500,000 Iranian Centrifuges (Gee... a Nobel Peace Prize winner who has enabled Iran-imagine that!)
Tehran ups the ante again as diplomacy goes nowhere.
Mohamed ElBaradei caps his contentious and ultimately failed 12-year stint as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency today, having spent many years enabling Iran's nuclear bids only to condemn them in his final days in office. Mr. ElBaradei combined his rebuke of Iran with his familiar calls for more negotiation, but we'll take his belated realism about Iran as his tacit admission that Dick Cheney and John Bolton have been right all along. Let's hope the education of the Obama Administration doesn't take as long.
As if to underscore the point, yesterday the Iranian government ordered up 10 additional uranium enrichment plants on the scale of its already operational facility in Natanz, which has a planned capacity of 54,000 centrifuges. That could mean an eventual total of more than 500,000 centrifuges, or enough to enrich about 160 bombs worth of uranium each year. Whether it can ever do that is an open question, but it does give a sense of the scale of the regime's ambitions.
The decision is also a reminder of how unchastened Iran has been by President Obama's revelation in September that Iran had been building a secret 3,000 centrifuge facility near the city of Qom. The IAEA's governing board finally got around on Friday to rebuking Iran for that deception, a vote the Administration trumpeted because both Russia and China voted with the United States. But perhaps only within the Obama Administration can a symbolic gesture by the IAEA be considered a diplomatic triumph.
"Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday, but the West has said this many times before. Earlier this year, Mr. Obama said Iran had a deadline of September.
The regime scoffed at Mr. Obama after he delivered a conciliating message for the Persian New Year in March, scoffed again after he mildly criticized its post-election crackdown and killing spree in June (following days of silence), and scoffed a third time by rejecting the West's offer last month to enrich Iran's uranium for it. Yet the Administration insists the enrichment deal is still Iran's for the taking. "A few years ago [the West] said we had to completely stop all our nuclear activities," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said last month. "Now look where we are today."
Those are the words of a man who believes he has Mr. Obama's number. And until the President, his advisers and the Europeans realize that only punitive sanctions or military strikes will force it to reconsider its nuclear ambitions, an emboldened Islamic Republic will continue to march confidently toward a bomb over the wreckage of Mohamed ElBaradei's—and Barack Obama's—best intentions.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Recruiting terrorists in the US
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Federal prosecutors charged eight men with recruiting U.S. immigrants from Somalia to join an Islamist insurgency there.
According to court documents unsealed Monday, the men organized a network in the U.S. that enlisted and financed about 20 young men, mostly from the large Somali community in Minneapolis, to become fighters with the al-Shabaab group, which is designated a terrorist organization by U.S. authorities.
Five of the recruits have been killed in fighting in Somalia, including at least one believed to have carried out the first suicide bombing by an American, according to U.S. officials.
The investigation is among several recently that raised concerns over the recruitment of U.S. Muslims by radical groups. Officials previously viewed the threat in the U.S. as lesser than in Europe, which has a large disaffected immigrant Muslim population.
"The national-security implications are serious," said Ralph Boelter, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Minneapolis office. "This is the closest thing we've seen to" the homegrown terrorism recruitment seen in the U.K.
Somali community leaders say the recruits appear to have been motivated by Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia three years ago and the recruits' desire to help the Islamist group oust foreigners.
Those charged include Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse, legal U.S. residents. An FBI affidavit filed in the case alleges that Mr. Faarax and others met at a Minneapolis mosque and at a private home in 2007 and that Mr. Faarax claimed to have fought in the war and encouraged other men to join the fight in Somalia. Mr. Isse, prosecutors alleged, described plans for a "jihad" against Ethiopians and raised money for airplane tickets under the guise of sending young men to Saudi Arabia to study the Quran. Both men left the U.S. via the Mexican border near San Diego and are at large outside the U.S., authorities said.
Also charged is Mahamud Said Omar, a Somali and legal U.S. resident, who was arrested earlier this month in the Netherlands for allegedly providing financial assistance to terrorists. Prosecutors have requested Mr. Omar's extradition.
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Federal prosecutors charged eight men with recruiting U.S. immigrants from Somalia to join an Islamist insurgency there.
According to court documents unsealed Monday, the men organized a network in the U.S. that enlisted and financed about 20 young men, mostly from the large Somali community in Minneapolis, to become fighters with the al-Shabaab group, which is designated a terrorist organization by U.S. authorities.
Five of the recruits have been killed in fighting in Somalia, including at least one believed to have carried out the first suicide bombing by an American, according to U.S. officials.
The investigation is among several recently that raised concerns over the recruitment of U.S. Muslims by radical groups. Officials previously viewed the threat in the U.S. as lesser than in Europe, which has a large disaffected immigrant Muslim population.
"The national-security implications are serious," said Ralph Boelter, special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Minneapolis office. "This is the closest thing we've seen to" the homegrown terrorism recruitment seen in the U.K.
Somali community leaders say the recruits appear to have been motivated by Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia three years ago and the recruits' desire to help the Islamist group oust foreigners.
Those charged include Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin Isse, legal U.S. residents. An FBI affidavit filed in the case alleges that Mr. Faarax and others met at a Minneapolis mosque and at a private home in 2007 and that Mr. Faarax claimed to have fought in the war and encouraged other men to join the fight in Somalia. Mr. Isse, prosecutors alleged, described plans for a "jihad" against Ethiopians and raised money for airplane tickets under the guise of sending young men to Saudi Arabia to study the Quran. Both men left the U.S. via the Mexican border near San Diego and are at large outside the U.S., authorities said.
Also charged is Mahamud Said Omar, a Somali and legal U.S. resident, who was arrested earlier this month in the Netherlands for allegedly providing financial assistance to terrorists. Prosecutors have requested Mr. Omar's extradition.
Mumbai militants one year later
A Year After Mumbai Attack, Militants Thrive
(http://article.wn.com) By MATTHEW ROSENBERG ISLAMABAD -- The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction. Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai by the Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been disrupted in the 12 months since 10 gunmen wrought three days of havoc on India's financial capital, killing 166 people. View Full Image Associated Press A soldier takes cover outside the burning Taj hotel in Mumbai on Nov. 27, 2008, one of the sites targeted during the three-day...
(http://article.wn.com) By MATTHEW ROSENBERG ISLAMABAD -- The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction. Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai by the Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been disrupted in the 12 months since 10 gunmen wrought three days of havoc on India's financial capital, killing 166 people. View Full Image Associated Press A soldier takes cover outside the burning Taj hotel in Mumbai on Nov. 27, 2008, one of the sites targeted during the three-day...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Philippines Nov 24
Death Toll Rises in Philippine Massacre
The death toll in one of the Philippines' worst cases of election violence rose to at least 46 people, and President Arroyo declared a state of emergency to give security forces a freer hand in tracking down the gunmen...The southern Philippines has been a hot-bed of violence for decades and has served as a staging and training ground for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in the region. It's also home to long-running Muslim and Communist insurgencies, and the few large cities there are separated by large tracts of land where clan leaders intermittently battle each other for political power. The national government in Manila has long run programs to help organize clan leaders to limit the Muslim and Communist rebels and it has also allowed local governments and police forces to tap militias to contain the insurgencies, in some cases providing arms.
The death toll in one of the Philippines' worst cases of election violence rose to at least 46 people, and President Arroyo declared a state of emergency to give security forces a freer hand in tracking down the gunmen...The southern Philippines has been a hot-bed of violence for decades and has served as a staging and training ground for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in the region. It's also home to long-running Muslim and Communist insurgencies, and the few large cities there are separated by large tracts of land where clan leaders intermittently battle each other for political power. The national government in Manila has long run programs to help organize clan leaders to limit the Muslim and Communist rebels and it has also allowed local governments and police forces to tap militias to contain the insurgencies, in some cases providing arms.
A Year After Mumbai Attack, Militants Thrive more in India
A Year After Mumbai Attack, Militants Thrive .ArticleComments (74)more in India . Text .By MATTHEW ROSENBERG
ISLAMABAD -- The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction.
Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai by the Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been disrupted in the 12 months since 10 gunmen wrought three days of havoc on India's financial capital, killing 166 people.
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A soldier takes cover outside the burning Taj hotel in Mumbai on Nov. 27, 2008, one of the sites targeted during the three-day terrorist siege.
.Lashkar's infiltration of India's part of Kashmir is again on the upswing, the officials say; and a U.S. citizen with alleged ties to Lashkar was recently arrested in Chicago, evidence of the group's reach, U.S. officials say.
"Our aims are the same today as they were 10 years ago," said a man who identified himself as a former Lashkar militant now working with its charity arm. "We are waging war on the enemies of Islam."
ISLAMABAD -- The Islamist militant group behind the deadly attack in Mumbai one year ago remains a potent force determined to strike India and the West, and a source of acrimony between South Asia's nuclear-armed rivals, say officials and members of the militant faction.
Indian officials and experts say at least six new plots against Mumbai by the Pakistan-based group, Lashkar-e-Taiba, have been disrupted in the 12 months since 10 gunmen wrought three days of havoc on India's financial capital, killing 166 people.
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Associated Press
A soldier takes cover outside the burning Taj hotel in Mumbai on Nov. 27, 2008, one of the sites targeted during the three-day terrorist siege.
.Lashkar's infiltration of India's part of Kashmir is again on the upswing, the officials say; and a U.S. citizen with alleged ties to Lashkar was recently arrested in Chicago, evidence of the group's reach, U.S. officials say.
"Our aims are the same today as they were 10 years ago," said a man who identified himself as a former Lashkar militant now working with its charity arm. "We are waging war on the enemies of Islam."
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Maybe a unliterally declared country id good, then israel can blow them to smithereens when they act up
In-Depth Issues:
The Implications of Long-Range Hamas Rockets - Jeffrey White (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
The IDF recently monitored Hamas' launch of a 60-km-range Iranian rocket from Gaza into the Mediterranean Sea.
A rocket with such a range can reach the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv as well as targets across much of southern Israel.
According to Amos Yadlin, IDF director of military intelligence, Hamas now has "dozens" of rockets with a 60-km range.
Hamas' new rocket capabilities must also be seen in the context of Hizbullah's acquisition of rockets with a 300-km range. In a possible two-front war, this means that most of Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would be within rocket range.
From Israel's standpoint, the threats to its large population centers will likely make the government more willing to deal decisively with a revamped threat from Hamas. This would probably mean a comprehensive air and ground offensive throughout Gaza - one that would far exceed the scope of last winter's Gaza operation.
The writer is a defense fellow at The Washington Institute.
The Implications of Long-Range Hamas Rockets - Jeffrey White (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)
The IDF recently monitored Hamas' launch of a 60-km-range Iranian rocket from Gaza into the Mediterranean Sea.
A rocket with such a range can reach the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv as well as targets across much of southern Israel.
According to Amos Yadlin, IDF director of military intelligence, Hamas now has "dozens" of rockets with a 60-km range.
Hamas' new rocket capabilities must also be seen in the context of Hizbullah's acquisition of rockets with a 300-km range. In a possible two-front war, this means that most of Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would be within rocket range.
From Israel's standpoint, the threats to its large population centers will likely make the government more willing to deal decisively with a revamped threat from Hamas. This would probably mean a comprehensive air and ground offensive throughout Gaza - one that would far exceed the scope of last winter's Gaza operation.
The writer is a defense fellow at The Washington Institute.
These people can't have a country-they are pirates
Gaza Charity Offers $1.4M for Capture of IDF Soldiers - Diaa Hadid (AP)
A Gaza charity headed by Hamas' Interior Minister Fathi Hamad on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts an Israeli soldier.
The Waad group offered the bounty in an e-mail sent to Palestinian media.
A Gaza charity headed by Hamas' Interior Minister Fathi Hamad on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts an Israeli soldier.
The Waad group offered the bounty in an e-mail sent to Palestinian media.
Hassan bigger worry than KSM
If it accomplished nothing else, the Obama administration's announcement last Friday to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in lower Manhattan blew the Nidal Hasan murders out of the news. The KSM fiasco deserves all the attention it gets. What Hasan represents, however, is a more immediate concern.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is an old-school jihadi. They sit in far-off redoubts, assembling terror teams of foreign nationals who now must figure out how to get themselves and their plot inside the U.S. Not impossible, but harder than before 9/11.
Hasan is new school. He is what's known as a homegrown terrorist. Virtually all the Islamic terrorist plots thwarted here in recent years were homegrown, not designed from afar by a KSM.
Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado airport-shuttle driver arrested in New York this September and charged with conspiring to detonate bombs, came to the U.S. in 1999.
The Fort Dix Six, convicted in December of conspiring to attack U.S. military personnel, were mainly ethnic Albanians whose family came to New Jersey in the 1980s.
Zakaria Amara, the leader of the Toronto 18, who were planning to blow up skyscrapers in Canada, was born in a Toronto suburb.
In testimony to Congress in September, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Mike Leiter, said the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab includes "dozens of recruits from the Unites States," mostly ethnic Somalis.
How do individuals sitting in Colorado, New Jersey, Toronto or Texas suddenly transform into mass murderers for jihad? Most of the time, they become radicalized by spending vast amounts of time viewing violent Islamic Web sites run from abroad.
Two years ago, Lawrence Sanchez of the New York City Police Department's intelligence division told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Internet is "the most significant factor in the radicalization that is occurring in America." Mr. Sanchez described this process as "self-imposed brainwashing."
In New York Times reporter David Rohde's account of his captivity by the Taliban, he wrote that "watching jihadi videos" was his guards' favorite pastime. He describes them as "little more than grimly repetitive snuff films" of executions.
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If you sit in the United States and watch this stuff 'round the clock—self-brainwashing—it is fully protected activity. It qualifies as "speech," protected by the panoply of First Amendment law. These protections exist nowhere else in the world.
The biggest controversy surrounding Maj. Hasan is that the Army knew about his radical Islamic sympathies, from the Walter Reed lecture and the monitored emails to the English-speaking, American-born Yemeni imam Anwar Awlaki, whose Facebook page, with a reported 4,800 "friends," is depicted nearby.
The argument is that the Army should have mustered him out of the service and thereby avoided the 13 murders. Really? After kicking him out of the Army, there was no probable cause for authorities to surveil a civilian Nidal Hasan. In time he as easily could have killed 13 Americans in a suburban Texas mall.
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, as the judge presiding over the 1995 trial of the "blind sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had to instruct the jury that the sheikh's violent, "holy war" sermons at New York mosques were legal, protected activity (he was convicted of conspiracy).
There is a mosque in Manhattan at 96th Street and Lexington Avenue, on whose sidewalk one can hear adherents spouting support for violence against the U.S. That, too, is protected.
A violent ideology is just an ideology, and that is protected speech. It requires acts to put in motion aggressive surveillance, such as wiretapping.
I think the Hasan case shows this is wrong, or at least too dangerous. First Amendment law has never dealt with a widely distributed ideology that has as its raison d'être the mass murder of Americans and destruction of American property.
For now this is the way it is: Future Hasans can get jacked up all day on kill-the-Americans Web sites, and we have to wait until they put in motion a conspiracy like Fort Dix or the Colorado jihadists. Or until they start shooting.
Politics is the only recourse.
This is what the political fight was through the Bush years—fights over the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps of conversations between U.S. citizens and foreign suspects, using the SWIFT financial data system to track terrorist transfers (or, with KSM, military tribunals versus civil courts). The argument against these policies was that "our values" require that judges review and approve virtually all such activity.
The problem with this view is that "our values" were already protected to an unprecedented degree. Raising the bar higher is asking too much of the people assigned to catch all these self-radicalizing jihadists.
The Democrats have cast their lot with tighter restrictions. The past six years and a presidential campaign proved that. In the wake of Hasan's 13 dead people, revisiting the limits of our vulnerability has to be on the table in next year's congressional elections, and then a presidential election.
About Daniel Henninger
Daniel Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Mr. Henninger joined Dow Jones in 1971 as a staff writer for the National Observer
Write to henninger@wsj.com
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is an old-school jihadi. They sit in far-off redoubts, assembling terror teams of foreign nationals who now must figure out how to get themselves and their plot inside the U.S. Not impossible, but harder than before 9/11.
Hasan is new school. He is what's known as a homegrown terrorist. Virtually all the Islamic terrorist plots thwarted here in recent years were homegrown, not designed from afar by a KSM.
Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado airport-shuttle driver arrested in New York this September and charged with conspiring to detonate bombs, came to the U.S. in 1999.
The Fort Dix Six, convicted in December of conspiring to attack U.S. military personnel, were mainly ethnic Albanians whose family came to New Jersey in the 1980s.
Zakaria Amara, the leader of the Toronto 18, who were planning to blow up skyscrapers in Canada, was born in a Toronto suburb.
In testimony to Congress in September, the director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, Mike Leiter, said the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab includes "dozens of recruits from the Unites States," mostly ethnic Somalis.
How do individuals sitting in Colorado, New Jersey, Toronto or Texas suddenly transform into mass murderers for jihad? Most of the time, they become radicalized by spending vast amounts of time viewing violent Islamic Web sites run from abroad.
