“I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away
from that study with the conviction that by and
large there have been few religions in the world
as deadly to men as that of Muhammad.”
~
Alexis de Tocqueville ~
ISLAMIC STATE
ISIS’ Theater
of Evil and the Thirst for Blood
ISIS’s
final email to
American journalist James Foley’s family reads like something out of a horror
movie: “…WE WILL NOT STOP UNTILL [sic] WE QUENCH OUR THIRST FOR YOUR BLOOD.”
Even before they beheaded Foley and Steve Sotloff on video, ISIS
was perceived by most Americans and much of the world as evil. ISIS fighters
didn’t just kill for pragmatic reasons, they seemed to absolutely revel in
bloodthirstiness: crucifixions, burying women and children alive, conversion or
death. But the manner of Foley’s and Sotloff’s murders and the
dissemination of the videos brought it home in an especially primal way for
America, engendering a rare degree of relative consensus on the fact that the
perpetrators of this act are very bad people indeed.
Comparing Arab Crimes against Humanity: Hamas
and ISIS
Evil has never been absent in the world, but sheer
evil has reappeared in the actions – "no why here" – in recent months
of two Islamist extremist groups: Hamas in Gaza, and ISIS or ISIL in Iraq and
Syria. The extent of the evil of the two groups differs in the number of
overt actions, but the intent to fulfill their objectives is similar.
Hamas has openly declared its main objective: to kill Jews and eliminate the
State of Israel. ISIS has established a brutal Islamic caliphate in the
areas it has conquered and is engaged in pursuing a war of jihad.
Drawing the
U.S. into Armageddon?
Before we rush headlong into the fray of intra-Islamic
sectarian fitna once again, however, let’s understand what we’re up against: it
would help, of course, if the Obama administration hadn’t purged all mention of
Islamic terror and its inspirational foundations in the Qur’an, hadiths, Sirat,
and shariah from the USG training curriculum, but a quick dive into a few of
the Qur’an’s key jihad and terror verses (Q 8:12, 8:39, 8:60, 9:5, 9:29) should
prove instructive.
U.S. strategy towards IS must include an aggressive
defense of our own people and interests at diplomatic facilities and military
bases as well as those of partners and allies in the region (Israel, Jordan,
the Kurds). But with nearly a dozen missing Libyan civilian airliners,
thousands of loose surface-to-air missiles, hundreds of Muslims carrying
Western passports (including our own) all fired up to join the jihad, and a
collapsed southern border through which no one knows how many Islamic
terrorists already may have passed, IS efforts to drag the U.S. into its
Armageddon scenario could reach an even more alarming level as the 13th
anniversary of the 9/11 date approaches.
ISRAEL
Would
I lie to you? By David Harris
Fear surely rules in
Hamastan. Whispered stories describe Gaza-based scribblers facing Hamas death
threats, and the Foreign Press Association has belatedly condemned terrorist
intimidation. But maybe CNN-type ambitions are at work, too. Either way,
correspondent Uriel Heilman put it best. Covering the Israel-Hamas fighting,
Heilman wrote that unreported Hamas censorship and press self-censorship mean
the public is “only getting half the story.” “And where I come from,” he added,
“a half-truth is considered a lie.” Something to remember when relying on media
for intelligence about our future in a dangerous world.
SOME ARTICLES FROM THE HAMAS CHARTER
The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is a distinct Palestinian
Movement which owes its loyalty to Allah, derives from Islam its way of life
and strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine."
: The time (of Islamic control over all of Palestine) will not come
until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind
rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me,
come on and kill him!"
: The Slogan of the Hamas: Allah is its goal, the Prophet its model,
the Qur'an its Constitution, Jihad its path and death for the case of Allah its
most sublime belief."
The Strategy of Hamas: Palestine is an Islamic Waqf. The Islamic
Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic
Waqf throughout the generations and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can
renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it. No Arab country nor the
aggregate of all Arab countries, and no Arab King or President nor all of them
in the aggregate, have that right, nor has that right any organization or the
aggregate of all organizations, be they Palestinian or Arab, because Palestine
is an Islamic Waqf throughout all generations and to the Day of Resurrection.
