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A former FBI special agent told law enforcement and Homeland Security personnel that a network of Islamic organizations are working to incrementally implement Islamic law in the United States. During a presentation at the Bedford County Emergency Management Agency, former FBI agent John Guandolo briefed members about groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, which he claims is working with other Islamic groups to slowly implement Shariah, also known as Islamic law, which encompasses all areas of life. Guandolo worked in the FBI since 1996, including nine years as a member of its SWAT team. After 9/11, he worked in the...

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a global Jihadist political organization which has been especially active in Great Britain in recent years. The organization is banned in Germany and has been declared a terrorist organization. Now they are emerging in the USA:

During his White House years, William Jefferson Clinton - someone Sonya Sotomayor might call a "white male" - was dubbed by an admirer in the African-American community "America's first black president." Applying the standard of identity politics and pandering to a special interest that earned Mr. Clinton that distinction, Barack Hussein Obama would have to be considered America's first Muslim president. This is not to say, necessarily, that Mr. Obama actually is a Muslim, any more than Mr. Clinton actually is black. After five months in office and most especially after his just-concluded visit to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, however,...

“For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That is why I am committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.” President Barack Hussein Obama We’re still shaking our heads in disgust over Obama’s pledge to ease the scrutiny on zakat payments to Islamic charities in the speech he delivered in Cairo. For readers who don’t know, zakat is one of the fiver pillars of Islam and it is a required tithing from all faithful Muslims who are able to donate. Charities...

A Remembrance rally was held yesterday for the soldiers who were gunned down Monday by a Muslim. Here is a first person account: Secure Arkansas organized a rally in remembrance of the first terrorist attack since 9/11. Pvt. William Long was killed and Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula was wounded by Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad). Channel 11 was the only TV crew out there with a camera, and the AR Dem Gazette sent a reporter and a photographer. The event had several speakers who did a wonderful job. Video footage of them will be uploaded soon. However, the most shocking part of...

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, who reportedly studied jihad with an Islamic scholar in Yemen, shot Private William Long and Private Quinton I. Ezeagwula. Long died from his wounds. Will these two soldiers killed/wounded by the Jihadist in Little Rock get Purple Heart awards?

US President Barack Obama deceitfully sought to knit together Christianity, Judaism and Islam in his speech in Cairo Thursday, grossly misrepresenting the latter religion with a smile on his face and earnest sincerity in his voice. The American leader, who has Islamic roots and professes to be a Christian, was in Cairo seeking "a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world." To establish "common ground" and find what he was looking for, Obama asserted "the truth" that America and Islam ... share common principles - principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all...

Against the backdrop of President Obama's insistence on proceeding with closing the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility despite rising opposition from American citizens and their elected representatives, the Center for Security Policy (CSP) has announced the release of the latest in its Occasional Paper Series, Keep Gitmo Going: The case for retaining the vital detention and interrogation facility at Guantánamo Bay. The white paper identifies the national security, public safety, and legal and economic challenges associated with closing Guantánamo and transferring detainees to the United States or to foreign custody. Anywhere from 10-20 percent of the nearly 500 detainees released from...

Today, in federal court in Dallas, U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five of its leaders following their convictions by a federal jury in November 2008 on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas, and David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. All defendants are presently in federal custody. “Today's sentences mark the culmination of many years of painstaking investigative and prosecutorial work at the federal, state and local levels....

This week, CNN and Money magazine ran an article focusing on the role of faith in the personal finances of certain families. In the article which they published which deals with a Muslim family, we have discovered a whole slew of questions with regard to matters outside of personal finance which, not surprisingly, the lapdogs at CNN and Money totally overlooked, or perhaps ignored. The article is about the Saroya family from Pakistan who have settled in Minneapolis

05 May 2009 "Do you know that the majority of the leaders of organizations that got us into the global financial crisis are graduates of the top business schools in the world?" asked Dr. Tommy Weir, Managing Director of the EM Leadership Center and a specialist on Leadership Development for emerging markets, at the Saudi HR Summit "Retaining Your Key Talent," in Jeddah, on Tuesday, May 5th. Dr. Tommy challenged the audience asking whether the top tier western academic institutions are producing the right type of leaders and whether we should continue to rely on the same leadership approach. He...

Regular readers of SFW know that we have attempted to cover the activities of Islamic charities which have been found to have ties to terrorist organizations. We’ve built up an archive of such accounts in recent months. This is especially worrisome with regard to Shariah-Compliant Finance because of the system of zakat, which requires Shariah-Compliant institutions to facilitate tithing to approved charitable organizations. We need to make it clear that there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that ties between Islamic charities and terrorist organizations is actually widespread. That may seem like a strong statement, but when one...

QUESTION: On Saudi Arabia. Do you have an official comment yet on the eight-year-old bride seeking a divorce? MR. WOOD: Yeah. You know, this – you know, child marriage is a clear and unacceptable violation of human rights in our view. And as you know, Nina, U.S. officials at all levels frequently raise with the Saudi Government our human rights concerns, especially those dealing with, you know, children and child marriages. So I’d also note that the case has sparked a lot of outrage within Saudi society and the NGO community. So they will probably bring a lot of pressure...

In the wake of the brilliant rescue by US Navy SEALs of a US hostage held by Somali pirates over the weekend, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has sounded a decidedly defeatist tone unbecoming his high office, but rather typical, unfortunately, of his own philosophy. Gates says that there is basically no solution to the piracy problem because there are too many pirates, too many ships to protect and the ocean is too big. We find it startling that the US Navy, working with key NATO allies, such as the British and French, couldn’t make piracy a very hazardous and...

All too frequently, an article will appear in the news media extolling the virtues of “Islamic” finance as a way to protect wealth from the ravages of the current financial crisis. When we first came across a recent article in the Sacramento Bee, we figured that we had another case of this and were prepared to make a rather pedestrian posting about how Shariah-Compliant Finance has not in fact been the safe haven that some of its promoters maintain. But as we dug deeper into the article, the more we realized that it contained clues to a much larger puzzle....

Today I want to extend my very best wishes to all who are celebrating Nowruz around the world. This holiday is both an ancient ritual and a moment of renewal, and I hope that you enjoy this special time of year with friends and family.

The Coalition for Security, Liberty and the Law - an informal team of organizations and experts that join forces to support the U.S. Constitution from threats, foreign and domestic - noted with interest the following statement issued Tuesday by the so-called American Muslim Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections: A coalition of major national Islamic organizations today announced that it is considering suspending outreach relations with the Federal Bureau on Investigations, citing recent incidents in which American mosques and Muslim groups have been targeted. The press release circulated by one of the participating "national Islamic organizations," the Council on...

Grover Norquist is a conservative activist and the president of Americans for Tax Reform. He is also well-known in Washington D.C. circles as a friend of Islam. Since the 1990s he has held weekly “Wednesday meetings” in which he briefs fellow conservatives and helps plot strategy for the Republican party. But yesterday it was Mr. Norquist’s turn to be briefed. A few days ago I wrote about John Kerry’s speech on the Senate floor touting the U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project. Yesterday Mr. Norquist’s group was briefed by Vin Weber, a member of the leadership group of the same U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project....

In 2002, former CIA director R. James Woolsey called the war on terrorism “World War IV.” To this day, we believe that this name is far more appropriate than any other name we have seen or heard. Why? Because “World War IV” is descriptive and accurate. Militant Islamists are conducting offensive Jihad around the world to impose Shariah and eventually re-establish a caliphate. These Jihadists are far from homogenous and often at odds with one another, however, they are united in their hatred of the West. An example of one forgotten theater in this war is Thailand. Southern Thailand has...