Two years ago, Lawrence Sanchez of the New York City Police Department's intelligence division told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that the Internet is "the most significant factor in the radicalization that is occurring in America." Mr. Sanchez described this process as "self-imposed brainwashing."
In New York Times reporter David Rohde's account of his captivity by the Taliban, he wrote that "watching jihadi videos" was his guards' favorite pastime. He describes them as "little more than grimly repetitive snuff films" of executions.
***
If you sit in the United States and watch this stuff 'round the clock—self-brainwashing—it is fully protected activity. It qualifies as "speech," protected by the panoply of First Amendment law. These protections exist nowhere else in the world.
The biggest controversy surrounding Maj. Hasan is that the Army knew about his radical Islamic sympathies, from the Walter Reed lecture and the monitored emails to the English-speaking, American-born Yemeni imam Anwar Awlaki, whose Facebook page, with a reported 4,800 "friends," is depicted nearby.
The argument is that the Army should have mustered him out of the service and thereby avoided the 13 murders. Really? After kicking him out of the Army, there was no probable cause for authorities to surveil a civilian Nidal Hasan. In time he as easily could have killed 13 Americans in a suburban Texas mall.
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, as the judge presiding over the 1995 trial of the "blind sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had to instruct the jury that the sheikh's violent, "holy war" sermons at New York mosques were legal, protected activity (he was convicted of conspiracy).
There is a mosque in Manhattan at 96th Street and Lexington Avenue, on whose sidewalk one can hear adherents spouting support for violence against the U.S. That, too, is protected.
A violent ideology is just an ideology, and that is protected speech. It requires acts to put in motion aggressive surveillance, such as wiretapping.
I think the Hasan case shows this is wrong, or at least too dangerous. First Amendment law has never dealt with a widely distributed ideology that has as its raison d'être the mass murder of Americans and destruction of American property.
For now this is the way it is: Future Hasans can get jacked up all day on kill-the-Americans Web sites, and we have to wait until they put in motion a conspiracy like Fort Dix or the Colorado jihadists. Or until they start shooting.
Politics is the only recourse.
This is what the political fight was through the Bush years—fights over the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretaps of conversations between U.S. citizens and foreign suspects, using the SWIFT financial data system to track terrorist transfers (or, with KSM, military tribunals versus civil courts). The argument against these policies was that "our values" require that judges review and approve virtually all such activity.
The problem with this view is that "our values" were already protected to an unprecedented degree. Raising the bar higher is asking too much of the people assigned to catch all these self-radicalizing jihadists.
The Democrats have cast their lot with tighter restrictions. The past six years and a presidential campaign proved that. In the wake of Hasan's 13 dead people, revisiting the limits of our vulnerability has to be on the table in next year's congressional elections, and then a presidential election.
About Daniel Henninger
Daniel Henninger is deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Mr. Henninger joined Dow Jones in 1971 as a staff writer for the National Observer
Write to henninger@wsj.com
Obama, Arab terrorists and Chicago ties
The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago (CIOGC) is considered a mainstream organization. Its affiliate mosque, the Bridgeview Mosque, has been under FBI surveillance for over a decade, and Osama bin Laden’s spiritual mentor, Abdullah Azzam, actually visited it as part of a national recruiting tour in the 1980s. Nabil al-Marabh, a suspected planner in 9/11, attended Bridgeview. The mosque’s foundation was linked to the Holy Land Foundation. Mohammed Saleh, another member, was the first American citizen to make the FBI terror list. The mosque itself is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) — headquartered in Indiana, but funded by Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia. Siraj Wahhaj, a former NAIT board member, is listed as an indicted co-conspirator in a 1995 plot to blow up New York landmarks, and he served as a character witness for the “blind sheik.”
In February 2004, the Chicago Tribune investigated the radical anti-Americanism running through CIOGC and its tributaries (”Hard-liners won battle for Bridgeview Mosque“). At the time, then-state Senator Barack Obama was pushing a bill for free and reduced health care for the uninsured. On March 29, 2004, the Chicago Defender announced: “SEIU, ACORN hail Obama’s health bill.” Also at the time, Crucial Inc. — the lucrative concession business at O’Hare International Airport owned by the 77-year-old son of the late Elijah Muhammed — was stripped of its minority business certification.
After grossing $16 million in its first four years at the airport, it was revealed that Syrian-born Arab Tony Rezko was the actual owner and Herbert Muhammed had only served as a front so Crucial Inc. could qualify for Chicago’s minority set-aside program — which directs large contracts to companies owned by women, blacks, or Hispanics.
That year also marked the creation of then-Governor Rod Blagojevich’s new Illinois Finance Authority board, which dissolved five state bonding agencies into one. Ali Ata, former president of the Chicago chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee — and a friend of Rezko — was appointed as director after donating $60,000 to the governor. Ata held no finance experience and left the post in March 2005 following alleged wrongdoings.
This came less than two years after Obama helped pass Public Act 93-0041, which extended the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Association (IFHPA), terminated all existing board members, reduced the board membership from 15 to 9, and gave priority to board members with ties to ethnic and minority communities.
Health Care, Chicago-Style
Behold, the swamp of Chicago health care and Obama's central role in cultivating it.
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois. Dr. Imad Almanaseer — head of pathology at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, a friend of Rezko’s, and part of Rezko’s bloc of five installed on the IFHPA board (which controls all development and expansion of hospitals in the state) — testified under immunity at Rezko’s trial. He admitted that he was handed index cards by Thomas Beck, the chairman of IFHPA, with voting instructions from Rezko prior to votes. Almanaseer also testified that he is a business partner and investor of Rezko’s.
In February 2004, William McNary endorsed Obama in the Communist Party (CPUSA) newspaper the Weekly World. “Obama will be a strong voice in Washington on behalf of working families,” wrote McNary. Obama had worked for McNary in the mid-1990s, registering 100,000 votes for Citizen Action/Illinois — the local branch of US Action, both of which William McNary headed. According to McNary, Obama also collaborated with United Power for Action and Justice (UPAJ) to expand children’s health insurance in Illinois. “Barack was not just willing to meet with community-based groups, not only to be a good vote for us, but he also strategized with us to help move our position forward,” McNary told David Moberg in his 2007 piece “Obama’s Third Way.” McNary is also a member of the Radical Black Congress and was the keynote speaker for the CPUSA 2002 annual fundraiser. The left-wing blog Talking Points Memo described McNary as “one of Obama’s personal friends and long-time supporters — someone Obama went to when considering his run for senate and for president.”
Monsignor John Egan lived just long enough to see his lifelong dream, the UPAJ, open its doors. The $2.6 million dollars in seed money for UPAJ came from Catholic organizations. Egan envisioned UPAJ as a reorganized Metro IAF — the Chicago chapter of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Arts Foundation. Cardinal Bernadin announced the gift at a 1995 press conference.
There was outrage in the Catholic community over the role that both the Bernadine Center for Theology and Ministry and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) played in UPAJ. CCHD’s annual budget of $18 million funded UPAJ activities. UPAJ’s stated top priorities - Health care for all and fostering relationships with Muslim communities. UPAJ affiliates include the Muslim Student Association, the Lutheran School of Theology, Anshe Shalom B’Nai Israel, Trinity United Church of Christ (Mr. Obama’s Chicago church) and Father Pfleger’s St. Sabina church.
Also, active in CCIR is Tony Campolo, active with the Sojourner Red Letter Christian movement. He is probably best known for “finding it a real privilege” to minister to Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky impeachment proceedings and for drawing gasps and boos for having the following exchange with Gary Bauer at Wheaton College: “I know this is hard for you to believe, but the enemy is not John Ashcroft. The enemy is Osama bin Laden,” said Bauer. Campolo replied, “I don’t know about that.”
Chicago’s Muslim-centric health care networks range from the Gilead’s Campaign for the Uninsured and the Gilead Outreach and Referral Center (both funded by UPAJ), the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Illinois Department of Public Aid, Advocate Health Care, and the Michael Reese Healthcare Trust. The Michael Reese Health Care Trust funds the Sargent Shriver Center National Center on Poverty Law — which is funded by George Soros, Bill Ayers brother John, SEIU Healthcare, William Daley, the William Daley Charitable Gift Fund, the Illinois Department of Health Care and Family Services, and the Chicago Bar Fund.
The Chicago Bar Fund supports the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights, the National Immigrant and Justice Center, and, amazingly, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Gilead’s board of directors includes Anthony Mitchell of Advocate Health Care, Nancy Cross of SEIU Local and Syed Najullah of CIOCG.
Other networks include the Muslim Community Center, the Association of Muslim Health Professionals, the Compassionate Care Network, UMMA Community Clinic, the Islamic Medical Association of North America, and IMAN, which is funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This excludes the additional $851 million in federal stimulus grants Michele Obama announced on June 29, 2009, to upgrade community health centers because their work “has never been more important.”
Patti Villacorta is an investigative reporter and political research expert
In February 2004, the Chicago Tribune investigated the radical anti-Americanism running through CIOGC and its tributaries (”Hard-liners won battle for Bridgeview Mosque“). At the time, then-state Senator Barack Obama was pushing a bill for free and reduced health care for the uninsured. On March 29, 2004, the Chicago Defender announced: “SEIU, ACORN hail Obama’s health bill.” Also at the time, Crucial Inc. — the lucrative concession business at O’Hare International Airport owned by the 77-year-old son of the late Elijah Muhammed — was stripped of its minority business certification.
After grossing $16 million in its first four years at the airport, it was revealed that Syrian-born Arab Tony Rezko was the actual owner and Herbert Muhammed had only served as a front so Crucial Inc. could qualify for Chicago’s minority set-aside program — which directs large contracts to companies owned by women, blacks, or Hispanics.
That year also marked the creation of then-Governor Rod Blagojevich’s new Illinois Finance Authority board, which dissolved five state bonding agencies into one. Ali Ata, former president of the Chicago chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee — and a friend of Rezko — was appointed as director after donating $60,000 to the governor. Ata held no finance experience and left the post in March 2005 following alleged wrongdoings.
This came less than two years after Obama helped pass Public Act 93-0041, which extended the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Association (IFHPA), terminated all existing board members, reduced the board membership from 15 to 9, and gave priority to board members with ties to ethnic and minority communities.
Health Care, Chicago-Style
Behold, the swamp of Chicago health care and Obama's central role in cultivating it.
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois. Dr. Imad Almanaseer — head of pathology at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, a friend of Rezko’s, and part of Rezko’s bloc of five installed on the IFHPA board (which controls all development and expansion of hospitals in the state) — testified under immunity at Rezko’s trial. He admitted that he was handed index cards by Thomas Beck, the chairman of IFHPA, with voting instructions from Rezko prior to votes. Almanaseer also testified that he is a business partner and investor of Rezko’s.
In February 2004, William McNary endorsed Obama in the Communist Party (CPUSA) newspaper the Weekly World. “Obama will be a strong voice in Washington on behalf of working families,” wrote McNary. Obama had worked for McNary in the mid-1990s, registering 100,000 votes for Citizen Action/Illinois — the local branch of US Action, both of which William McNary headed. According to McNary, Obama also collaborated with United Power for Action and Justice (UPAJ) to expand children’s health insurance in Illinois. “Barack was not just willing to meet with community-based groups, not only to be a good vote for us, but he also strategized with us to help move our position forward,” McNary told David Moberg in his 2007 piece “Obama’s Third Way.” McNary is also a member of the Radical Black Congress and was the keynote speaker for the CPUSA 2002 annual fundraiser. The left-wing blog Talking Points Memo described McNary as “one of Obama’s personal friends and long-time supporters — someone Obama went to when considering his run for senate and for president.”
Monsignor John Egan lived just long enough to see his lifelong dream, the UPAJ, open its doors. The $2.6 million dollars in seed money for UPAJ came from Catholic organizations. Egan envisioned UPAJ as a reorganized Metro IAF — the Chicago chapter of Saul Alinsky’s Industrial Arts Foundation. Cardinal Bernadin announced the gift at a 1995 press conference.
There was outrage in the Catholic community over the role that both the Bernadine Center for Theology and Ministry and the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) played in UPAJ. CCHD’s annual budget of $18 million funded UPAJ activities. UPAJ’s stated top priorities - Health care for all and fostering relationships with Muslim communities. UPAJ affiliates include the Muslim Student Association, the Lutheran School of Theology, Anshe Shalom B’Nai Israel, Trinity United Church of Christ (Mr. Obama’s Chicago church) and Father Pfleger’s St. Sabina church.
Also, active in CCIR is Tony Campolo, active with the Sojourner Red Letter Christian movement. He is probably best known for “finding it a real privilege” to minister to Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky impeachment proceedings and for drawing gasps and boos for having the following exchange with Gary Bauer at Wheaton College: “I know this is hard for you to believe, but the enemy is not John Ashcroft. The enemy is Osama bin Laden,” said Bauer. Campolo replied, “I don’t know about that.”
Chicago’s Muslim-centric health care networks range from the Gilead’s Campaign for the Uninsured and the Gilead Outreach and Referral Center (both funded by UPAJ), the Illinois Department of Human Services, the Illinois Department of Public Aid, Advocate Health Care, and the Michael Reese Healthcare Trust. The Michael Reese Health Care Trust funds the Sargent Shriver Center National Center on Poverty Law — which is funded by George Soros, Bill Ayers brother John, SEIU Healthcare, William Daley, the William Daley Charitable Gift Fund, the Illinois Department of Health Care and Family Services, and the Chicago Bar Fund.
The Chicago Bar Fund supports the Illinois Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights, the National Immigrant and Justice Center, and, amazingly, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Gilead’s board of directors includes Anthony Mitchell of Advocate Health Care, Nancy Cross of SEIU Local and Syed Najullah of CIOCG.
Other networks include the Muslim Community Center, the Association of Muslim Health Professionals, the Compassionate Care Network, UMMA Community Clinic, the Islamic Medical Association of North America, and IMAN, which is funded by the Illinois Department of Human Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
This excludes the additional $851 million in federal stimulus grants Michele Obama announced on June 29, 2009, to upgrade community health centers because their work “has never been more important.”
Patti Villacorta is an investigative reporter and political research expert
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
WSJ nov 14-15
Suicide bomb attack targeting Peshawar spy agency kills at least 16
Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 16 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence agency.
By News Wires (text)
Suicide car bombs tore through security offices in Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 16 people and heavily damaging the Peshawar headquarters of the country's top intelligence agency.
By News Wires (text)
WSJ dangers of trying the terrorrists in NYC
One certain outcome is that an open civilian trial will provide valuable information to terrorists across the world about American methods and intelligence. Precisely because so much other evidence may not be admissable, prosecutors may have to reveal genuine secrets to get a conviction. Osama bin Laden learned a lot from the 1995 prosecution in New York of the "blind cleric" Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman for the first World Trade Center attack. His main tip was that the U.S. considered bin Laden a terrorist co-conspirator, leading him to abandon his hideout in Sudan for Afghanistan.
Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, made his civilian trial a spectacle. Not even the best judge can entirely stop KSM and others from doing the same. And Mr. Holder has invited grave and needless security risks by tempting jihadists the world over to strike Manhattan while the trial is in session.
Most Americans, we suspect, can overlook the legal niceties and see this episode through the lens of common sense. Foreign terrorists who wage war on America and everything it stands for have no place sitting in a court of law born of the values they so detest. Mr. Holder has honored mass murder by treating it like any other crime.
Terrorists also love a big stage, and none come bigger than New York. Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker, made his civilian trial a spectacle. Not even the best judge can entirely stop KSM and others from doing the same. And Mr. Holder has invited grave and needless security risks by tempting jihadists the world over to strike Manhattan while the trial is in session.
Most Americans, we suspect, can overlook the legal niceties and see this episode through the lens of common sense. Foreign terrorists who wage war on America and everything it stands for have no place sitting in a court of law born of the values they so detest. Mr. Holder has honored mass murder by treating it like any other crime.
Militants behead school principal in Philippines 09 Nov 2009 08:35:27 GMT
Militants behead school principal in Philippines
09 Nov 2009 08:35:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
MANILA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on Monday.
Major-General Ben Dolorfino, commander of military forces in the western part of Mindanao region, said the victim's decapitated head was found at a petrol station in the capital town on Jolo island.
"We were told the school principal was beheaded on Sunday when the negotiations to free him bogged down," Dolorfino said.
09 Nov 2009 08:35:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
MANILA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Muslim militants beheaded a school principal on a remote southern island in the Philippines after holding him for ransom for three weeks, a marine general said on Monday.
Major-General Ben Dolorfino, commander of military forces in the western part of Mindanao region, said the victim's decapitated head was found at a petrol station in the capital town on Jolo island.
"We were told the school principal was beheaded on Sunday when the negotiations to free him bogged down," Dolorfino said.