Who can presume to speak for all Islamic Generations to the Day of
Resurrection? This is the status [of the land] in Islamic Shari'a, and it is
similar to all lands conquered by Islam by force, and made thereby Waqf lands
upon their conquest, for all generations of Muslims until the Day of
Resurrection."
Peaceful Solutions, Peace Initiatives and International
Conferences
Article
Twenty-Two:
The Powers which Support the Enemy. They stood behind the
French and the Communist Revolutions and behind most of the revolutions we hear
about here and there. They also used the money to establish clandestine
organizations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy
societies and carry out Zionist interests. Such organizations are: the
Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B'nai B'rith and the like. All of them
are destructive spying organizations. They also used the money to take over
control of the Imperialist states and made them colonize many countries in
order to exploit the wealth of those countries and spread their corruption
therein. As regards local and world wars, it has come to pass and no one
objects, that they stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic
Caliphate. They collected material gains and took control of many sources of
wealth. They obtained the Balfour Declaration and established the League of
Nations in order to rule the world by means of that organization. They also
stood behind World War II, where they collected immense benefits from trading
with war materials and prepared for the establishment of their state. They
inspired the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council to
replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their
intermediary. There was no war that broke out anywhere without their
fingerprints on it."
"There
is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad
... Hamas strives
to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." And if the
goals of Hamas as stated in their own charter were realized, not only would
Israel cease to exist as a country, but the over 6 million Jews who live within
its borders would be killed. With thousand of rockets being fired by Hamas from
Gaza indiscriminately into Israel, every one of them aimed at civilian
populations, it is hardly surprising that Israel retaliates as any civilized
country would do to defend its population from such clear, unapologetic, blatant
attempts at its annihilation. What a tragedy that so many innocent Palestinian
men, women and children end up paying the price for that aggression.
Give
me a Yellow Star
It is
testament to all who tragically died wearing it, so that their future surviving
brothers and sisters know to never be afraid of who they are again. To never be
silent again, not apologize for surviving. Thanks to them and indeed, for them,
this yellow badge ceased being a badge of shame a long time ago. It's my badge
of honor. I survived your indifference, your stupidity, your inhumaneness, your
hatred, and your ignorance. For me, it’s a yellow F**k-You-Europe-Star.
It’s a
star that blinds out any other emblem that preaches hatred. It drowns out the
form, shape and color of swastikas, the black flags of ISIS and Al Qaeda, and
the green of Hamas or the yellow of Hezbollah.
Canada
Afsun Qureshi:
The Muslim prayer that might save your life
For every violent passage in the Koran,
there is a peaceful passage — which can be a handy tool when it comes to
confronting radicals in the realm of ideas. The odds are that if you are
assailed by a radical Islamist in the streets of London or Toronto, it will be
with words not bullets. For the sake of intellectual self-protection, it is
worth getting up to speed on what these fanatics are so fanatical about.
“National Post” Urges
Canadians to Convert to Islam
If a Muslim, who was born and grew up in Canada, can have such a
deranged mind, which openly calls for all Canadians to join her murderous cult,
I can only imagine what the Christians in the Muslim-dominated countries are
going through. Through excessive immigration, supported by all governments
after Trudeau, we have imported an enormous amount of those Muslim fanatics.
Afsun is calling us to convert to Islam in a major “conservative” newspaper.
Pretty soon her fellow barbarians would do the same by shooting us in the
streets.
National Post: Letters to the
Editor:
(All
members of ACT! for Canada)
I was deeply offended by Afsun Qureshi’s suggestion that non-Muslims
should be cognizant of Islamic prayers and inform themselves about the Koran,
as a means of protecting themselves from jihadism.
