she's been suspended five days. Lawrence's troubles with administrators at Springstead High School in Spring Hill, Fla., began last Wednesday when...

This was sent in by alert reader Steve Martin. JihadWatch director Robert Spencer will be on CSPAN tonight: This will air Saturday, August 29 at 7PM EDT. From C-Span (thanks to Bill):The Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or BombsRobert Spencer

Rifqa Bary is an Ohio teenager who recently fled to Florida claiming that her father seeks to murder her in an “honor killing.” While the media seeks to report the matter as a he said, she said story, there are some very disturbing details that back up her story. For starters, Rifqa’s parents are members of the Noor Islamic Cultural Center. The Center was home to resident scholar Salah Sultan, who calls himself a ‘friend and pupil’ of avowed terror supporter and advocate of suicide bombings Yusuf Qaradawi. Qaradawi is designated by the United States as a ‘Specially Designated Global...

"And the president can make these nice statements all he wants -- but unless he understands that we are at war with radical Islamofascism...

Five months ago, immediately after Barack Obama had increased the number of American troops stationed in Afghanistan to subdue the rising Taliban insurgencies there, the President told CBS’s 60 Minutes that it was vital for the U.S. to have a clearly defined exit strategy for those troops. At the time, U.S. commanders said that as many as 30,000 additional troops were needed to overcome a stalemate in parts of Afghanistan. Obama chose to send 17,000. Five months later, the situation in Afghanistan continues to worsen, according to military brass. Although Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen...

I realize that it is politicaly incorrect to say so, but I could not care less how imprisoned al Qaeda leaders have been treated by the CIA if there was any chance that tough interrogation would yield life-saving information. That is the bottom line — not whether some pathological Islamic fanatic who would like to see us all dead thought he was drowning while being water-boarded, was in despair while being kept in solitary confinement, or was frightened while being told that his family might be in danger if he did not cooperate. That’s just too darned bad. This needs...

On December 21, 1988, Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, acting on instructions from Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qadaffi, placed a bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103, destroying the plane in flight. The blast killed 270 people, including all 243 passengers (189 of whom were American), 16 crew members, and 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland. After being sheltered for years by the Libyans, al-Megrahi was finally convicted of the crime in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment. After serving the equivalent of 11 days in prison for each victim, this mass murderer, now suffering from prostate...

A few months ago, Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, drew fire for signing his name to a law which, essentially, obliged Shiite women in that country to have sex with their husbands every four days, at a minimum, without having a say in the matter. This law effectively condoned their rape by removing the need for consent to sex within marriage. Under much pressure from the West (including President Barack Obama, who called the law “abhorrent”), Karzai, whose tenuous hold on the presidency is due only to the billions of dollars and thousands of American and foreign troops propping up...

When I was a graduate student at Columbia University in the early 1970s, I came to the then-tentative conclusion that I would probably never encounter a morally weaker, more cowardly group of people than college administrators. While there are exceptions to this rule and there are other institutions that regularly exhibit as much moral cowardice as universities do, nearly 40 years later my conclusion is no longer tentative. What prompted this conclusion in the 1970s was seeing a handful of radical students take over classrooms at Columbia and shut down the university while professors and deans, individuals whose lives were...

The opening plot shows an Egyptian child, Nagib (the father of Hafez, the main figure), being kidnapped by a Turkish nobleman who wants to raise him in his home. Nagib grows to be an army officer, and he and Malak (the nobleman's daughter) are in love......

Today begins the deportation trial of Youssef Megahed, Democracy Now!’s Marxist host Amy Goodman was sad to report. Goodman treated her viewers to a jailhouse exclusive interview with this 23-year-old University of South Florida “student.” For those unfamiliar with the case, here is a brief overview of how Megahed came to find himself facing deportation back to Egypt: In August 2007, Megahed and a friend named Ahmed Mohamed were arrested in South Carolina in a routine traffic stop. The two were driving around looking at military bases. Sherriff’s Deputies found explosives in the trunk of the car, along with Mohamed’s...

