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Posted on 05/02/2010 4:49:06 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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The feds would do well to hire people not so much based on ethnicity, law degree or filling the jobs with relatives and friends. Theyneed people who have and use common sense - something severely lacking all the way to the top.
Pakistan's Good Taliban and Bad Taliban
Is it time to reconsider Islamabad's status as an ally in the war on terror?
Politicians sheltering militants in Punjab
Snip: Just a few kilometres from Lahore is the headquarters of the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, which is banned in Pakistan, India, the US and other countries, but is now under provincial government protection. India blames the group for the deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai and routinely harangues Pakistan for allowing its leader, Hafiz Saeed, to remain free.
Top 5 million things banned by the Taliban
Snip: Those who fly pigeons -- a favorite Afghan pastime -- will be imprisoned until "their pigeons disappear from their home." Female doctors must wear old clothes and no ornamentation. Male doctors who must treat a female patient because of a medical emergency "can only look at the part that the patient needs looked at; nowhere else can be touched or seen."
Nothing was left to chance or the imagination under the Taliban. Merchants importing products like shampoo would find that Taliban customs officials had gouged out the eyes of the female models on the boxes. The merchants were then required to display the products with black tape over female faces, or be subject to a beating or jailing.
Not to worry, IMHO speaking for myself, I believe many of us do the same thing unintentionally. I don't have a specific ping list. I "invent" my list per each post, so undoubtedly I'm always omitting someone I should probably have included.
For what it's worth, I enjoy your posts - thanks for bringing them to us!
Mega millions are annually changing hands internationally. Corruption is rampant (UN funds one good example). There never seems to be specific accountability presented to those who fund programs we haven't voted on nor would the majority of Americans WANT to see their money funding.
It's not only Monstanto's grip of this administration, but other corporations (GE for one), foreign investors, anti-American zealots appointed to Czar positions and activist (community organizer) and union groups tied directly to Obama's ankles To get the feel for how "warm and fuzzy" Monsanto is, buy or rent the movie "Food Inc." It's a real eye opener.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2508412/posts
Times Square Bomb Suspect a ‘Fan’ of Prominent Radical Cleric, Sources Say (Surprise, Surprise)
al Awlaki
Posted on Thursday, May 06, 2010 8:44:49 PM by tobyhill
Times Square bomb plot suspect Faisal Shahzad is a “fan and follower” of a radical American-born cleric linked to the Fort Hood attack in November and the attempted jet bombing on Christmas Day, sources tell Fox News.
Gee. Another innocent gone over to the dark side /s
“I don’t have a specific ping list. I “invent” my list per each post”
I do the same.
Re: Monsanto — Thanks; I have not seen that one, but I have seen similar. Megalomaniacal company...
BTW - that comments under the photo were from the previous article, not mine
Bump.
Well, well. They didn’t say how they know that, BUT
al Awlaki.....that’ll do it.
BTW: I wonder if Shahzad was offered $$$, and if so, how much? I am not convinced this was an entirely “idealistic” or revenge-motivated act.
Surmising that they found al Awlaki CDs in his place. The artcle says he was “fond” of al Awlaki CDs.
AP ^ | 5/7/2010 | TOM HAYS and RASOOL DAWAR
Posted on Friday, May 07, 2010 6:42:08 AM by tobyhill
Excerpt:
Investigators of the failed car bombing in Times Square are looking for a money courier they say helped funnel cash from overseas to finance a Pakistani-American's preparations to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb in the heart of New York, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Supporters of the youth wing of the Pakistani religious party Jamat-e-Islami rally to
support Faisal Shahzad, the suspect accused of the failed Times Square car bombing,
in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, May 6, 2010.
Pakistani officials say U.S. law enforcement officers have joined them in questioning four alleged members of an al-Qaida-linked militant group over possible links to the
Times Square bombing suspect
Obama makes 15 recess appointments
Charleston Gazette (WV) - Sunday, March 28, 2010
Author: Ben Feller The Associated Press
* Islam Siddiqui , chief agricultural negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
http://www.daylife.com/topic/Islam_Siddiqui
Controversial Nomination Complete: Obama Recess-Appoints Pesticide Lobbyist as Chief Ag Negotiator
I believe this all will come to an abruptly celebratory, tragic end.
It says so in Nostradamus,Leviticus and on my bathroom wall.
