Employer, FMC, manufactured U.S. nerve gas munitions in 1960s
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
October 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On the evening of September 25 the Plainsboro Road community of Cranberry, New Jersey was rocked by a then mysterious car explosion.
Called to the scene immediately after the incident, which was reported as merely an arson car fire, authorities quickly determined that the car had been destroyed by an explosion. Though denying they were involved at the time, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force [JTTF] quickly initiated an investigation which led to the arrest today of Dalbir Sethi 65, a chemist with FMC corporation, a company which produces insecticides and other chemical products for agricultural, industrial and consumer markets.
October 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Islamic Society of North America, an unindicted co conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding case and an American wing of The Muslim Brotherhood, is joining with Jewish organizations and synagogues for a weekend with the theme "Confronting Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism Together."
ISNA and several Islamic and Jewish organizations have put together a document which, "offers suggestions as to how linked mosques and synagogues across the United States and Canada may hold a successful joint program."
The program is scheduled to take place on the weekend of Friday November 21st to November 23rd.
October 6, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Netherland's top justice official, Hirsch Ballin today denied that the increasingly violent jihad mounted against Dutch citizens by Moroccan Muslim immigrants is taking place and that it constitutes a major threat to the country's stability.
In remarks directed against MPs in Holland's Lower House - particularly Freedom party leader Geert Wilders - Ballin stated, "The alarming tone of the House members is not justified by any real threat," and added, "It is bewildering to see how the new political movements in the parliament, unhindered by any form of argumentation, continually declare that Holland is going under; and how for this reason they submit motions of no confidence."
The minister's head-in-the-sand approach stands in bitter contrast to the reality of an ongoing, at least 4 year old insurrection by the country's Muslim Moroccans who have mounted countless vicious attacks against native Dutch citizens in many of the Netherland's major cities, including the recent knifing of a policeman in the city of Gouda. [see, Dutch City Terrorized By Muslim Jihadis, Police And Government Officials Cowed Into Dhimmitude, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=goudaid=10.5.08%2Ehtm]
October 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Dutch police are refusing to take action to quell the ongoing and increasing campaign of violence and intimidation being carried out by gangs of Moroccan Muslims in the city of Gouda. Rather than acting to halt the attacks against innocent citizens the police are ignoring the mounting terror, suggesting that nothing is out of order.
"A police officer was knifed this weekend in Gouda. As well, journalists continue to be attacked. But the municipality continues to claim that all is quiet.
Gouda hit the national news when drivers of bus company Connexxion went on strike last week. They refused to drive through the Oosterwei district any more because they say they are continually threatened and robbed there by Moroccan youths." [source, NIS News Service, http://www.nisnews.nl/public/230908_1.htm]
The local city council is displaying the same resignation to being overrun, unbelievably even to the point of dismissing the knife attack.
October 5, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As noted in a September 5 piece [see, Testimony By FBI And Elected Officials Allow Hamas Supporting Imam To Be Given Permanent Residency In U.S., http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=qatananiid=9.5.08%2Ehtm] Mohammad Qatanani, the controversial imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, seemed to be home free in his legal battle to remain in the United States, despite his ties to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, but now the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency [ICE] has indicated that it will appeal the decision that allowed him permanent residency.
September 29, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A strange phenomenon is playing itself out in a public way within the radical Muslim community, that provides extraordinary insight into their thought processes.
Self-described "moderate" Muslim groups and individuals are feigning outrage over the mass distribution, a week ago, of the acclaimed video "Obsession," which documents the threat posed by Islamism. These forces have mounted a classic public relations juggernaut filled with lies, charges of bigotry and threats of legal intimidation, all with the intent of supressing the video. The fact is that this full-court-press constitutes stealth jihad, the legal twin of the unrestricted Islamic holy war being waged against us, which is so accurately depicted in the film.
The groups acting in lockstep opposition to Obsession includes the usual suspects, tainted Muslim organizations who have been named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror prosecution and should therefore have little credibility - for example, the Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR] and the Islamic Society of North America.
Also active in this effort is the Muslim Public Affairs Council [MPAC] who in a September 11, 2001 radio broadcast originating in Los Angeles stated, "If we're going to look at suspects we should look to the groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I think we should put the state of Israel on the suspect list because I think this diverts attention from what's happening in the Palestinian territories so that they can go on with their aggression and occupation and apartheid policies," and others, equally guilty of fraudulently operating under the mantle of moderation.