I consider
myself better versed than the average person on the Koran and I must say that I
do not like much of what I read, especially in regards to what is has to say
about “infidels” and “kaffirs.” In any case, many Muslims, such as the Syrian
rebels and the murdered Fatah members in Gaza, knew the “shahada” perfectly,
but this knowledge did not save them from the lethal rage of their fellow
Muslims.
I am sure
Ms. Qureshi wrote her column with the best of intentions, but to a
Christian such as myself, for whom Allah remains a deity whose demands are at
odds with the values of a pluralistic society, it is not more knowledge of
Islam on my part that will help us, but more intramural activism on the part of
moderate Muslims urging Muslim extremists to respect other cultures and
religions that is needed.
Valerie Thomas, Austin, Que.
Having read the
Koran in four different languages, and studied the Hadith, Arab philosophy and
other Muslim documents extensively, I can say with confidence that Afsun
Qureshi is wrong when she claims that, “for every violent passage in the Koran,
there is a peaceful message.”
The Meccan
portion of the Koran is admittedly milder than the subsequent, and far larger,
Medinan portion, which is filled with violent animadversions against infidels
and apostates. Though I have not calculated the precise ratio, the proportion
of the violent to the peaceful is overwhelming.
Further, Ms.
Qureshi does not mention the standard Islamic practice of nasikh, or
abrogation, by which later, generally violent, passages cancel earlier, more
passive, ones, as a means of avoiding contradiction. Radical Islamists have not
“warped the words” of the Koran, but are in fact reading it as intended. Ms.
Qureshi asserts that “a little knowledge would go a long way.” Unfortunately,
judging from her article, it does not go nearly far enough.
David Solway, Gananoque, Ont.
What does it
tell us about Islam when the best that can be said in its defence is that its
holy book doesn’t always require non-believers to be killed?
Janice Fiamengo, Gananoque, Ont.
The arrogance
of Afsun Qureshi’s statements is deplorable. I have a little knowledge of the
Koran and I don’t like it. I don’t like the fact that I am classified as an
infidel and a “kaffir,” and I certainly don’t like reading the passages
about killing infidels. According to Ms. Qureshi, “a conversation with a Muslim
would change for the better if we had some kind of knowledge of the Koran and
Islam.” I suggest that Muslims have the same sort of knowledge of the Bible and
the Torah and then we might have a fair and balanced dialogue.
And I will not
recite the shahadah, in order to save my life. Allah may be their one true
God, but he is certainly not mine. And a lot of good it did for those Syrian
men paraded through the desert to their death last week. Knowing
the shahadah certainly did not save their lives.
Valerie Price, Westmount, Que.
I was
dumbfounded to read Afsun Qureshi’s suggestion that I should recite a
Muslim prayer that makes me convert to Islam, if I am ever confronted by an
Islamist. I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees as a dhimmi.
One of the
reasons we in the West are vulnerable to Islamism, is that many have abandoned
their faith and a moral vacuum has opened up. Perhaps it would be better that
we acknowledge the good of the Judeo Christian faith that helped us form our
societies, rather than renounce it to save ourselves from jihadi violence.
Roy Eappen, Montreal.
Islamic radicalization of Canadian youth raises alarm bells
Recent
revelations that two more Calgary men are now part of a growing list of
Canadians involved with Islamic terrorist organizations overseas has led to
calls for stronger efforts to curb radicalization within the country.
Not
coincidentally, the spectre of homegrown terrorism was a dominant theme in the
federal government’s annual national security report, released Friday by Public
Safety Canada. Terrorism remains the principal threat to national security, the
report concludes, stressing the need to work with communities to counter
insidious recruitment efforts on Canadian soil.
2014 Public Report
On The Terrorist Threat To Canada
Canadians reject the use of
terrorism in all its forms, no matter where it takes place. Countering
terrorism at home and abroad also remains a top priority for the
Government.
UNITED STATES
We’re Coming to Get You
Sotloff’s
gruesome decapitation at the hands of the proverbial footloose and fancy free
ISIS terrorists is the second one sent viral on the Internet.
