September 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council is engaging in what has become standard fare for Islamist organizations; when the facts are inconvenient, simply lie about them and rely on the MSM not to be overly inquisitive.
In a September 2 PR statement dealing with the release of Dr. Sami Al-Arian, MPAC claimed:
The Muslim Public Affairs Council today welcomed the release of former professor Sami Al-Arian from federal custody...Since his arrest five years ago, Al-Arian's case has become an example of what many American Muslims perceived to be numerous post-9/11 political persecutions of individuals using tactics that amount to little more than guilt by association...In April 2006, Dr. Al-Arian pleaded guilty to a single non-terrorism related count of conspiracy and agreed to be deported." [source, MPAC website, http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=686]
However, the facts of the Al-Arian case bear no resemblance to MPAC's version of the story.
September 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On Thursday a Newark immigration judge ruled that Mohammad Qatanani, the imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, can become a permanent resident in the U.S. together with his wife and three foreign born children.
Qatanini had been fighting deportation proceedings brought by U.S. immigration officials who claimed that that he "failed to disclose on his green card application a prior arrest and conviction in Israel for being a member of Hamas."
The case garnered national media attention due to the high profile U.S. law enforcement officials who testified on his behalf and the hundreds of supporters who held a vigil outside the courthouse.
Special to PipeLineNews.org by Mapping Shari'a Project staff
September 5, 2008 - Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org - The Mapping Sharia Project, a research project sponsored by the Society of Americans for National Existence (SANE), is issuing an alert that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a self-described public interest civil rights law firm, may have engaged in criminal fraud. Mapping Sharia calls for a full investigation by the appropriate government agencies. The victims of this fraud may also be due compensation for their losses and suffering.
Reliable sources have produced solid information that Morris Days, the Manager for Civil Rights at the CAIR MD/VA chapter, who was widely publicized by CAIR as one of its civil rights attorneys, was in fact not an attorney, and failed to provide services for Muslim American clients who came to CAIR for assistance and who paid for Days' services. Not only has CAIR not revealed the facts about Days and his fraudulent, criminal behavior, but as of yesterday, September 2, 2008, the CAIR National office in Washington, D.C. continued to post articles at its website naming Days as an attorney. This amounts to a de facto cover-up of CAIR's involvement in this criminal affair and a perpetuation of the fraud with CAIR's assistance.
September 3, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation prosecution] has been a defender of admitted Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist, Dr. Sami Al-Arian even before he was arrested in 2003, subsequently pleading guilty to "conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad."
About the case, a press release issued on April 17, 2006, the DOJ stated:
"...Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad [PIJ], a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law, the Department of Justice announced today...Al-Arian pleaded guilty to Count Four of the indictment against him - a charge of conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad...Al-Arian's agreement with the government calls for a recommended prison sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison, based on a five-year maximum statutory sentence. Al-Arian, 48, who has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 20, 2003, has agreed to stipulate to deportation to another country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement once his prison sentence has ended..."
Al-Arian was under detention by immigration authorities, facing a charge of contempt because of his refusal to testify in a federal grand jury investigation involving the infamous "Virginia jihad network."
Activist, judge Leonie Brinkema, a 1993 Clinton appointee [who notoriously chastised federal prosecutors, taking the death penalty off the table in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui - the so-called "20th hijacker" - who is now serving a life term] started the process that led to the release of Al-Arian.
September 3, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - With opening arguments in the nation's largest terror funding case set to commence on September 22, the U.S. Attorney's Office has taken steps to streamline the retrial of the U.S. vs Holy Land Foundation prosecution.
In all, a total of 29 counts against two HLF defendants Abdulrahman Odeh and Mufid Abdulqader have been submitted to U.S. District Judge Jorge Solis for consideration of dismissal.
Should those charges be dropped, Odeh and Abdulqader still each face a possibility of nearly 60 years in prison on the remaining charges.
Rather than demonstrating weakness of the government's case, the move is seen to be an effort to streamline a prosecution which is almost Byzantine in its complexity, making it more accessible and understandable to the jury. The government still faces an uphill battle if only because the chain of evidence is extraordinarily complex.
The first prosecution was declared a mistrial by presiding Judge Joe Fish last summer, after a partial acquittal was rendered by the jury, which then expressed growing doubts as to the correctness of its conclusions.
September 2, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - According to an expose aired on British television, Channel 4 Dispatches [aired Monday evening] women preachers at London's Central Mosque are promoting extremism, denouncing non-Muslims as "vile," as well as calling for the murder of homosexuals.
The Central Mosque has been heretofore erroneously represented as being moderate.
The television investigation follows on the heels of a previous and similar study of other UK based mosques - Undercover Mosque - which revealed that they were pushing a radical Muslim agenda, with official assistance by the Saudi government.
Undercover Mosque, though critically acclaimed, ran afoul of elements of British law enforcement because of its "controversial" nature. Instead of acting to curb the religious hate being spread in these mosques, unbelievably the documentary's producers were accused by the West Midlands Police department of engaging in distortion and intentionally attempting to inflame the situation.
August 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Bilal Mazloum, the brother of convicted terrorist Wassim Mazloum, was sentenced yesterday to one year of probation, having been previously convicted of lying to the FBI during the terror investigation of his brother.
Mohammad Amawi, 28, Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27 were found guilty on June 13 after a two month trial of, "conspiring to kill and maim persons outside the United States and conspiring to provide material support for terrorism" - having joined in a plot to recruit and train terrorists to harm U.S. troops in Iraq.
Amawi and El-Hindi were additionally found guilty of disseminating information about explosives.
The terror trio all face the possibility of life in jail. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
August 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Mohammed Taheri Azar, the "jeep jihadist" who drove a rented SUV into a crowd of students at the UNC at Chapel Hill was sentenced on Tuesday August 26 2008 and now faces up to 33 years in prison.
"Taheri-Azar, a Muslim UNC Chapel Hill student pleaded guilty earlier, to two counts of first degree attempted murder after having driven a rented SUV into a crowd of people on the school's campus in March of 2006, seriously injuring nine.
As a result of a plea bargain, nine counts of aggravated felonious assault were dropped. Mohammad Reza Taheri Azar will be sentenced on two counts of first-degree attempted murder on August 25. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 40 years.
Taheri Azar had been held in a mental institution since 2007 when he erupted in court. He was released last month and transferred to the North Carolina Central Prison."
In a sentencing statement, Orange County Superior Court Judge Carl Fox said, "One of the things our government won't tolerate, and after 9/11 our citizens won't tolerate, is trying to use Americans as punching bags or targets for terrorist acts or mindless acts." [source, http://www.newsobserver.com/news/crime_safety/story/1194179.html]
August 27, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Brandeis University, "America's first Jewish-sponsored university," is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Over the last few years the liberal educational institution has drawn unwanted attention and severe criticism [not to mention loss of funding through donations] due to poor choices made by the university, including the 2005 naming of Khalil Shikaki as a scholar at the school's Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Mr. Shikaki has some troubling ties and associations; according to the New York Sun:
"Government wiretaps introduced at the trial of a Florida professor accused of operating the American wing of PIJ, Sami Al-Arian, show Mr. Shikaki distributed money in the West Bank for Al-Arian associates allegedly tied to PIJ...He is also the brother of the assassinated founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shikaki, and a former director..." [source, "Concern Mounts Over Brandeis Professor's Ties to Islamic Jihad," http://www.nysun.com/national/concern-mounts-over-brandeis-professors-ties/25980 for additional information regarding Shikaki see, http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/336]
The university has also honored extreme anti-Zionist playwright Tony Kushner, awarding him an honorary doctorate degree and extended in 2007 an invitation to former President Jimmy Carter to discuss his controversial book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Even with this as background it is still suprising that Brandeis would have initiated a long-term and intimate relationship with the radical Al Quds University located in Jerusalem.