The vitriol being spewed by these groups is so extreme that it provides a true glimpse into the mind of these terrorist sympathizers, one only has to grasp the malicious anti-Jewish cant that accompanies this effort to understand the depth of their hatred and they danger that they pose.
September 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Somalia's resurgent pirate fleet has boldly seized in international waters a Belize registered vessel carrying 30 T-72 Ukrainian tanks and assorted spare parts, adding it to a treasure trove of 30 vessels which have met a similar fate this year.
It is believed that the tanks were bound for Sudan. The T-72 is a Soviet era, 41 ton, main battle tank which has been in production for over 35 years.
The Somali pirate gangs are seen as being the sea-faring counterpart to paramilitary groups which have been vying for control of the country, some of which are closely allied with al-Qaeda.
Efforts by Western powers to secure the area have not been entirely successful despite the presence of naval vessels from the U.S., Britain, France and Russia in the Gulf of Aden.
September 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Continuing in the now familiar pattern of Somalis acting badly, two Somali born suspected terrorists were arrested on Friday in Germany aboard a KLM flight bound for Holland. Though not in their personal possession at the time, they had sequestered 1,500 pounds of hydrogen peroxide, the key component used in the July 7, 2005 London terror bombing.
A German police official stated that the two had left incriminating suicide notes in their apartments stating their intent to die as holy warriors. [source, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hc6CVUOxHMhUVhgC5t8rUBZWgGEw]
According to media accounts, their intended destination was Pakistan, hoping there to join up with an al-Qaeda linked group, Islamic Jihad Union, which is in turn believed to have ties to Sauerlandgruppe a German based organization which was busted in 2007 on a terror plot.
CAIR Affiliated School Board "Diversity" Committee Member, Caught Voicing Support For Terrorist Group Hamas
September 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On Tuesday, September 23rd, a group of six individuals from Americans Against Hate (AAH) - an anti-terror watchdog group - met with Broward County School Board member Robert Parks at his office in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The meeting was concerning previous disturbing statements made by Parks' appointee to the School Board?s Diversity Committee, Jawhar Sadallah Badran. AAH was calling for Badran's removal from the committee.
Badran, a representative of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), on March 1, 2008, was caught on camera clearly stating his support for Hamas. The statements included: "Hamas is not a terrorist organization," "Hamas is a defender of the Palestinian people," and "Hamas is better than Fatah, because there/s no corruption. Hamas takes care of the people."
September 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a report entirely missing on MSM outlets, on September 1, Israel's Army Radio disclosed that Joe Biden, Obama's gaffe prone VP choice, told members of the Israeli government in a secret meeting that they would have to reconcile themselves to a nuclear Iran.
As reported by Israel Today, "According to the report, Biden reaffirmed to the Israelis his rejection of military action against Iran, but also admitted that diplomatic efforts to halt Iran's nuclear program had little or no chance of success. In essence, Biden resigned himself to the idea of a nuclear-armed Iran and told the Israelis that they, too, would have to accept that outcome."
Haaretz quotes Biden as saying, "It's doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front," thus accepting a nuclear armed Iran as inevitable.
On Monday, Biden's spokesmen furiously denied the report, fearing that wide distribution of the information would further damage Obama's fading support among Jewish American voters.
September 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Busdrivers in the Dutch city of Gouda feel frustrated. They are afraid of Moroccan youths who have caused serious problems for years now. On September 14, local busdrivers decided not to drive busses through the problematic "Oosterwei" city district anylonger after one of them had been robbed by a Moroccan youth who threatened to kill him with a knife. Other busdrivers had been spat at. Many busdrivers are scared to death.
There have been incidents where young Moroccans refused to pay for the bus ticket. On other occasions busses cannot pass through because the road is being blocked by Moroccans. And during the month of Ramadan Moroccans use to park their cars in front of a local butcher around 6 p.m. to do their shopping. Busses cannot pass through either. Parking prohibitions are not enforced by the police, because they do not want to upset the restive Moroccan community. Moroccans complained that the decision of the bus drivers "discriminated" them.1
Quite a number of Moroccan youngsters display an extremely arrogant attitude. They tell local native Dutch living in Gouda-Oosterwei "to get the hell out of there." "You don't belong here!" Or: "I'll kill you, you fucking racist!" "They act as they own the country," a local Dutch inhabitant told the Dutch newspaper "De Telegraaf." "We don't feel at home here anylonger."2 Many local inhabitants are terrified. Other complain that garbage is being dumped in the streets. There is a feeling that not all Moroccans care about clean streets or the environment.