Meanwhile, no one is waiting with bated breath to hear Obama’s “today our
country grieves with them” platitudes. Most want to hear the words
guaranteed to put the cowardly jihadists on the run: “We’re coming to get you.”
It’s Time to
Kick ISIS Members out of America
Every week brings new reports of Muslims in America
flocking to join ISIS. Those who aren’t killed in battle will eventually return
to New York, to Los Angeles and to Minneapolis–Saint Paul. And they will stop
being Iraq’s problem and become our problem. ISIS is more than just another
terrorist group. It is now an Islamic State. Its followers and allied militias
pledge to obey the Caliph of ISIS and reject all allegiances to other states
and entities. Western ISIS recruits burn their passports to show that they are
no longer citizens of those countries.
A former CIA agent, Clare
Lopez, bluntly told the newspaper,
World Net Daily, that America has switched sides in the war on terror under
President Obama. Clare Lopez was willing to say what a few members of Congress
have said in private, but declined to say on-the-record.
Lopez said the global war on
terror had been an effort to “stay free of Shariah,” or repressive Islamic law,
until the Obama administration began siding with such jihadist groups as the
Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates. Lopez believes that the Muslim Brotherhood
has thoroughly infiltrated the Obama administration and other branches of the
federal government. One of the most outrageous of those
appointments is Mohamed Elibiary, a senior member of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory
Council. According to a report by the Center for Security Policy, Elibiary
supports brokering a U.S. partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist
group. Two months ago, a firestorm erupted online
after Elibiary tweeted that a “Caliphate” is inevitable and compared it to the
European Union.
Ex-CIA Agent: U.S. Helped Write Shariah Constitutions in Iraq and
Afghanistan
Lopez found it
impossible to understand the current administration’s consistent apologizing
for Islam, “even in the face of such atrocities as the Foley beheading,”
adding, they “take pains to assure the world they don’t think IS, (or the
Islamic State, also called ISIS) or whichever perpetrator it was, has anything
to do with Islam. How can they possibly believe that genuinely when everything
these jihadis do tracks directly to the literal text of Quran, hadiths and
Shariah?”
History Repeats As Another US President Ignores Multiple and Credible
Terrorist Attack Warnings
Judicial
Watch President Tom Fitton is stating that his organization has credible information which
strongly suggests that the terror group ISIS is planning to launch
terrorist attacks in the United States. Specifically, Judicial Watch sources
have issued a dire warning that ISIS is now confirmed to be operating in
Juarez, located across the Mexican border from El Paso, TX. The Judicial Watch
warning states that a planned ISIS attack on the southern border
of the United States is imminent and will include the use of car bombs and
IED’s.
The FBI’s
Islamic Terrorism Denial
The Washington
Free Beacon revealed Friday that “the FBI’s most recent
national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to
Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the
2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans.” Instead,
the threat assessment focused on eight types of groups: “anti-government
militia groups and white supremacy extremists, along with ‘sovereign citizen’
nationalists, and anarchists,” along with “violent animal rights and
environmentalist extremists, black separatists, anti- and pro-abortion
activists, and Puerto Rican nationalists.”
UNITED KINGDOM
Muslim Rape
in Rotherham
The failure of British authorities to act on the
horrific, long-term sexual abuse of 1,400 children in one area over a 16-year
period because the culprits mostly were Pakistani Muslims has reportedly
outraged the world, including the United Kingdom’s Pakistani community.
But American experts on the issue say the costly
toll of lives ruined in Rotherham because of worry over being accused of
“racism” is only a tiny fraction of the price the world’s innocent pay for political
correctness regarding Islam, say experts. “These victims represent millions of
victims who suffer under Islam – and the free world does nothing because it
lives according to the Left’s and Muslim Brotherhood’s rules,” said Jamie
Glazov.