HOUSTON — A Houston man apologized for his actions before being sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for conspiring to join the Taliban and fight against U.S. forces. Kobie Diallo Williams, a U.S. citizen, was one of four men arrested in 2006 for taking part in paramilitary training exercises around the Houston area and surrounding counties. The training, which was disguised as camping trips, was designed to help the men hone their skills so they could join the Taliban in fighting against U.S. troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Williams, 36, also known as Abdul Kabir, had pleaded guilty...

More than 30 people were arrested today after disorder broke out during a demonstration billed as a protest against Islamic fundamentalism.   A total of 31 people were detained in Birmingham city centre during the event, which is believed to have been organised on social networking sites.  A West Midlands Police spokesman said the arrests were made at various locations during the protest and a counter-demonstration organised by the Unite Against Fascism group.   A protester lies injured following the demonstration in central Birmingham today     A man with a Union Jack flag is attacked after the protest...

Here is video of John Brennan, Obama's top Homeland Security and Counterterrorism official, giving a speech today where he said the United States is not engaged in a "War on Terror," and also does not believe we are in a "global war" nor are we fighting "jihadists." He said the only acceptable term is that we are fighting "Al-Qaeda." Who does he think Al-Qaeda is? The are "Jihadists!" But political correctness will not allow Obama to say what is true, that Islamic Jihadists have declared war on the United States and we do face a Global War against those who...

An Asian man who called police officers "white redneck hooligans" has been found guilty of making racist remarks.     Butt turned up at the scene on Parr Lane, Unsworth, Greater Manchester last year, shortly after his brother was taken away by police Hassan Butt, 29, also accused officers of acting "like the Gestapo" and asked them: "Why are you treating me like a Paki?"Butt, who once admitted having claimed he was a terrorist to make money from the media, was convicted of committing a racially aggravated public order offence by District Judge Diana Baker at Manchester Magistrates Court....

Dearborn, Mich., Jul 29, 2009 / 06:09 am (CNA).- A federal lawsuit has been filed against a Michigan high school and its Muslim principal, charging that a respected wrestling coach’s contract was not renewed because of anti-Christian bias and his association with another coach who ran a wrestling camp where a young Muslim converted to Christianity.Gerald Marszalek had coached wrestling for 35 years at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan. According to the Thomas More Law Center, which filed the suit, he had achieved a “legendary status” in the wrestling community through his numerous victories and his students’ success in...

A high school hall-of-fame and Christian wrestling coach in Dearborn, Mich., claims he was muscled out of his long-tenured coaching job by the school's principal, a devout Muslim, because the administrator was furious over a student wrestler who had converted to Christianity from Islam. Gerald Marsazalek has coached wrestling for 35 years at Dearborn Public Schools, amassing more than 450 wins and, in addition to being added to the Michigan High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame, was named "Sportsman of the Year" by the All-American Athletic Association. Despite Marsazalek's success, however, Principal Imad Fadlallah of Dearborn's Fordson High School...

There is no more important issue facing the West than Islamism, Islamofascism or — to use yet another label — radical Islam. And there is no more necessary precondition to countering that threat than understanding it: where it springs from, how it is expressed and the ways in which it is spreading. But before we do any of that, we have to agree that the threat exists. For the United States, the danger so far has taken the form of terror, as 9/11 so clearly demonstrated. In Europe, terror is real too, but a more insidious problem has now taken...

Gaza's 'Hamaswood' Premieres Feature Film About Murdered Militant GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The Gaza movie premiere drew an exclusive crowd with local celebrities posing for jostling photographers — and that's pretty much where the similarities end between Hollywood and the fledgling film industry of Gaza's Hamas rulers. The Islamic militants' first feature film — an action-packed homage to a top Hamas militant — cost only $200,000 to make and is being shown to segregated audiences of bearded men and veiled women. "It's Hamaswood instead of Hollywood," Fathi Hamad, Gaza's Hamas interior minister, said after the film's first showing Friday...