Monday, November 16, 2009
J Street Ties to pro Iran group
NIAC and J Street: Lobbying and Lying
NIAC and J Street might seem at first an odd alliance. J Street is "pro-peace, pro-Israel" and NIAC is pro-engagement, pro-Iran. But J Street isn't all that pro-Israel, and NIAC will take any allies it can find in the fight against sanctions, so few and far between are such organizations in Washington. J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami co-authored an op-ed with NIAC chief Trita Parsi making the (extremely unpopular in the Jewish community) argument against sanctions. J Street invited Parsi to speak at their conference last month. And the two groups have together constructed and embraced a narrative that explains away all the questions about their credibility and legitimacy as the work of the same nefarious right-wing conspiracy.
But follow the money and the tie that binds seems to be George Soros, who provides substantial funding to both groups. Also, Morton Halperin, one of the top men at Soros's Open Society Institute, sits on the boards of both J Street and NIAC. As Ben Smith reported Friday, Soros pays the salary of the NIAC staffer who runs the Campaign for a New Policy on Iran. Documents reveal that J Street participated in the discussions that determined the group's agenda.
And there's another thing the group's have in common: they've both been caught telling their supporters they've taken one position while lobbying behind the scenes for the exact opposite outcome.
Jennifer Rubin notes two examples of this dishonest conduct. J Street declared publicly that it would not lobby against passage of a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning the Goldstone Report. (Neither would J Street support the resolution, of course. The group's position was somewhere between oppose and support.) Yet this blog reported and Morton Halperin has not denied that either he or someone in his office was the author of a letter circulated to members of Congress and signed by Judge Goldstone. J Street, or at least one of its top advisers, was actively lobbying against the resolution and in support of Goldstone.
NIAC gets caught in a similar lie. Eli Lake's Washington Times report details NIAC's campaign to "create a media controversy," in the words of one NIAC staffer, in order to scuttle the appointment of Dennis Ross to oversee Iran policy. NIAC failed, but just last week NIAC put on its website a "Myths and Facts" page to set the record straight about the organization's work:
NIAC is not the only organization that is under attack. In fact, almost every distinguished American policymaker, intellectual and administration official that supports Obama's pro-engagement policy in the Middle East is being targeted. This includes:
* Ambassador Dennis Ross - Currently serving in the U.S. National Security Council...
So after trying to kill Ross's appointment in a secret and perhaps illegal lobbying campaign, the group touts Ross on its website as a "distinguished policy maker" who is the victim of neoconservative smears. Now we know that the smears against Ross were being conceived and directed by the staff at NIAC, and all the while NIAC was playing the victim.
Trita Parsi has charmed his way into the very heart of the "progressive left," and no progressive organization has been more easily or completely charmed than J Street. So what is a "pro-peace, pro-Israel" group doing allying itself so closely with a man who is himself so closely allied with a Holocaust-denying regime that daily threatens the existence of the State of Israel? And why is it that neither organization is able to represent in public the views that they so aggressively promote behind closed doors?
NIAC and J Street might seem at first an odd alliance. J Street is "pro-peace, pro-Israel" and NIAC is pro-engagement, pro-Iran. But J Street isn't all that pro-Israel, and NIAC will take any allies it can find in the fight against sanctions, so few and far between are such organizations in Washington. J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami co-authored an op-ed with NIAC chief Trita Parsi making the (extremely unpopular in the Jewish community) argument against sanctions. J Street invited Parsi to speak at their conference last month. And the two groups have together constructed and embraced a narrative that explains away all the questions about their credibility and legitimacy as the work of the same nefarious right-wing conspiracy.
But follow the money and the tie that binds seems to be George Soros, who provides substantial funding to both groups. Also, Morton Halperin, one of the top men at Soros's Open Society Institute, sits on the boards of both J Street and NIAC. As Ben Smith reported Friday, Soros pays the salary of the NIAC staffer who runs the Campaign for a New Policy on Iran. Documents reveal that J Street participated in the discussions that determined the group's agenda.
And there's another thing the group's have in common: they've both been caught telling their supporters they've taken one position while lobbying behind the scenes for the exact opposite outcome.
Jennifer Rubin notes two examples of this dishonest conduct. J Street declared publicly that it would not lobby against passage of a resolution in the House of Representatives condemning the Goldstone Report. (Neither would J Street support the resolution, of course. The group's position was somewhere between oppose and support.) Yet this blog reported and Morton Halperin has not denied that either he or someone in his office was the author of a letter circulated to members of Congress and signed by Judge Goldstone. J Street, or at least one of its top advisers, was actively lobbying against the resolution and in support of Goldstone.
NIAC gets caught in a similar lie. Eli Lake's Washington Times report details NIAC's campaign to "create a media controversy," in the words of one NIAC staffer, in order to scuttle the appointment of Dennis Ross to oversee Iran policy. NIAC failed, but just last week NIAC put on its website a "Myths and Facts" page to set the record straight about the organization's work:
NIAC is not the only organization that is under attack. In fact, almost every distinguished American policymaker, intellectual and administration official that supports Obama's pro-engagement policy in the Middle East is being targeted. This includes:
* Ambassador Dennis Ross - Currently serving in the U.S. National Security Council...
So after trying to kill Ross's appointment in a secret and perhaps illegal lobbying campaign, the group touts Ross on its website as a "distinguished policy maker" who is the victim of neoconservative smears. Now we know that the smears against Ross were being conceived and directed by the staff at NIAC, and all the while NIAC was playing the victim.
Trita Parsi has charmed his way into the very heart of the "progressive left," and no progressive organization has been more easily or completely charmed than J Street. So what is a "pro-peace, pro-Israel" group doing allying itself so closely with a man who is himself so closely allied with a Holocaust-denying regime that daily threatens the existence of the State of Israel? And why is it that neither organization is able to represent in public the views that they so aggressively promote behind closed doors?
Sunday, November 15, 2009
David Brooks on hassan Nov 10
There was a national rush to therapy. Hasan was a loner who had trouble finding a wife and socializing with his neighbors.
This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.
Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.
The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.
It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.
This response was understandable. It’s important to tamp down vengeful hatreds in moments of passion. But it was also patronizing. Public commentators assumed the air of kindergarten teachers who had to protect their children from thinking certain impermissible and intolerant thoughts. If public commentary wasn’t carefully policed, the assumption seemed to be, then the great mass of unwashed yahoos in Middle America would go off on a racist rampage.
Worse, it absolved Hasan — before the real evidence was in — of his responsibility. He didn’t have the choice to be lonely or unhappy. But he did have a choice over what story to build out of those circumstances. And evidence is now mounting to suggest he chose the extremist War on Islam narrative that so often leads to murderous results.
The conversation in the first few days after the massacre was well intentioned, but it suggested a willful flight from reality. It ignored the fact that the war narrative of the struggle against Islam is the central feature of American foreign policy. It ignored the fact that this narrative can be embraced by a self-radicalizing individual in the U.S. as much as by groups in Tehran, Gaza or Kandahar.
It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to reduce a heinous act to social maladjustment. It wasn’t the reaction of a morally or politically serious nation.
Hassan's lecture explaining it was jihad
Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You
By Barry Rubin*
November 14, 2009
http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/11/why-i-murdered.html
How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:
Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.
It was reported that the audience was shocked and frightened by his lecture. He was supposed to speak on some medical topic yet instead talked on the topic: “The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” All you have to do is look at the 50 Power Point slides and they tell you everything you need to know.
It is quite a good talk. He’s logical and presents his evidence. This is clearly not the work of a mad man or a fool, though there’s still a note of ambiguity in it. He's still working out what to do in his own mind and is trying to figure out if he has a way out other than in effect deserting the U.S. army and becoming a Jihad warrior. Ultimately, he concluded that he could not be a proper Muslim without killing American soldiers. Obviously, other Muslims could reach different conclusions but Hassan strongly grounds himself in Islamic texts.
In a sense, Hassan's lecture was a cry for help: Can anyone show me another way out? Can anyone refute my interpretation of Islam? One Muslim in the audience reportedly tried to do so. But unless these issues are openly discussed and debated--rather than swept under the rug--more people will die.
In fact, I’d recommend that teachers use this lecture in teaching classes on both Islam and Islamist politics. .
Follow along with me and you’ll understand everything.
Hassan deals with three topics: What Islam teaches Muslims, how Muslims view the wars in Afghanistan and Iran, how this might affect Muslims in the U.S. military. [Slide 2] Hassan defines Jihad, showing how silly are the claims that it only means a personal struggle to behave better. It also signifies holy war, of course. [Slide 5].
Now here’s Hassan’s central theme. Muslims cannot fight in an infidel army against other Muslims. And Hassan himself says that it’s getting hard for Muslims in the U.S. military to justify doing so. [Slide 11] Obviously, Hassan was deciding that he couldn’t do so.
He then quotes the Koran extensively to prove the point. Allah will punish anyone who kills a Muslim [Slide 12]. Hassan then gives four examples of Muslim soldiers who broke under the strain. One who killed fellow American soldiers (which Hassan would himself do), one accused of espionage (but was acquitted), one who deserted, and one who refused deployment to Iraq. [Slide 13]
Quoting the Koran, Hassan next provides a number of quotations to show that the believer must obey Allah. If they do, they will enjoy great delights (though he left out the 72 virgins, there’s one quote hinting at pederasty), and if they don’t they will suffer torments of Hell.
Finally, he gets into the heavy stuff. Hassan introduces the concept of “defensive Jihad” which is a core element in radical Islamist thinking and has especially been promoted by Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida. [Slides 37-39]. If others attack and oppress Muslims, then it is the duty of all Muslims to fight them. September 11 was justified by its perpetrators by saying that the United States had attacked Muslims and therefore it was mandatory to kill Americans in return.
And here is the crux of the matter: Verse 60:08, “Allah forbids you…from dealing kindly and justly” with those who fight Muslims.” [Slide 40]
If Nidal Hassan believed this and would follow it, he must—to be a proper Muslim in his eyes—pick up a gun and join the Jihad, Muslim side. He was not shooting Americans because he caught battle fatigue from American soldiers he treated. Think about it. To have done so, Hassan would have had to sympathize with them, thinking about what it would be like for him if he’d been fighting…Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan. But that was precisely his problem. He sympathized with the other side.
Being ordered to ship out to one of these countries, Hassan now had to decide: which side are you on? Would he choose the side of Allah and the Muslims, to be rewarded in Heaven? Or would he join with the infidels, to be punished with Hell and to betray his religion? He made his decision.
It is interesting that no Muslim debate has developed over a very simple issue: What if two groups of Muslims are fighting, cannot one side with one group, even if it has non-Muslim allies? After all, Americans are not going to Iraq or Afghanistan simply to “kill Muslims” but to defend Muslims from being killed. The Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Egyptians had no problem with using Western troops to save them from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1991, for example. The Iraqi and Afghan governments, made up of pious Muslims, do the same thing.
Arab nationalists who are Muslims can take this position more easily. But for Islamists the problem is not some abstraction but knowledge that they are fighting a battle to seize control of all Muslim-majority states and indeed perhaps of the entire world.
The true problem, then, is not that some Muslims help infidels kill Muslims, but that some Muslims help infidels kill Islamists. But Hassan never considered this point, which could be quite persuasive to other Muslims in Western militaries.
So, in his thinking, how might Hassan have escaped from that stark choice? Hassan answers that question. Quoting the Koran, he indicated that if the Americans ended the wars, then that would be okay and no killing would be necessary. [Slide 42]
Another alternative is if the Americans accepted Islam or agreed to become subservient to Muslim rulers (dhimmis) and paid a special tax [Slide 43-44].
The third alternative would be if the Muslim Messiah came, destroyed Christianity as a false religion and set off the post-history utopia. [Slide 45]. He didn’t mention another part of this description, which was the murder of all Jews.
A digression is appropriate here. Hassan, although a Palestinian, has never been quoted as attacking Israel or the Jews. This is one more reminder that this struggle isn’t all just about Israel. But it also tells something important about Hassan which also applies to many Muslim radicals in Europe. Hassan is an American. As such he has no other nationality, neither Palestinian nor Arab. He doesn’t support Hamas or Fatah. But he has a religion that directs his thinking. That’s why he is an Islamist and why he supports a generalized Islamist revolutionary movement, al-Qaida.
As one moderate Muslim from Canada pointed out, the clothes he wore the day before committing his Jihad attack was not (as some sources put it in a silly manner) some martyr or even Arab garb but the clothing of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is an al-Qaida Jihadi, having changed sides in the War on Terror.
Hassan was no fool or blind fanatic. Indeed, he presents a sophisticated view. For example, he quotes contradictory Quranic verses, one suggesting that all religions can enter Heaven; another that all non-Muslims will go to Hell [Slide 47].
His conclusion takes on tremendous significance in light of what would happen at Fort Hood. He writes:
“If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the `infidels’; i.e., the enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc.”
And of course, these groups did so convince Hassan. [Slide 48]
Why? Hassan tells us:
“God expects full loyalty. Promises heaven and threatens with Hell. Muslims may seem moderate (compromising) but God is not.” [Slide 49]
And at the very end, he proposes what might have been his own escape route:
"Recommendation: Department of Defense should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as `Conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.” [Slide 50]
If that had existed for Hassan, I think, he would not have killed people. This proposal is worth debating, though it has negative implications too, of course. But then he had other options. He could have resigned his commission, deserted, or refused deployment as a conscientious objector and gone to prison. In fact, Hassan himself cited individuals who had done the last two.
Consequently, Hassan's lecture also tells us why Muslims can choose not to be Jihadists, though this requires ignoring or rationalizing clear, religiously binding commandments in their religion or by being basically secular people of Muslim background. This is the kind of solution found in Christianity and Judaism, of course.
Hassan was too pious and consistent to take this way out. The answer to his personal behavior must be found in a mix of psychological factors and political-religious beliefs. The fact is, however, that he clearly did see himself as a Jihad warrior in the end. The existence of psycological factors in no way negates the importance of religious considerations.
All terrorists have some psychological forces working to make them follow such a path. Yet if not for ideological--and in the case of Islamists, religious--beliefs they never would have become terrorists. In contrast, criminals have psychological factors plus material goals, while mentally ill people who commit crimes are compelled by purely psychogical factors. Hassan does not fit either of those two categories.
Equally, his action cannot be attributed to a "misreading" or "heretical" interpretation of Islam. To read this lecture is to understand how carefully and self-critically he approached the issues. Anything so obviously false or deviant from mainstream Islam would simply not appeal to so many Muslims. Hassan was looking for a way out in the texts and listed the "loopholes" he did find: either the United States must not fight anyone who was a Muslim or it must let him out of the military.
What Hassan neglected was an explanation that lay outside what his strict reading of the Muslim texts would allow him to say: the United States must fight, in general, because the Islamists have been the aggressors. And the United States is actually fighting as allies with one group of (more moderate) Muslims against another (of radical Islamists). Yet the texts always deal with the Muslim community as a united whole (the umma), an interpretation that just doesn't correspond with reality. Indeed and ironically, this view enables Islamists to themselves kill thousands of Muslims all over the world!
The fact that Hassan’s lecture has not been the centerpiece of the whole post-massacre debate is a true example of how impoverished are the “experts,” journalists, and politicians at dealing with these issues. Of course, without exploring the Islamic factor, they're wasting everyone's time. They're also going to be wasting quite a few lives.
*Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books, go to http://www.gloria-center.org
By Barry Rubin*
November 14, 2009
http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/11/why-i-murdered.html
How do we know that the attack at Fort Hood was an act of Islamist terrorism? Simple, Major Nidal Hassan told us so. You’ve seen reports of a long list of things he did and said along these lines. But what’s most amazing of all is this:
Hassan is the first terrorist in history to give an academic lecture explaining why he was about to attack. Yet that still isn’t enough for too many people—including the president of the United States--to understand that the murderous assault at Fort Hood was a Jihad attack.
It was reported that the audience was shocked and frightened by his lecture. He was supposed to speak on some medical topic yet instead talked on the topic: “The Koranic World View as it Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” All you have to do is look at the 50 Power Point slides and they tell you everything you need to know.
It is quite a good talk. He’s logical and presents his evidence. This is clearly not the work of a mad man or a fool, though there’s still a note of ambiguity in it. He's still working out what to do in his own mind and is trying to figure out if he has a way out other than in effect deserting the U.S. army and becoming a Jihad warrior. Ultimately, he concluded that he could not be a proper Muslim without killing American soldiers. Obviously, other Muslims could reach different conclusions but Hassan strongly grounds himself in Islamic texts.
In a sense, Hassan's lecture was a cry for help: Can anyone show me another way out? Can anyone refute my interpretation of Islam? One Muslim in the audience reportedly tried to do so. But unless these issues are openly discussed and debated--rather than swept under the rug--more people will die.
In fact, I’d recommend that teachers use this lecture in teaching classes on both Islam and Islamist politics. .
Follow along with me and you’ll understand everything.
Hassan deals with three topics: What Islam teaches Muslims, how Muslims view the wars in Afghanistan and Iran, how this might affect Muslims in the U.S. military. [Slide 2] Hassan defines Jihad, showing how silly are the claims that it only means a personal struggle to behave better. It also signifies holy war, of course. [Slide 5].