August 27, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a strongly worded open letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi [D-CA], Catholic members of the House of Representatives claimed that remarks made by her in an interview conducted by Tom Brokaw, regarding the Catholic Church's position on abortion and the sanctity of life were demonstrably in error and that they, "mangle Catholic Church doctrine regarding the inherent sanctity and dignity of human life..."
The sixteen co-signees to the document demanded that Pelosi, "rectify [her] errant claims and apologize for misrepresenting the Church's doctrine and misleading fellow Catholics."
The full text of the letter reproduced below:
August 26, 2008
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House of Representatives
H-232, The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Speaker Pelosi,
On the Sunday, August 24th, broadcast of NBC's Meet the Press, you stated "as an ardent, practicing Catholic, [abortion] is an issue that I have studied for a long time." As fellow Catholics and legislators, we wish you would have made a more honest effort to lay out the authentic position of the Church on this core moral issue before attempting to address it with authority.
Your subsequent remarks mangle Catholic Church doctrine regarding the inherent sanctity and dignity of human life; therefore, we are compelled to refute your error.
August 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - This weekend, 44 activists from 17 countries set sail from Cyprus intending to defy an Israeli blockade of Gaza, which has been in force since the Hamas terrorist movement took over control of the territory in June of 2007.
Seeking to prevent a PR victory for the protesters, the Israeli government has decided to let them in, with a foreign ministry spokesman explaining, "We tried not to play into their hands and be drawn into a provocation when they arrived, and will try to continue this policy when they leave." [source, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/25/africa/ME-Israel-Gaza-Blockade.php]
Writing for the Israeli National News, David Bedein states:
"From their web site, www.FreeGaza.org, it is clear that the group was officially invited by the Hamas regime to make this trip. They have succeeded in their mission: to establish in Gaza an international support network for the next battle in the Hamas war on Israel." [source, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/8195 ]
August 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Maher al-Gohari, a 56 year old ex-Egyptian policeman, rejected Islam 30 years ago, secretly converting to Christianity. However now that his request to change the religious status on the official identification that all Egyptians must carry has been made public, he is in hiding, fearful that he will be killed as an apostate.
Al-Gohari is even afraid that his now estranged family might try to harm him because of his conversion, as quoted by the AFP news service al-Gohari stated, "I was forced to leave my family home where I have lived with my mother and daughter...My family has threatened me with death after the press published reports about the legal request I made...I never insulted Islam. I simply wanted my rights and wanted the state to treat me according to the belief I have chosen..." [source, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iTFCrE70P27IHoUaYRM6zNTrnlFA]
The threat from his family is palpable al-Gohari said, "My younger brother knew about it but since then he's been waiting for [me] outside my building ... with a gun...He wants to kill me." [source, ibid]
In much of the Muslim world converting from Islam to another religion is considered apostasy and is punishable by death under Shari'a.
This is a critical point, well worth noting when evaluating the phenomenon of Muslim "interfaith dialogue," it being inconceivable to engage in true faith sharing - a two way conversation - when one side is theologically proscribed from ever being receptive or open to another religion.
August 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The notion of the Democrat party - an organization which has at every juncture shown blistering hostility to people of faith - opening their Denver convention this week with an "interfaith" extravaganza is preposterous, a bad joke at best. Likewise their offering up Ingrid Mattson - current president of one of America's most radical Islamist pressure groups, the Islamic Society of North America - as a representative of the American Muslim community is equally absurd.
ISNA is an American wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian terrorist group and was named last summer as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Hamas terror prosecution, U.S. vs Holy Land Foundation et al.
Ms. Mattson is an incendiary personality, spreading hate filled intolerance as a pivotal leader in the Muslim Brotherhood linked ISNA, for example, the following March 14, 2007 citation by Charles A. Radin, a staff writer for the Boston Globe:
Another former terrorist hits the anti-jihad rubber chicken circuit
August 20, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Maajid Nawaz has recently been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, testifying before the Senate on matters concerning terrorism. He has been feted, in some circles; an iconic poster boy, this week's iteration of the "moderate" Muslim.
Born in the UK in 1978, Nawaz' credibility as terror authority seems natural, having joined the international terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir [which has headquarters in London] at the age of 16, only "rejecting" it in 2007, returning to the UK after a four year stay [2002-2006] in an Egyptian prison, charged alongside 15 others of trying to overthrow the government.
Hizb ut-Tahrir was created in 1952 by Sheikh Taqiuddin an-Nabhani al Falastini, also a member of the Egyptian terrorist group the Muslim Brotherhood.
The group is active in 40 countries and seeks to impose a worldwide Islamic theocracy, a caliphate. As the Heritage Foundation notes about the group:
Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami is an emerging threat to American interests and the countries in which it operates. It has 5,000-10,000 hard-core members, and many more supporters in former Soviet Central Asia (e.g., Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan), and is expanding its operations to oil-rich Kazakhstan. Over 10,000 members are active in Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, and Indonesia.2 At least 500 are already behind bars in Uzbekistan alone, and hundreds are in custody in the Middle East.3 By breeding violent anti-American attitudes, attempting to overthrow existing regimes, and preparing cadres for more radical Islamist organizations, Hizb poses a threat to U.S. interests in Central Asia and elsewhere in the Islamic world where moderate regimes are found." [source, http://www.heritage.org/Research/RussiaandEurasia/BG1656.cfm
August 20, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - When the Russians invaded Georgia and bombed the Georgian town of Gori the famous statue of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was miraculously spared from destruction. Even after a Russian clusterbomb killed eight civilians in the main square of Gori on Tuesday August 12, 2008, Stalin's statue continued to tower over that very same square. It would have been much better, of course, if Russian bombs would have destroyed the statue of the hideous former communist dictator instead of killing innocent civilians, Dutch cameraman Stan Storimans among them.
Stalin was born as Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in Gori in 1878. He was one of the most brutal communist dictators ever. He died in 1953 in Moscow. It was three years after his death that Nikita Krushchev (1894-1971), the new communist leader, exposed Stalin's numerous crimes in a secret speech to the Twentieth Congres of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in February 1956. Not only was Stalin responsible for the death of millions of Soviet citizens in Siberian labor camps, also did he ignore numerous warnings that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) planned an invasion of Russia in 1941. He trusted no one, and many a loyal party member was executed because Stalin wished him to be dead. But he did trust Hitler till the very end - the day of the Nazi German invasion on June 22, 1941.
The famous Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) once wrote about Stalin: "Not to trust anybody was very typical of Iosef Dzhugashivili. All the years of his life did he trust one man only and that was Adolf Hitler."1
It was Stalin's fatal decision in the summer of 1940 to allow the Nazi German Airforce ("Luftwaffe") "freedom to conduct unlimited reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union. Fearing that preventive action by Soviet air defenses would "provoke" Hitler, he issued strict orders against it." "We do not fire on German aircraft."2
August 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last evening the two presidential candidates discussed the issues with pastor Rick Warren at an event held at the Saddleback church in LA.
Our expectations regarding McCain were very limited, however we were extremely surpised and gratified by his performance.
He was assured, self-deprecating and set forth a clear and most important, conservative agenda. In our opinion his overall performance was clearly superior to that of Mr. Obama, who appeared devoid of energy and, deprived of his cue cards, at points appeared lost and unfocussed.
We took special note of McCain's discussion of the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism, highlighting in bold italic.
Note: This is a rush transcript taken from the Saddleback website and partially edited. Take link for complete document.
[excerpt] - "MY FRIENDS, WE ARE FACING THE TRANSCENDENT CHALLENGE OF THE -CENTURY, RADICAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS..."
August 15, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On August 10, a group of 28 South Florida Muslim leaders met at an event organized by the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] aimed at "raising its profile" and finding, "ways to make their voices heard in local civic life." CAIR, a faux civil rights organization, operates as a mouthpiece for Hamas and was named last summer as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding prosecution.
CAIR officials called the summit "a pioneering effort" to help "better gauge our civic engagement." Civic engagement is a code word for Islamization and aims to promote Shari'a by pushing a Muslim agenda into the public arena.