Police often fail to intervene quickly, as was clear when a camerateam was attacked after a 19-old Moroccan had been arrested. A journalist and photographer from the daily newspaper "De Telegraaf" was also attacked by an angry Moroccan mob. Native Dutch feel that the young criminals have free rein. A retired couple in the Oosterwei district says they are now living in a no-go area. Especially at night, they say, it is dangerous. "These criminals have created their own ghetto," 67-year old Willem says.3Some native Dutch are so terrified that they want to emigrate.
September 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Ingrid Mattson, the president of the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA], recently addressed the launch of the "Report of the Leadership Group on U.S. Muslim Relations," part of a new stealth jihad effort called the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project. ISNA is an unindicted co- conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding prosecution and is widely regarded as being the American wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
According to their website, the U.S. Muslim Engagement Project, "...has been producing a new set of strategies that better meet the long-term national security interests of the U.S. by addressing the sources of tension between the U.S. and Muslims in key countries and region..." [source, http://www.usmuslimengagement.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=42]
"Jihad Prevention Act" would deny U.S. visas to advocates of 'Shari'a' law, expel Islamists already here
By WILLIAM MAYER and BEILA RABINOWITZ
September 24, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Moving against the dangerous backdrop of the UK having legitimized as legally binding, the decisions by Shari'a [Islamic religious] courts, Representative Tom Tancredo [R-CO] has introduced legislation designed to preclude a similar development in the United States.
According to Mr. Tancredo, "...a new network of Shari'a courts in a half-dozen major cities in the U.K. have been empowered under British law to adjudicate a wide variety of legal cases ranging from divorces and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence."
This decision within the UK has also served to recognize polygamy, seen as a historically significant and injurious cultural development
September 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - According to the Islamic Society of North America [ISNA] website, Dan Sutherland, the Department of Homeland Security's Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties spoke at the group's recently concluded annual conference. [source, http://www.isna.net/Conferences/pages/Annual-Convention.aspx]
Sutherland's presence at the event is difficult to justify, given that ISNA has been declared an unindicted co conspirator in the U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding prosecution and is widely recognized as being closely associated with the Egyptian terrorist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Sutherland participated in a panel discussion entitled," Promoting Civic Engagement," the goal of which was as described by ISNA, "d]efine and describe civic engagement, and to explain its
importance in a post 9/11 environment. Speakers will explain the many ways Muslims can participate in civic life and will highlight the benefits of such participation..." [source, ibid]
September 23, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The Council on American Islamic Relations, CAIR [one of America's most terror friendly organizations and an unindicted co-conspirator in the U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror prosecution] has lodged a complaint with the FEC over the recent distribution of the video, "Obsession," which depicts the inner workings and motivations behind Islamo-fascist terror.
CAIR's complaint alleges that the Clarion Fund, "a shadowy non-profit organization that distributed DVDs containing "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West," is really a front for an Israel-based group seeking to help Sen. John McCain win the U.S. presidential election."
The action seems to be advancing a claim that the simple distribution of a video highlighting aspects of recent history, equates with proscribed political activity in violation of IRS statues regulating the behavior of 501c3s.
September 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Al Muhajiroun, the UK Islamist group which noted terror experts have labeled as one of the West's most dangerous terrorist organizations, has re-resurfaced under a new name, the Salafi Youth Movement.
Salafism is one of the most radical interpretations of Islam having originated in Saudi Arabia, where it continues to hold great sway.
As these authors noted in a recent piece [Al Muhajiroun Resurfaces In London Under Guise Of "Association For Islamic Research," Ominously Warns Of Another 9/11 , http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=muhajirounid=9.15.08%2Ehtm] the group has gone through a number of costume changes since its nominal demise, operating first as Al Muhajiroun, then followed in close order as the Savior Sect, the Saved Sect, the above noted Association For Islamic Research and finally as the Salafi Youth Movement.