Liberty will soon dance on the charnel ground of these fascists.
Fox News reporter in Pakistan this AM says Siddiqi’s family is very wealthy and that he was a child of privilege. Which means the guy could have paid his mortgage if he wanted to.
If the allegation that he and his wife were on the skids is true and his attempts at reconciliation were rebuffed, it is entirely possible that he intended to martyr himself but was too cowardly to follow through...or...he was trying to impress her by committing an act which islam considers brave and honorable.
Either way, he knew exactly what he was going to do when he quit his job and they don’t have to search any further for a motive other than he is a muslim. Period.
Every case I have followed down through the years shows that these guys are so drugged up when they do this stuff that it is no wonder he made so many mistakes.
He left his carkeys in the ignition so he had no transportation away from the scene except public transportation. That being the case, did he return to NYC to retrieve his other vehicle or rent one to go to the airport?
WHERE was the FBI when all this was happening?
Now the Pakistani radicals have yet another “cause.” This is madness.
To add insult to injury, Manhattan has granted this malignant swarm permission to build a 15 story mosque overlooking Ground Zero which spits in the face of every victim of 9/11. This is their greatest victory and they intend to rub our noses in it every way imaginable.
Whatever idiots in Manhattan gave the go ahead for such an abomination should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail. Or drawn and quartered.
“That being the case, did he return to NYC to retrieve his other vehicle or rent one to go to the airport?”
I wondered the same & have not seen an answer to that question, other than the vehicle he had parked at the airport was an Izuzu Trooper, with a loaded gun in the glove box.
NYC Mosque-—I saw that. These preps were certainly done quietly. They don’t need any approvals (”go ahead”), ie, zoning, etc to build it. Only public outcry could stop it.
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Vedas say something similar, in general: We are 5000 years into the Kali Age, a dark age of chaos, violence, ignorance and great evil. But there is a small period, just started a few hundred years ago, where the influence of Kali Age (no relation to Goddess Kali, different “a” pronunciation) will be diminished and a small “Golden Age” will happen for a few thousand years. Then, plunging back into the darkness of Kali.
But, there will be a clearing of the decks, no doubt fairly soon, for this small Golden Age to occur. Small age meaning another 9,5000 years. The Vedic time lines are very long.
Islamic mosque built at 9/11 Ground Zero
Posted: December 17, 2009
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
Wreckage from plane that hit the twin towers fell on the same building that may serve as an Islamic cultural center.
A new Islamic mosque will open its doors just steps from Ground Zero where Muslim terrorists murdered 2,751 people in the name of Allah on Sept. 11, 2001 – and its leading imam, who conducts sensitivity training sessions for the FBI, has reportedly blamed Christians for starting mass attacks on civilians.
The five-story building at Park Place, just two blocks north of the former World Trade Center site, was the site of a Burlington Coat Factory. But a plane's landing-gear assembly crashed through the roof on the day 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked the airliners and flew them into the Twin Towers in 2001.
Now Muslim worshippers currently occupy the building, and they plan to turn it into a major Islamic cultural center.
"The men and women stand up, raise their hands on either side of their head, murmur 'Allahu akhbar,' bow and kneel again," reports Spiegel Online.
"Only in New York City is this possible," Daisy Khan, executive director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, or ASMA, told the magazine. Khan is the wife of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of ASMA.
They have leased the new prayer space as an overflow building for another mosque, Masjid al-Farah, at 245 West Broadway in TriBeCa, where Rauf is the spiritual leader. The building – vacant since that fateful day when time stood still as millions of Americans grieved the loss of loved ones, friends, family members, co-workers and strangers – was purchased in July by real-estate company Soho Properties, a business run by Muslims. Rauf was an investor in that transaction.
Just down the street, the Museum of Jewish Heritage honors victims of the Holocaust, and St. Peter's Church, New York's oldest Catholic house of worship, is located around the corner.
Rauf has announced his plans to turn the building into a complete Islamic cultural center, with a mosque, a museum, "merchandising options," and room for seminars to reconcile religions, "to counteract the backlash against Muslims in general, " Speigel reports. The project may cost as much as $150 million.
Rauf told the New York Times purchasing the building "where a piece of the wreckage fell sends the opposite statement to what happened on 9/11."
"It was almost obvious that something like this had to arise from the ashes of 9/11," Khan told Spiegel. "In some way, this has the hand of the divine written over it. It's almost as if God wanted to be involved."