CAIR shill Roland Foulkes, chairman of the Broward County Commission's "Diversity Advisory Council," was one of the speakers at the event. He urged participants to "raise their visibility," by volunteering for county and city boards, creating community newspapers, opposing "racial profiling" and applying for grants to facilitate running for office.
Haroon Sulaiman, chairman of the Muslim Community of Palm Beach County expressed a desire to inject an Islamocentric perspective into public affairs.
August 13, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A Muslim UNC Chapel Hill student pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of first degree attempted murder after having driven a rented SUV into a crowd of people on the school's campus in March of 2006, seriously injuring nine.
As a result of a plea bargain, nine counts of aggravated felonious assault were dropped. Mohammad Reza Taheri Azar will be sentenced on two counts of first-degree attempted murder on August 25. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 40 years.
Taheri Azar has been held in a mental institution since 2007 when he erupted in court. He was released last month and transferred to the North Carolina Central Prison.
Effort To Strip Official Counter Terror Lexicon Of Most Descriptive Terminology Continues
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
August 13, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Continuing their campaign of intimidation aimed at censoring official dialogue of the terms most useful in describing the phenomenon of Islamic terrorism, on August 7, CAIR - an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding prosecution - joined with an assortment of nominally Christian and Jewish groups, selecting California GOP Congressman Ed Royce as their newest target.
A letter addressed to Mr. Royce reads in part:
"As a diverse group of Southern California interfaith leaders, intellectuals and activists, we are deeply concerned by your continued use of inflammatory rhetoric linking Islam to terrorism. For example, in your June and July newsletters you stated , "Given the threat from Islamist terrorism facing our country, we need to be acting urgently to protect the United States everyday..."
The communication then goes on to suggest that Islamic terrorism doesn't exist, "Linking any faith to violence or terrorism is not only inaccurate but also casts a negative shadow on the peaceful followers of that faith," an absurd statement, unsupported by fact.
August 11, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - August 9 was the 63rd anniversary of the 1945 dropping of a plutonium fission weapon on Nagasaki, Japan. A few days later, Japan announced that it was unconditionally surrendering, bringing World War II - the most bloody conflict in modern history - to an end.
Gathering to protest that occurrence, about a dozen San Francisco Bay Area groups joined together, staging a small demonstration near the main gate of Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, perhaps the free world's preeminent nuclear weapon research facility.
The event was attended by less than 100 lefties of all stripes, including a contingent of pacifists and religious activists.
What follows is a video essay in which we allow these folks to speak for themselves, revealing a chilling mixture of childish naiveté and dogmatism.
August 11, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last week Doug Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee drew my attention to a previously unnoticed January 2008 article by Terence Jeffrey stating Barack Obama actually did vote against a version of the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act that was identical to the federal version, contrary to multiple public statements Obama or his surrogates have made to rationalize his opposition to the IL bill for the past 4 years.
Since then we have found 2 separate documents proving Barack Obama has been misrepresenting facts.
In fact, Barack Obama is more liberal than any U.S. senator, voting against identical language of a bill that body passed unanimously, 98-0. In fact, Barack Obama condones infanticide if it would otherwise interfere with abortion.
Here is the statement with documentation released by NRLC this morning...
New documents just obtained by NRLC, and linked below, prove that Senator [Barack] Obama has for the past four years blatantly misrepresented his actions on the IL Born-Alive Infants Protection bill.
Summary and comment by NRLC spokesman Douglas Johnson:
Newly obtained documents prove that in 2003, Barack Obama, as chairman of an IL state Senate committee, voted down a bill to protect live-born survivors of abortion - even after the panel had amended the bill to contain verbatim language, copied from a federal bill passed by Congress without objection in 2002, explicitly foreclosing any impact on abortion. Obama's legislative actions in 2003 - denying effective protection even to babies born alive during abortions - were contrary to the position taken on the same language by even the most liberal members of Congress. The bill Obama killed was virtually identical to the federal bill that even NARAL ultimately did not oppose.
Father And Children Fires Assault Weapons, Visit "Hand Grenade Store"
By BEILA RABINOWITZ and WILLIAM MAYER
August 11, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A Muslim member of the Glasgow city council has been suspended after it became known that he took his family to Pakistan in 2005, where they participated in weapons training.
Jahangir Hanif, a multi-millionaire slumlord, and five of his six children traveled to the Pakistani/Kashmir border area in a van with "blacked out" windows. Hanif's 17 year old daughter related the story to the Evening Times, which wrote:
"A chilling video, seen by the Evening Times, shows Mr Hanif shooting the powerful weapon, which is capable of firing 600 rounds a minute.Noor says she fired the gun, while her sisters and brothers were also encouraged to use the weapon.Mr Hanif's youngest daughter Sana, just five at the time, is seen being helped to fire the gun...His son Ameer, now 14, also shot with the Russian-made AK-47 as did daughters Zainab, 13, and Amina, 10. Ameer also claims he was taken to a shop which sold grenades, guns and knives during the trip.The councillor says his children were interested in learning how to use the weapon." [source, http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.2419790.0.councillor_kalashnikov.php]
August 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Tyson Foods, Inc., today announced that it has reinstated Labor Day as a paid holiday as part of a renegotiated contract with the Retail, Wholesale and Dept. Store Union, applicable at the Shelbyville, Tennessee plant only.
Initial local reaction is overwhelmingly positive with high ranking local government officials greeting the decision with approval.
The previous agreement, in effect since last November, substituted the Muslim holiday, Eid al-Fitr for Labor Day, in recognition of the substantial number of Somali Muslims working at the plant. That holiday will remain however, bringing the total number of paid holidays to nine - for 2008 only - for the Shelbyville workforce.
Starting in 2009, the number of holidays will revert back to eight, one of which will be a personal holiday, possibly the employee's birthday, Eid, or another day, as the company press release states, "requested and approved by their supervisor."
The move was clearly an effort to quell the firestorm which erupted upon the revelation of the terms of the original contract, recognizing the Muslim holiday.
The move is being greeted by the usual terror friendly suspects such as CAIR as further evidence of "Islamophobia," and Internet "persecution," as voiced by Dawud Walid, CAIR's Michigan director:
"Dawud Walid, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' Michigan chapter, said Asbahi was a victim of Internet rumors.
"This incident just shows how Islamophobic the political climate is right now," Walid said. "Baseless smears about a Muslim with a very good reputation was used to marginalize not only him but the community from the political process."
As we noted in the above linked August 1 piece:
"For example, Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, is on the speakers list of the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] [see, http://www.isna.net/Programs/pages/Speakers-Services.aspx#17].
ISNA is widely understood to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist Egyptian group that created Hamas. ISNA was named last summer as an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest terror prosecution, U.S. vs Holy Land Foundation and is the largest Saudi funded da'wa enterprise in North America. [source, http://www.nysun.com/article/55778?access=284047]
Asbahi's ISNA biography reveals that he is involved in numerous Islamist organizations including the Nawawi Foundation [a da'wa organization run by a convert to Islam which presents all of history from an Islamist perspective] as well as the National Association of Muslim Lawyers [NAML] which has close ties to the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], which has been linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas as well as having been named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land prosecution.
According to his ISNA bio, Asbahi also, "serves as a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding," [ISPU].
The ISPU's Islamist roots run deep..."
Indeed, Mr. Asbahi's Islamist roots run deep, so deep in fact that the MSM was finally forced to weigh in, extending [marginally...documenting his ties to a radical Chicago mosque] the research done by the independent media, thus adding weight to the growing inertia demanding his resignation.
August 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A recent press release issued by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union [RWDSU] which represents plant workers at Tyson Foods' Inc [the nation largest meat producer] Shelbyville, Tennessee facility, makes clear that efforts to incrementally introduce Shari'a - Islamic law - into the body of mainstream America appear to be alive and thriving in the unlikely setting of the rural South, the caveat being that the issue is more complex than a simple reading of headlines might indicate.