The "new" group is still headed by now exiled hateful imam, Omar Bakri, who is apparently hiding in Lebanon. Supporters of the organization - understood to have been a motivational force in the 7/7/05 London bombings - have previously issued veiled threats suggesting the UK is heading towards its own 9/11.
During a press conference announcing the reformatted group, Abu Azair a supporter, stated, "The youth are the spark of fire, but what do you normally fire with? A gun. A machine gun. A Kalashnikov...But the problem is that we are firing blanks...We don't even know that we have got machine guns in our hands...Unfortunately, we have been trapped in this filthy country...When someone says to you that Islam is compassion, they are wrong. Islam is about submission." [source Daily Star UK, http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/51905/Outlawed-hate-group-in-fresh-terror-threat]
September 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Operating on a long-established methodology designed to dehumanize Jews and particularly Israelis, the Palestinian Authority - America's "partner" in the so-called Middle East peace process - is depicting new Kadima party leader, Tzipi Livni as a crazed killer, complete with bloody knife.
The information was made available by Palestinian Media Watch reporters Itmar Marcus and Barbara Crook who stated, "The Palestinian Authority published a caricature today in its official newspaper, in which Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is portrayed with a dagger and blood-stained hands next to a white peace dove with its head in a noose. As a result of Prime Minister Olmert's resignation and her election as leader of the Kadima party, Livni has been designated to try to form the next Israeli government, and could be the next prime minister."
September 19, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - As if more evidence was needed to question the direction of the U.S. State Department's Muslim outreach we note their current effort to elevate Khalid Latif, director of NYU's Islamic Center and the New York Police Department's Muslim chaplain.
In a flowery puff piece penned for the State Dept. by Howard Cincotta, Latif is characterized as, "deeply committed to interfaith dialogue and community service as integral parts of what it means to be Muslim in a modern, multicultural world." [source, http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2008/September/20080918112042maduobbA0.7461511.html]
In reality, as these authors have pointed out in a 2007 piece Khalil Gibran School Advisor Threatened NYU With Jihad Over Danish Cartoons that Latif, "During the height of the Danish cartoon controversy imam Khalid Latif - an advisory board member of New York's proposed Khalil Gibran school [and chaplain at NYU, NYPD and Rutgers University] - protested a NYU student group's intent to display the drawings by drafting an incendiary letter to the university's president John Sexton which contained veiled threats of violence."
September 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A federal grand jury in Miami, FL, has returned a Superseding Indictment charging eight individuals and eight corporations in connection with their participation in conspiracies to export U.S.-manufactured commodities to prohibited entities and to Iran. The defendants are named in a thirteen (13) count Indictment -- returned on Sept. 11, 2008 and unsealed today -- that includes charges of conspiracy, violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the United States Iran Embargo, and making false statements to federal agencies in connection with the export of thousands of U.S. goods to Iran.
The charges were announced today by R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Patrick Rowan, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice; Mario Mancuso, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce; Adam Szubin, Director, Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); Sharon Woods, Director, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS); and Julie L. Myers, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The Superseding Indictment alleges that the defendants purchased, and then illegally exported to ultimate buyers in Iran, numerous "dual use" commodities. "Dual-use" commodities are goods and technologies that have commercial application, but could also be used to further the military or nuclear potential of other nations and could be detrimental to the foreign policy or national security of the United States. In this regard, the Superseding Indictment alleges that the defendants caused the export of 120 field-programmable gate arrays, more than 5000 integrated circuits of varying types, approximately 345 Global Positioning Systems ("GPS"), 12,000 Microchip brand micro-controllers, and a Field Communicator. All of these items have potential military applications, including as components in the construction of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
September 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - British MP Sadiq Khan is demanding a new law aimed at destroying one of the core attributes of Western society, it's Judeo-Christian founding principles.
Though the proposed legislation is being explained away as merely a method to reduce the unproven canard that Islam is discriminated against in the UK, "Under his proposal, public bodies would have to be proactive in tackling religious discrimination. The Equality and Human Rights Commission, chaired by Trevor Phillips, would issue guidance and codes of practice" [source, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/muslim-mp-calls-for-religious-equality-law-931982.html], the effort must be understood as only the latest move by Islamists to elevate Shari'a at the expense of the vast majority of UK residents who are non-Muslims.