Geert Wilders’ Speech in CopenhagenGates of Vienna, 15 June 2009...The problem is that the injunctions in the Koran are not restricted to time or place. Rather, they apply to all Muslims, in any period. Another problem is that Muslims also regard the Koran as the word of Allah. Which means that the Koran is immune from criticism.Apart from the Koran, there is also the life of Muhammad, who fought in dozens of wars and was in the habit of decapitating Jews with his own sword. The problem here is that, to Muslims, Muhammad is ‘the perfect man’, whose life is...

by Michael Mandaville www.CitizenSoldierHandbook.com And I don’t mean the movie. “The Stoning of Soraya M.” is a remarkable feature film about harsh Sharia law twisted by a husband against his wife. The film is brutal, honest and unflinching. Based upon Freidoune Sahebjam’s 1994 novel, the film straddles the world between fact and fiction, present and future. “Soraya” epitomizes a woman’s plight in the Islamic world and reaches across the globe into communities which welcomed Muslim immigrants into their secular societies. But the question left unasked by these societies - face to face - is this: Will you accept the strictures...

The Poison of Arab Muslim Immigration in EuropeIt's the Arabism's racism and Islamic hatred, by Arab-Muslim immigration into Europe, like in Spain, France, etc. that boost the venemous anti-Jewish hatred accompanied by the diabolic Palestinianism DENIAL of Jewish history in their original homeland as opposed to the Arab immigrants that have adopted the name Palestinians since the 1960s. Or the general victimhood mentality by the anti-Jewish Arab-Muslim aggressor that seeks to annihilate all Jews, that hold civilians hostage and as pawns to be victimized in their war against the innocent Jews in Israel. [PDF] A Global Campaign of Hate Against...

(AGI) - Jerusalem, 1 July - Six persons who had demonstrated against the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have reportedly been hanged in Iran, reported the Jerusalem Post, based on a telephone call with a source in Tehran. The hanging would have taken place in Mashhad. The news hasn't been confirmed, but the same source quote a sermon delivered by ayatollah Hadi Gafouri in which he urges protesters to be careful because they are risking their lives.

The crackdown on the opposition in Iran continued on Wednesday, with authorities banning a newspaper allied to presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi after he denounced Iran's government as "illegitimate" because of claims of voting fraud in last month's election, a reformist political group said.

Why Iran's Changed Forever Reuel Marc Gerecht: Whatever Happens In Tehran, There's No Going Back To Khomeini's Islamic Republic. Who's Who Iran's Election: Key Players A look at the most important figures in Iran's contested presidential election. Stories Candidate Withdraws Iran Fraud Complaint Intensified Crackdown Mutes Iran Protests (Weekly Standard) Reuel Marc Gerecht, a Weekly Standard contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern Middle East has had numerous "game-changing" moments, when history turned. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, Muhammad Ali's conquest of the Nile Valley in 1805, and the...

Intimidation of regime opponents with arbitrary detention or house arrest is nothing new in Iran. But the country's current crackdown against citizens angry at the apparent rigging of the June 12 presidential election in favor of the incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is its broadest since the aftermath of the Islamic revolution in 1979. Despite the effectiveness of beating and shooting protesters upset with the results of the June 12 presidential election – the streets of major Iranian cities were quiet over the weekend – the pace of arrests has hardly slowed as Mr. Ahmadinejad and his supporters try to consolidate their...

Islam is, undeniably, a major source of inspiration for terrorism, oppression and barbarism. Many would even say the very nature of Islam is nothing but sheer evil and among these gainsayers of Islam we find plenty of well educated and highly literate individuals. Personally speaking, I can't say that I've grown more tolerant of Islam the more educated I've become. But could Muslim nations that today are run by advocates of pure evil eventually be transformed into well functioning democracies? Will Iran ever become a true democracy? Will Iraq? Will Saudi Arabia? - Or will Islam hinder such a development?...

News/Editorial RoundUp on Islamic (OPPRESSIVE) Republic of Iran June 19-24 2009 Today Everyone is an Iranian American Thinker - Amil Imani - Jun 19, 2009 We must demand justice for our compatriots who are suffering under the yoke of Islamofascism in Iran. http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/today_everyone_is_an_iranian.html Iran's Pro-Democracy Protestors Call for Our Help Brussels Journal - Jun 22, 2009 The enemy of the pro-democracy protestors is not only an Islamofascist regime, it is an enemy intent on wiping Israel off the face of the earth, ... http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3976 mccain on Iran: 'This Is About Human Rights and Values' FOXNews - Jun 23, 2009 This...