Now here’s Hassan’s central theme. Muslims cannot fight in an infidel army against other Muslims. And Hassan himself says that it’s getting hard for Muslims in the U.S. military to justify doing so. [Slide 11] Obviously, Hassan was deciding that he couldn’t do so.
He then quotes the Koran extensively to prove the point. Allah will punish anyone who kills a Muslim [Slide 12]. Hassan then gives four examples of Muslim soldiers who broke under the strain. One who killed fellow American soldiers (which Hassan would himself do), one accused of espionage (but was acquitted), one who deserted, and one who refused deployment to Iraq. [Slide 13]
Quoting the Koran, Hassan next provides a number of quotations to show that the believer must obey Allah. If they do, they will enjoy great delights (though he left out the 72 virgins, there’s one quote hinting at pederasty), and if they don’t they will suffer torments of Hell.
Finally, he gets into the heavy stuff. Hassan introduces the concept of “defensive Jihad” which is a core element in radical Islamist thinking and has especially been promoted by Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida. [Slides 37-39]. If others attack and oppress Muslims, then it is the duty of all Muslims to fight them. September 11 was justified by its perpetrators by saying that the United States had attacked Muslims and therefore it was mandatory to kill Americans in return.
And here is the crux of the matter: Verse 60:08, “Allah forbids you…from dealing kindly and justly” with those who fight Muslims.” [Slide 40]
If Nidal Hassan believed this and would follow it, he must—to be a proper Muslim in his eyes—pick up a gun and join the Jihad, Muslim side. He was not shooting Americans because he caught battle fatigue from American soldiers he treated. Think about it. To have done so, Hassan would have had to sympathize with them, thinking about what it would be like for him if he’d been fighting…Muslims in Iraq or Afghanistan. But that was precisely his problem. He sympathized with the other side.
Being ordered to ship out to one of these countries, Hassan now had to decide: which side are you on? Would he choose the side of Allah and the Muslims, to be rewarded in Heaven? Or would he join with the infidels, to be punished with Hell and to betray his religion? He made his decision.
It is interesting that no Muslim debate has developed over a very simple issue: What if two groups of Muslims are fighting, cannot one side with one group, even if it has non-Muslim allies? After all, Americans are not going to Iraq or Afghanistan simply to “kill Muslims” but to defend Muslims from being killed. The Saudis, Kuwaitis, and Egyptians had no problem with using Western troops to save them from Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1991, for example. The Iraqi and Afghan governments, made up of pious Muslims, do the same thing.
Arab nationalists who are Muslims can take this position more easily. But for Islamists the problem is not some abstraction but knowledge that they are fighting a battle to seize control of all Muslim-majority states and indeed perhaps of the entire world.
The true problem, then, is not that some Muslims help infidels kill Muslims, but that some Muslims help infidels kill Islamists. But Hassan never considered this point, which could be quite persuasive to other Muslims in Western militaries.
So, in his thinking, how might Hassan have escaped from that stark choice? Hassan answers that question. Quoting the Koran, he indicated that if the Americans ended the wars, then that would be okay and no killing would be necessary. [Slide 42]
Another alternative is if the Americans accepted Islam or agreed to become subservient to Muslim rulers (dhimmis) and paid a special tax [Slide 43-44].
The third alternative would be if the Muslim Messiah came, destroyed Christianity as a false religion and set off the post-history utopia. [Slide 45]. He didn’t mention another part of this description, which was the murder of all Jews.
A digression is appropriate here. Hassan, although a Palestinian, has never been quoted as attacking Israel or the Jews. This is one more reminder that this struggle isn’t all just about Israel. But it also tells something important about Hassan which also applies to many Muslim radicals in Europe. Hassan is an American. As such he has no other nationality, neither Palestinian nor Arab. He doesn’t support Hamas or Fatah. But he has a religion that directs his thinking. That’s why he is an Islamist and why he supports a generalized Islamist revolutionary movement, al-Qaida.
As one moderate Muslim from Canada pointed out, the clothes he wore the day before committing his Jihad attack was not (as some sources put it in a silly manner) some martyr or even Arab garb but the clothing of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is an al-Qaida Jihadi, having changed sides in the War on Terror.
Hassan was no fool or blind fanatic. Indeed, he presents a sophisticated view. For example, he quotes contradictory Quranic verses, one suggesting that all religions can enter Heaven; another that all non-Muslims will go to Hell [Slide 47].
His conclusion takes on tremendous significance in light of what would happen at Fort Hood. He writes:
“If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the `infidels’; i.e., the enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary ie: suicide bombing, etc.”
And of course, these groups did so convince Hassan. [Slide 48]
Why? Hassan tells us:
“God expects full loyalty. Promises heaven and threatens with Hell. Muslims may seem moderate (compromising) but God is not.” [Slide 49]
And at the very end, he proposes what might have been his own escape route:
"Recommendation: Department of Defense should allow Muslim soldiers the option of being released as `Conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.” [Slide 50]
If that had existed for Hassan, I think, he would not have killed people. This proposal is worth debating, though it has negative implications too, of course. But then he had other options. He could have resigned his commission, deserted, or refused deployment as a conscientious objector and gone to prison. In fact, Hassan himself cited individuals who had done the last two.
Consequently, Hassan's lecture also tells us why Muslims can choose not to be Jihadists, though this requires ignoring or rationalizing clear, religiously binding commandments in their religion or by being basically secular people of Muslim background. This is the kind of solution found in Christianity and Judaism, of course.
Hassan was too pious and consistent to take this way out. The answer to his personal behavior must be found in a mix of psychological factors and political-religious beliefs. The fact is, however, that he clearly did see himself as a Jihad warrior in the end. The existence of psycological factors in no way negates the importance of religious considerations.
All terrorists have some psychological forces working to make them follow such a path. Yet if not for ideological--and in the case of Islamists, religious--beliefs they never would have become terrorists. In contrast, criminals have psychological factors plus material goals, while mentally ill people who commit crimes are compelled by purely psychogical factors. Hassan does not fit either of those two categories.
Equally, his action cannot be attributed to a "misreading" or "heretical" interpretation of Islam. To read this lecture is to understand how carefully and self-critically he approached the issues. Anything so obviously false or deviant from mainstream Islam would simply not appeal to so many Muslims. Hassan was looking for a way out in the texts and listed the "loopholes" he did find: either the United States must not fight anyone who was a Muslim or it must let him out of the military.
What Hassan neglected was an explanation that lay outside what his strict reading of the Muslim texts would allow him to say: the United States must fight, in general, because the Islamists have been the aggressors. And the United States is actually fighting as allies with one group of (more moderate) Muslims against another (of radical Islamists). Yet the texts always deal with the Muslim community as a united whole (the umma), an interpretation that just doesn't correspond with reality. Indeed and ironically, this view enables Islamists to themselves kill thousands of Muslims all over the world!
The fact that Hassan’s lecture has not been the centerpiece of the whole post-massacre debate is a true example of how impoverished are the “experts,” journalists, and politicians at dealing with these issues. Of course, without exploring the Islamic factor, they're wasting everyone's time. They're also going to be wasting quite a few lives.
*Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), with Walter Laqueur (Viking-Penguin); the paperback edition of The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan); A Chronological History of Terrorism, with Judy Colp Rubin, (Sharpe); and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley). To read and subscribe to MERIA, GLORIA articles, or to order books, go to http://www.gloria-center.org
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Nov 14 bombing
Deadly Bomb Hits Pakistan Checkpoint
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month.
The attack on the outskirts of Peshawar solidifies the city's ominous status as a primary target for militants trying to force the military to end an offensive against their associates launched last month in the border region of South Waziristan, where al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.
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Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month.
The attack on the outskirts of Peshawar solidifies the city's ominous status as a primary target for militants trying to force the military to end an offensive against their associates launched last month in the border region of South Waziristan, where al Qaeda and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding.
Friday, November 13, 2009
HASSAN was simply a Islamic fanatic mass murderer
Charles Krauthammer
What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. The popular story line was of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder: an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But how many doctors who every day hear and live with the pain and suffering of returning soldiers then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
Secondary PTSD, for those who believe in it (you won't find it in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), is known as "compassion fatigue." The poor man - pushed over the edge by an excess of sensitivity. Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. His business card had his name, his profession, his medical degrees and his occupational identity: "SoA" - Soldier of Allah.
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling interviewed a Hasan colleague at Walter Reed Hospital about a hair-raising grand rounds that Hasan had apparently given. His hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war included an elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers - consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat. "The psychiatrist," reported Zwerdling, "said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird?" Was anything done about this potential danger? Of course not. Who wants to be accused of Islamophobia? (Washington Pos
What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. The popular story line was of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder: an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But how many doctors who every day hear and live with the pain and suffering of returning soldiers then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
Secondary PTSD, for those who believe in it (you won't find it in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), is known as "compassion fatigue." The poor man - pushed over the edge by an excess of sensitivity. Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. His business card had his name, his profession, his medical degrees and his occupational identity: "SoA" - Soldier of Allah.
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling interviewed a Hasan colleague at Walter Reed Hospital about a hair-raising grand rounds that Hasan had apparently given. His hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war included an elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers - consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat. "The psychiatrist," reported Zwerdling, "said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird?" Was anything done about this potential danger? Of course not. Who wants to be accused of Islamophobia? (Washington Pos
hASSAN
Charles Krauthammer
What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. The popular story line was of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder: an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But how many doctors who every day hear and live with the pain and suffering of returning soldiers then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
Secondary PTSD, for those who believe in it (you won't find it in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), is known as "compassion fatigue." The poor man - pushed over the edge by an excess of sensitivity. Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. His business card had his name, his profession, his medical degrees and his occupational identity: "SoA" - Soldier of Allah.
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling interviewed a Hasan colleague at Walter Reed Hospital about a hair-raising grand rounds that Hasan had apparently given. His hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war included an elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers - consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat. "The psychiatrist," reported Zwerdling, "said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird?" Was anything done about this potential danger? Of course not. Who wants to be accused of Islamophobia? (Washington Pos
What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. The popular story line was of secondary post-traumatic stress disorder: an Army psychiatrist driven over the edge by terrible stories he had heard from soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. But how many doctors who every day hear and live with the pain and suffering of returning soldiers then picked up a gun and shot 51 innocents?
Secondary PTSD, for those who believe in it (you won't find it in psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual), is known as "compassion fatigue." The poor man - pushed over the edge by an excess of sensitivity. Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. His business card had his name, his profession, his medical degrees and his occupational identity: "SoA" - Soldier of Allah.
NPR's Daniel Zwerdling interviewed a Hasan colleague at Walter Reed Hospital about a hair-raising grand rounds that Hasan had apparently given. His hour-long disquisition on what he called the Koranic view of military service, jihad and war included an elaboration of the punishments visited upon nonbelievers - consignment to hell, decapitation, having hot oil poured down your throat. "The psychiatrist," reported Zwerdling, "said that he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying: Do you think he's a terrorist, or is he just weird?" Was anything done about this potential danger? Of course not. Who wants to be accused of Islamophobia? (Washington Pos
Abbas is also a terrorist
But there are worrying signs. To begin with, at the Fatah general conference in summer 2009, Abbas adopted a policy plank which declares that armed conflict remains an option. Most recently, Abbas and the PA have been behind the violence around the Temple Mount, which is evident in the way the two semi-official PA newspapers, Al-Ayyam and al-Hayat al-Jadida, promoted tensions. Fatah websites, financed by Abbas and Fayyad, publish countless pictures of the terrorist Fatah Tanzim and the Al-Aqsa Brigades against the backdrop of the Temple Mount. Although armed groups are banned, the communiques of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades appear on the official Fatah site.
The most offensive item on a Fatah website forum is a poster showing Hitler purportedly quoting Mein Kampf: "I could have destroyed all the Jews in the world but left some of them so that everyone would know...why I wiped them out." Abbas may not be the address for negotiation of a stable, two-state for two peoples solution. The writer is associate professor in political studies at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. (BESA Center-Bar-Ilan University)
The Gaza Report
The most offensive item on a Fatah website forum is a poster showing Hitler purportedly quoting Mein Kampf: "I could have destroyed all the Jews in the world but left some of them so that everyone would know...why I wiped them out." Abbas may not be the address for negotiation of a stable, two-state for two peoples solution. The writer is associate professor in political studies at Bar-Ilan University and a senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. (BESA Center-Bar-Ilan University)
The Gaza Report
Worldwide
The Ettinger Report, http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il
Root Causes of Anti-Western Islamic Terrorism (5)*
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #229
Yoram Ettinger, "Second Thought"
November 12, 2009
1. Contrary to the "Palestine Firsters" school of thought, Islamic
terrorism is raging the Middle East and the entire globe, irrespective of
the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent of the Palestinian issue and
regardless of US-Israel friendship, Israel's policies or Israel's existence.
The 1,400 year old Islamic terrorism is not driven by despair, but by local,
regional and global religious, political and territorial ambitions,
terrorizing Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Jews.
2. Fact: 100 persons were murdered in an October 28, 2009 bombing in
Peshawar, Pakistan, the third largest Muslim-majority country in the world.
3. Fact: According to the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict
Management, 2,809 Pakistanis were murdered by Islamic terrorists in 2008,
2,120 in 2007, 933 in 2006, 511 in 2005, 619 in 2004 and 164 in 2003.
4. Fact: According to the Institute for Conflict Management, 24,879
Indians were murdered (mostly) by Islamic terrorists during 1994-2005, 1,492
in 2006, 1,413 in 2007 and 1,391 in 2008.
5. Fact: According to France's domestic intelligence service (DST):
Jihadists from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Pakistan returned to (generally
pro-Palestinian) France, trained and indoctrinated in handling arms and
explosives. They constitute a grave threat for France (NYT, April 8, 2008).
6. Fact: (generally pro-Palestinian) Britain has become a focus of Islamic
terrorism. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who opposed the war in Iraq and
supports Palestinian demands, was inaugurated in June 2007 and was greeted
by three (Muslim terrorists-engineered) car bombs in July 2007. According to
MI5 British Security Service (The Guardian, August 20, 2008), "the most
pressing current threat is from Islamist extremist groups who justify the
use of violence 'in defense of Islam'... They are mostly British nationals,
not illegal immigrants and, far from being Islamist fundamentalists, most
are religious novices. Nor are they 'mad and bad."
7. Fact: Sunni Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorize Shiite regimes, while
Iran-supported Shiites terrorize Sunni regimes in the Gulf region, as well
as in Egypt and Jordan, in order to facilitate Iranian domination of the
Gulf.
8. Fact: Yemen has become a center of Sunni and Shiite terrorism,
logistically and operationally, agitating Yemen and the entire region.
Is it realistic to assume that rogue Muslim regimes, which have employed
terrorism since the 7th century, in order to settle their domestic and
inter-Muslim conflicts, would not employ terrorism in order to settle their
conflicts with non-Muslims, irrespective of the Palestinian issue, Israel's
policies and Israel's existence?!
*For further data on the root causes of anti-Western Islamic terrorism
please see:
Part 4:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=220981
Part 3:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=183818
Part 2:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=179511
Part 1:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=178303
Root Causes of Anti-Western Islamic Terrorism (5)*
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #229
Yoram Ettinger, "Second Thought"
November 12, 2009
1. Contrary to the "Palestine Firsters" school of thought, Islamic
terrorism is raging the Middle East and the entire globe, irrespective of
the Arab-Israeli conflict, independent of the Palestinian issue and
regardless of US-Israel friendship, Israel's policies or Israel's existence.
The 1,400 year old Islamic terrorism is not driven by despair, but by local,
regional and global religious, political and territorial ambitions,
terrorizing Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Jews.
2. Fact: 100 persons were murdered in an October 28, 2009 bombing in
Peshawar, Pakistan, the third largest Muslim-majority country in the world.
3. Fact: According to the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict
Management, 2,809 Pakistanis were murdered by Islamic terrorists in 2008,
2,120 in 2007, 933 in 2006, 511 in 2005, 619 in 2004 and 164 in 2003.
4. Fact: According to the Institute for Conflict Management, 24,879
Indians were murdered (mostly) by Islamic terrorists during 1994-2005, 1,492
in 2006, 1,413 in 2007 and 1,391 in 2008.
5. Fact: According to France's domestic intelligence service (DST):
Jihadists from Afghanistan, Algeria, and Pakistan returned to (generally
pro-Palestinian) France, trained and indoctrinated in handling arms and
explosives. They constitute a grave threat for France (NYT, April 8, 2008).
6. Fact: (generally pro-Palestinian) Britain has become a focus of Islamic
terrorism. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who opposed the war in Iraq and
supports Palestinian demands, was inaugurated in June 2007 and was greeted
by three (Muslim terrorists-engineered) car bombs in July 2007. According to
MI5 British Security Service (The Guardian, August 20, 2008), "the most
pressing current threat is from Islamist extremist groups who justify the
use of violence 'in defense of Islam'... They are mostly British nationals,
not illegal immigrants and, far from being Islamist fundamentalists, most
are religious novices. Nor are they 'mad and bad."
7. Fact: Sunni Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorize Shiite regimes, while
Iran-supported Shiites terrorize Sunni regimes in the Gulf region, as well
as in Egypt and Jordan, in order to facilitate Iranian domination of the
Gulf.
