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Although there is clearly an uptick in Islamic terrorist plots here in America, the American Islamic community is actively fighting against our authorities that are trying to stop these plots before they occur. Is this what Muslims consider as being part of the team, or do they only care about advancing Islam?

A recent poll found that American Muslims are largely assimilated into American society. But in cities with growing Muslim populations, the assimilation process isn't always going so smoothly. CBN News recently traveled to Minneapolis, where demands by some Muslim immigrants are causing a backlash. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has traditionally been known as a busy Midwestern hub -- not a cultural battleground. That changed last November, when six Muslim imams were kicked off a U.S. Airways flight there. Passengers complained the imams were praying loudly and moving about the plane speaking Arabic. The incident sparked a media firestorm and many...

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Foreign spies are not just stealing Canada's secrets. They are also doing something that is in some ways more sinister. It's called "foreign interference" -- covert attempts by foreign governments to meddle in Canada's domestic affairs. Sometimes it is subtle. Iran's MOIS intelligence is believed to have an agent in Ottawa whose job is to keep the Mujahedin-e Khalq, an armed Iranian opposition group, on Canada's list of proscribed terrorist organizations. Several sources told the National Post that China has also gone so far as to front candidates in Canadian elections, even at the municipal level, in an attempt to...

Sunday, June 03, 2007 Here's what we know happened on Northwest Flight 327 back on June 29, 2004: Thirteen Middle Eastern men -- 12 from Syria, one a permanent U.S. resident from Lebanon -- had one-way tickets for the weekday nonstop from Detroit to Los Angeles. The men, a musical group and their U.S. promoter, took seats all over the plane. Takeoff was delayed when one man with a limp refused to move from an emergency row, pretending he did not understand English. In flight, one or two of the men walked the aisle, seeming to count passengers. One rushed...

POMPANO BEACH – A man who filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent an Islamic center from building a mosque near his home said the center’s representatives told him the city would take land he owns near the proposed mosque if he did not sell it. “The attorneys representing the Islamic Centers of South Florida sent my family a letter offering to buy land we own next to their proposed site,” Rodney L. Wright, 42, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, said in an exclusive interview with the Broward Times. “They threatened that the city would use eminent domain to take it...

Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes' latest article centers on a recent exchange between counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson and Muslim Public Affairs Council communications director Edina Lekovic. The two appeared on CNBC's Kudlow & Company on May 23 to discuss a "Pew Research Center poll on U.S. Muslim attitudes." The segment soon turned into a debate revolving around Lekovic's stint as managing editor for Al-Talib: The Muslim Newsmagazine at UCLA, which, in July 1999, ran an editorial praising Al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden as a "freedom fighter." As Emerson pointed out, this was well after the 1998 bin Laden-orchestrated...

Keith Ellison’s Dangerous Liaisons By Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | June 1, 2007Anti-Semitism and Keith Ellison seem to gravitate toward one another.  It was the case throughout the 90’s, when he was heavily active in the Nation of Islam (NOI), and it was the case just last weekend, when he gave the keynote address at the 4th Annual Convention of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.  It’s a disturbing pattern from someone that purports to be a man of peace and, more importantly, someone sitting in the position of United States Congressman.  In May of 2006, then-candidate for House of Representatives,...

MPAC, CAIR, and Praising Osama bin Laden By Daniel PipesFrontPageMagazine.com | June 1, 2007The Muslim Public Affairs Council and the Council on American-Islamic Relations each have a problem. As perhaps the most prominent and effective Islamist organizations in the United States, they have distinct stylistic and ideological characteristics but work together effectively as a one-two punch. Their problem concerns two of their most prominent staffers, Edina Lekovic of MPAC and Hussam Ayloush of CAIR. Lekovic, who serves as MPAC’s communications director, appeared on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company with counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson on May 23, where they discussed a...

Paul L. Williams is author of "The Day of Islam" The Islamic practice of taqiyya, meaning “deception” or “concealment,” has been refined into an art-form at a jihad training compound for African American converts near the small town of Red House in Charlotte County, Virginia. The fifty-acre compound is easy to find since the main road leading to it has been named Sheikh Gilani Lane in honor of the guru and founder of a terrorist organization with close ties to Osama bin Laden. The Board of Supervisors of Charlotte Country are either oblivious to the threat of radical Islam on...

GREENSBORO — Muslims can now swear on the Quran when called as witnesses in North Carolina courtrooms, a Wake County judge ruled Thursday. The decision represents a victory for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, which sued the state after two Guilford County judges rejected an offer from an Islamic center to provide county courthouses with free copies. "The highest aim of every legal contest is the search for truth," Wake Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway wrote in an 18-page opinion. "To require pious and faithful practitioners of religions other than Christianity to swear oaths in a form...

Furious parents staged protests outside a school over its decision to serve up only halal meat at lunchtimes. Staff were forced to call the police after one father strode into the school in North London to challenge the new meals policy. More here... • Muslim organisation offers to help school ban full-face veil Kingsgate Primary in West Hampstead is among growing numbers of schools with high Muslim populations to use halal-only meat in cooking. But the menus, which will feature only meat that has been slaughtered in the halal way with a single cut to the throat, have not always...

There is every reason to suspect that we will endure suicide missions by Islamist sleeper cells. They are already in place. They are waiting for the right time. I know this from experience. I have worked over 15 years as a U.S. Federal Agent, a U.S. State Department Arabic linguist, and the first civilian Federal Agent deployed into Iraq at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.  Since returning from Iraq I have been involved in terrorism analysis, specifically the mindset of terrorists. During my extensive research on sleeper cells I have talked with hundreds of people from the...

CONTROVERSIAL Islamic cleric Taj al-Din al-Hilali has reportedly claimed Muslims have more right to be in Australia than people of Anglo-Saxon descent because their ancestors were not convicts. Anglo-Saxon Australians had arrived on convict ships, he said, "while we (Muslims) paid for our tickets". Sheik Hilali also described westerners as "the world's biggest liars" and said there was a media conspiracy against him.