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Here's the closing paragraph of the 2006 book "The West must awaken to the fact that it is facing nothing less than the resurgence of the greatest war machine in world history: an ideology that holds the killing of others, the plundering of their wealth, the conquering of their lands, the enslavement of their people, and the destruction of their institutions to be among the highest virtues and the stepping stones to salvation. Islam, while it continues to lack a centralized political structure, is nonetheless reacquiring the means of war it has used to such deadly effect in the past....

HELP SHUT DOWN ISLAMIC JIHADIST RALLY TOMORROW IN WASHINGTON D.C.! We need your help now! Yesterday we told you about the radical Islamic jihadist Anjem Choudary and his plan to lead a gigantic protest in Washington calling on Obama to bow to Islam and for America to accept the rule of Sharia law. The rally is being sponsored by the Islamic Thinkers Society (a group of radical Muslims based in New York) which also invited other high-profile Imams an Clerics from the UK as well.  Abu Izzadeen was convicted of raising money for terrorist organizations and inciting terror attacks...

St Francis and the Sultan: the making of a pious myth Jonathan Wright on a wonderful book that explains how a legendary meeting was reinterpreted over eight centuries 26 June 2009 St Francis of Assisi: His trip to Egypt became one of the centrepieces of Franciscan hagiography In September 1219, as yet another crusade was raging, Francis of Assisi popped across the military lines in order to talk with Sultan al-Malik al-Kamil of Egypt. We have no accurate idea of why he went or what was said but, in an important sense, this doesn't much matter. Here was a legendary...

Two have to read books about the Muslim takeover of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia. The first book "Among the Believers" is about the takeover in the seventies. The second book "Beyond Belief" looks at the takeover 20 years later when he returns to the countries and continues his interviews. If heed is not taken, it will be the story of the future of the west as Muslims use the same tactics today in Euroope and the United States. Worth the read.

I decided to see what might be the difference between Muslim and Islam and found this section on the Quran...I found it interesting...40 readings and scholars say 7-14 are legitimate? Amazing. Despite the consensus among Muslims on the authenticity of the current format of the Qur’an, they agree that many words in the Qur’an can be interpreted in equally valid ways. The Arabic language, like other Semitic languages, has consonants and vowels, and the meanings of words are derived from both. For several centuries, the written texts of the Qur’an showed only the consonants, without indicating the vowel marks. As...

A Portland mosque that has been scrutinized as part of a local terrorism investigation joined five other groups Wednesday in the first legal attack on the USA Patriot Act, the sweeping federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that critics say gives the government free rein to spy on ordinary people. In a federal lawsuit directed at two of the nation's top Patriot Act patrons -- U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller -- mosque and other leaders claim that one particularly offensive section gives the FBI unlimited authority to seize personal information without a...

(CNSNews.com) - A public school in Byron, Calif. is being sued after forcing Christian students to pretend they were Muslims for three weeks. As part of an Islam simulation" project, students prayed in the name of Allah, chose a Muslim name, and played a "jihad" dice game, according to the group that filed the lawsuit. The Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center is representing parents and children in the lawsuit against the Byron Unified School District. "What's at issue is the true meaning of the Establishment Clause," said Richard Thompson, the law center's chief counsel. While it's perfectly legal for...

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