A story broken by Shelbyville Times Gazette reporter Brian Moseley [see, Tyson drops Labor Day holiday for Eid al-Fitr, http://www.t-g.com/story/1449487.html] revealed that last year the company signed a 5 year agreement with the RWDSU which substitutes the Islamic celebration commemorating the end of Ramadan - Eid ul-Fitr [also, Eid al-Fitr] - for the traditional observance of Labor Day, a holiday which was set aside in the late 19th century in recognition of the contributions made by this country's unionized labor force.
About the matter Mr. Moseley wrote:
"Workers at Tyson Foods' poultry processing plant in Shelbyville will no longer have a paid day off on Labor Day, but will instead take the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in the fall.
A recent press release from the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) stated that a new contract at the Shelbyville facility 'implements a new holiday to accommodate the ... Muslim workers at the plant.'"
August 4, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last May Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled predicted that "within 20 years Muslims will be in a majority in Europe." "There are now 25-30 million Muslims in Europe," he said. "This figure has many implications. The Muslims keep having many children, while the Europeans do not. This means that within 20 years the Muslims will be in a majority, which may have an exceptional influence on the decision-making." He called on Europe's 30 million Muslims to infiltrate society and become "walking propaganda machines." "Each person should say: 'I am an ambassador for Islam,' and they should take all action throughout Europe." 1
In parts of Europe this process of "Islamization" is taking place at a remarkably rapid pace. Over the past decades major European cities such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Berlin, Munich, Milan, Paris, Madrid, Birmingham, Leeds and London faced a huge influx of Muslim immigrants. In Britain fewer and fewer people regularly attend church services while the mosques are attracting ever bigger crowds: by the year 2050 the number of British citizens visting mosques may exceed the number of regular churchgoers. 2
It is in Southern Spain, though, that one can really speak of a trend of rapid "re-Islamization." For a period of about 800 years Southern Spain was ruled by Muslims and this vast area was then known as "Al-Andalus." (At one stage, Muslims even occupied nearly two-thirds of Spanish territory.) The Muslim rule came to an end on January 2, 1492, when Granada, the last Muslim stronghold, capitulated to the Roman Catholic kings. But even after the victories of the "Reconquista" ("reconquest"), a demographical problem continued to play a part in 16th and 17th century Spanish politics. The birthrate among Muslims ("Moriskos") was much higher than among Christians ("Cristianos"). In the Kingdom of Valencia, for example, the Muslim population saw an increase of about 70 percent between 1563-1609. The Catholic Spanish rulers decided to expel large numbers of Muslims many of whom settled in Northern Africa.3
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a desperate attempt to win Muslim votes and to overcome a recent PR debacle - a June 16 Barack Obama rally in Detroit during which the campaign moved two women who were wearing hijab so they would not appear in images featuring the candidate - his campaign has announced the appointment of a "liaison" to the Arab and Muslim community, Mazen Asbahi.
Asbahi's Islamist credentials are reflected by the enthusiasm with which the news was greeted by American Islamists, including the Muslim Public Affairs Council [MPAC] which stated:
"Mr. Asbahi will further the Obama campaigns outreach efforts and participation of the Muslim American community...MPAC is confident that Mr. Asbahi will encourage Muslim Americans to be civically engaged." [source, http://www.mpac.org/article.php?id=673]
Understanding MPAC's MO, "Civically engaged" should be interpreted as a euphemism for implementing shari'a; the organization's goals having been characterized by Dr. Daniel Pipes as:
"Impeding counterterrorism efforts and forwarding an Islamist vision of America..." [source, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2004/07/the-difference-between-cair-and-mpac.html]
In testimony delivered before the House Foreign Relations Committee just yesterday, noted terror authority Steven Emerson observed about MPAC:
"Marayati has repeatedly justified the actions of Hizbollah before the Department of State invited him as a speaker. In November 1999, on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Marayati responded to accusations that he supports Hizbollah, "If the Lebanese people are resisting Israeli intransigence on Lebanese soil, then that is the right of resistance and they have the right to target Israeli soldiers in this conflict. That is not terrorism. That is a legitimate resistance." [source, Steven Emerson Testimony, U.S. House Committe On Foreign Affairs, pg. 4]
The constellation of organizations to which Mr. Asbahi is linked should give pause for concern.
For example, Asbahi, a Chicago lawyer, is on the speakers list of the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] [see, http://www.isna.net/Programs/pages/Speakers-Services.aspx#17].
ISNA is widely understood to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the terrorist Egyptian group that created Hamas. ISNA was named last summer as an unindicted co-conspirator in the nation's largest terror prosecution, U.S. vs Holy Land Foundation and is the largest Saudi funded da'wa enterprise in North America. [source, http://www.nysun.com/article/55778?access=284047]
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman Project founder, related in an interview with Old Glory Radio today that his entourage was attacked by an assailant, using a chemical weapon during his Wednesday appearance in San Francisco.
Mr. Gilchrist was in the city calling attention to the "sanctuary city" status of San Francisco and the recent murder of three San Francisco citizens at the hands of an AK-47 wielding illegal alien, a member of Central America?s most feared drug gang, MS-13
During the interview, Gilchrist described how one of the radical leftist counter-protesters approached him with a "wild look" in the eye and threw a glass vial at one of the members of his party which then exploded, releasing an unknown chemical agent. Gilchrist added that the weapon detonated on impact, sounding like a muffled gun blast.
The man was quickly detained and arrested by city police and is currently being held on $50,000 dollars bail.
Gavin Newsom has come under increasing criticism for the role he played in San Francisco?s designation as a sanctuary city, which has led to an increase in violent street crime.
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Noted terror authority Steven Emerson delivered a blistering indictment of the State Department?s shabbily constructed outreach to the Muslim world on July 31 before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
In an atmosphere that was crackling with tension, the radical Muslim community having gone to great lengths to prevent it, Mr. Emerson leveled a broadside against State's policies on this matter.
"The State Department's efforts to reach out to the Muslim community have resulted in
multiple collaborative efforts between the State Department and radical Islamist groups
and individuals. Some of these groups and individuals have even been convicted,
indicted, or designated unindicted co-conspirators in terrorism cases in the United States,
many linked directly to the Muslim Brotherhood or share its fundamentalist ideology." [source, see Emerson, U.S. House Testimony]
Substantiating these allegations, Emerson went on to present numerous instances in which the State Department had closely worked, often providing substantial funding, with organizations and individuals who had clear and obvious links to the terror network, including one individual who was subsequently convicted on terror charges and is serving a 23 year prison sentence.
Emerson singled out Karen Hughes, appointed to the State Department by President Bush to serve - Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs - as a liaison between the United States and the Muslim world, for her particularly egregious record of working with some of the most radical of America's Islamist organizations:
"During her tenure, Ms. Hughes and her staff held meetings with the very people who
should be avoided and denounced for their public, anti-American and pro-terrorist
stances; embraced individuals and groups with long histories of support for terrorists; and
sought advice from individuals who are on the record as being supportive and friendly
with terrorists and terrorist causes."
July 30, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Despite having been assaulted by one of San Francisco's "peace and love" types just moments before, the unflapable Jim Gilchrist, founder of the pro-border enforcement Minuteman Project, delivered a powerful and searing indictment of Mayor Gavin Newsom's immigration policies on the steps of City Hall this morning, demanding his ouster.
Prompting Gilchrist's appearance was Newsom's past declaration of San Francisco as a "sanctuary city," hence making it a safe haven for illegal aliens and tying the hands of local law enforcement, prohibiting them from cooperating with federal authorities in immigration enforcement.
The repercussions of Newsom's actions have been felt throughout the community, where incidents of gang violence have skyrocketed, culminating in the June 22 military style execution of a San Francisco family of three by an AK-47 wielding member of the Latin America's most notorious drug smuggling gang, MS-13.
About today's action Mr. Gilchrist said:
"San Francisco is one of well over 100 such cities in the country that allow illegal aliens to continuously hide in the shadows and remain insulated from the arms of justice and law enforcement...What happened to the Bologna family is not an isolated incident...U.S. residents are murdered by illegal aliens on a daily basis in every major city across the country."
