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Terrorism and Jihad is Topic for Ascension GOP Roundtable Christopher Holton, Vice President with the Center for Security Policy, a Washington DC-based national security think tank, will be the featured speaker at the Ascension GOP Roundtable, sponsored by Ascension Republican Women. The Roundtable is scheduled for Thursday, March 19th at Noon at Frank's Restaurant, 17425 Airline Hwy. in Prairieville. (11:30: Registration and socializing) For the past 5 years, Holton has focused primarily on terrorism and Jihad as director of the Center's Divest Terror Initiative and Shariah Risk Due Diligence Project. Recently, he completed a "train the trainer" course in educating...

Though it has received a great deal of attention in the media and from Hollywood celebrities, the issue of Sudan is not entirely clear to many Americans. Many do not realize how Sudan is ruled and the nation's role in Jihadist terrorism. Over the past few years, the Islamic Republic of Sudan has been justifiably targeted by a grassroots divestment movement for the genocide that it has committed against its own people. Unlike famine and drought, genocide does not simply happen due to forces of nature. Genocide is committed.

The hopelessly clueless and biased staff at Newsweek has decided that it’s time we realized that radical Islam is a fact of life and just something we have to learn to live with…

"Ahmad Niazi is a gentleman, a scholar, a devoted father. But make no mistake, he is also a terrorist," Montielh said. Montielh also claims Niazi threatened to blow up shopping centers like South Coast Plaza and Fashion Island, to "fight the infidel," meaning the United States. "If malls are attacked and bombs are exploding, people won't go spend their money," Monteilh said. "People will remain in fear and stay home."

Cotabato City, Philippines - Six people, including an 8-year-old girl, were killed in an attack triggered by a land conflict in the southern Philippines, a provincial police chief said Friday. Senior Superintendent Robert Kiunisala said three gunmen barged into the house of the victims Thursday in a village in Tupi town in South Cotabato province, 990 kilometres south of Manila.

Two days ago we linked to an article about financial giant HSBC’s continued and growing embrace of Shariah-Compliant Finance. Today we would like to elaborate on HSBC’s connections in this area by focusing on the firm’s close ties to a creepy Mufti who has no business being associated with any respected Western financial institution. HSBC has one of the most extensive Shariah advisory boards in the entire financial services industry. But our focus today is on the name atop HSBC’s Global Shariah Advisory Board: Muhammad Taqi Usmani. To be sure, Usmani is one of the most prolific Shariah scholars in...

The report would probably seem preposterous if it weren't for the fact that Team Obama already waived sanctions on Syria and is considering opening travel to Cuba. It's like watching Carter on Speed. This latest news comes from the February 18, 2009 edition of Geostrategy Direct (subscribers only): Snip The officials said the new Obama administration of has decided to end sanctions against Iranian government agencies or companies that aid Teheran's missile and nuclear program. The officials said Israel has been informed of the new U.S. policy. "We were told that sanctions do not help the new U.S. policy of...

(Taken from posted articles and commentary at Shariah Finance Watch http://www.shariahfinancewatch.org/). What is Al Qaeda's goal? Shariah. How far do the Jihadis want to go to impose Shariah? You be the judge. The whole purpose of Jihad is to see Shariah imposed as the only rule of law. Linked below is an article from The Pakistani Observer. It is poorly translated and roughly written, but it gets that one vital point across: http://pakobserver.net/200902/14/Articles05.asp What exactly is the Al-Qaeda? What is their motive? What do they want since they are not seeking territorial gains, than what are they trying to establish....

An upstate TV exec who set up a channel promoting Muslims as peace-loving people was stressed about his failing business in the days before he allegedly chopped off his estranged wife's head, a friend of the couple said today. ..... Hassan, who founded Bridges TV in 2004 to counter anti-Islam stereotypes following 9/11, turned himself in to cops Thursday in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park. Police later found his beheaded wife in the TV studios.

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.

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband -- an influential member of the local Muslim community -- reported her death to police Thursday. Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder. "He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead," Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning. Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers...