8. Fact: Yemen has become a center of Sunni and Shiite terrorism,
logistically and operationally, agitating Yemen and the entire region.
Is it realistic to assume that rogue Muslim regimes, which have employed
terrorism since the 7th century, in order to settle their domestic and
inter-Muslim conflicts, would not employ terrorism in order to settle their
conflicts with non-Muslims, irrespective of the Palestinian issue, Israel's
policies and Israel's existence?!
*For further data on the root causes of anti-Western Islamic terrorism
please see:
Part 4:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=220981
Part 3:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=183818
Part 2:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=179511
Part 1:
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=178303
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Forgiving jihadists?
In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward Hizbollah
The General said,
" I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job is to arrange the meeting."
The General said,
" I believe that forgiving Hizbollah is God's function. The Israeli's job is to arrange the meeting."
Ft Hood Jihadist communicated regularly with radical Iman
By EVAN PEREZ and KEITH JOHNSON
WASHINGTON -- Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base, communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical Islamic cleric in Yemen who on Monday called Maj. Hasan a "hero" and criticized U.S. Muslim groups that condemned the killing spree.
Federal officials said Monday that terrorism investigators conducted a summary look into the contacts that began last year and continued into this year between Maj. Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki. Mr. Awlaki was once the imam, or spiritual leader, at a Virginia mosque frequented by Maj. Hasan and his family.
WASHINGTON -- Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base, communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical Islamic cleric in Yemen who on Monday called Maj. Hasan a "hero" and criticized U.S. Muslim groups that condemned the killing spree.
Federal officials said Monday that terrorism investigators conducted a summary look into the contacts that began last year and continued into this year between Maj. Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki. Mr. Awlaki was once the imam, or spiritual leader, at a Virginia mosque frequented by Maj. Hasan and his family.
Disgusting denial of free speech
In the aftermath of the major disruptions of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recent appearance at the University of Chicago, JUF has arranged for Jewish Agency chairman and human rights icon Natan Sharansky to speak on that same campus next Monday November 16 at 3:30 PM. Details are in the attached flyer.
As reported by the Tribune and ABC TV, not only was there a protest outside the hall by demonstrators against Olmert (that is old hat by now), but it was interrupted so severely inside as to seriously impede the program. Two dozen hecklers shouted vile epithets at Olmert, and did so in a carefully orchestrated attempt to literally stop, prevent the speech. After about 30 minutes of constant interruptions, and the perpetrators being kicked out one by one, Olmert finally delivered his talk.
Omert's speech disrupted at U of C
It was a despicable display, one that violated the letter and spirit of U of C policies, common decency and that was the greatest disruption ever of an Israeli speaker on an Illinois campus. As such, it was also a clear escalation in the manner of anti-Israel protest and was a shot across the bow to our community and our students, effectively trying to not just stop one speech, but likely also aimed at intimidating, deterring us from sponsoring such events in the future, at U of C or any local campus. Obviously, we will not allow any such result. The very next day JUF was in direct communication with the university’s president, senior faculty and of course, the Hillel director, and JCRC convened a strategy conference call for its constituent groups most active on college campuses, including Rabbi Michael Balinsky of the CBR. Please, if you are able, do consider attending Monday’s program and/or circulate the attached flyer and encourage your congregants to attend. We need to support our Jewish college students and free speech on campuses. A strong adult turnout is one of the most concrete ways we can demonstrate to the Jewish students that we are, literally and figuratively, standing with them.
As reported by the Tribune and ABC TV, not only was there a protest outside the hall by demonstrators against Olmert (that is old hat by now), but it was interrupted so severely inside as to seriously impede the program. Two dozen hecklers shouted vile epithets at Olmert, and did so in a carefully orchestrated attempt to literally stop, prevent the speech. After about 30 minutes of constant interruptions, and the perpetrators being kicked out one by one, Olmert finally delivered his talk.
Omert's speech disrupted at U of C
It was a despicable display, one that violated the letter and spirit of U of C policies, common decency and that was the greatest disruption ever of an Israeli speaker on an Illinois campus. As such, it was also a clear escalation in the manner of anti-Israel protest and was a shot across the bow to our community and our students, effectively trying to not just stop one speech, but likely also aimed at intimidating, deterring us from sponsoring such events in the future, at U of C or any local campus. Obviously, we will not allow any such result. The very next day JUF was in direct communication with the university’s president, senior faculty and of course, the Hillel director, and JCRC convened a strategy conference call for its constituent groups most active on college campuses, including Rabbi Michael Balinsky of the CBR. Please, if you are able, do consider attending Monday’s program and/or circulate the attached flyer and encourage your congregants to attend. We need to support our Jewish college students and free speech on campuses. A strong adult turnout is one of the most concrete ways we can demonstrate to the Jewish students that we are, literally and figuratively, standing with them.
Ft Hood Murderer and Al Qaeda
Ft. Hood Shooter Attempted to Contact People Associated with Al-Qaeda - Richard Esposito, Matthew Cole, and Brian Ross (ABC News)
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al-Qaeda, two American officials told ABC News.
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al-Qaeda, two American officials told ABC News.
Lessons learned from the Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy was furious—mostly at himself for having been hoodwinked by the old Russian. Upon first seeing the photos through a magnifying glass, his brother Bobby, the attorney general, let loose with a string of expletives, "Oh s—t! s—t! s—t! Those sons of bitches Russians!" according to Max Frankel's excellent "High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis." But the U.S. was lucky this time. It had discovered the missiles before they were operational. Kennedy would go on to skillfully negotiate a settlement with Khrushchev through 13 tense days without firing a shot.
But, as Mr. Frankel explains in "High Noon," Kennedy could do this because he had Nikita Khrushchev on the other side of the table. The Soviet leader who instigated this potential disaster had also lived through two world wars, and ultimately did not want to subject his people to another round. "Once you begin shooting, you can't stop," he told his son Sergei, realizing he had overplayed his hand. Kennedy and Khrushchev were adversaries but they were both rational.
Still, if Kennedy had waited a precious few weeks longer, if he had believed the NIE, or if there had been no John McCone to press for the U-2 flight, then the missiles would have been up and ready leaving no alternative to a massive land invasion of Cuba. And the Cuban Missile Crisis may very well have had a decidedly different and much deadlier outcome.
What can we learn from this chapter of history that will help up us deal with future nuclear threats from, say, Iran? Perhaps it's that the most catastrophic consequences come when we talk ourselves into believing what we want to believe.
Today, the client state may be slightly further to the south in Venezuela. The missiles could be deadlier. And the man on the other end of the phone won't be Nikita Khrushchev. Next time a U.S. president could be dealing with the mullahs in Iran.
Mr. Kozak is the author of "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay"
But, as Mr. Frankel explains in "High Noon," Kennedy could do this because he had Nikita Khrushchev on the other side of the table. The Soviet leader who instigated this potential disaster had also lived through two world wars, and ultimately did not want to subject his people to another round. "Once you begin shooting, you can't stop," he told his son Sergei, realizing he had overplayed his hand. Kennedy and Khrushchev were adversaries but they were both rational.
Still, if Kennedy had waited a precious few weeks longer, if he had believed the NIE, or if there had been no John McCone to press for the U-2 flight, then the missiles would have been up and ready leaving no alternative to a massive land invasion of Cuba. And the Cuban Missile Crisis may very well have had a decidedly different and much deadlier outcome.
What can we learn from this chapter of history that will help up us deal with future nuclear threats from, say, Iran? Perhaps it's that the most catastrophic consequences come when we talk ourselves into believing what we want to believe.
Today, the client state may be slightly further to the south in Venezuela. The missiles could be deadlier. And the man on the other end of the phone won't be Nikita Khrushchev. Next time a U.S. president could be dealing with the mullahs in Iran.
Mr. Kozak is the author of "LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay"
penetrated nuclear research center Sept 10
www.euronews.com
It has been revealed that one of two people arrested in France this week accused of having links to al-Qaeda worked at a nuclear research centre in Geneva.
The physicist, the elder of two arrested Algerian brothers, worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN.
The men are accused of having links with Al Qaeda’s north African wing.
The French Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said: “Maybe the inquiry will show that thanks to these arrests the worst may have been avoided.”
It has been revealed that one of two people arrested in France this week accused of having links to al-Qaeda worked at a nuclear research centre in Geneva.
The physicist, the elder of two arrested Algerian brothers, worked at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or CERN.
The men are accused of having links with Al Qaeda’s north African wing.
The French Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said: “Maybe the inquiry will show that thanks to these arrests the worst may have been avoided.”
More bombs Nov 10
Bomb kills 24, wounds over 100 in NW Pakistan
AP
Deadly car bomb in Pakistan Play Video Reuters – Deadly car bomb in Pakistan
By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Riaz Khan, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 19 mins ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border.
The bombing, aimed at causing maximum civilian casualties, was the third blast in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, an area bordering the tribal region where the army is pushing into a key Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuary
AP
Deadly car bomb in Pakistan Play Video Reuters – Deadly car bomb in Pakistan
By RIAZ KHAN, Associated Press Writer Riaz Khan, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 19 mins ago
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest attack by suspected militants apparently aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border.
The bombing, aimed at causing maximum civilian casualties, was the third blast in as many days in or close to Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, an area bordering the tribal region where the army is pushing into a key Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuary
Monday, November 9, 2009
From Richard Baehr Patterns of Islamic terror
The Jihadist mass murder at Fort Hood is one in a pattern.
A list of attacks before and since 9/11: http://tinyurl.com/qj25f9
Political correctness took its toll at Fort Hood (fair to say there were plenty of warnings Hasan was dangerous), and to listen to General Casey, there will be more victims if the General's approach- protect diversity at all costs, is followed: http://tinyurl.com/yk3ups9
A list of attacks before and since 9/11: http://tinyurl.com/qj25f9
Political correctness took its toll at Fort Hood (fair to say there were plenty of warnings Hasan was dangerous), and to listen to General Casey, there will be more victims if the General's approach- protect diversity at all costs, is followed: http://tinyurl.com/yk3ups9
His Iman says Nadal is a hero
The following was posted today by Sheikh Anwar al Awlaki on his web site. AP reports that Awlaki was the Imam of a mosque Nidal Hasan attended while in the area. After intense interrogation by the FBI, al Awlaki moved to Yemen.
Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing
November 9, 2009 by Anwar alAwlaki Imam Anwar's
Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting
against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside
and just pretend that it doesn't exist. Any decent Muslim cannotlive,
understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims,
and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism
which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two
Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed
to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what
he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of
men like Nidal.
Nidal Hassan Did the Right Thing
November 9, 2009 by Anwar alAwlaki Imam Anwar's
Nidal Hassan is a hero. He is a man of conscience who could not bear living the contradiction of being a Muslim and serving in an army that is fighting
against his own people. This is a contradiction that many Muslims brush aside
and just pretend that it doesn't exist. Any decent Muslim cannotlive,
understanding properly his duties towards his Creator and his fellow Muslims,
and yet serve as a US soldier. The US is leading the war against terrorism
which in reality is a war against Islam. Its army is directly invading two
Muslim countries and indirectly occupying the rest through its stooges.
Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed
to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what
he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of
men like Nidal.
Are 90% of the mosques here radicalizd?
I have been told repeatedly that over 90% of the mosques=
on the continent are radicalized.
on the continent are radicalized.
why can't Muslims simply say all Muslim terror is wrong and must stop?
Muslim terrorism even for liberal Muslims that I have talked to is almost always explained away - they feel oppressed, they are victims of prejudice, and always always everything is Israel's fault and America's support of Israel.
NYT downplaying the Fort Hood Jihad massacre
Barry Rubin a spoof on the way the NY Times et al are covering Hasan and working hard not to say what is increasingly clear - this was a horrible example of Islamic terrorism and the army seems to have not picked up the warning signs clearly enough. So the crucial question is "how to stop the next attack, what signs can be read to keep this from happening again?" Calling the attack "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" is not helpful and dangerous. It suggests it is uncontrollable and unstoppable (Its 'sudden' 'without warning' and thus what can you do? Every Muslim must be considered potentially susceptible)
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-moments-in-psychologically.html
http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-moments-in-psychologically.html
Sunday, November 8, 2009
25% young US Moslems are pro suicide bombing
There is no worldwide Hispanic jihad-like effort against the US or Jews. Jewish economic crimes don't aren't policy, and are a few individuals, as sad as it is.
Does anyone disagee that there is a worldwide effort by hundreds of millions of moslims, advocated in thousands of mosques worldwide, and many nations, to destroy Israel, kills jews and make the west into shariah land?
Pew Research poll 2007 found By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About one-quarter of young American Muslims believe to some extent that suicide bombings can be justified to defend Islam
Many experts believe the percent has grown substantially since.
In 2007 there were The Pentagon lists 3,386 Muslims in active service. This new killer did not identify himself in Pentagon records and therefore would not have been counted. The US is actively recruiting Musims for the armed forces, because they need arabic speakers. This is not the first time a Musim soldier killed fellow soldiers. In 2003 one tossed a grendade into a tent in Afghhanistan. How do we know that 1/4 of these soldiers don't hold similar views? How many are passing on info to our enemies?
What will you say about it once it is confirmed he shouted "allah akbar" as he shot,as is being reported. ? that it was this guy who wrote all the supportive pieces on suicide bombing on the internet"? That he told his patients who came to him for help suffering from PTSD that they were morally wrong to have fought? The PC media will bury this as a mental health issue, and the situation will just get more and more dire.
1999: Pilot of Egypt Air flight 990 crashes airplane into ocean, killing 100 Americans, while yelling “Allahu akbar!”
Did we forget 9-11?
What is this insane desire to look the other way and pretend all is well?
Everday there are violent jihad inspired mass murders in the world. We had one this week and many would like to pretend otherwise.
Does anyone disagee that there is a worldwide effort by hundreds of millions of moslims, advocated in thousands of mosques worldwide, and many nations, to destroy Israel, kills jews and make the west into shariah land?
Pew Research poll 2007 found By David Morgan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About one-quarter of young American Muslims believe to some extent that suicide bombings can be justified to defend Islam
Many experts believe the percent has grown substantially since.
In 2007 there were The Pentagon lists 3,386 Muslims in active service. This new killer did not identify himself in Pentagon records and therefore would not have been counted. The US is actively recruiting Musims for the armed forces, because they need arabic speakers. This is not the first time a Musim soldier killed fellow soldiers. In 2003 one tossed a grendade into a tent in Afghhanistan. How do we know that 1/4 of these soldiers don't hold similar views? How many are passing on info to our enemies?
What will you say about it once it is confirmed he shouted "allah akbar" as he shot,as is being reported. ? that it was this guy who wrote all the supportive pieces on suicide bombing on the internet"? That he told his patients who came to him for help suffering from PTSD that they were morally wrong to have fought? The PC media will bury this as a mental health issue, and the situation will just get more and more dire.
1999: Pilot of Egypt Air flight 990 crashes airplane into ocean, killing 100 Americans, while yelling “Allahu akbar!”
Did we forget 9-11?
What is this insane desire to look the other way and pretend all is well?
Everday there are violent jihad inspired mass murders in the world. We had one this week and many would like to pretend otherwise.
uspected Fort Hood shooter prayed at same mosque as 9/11 terrorists
Report: Suspected Fort Hood shooter prayed at same mosque as 9/11 terrorists
By Haaretz Service
Tags: September 11 terror attacks
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others in Fort Hood, Texas, prayed at the same mosque as two of the September 11 terrorists, according to a report published in the Sunday Telegraph.
Hasan attended the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001, at the same time as the two terrorists, and the FBI may investigate whether Hasan met them, the Telegraph reported.
By Haaretz Service
Tags: September 11 terror attacks
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others in Fort Hood, Texas, prayed at the same mosque as two of the September 11 terrorists, according to a report published in the Sunday Telegraph.
Hasan attended the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001, at the same time as the two terrorists, and the FBI may investigate whether Hasan met them, the Telegraph reported.
Mose;lm US attacks over 35 years
from
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AmericanAttacks.htm
Of course, 9/11 was neither the first nor the last time that Muslims have killed Americans on U.S. soil in terror attacks. In fact, since that day, Muslims have killed at least 52 people in 31 separate acts of terrorism in the United States (by the standards that Muslim-American groups set for hate crimes). Perhaps more importantly, there have been quite a few planned mass murders of Americans by Islamic terrorists that were thwarted by the FBI, law enforcement and overseas intelligence operations both before and after 9/11.
By contrast, Muslim-Americans do not appear to be in any special danger from murderous (non-Muslim) religious fanatics, even in a nation awash in firearms. Identity groups, such as CAIR, whine incessantly about relatively trivial incidents while turning a blind eye to the horrible violence that is meted out daily in the name of their religion. This distasteful petulance offers insight not only into the character of Islam, but also the impressive religious tolerance that Americans manage to maintain.
For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find:
Date Country City/State Killed Injured Description
4/14/1972 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one.
1/19/1973 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm.
7/18/1973 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad.