Placing the blame squarely on Newsom's administration, Gilchrist concluded:
"The Minuteman Project will demand the immediate resignation of Mayor Newsom...It is too late for an apology from Mayor Newsom. It is too late to prevent the deaths of Anthony, Michael, and Matthew Bologna. But it is not too late to begin replacing all of our political governors in every city across America with people who will truly and sincerely represent and protect the citizens of this country. Currently, too many of them represent criminal illegal aliens, simply passing on as "inconvenient" any serious attempt to keep the United States civilized under the rule of law."
Protesting Mr. Gilchrist's appearance was the usual San Francisco rent-a-mob, comprised primarily of revolutionary communists wielding Che placards and radical open border supporters many of whom seemed unfamiliar with the English language.
Fundamentalist Islam "Incompatible With Democracy"
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
July 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A study released today which calls into question some of the most basic and prevalent attitudes in the West regarding the possibility of reaching accommodation with fundamentalist Muslims Executive Summary, Islam on Campus: A survey of UK student opinions] shows that 60% of students active in university based Islamic societies believe that, "killing in the name of religion can be justified," 40% support the introduction of shari'a into the legal framework and 33% favor the establishment of the Caliphate, a world-wide Islamic theocracy.
The report was commissioned by the Centre for Social Cohesion and conducted by YouGov.
Given the extreme nature of the Muslim students views, non-Muslim students have developed negative attitudes regarding them, with half stating that Islam was, "very or fairly incompatible with democracy."
Regarding the findings, the report's co-author, Hannah Stuart said, "These findings are deeply alarming...Students in higher education are the future leaders of their communities. Yet significant numbers of them appear to hold beliefs which contravene liberal democratic values." [source, UK Guardian, Radical Islam gains ground on campuses, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/27/islam.highereducation]
July 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Jamaat Al Muslimeen [JAM, The Islamic Peoples Movement] has announced their plans for an "International conference promoting peace and awareness," on August 16th 2008 in Baltimore, Maryland.
JAM makes no secret it supports the implementation of shari'a in the United States.
According to their website:
"Jamaat Al Muslimeen stands for the oppressed and stand against the oppressors. We believe in freeing the slaves and helping the political cause. Our goal is to make peace and show awareness to all. We believe occupation is a crime and occupying forces should not occupy foreign land where they have no business being in the first place. Islam is the religion of the past, present and the future. It is believing and practicing the five pillars of Islam and abiding by the teaching of the Quran,Hadith, and the Sunnah of the holy prophet of Islam (PBUH) in it's entirety." http://jam4peace.org/aboutus.aspx
The "endorsers" of the conference highlight the Islamist/Red/Green alliance and include such controversial figures as Jamal Al Amin aka H. Rap Brown, Saddam defense attorney Ramsey Clark and Lynne Stewart who in 2005 was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists.
July 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Pakistan's new political leadership has been unable to halt the country's slide towards an Islamist inspired state of anarchy.
Numerous East Asian reports are making it clear that rather than checking the tide of radicalization, Pakistan's shaky coalition government's strategy of appeasement appears to be hastening it.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a pro Taliban/al-Qaeda party and also a member of the Pak governing coalition, was recently quoted as stating, "The North West Frontier province is breaking away from Pakistan. That is what is happening. That is the reality." [source, The Autstalian, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24078316-2703,00.html]
What makes the disposition of the NW Frontier important, aside from it being an important political barometer, is that it is believed to be housing the majority of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
In what is perhaps the diplomatic understatement of the year, U.S. Secty of State Condoleeza Rice, who is in Australia said that, "Pakistan does need to do more."
July 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In the dark days of the early Cold War, circa 1961, the Soviets precipitated a crisis in Western Europe, Germany to be exact.
This was at a time, only a few years post WWII, when much of the old world remained shattered by the most deadly war in history and Berlin was divided into Eastern and Western sectors, testament to the geopolitics of the time. There was a complicated four-power arrangement of shared access to the city but the flight of skilled labor from the East to the West was presenting problems.
East German President Ulbricht could hardly afford the loss of so many valuable workers on top of the destruction still present from the intense Allied bombing of Berlin and for Premier Khrushchev, the prospect of over 100,000 people having fled from the now communist dominated side of the city to the freedom of the West, was a public relations nightmare for his regime.
In response, the Russian dictator decided to work with the East Germans to build a wall designed to imprison the East German population and followed that with a threat to deny access to the Western sector altogether.
Spurred on by the Soviet's belligerence, the newly elected American President, John Kennedy, immediately increased the size of what was now an essentially demobilized U.S. Armed Forces [over 16 million served in the U.S. Armed Forces during WWII] by about 25%. He also obtained Congressional authorization to increase the draft. He then conducted a huge airlift, transferring military personnel, equipment and air power to forward operating bases in Europe in preparation for a possible armed confrontation with the Soviets over the deepening crisis in the German capital.
In order to steel the West German's will and indeed that of the West in general - which understandably dreaded the specter of a new even more destructive war - he made a now historic speech in January of 1963 during which he used the memorable phrase, "Ich bin ein Berliner," which translates into, I am a Berliner, a symbol of solidarity.
Banning Of "Offensive" Terms Used To Describe Islamic Terror Network, Overturned By Hoekstra Intel Amendment
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
July 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As we detailed in our April 25 piece Terms "Jihadist" And "Islamo-Fascist" Booted By Feds For Fear Of Antagonizing Jihadists and Islamo-Fascists intelligence bureaucrats within the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Counterterrorism Center and other agencies, have been issuing directives banning the use of the terms ["jihadist," "Islamic fundamentalist" and "caliphate" for example] most useful in precisely describing the attributes of the fundamentalist Islamic terror network which attacked the United States on 9/11.
Supporting this attempted suppression of free speech are the usual gaggle of American Islamist fifth-columnists including the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] an organization currently designated as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding prosecution. CAIR is claiming that jihad is not what most thinking Americans know it to be, religiously sanctioned warfare.
Dawud Walid, executive director of CAIR, Michigan states that these terms reinforce, "...the positions of extremists and may unintentionally legitimize al-Qaida and other anti-American forces. CAIR supports using terminology such as 'criminals,' 'murderers' or 'terrorists' that helps isolate extremists and remove the false cloak of religiosity they use to justify their barbaric actions."
As these writers noted in the April piece:
"Employing the twisted logic of not wishing to further stoke whatever additional enmity might exist in those already sworn to destroying the United States and West, the federal government has issued directives to stop the use of some of the most appropriate phrases and terms now being used to identify and describe the forces seeking to Islamize the Western world by force..."
Working to turn back these efforts, Congressman Pete Hoekstra [R - MI] introduced [with a handful of co-sponsors] an amendment to the 2009 Intelligence Authorization Act which would deny the financing needed to put the proposed censorship in place.
Defeated in a party line vote in the House Intelligence Committee chaired by Silvestre Reyes [whose grasp of the terror landscape is tenuous, for example in a 2006 interview with Congressional Quarterly he was unable to correctly identify whether al-Qaeda or Hezbollah were primarily either Sunni or Shiite], Mr. Hoekstra then brought the bill [H R 5959] to the full House for a vote on July 16th whereupon it passed [249-180, see, http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll500.xml] with 55 Democrats crossing the line to vote against their leadership.
July 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - John Edwards, former Democrat presidential candidate and currently on Obama's "short list" for VP was this morning busted by the National Enquirer in the Beverly Hilton hotel with his mistress Rielle Hunter,and their love child.
Confronted by the Enquirer's phalanx of reporters and photographers Edward's reportedly ran and hid in a bathroom for 15 minutes before being escorted past the reporters by hotel security personnel.
What does this mean aside from another Democrat being outed as a seamy, lying scumbag?
Consider this the Clinton's first salvo in the destruction of Obama, a massive shot across the bow, stealing the spotlight from the freshman Senator as he prances across the Mideast and Europe as he sows whatever it is that he sows.
