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SNIPPET: The African Advantage In June 2006, Sada al-Jihad (Echo of Jihad), a Saudi-based jihad periodical, published an article by Al Qaeda strategist, Abu Azzam al-Ansari, exploring the possibility and advantages of a strategy for Africa. The following table summarizes the 13 advantages: Al-Ansari's 13 Advantages to Expanding Al Qaeda Operation 1 “Jihadi doctrines” are well entrenched in most predominantly Muslim countries. This jihadi expansion has old roots in many of the African countries. 2 The general chaos and corruption found throughout the continent which eases “the ability of the Mujahidin to move and plan and organize themselves…” 3 Tribal...

Middlesex County Cricket Club has announced that the Middlesex Crusaders will play next season as The Panthers. Vinny Codrington, Middlesex chief executive, confirmed that the club had received "one or two" complaints from Muslim and Jewish communities concerned that the name was a reference to the medieval Christian crusades against other faiths. He said some people found the name "rather upsetting" but denied that the change was being made for reasons of political correctness. He added: "For example, one of our former presidents was Jewish and he didn't particularly like the name, although he just got on with it. "We...

Cricket team told it can't call itself 'the Crusaders'...in case it offends Muslims and Jews By Daily Mail Reporter 02nd February 2009 A cricket team has been forced to change its name after angry complaints from Muslims and Jews. The Middlesex Crusaders, who have played under the name for almost 10 years, will play next season as The Panthers. Bosses at the county club acted after protests about the name from Jewish and Muslim communities, who said they felt it was a reference to the religious wars waged by Christians in Europe against other faiths.

"grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" Islamic Society of Boston Mosque Madness Update. "Texas Terrorism Trial Ties Boston mosque leaders to Extremist Network," from Citizens for Peace and Tolerance (thanks to Jerry): Dennis Hale, President of Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, called today for a public investigation of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s sale of land to the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) for the construction of New England ’s largest mosque. Hale noted that officers of the largest Muslim charity in America , The Holy Land Foundation (HLF), convicted in Texas last week of funding Middle...

Already as a rebelling youngster of a nation, the United States of America won a forever decisive war against an oversea tyrant. However, being European, I sometimes wonder if our allies across the Atlantic fully understand what it is like having Muslims preying on us and to what degree we are prepared to safeguard the only true civilization there is. British determination (Saxxon aren't politically correct, but they just won't go away and by today there icons of classic Heavy Metal): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi7OxZDX768 Swedish determination - a small country, yes - but the motor of Scandinavia that (including Finland) constitutes an...

Crusaders 'left genetic legacy' The genetic signature can be traced to Europe Scientists have detected the faint genetic traces left by medieval crusaders in the Middle East. The team says it found a particular DNA signature which recently appeared in Lebanon and is probably linked to the crusades. The finding comes from the Genographic Project, a major effort to track human migrations through DNA. Details of the research have been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The researchers found that some Christian men in Lebanon carry a DNA signature hailing from Western Europe. The scientists also found that...

'Leave, crusaders, or have your heads cut off' By Aqeel Hussein in Mosul and Colin Freeman, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:37am GMT 24/12/2006 The snow has already settled on the mountains further north, but the Christians of the Iraqi city of Mosul are scared to put festive decorations outside their homes this year. Their ancestors settled here in the 1st century AD, yet as teacher Jamal Fadi has discovered, some of their Muslim neighbours want this Christmas to be their last. Death threat: This letter was delivered with two bullets "A letter was delivered to my door with two bullets...

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Mikey Weinstein, who sued the Air Force over allegations that Air Force Academy cadets were subjected to Christian evangelization, now wants New Mexico's Cannon Air Force Base to end the 523rd Fighter Squadron's use of "Crusaders" as the unit's nickname. He also objects to the squadron's emblem, which features a cross, a sword and an armored helmet. Weinstein, who's Jewish, says having warplanes named after medieval Christians who fought Muslims in the Holy Land is crazy when the United States is at war with radical Islam. He believes the religious emblem also is unconstitutional. A Cannon Air...

Christian Embassy funding emergency projects to help children, elderly, soldiers under fire In recent weeks, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem has responded to the growing humanitarian needs of embattled communities in northern Israel by launching a number of aid projects aimed at bringing relief, particularly to children confined to bomb shelters. In one of the latest examples, on Tuesday the ICEJ sponsored a day excursion for three bus loads of children from the hard hit areas of Kiryat Shmona, Karmiel and Nahariya to visit the Shefayim recreational water park near Herzliya. The children also received some of our 500 "activity...