The move is supported by the city. The mayor's director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs, Fatima Shama, told the Times, "We as New York Muslims have as much of a commitment to rebuilding New York as anybody."
WND reported in 2003 when, at least four times that year, the FBI's New York field office held all-day sensitivity training sessions, not far from Ground Zero, featuring Rauf.
Speaking for about two hours each session, "he gave an overview of Islamic culture and some of the differences between what fundamentalist terrorist groups say are the teachings of the Quran and what he believes, as a student of religion, the Quran actually says," said special agent James Margolin, spokesman for the FBI New York office.
Rauf asserted that the Quran "certainly doesn't counsel terrorism, murder or mayhem," Margolin said. And he said terrorists have misinterpreted the Quranic term "jihad" to mean violent, or armed, struggle against nonbelievers. Rauf claims it means internal struggle.
Rauf was invited to speak in Sydney, Australia, by Premier Bob Carr in 2004. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, he said the U.S. and the West must acknowledge the harm they've done to Muslims before terrorism can end.
He said the West must understand the terrorists' point of view – and he blamed Christians for starting mass attacks on civilians.
"The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians. But it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets," he said. 
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (center) poses in a photo with attendees at a 2006 Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the far left is Sultan Muhammad, communications coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Chicago. (photo: CAIR Chicago)
According to the report, Rauf said there would be little progress until the U.S. acknowledged backing dictators and the U.S. president gave an "America Culpa" speech to the Muslim world. On June 4, 2009, President Obama gave a speech to the Muslim world from Cairo, in which he stated:
I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings. …
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.
Rauf praised Obama for "embracing Islam in the peacemaking process" in his speech to the Muslim world. He wrote in the Washington Post:
The historic significance of President Obama's speech to the Muslim world in Cairo cannot be overstated. Never before has an American president spoken to the global Muslim community. His speech marked a major shift in American foreign policy. … In just a few sentences he demolished the phony theory of the 'Clash of Civilizations,' which insists that Islam and the West must always be in conflict.
Instead, he declared the United States is not at war with Islam and outlined a plan for how the conflict can be resolved. … He captured the attention of Muslims because, unlike most politicians, he was willing to critique both his own country and Muslims where they fell short of their ideals.
In an interview with Beliefnet on Islam and America, a reporter asked Rauf, "Some Islamic charities are being investigated for terrorist ties. Have you seen what you consider to be reputable Islamic charities being financially damaged?"
"We believe that a certain portion of every charity has been legitimate," he responded. "To say that you have connections with terrorism is a very gray area. It's like the accusation that Saddam Hussein had links to Osama bin Laden. Well, America had links to Osama bin Laden – does that mean that America is a terrorist country or has ties to terrorism?"
In 2004, Rauf participated in a 30-second advertisement, broadcast on Arabic television, in which he apologized for alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib prison. The Times reported Rauf said he believes "Islamic terrorists do not come from another moral universe – that they arise from oppressive societies that he feels Washington had a hand in creating."
Cordoba Initiative (CI) aims to achieve a tipping point in Muslim-West relations within the next decade, steering the world back to the course of mutual recognition and respect and away from heightened tensions.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is Chairman of Cordoba Initiative, having founded the organization in 2004.
In 1997, he founded the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), the first Muslim organization committed to bringing American Muslims and non-Muslims together through programs in academia, policy, current affairs, and culture. As Imam of Masjid al-Farah, a mosque located twelve blocks from Ground Zero in New York City, he preaches a message of understanding between people of all creeds. Additionally, Imam Feisal sits on the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Center of New York and serves as an advisor to the Interfaith Center of New York.
Imam Feisal has appeared regularly at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum (Davos). He has been interviewed by and quoted in leading print media, including BBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Frontline, and Foreign Policy.
His publications include the books, Islam: A Search for Meaning, Islam: A Sacred Law (What every Muslim Should Know About the Shariah), and What's Right With Islam: A New Vision for Muslims and the West, which the Christian Science Monitor rated among its five best books of 2004; as well as articles such as “The Ideals We Share” (Newsweek, July 31, 2007) and “The End of Barbarism? The Phenomenon of Torture and the Search for the Common Good” (with Rev. Dr. William Schulz in Pursuing the Global Common Good, 2007).