It may be news to some, but of course not to us, that the Clinton's have controlled both the National Enquirer and Star Magazine since 1999, when their former Treasury Secty, Roger C. Altman - through his company Evercore Capital Partners LLC - bought both tabloids for $294 million, acquiring them from American Media Inc. [source, New York Times, Investment Group Buys The National Enquirer and Star Magazine, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804E3D8113AF934A25751C0A96F958260]
July 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last week's Muslim World League conference held in Spain, appears to have been a public relations disaster for the Saudi government, which organized the event.
Rather than coming together in an attempt to reconcile the disparate factions of the Islamic world, the affair - chaired by Saudi prince Al-Turki - ended with a UAE official urging Muslim leaders to "avoid the company of Zionists."
In this parlance of course, Zionist translates into "Jews," despite the participant's best attempt at semantic gymastics.
During the conference, one of Saudi Arabia's most senior religious figures, an imam of the grand mosque in Mecca, Saleh bin Humaid, defended his country's ban on churches and synagogues stating, "from a religious point of view, they can't build a synagogue or a church because it's a sacred place for Muslims."
It has also been revealed that the Saudi's have gone back on their promise to the U.S. State Department, having refused to remove fundamentalist textbooks from the country's schools.
"For example, a textbook for 10th graders on Islamic jurisprudence not only says it is permissible in Islam to murder a homosexual, but recommends the methods for doing so: burning alive, stoning, or throwing one off a high building," [see, http://www.nysun.com/editorials/the-saudi-monologue/82289]
July 21, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Though distressing, Israel?s decision last week to exchange five Hezbollah terrorists - including child killer Samir Kuntar - for the bodies of two IDF soldiers should not be surprising; in large part it merely reflects the degree to which the West seems incapable of making decisions that grate against the prevailing atmosphere of appeasement.
Of course Israel is by far not the only country which is acting against its self-interest in the region, the United States, especially the Bush State Department is merrily prancing down the same path, to the applause of such tarnished authorities as the New York Times:
"The United States, Israel and some of their European allies have begun to recognize that their policy of trying to defeat their enemies by isolating and vilifying them has failed." [source, Talks Signal Mideast Shift, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/world/middleeast/18mideast.html?em&ex=1216526400&en=ece048de73db0472&ei=5087%0A]
The cause for the Times' joy, is the recent dispatch of numerous State Department types who are feverishly scurrying around the Mideast, offering the ageless - and appealing to this feminized generation - the promise of progress without pain, peace without conflict.
The release of child murderer Samir Kuntar under any conditions by the Israeli government would be such a monstrous act as to defy description. Not only would it result in Kuntar escaping justice, but it would immediately place him back in the terror business, searching for other little Einat Shahars to sadistically murder.
Moreover it would define the Israeli government as an assembly of cowardly, frightened lambs whose appeasement and capitulation would only help pave the way to the slaughterhouse which the Islamic jihad has prepared, and from which no amount of kicking and braying can prevent.
July 21, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a July 15 op-ed posted on the ABC News website [see, http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5380577&page=1] Eboo Patel, a Muslim da'wa practitioner operating out of Chicago writes, "Driving through central Illinois on a business trip, my wife could not believe what she was hearing on right-wing radio talk shows...Do you know what they're saying about Muslims on the station I'm listening to now?" she asked. "Basically, that we're a bunch of fundamentalists intent on suffocating people of other religions, and the only way to stop us is to get us all to convert to Christianity."
In the course of delivering this non-sourced, anecdotal broadside as fact, Mr. Patel goes on to opine that, he is "not easily offended," a claim undercut a short while later, by his own words.
"Though feted in many circles as one of the rising "moderate Muslim" voices, from his pulpit in the Washington Post's blog, "On Faith" [see, http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/eboo_patel] Patel routinely proves himself to be offering nothing of the sort, and examining his methodology and ideas reveals all of the undertones which taken together prove Muslim interfaith dialogue to be a fraudulent endeavor.
Patel's world view is familiar to anyone versed in this game. That flawed and disingenuous vision is unfortunately typical of those involved in promoting these Islamic faith propagation dog and pony shows.
It rests heavily on a thoroughly specious, Western friendly [couched in terms chosen to ingratiate itself into Judeo/Christian traditional thinking] presentation of Islam that is at odds with historical fact and reality.
It posits "Islamophobia" as a root cause of the rift between Islam and the rest of the world.
It attacks well-meaning critics of Islam - suggesting they are racists - merely because they raise troublesome issues.
This outlook is reflected by Patel's choice of allies, heroes and associates, many of whom are Islamists.
Unfortunately for Mr. Patel, his ABC piece does nothing to disprove our core analysis.
July 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Security Solutions International [SSI], a provider of integrated security solutions which has provided counter terrorism training to over 500 government agencies, has indicated through a press release that they will be actively resisting a campaign of intimidation initiated by the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], a Hamas friendly unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation terror prosecution. [see, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/07/prweb1106024.htm]
CAIR has been working behind the scenes to sully SSI's reputation and scare off clients.
According to SSI CEO Sol Bradman, "It is inconceivable that a course designed for Law Enforcement and taught by a Muslim, in which we stress that racial, ethnic or religious profiling is wrong but also poor counter terrorism technique, is the subject of political pressure in certain jurisdictions because of CAIR."
In a defiant response, the company vows that it, "will now go out of its way to sponsor the program more often in the State of Washington, and will now do so across the country with venues planned in Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Washington DC and more for 2008 and 2009." In order to facilitate this push-back, the company will be setting up a non-profit entity so that the corporation's 100,000 contacts can contribute to the effort.
July 16, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The German newspaper "Die Welt" reported last month that Venezuela is becoming a safehaven for Islamic terrorists. The close friendship between the leftist Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his Iranian colleague Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardline Muslim radical, resulted into ever closer cooperation between the two countries. Western intelligence services have reason to believe that Iran's fundamentalist regime is sending terrorists and Muslim radicals to an increasing number of Latin American countries. Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah are also providing terrorist training to citizens from Latin American countries.
It was at Ahmadinejad's instigation that Iran's national airliner "Iran Air" established a direct flight between Tehran and Caracas although the weekly flight incurs losses of half a million dollars each flight.1 Iranian intelligence officials and security experts, members of Hezbollah or the Iranian "Revolutionary Guard" can now travel directly to Venezuela and from there on to other Latin American countries. Indeed, Hezbollah does already have a strong base in the country ruled by the leftist populist Hugo Chávez.
The United States "Office of Foreign Assets Control" [OFAC] recently ordered the freezing of the accounts of two Venezuelan Arabs, the businessman Fawzi Mustafa Kann'an and the diplomat Ghazi Nasr Al-Din [or Gahzi Nasserdine]. They were suspected of raising funds for Hezbollah and supporting its worldwide terrorist network. "It is very worrying that Venezuela has become a safehaven for people who support Hezbollah," OFAC-director Adam Szubin told "Die Welt." 2
July 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a just announced decision, a court in the city of Breda, Holland has sentenced a Michigan born American identified only as "Carlos H" to 15 years in jail for the brutal axe murder of 22 year old Dutchman Thijs Geers. The murder was committed last September at a train station.
According to news reports, Carlos H is a staunch communist and "anti-imperialist." He wanted to protest the military policies of the United States and the Dutch and saw himself as an "avenger of evil."
Carlos H has lived in Holland since 2002 and originally planned to attack an Apache helicopter or a Dutch commando at a nearby military base. Unable to find a victim he felt he could overpower, Carlos H, who is small in stature, decided to kill a young man who could be of age to go into the military.
July 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Commenting on the latest controversy coming out of his police department, Metropolitan police chief Sir Ian Blair told a hearing in London that it would be "an extraordinary aberration," if he had tried to block the promotion of an ethnic minority officer. [source, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4309689.ece]
Shabir Hussain, a Muslim, has lodged charges against Blair's department claiming that he was denied a promotion in order to preserve a "golden circle" of white officers. [source, http://www.met.police.uk/about/ghaffur.htm]
Assistant Commissioner Tarik Ghaffur [the highest ranking Muslim officer on the force] is also threatening to sue the Met on similar grounds, that his being denied promotion was prompted by racism.