The proposal was broached in a pamphlet produced by the Fabian Society, a socialist pressure group, and one not historically friendly to the religious orthodoxy of the status quo.
September 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In scanning the news these days any mention of Somali workers is almost inevitably linked with the topic of labor unrest and efforts to force a recognition of Shari'a in the public sphere.
The latest of these takes place in St. Paul Minnesota where, "A few Somali parents in Willmar complained that the public schools weren't allowing their Muslim children to step out of class for daily prayer." [source, http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/09/16/willmar_school/]
The reason for this recent chapter in the Somali saga is probably attributable to meddling by CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations, a terror friendly Hamas mouthpiece and named unindicted co-conspirator in U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation, et al, the nation's largest terror financing prosecution, which is representing some of the Somalis.
Apparently due to prodding by CAIR, the trouble continues despite the fact that the issue was dealt with six years ago - to everyone's satisfaction at the time - after extensive talks, according to Mark Miley, principal at the Willman Junior High School who states, "it was everyone at the table, 'Thank you, this will work well for us.' Not just one year, not just two years, not just three years, not just four years, not just five years. We're going on six years here." [source, ibid]
Those negotiations established a policy of allowing private prayers to be said by any student between classes so as not to disrupt the school environment.
September 17, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In an impassioned speech made during the General Review in Holland's Lower House, Geert Wilders claimed that the country's substantial Morrocan immigrant population was failing to integrate, stating that their intent is rather to, "subjugate and dominate the Dutch," adding that, "we are losing our country to Morrocan hooligans who go through life cursing,spitting, and beating up innocent people...They accept all too happily our welfare, housing and doctors but not our norms or values."
According to ultra-liberal Green Left faction chairwoman Femke Halsema, Wilders' pronouncements "crossed the line of radicalism," calling his position "unethical and untenable."
Countering, Wilders claimed there are "two Hollands...the Holland of the cabinet is that of the crazy climate hysteria and the unstoppable Islamization," and that other Holland, "my Holland...is that of the people who foot the bills and are robbed or threatened by Islamist street terrorists." [source, Telegraph, http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/1948499/___Marokkanen_koloniseren_Nederland___.html]
Must See Video - Barack Obama Playing Politics With Lives Of U.S. Troops For Political Benefit
September 16, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - CAIR, perhaps America's most terror friendly group, has expressed outrage over last weekend's newspaper insert distribution of millions of copies of "Obsession," a video exposing the threat posed by Islamic radicalism.
Calling the video "Anti Muslim Hate," and a "Terror Scare," the Council on American Islamic Relations, named as an unindicted co-conspirator in U.S. vs. Holy Land Foundation, has mounted a web based offensive designed to bring pressure against the newspapers involved.
From the CAIR September 15 newsletter:
Muslims interviewed by the Observer charged that the distribution, less than two months before Election Day, is a ploy by the New York-based Clarion Fund to assist GOP presidential candidate John McCain, who leads Democrat Barack Obama in polling on national security issues. "This is political maneuvering by those who believe noise is more important than clear thought," said Ahmed Rehab, spokesman for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations..."
September 15, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A little known, much less discussed, federal program designed to aid some of the world's most needy is being used by some of its participants to force American companies to become Shari'a compliant.
The program - authorized by Congress - is administered by the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration . It facilitates fast track access to permanent resident status for certain groups designated as political refugees.
The legislation was originally intended to set up a methodology for accommodating the Vietnamese "boat people," who left Southeast Asia after the fall of Vietnam to the communists, understandably fearful of political retribution.
Since then other groups have been added to the program, often at the insistence of influential Congressmen. Among these are refugees from the strife-torn African country of Somalia.
September 15, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Al Muhajiroun a nominally defunct UK group once described by terrorism expert Daniel Pipes as, ""the most extremist group operating in the West today," has resurfaced in London, operating under the guise of the Association for Islamic Research
As if their radical credentials needed burnishing, the group is ominously warning of another 9/11 terrorist attack if their demands are not met.