10/19/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead.
10/29/1973 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists.
11/25/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/11/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth.
12/13/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to deah on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/20/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor.
12/22/1973 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day.
12/24/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1/24/1974 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women.
4/1/1974 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman.
4/16/1974 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists.
3/9/1977 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died.
7/22/1980 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.
8/31/1980 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife.
1/31/1990 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid.
11/5/1990 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel.
1/25/1993 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
2/26/1993 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
3/1/1994 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim fires on a vanload of Jewish boys, killing one.
3/23/1997 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
4/3/1997 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim.
10/31/1999 USA Near Nantucket 217 0 An Egyptian airline pilot runs a planeload of 217 passengers into the water after uttering a Qur'anic prayer.
3/17/2000 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner.
9/11/2001 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
9/11/2001 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.
9/11/2001 USA New York, NY 2772 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
3/19/2002 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
5/27/2002 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
7/4/2002 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
9/5/2002 USA Clinton, MD 1 0 A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range.
9/21/2002 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
9/23/2002 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
10/2/2002 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
10/3/2002 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
10/9/2002 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
10/11/2002 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
10/14/2002 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
10/22/2002 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
8/6/2003 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
12/2/2003 USA Chicago, IL 1 0 A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable condition.
4/13/2004 USA Raleigh, NC 1 4 A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car.
4/15/2004 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
6/16/2006 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack.
6/25/2006 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
7/28/2006 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
10/6/2006 USA Louisville, KY 4 1 In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children.
2/13/2007 USA Salt Lake City, UT 5 4 A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five.
1/1/2008 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
7/6/2008 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
2/12/2009 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
6/1/2009 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center.
11/2/2009 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/5/2009 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
(3,308 killed by Muslims in America in 65 terror attacks)
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AmericanAttacks.htm
Of course, 9/11 was neither the first nor the last time that Muslims have killed Americans on U.S. soil in terror attacks. In fact, since that day, Muslims have killed at least 52 people in 31 separate acts of terrorism in the United States (by the standards that Muslim-American groups set for hate crimes). Perhaps more importantly, there have been quite a few planned mass murders of Americans by Islamic terrorists that were thwarted by the FBI, law enforcement and overseas intelligence operations both before and after 9/11.
By contrast, Muslim-Americans do not appear to be in any special danger from murderous (non-Muslim) religious fanatics, even in a nation awash in firearms. Identity groups, such as CAIR, whine incessantly about relatively trivial incidents while turning a blind eye to the horrible violence that is meted out daily in the name of their religion. This distasteful petulance offers insight not only into the character of Islam, but also the impressive religious tolerance that Americans manage to maintain.
For anyone wondering about the history of deadly Islamic terror on American soil in the last 35 years, here’s what we could find:
Date Country City/State Killed Injured Description
4/14/1972 USA New York, NY 1 3 Ten members of a local mosque phone in a false alarm and then ambush responding officers, killing one.
1/19/1973 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 1 Muslim extremists rob a sporting goods store for weapons, gunning down a police officer who responds to the alarm.
7/18/1973 USA Washington, DC 8 2 Nation of Islam members shoot seven members of a family to death in cold blood, including four children. A defendant in the case is later murdered in prison on orders from Elijah Muhammad.
10/19/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 Nation of Islam terrorists kidnap a couple and nearly decapitate the man, while raping and leaving the woman for dead.
10/29/1973 USA Berkeley, CA 1 0 A woman is shot repeatedly in the face by Nation of Islam terrorists.
11/25/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A grocer is killed in his store by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/11/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is killed by Nation of Islam terrorists while using a phone booth.
12/13/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A woman is shot to deah on the sidewalk by Nation of Islam terrorists.
12/20/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 Nation of Islam terrorists gun down an 81-year-old janitor.
12/22/1973 USA Oakland, CA 2 0 Nation of Islam terrorist kills two people in separate attacks on the same day.
12/24/1973 USA Oakland, CA 1 0 A man is kidnapped, tortured and decapitated by Nation of Islam terrorists.
1/24/1974 USA Oakland, CA 4 1 Five vicious shooting attacks by Nation of Islam terrorists leave three people dead and one paralyzed for life. Three of the victims were women.
4/1/1974 USA Oakland, CA 1 1 A Nation of Islam terrorist shoots at two Salvation Army members, killing a man and injuring a woman.
4/16/1974 USA Ingleside, CA 1 0 A man is killed while helping a friend move by Nation of Islam terrorists.
3/9/1977 USA Washington, DC 1 1 Hanifi Muslims storm three buildings including a B'nai B'rith to hold 134 people hostage. At least two innocents were shot and one died.
7/22/1980 USA Bethesda, MD 1 0 A political dissident is shot and killed in front of his home by an Iranian agent who was an American convert to Islam.
8/31/1980 USA Savou, IL 2 0 An Iranian student guns down his next-door neighbors, a husband and wife.
1/31/1990 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A Sunni cleric is assassinated in front of a Tuscon mosque after declaring that two verses of the Qur'an were invalid.
11/5/1990 USA New York City, NY 1 0 An Israeli rabbi is shot to death by a Muslim attacker at a hotel.
1/25/1993 USA Langley, VA 2 3 A Pakistani with Mujahideen ties guns down two CIA agents outside of the headquarters.
2/26/1993 USA New York, NY 6 1040 Islamic terrorists detonate a massive truck bomb under the World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring over 1,000 in an effort to collapse the towers.
3/1/1994 USA Brooklyn, NY 1 0 A Muslim fires on a vanload of Jewish boys, killing one.
3/23/1997 USA New York, NY 1 6 A Palestinian leaves an anti-Jewish suicide note behind and travels to the top of the Empire State building where he shoot seven people in a Fedayeen attack.
4/3/1997 USA Lompoc, CA 1 0 A prison guard is stabbed to death by a radical Muslim.
10/31/1999 USA Near Nantucket 217 0 An Egyptian airline pilot runs a planeload of 217 passengers into the water after uttering a Qur'anic prayer.
3/17/2000 USA Atlanta, GA 1 1 A local imam and Muslim spiritual leader guns down a deputy sheriff and injures his partner.
9/11/2001 USA Washington, DC 184 53 Nearly 200 people are killed when Islamic hijackers steer a plane full of people into the Pentagon.
9/11/2001 USA Shanksville, PA 40 0 Forty passengers are killed after Islamic radicals hijack the plane in an attempt to steer it into the U.S. Capitol building.
9/11/2001 USA New York, NY 2772 251 Islamic hijackers steer two planes packed with fuel and passengers into the World Trade Center, killing hundreds on impact and eventually killing thousands when the towers collapsed. At least 200 are seriously injured.
3/19/2002 USA Tuscon, AZ 1 0 A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course.
5/27/2002 USA Denton, TX 1 0 Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard.
7/4/2002 USA Los Angeles, CA 2 0 Muslim man pulls out a gun at the counter of an Israeli airline and kills two people.
9/5/2002 USA Clinton, MD 1 0 A 55-year-old pizzaria owner is shot six times in the back by Muslims at close range.
9/21/2002 USA Montgomery, AL 1 1 Muslim snipers shoot two women, killing one.
9/23/2002 USA Baton Rouge, LA 1 0 A Korean mother is shot in the back by Muslim snipers.
10/2/2002 USA Wheaton, MD 1 0 Muslim snipers gun down a program analyst in a store parking lot.
10/3/2002 USA Montgomery County, MD 5 0 Muslim snipers kill three men and two women in separate attacks over a 15-hour period.
10/9/2002 USA Manassas, VA 1 1 A man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas two days after a 13-year-old is wounded by the same team.
10/11/2002 USA Fredericksburg, VA 1 0 Another man is killed by Muslim snipers while pumping gas.
10/14/2002 USA Arlington, VA 1 0 A woman is killed by Muslim snipers in a Home Depot parking lot.
10/22/2002 USA Aspen Hill, MD 1 0 A bus driver is killed by Muslim snipers.
8/6/2003 USA Houston, TX 1 0 After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man.
12/2/2003 USA Chicago, IL 1 0 A Muslim doctor deliberately allows a Jewish patient to die from an easily treatable condition.
4/13/2004 USA Raleigh, NC 1 4 A Muslim man runs down five strangers with a car.
4/15/2004 USA Scottsville, NY 1 2 In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested.
6/16/2006 USA Baltimore, MD 1 0 A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack.
6/25/2006 USA Denver, CO 1 5 Saying that it was 'Allah's choice', a Muslim shoots four of his co-workers and a police officer.
7/28/2006 USA Seattle, WA 1 5 An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies.
10/6/2006 USA Louisville, KY 4 1 In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children.
2/13/2007 USA Salt Lake City, UT 5 4 A Muslim immigrant goes on a shooting rampage at a mall, targeting people buying Valentine's Day cards at a gift shop and killing five.
1/1/2008 USA Irving, TX 2 0 A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle.
7/6/2008 USA Jonesboro, GA 1 0 A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing.
2/12/2009 USA Buffalo, NY 1 0 The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
6/1/2009 USA Little Rock, AR 1 1 A Muslim with 'religious motives' shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center.
11/2/2009 USA Glendale, AZ 1 1 A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/5/2009 USA Ft. Hood, TX 13 31 A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
(3,308 killed by Muslims in America in 65 terror attacks)
Friday, November 6, 2009
It isn't the first time a moslem US soldier killed soldiers
March 23, 2003: Camp Penn, Kuwait.
Muslim-American soldier throws three grenades into the tents of non-Muslim American soldiers. Two are killed and eleven others are wounded.
Asan Akbar aka Hasan Karim Akbar aka Mark Fidel Kools, was arrested for grenade and shooting attacks at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, that killed Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of Easton, Pa., and wounded 14 other soldiers. On Tuesday, Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, of Boise, Idaho, also died of his wounds from the attack.
How can the US continue to allow m0selms in the US military? How can they be trusted?
this psychitrist killer at Fort Hood siomply did not want to kill Moslems in afganistan so he killed his US comrades.
Muslim-American soldier throws three grenades into the tents of non-Muslim American soldiers. Two are killed and eleven others are wounded.
Asan Akbar aka Hasan Karim Akbar aka Mark Fidel Kools, was arrested for grenade and shooting attacks at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait, that killed Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, 27, of Easton, Pa., and wounded 14 other soldiers. On Tuesday, Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, of Boise, Idaho, also died of his wounds from the attack.
How can the US continue to allow m0selms in the US military? How can they be trusted?
this psychitrist killer at Fort Hood siomply did not want to kill Moslems in afganistan so he killed his US comrades.
Moselm violence after violence
On This Day Since 9/11
March 23, 2008: Baghdad, Iraq. Women and children are among the casualties as Islamic terrorists stage at least three separate attacks on civilians. Twenty two killed and thirty four injured
March 23, 2008: Srinagar, India. Lashker-e-Toiba militants ambush and kill four policemen.
March 23, 2008: Torkham, Pakistan . al.-Qaeda terrorists bomb a restaurant and an oil facility, killing two people, and wounding fifty
March 23, 2008: Mogadishu, Somalia. A doctor is reported killed in an attack by Islamic terrorists.
March 23, 2008: Mosul, Iraq. Fifteen Iraqi security personnel are murdered by a suicidal Sunni bomber.
March 23, 2008: Baqubah, Iraq. Two children are killed by a Jihad roadside attack.
March 23, 2008: Jawzjan, Afghanistan. Religious extremists calmly shoot five Afghans to death. The workers were trying to clear landmines at the time.
March 23, 2008: Samarra, Iraq. A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills five IraqisMarch 23, 2007: Gaza, Pal. Auth. A 2-year-old child is killed in the crossfire when Fatah and Hamas open up on each other
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. Nine people are killed, fifteen wounded during an assassination attempt on the country’s vice president by Islamic terrorists
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. Six people are killed in a Jihad car bombing at a used car lot.
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. A mother and daughter are among two dozen people murdered by sectarian Jihadis
March 23, 2007: Mosul, Iraq. Two teenagers are among four people slain by Islamic radicals.
March 23, 2007: al Bu Ajeel, Iraq. An infant is among four members of a family murdered inside their home by Muslim gunmen.
March 23, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Islamic insurgents attack Ethiopian troops. At least two people are killed.
March 23, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Somali Islamists shoot down a cargo plane with a rocket, killing eleven Belarus civilians.
March 23, 2007: Shopian, India. A 16-year-old girl is shot and killed by the Mujahideen.
March 23, 2007: Kandahar, Afghanistan. In three separate attacks, religious extremists ambush Afghan police, killing at least five.
March 23, 2007: Kandahar, Afghanistan. Taliban extremists ambush a supply convoy, killing two truck drivers and fifteen security guards.
March 23, 2006: Kohlu,Pakistan. A man is killed and nine people, including two children, are injured when extremists bomb a telephone booth.
March 23, 2006: Baqubah, Iraq. Four policemen are killed by terrorists using a remote-controlled roadside bomb.
March 23, 2006: Fallujah, Iraq. Eight victims of religious militants are found, along with six others in the capital.
March 23, 2006:Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan. At least one civilian is killed when Jihadis fire a rocket into the center of a town.
March 23, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide bomber at a market murders at least seven innocents.
March 23, 2006: Makhachkala, Dagestan. Gunmen open fire on a car carrying a senior government official, killing him and injuring nine others.
March 23, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. Twenty-three people are blown apart by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a city street, also thirty five where wounded
March 23, 2006: Andar, Afghanistan. The Taliban assassinate a policeman in front of his home
March 23, 2005: Pattani, Thailand. A former village headsman is assassinated by terrorists.
March 23, 2005: Narathiwat, Thailand. A rubber plantation owner has his life cut short by Islamic radicals.
March 23, 2005: Srinagar, India. The Mujahideen kill a civilian and injure several other people with a car bomb in a shopping district.
March 23, 2005: Gereshk, Afghanistan. Two government employees are shot to death and one wounded by the Taliban.
March 23, 2005: Jounieh, Lebanon. Three people are killed, and three are injured when Muslim terrorists detonate an 80kg bomb in a shopping center in a Christian area north of Beirut.March 23, 2004: Mosul, Iraq. Fedayeen rocket attack kills two civilians and injures six others
March 23, 2004: Bannu, Pakistan. Package bomb and Russian-made rocket attack kill at least four and wound four.
March 23, 2004: Iraq, Kirkuk. Drive-by shooting kills two police officers and injures two others.
March 23, 2004: Hilla, Iraq. Sunni gunmen open up on a minibus carrying police and recruits with automatic weapons fire, killing nine and injuring at least two.
March 23, 2004: Grozny, Chechnya. Ten servicemen and police officers are killed and 13 wounded in several different terrorist attacks by Jihadists over a 24-hour period
March 23, 2004: Kuzmin, Kosovo, Albanian terrorists kill two police officers and injure and English translator in Kosovo
March 23, 2004: Yalam, Thailand. A policeman is murdered by IslamistsMarch 23, 2003: Nadimarg, India. Muslims militants cleanse a village of Hindus, ordering them out of their houses and opening up with machine guns. The twenty-four dead include eleven women and two children. Eight of the victims were over 60. An unknown number were wounded.
March 23, 2002: Srinagar, India. A woman is among two people killed by Lashkar-e-Toiba in a grenade attack.
On This Day Before 9/11
March 23, 1998: In Algeria, seven GIA (al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group) Muslim militants were condemned to death for murder of the Archbishop of Oran.March 23, 1994: A bomb was defused inside the Forte Grand Hotel, a British-owned facility in Amman, Jordan.
March 23, 1994: A bomb was thrown at the Israeli court building in Bethlehem. Today, there are no Jews or Israelis in Bethlehem. The Muslims who occupy the Jerusalem suburb have turned the Messiah’s birthplace into a festering slum where only death and poverty prosper.
March 23, 1994: An Israeli was shot and killed by an Arab Muslim. The victim had been on his way to work. The PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – which isn’t popular, pro-liberation, or Palestinian) claimed responsibility for the senseless murder.March 23, 1988: Grenades were found in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Bombay, India. The same make of grenades were used two days later against an Alitalia flight crew at the Bombay airport. Authorities said that the man they took into custody was affiliated with the Abu Nidal GroupMarch 23, 1987: Thirty-one people were wounded when a car bomb exploded at the British army headquarters in Rheindahlem, Germany. An anonymous caller warned the Duesseldorf news bureau of the impending attack. During the call, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or Catholic IRA, claimed responsibility for the impending blast.
March 23, 1987: The Revolutionary Popular Resistance Organization claimed credit for an explosion at a Syrian intelligence facility located in the King Hotel in West Beirut. Five Syrians were wounded in the attack.
March 23 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian GulfMarch 23, 1986: In the Sudan, a Norwegian citizen was kidnapped by the SPLA resistance movement. While they weren’t Islamic terrorists, Islamic terrorism was they sole reason for their existence.March 23, 1979: (PLO), Muazzam Zaki, was shot and killed in his home in Islamabad. Pakistani In Pakistan, a leader in the Palestinian Liberation OrganizationPLO chief Yousuf Abu Hantash said that Mr. Zaki belonged to the political wing of the PLOMarch 23, 1974: In Eritrea, an Ethiopian-Japanese mining operation near Asmara was attacked by members of the ELF-General Command. The Islamic terrorists were armed with grenades and automatic weapons. The Eritrean flag was raised at the site, and leaflets were scattered. Damage to the mine’s generator and other equipment was estimated at $3 million. There were no casualties at the mine but two guards at a local village school were killed by the fleeing terrorists.