‘Diversity’
Re-education for Rotherham Whistleblower
For the despicable protectors of political correctness and multiculturalism,
the systematic sexual abuse of 1,400 girls over the
course of a decade and a half — including some as young as 11 years of age —
was the lesser of two evils that occurred in Rotherham, England. In a stunning
testament to the bankruptcy of both ideologies, a researcher who blew the
whistle on this appalling scandal more than a decade ago was sent to an “ethnic and diversity course” by
child protection authorities after she revealed the ethnic identity of the
abusers.
British Parliament member Simon Danczuk, who is
calling for a mandatory reporting law that would make officials criminally
liable for failing to report child abuse, confirms that assessment,
noting that senior managers believed “political correctness and cultural
sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,” and thus they
were more interested “in ticking boxes in diversity training than
protecting children.”
One is left to wonder if there is a lower depth to
be plumbed than the suppression of child rape by the adherents of political
correctness and multiculturalism.
I'm living the high life,
boasts released child abuser who was jailed for part in Rotherham grooming gang
as he jets off on holiday to Pakistan
One of the ring leaders of a child grooming gang in
Rotherham has boasted he is 'living the high life' after being released from
jail. Umar Razaq, 28, was jailed in 2010 in a case that lifted the lid on the
horrific extent of sexual exploitation in the South Yorkshire town. But after
appealing the length of his four-year sentence, he has been released - and is
now jetting off on holiday to Pakistan
Muslims
Sexually Enslaving Children: A Global Phenomenon
As shocking as the Muslim-run sex ring in
Rotherham, England may seem to some—1,400 British children as young as 11 plied
with drugs before being passed around and sexually abused in cabs and kabob
shops—the fact is that this phenomenon is immensely widespread. In the United
Kingdom alone, it’s the fifth sex abuse ring led by Muslims to be uncovered.
AROUND THE
WORLD
Geert Wilders: "War
Has Been Declared against Us" - A Speech in the Netherlands Parliament
The Koran on the table before you is a handbook for terrorists. Blood
drips from its pages. It calls for perpetual war against non-believers. That
Koran before you is the hunting permit for millions of Muslims. A license to
kill. That book is the Constitution of the Islamic State. What ISIS does is
what Allah commands.
Yes, There Are Modernist Muslims
After Obama pressured Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak to step
down, the US covertly supported the Muslim Brotherhood, the very same fanatics
who assassinated Anwar Sadat the peacemaker forty years ago. We now see that
Obama always supports Islamists, both in Iran and in the Sunni world. But
modernist Egyptians were shocked and outraged when the Moobers started to
impose harsh Shari’ah laws on them
In other words, millions of Muslims refused to go
back to the Dark Ages. Today, Egypt is waging a nasty civil war against
the Brotherhood (which also spawned Hamas in Gaza). It is a fight to the death,
and the modernists are winning so far. In sum, Egypt had a choice, and chose
modernism.
Moderate Islam Is
Multiculturalism Misspelled
When you say that moderate Muslims don’t exist, you
are calling him a bad person. When you challenge Islam, you are attacking
multiculturalism and he will call you a racist, regardless of the fact that
Islam is as much of a race as Communism, Nazism or the Mickey Mouse Fan Club
were races.
The moderate Muslim is an invention of the liberal
academic, the secular theologian, the vapid politician and his shrill idiot
cousin, the political activist. Like the money in the budgets that underpin
their plans and the scientific evidence for Global Warming, he does not exist.
Raped and Slaughtered:
Muslim Persecution of Christians
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton publicly bemoaned the lot of the
kidnapped girls. "It's abominable, it's criminal, it's an act of terrorism
and it really merits the fullest response possible," she said from a
position to help offer "the fullest response possible." But she
repeatedly refused to designate Boko
Haram a "foreign terrorist organization," despite the countless
atrocities it had already committed; despite that under her tenure Boko Haram
had boasted that it
would "strike fear into the Christians of the power of Islam by kidnapping
their women," and despite extensive urging from the CIA, FBI, Justice
Department, and several congressmen and senators.