Iran revolt an epic human drama AP PHOTO Video circulating on the Internet June 21, 2009 reportedly shows a badly injured girl identified as Neda. Jun 22, 2009 04:30 AM I find it sad, to say the least, that you devote much more space on page 1 of Sunday's Star to foreign strawberries than the epic Internet uprising in Iran, where at least 19 people were massacred by Islamofascist thugs on Saturday. The photograph should have been of the beautiful young Iranian martyr, Neda, shown on YouTube and CNN in a pool of blood; instead it was a photograph of...

The Democracy Next Door to Iran South Orange, NJ Tuesday, June 23, 2009 By Alan Caruba There are ample reasons why the predominantly young population of Iran has risen up to denounce "the Dictator" otherwise known as the "Supreme Leader", Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his thuggish, incompetent regime. The one, though, that the Obama administration and the whole of the nation's mainstream media have overlooked or ignored is the fact that Iran's neighbor, Iraq, is a functioning democratic state that has held elections safely and without strife for some time now. Iraq's citizens, who suffered grievously for three decades...

PJM reports exclusively on U.S. government participation in the convention of the Islamic Society of North America — a group with known ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Pajamas Media has obtained a copy of the following internal email sent to Justice Department employees:..

As far as I’m concerned, Frenchmen are back in vogue. Who could ever have predicted that the French President would stand up for women’s universal rights and for freedom as a universal right—while the American President would hang back, wait, temporize? It’s almost as if we’ve elected a Frenchman President of the United States–and an American-style President is ruling France. Please contrast the following two speeches. On June 22th, 2009, President Nicholas Sarkozy stated that he viewed the full-body burqa and niquab as a sign of the “debasement” of women and that it won’t be welcome in France. According to...

Prison newspaper pulps 50,000 copies over fears cartoon of bearded pig in turban would offend Muslims By STEPHEN WRIGHT 20th June 2009 Osama Bin Laden: The cartoon was next to an inmate's article suggesting that swine flu was due to a failed plot by the Al Qaeda chief to eliminate all pigs A prison newspaper has been withdrawn for publishing a satirical cartoon of a bearded pig dressed in a turban. Almost 50,000 copies of Inside Time were pulped as jail bosses took offence at the illustration accompanying the article ‘Porky’s Revenge’. The piece, written by an inmate at Hull...

Palestinians stall peace efforts Sarasota Herald-Tribune - ‎28/05/2009 ... those Americans have, in effect, stood shoulder to shoulder with Israeli fighting men and women in the common battle against fanatic Islamofascism. ...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend Version November 11, 2005, 2:18 p.m. War & Responsibility “It is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began.� EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the text of a Veterans Day speech President George W. Bush delivered at Tobyhanna Army Depot, in Pennsylvania, as released by the White House. Thank you all very much. Thank you all for coming, please be seated. Thanks for the warm welcome. I'm glad to be back in Pennsylvania and I'm proud to be the first sitting President to visit Monroe County. (Applause.) I'm especially...

It is now clear that the president is either unable or unwilling to come to terms with the nature of the radical Islamic threat to America and the West. To him, the problem is a few violent extremists, a “small but potent minority of Muslims,” which leaves one wondering how a small minority got to be quite so potent. In any case, the West is dealing not with a few militants, or even with terrorism as such, but with a murderous, totalitarian doctrine couched in Islamic terms that has already become the dominant idiom in much of the Muslim world...

The idea of using a device called a "pig," or pipeline inspection gauge, for mayhem isn't new, and even was highlighted in the James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough,” where a nuclear bomb is attached to such a device, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. In the movie storyline from many years ago, the plan was that the explosion would happen in a strategic oil pipeline in Kazakhstan and cut vital oil supplies to Europe. But analysts say that the concept is, indeed, grounded in reality. In fact, there are U.S. security experts who believe...

Let's pause right there: It's interesting how easily the words "the Muslim world" roll off the tongues of liberal secular progressives who'd choke on any equivalent reference to "the Christian world." When such hyperalert policemen of the perimeter between church and state endorse the former but not the latter, they're implicitly acknowledging that Islam is not merely a faith but a political project, too. There is an "Organization of the Islamic Conference," which is already the largest single voting bloc at the United Nations and is still adding new members. Imagine if someone proposed an "Organization of the Christian Conference"...