In response to Ghaffur's claims, Commissioner Blair issued a statement:
"I believe I have a long, honourable and occasionally blood-stained record on the championing of diversity - not perfect but always principled and persistent."
July 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Parvez Ahmed, a long time member of the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding prosecution] and currently its Board Chairman, today announced his resignation from the organization, citing a variety of concocted reasons including his desire to assist in the "home schooling" of his children.
Ahmed's departure follows a similar high-level resignation by CAIR Florida Director Ahmed Bedier, who stepped down in May.
Ahmed will apparently continue his board membership at the Florida chapter of the ACLU, an organization which often supports lawsuits on behalf of Islamists and is known to be working in league
with CAIR and other enemies of the West.
July 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Spokesmen for Afghan president Karzai today charged Pakistan's ISI with complicity in Monday's bombing of the Indian embassy which killed over 40.
Though he did not specifically mention Pakistan, news reports find Karzai press attaché Humayun Hamidzada strongly inferring that the controversial Pakistani intelligence agency is responsible:
"The sophistication of this attack, and the kind of material that was used in it and the specific targeting, everything has the hallmark of a particular intelligence agency that has conducted similar terrorist acts inside Afghanistan in the past. We have sufficient evidence to say that?The project was designed outside Afghanistan. It was exported to Afghanistan." he added. [source, http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5grEnnk3HvrDUwzFcMLoAW8iUOR0gD91PS04O0]
Constant border incursions by Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists from Pakistan?s tribal areas into Afghanistan, have brought the respective governments to loggerheads, with Karzai stating on June 15 that he might very well deploy troops into Pakistan to solve the problem militarily, warning Pakistan?s Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud that his troops "will go after him now and hit him in his house." [see, http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFzfzO1J3TT_eqpmvsK7pYkw3H4gD91ACU0O0]
July 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Following close on the heels of yesterday?s suicide bombing at the radical Red Mosque [Lal Masjid] in Islamabad, Pakistan - scene of a military confrontation last summer between the Pakistani army and Islamic radicals - today the port city of Karachi came under similar assault, which resulted in the wounding of at least 37 caused by the detonation of six separate explosive devices.
Though no group has so far come forward to claim credit for the attacks, the increasing strife is believed to attributable to Taliban supporters whose leader, Baitullah Mehsud, promised retaliation after negotiations with the government broke down last month.
The attacks took place in an area of Karachi that is dominated by the Pashtuns who exert much influence in an area that stretches from Southeastern Afghanistan to Northwestern Pakistan, the so called "tribal areas."
The diminutive bombs [believed to each contain from 150-200 grams (5-8 ounces) of explosive] are believed to have been smuggled into the area, hidden in motorcycles, bicycles and automated rickshaws. So far five men had been detained in the investigation and are undergoing questioning.
July 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The American Jewish Committee's director of interfaith relations, rabbi David Rosen has accepted an invitation from the Muslim World League - a Saudi backed terror linked Islamist group - to attend what is being billed as an, "interfaith summit," in Spain scheduled to begin on July 16th. According to the AP Rosen is not identified as an Israeli on the conference list but rather as "an American Jewish Committee official," a move which is apparently being done since the Saudi kingdom shuns dealings with Israel in any official capacity.
Abdullah's understanding of interfaith dialogue aligns with that of the Grand Mufti [head religious leader] of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheikh, who has stated that dialogue with other religions was a way to bring non-Muslims into Islam. The cleric, who is the highest official of religious law, believes that converting people to Islam was the ultimate goal of dialogue, a point he has repeatedly made, "It is the opportunity to disseminate the principles of Islam. Islam advocates dialogue among people, especially calling them to the path of Allah."
June 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dutch Minister for Integration and Housing, Ella Vogelaar, who sparked controversy last year when she said she wanted to "help Islam take root in Holland," is supporting the efforts of Muslim district Councilman, Ahmed Marcouch, to teach Islam in the country's public schools.
According to Marcouch who heads a district with a large Muslim population, the children are subject to corporal punishment and anti-Western indoctrination in weekend mosque schools. He has called for an investigation and demanded that Islamic lessons be given in public schools under the ruse that there will be more oversight in that setting.
According to the Trouw newspaper:
"...Critics fear that Marcouch really wants to Islamize public education but he gets support from Vogelaar. Formally the possibility exists. The neutral character of the school won't be compromised. If the parents ask for it then the school must accede to the request, just as is the case with Catholic or Protestant parents with children in public school who make a request. In that case the Islamic studies will get a place within the regular school offerings and would be given lessons by teachers who are paid from the school budget. The school inspectors will monitor the quality of the lessons."[source, http://www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/nederland/article1022842.ece/Onderzoek_naar_lijfstraffen]
June 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In what is perhaps a glimpse of things to come in the United States - should domestic "hate crimes" legislation, recognizing the legitimacy of international courts, ever be enacted here - Dutch companies who engage in trade with Jordan [Zwanenberg and Friesland Foods for example] are starting to comply with the dictates of an oxymoronically named organization, "the Messenger of Allah Unites Us," which has used Jordanian courts to secure an international arrest warrant for Dutch MP Geert Wilders, whose short film, "Fitna," has been deemed "insulting," to Islam and is organizing a boycott of non-complying foreign trade.
Led by Zakaria al-Sheikh, who is also chairman of the Jordanian based "news service" Facts International, started this latest effort by Islamists to impose their religious views on the West, as Sheikh's website claims, "Last week, 'The Messenger of Allah Unites Us' group opened a case against Wilders in a Jordanian court, accusing him of racism and incitement to hate Muslims. Wilders said he feared Jordan would issue an international warrant for his arrest."
The Dutch companies are currently sponsoring ads in Jordanian based media which "distance themselves" from Wilder's movie Fitna while voicing support for the Messenger of Allah campaign of intimidation.
Similar strong arm tactics by Sheikh were on prominent display during the Danish cartoon controversy and was he successful in exercising influence over Danish companies which had trade relations with Jordan.
June 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Judged by any objective standard, after only a year in operation, Brooklyn's Khalil Gibran International Academy [KGIA] has been a disaster. The presence of this institution, designed by its now departed founder Dhabah Almontaser to be a madrassah - an Islamist indoctrination center - has served only to create further division in a community already fractured along religious and ethnic lines.
KGIA is at its base a quota school, a political toy conjured up - underwritten by liberal outside funding sources - to serve a noisy minority demographic, to fill a nonexistent need.
It should not be shocking then, that this type of school would be encumbered by controversy from day one, public recriminations, charges and counter charges, lawsuits, threats and retaliation against critics of the school, have all served to render it a hollow shell of what NY school chief Joel Klein had originally promised.
KGIA operates in a lockdown atmosphere; access is tightly controlled so that the public really has no idea of what goes on throughout the school day.
June 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dutch parliamentarian and head of the Freedom Party, Geert Wilders has been, "accused of incitement to hatred against Islam and Muslims," by a group which filed a suit to prosecute him for his recent film Fitna.
The group calls itself "The Messenger of Allah Unites Us" and the Jordanian court which accepted the suit is expected to subpoena Mr. Wilders and issue an international arrest warrant. This means that Wilders faces arrest if he leaves Holland.
The Dutch minister of foreign affairs, Maxime Verhagen is taking the matter very seriously. Legally Wilders is in a perilous situation and even countries which have no extradition treaty with Jordan can extradite him in order to preserve their commercial ties.
A Fairfax, Virginia school, the Islamic Saudi Academy [ISA] which is operating as a religious indoctrination center - a madrassah - was today the scene of a spirited demonstration by a coalition of traditional values groups.
The protest was held to call attention to the nature of the school's educational methodology, its ties to Saudi Wahhabists and its use of bigoted teaching materials.
A federal commission recently reported the academy uses textbooks which advocate violence against and intolerance of non-Muslims and the U.S. Justice Department has been asked to investigate activities at the academy as well as the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors' role in leasing the county-owned building to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.