It's now open & 'official', Islamists call Christians 'animals' ISLAMOFASCISM! http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_3959579 2 US soldiers bodies found mutilated and tortured http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/06/20/soldiers.missing/index.html [Islamic website connected to Al Qaeda said:] "We announce the good news to our Islamic nation that we executed God's will and slaughtered the two crusader animals we had in captivity," said the claim, reportedly from the Mujahedeen Shura Council, a group linked to al Qaeda.

THE Crusaders, the Christian youth organisation, is having to change its identity after more than 100 years because of claims that its name is anti-Islamic, Marc Horne writes. The evangelical movement, with more than 20,000 members and championed by Sir Cliff Richard, will be known as the Urban Saints from January as schools and charities said its name might be offensive to Muslims. They claimed it was too closely associated with the crusades, the military campaigns in the 11th and 13th centuries to recapture Jerusalem and the Holy Land from the Muslims. “Our new identity is part of a recognition...

Reason rules the day for now, as a measure at my alma mater Northwest Nazarene University to drop its Crusader mascot name was defeated. But continued vigilance will be needed. The university's Board of Trustees - champions of political correctness that they are - now support finding a cuddly, soft definition of the crusades in step with our hip-hop modern times.

Did anybody see that vile piece on the Crusades Sunday Night? I had to turn it off. It was a politically pile of propagandist crap attacking the Crusades, the Christian Church and heroizing Ilsamic fanatics.

Since its founding, in 1997, the Jerusalem Open House (JOH) has operated as a missionary organization, actively promoting homosexuality among Arabs, Christians, and Jews in Israel and all over the world The JOH is no minor player among homosexual advocacy groups. It is well-funded by the New Israel Fund, a left-wing organization that promotes secularism in all areas of Israeli society and is affiliated with the multi-billion dollar Ford Foundation in the United States.

Kingdom of Heaven: Propaganda or History? by James F. Burke New Republican Archive After the anti-Christian Left was blind-sided by the popularity of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, key influencers in the media complex were eager to promote the release of Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven. Indeed, one finds the loudest praise for the film coming from the pages of the most radical left-wing papers and journals here in the U.S. and, of course, in Europe. Why then is turnout so high here in the U.S.? Viewers hoping for a more positive (or at least less anti-Christian) take on...

“Kingdom of Heaven”: Bin Laden’s Slanted Crusade Movie May 5, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel Mark Twain said, “History tells us that the truth is not hard to kill, but a lie told well is immortal.” “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott’s extremely boring movie version of the Crusades, is Twain’s words in action. Scott is serial killer of truth—giving immortality to 1,000 lies—in this propaganda film. The wannabe-epic is being panned for its lack of accuracy by a host of Islam experts, like Robert Spencer. Crusades expert Jonathan Riley-Smith says it’s basically “Osama bin Laden’s version of History.” But the folks...

Terri Schiavo has been suffering from fatal dehydration for the past week and liberal anti-life crusaders have been relishing in every moment of it. That is, of course, despite last-ditch efforts by President Bush and the Republican party-poopers in Congress to have Terri’s feeding tubes restored. Amid all the fuss, the left’s latest rationalization for starving poor little Terri to death is this: There may have been political motives behind the Republicans’ endeavor to save Terri’s life! President Bush signed a bill on March 21 that would transfer jurisdiction of the Terri Schiavo case to a U.S. district court. This...

Sometimes evil pops up in the most unlikely of places. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation is named for a victim who died in 1978, at age 36. Before Susan died, her sister Nancy promised to do all that she could to eradicate the horrible disease, and to that end she founded the organization in 1982. Since then, the Komen Foundation, with over 100 local affiliates in the U.S.A. alone, has raised $740 million for this worthy cause, funding innovative research grants, public awareness campaigns, and community-based outreach programs. Every year more than one million people worldwide participate in...

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As demonstrations go, it was decidedly low-key: a lone man standing silently against a utility pole, occasionally holding up hand-scribbled poster boards. Fans at the Camp Hill-Bishop McDevitt field hockey game yesterday afternoon paid little attention to the slight, bespectacled protester as he stood between two sets of bleachers at Camp Hill's Fiala Field. But Carl H. Silverman insisted his one-man campaign against Bishop McDevitt High School's team nickname -- the Crusaders -- was a success. Shop Central PA "It gets my point across," said Silverman, who occasionally cheered for his daughter Sara and her Camp Hill teammates. Silverman's point,...