UPDATE 5: It helps to talk to the boss. The Virginian Pilot editorial staff has decided it had to condemn the killing of Private Long. Somewhat overdue, it’s still welcome. Terrorism comes to Little Rock The killing of abortion doctor Tiller was immediately followed by denunciations of violence by pro-life groups, even those who had protested Dr. Tiller. The letters to the editor following that editorial included quite a number of people who denounced what Dr. Tiller had been doing. It will be interesting and instructive to see the reaction in what President Obama has termed this Islamic country.

UPDATE FROM LITTLE ROCK KARN NEWS RADIO(BREAKING): Evidence seized from the Mara Lynn Apartment of terrorist shooter shows that not only did Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad intend to target the ARMY/NAVY recruiting center, but also:Baptist HospitalLittle Rock MEPS Stationa Christian Day Care Academy, a Christian High SchoolPark Plaza Mall, and many other area targets.Further evidence includes colusion with other terrorism suspects to hit civilian and military targets in Philly, NYC, and DC.More evidence that there are more than one (1) terrorist in that he did not have the income to travel to Yemen and back.FBI Counterterrorism team in Little Rock to...

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The manager of a prominent Nashville hotel cancelled a contract with a conservative foundation to hold a conference this weekend on radical Islam, apparently after learning that the group would feature a keynote address by controversial Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders. Muslim groups succeeded in preventing Wilders from screening “Fitna,” his 15-minute movie on radical Islam, in the House of Lords this February, on claims it was insulting to Muslims, and dogged him during a recent U.S. tour as well. Thomas A. Negri, managing director of Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel and Office complex in Nashville, told Newsmax on Wednesday that...

The manager of a prominent Nashville hotel cancelled a contract with a conservative foundation to hold a conference this weekend on radical Islam, apparently after learning that the group would feature a keynote address by controversial Dutch parliamentarian and filmmaker, Geert Wilders. Muslim groups succeeded in preventing Wilders from screening “Fitna,” his 15-minute movie on radical Islam, in the House of Lords this February, on claims it was insulting to Muslims, and dogged him during a recent U.S. tour as well.... Negri refused to say why he felt the conference would adversely affect the “health, safety and well-being” of the...

Ahmadinejad: Iran Tests Missile that Could Reach Israel, Europe Voice of America By VOA News Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country has test-fired a new advanced missile that reportedly can reach Israel, southeastern Europe and US bases in the Middle East.

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series might well have been influenced by her country's experience in the years before the Second World War, and some of the characters seem to have historical or contemporary counterparts. Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge (Neville Chamberlain) does not wish to believe that Lord Voldemort (Hitler) has returned, and he uses the media to smear anybody who says otherwise. Fudge instead accuses Professor Dumbledore (Winston Churchill?) of assembling a private army with which to take over the Ministry of Magic as opposed to defending it against the Death Eaters: obvious counterparts of Nazis. The Death Eaters'...

... The biggest question mark hanging over it all is when and whether the West will get around to defeating the latest totalitarian threat facing humanity, that of radical Islamism. Here, too, there has been a pattern of growing threats and growing ability to address those threats. But in contrast to the economic, medical and ecological spheres, there is much less recognition of the nature of the threat and consensus on the need for collective action. Twice over the last century, free nations have been slow to defend themselves against totalitarian threats. In both of these cases -- fascism and...

Freedom of expression is under attack. This is theme I am addressing here in America this week as part of the Free Speech Summit being held in Florida under the sponsorship of the Florida Security Council. And it is clear that a serious discussion of the threats to our freedoms in the West cannot come too soon. For example, my friend Rep. Adam Hasner, the majority leader of the Florida House of Representatives was attacked in a press release issued by the national office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday for daring to appear at a private...

A key member of the Saudi royal family who headed the country's intelligence service for 25 years accused both the Obama and Bush administrations Monday of "deceiving" the American people that the U.S. can ever end its dependence on foreign oil. "You can't get rid of oil. You can't get rid of fossil fuels — gas and coal — unless you want to price yourself out of existence," Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to Washington, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times. "I'd hope that the general public in the United States would be wiser than to be deceived...