The Muslim militants operating under the guise of the ELFGC belonged to a subsidiary of the Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement. The EIJM, as one might expect, was composed of Islamic terrorists who were financed, trained, and armed by the fundamentalist Islamic government in neighboring Sudan. Also known as the Islamic Reform Movement and the Islamic Salvation Group (Harakat al Khalas al Islami), the terrorist club sought to depose the current secular government in Eritrea and replace it with an Islamic theocracy based upon Sharia Law.
Led by Sheikh Khalil Muhammad Amer, the EIJM claimed to represent the religious and political aspirations of Eritrea’s Muslim population (now at 50% and growing). They were however, based in Khartoum, Sudan and they commenced most of their terrorist raids from Sudanese soil. And that’s not good since the Sudan was home to the most ruthless Islamic regime in the world – a Muslim government which had sponsored the genocide of 2.7 million Africans.March 23 1965 Police in Casablanca cracked down on students and workers campaigning for social justice and about 100 were killed. In the 1970s the “March 23 movement” for social rights was named for this day.March 23 1956 Sudan becomes independentMarch 23 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republicMarch 23 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deportedMarch 23 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
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March 23, 2008: Baghdad, Iraq. Women and children are among the casualties as Islamic terrorists stage at least three separate attacks on civilians. Twenty two killed and thirty four injured
March 23, 2008: Srinagar, India. Lashker-e-Toiba militants ambush and kill four policemen.
March 23, 2008: Torkham, Pakistan . al.-Qaeda terrorists bomb a restaurant and an oil facility, killing two people, and wounding fifty
March 23, 2008: Mogadishu, Somalia. A doctor is reported killed in an attack by Islamic terrorists.
March 23, 2008: Mosul, Iraq. Fifteen Iraqi security personnel are murdered by a suicidal Sunni bomber.
March 23, 2008: Baqubah, Iraq. Two children are killed by a Jihad roadside attack.
March 23, 2008: Jawzjan, Afghanistan. Religious extremists calmly shoot five Afghans to death. The workers were trying to clear landmines at the time.
March 23, 2008: Samarra, Iraq. A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills five IraqisMarch 23, 2007: Gaza, Pal. Auth. A 2-year-old child is killed in the crossfire when Fatah and Hamas open up on each other
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. Nine people are killed, fifteen wounded during an assassination attempt on the country’s vice president by Islamic terrorists
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. Six people are killed in a Jihad car bombing at a used car lot.
March 23, 2007: Baghdad, Iraq. A mother and daughter are among two dozen people murdered by sectarian Jihadis
March 23, 2007: Mosul, Iraq. Two teenagers are among four people slain by Islamic radicals.
March 23, 2007: al Bu Ajeel, Iraq. An infant is among four members of a family murdered inside their home by Muslim gunmen.
March 23, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Islamic insurgents attack Ethiopian troops. At least two people are killed.
March 23, 2007: Mogadishu, Somalia. Somali Islamists shoot down a cargo plane with a rocket, killing eleven Belarus civilians.
March 23, 2007: Shopian, India. A 16-year-old girl is shot and killed by the Mujahideen.
March 23, 2007: Kandahar, Afghanistan. In three separate attacks, religious extremists ambush Afghan police, killing at least five.
March 23, 2007: Kandahar, Afghanistan. Taliban extremists ambush a supply convoy, killing two truck drivers and fifteen security guards.
March 23, 2006: Kohlu,Pakistan. A man is killed and nine people, including two children, are injured when extremists bomb a telephone booth.
March 23, 2006: Baqubah, Iraq. Four policemen are killed by terrorists using a remote-controlled roadside bomb.
March 23, 2006: Fallujah, Iraq. Eight victims of religious militants are found, along with six others in the capital.
March 23, 2006:Maidan Wardak, Afghanistan. At least one civilian is killed when Jihadis fire a rocket into the center of a town.
March 23, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide bomber at a market murders at least seven innocents.
March 23, 2006: Makhachkala, Dagestan. Gunmen open fire on a car carrying a senior government official, killing him and injuring nine others.
March 23, 2006: Baghdad, Iraq. Twenty-three people are blown apart by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a city street, also thirty five where wounded
March 23, 2006: Andar, Afghanistan. The Taliban assassinate a policeman in front of his home
March 23, 2005: Pattani, Thailand. A former village headsman is assassinated by terrorists.
March 23, 2005: Narathiwat, Thailand. A rubber plantation owner has his life cut short by Islamic radicals.
March 23, 2005: Srinagar, India. The Mujahideen kill a civilian and injure several other people with a car bomb in a shopping district.
March 23, 2005: Gereshk, Afghanistan. Two government employees are shot to death and one wounded by the Taliban.
March 23, 2005: Jounieh, Lebanon. Three people are killed, and three are injured when Muslim terrorists detonate an 80kg bomb in a shopping center in a Christian area north of Beirut.March 23, 2004: Mosul, Iraq. Fedayeen rocket attack kills two civilians and injures six others
March 23, 2004: Bannu, Pakistan. Package bomb and Russian-made rocket attack kill at least four and wound four.
March 23, 2004: Iraq, Kirkuk. Drive-by shooting kills two police officers and injures two others.
March 23, 2004: Hilla, Iraq. Sunni gunmen open up on a minibus carrying police and recruits with automatic weapons fire, killing nine and injuring at least two.
March 23, 2004: Grozny, Chechnya. Ten servicemen and police officers are killed and 13 wounded in several different terrorist attacks by Jihadists over a 24-hour period
March 23, 2004: Kuzmin, Kosovo, Albanian terrorists kill two police officers and injure and English translator in Kosovo
March 23, 2004: Yalam, Thailand. A policeman is murdered by IslamistsMarch 23, 2003: Nadimarg, India. Muslims militants cleanse a village of Hindus, ordering them out of their houses and opening up with machine guns. The twenty-four dead include eleven women and two children. Eight of the victims were over 60. An unknown number were wounded.
March 23, 2002: Srinagar, India. A woman is among two people killed by Lashkar-e-Toiba in a grenade attack.
On This Day Before 9/11
March 23, 1998: In Algeria, seven GIA (al-Gama’at al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group) Muslim militants were condemned to death for murder of the Archbishop of Oran.March 23, 1994: A bomb was defused inside the Forte Grand Hotel, a British-owned facility in Amman, Jordan.
March 23, 1994: A bomb was thrown at the Israeli court building in Bethlehem. Today, there are no Jews or Israelis in Bethlehem. The Muslims who occupy the Jerusalem suburb have turned the Messiah’s birthplace into a festering slum where only death and poverty prosper.
March 23, 1994: An Israeli was shot and killed by an Arab Muslim. The victim had been on his way to work. The PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – which isn’t popular, pro-liberation, or Palestinian) claimed responsibility for the senseless murder.March 23, 1988: Grenades were found in the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Bombay, India. The same make of grenades were used two days later against an Alitalia flight crew at the Bombay airport. Authorities said that the man they took into custody was affiliated with the Abu Nidal GroupMarch 23, 1987: Thirty-one people were wounded when a car bomb exploded at the British army headquarters in Rheindahlem, Germany. An anonymous caller warned the Duesseldorf news bureau of the impending attack. During the call, the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or Catholic IRA, claimed responsibility for the impending blast.
March 23, 1987: The Revolutionary Popular Resistance Organization claimed credit for an explosion at a Syrian intelligence facility located in the King Hotel in West Beirut. Five Syrians were wounded in the attack.
March 23 1987 US offers military protection to Kuwaiti ships in the Persian GulfMarch 23, 1986: In the Sudan, a Norwegian citizen was kidnapped by the SPLA resistance movement. While they weren’t Islamic terrorists, Islamic terrorism was they sole reason for their existence.March 23, 1979: (PLO), Muazzam Zaki, was shot and killed in his home in Islamabad. Pakistani In Pakistan, a leader in the Palestinian Liberation OrganizationPLO chief Yousuf Abu Hantash said that Mr. Zaki belonged to the political wing of the PLOMarch 23, 1974: In Eritrea, an Ethiopian-Japanese mining operation near Asmara was attacked by members of the ELF-General Command. The Islamic terrorists were armed with grenades and automatic weapons. The Eritrean flag was raised at the site, and leaflets were scattered. Damage to the mine’s generator and other equipment was estimated at $3 million. There were no casualties at the mine but two guards at a local village school were killed by the fleeing terrorists.
The Muslim militants operating under the guise of the ELFGC belonged to a subsidiary of the Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement. The EIJM, as one might expect, was composed of Islamic terrorists who were financed, trained, and armed by the fundamentalist Islamic government in neighboring Sudan. Also known as the Islamic Reform Movement and the Islamic Salvation Group (Harakat al Khalas al Islami), the terrorist club sought to depose the current secular government in Eritrea and replace it with an Islamic theocracy based upon Sharia Law.
Led by Sheikh Khalil Muhammad Amer, the EIJM claimed to represent the religious and political aspirations of Eritrea’s Muslim population (now at 50% and growing). They were however, based in Khartoum, Sudan and they commenced most of their terrorist raids from Sudanese soil. And that’s not good since the Sudan was home to the most ruthless Islamic regime in the world – a Muslim government which had sponsored the genocide of 2.7 million Africans.March 23 1965 Police in Casablanca cracked down on students and workers campaigning for social justice and about 100 were killed. In the 1970s the “March 23 movement” for social rights was named for this day.March 23 1956 Sudan becomes independentMarch 23 1956 Pakistan proclaimed an Islamic republicMarch 23 1942 2,500 Jews of Lublin massacred or deportedMarch 23 1940 All-India-Muslim League calls for a Muslim homeland
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Muslim coward killer
He uses taxpayer dollars to get an education and earn a loving and then when he actually has to go into danger, wants out.
Muslim psychiatrist reportedlty shouts Allah akbar before he shot
Details are beginning to emerge about the personality of the man suspected of gunning down 12 people and wounding dozens more at the Fort Hood, Texas army post before being shot and taken into custody, the New York Times reports.
Acquaintances say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old psychiatrist born in Virginia to immigrant Palestinian parents, was a devout Muslim who was reportedly set to deploy to the Middle East later this month.
"He was doing everything he could to avoid that,” said Nader Hasan, a cousin. “He wanted to do whatever he could within the rules to make sure he wouldn't go over."
According to a law enforcement official, the F.B.I. was tracking a man calling himself Nidal Hassan who posted favorable messages about suicide bombings online.
"If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory," the man wrote.
Acquaintances say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old psychiatrist born in Virginia to immigrant Palestinian parents, was a devout Muslim who was reportedly set to deploy to the Middle East later this month.
"He was doing everything he could to avoid that,” said Nader Hasan, a cousin. “He wanted to do whatever he could within the rules to make sure he wouldn't go over."
According to a law enforcement official, the F.B.I. was tracking a man calling himself Nidal Hassan who posted favorable messages about suicide bombings online.
"If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory," the man wrote.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Muslim army killer may have posted about suicide bombings
WASHINGTON – His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive. But details of his life and mindset, emerging from official sources and personal acquaintances, are troubling.
While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan had some "difficulties" that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.
Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients. He recalled Hasan as a "mostly very quiet" person who never spoke ill of the military or his country.
But, more recently, federal agents grew suspicious.
At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.
One of the officials said late Thursday that federal search warrants were being drawn up to authorize the seizure of Hasan's computer.
Lee said Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.
Hasan attended prayers regularly when he lived outside Washington, often in his Army uniform, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md. He said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim.
On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
"I don't know why he listed Palestinian," Khan said, "He was not born in Palestine."
There are many unknowns about Nidal Malik Hasan, the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base. Most of all, his motive. But details of his life and mindset, emerging from official sources and personal acquaintances, are troubling.
While an intern at Walter Reed, Hasan had some "difficulties" that required counseling and extra supervision, said Dr. Thomas Grieger, who was the training director at the time.
Grieger said privacy laws prevented him from going into details but noted that the problems had to do with Hasan's interactions with patients. He recalled Hasan as a "mostly very quiet" person who never spoke ill of the military or his country.
But, more recently, federal agents grew suspicious.
At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.
One of the officials said late Thursday that federal search warrants were being drawn up to authorize the seizure of Hasan's computer.
Lee said Hasan got into frequent arguments with others in the military who supported the wars, and had tried hard to prevent his pending deployment.
Hasan attended prayers regularly when he lived outside Washington, often in his Army uniform, said Faizul Khan, a former imam at a mosque Hasan attended in Silver Spring, Md. He said Hasan was a lifelong Muslim.
On a form filled out by those seeking spouses through a program at the mosque, Hasan listed his birthplace as Arlington, Va., but his nationality as Palestinian, Khan said.
"I don't know why he listed Palestinian," Khan said, "He was not born in Palestine."
Moslem psychiatrist kills 12 at US base
APRIL CASTRO and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers April Castro And Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writers – 14 mins ago
FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. "I would say his death is not imminent," Cone said. Col. Ben Danner said the suspect was shot at least four times.
The man was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old, eight-year veteran from Virginia.
FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, authorities said, a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded in the worst mass shooting ever at a military base in the United States.
The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but alive and in stable condition under military guard, said Lt. Gen. Bob Cone at Fort Hood. "I would say his death is not imminent," Cone said. Col. Ben Danner said the suspect was shot at least four times.
The man was identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old, eight-year veteran from Virginia.
Missiles for terror
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•3,000 Missiles Found on Seized Arms Ship - Aron Heller
At least 3,000 missiles were on board the Francop, a vessel stopped by Israel off the coast of Cyprus and towed to the port of Ashdod. Containers with dark green missiles inside bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group." Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades and anti-tank weapons - the largest it ever seized - was headed for Hizbullah in Lebanon. The ship had departed an Iranian port for Syria. Deputy Israeli navy commander Roni Ben-Yehuda said the ship carried ten times as many weapons as the Karine A, a weapons ship captured by Israeli forces in the Red Sea in January 2002. (AP)
See also Massive Arms Shipment Intended for Hizbullah Intercepted by Israel Navy (Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson)
See also Video: Weapons of Terror Ship Seized by Israel (BBC News)
•3,000 Missiles Found on Seized Arms Ship - Aron Heller
At least 3,000 missiles were on board the Francop, a vessel stopped by Israel off the coast of Cyprus and towed to the port of Ashdod. Containers with dark green missiles inside bore writing in English that said "I.R. Iranian Shipping Lines Group." Israel alleged that the shipment of hundreds of tons of rockets, missiles, mortars, grenades and anti-tank weapons - the largest it ever seized - was headed for Hizbullah in Lebanon. The ship had departed an Iranian port for Syria. Deputy Israeli navy commander Roni Ben-Yehuda said the ship carried ten times as many weapons as the Karine A, a weapons ship captured by Israeli forces in the Red Sea in January 2002. (AP)
See also Massive Arms Shipment Intended for Hizbullah Intercepted by Israel Navy (Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson)
See also Video: Weapons of Terror Ship Seized by Israel (BBC News)
Shipping huge weapons amounts
Shipped in Plain Sight
J. E. Dyer - 11.05.2009 - 7:10 AM
As the tale of the “New Karine A” develops, one alarm bell it sets off concerns the ease with which the arms transshipment was brought off in plain sight. The ship the Israelis caught with the arms was M/V Francop, a freighter operated by Cyprus-based United Feeder Services. The crew onboard didn’t know what they were carrying, and didn’t carry it from Iran anyway: they picked their cargo up in Damietta, Egypt. The Israelis had tracked Francop from Beirut to Damietta and knew the cargo was loaded there. That means the arms themselves were shipped from Iran to Egypt by other means. Sounds like a story we’ve heard before about Port Sudan and overland convoys to Gaza, right?
Not really. The port of Damietta is neither a remote spot in the desert nor a sleepy Sudanese port. It’s one of Egypt’s premier seaports, located on the Mediterranean near the entrance to the Suez Canal. Damietta has some distinctive claims to fame: it’s in a heavily promoted Egyptian free-trade zone and is operated by DIPCO, an international consortium of private maritime-service companies whose pathbreaking development project at Damietta serves as a model for a global trend toward the private development and operation of ports.
Private administration of customs and cargo verification, the functions that might detect arms shipments, is not unusual. But under these conditions, transshipments of cargo through free-trade zones — shipments offloaded only to await further transportation to another country — are especially likely to receive a hand wave. The port operator’s priority is to tally containers and assess fees, not to break open containers and inspect their contents. Damietta’s convenient location in the eastern Mediterranean means that transshipments represent a large majority of its container traffic. Most of what stops there is merely waiting onward transportation and interests neither Egypt nor the port-services operator.
