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State Department Travel Alert Email: Worldwide Qur'an Burning Travel Alert
US State Department ^ | September 9, 2010 | US State Department

Posted on 09/10/2010 7:36:50 AM PDT by Never on my watch

The Department of State is issuing this Travel Alert to caution U.S. citizens of the potential for anti-U.S. demonstrations in many countries in response to stated plans by a church in Florida to burn Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries, including Afghanistan and Indonesia, in response to media reports of the church's plans. The potential for further protests and demonstrations, some of which may turn violent, remains high. We urge you to pay attention to local reaction to the situation, and to avoid areas where demonstrations may take place. This Travel Alert expires on September 30, 2010.

We also remind you of the continuing threat to U.S. interests and citizens posed by various terrorist groups, as outlined in the Department's Worldwide Caution.

U.S. citizens living or traveling abroad are encouraged to register with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate through the State Department's travel registration website at in order that they can obtain updated information on travel and security. U.S. citizens without Internet access may register directly with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate. By registering, U.S. citizens make it easier for the Embassy or Consulate to contact them in case of emergency.

U.S. government facilities worldwide remain at a heightened state of alert. These facilities may temporarily close or periodically suspend public services to assess their security posture. In those instances, U.S. embassies and consulates will make every effort to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens abroad are urged to monitor the local news and maintain contact with the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.

As the Department of State continues to develop information on potential security threats to U.S. citizens overseas, it shares credible threat information through its Consular Information Program documents, such as the Worldwide Caution, Travel Warnings and Travel Alerts as well as Country Information, which are available on the Bureau of Consular Affairs website at http://travel.state.gov/. In addition to information on the Internet, travelers may obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States and Canada or, outside the United States and Canada, on a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm Monday through Friday, Eastern Time (except U.S. federal holidays).

See http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html for State Department Travel Warnings


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This was just forwarded throughout my company. I guess travel warnings like this happen all of the time.

But do we really need a warning that US Citizens may be endangered or encounter violent protests in Islamic countries?

Notice this line: Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries, including Afghanistan and Indonesia, in response to media reports of the church's plans.

According to the media and government template, that makes the Media resposible for any muslim voilence that takes place.

1 posted on 09/10/2010 7:36:52 AM PDT by Never on my watch
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To: Never on my watch
how-to-foment-mass-hysteria alert.

Burn baby, burn.

2 posted on 09/10/2010 7:37:54 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (burn baby, burn.)
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To: Never on my watch

These Islamists will use any excuse....But it was a okay when they burned the American Flag right?? And Bush in effigy.


3 posted on 09/10/2010 7:38:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Never on my watch

If these people are this unstable, we need to seriously discontinue any dealings with them, militarily and economic.


4 posted on 09/10/2010 7:40:58 AM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Never on my watch

SUbject: Islam Explained in Layman’s

Here is a perspective by Dr. Peter Hammond. Dr. Hammonds doctorate is in Theology. He was born in Capetown in 1960, grew up in Rhodesia and converted to Christianity in 1977. In addition to his academic work, he is a Missionary.

I hope you find this informative,

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat

Islam is not a religion, nor is it a cult. In its fullest form, it is a complete, total, 100% system of life.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic, social, and military components. The religious component is a beard for all of the other components.

Islamization begins when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their religious privileges.

When politically correct, tolerant, and culturally diverse societies agree to Muslim demands for their religious privileges, some of the other components tend to creep in as well..

Here’s how it works:

As long as the Muslim population remains around or under 2% in any given country, they will be for the most part be regarded as a peace-loving minority, and not as a threat to other citizens. This is the case in:

United States — Muslim 0..6%

Australia — Muslim 1.5%

Canada — Muslim 1.9%

China — Muslim 1.8%

Italy — Muslim 1.5%

Norway — Muslim 1.8%

At 2% to 5%, they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups, often with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

This is happening in:

Denmark — Muslim 2%

Germany — Muslim 3.7%

United Kingdom — Muslim 2.7%

Spain — Muslim 4%

Thailand — Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on, they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. For example, they will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature halal on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. This is occurring in:

France — Muslim 8%

Philippines — 5%

Sweden — Muslim 5%

Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%

The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%

Trinidad & Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves (within their ghettos) under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islamists is to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam, and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam , with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana — Muslim 10%

India — Muslim 13.4%

Israel — Muslim 16%

Kenya — Muslim 10%

Russia — Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia — Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia — Muslim 40%

Chad — Muslim 53.1%

Lebanon — Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania — Muslim 70%

Malaysia — Muslim 60.4%

Qatar — Muslim 77.5%

Sudan — Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in:

