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STAGE 1: INFILTRATIONMuslims begin moving to non-Muslim countries in increasing numbers and the beginning of cultural conflicts are visible, though often subtle. - First migration wave to non-Muslim “host” country. - Appeal for humanitarian tolerance from the host society. - Attempts to portray Islam as a peaceful & Muslims as victims of misunderstanding and racism (even though Islam is not a ‘race’). - High Muslim birth rate in host country increase Muslim population. - Mosques used to spread Islam and dislike of host country & culture. - Calls to criminalize “Islamophobia” as a hate crime. - Threatened legal action for...

Not only is the Islamic State (IS) persecuting Christians but so are the U.S.-supported “rebel” forces, which the Obama administration assures are “moderate.” According to a recent NPR report, “With backing from U.S. allies, like Turkey and Saudi Arabia, this [U.S. supported] rebel coalition fights both the Syrian regime and the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS. But the coalition has extremists in its own ranks who have mistreated Christians and forced them out of their homes”—just as IS has done.In response, Mideast Christian leaders made clear that, far from expecting the West to intervene on their behalf, they merely wish...

It is a common belief that the "Arab-Israeli conflict" is a conflict of two peoples fighting over the same piece of land and is therefore one of nationalism. Rarely, if ever, do we hear or read of the religious component to this conflict. However, if anything, the conflict is more of a "Muslim-Jewish" one than an "Arab-Israeli" one. In other words, the conflict is based on religion -- Islam vs. Judaism -- cloaked in Arab nationalism vs. Zionism. The fact of the matter is that in every Arab-Israeli war, from 1948 to the present, cries of "jihad," "Allahu Akbar," and...

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A suburban Buffalo man who founded a cable TV station to promote better understanding of Muslims in the U.S. has been arrested on charges he beheaded his wife. Orchard Park police arrested Muzzammil Hassan, 44, on Thursday for investigation of second-degree murder, The Buffalo News reported. Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Her body was found at his business, Bridges TV.

The foreign ministers of 12 Arab states met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss how most effectively to push for the realization of their vision for an Israel-free Middle East.

The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday. "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

ITHACA — A uniquely gifted, highly-educated and wealthy American-Muslim culture lives in the children of doctors, engineers and other Islamic professionals who came to this country a generation ago, and it can further flourish, according to Islamic scholar Dr. Umar F. Abd-Allah. “The American Muslim community is perhaps the most highly educated and wealthiest (Muslim population) in the world,” he said, noting that 59 percent of Muslim Americans have college degrees as compared to 27 percent overall. He returned to Cornell University to share his expertise on Islam on Friday, speaking to classes and in the keynote lecture of Cornell's...

I am mirroring this from LittleGreenFootballs.com. Daniel Pipes sent it out on his list. I just can't be there, but if anybody is in the Los Angeles area, make it a point to be there. Remember, the video from US Irvine went global. Help support point-man Daniel Pipes in the ARENA OF THE WAR OF IDEAS! Leftists/Islamists Preparing to Disrupt Daniel Pipes at UCLA As we noted yesterday, there’s a panel discussion at UCLA tomorrow night featuring Daniel Pipes, Wafa Sultan, and Yaron Brook, on the subject: “Totalitarian Islam’s Threat to the West.” Today the moonbats and Islamic student groups...

In what appears to be a case of outrageous censorship by publicly-funded PBS, a documentary film, prepared by a partnership including the estimable Frank Gaffney, on the struggle between moderate and radical Muslims has been deep-sixed. We print below a statement prepared by Mr. Gaffney on the situation. Read the linked article and the statement and decide for yourself whether PBS is behaving as the even-handed non-partisan entity it is supposed to be. The statement: Background ... Frank Gaffney was among those invited to submit a proposal for a documentary film about the world post-9/11 to the CPB... Shortly thereafter,...

In a German case in which a Muslim, Moroccan-born 26-year-old mother of two was petitioning for an expedited divorce from a man who had beaten her and threatened her life, Judge Christa Datz-Winter denied the woman’s request, a woman who already had a restraining order on her husband after police were called last May because he attacked her. The reason for the injudicious divorce denial? The Koran, the judge said, instructs that “men are in charge of women.” She explained further that the couple hails from a “Moroccan cultural environment in which it is not uncommon for a man to...

ITHACA--Starting today and continuing for six full days, the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association at Cornell University is proud to present the third annual Islam Awareness Week. Monday opens with an intimate talk at 8 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall delivered by a resident scholar of Islam, Omer Bajwa. It is titled Islam 101: Everything you need to know about Islam (but were afraid to ask). Events continue on Tuesday with a panel discussion on The Status, Rights & Role of Women in Islam at 8 p.m. in the Alice Cook House. On Wednesday, the Muslim Chaplain at New York University...