Born in Kuwait and educated in England, Egypt, and Malaysia, Imam Feisal holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Columbia University in New York and a Master of Science in Plasma Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He speaks English, Arabic and Malay.
Important post by drpix:
"The project is a collaboration between the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Initiative."
To show you how brazen this enemy is and how craven our leaders are, here's the meaning of Cordoba to Muslims today:
Brief Europe: Muslims stopped from praying in mosque
Two Muslim tourists were arrested when they tried to pray inside Córdoba’s famous former mosque in Spain, breaking a ban imposed by the Roman Catholic Church. Half a dozen Austrian Muslims knelt to pray at the same time in the vast marble building, which was converted to a cathedral in the 13th century after Muslims were driven from Spain.
The two men who were detained were part of a group of 118 Austrian Muslims on an organised tour for young European Muslims. All bought tourist tickets for a tour of the cathedral on Wednesday. The six who started to pray faced charges of disturbing public order when they appeared before a judge in Córdoba. The Great Mosque of Córdoba was converted into a Christian church in 1236 after King Ferdinand III of Castile recaptured the city from the Muslims. The building later became the modern-day Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption
What the Muslim report does not say is that the site was a Christian Monastery before the Islamic invaders built their Mosque - even using columns from that Christian structure. Nor does the Muslim report tell you is that that Church was the scene of recent similar Muslim outrages. What the report does tell you is that even Muslim "tourists" are agents of their Global Jihad.
Muslim colonists make claims to Christian lands in the name of Allah and tell the Dhimmis it's as a "counterbalance to radicalism" and feckless Western leaders will not confront them.
Would "The Greatest Generation" have allowed Japanese to build a Shinto shrine at Pearl Harbor during WWII? How can Americans today allow a mosque at "Ground Zero?"
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It's interesting that you call America a sharia-compliant state.
It really means there's a religious commandment to build the right society, to have a sense of social justice and a social safety net, to have laws that take care of human beings, that aren't prejudiced against people.
What’s with the Kenyan con-man and his love affair with these muzzie jihadist terrorists??
A Lauper song comes to mind in response to that question: True Colors!
Snips
. The socialist reformers of today take an easy road. They retain their comfortable life styles. They join a cause and ask the government to act and to coerce other people to make the sacrifices.
What revolutionary socialism means
Snip:
. Socialism is not a reform, it is a revolution.
As African American poet and communist Langston Hughes wrote in "Good Morning, Revolution":
…Together,
We can take everything:
Factories, arsenals, houses, ships,
Railroads, forests, fields, orchards…
And turn 'em over to the people who work.
Rule 'em and run 'em for us people who work.
Snips:
The entire British press has complied with the demands of the religio-fascists who have organised the international outcry, and what does Socialist Worker see? Only racism. Some of the press have talked about the issue of free speech! Racism! Racism, racism, all is racism!
At the very least, measured by any sane standard, this is a one-sided picture. In reality it is an utterly false construction on the facts. It is using the cry of “racism” as a moral blackjack to stop awkward questions being asked, inside the SWP and outside, about their descent into sharia socialism.
Socialist Worker reiterates the virtuous parrot cry — we are against racism! — to disguise their abject surrender to political Islam.
In a world in which international terrorism, rooted in political Islam and in certain aspects of the Muslim religious tradition, is a major factor; in which rampant Muslim clerical-fascism is a powerful force in many countries; in which the Islamists can generate and organise a world-wide campaign to impose their “standards” on countries like Denmark and Britain - why, here there is no issue but “Islamophobia”, anti-Muslim racism! Innocent Muslims are being scapegoated! Socialists must concentrate all their efforts on “fighting Islamophobia”, for, as the wise editorial in Socialist Worker puts it, “in its wake comes further racism”.
The inevitability of Sharia Law in the West
Snip: Sharia law’s imposition will be sold as social reforms
As a country’s population rises, it will approach the Sharia tipping point. Sharia law’s imposition will be sold as social reforms, just as they are throughout the Muslim world. And since only disruptive forces would be opposed to it, naturally criticizing its implementation would be one of the first bans. There is only one clean way to avoid it, just as there is only one clean way to avoid a Communist or Nazi takeover. And that is not to have people inside your borders who want to see the country turn into a Nazi, Communist or Islamist state. If you fail to do that, then sooner or later, you will either face a bloody civil war, or/and live under a Communist, Nazi or Islamist state.
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