While reading the morning news on the internet about an hour ago, we came across an article in The Denver Post entitled Trying to Understand More About Islam’s Teachings, by Gail Schoettler, a former Lt. Governor of Colorado and U.S. ambassador. Ms. Schoettler recalls the horrific case in which the Islamic Courts in Somalia executed a 13-year old rape victim under Shariah adultery laws. She decided to visit the Colorado Muslim Society to gain a better understanding of Islam. The Imam there explained that Islam does not allow such punishments and those who carried out the execution do not understand...

Back in the 1930s, my father was working in New Orleans. One of his memories is of seeing cargo ships being loaded with scrap iron with a destination of Japan. He was both angry and upset when he saw that iron coming back at Americans on Dec. 7, 1941. He was even angrier when it was coming at him a couple of years later on an island in the South Pacific. Of course, no one in America advocates trading with the Taliban or the insurgents in Iraq, two entities with which we are now engaged in war. How about trading...

n an unusual last-minute act before the new administration takes over the reins, acting Treasury Secretary Stuart A. Levy’s former office issued a stunning report on Friday, laying out long-standing ties between Iran and the top leadership of al-Qaida. As undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence since that job was created in July 2004, Levy spearheaded the Treasury Department’s efforts to take the war on international terrorists to the financial battlefield, by denying individual terrorists and terrorist-support states such as Iran access to international financial markets. Less known, until last Friday, was Levy’s involvement in tracking down fugitive al-Qaida members...

Ten international banks, including British-based Lloyds laundered "billions of dollars" for Iran through New York banks, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced Friday. According to a report in the New York Daily News, the scheme helped Iran turn its dirty money into greenbacks, which it could then use to buy goods prohibited by international sanctions.

Cambridge, Mass. - Israel's decision to take military action against Hamas rocket attacks targeting its civilian population has been long in coming. I vividly recall a visit my wife and I took to the Israeli city of Sderot on March 20 of this year. Over the past four years, Palestinian terrorists – in particular, Hamas and Islamic Jihad – have fired more than 2,000 rockets at this civilian area, which is home to mostly poor and working-class people. The rockets are designed exclusively to maximize civilian deaths, and some have barely missed schoolyards, kindergartens, hospitals, and school buses. But others...

It's brutal, there's no sign of it ending any time soon and scores of innocent people have lost their lives in the spiral of violence that has erupted in the Gaza Strip. But for all the suffering on both sides of the border, there is nevertheless the distinct possibility that when the fighting has died down, the long-term prospects for peace in the region will have been considerably improved. No one can condone the loss of life, no matter how great the provocation, and the Israeli military has an unwelcome reputation for not taking sufficient care to avoid unnecessary civilian...

CAIRO, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Ezzat Abdel-Rahman says Palestinians are suffering "great injustice" at the hands of Israel but they should have followed Egypt's lead and long ago made peace with the Jewish state. He also says Egypt should not open its border with Gaza to let Palestinians flee the six-day Israeli assault, as demanded by Hamas militants and many Arabs. "This could get Egypt into trouble with Israel," said the 42-year-old, who runs a shop selling shoes in central Cairo. "Israel could accuse Egypt of smuggling weapons into Gaza and dump the problems of Gaza on Egypt." Despite the...

The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal, and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both for what they say and don’t say as well as their juxtaposition. In the first, the reporter describes the efforts Hamas has made to upgrade its arsenal to threaten (and attack) Israel. For Hamas, a group largely confined to a sliver of land along the Mediterranean Sea, attacking Israeli cities with a rocket barrage has proved an effective strategy to...

Hamas, judging by its rhetoric and suicide bombers, is not afraid of death. Judging by its policies, Hamas is also not afraid of causing the death or suffering of fellow Palestinians. And Hamas is definitely not afraid of killing Jews. What Hamas is afraid of, however, is losing power; losing control of the Gaza Strip, losing its base of Islamic fundamentalism in this little corner of the Middle East. And that fear - and the appreciation in Israel of the importance of power to Hamas - explains some of Israel's actions over the last few days in the Gaza Strip....