Speaking at a rally in East London marking 9/11 Anjem Choudary the former deputy head of the officially disbanded Al Muhajiroun announced that Muslims would take over the UK by dint of numbers and that, "each one was a time bomb waiting to go off, adding that, "about 500 people in Britain become Muslim every day?It may be by pure conversion that Britain will become an Islamic state. We may never need to conquer it from the outside." [source, http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1683635.ece]
[Editor's note: this is a requested reprint of our 2003 9/11 Observation]
September 11, 2003 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In the Old Testament, early in the book of Second Maccabees, the focus falls upon [2 Maccabees, 8] the re-taking of the Temple in Jerusalem after the city had been sacked by Antiochus - successor to the throne of Seleucus - one of Alexander the Great's generals.
Antiochus was the local potentate representing the Seleucid Empire, which stretched all the way from Thrace to Western India.
The sacking of Jerusalem and greater Judea was horrific, even by the standards of that time, with upwards of 80,000 being slaughtered. The Temple had been defiled by the city's conquerors, Antiochus a proud and haughty king, personally carried off 1,800 talents of gold, returning to Egypt after re-dedicating the temple to the Greek god Zeus.
Antiochus appointed Phillip as the local vizier, a man even more cruel than his master.
Judas Maccabeus and nine compatriots escaped the carnage and formed a band of guerillas, which lived like wild animals in the mountain caves outside the cities. They eventually assembled an army - returning to crush the oppressors, taking back Jerusalem and Judea.
Rejoicing, they celebrated for the first time in two years in the Temple after having purified it.
They had but a few drops of oil for the Menorah, the ceremonial lamp, but what little they had miraculously burned for eight days and nights, a sure sign from God that He was pleased.
Remembrance of this event eventually became the Festival of Lights - Chanukah.
On this anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, we in America have much to learn from this story; for we too now know the pain suffered at the hands of would-be foreign oppressors who have sought to impose their religion and way of life upon us through violence.
September 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - If the old bromide is true, that no good deed goes unpunished, then Colorado's JBS & Co. Swift meat packing house is only the latest example.
The 150 year old [now foreign owned] company, headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, finds itself at a tense impasse with the Somali Muslim component of its workforce, battling over what the workers claim is company insensitivity to its prayer requirements.
As reported by the Greeley Times:
"The roughly 250 workers, who've been suspended since walking off the job Friday night, say they will not return to work and may take legal action. They also acknowledge they may face mass terminations."
Similar confrontation's seem to be endemic when dealing with refugee ethnic Somali workers, brought to the United States on the extremely questionable Refugee Resettlement Program promulgated by the US State Department that has reportedly "resettled" over 40,000 Somalis in this country since 2001.
September 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A court in Aman, Jordan is going ahead with plans to prosecute 12 Europeans who allegedly "defamed" Mohammed and engaged in "blasphemy."
The unusual action targets such critics of Islam as the Dutch cartoonist who in 2005 caused an international stir - and attending riots in the Muslim world which killed dozens - with a series of drawings perceived to be defamatory to Muslims. Also in the court's crosshairs is Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, a vocal critic of Islamic fundamentalism.
Though the alleged offenses were not committed in Jordan and are unlikely to result in the extradition of the parties named, it is less clear what might take place should those charged travel to countries which don't have the West's tradition of free speech.
Jordan's actions are not isolated however, with NGOs such as the United Nations moving in essentially the same direction, attempting to ban speech critical of particular religions, all of these efforts must be interpreted as part of a master strategy, advanced by Islamists worldwide, to criminalize any criticism of Islam.
September 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - London's embattled assistant police commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur has been taken off active duty after his boss Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police decided that his continued presence as an active member of the force was harming its effectiveness. While on leave he will continue to be paid his full salary; 180,000 pounds which equates to $316,000 U.S.
Ghaffur, a Muslim activist, has been pursuing a very public legal battle with Blair, alleging discrimination.
As we wrote in an earlier piece, Ghaffur's actions are looked at by many as emblematic of how Islamists craftily use the myriad of questionable, but legal, methods available to those in the West to attack institutions from the inside, with even Ghaffur's ex-wife questioning his motives:
"That's what I can't understand about the way Tarique is behaving. He owes an eternal debt of gratitude to Britain for allowing him to come here, to save him from persecution, and tolerating his race and religion. Yet this is how he repays such kindness. You cannot take all the opportunities that have been given to you, all the promotions, and then not accept that one day perhaps you will not rise any further." [source, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=metid=71408.htm]
September 9, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Attorneys for Kimberlie Webb, 44, a Philadelphia Muslim police officer, appeared before the Third U.S. District Court of Appeals today, arguing that she should be allowed to wear a religious head covering while on duty.