Bangladesh — Muslim 83%

Egypt — Muslim 90%

Gaza — Muslim 98.7%

Indonesia — Muslim 86.1%

Iran — Muslim 98%

Iraq — Muslim 97%

Jordan — Muslim 92%

Morocco — Muslim 98.7%

Pakistan — Muslim 97%

Palestine — Muslim 99%

Syria — Muslim 90%

Tajikistan — Muslim 90%

Turkey — Muslim 99.8%

United Arab Emirates — Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace.. Here there’s supposed to be peace, because everybody is a Muslim, the Madrasses are the only schools, and the Koran is the only word, such as in:

Afghanistan — Muslim 100%

Saudi Arabia — Muslim 100%

Somalia — Muslim 100%

Yemen — Muslim 100%

Unfortunately, peace is never achieved, as in these 100% states the most radical Muslims intimidate and spew hatred, and satisfy their blood lust by killing less radical Muslims, for a variety of reasons.

‘Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; the tribe against the world, and all of us against the infidel. — Leon Uris, ‘The Haj’

It is important to understand that in some countries, with well under 100% Muslim populations, such as France, the minority Muslim populations live in ghettos, within which they are 100% Muslim, and within which they live by Sharia Law. The national police do not even enter these ghettos. There are no national courts, nor schools, nor non-Muslim religious facilities. In such situations, Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. The children attend madrasses. They learn only the Koran. To even associate with an infidel is a crime punishable with death. Therefore, in some areas of certain nations, Muslim Imams and extremists exercise more power than the national average would indicate.

Today’s 1.5 billion Muslims make up 22% of the world’s population. But their birth rates dwarf the birth rates of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, and all other believers. Muslims will exceed 50% of the world’s population by the end of this century.

Adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond’s book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat

Obama Appoints two devout Muslims to homeland security posts.

Obama and Janet Napolitano Appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).

NOTE: Has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a devout Catholic, a devout Jew or a devout Protestant...? Just wondering.

Was it not “Devout Muslim men” that flew planes into U.S. buildings 8 years ago? Was it not a Devout Muslim who killed 13 at Fort Hood ?

Please forward this important information to any who care about the future of our Country.

Quite an eye opener.....


5 posted on 09/10/2010 7:41:07 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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Travel warning like this do happen all the time,but with these savages loose on the world you should take caution..I for one will not travel out side my country and haven’t in years because of these savages..I would not go to Mexico if I were you either..More savage activity there..


6 posted on 09/10/2010 7:41:58 AM PDT by PLD (When you receive a kindness,remember it;when you bestow one,forget it)
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To: Never on my watch

Does the US State Dept still pray to Arafat for murdering
handicapped, American, Jewish Klinghoffer in his wheelchair?
Yes.

Have they spoken up about the endless Islamic-caused
beheadings .. or the slavery?
No.

Instead, the antiAmerican State Dept manufactured BS
and “reported” the State of Arizona for defending its border.


7 posted on 09/10/2010 7:43:14 AM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: Sacajaweau

I wouldn’t travel to their countries anyway. If people really want to boycott anything, boycott traveling to muslim countries.


8 posted on 09/10/2010 7:43:40 AM PDT by RC2 (Remember who we are. "I am America")
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What, are they saying Muslims are more likely than any other human being to cause trouble when angered?

Islamphobes! Racists! Burn ‘em at the stake of tolerance!


9 posted on 09/10/2010 7:44:45 AM PDT by Julia H. (This tagline for rent--Only $999.99/month!)
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What, are they saying Muslims are more likely than any other human being to cause trouble when angered?

Islamophobes! Racists! Burn ‘em at the stake of tolerance!


10 posted on 09/10/2010 7:44:58 AM PDT by Julia H. (This tagline for rent--Only $999.99/month!)
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GROUND ZERO MOSQUE: THE REAL ISSUE
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on August 18, 2010

The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be — as many mosques throughout the nation are — a terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and training center. It is not the worship of Islam that is the problem. It is the efforts to advance Sharia Law with its requirement of Jihad and violence that is the nub of the issue.

There is a global effort to advance Sharia Law and make it the legal system of the world. Most major banks and financial institutions offer Sharia Compliant Funds which have their investments vetted by the most fundamentalist and reactionary of clerics to assure that they advance Sharia Law. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder of the proposed Mosque, helps to prepare a Sharia Index which rates countries on their degree of compliance with Sharia Law. In the United Kingdom, many courts have recognized Sharia as the governing law on matters between two Muslims.

Not only is Sharia Law a vicious anti-female code which orders death by stoning, promotes child marriage, decriminalizes abuse of women, and gives wives no rights in divorce, but it also explicitly recognizes the duty of all Muslims to wage Jihad against non-believers and promotes violence to achieve its goals. In this respect, violent Jihad is as inherent in Sharia Law as revolution is in Communist doctrine.