A big shipment from Iran, meanwhile, would raise no eyebrows in Damietta. Iran’s state shipping line, IRISL, was one of the first shipping companies to contract with DIPCO for services in Damietta, and two of IRISL’s subsidiaries make regular stops there. Containers bearing the IRISL logo are routinely present.
It would be hard to dream up a set of circumstances more conducive to perfunctory supervision of cargo. But these same circumstances represent a cash cow for Egypt. Private companies optimizing the profitability of port operations are a moneymaker, not only for growing economies but also for the Middle Eastern nations in which many of the companies (like DIPCO’s leader, Kuwait & Gulf Lines Ltd.) are based. The beneficiaries of this trend will kick hard against any inefficiency introduced by the administration of UN sanctions. Ultimately, intermediate transshipment ports aren’t going to represent effective pressure points for arms interdiction. The most effective pressure point would, as usual, be Iran itself, and that reality demands not so much administrative meticulousness as political will.
J. E. Dyer - 11.05.2009 - 7:10 AM
As the tale of the “New Karine A” develops, one alarm bell it sets off concerns the ease with which the arms transshipment was brought off in plain sight. The ship the Israelis caught with the arms was M/V Francop, a freighter operated by Cyprus-based United Feeder Services. The crew onboard didn’t know what they were carrying, and didn’t carry it from Iran anyway: they picked their cargo up in Damietta, Egypt. The Israelis had tracked Francop from Beirut to Damietta and knew the cargo was loaded there. That means the arms themselves were shipped from Iran to Egypt by other means. Sounds like a story we’ve heard before about Port Sudan and overland convoys to Gaza, right?
Not really. The port of Damietta is neither a remote spot in the desert nor a sleepy Sudanese port. It’s one of Egypt’s premier seaports, located on the Mediterranean near the entrance to the Suez Canal. Damietta has some distinctive claims to fame: it’s in a heavily promoted Egyptian free-trade zone and is operated by DIPCO, an international consortium of private maritime-service companies whose pathbreaking development project at Damietta serves as a model for a global trend toward the private development and operation of ports.
Private administration of customs and cargo verification, the functions that might detect arms shipments, is not unusual. But under these conditions, transshipments of cargo through free-trade zones — shipments offloaded only to await further transportation to another country — are especially likely to receive a hand wave. The port operator’s priority is to tally containers and assess fees, not to break open containers and inspect their contents. Damietta’s convenient location in the eastern Mediterranean means that transshipments represent a large majority of its container traffic. Most of what stops there is merely waiting onward transportation and interests neither Egypt nor the port-services operator.
A big shipment from Iran, meanwhile, would raise no eyebrows in Damietta. Iran’s state shipping line, IRISL, was one of the first shipping companies to contract with DIPCO for services in Damietta, and two of IRISL’s subsidiaries make regular stops there. Containers bearing the IRISL logo are routinely present.
It would be hard to dream up a set of circumstances more conducive to perfunctory supervision of cargo. But these same circumstances represent a cash cow for Egypt. Private companies optimizing the profitability of port operations are a moneymaker, not only for growing economies but also for the Middle Eastern nations in which many of the companies (like DIPCO’s leader, Kuwait & Gulf Lines Ltd.) are based. The beneficiaries of this trend will kick hard against any inefficiency introduced by the administration of UN sanctions. Ultimately, intermediate transshipment ports aren’t going to represent effective pressure points for arms interdiction. The most effective pressure point would, as usual, be Iran itself, and that reality demands not so much administrative meticulousness as political will.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Modern radical Islam as bad as the Nazis
Last update - 20:18 03/11/2009
Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst
By Robert S. Wistrich
Tags: Islamist anti-Semitism
On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.
The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee.
The state-organized pogrom, instigated by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, resulted in the burning or damaging of more than a thousand synagogues; the ransacking of about 7,500 businesses, the murder of at least 91 Jews, and the deportation of another 30,000 Jewish males to concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.
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This murderous onslaught against German Jewry, cynically described by the Nazis as the "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht), was a major turning point on the road to the Final Solution of the so-called Jewish Question.
It signified that the Nazi regime had crossed a Rubicon and would no longer be deterred by Western public opinion in its "war against the Jews."
The economic expropriation of German Jewry, its complete social ostracism and public humiliation swiftly followed. Jews were banned from public transport, from frequenting concerts, theaters, cinemas, commercial centers, beaches, or using public benches.
Only a fortnight after "Crystal Night," the SS journal, Das Schwarze Korps, chillingly prophesied the final end of German Jewry through "fire and sword" and its imminent complete annihilation.
Today, shocking to relate, the specter of such apocalyptic anti-Semitism has returned to haunt Europe and other continents, while often assuming radically new forms.
In the Middle East, it has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the "mission" of holy war or jihad against the West and the Jews.
Islamist anti-Semitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most inflammatory themes that initially made possible the atrocities of Crystal Night and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust.
For example, the pervasive use of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with its perennial theme of the "Jewish conspiracy for world domination;" or the medieval blood-libel imported to the Muslim world from Christian Europe; or the vile stereotypical image of the Jews as a treacherous, rapacious, and bloodthirsty people engaged in a ceaseless plotting to undermine the world of Islam.
To these grotesque inventions one must add such more up-to-date libels like Holocaust denial which has become a state-sponsored project in Ahmadinejad's Iran and is increasingly pervasive in the Arab world.
Equally fashionable (and increasingly popular in Europe) is the slanderous identification of Israel with Nazism or the "ethnic cleansing" of the Palestinians. This modernized version of inverted anti-Semitism which sails under the mask of "anti-Zionism" and anti-Americanism, is today a global phenomenon, but it has special resonance in the Middle East as a result of the unresolved "Palestinian question."
The scale and extremism of the literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi Germany at its worst.
Yet the Western world largely turns a blind eye to the likely genocidal consequences of such a culture of hatred, much as it did 70 years ago. My own extensive research into this phenomenon has, unfortunately, convinced me that the Holocaust did not truly succeed in neutralizing the scourge of anti-Semitism.
In a sinister and sometimes devious manner, the widespread defamation and demonization of Israel has in effect revived fantasies of completing the murderous work of the Third Reich. This is especially palpable in the case of Iran. Hence, the anniversary of Crystal Night raises two fundamental moral questions for the future of human civilization. Are we at all capable of learning from history, and will the Jewish people once again have to stand alone in the face of concrete threats to annihilate it? On the answer to these questions much may depend.
Prof. Robert S. Wistrich is the director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/) and the author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, January 2010).
Comparing Islamic anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its worst
By Robert S. Wistrich
Tags: Islamist anti-Semitism
On November 9, 1938, a massive nation-wide anti-Jewish pogrom took place during peacetime across the entire territory of the Third Reich.
The pretext for this orgy of violence against German Jews was the shooting in Paris two days earlier of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish-Jewish refugee.
The state-organized pogrom, instigated by Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, resulted in the burning or damaging of more than a thousand synagogues; the ransacking of about 7,500 businesses, the murder of at least 91 Jews, and the deportation of another 30,000 Jewish males to concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen.
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This murderous onslaught against German Jewry, cynically described by the Nazis as the "Night of Broken Glass" (Kristallnacht), was a major turning point on the road to the Final Solution of the so-called Jewish Question.
It signified that the Nazi regime had crossed a Rubicon and would no longer be deterred by Western public opinion in its "war against the Jews."
The economic expropriation of German Jewry, its complete social ostracism and public humiliation swiftly followed. Jews were banned from public transport, from frequenting concerts, theaters, cinemas, commercial centers, beaches, or using public benches.
Only a fortnight after "Crystal Night," the SS journal, Das Schwarze Korps, chillingly prophesied the final end of German Jewry through "fire and sword" and its imminent complete annihilation.
Today, shocking to relate, the specter of such apocalyptic anti-Semitism has returned to haunt Europe and other continents, while often assuming radically new forms.
In the Middle East, it has taken on a particularly dangerous, toxic and potentially genocidal aura of hatred, closely linked to the "mission" of holy war or jihad against the West and the Jews.
Islamist anti-Semitism is thoroughly soaked in many of the most inflammatory themes that initially made possible the atrocities of Crystal Night and its horrific aftermath during the Holocaust.
For example, the pervasive use of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion with its perennial theme of the "Jewish conspiracy for world domination;" or the medieval blood-libel imported to the Muslim world from Christian Europe; or the vile stereotypical image of the Jews as a treacherous, rapacious, and bloodthirsty people engaged in a ceaseless plotting to undermine the world of Islam.
To these grotesque inventions one must add such more up-to-date libels like Holocaust denial which has become a state-sponsored project in Ahmadinejad's Iran and is increasingly pervasive in the Arab world.
Equally fashionable (and increasingly popular in Europe) is the slanderous identification of Israel with Nazism or the "ethnic cleansing" of the Palestinians. This modernized version of inverted anti-Semitism which sails under the mask of "anti-Zionism" and anti-Americanism, is today a global phenomenon, but it has special resonance in the Middle East as a result of the unresolved "Palestinian question."
The scale and extremism of the literature and commentary available in Arab or Muslim newspapers, journals, magazines, caricatures, on Islamist websites, on the Middle Eastern radio and TV news, in documentaries, films, and educational materials, is comparable only to that of Nazi Germany at its worst.
Yet the Western world largely turns a blind eye to the likely genocidal consequences of such a culture of hatred, much as it did 70 years ago. My own extensive research into this phenomenon has, unfortunately, convinced me that the Holocaust did not truly succeed in neutralizing the scourge of anti-Semitism.
In a sinister and sometimes devious manner, the widespread defamation and demonization of Israel has in effect revived fantasies of completing the murderous work of the Third Reich. This is especially palpable in the case of Iran. Hence, the anniversary of Crystal Night raises two fundamental moral questions for the future of human civilization. Are we at all capable of learning from history, and will the Jewish people once again have to stand alone in the face of concrete threats to annihilate it? On the answer to these questions much may depend.
Prof. Robert S. Wistrich is the director of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/) and the author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (Random House, January 2010).
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
shame on Minnesota Jews for supporting Ellison
And he got a great deal of support from the Jewish community in Minnesota…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29030.html
Read Goldstone's report on Gaza
By: Rep. Keith Ellison
November 3, 2009 05:11 AM EST
Who is afraid of Richard Goldstone? No one should be. Not even the U.S. Congress — yet it is poised on Tuesday to condemn the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Goldstone report on violations of international law related to the Gaza war of late 2008.
Why the fear? Judge Goldstone is no Israel basher. He is famous for apprehending Nazi criminals in Argentina, for serving as chief prosecutor for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunals and for chairing the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is motivated by his struggle against apartheid in South Africa. A self-described Zionist, he serves as a trustee of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has said that “bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust.”
At the outset, note that four sections of the Goldstone report deal with abuses by Hamas, including the launching of rockets into civilian towns in Israel. The report explicitly states that these rocket attacks are war crimes.
Yet despite Goldstone’s stellar reputation, the veracity of the report — and his motives — has been challenged. The detailed Goldstone report concludes that “the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population.”
I agree with my congressional colleagues — and with Goldstone — that the initial U.N. resolution of Jan. 12, 2009, calling for an investigation of abuses committed during the Gaza crisis was one-sided, focusing exclusively on Israel. That resolution was used by some countries to criticize Israel without acknowledging the abuses by Hamas. Goldstone initially refused to lead the investigation because of the original flawed mandate.
But Goldstone pushed back. He succeeded in expanding the scope of the mission to include an examination of the actions of both Hamas and Israel.
Israel, however, refused to cooperate with the investigation because of the original “one-sided mandate.” What if Israel had participated from the beginning? It could have pointed out that the U.N. Human Rights Council has a history of unfairly singling out Israel for criticism. It could have described Hamas’s abuses, and it could have elaborated on the context of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, which includes a long history of attacks on civilians. Israel could have observed the difficulties of combat in urban areas. But instead, Israel condemned the effort and then attacked the final product.
I visited Sderot in southern Israel and saw the havoc and trauma created by Hamas rocket fire. Israelis there live with fear. I have condemned these attacks as war crimes and will continue to do so.
I also visited Gaza and witnessed the devastation wreaked by the recent war. I toured an American school and medical clinics devastated by Operation Cast Lead. A blockade keeps out items such as paper for textbooks and nutritious food. Gazans live in poverty, and most cannot drink their own water. These are cruel violations against the people of Gaza, 56 percent of whom are children.
The Goldstone report does not assign blame. It lays out the facts, as best as Goldstone could ascertain them, and offers recommendations for the future. Congress should use this report as a resource to understand a critical part of the world and to grasp fully the devastating human costs of the status quo.
Instead, Congress is poised to oppose the Goldstone report without holding a single hearing on a document that few members of Congress, if any, have read.
This is a mistake. The stance of this Congress will erode U.S. credibility in the post-Obama world, and it will tarnish our commitment to the principle that all nations must be held to the same standards. Rather than undermine the report or Goldstone, we are at risk of undermining Congress’s and President Barack Obama’s reputation as honest brokers.
Israel can still pursue its own investigation, and critics of the Goldstone report should recognize that Israel is strong enough to withstand inquiry. Self-reflection is one of the hallmarks of a strong democracy. In fact, Israel has investigated itself in the past in connection with the Sabra and Shatila incidents. When nations like the United States, Israel, South Africa and others have pursued the truth through investigations — however uncomfortable — their people and politics have emerged stronger.
We stand for the values of democracy, truth and justice. There is no reason for Congress, Israel or any other party to fear an honest judge. Richard Goldstone is such a judge, and his report should be studied, not dismissed.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29030.html
Read Goldstone's report on Gaza
By: Rep. Keith Ellison
November 3, 2009 05:11 AM EST
Who is afraid of Richard Goldstone? No one should be. Not even the U.S. Congress — yet it is poised on Tuesday to condemn the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Goldstone report on violations of international law related to the Gaza war of late 2008.
Why the fear? Judge Goldstone is no Israel basher. He is famous for apprehending Nazi criminals in Argentina, for serving as chief prosecutor for the U.N. International Criminal Tribunals and for chairing the Independent International Commission on Kosovo. He is motivated by his struggle against apartheid in South Africa. A self-described Zionist, he serves as a trustee of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has said that “bringing war criminals to justice stems from the lessons of the Holocaust.”
At the outset, note that four sections of the Goldstone report deal with abuses by Hamas, including the launching of rockets into civilian towns in Israel. The report explicitly states that these rocket attacks are war crimes.
Yet despite Goldstone’s stellar reputation, the veracity of the report — and his motives — has been challenged. The detailed Goldstone report concludes that “the Israeli military operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population.”
I agree with my congressional colleagues — and with Goldstone — that the initial U.N. resolution of Jan. 12, 2009, calling for an investigation of abuses committed during the Gaza crisis was one-sided, focusing exclusively on Israel. That resolution was used by some countries to criticize Israel without acknowledging the abuses by Hamas. Goldstone initially refused to lead the investigation because of the original flawed mandate.
But Goldstone pushed back. He succeeded in expanding the scope of the mission to include an examination of the actions of both Hamas and Israel.
Israel, however, refused to cooperate with the investigation because of the original “one-sided mandate.” What if Israel had participated from the beginning? It could have pointed out that the U.N. Human Rights Council has a history of unfairly singling out Israel for criticism. It could have described Hamas’s abuses, and it could have elaborated on the context of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, which includes a long history of attacks on civilians. Israel could have observed the difficulties of combat in urban areas. But instead, Israel condemned the effort and then attacked the final product.
I visited Sderot in southern Israel and saw the havoc and trauma created by Hamas rocket fire. Israelis there live with fear. I have condemned these attacks as war crimes and will continue to do so.
I also visited Gaza and witnessed the devastation wreaked by the recent war. I toured an American school and medical clinics devastated by Operation Cast Lead. A blockade keeps out items such as paper for textbooks and nutritious food. Gazans live in poverty, and most cannot drink their own water. These are cruel violations against the people of Gaza, 56 percent of whom are children.
The Goldstone report does not assign blame. It lays out the facts, as best as Goldstone could ascertain them, and offers recommendations for the future. Congress should use this report as a resource to understand a critical part of the world and to grasp fully the devastating human costs of the status quo.
Instead, Congress is poised to oppose the Goldstone report without holding a single hearing on a document that few members of Congress, if any, have read.
This is a mistake. The stance of this Congress will erode U.S. credibility in the post-Obama world, and it will tarnish our commitment to the principle that all nations must be held to the same standards. Rather than undermine the report or Goldstone, we are at risk of undermining Congress’s and President Barack Obama’s reputation as honest brokers.
Israel can still pursue its own investigation, and critics of the Goldstone report should recognize that Israel is strong enough to withstand inquiry. Self-reflection is one of the hallmarks of a strong democracy. In fact, Israel has investigated itself in the past in connection with the Sabra and Shatila incidents. When nations like the United States, Israel, South Africa and others have pursued the truth through investigations — however uncomfortable — their people and politics have emerged stronger.
We stand for the values of democracy, truth and justice. There is no reason for Congress, Israel or any other party to fear an honest judge. Richard Goldstone is such a judge, and his report should be studied, not dismissed.
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
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