Compared to the much shorter hijab, the khimar covers a woman's hair, forehead, sides of the head, neck, shoulders, and chest, sometimes extending as far down as the calf.
Since 2003 Webb has been a source of conflict in the police department, having been found guilty of insubordination and neglect of duty, because of her refusal to stop wearing the khimar. This led to her being suspended for 13 days by police commissioner Sylvester Johnson, also a Muslim. Webb has also been disciplined for failure to maintain a valid driver's license and for improperly handling evidentiary material. [source, Kimberlie Webb vs City of Philadelphia, http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/07D0703P.pdf]
Webb's Title VII federal lawsuit is alleging religious discrimination and retaliation. Her attorney, Jeffrey M. Pollock, told a packed court room that the case represented a "fundamental liberty right" and asked the judges whether wearing a scarf is, "such a violent religious symbol that we can't tolerate that?" He also attempted to make the case that according to police regulations it was legal to wear a scarf in cold weather prompting the judge to point out that Webb was appealing to wear her scarf even in "90 degrees."
September 9, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Palestinian Media Watch [PMW] is reporting that Palestinian Authority [Fatah] television is continuing to use child friendly Disney characters and symbols in an effort to justify and romanticize suicide bombing.
"...In a new official PA TV studio built for a Ramadan children's program, the smiling images of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pooh and Piglet are the backdrop for a TV quiz that this week venerated a notorious terrorist...."
Earlier this year PA TV came under intense international criticism for similar practices.
The controversial television programming is part of a larger plan promulgated by the PA, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, intended to stoke Islamic fundamentalism and promote hatred of Jews and other non-Muslims.
In a February 2007 study undertaken by PMW, Palestinian textbooks have been shown to deny the existence of Israel, foster religious bigotry and spread the ideology of jihad.
..."The
teachings repeatedly reject Israel's right to exist, present the conflict as a religious battle for Islam, teach Israel's founding as imperialism, and actively portray a picture of the Middle East, both verbally and visually, in which Israel does not exist at all. [the] Palestinian schoolbooks...[portray]...Israel's founding as a "catastrophe unprecedented in history," "a theft perpetrated by "Zionist gangs," together with numerous other hateful descriptions of Israel as "colonial imperialist" and "racist", compounded by the presentation of the
conflict as a religious war, leaves no latitude for students to have positive or even neutral attitudes about Israel..."[source, http://www.pmw.org.il/BookReport_Eng.pdf]
To view an example of Palestinian television?s programming watch the following video.
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.
Qatanani 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."
October 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On the evening of September 25 the Plainsboro Road community of Cranberry, New Jersey was rocked by a then mysterious car explosion.
September 29, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - A strange phenomenon is playing itself out in a public way within the radical Muslim community, that provides extraordinary insight into their thought processes.
September 26, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Somalia's resurgent pirate fleet has boldly seized in international waters a Belize registered vessel carrying 30 T-72 Ukrainian tanks and assorted spare parts, adding it to a treasure trove of 30 vessels which have met a similar fate this year.
September 25, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In a report entirely missing on MSM outlets, on September 1, Israel's Army Radio disclosed that Joe Biden, Obama's gaffe prone VP choice, told members of the Israeli government in a secret meeting that they would have to reconcile themselves to a nuclear Iran.
September 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Al Muhajiroun, the UK Islamist group which noted terror experts have labeled as one of the West's most dangerous terrorist organizations, has re-resurfaced under a new name, the Salafi Youth Movement.
September 11, 2003 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In the Old Testament, early in the book of Second Maccabees, the focus falls upon [2 Maccabees, 8] the re-taking of the Temple in Jerusalem after the city had been sacked by Antiochus - successor to the throne of Seleucus - one of Alexander the Great's generals.
September 10, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - London's embattled assistant police commissioner, Tarique Ghaffur has been taken off active duty after his boss Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police decided that his continued presence as an active member of the force was harming its effectiveness. While on leave he will continue to be paid his full salary; 180,000 pounds which equates to $316,000 U.S.
September 9, 2008 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Palestinian Media Watch [PMW] is reporting that Palestinian Authority [Fatah] television is continuing to use child friendly Disney characters and symbols in an effort to justify and romanticize suicide bombing.
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.