But there are non-Sharia mosques where peaceful and spiritual Muslims worship God in their own way without promoting violence. A soon-to-be published study funded by Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy, found that 20% of the mosques in the United States have no taint of Sharia and simply promote peaceful worship. But 80% are filled with violent literature, Sharia teachings, and promotion of Jihad and its inevitable concomitant — terrorism.

Which brings us to the ground zero mosque. There can be no doubt that any mosque organized and run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will be based on Sharia Law and will serve as local branch office of the pan-Islamic terrorist offensive against the west. That such a facility should be located right next to the place where Jihad achieved its most hideous triumph is unspeakably inappropriate.

President Obama is confusing the issue when he describes it as one of religious freedom. There is broad latitude to worship God as one chooses. But there is none to promote violence and terrorism. The record of involvement of Sharia mosques with the 9-11 attackers and the Ft. Hood massacre shooter is so deep and extensive that it vividly underscores the difference between a religious institution and an organization that promotes terrorism.

Politically, President Obama’s defense of the mosque and his efforts to make it a First Amendment issue are incredibly self-destructive. They raise questions about his political sanity. It is hard to believe how tone deaf he must have become to take such a position. He has now embraced two positions that are anathema to two-thirds of all Americans — the mosque and opposition to Arizona’s immigration law. Neither was a controversy that sought him out. He waded into each one voluntarily with flags flying. He had no role in the Arizona law but his lawsuit to invalidate it made it his fight. He does not sit on the New York City Planning Commission, but his endorsement of the mosque puts him squarely in the center of controversy. What is he using for brains these days?

To continue the efforts to battle Sharia Law and the attempts of radical Muslims to use it to destroy our values and the gains of feminism, please follow the work funded by the Center for Security Policy and conducted by David Yerushalmi. To help to fund their efforts, go to centerforsecuritypolicy.org.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY
THANK YOU!


11 posted on 09/10/2010 7:46:40 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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The motivation of the Pastor down in Florida and whether he ever burns a Koran or not, no longer matters.

The clearest picture to emerge from this entire incident is that everyone, from the President, to the State Department, to the media, to people on the street all over the world, know that even some no name pastor of a tiny church in Florida showing disrespect for Islam is enough to provoke Muslim violence on a global scale.

Which means above all that the marketing slogan “Islam: The Religion of Peace” is something no one anywhere actually believes.


12 posted on 09/10/2010 7:47:41 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: DonaldC

I’m with you on that, militarily and economic. That is exactly why we need to drill for oil everywhere we can. Even if we merely cap the wells as soon as they are established as productive.

That way, every time these nut jobs act up (or in anyway threaten the global oil supply) we start pumping again until it hits them in the wallet.

And if they began to realize how vulnerable they are without our military support, they ‘might’ begin to appreciate us (oh, who am I fooling - they will never appreciate us).


13 posted on 09/10/2010 7:48:18 AM PDT by Never on my watch (Why does the Left think Muslims are going to behave as Christians?)
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Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries, including Afghanistan and Indonesia, in response to media reports of the church's plans.

Violent demonstrations? How is this possible? I thought that islam was the religion of peace.

14 posted on 09/10/2010 7:48:41 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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The irony is undoubtedly lost on them. Those people are truly unhinged.
Islamists in those countries are acting upon a tentatively planned event in this country.


15 posted on 09/10/2010 7:50:12 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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Are people in foreign countries Ameriphobic? What have they done to make us hate them?
16 posted on 09/10/2010 7:53:03 AM PDT by jpf (ME in 2012.)
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To: Never on my watch

They can do this, issue a warning about travel due to a koran burning, but they can’t admit that islam is NOT the religion of peace. You can’t have it both ways, regardless of what our liberal assed government thinks.


17 posted on 09/10/2010 7:53:58 AM PDT by calex59
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To: spodefly
This administration and particularly the Imam in Chief are agents of Islam. THEY are responsible (at least to a degree complicit) for any American deaths resulting from empowering and excusing muslim nutcases throughout the world.
18 posted on 09/10/2010 7:54:59 AM PDT by Never on my watch (Why does the Left think Muslims are going to behave as Christians?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Hell, no one has set a Quran on fire yet and the muzzies are freaking out, burning flags, burning bibles...blah blah blah.

Mission accomplished I’d say. Islam exposes itself...yet again.


19 posted on 09/10/2010 7:55:27 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: the invisib1e hand

It’s amazing that a pastor of a 50 member church has caused the State Department to issue a world wide travel alert.

If won’t be long before the State Department starts issuing Travel Alerts when the word “Terrorist” is spoken or written.

I guess this means that the Mosque at the 9-11 Site cannot be moved since it will endanger americans across the world.


20 posted on 09/10/2010 7:56:38 AM PDT by tennmountainman
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