Dissuading a believer in moderate
Muslims from his invented faith by citing the long trail of corpses or the
hateful Hadiths that call for mass murder is futile because these are not the
roots of his religion. He doesn’t know what a Hadith is nor does he care. As a
social justice man in good standing, he attributes the violent track record of
Islam to European colonialism and oppression.
He has never read the Koran. He has
read a thousand articles about how Muslims are oppressed at the airport, in
Gaza, in Burma and in Bugs Bunny cartoons. They are his new noble savages and
he will not hear a word against them. Having colonized their identities in his
imagination (despite the marked up copy of Edward Said’s Orientalism that he
keeps by his bedside) he treats them as reflections of his ego.
Resisting the Islamic State's Demand for Submission
The Islamic
State and the other advocates of Shariah law are growing rapidly, along with
their zeal to eradicate or convert all "infidels." For those who are
asleep at the wheel, in the opinion of these fanatics, most of Western
civilization -- including America -- fits into the infidel category. I normally
encourage conversation and compromise where possible, but how does one
negotiate or compromise with someone who desires your elimination? Maybe if you
meet some of their demands, they will only dismember you or kill you more
slowly
Honor Diaries Star Threatened by Islamic State Supporter
To
monsters like ISIS, their supporters and others like them, the Muslim who
opposes them is far more threatening than any other critic. For a woman to
oppose them, and to refuse to be intimidated or deterred, is even more
threatening. Simply put, I refuse to “know my place,” as they define it, and
choose instead to actively fight their ideology.
While
groups like ISIS may proclaim their opponents to be “apostates,” they well know
that to reasonably minded people, they do not represent all Muslims. They also
know that, as a fringe voice vying for support within the Muslim community,
they are most threatened by those of us who show them for what they are.
VIDEOS
Mark Steyn and Sean Hannity
Mark Steyn checked in with Hannity on Fox News to
discuss the President's penetrating insight that ISIS was merely the junior
varsity team of jihad. As Mark saw it, the
only JV player on the geopolitical court is Obama.
Tolerance, Diversity and Pakistani Muslim
Child-Rape Gangs with Pat Condell
Pat Condell
talks about Rotherham and Common Purpose.
Paul
Weston of Liberty GB Confronts the Liberal Multicultural Establishment in Their
Complicity of Muslim Child Rape
Douglas Murray and Michael Coren - Islamic
Rape Gangs
Michael Coren and Douglas Murray discuss the latest prosecutions in
Rotherham - which seems to demonstrate again that Muslims might not be the only
ones who commit sex abuse crimes in this country but are the only ones who can
do so in an organised way while enjoying a conspiracy of silence from the
authorities AND the tacit support of parts of their wider community.
The OIC Denies the Evil of Islamic State with Bill Warner
The OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation)
claims that the jihad of Islamic State (ISIS) is not Islam. I claim it is pure
Islam.
WE REMEMBER
WWII 75th Anniversary: Germany Invades Poland, Launches Bloodiest War in
Human History
75
years ago, the bloodiest war in human history broke out when Nazi Germany,
fresh off of signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, invaded
Poland. Though two years would pass before the United States entered the war,
the conflict would profoundly change the American role in the world. Adolph
Hitler had duped many world leaders into believing that Germany really wanted
peace and perhaps just a little “lebensraum,” or “living space." But
events would prove that they were bent on the conquest of a continent, and that
the only thing that could stop this menace was military might.
THE BESLAN MASSACRE
Sexual Terror: The Untold Stories of Beslan Jihad
On
September 1, 2004, terrorists stormed a school in Beslan, Russia, and
perpetrated one of the most heinous terror attacks in history. Though many
people may have heard of this attack, it is very likely that most do not know
what really happened there. The reality is so dark that few dare speak of what
went on.
REST IN PEACE
Joan Rivers Final Rant on Israel/Palestine Situation
Joan Rivers dropped jettisoned comedy for politics
... unleashing an impassioned defense of Israel that included an awesome New
York/New Jersey analogy.
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