The Islamist beneficiaries of Speaker Pelosi's visit to the Middle East have praised the trip, knowing that undermining the war on terror is supportive of their agenda. Pelosi's donning of a headscarf in Syria and Riyadh was seized upon by Arab commentators who understand it as a symbol of dhimmitude. In a PR statement released by the Council on American Islamic Relations in California, the Hamas front group expressed their approval of Pelosi's visit to the Ummayad Mosque in Damascus, and her undercutting of the administration's Middle East policy: "We applaud Speaker Pelosi's initiative to use constructive dialogue as a...

It’s had almost no publicity, but accompanying Nancy Pelosi on her trip to Saudi Arabia was none other than CAIR’s congressman, former Nation of Islam member Keith Ellison. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sits on the chair of the vice chairman of the Saudi consultative council, during her visit to the Saudi council, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, April 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

April 2, 2007 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Ahmed Salam, the radical Imam from Tilburg, Holland who outraged a significant part of the country's population in November of 2004 when he refused to shake the hand of then Dutch Minister of Immigration Rita Verdonk, on the religious grounds that he would not touch the hand of a woman, has not moderated his radical Islamist agitation. This despite having taken a integration course paid for by the Dutch government. In fact he is stepping up his campaign. Salam, who only speaks Arabic though having been in the country for...

Thought Experiment: What would it take to make the free world rise up against islamo-fascist terrorism? Apparently kidnapping and taking hostage British soldiers isn't going to motivate the free world to rise up against islamo-fascist terrorism. Iranian terrorists crossing into Iraq and blowing up innocents isn't going to motivate the free world to rise up against islamo-fascist terrorism. Lebanese terror groups hurling rockets into Israel isn't going to motivate the free world to rise up against islamo-fascist terrorism. And lets face it, if Gore, or Kerry after him, had won the presidential election (both close elections), even now the US...

An update on this story. Imam Yusuf Kavakci, like Husham Al-Husainy at the Democratic National Committee winter meeting in February, echoed the Fatiha, the most common prayer in Islam and the first sura of the Qur'an -- a prayer which has been traditionally understood as condemning Jews and Christians. And Kavakci followed its wording more closely than did al-Husainy, referring to it explicitly."Texas Senate prayer excludes Christians: Pro-Khomeini imam seeks protection from 'those who have lost the way,'" from WorldNetDaily.com, with thanks to all who sent this in: A controversial Texas imam who at one point participated in a "tribute...

In light of the increasing noise from the fifth column in America, it is a serious question whether President Bush would have the will to deploy military force even to stop a deadly serious threat to the United States. I'm speaking, of course, of Darfur. Saddam's barbaric rape rooms, chemical attacks and torture — those, liberals could live with. But now they want us to send troops to Darfur, a country from which no one anticipates terrorism anytime in the next millennium. If you're looking for a good definition of "no imminent threat," Darfur is it. The climate change "emergency,"...

Persecution growing fastest in Islamic world Up to 250 million Christians worldwide will face persecution and repression in 2007, simply for following Jesus Christ, according to the latest roundup of the world’s persecution hotspots by Release International. Release has found that most persecution takes place in four distinct ‘zones’: those of Islam, Communism, Hinduism and Buddhism. But persecution is growing fastest of all in the Islamic world. Governments in even moderate Muslim countries often fail to safeguard the rights of their Christian minorities. Abuses suffered by Christians include kidnapping, forced conversion, imprisonment, church destruction, torture, rape and execution. One of...

As the Bush administration squanders a trust, Democrats prepare a new “Sister Souljah Moment.” By Andrew C. McCarthy On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavory Council on American-Islamic Relations. The Transportation Security Administration is the executive agency created after 9/11 to protect American travelers. Yet, Americans viewing its website this weekend could not have felt very protected. Aghast, instead, would have been the proper response to this posting. As if snuggling up to CAIR, coercing our law-enforcement and...

DEARBORN, United States (AFP) - Discrimination and harassment by law enforcement have come to plague American Muslims in the years since the terrorist attacks of September 11. There have been suspicious looks, slurs, physical attacks, extra screening at airports and arrests on groundless charges. And it seems to be getting worse. A recent Gallup poll showed that 39 percent of Americans admit to being prejudiced against Muslims and that nearly a quarter say they would not want a Muslim for a neighbor. "Most Americans don't know Muslims except for those they work with in an urban environment so all the...