To complicate matters further, the school's General Director, Mr. Al-Shabnan was arrested two weeks ago and charged with Obstruction of Justice without Force (VA Code 18.2-460) in connecting with the Academy's failure to deal with child abuse at the institution.
Although the authors also took note of the questionable web links that appear on the academy website [see, http://www.saudiacademy.net/html/Links.html] including one that went to the Wahhabist Saudi religious ministry, since that writing we became aware of another troubling link on that same page, one terminating at a website called al-Islam [the official website of the "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da'wah and Guidance," see, http://www.al-islam.com/arb/], which emphasizes a hard core fundamentalist interpretation of the Quran, one very much in line with the pronouncements of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, bin-Laden's second in command.
June 18, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In comments made yesterday, the freshman Senator offered another unsettling glimpse into the Democrat narrative vis-à-vis Islamic terrorism.
"Let's think about this: these are the same guys who helped engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could have pinned down the people who actually committed 9-11...What they're trying to do us what they've done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid."
There are two foundational elements on display in this statement regarding Obama's world view on the matter; one, he is inferring that Islamic jihadism doesn't exist since he is proffering al-Qaeda as the sole threat, and two, he believes that al-Qaeda is best dealt with as if this were a police issue [apprehend the bad guys and bring them to trial, with full constitutional rights in American courts] aping the Clinton's failed policy on the issue.
Further demonstrating his fealty to a law enforcement model, Obama applauded the unprecedented 5-4 Supreme Court decision to award al-Qaeda habeas corpus rights in American courts.
"...Today's Supreme Court decision ensures that we can protect our nation and bring terrorists to justice, while also protecting our core values....Our courts have employed habeas corpus with rigor and fairness for more than two centuries, and we must continue to do so as we defend the freedom that violent extremists seek to destroy..."
If that is "change," then language has lost its meaning.
"...The Congressional Democrat leadership, not to mention the party's hopefuls in the 2008 presidential campaign, are all assiduously avoiding any public mention of what have become the politically loaded terms, radical Islam, jihadism, the Islamist threat or...perish the thought, Islamofascism.
It's not difficult to understand the logic behind that stance.
Since opposition to the war in Iraq is an integral, perhaps central component of their foreign policy, it's necessary to reject and/or ignore the existence of an ideology based upon an interpretation of Islam, which looms as a major challenge to national security, because acceptance thereof would constitute a contradiction of embarrassing proportions.
June 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A Fairfax, Virginia school, the Islamic Saudi Academy [ISA] which is operating as a religious indoctrination center - a madrassah - was today the scene of a spirited demonstration by a coalition of traditional values groups.
The protest was held to call attention to the nature of the school's educational methodol
September 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - MPAC, the Muslim Public Affairs Council is engaging in what has become standard fare for Islamist organizations; when the facts are inconvenient, simply lie about them and rely on the MSM not to be overly inquisitive.
August 27, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Brandeis University, "America's first Jewish-sponsored university," is located in Waltham, Massachusetts.
August 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The notion of the Democrat party - an organization which has at every juncture shown blistering hostility to people of faith - opening their Denver convention this week with an "interfaith" extravaganza is preposterous, a bad joke at best. Likewise their offering up Ingrid Mattson - current president of one of America's most radical Islamist pressure groups, the Islamic Society of North America - as a representative of the American Muslim community is equally absurd.
August 20, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Maajid Nawaz has recently been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, testifying before the Senate on matters concerning terrorism. He has been feted, in some circles; an iconic poster boy, this week's iteration of the "moderate" Muslim.
August 6, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Following quickly on the heels of an expose by these authors - 
August 4, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Last May Egyptian preacher Amr Khaled predicted that "within 20 years Muslims will be in a majority in Europe." "There are now 25-30 million Muslims in Europe," he said. "This figure has many implications. The Muslims keep having many children, while the Europeans do not. This means that within 20 years the Muslims will be in a majority, which may have an exceptional influence on the decision-making." He called on Europe's 30 million Muslims to infiltrate society and become "walking propaganda machines." "Each person should say: 'I am an ambassador for Islam,' and they should take all action throughout Europe." 1
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a desperate attempt to win Muslim votes and to overcome a recent PR debacle - a June 16 Barack Obama rally in Detroit during which the campaign moved two women who were wearing hijab so they would not appear in images featuring the candidate - his campaign has announced the appointment of a "liaison" to the Arab and Muslim community, Mazen Asbahi.
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Jim Gilchrist, Minuteman Project founder, related in an interview with 
August 1, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Noted terror authority Steven Emerson delivered a blistering indictment of the State Department?s shabbily constructed outreach to the Muslim world on July 31 before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.
July 30, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Despite having been assaulted by one of San Francisco's "peace and love" types just moments before, the unflapable Jim Gilchrist, founder of the pro-border enforcement Minuteman Project, delivered a powerful and searing indictment of Mayor Gavin Newsom's immigration policies on the steps of City Hall this morning, demanding his ouster.
July 28, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A study released today which calls into question some of the most basic and prevalent attitudes in the West regarding the possibility of reaching accommodation with fundamentalist Muslims 
July 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Pakistan's new political leadership has been unable to halt the country's slide towards an Islamist inspired state of anarchy.
July 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As we detailed in our April 25 piece 
July 21, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Though distressing, Israel?s decision last week to exchange five Hezbollah terrorists - including child killer Samir Kuntar - for the bodies of two IDF soldiers should not be surprising; in large part it merely reflects the degree to which the West seems incapable of making decisions that grate against the prevailing atmosphere of appeasement.
July 21, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a July 15 op-ed posted on the ABC News website [see, http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=5380577&page=1] Eboo Patel, a Muslim da'wa practitioner operating out of Chicago writes, "Driving through central Illinois on a business trip, my wife could not believe what she was hearing on right-wing radio talk shows...Do you know what they're saying about Muslims on the station I'm listening to now?" she asked. "Basically, that we're a bunch of fundamentalists intent on suffocating people of other religions, and the only way to stop us is to get us all to convert to Christianity."
July 14, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Commenting on the latest controversy coming out of his police department, Metropolitan police chief Sir Ian Blair told a hearing in London that it would be "an extraordinary aberration," if he had tried to block the promotion of an ethnic minority officer. [source, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4309689.ece]
July 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Parvez Ahmed, a long time member of the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the ongoing Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding prosecution] and currently its Board Chairman, today announced his resignation from the organization, citing a variety of concocted reasons including his desire to assist in the "home schooling" of his children.
July 8, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Spokesmen for Afghan president Karzai today charged Pakistan's ISI with complicity in Monday's bombing of the Indian embassy which killed over 40.
July 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Following close on the heels of yesterday?s suicide bombing at the radical Red Mosque [Lal Masjid] in Islamabad, Pakistan - scene of a military confrontation last summer between the Pakistani army and Islamic radicals - today the port city of Karachi came under similar assault, which resulted in the wounding of at least 37 caused by the detonation of six separate explosive devices.
July 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The American Jewish Committee's director of interfaith relations, rabbi David Rosen has accepted an invitation from the Muslim World League - a Saudi backed terror linked Islamist group - to attend what is being billed as an, "interfaith summit," in Spain scheduled to begin on July 16th. According to the AP Rosen is not identified as an Israeli on the conference list but rather as "an American Jewish Committee official," a move which is apparently being done since the Saudi kingdom shuns dealings with Israel in any official capacity.
June 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In what is perhaps a glimpse of things to come in the United States - should domestic "hate crimes" legislation, recognizing the legitimacy of international courts, ever be enacted here - Dutch companies who engage in trade with Jordan [Zwanenberg and Friesland Foods for example] are starting to comply with the dictates of an oxymoronically named organization, "the Messenger of Allah Unites Us," which has used Jordanian courts to secure an international arrest warrant for Dutch MP Geert Wilders, whose short film, "Fitna," has been deemed "insulting," to Islam and is organizing a boycott of non-complying foreign trade.