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In the early days of Nazi Germany, the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA) beat and often killed the Nazis' political opponents. They were especially active on college campuses, in an eerie foretaste of Leftist activity on campuses today, violently attacking anyone who dared oppose Nazism. Now we are seeing this political thuggery come to America, courtesy the increasingly strident and violent Left, emboldened by an Administration and mainstream media that lets them get away with...this. In Chicago, Leftist thugs beat restaurant patrons, some of whom were members of a white supremacist group -- the brownshirts didn't hesitate to beat up bystanders as well.

Now, however vile white supremacism may be, this kind of violence has no place in a country that is supposed to be ruled by law. And now the brownshirts are vowing to target "Islamophobic" gatherings -- a threat that doubtless warms the black hearts of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Anti-Racist Action Group Beats Local Restaurant Patrons," by Richard Davis for ChicagoNow, May 20:

While President Obama schmoozes and ooozes with the NATO delegates, and police and security works overtime to protect the VIPs who wander in to decide the fate of nations and the "little" people within, an attack in Tinley Park by a bunch of hoodie-clad thugs is going mostly under-reported by the Chicago media.

The Chicago media, [sic] long ago became transcribers for local politicians, have had a possible terrorist attack happen right in their own backyard, but...they do not care. He [sic] is a report from New York media. The Chicago Tribune is at least reporting on the allegation, but with no apparent curiosity about the ARA.

Saturday, May 19, 2012, at Winston's Restaurant, in Tinley Park, some fifteen miles south of McCormick Place and the important people, an attack was carried out by 12 to 18 thugs, who rushed into the restaurant with baseball bats and starting beating some of the patron silly.

At first, the group that claims responsibility, the Anti-Racist Action Group, focused on just one table, then decided that it wasn't enough to beat whom they consider their sworn enemies, but also other placid suburbanites who just happened to be enjoying the Irish fare served at Winston's. When the owner of the restaurant took on one of the hoodie thugs physically, tackling him, he was beaten by five of the thugs.

Something didn't smell right, so a little research shows that the Anti-Racist Action Group is claiming credit of sorts on their web site.

And who were the alleged victims of the ARA? Looks like it was a meeting of the White Nationalists, who were having their 5th annual White Nationalist Economic Summit and White Nationalist, yes, Meet and Greet.

Okay, suppose it is all true. Suppose a bunch of nuts got whomped on. Just who did the beating and why? And does the ARA's views keep the story from being reported, as folks with these "enlightened" views are, supposedly, the "good" people?

The Anti-Racist Action Group is committed to stopping anybody who does not agree with them, anybody who, in their determination, is racist, homophobic, etc..

Here, in their own words: ARA intends to do the hard work necessary to build a broad, strong movement against racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, discrimination against the disabled, the oldest, the youngest, and the most oppressed people. We want a classless, free society. We intend to win!

This hard work apparently involves beating people they disagree with, along with innocent bystanders. All in the name of silencing them.

They stand for the oppressed it seems, from the oldest to youngest -- except for the very youngest, as they are "Pro-Choice".

Pro-Choice is what the ARA stands for, unless it is against what they choose as a correct view and action.

The Chicago media has a big terrorist story right in the burbs, and what happens: they want to know about Michelle Obama's toned arms and hosting an arts reception.

Will the Chicago reporter aces get around to doing some digging on this? Doubtful. My guess is because most of the media agrees with the ARA's stance on things.

Which means people can get beat up and eventually killed in the name of "social justice", and nobody in the business of reporting about it, cares. In fact, you get the feeling they kind of digg it.

Pathetic.

Abdo: Feel the love

This thoroughly loathsome jihadist Abdo said in 2010 that he wanted to combat “Islamophobia” and “to try and put a good positive spin out there that Islam is a good, peaceful religion. We’re not all terrorists, you know?”

"Fort Hood Bomb Plot Suspect Wears Mask In Court," from AP, May 21 (thanks to Kenneth):

WACO, Texas (AP) -- A soldier accused of plotting to bomb Fort Hood troops is being made to wear a mask during jury selection at his federal trial.

Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo is accused of biting through his lip and spitting blood on two authorities escorting him after a court hearing last month. He's also accused of spitting blood on a jailer.

In court Monday, several U.S. marshals standing near Abdo wore protective glasses. Abdo wore an oval mask covering his nose and mouth....

Why? because they confessed to not offering regular prayers during vacation, and she wanted to give them a foretaste of the hell fires they are destined to receive -- an even more creative bit of child abuse than last week's beating of a 5-year-old boy by his Saudi teacher for failing to memorize the Koran.

"Bangladesh teacher 'burns' legs of girl pupils," by Anbarasan Ethirajan for the BBC, May 3:

Police in Bangladesh are looking for a teacher from a Muslim religious school who allegedly placed burning hot iron rods on the legs of her students for failing to offer prayers regularly.

They say 14 girls, aged between eight and 12, received burn injuries.

The school has been temporarily closed following the incident, while the "hellish experience" of the girls has been widely reported in newspapers.

Their injuries are not thought to be serious.

The Bangladeshi government banned all corporal punishment in all educational institutions, including religious schools - or madrassas - in 2010.

"I was shocked to see the burn injury of my daughter," Jumur Akhter, mother of one of the affected students, told the BBC.

The girls were learning Arabic and Bengali at the Talimul Koran Mahila madrassa at Namashyampur in Dhaka. The incident is said to have happened on Tuesday.

"It was the first day of the madrassa after our holidays. Our teacher got angry when she heard that we were not offering regular prayers during our vacation," said Ferdousi Akther, aged eight.

"Then she asked her servant to heat up the rod and then she pressed it on our legs. The pain was unbearable."

Pupils say that the teacher asked the students whether they knew the severity of the fire in hell.

They were allegedly told that if they did not offer prayers regularly, they would experience a similar punishment...

Frankly, My Dear, I Don't Give A Damn
by Sergio Redegalli

My sculpture, "Aisha from behind the veil," has been sold to a private buyer who very quickly bought the artwork even after it was removed from the Glass Artist Gallery because of potential negative ramifications.

After 32 years of being involved in various ways with the Glass Artist Gallery in Sydney, Maureen Cahill, the gallery director and one of my dearest friends and mentors since I was a student at Sydney College of the Arts, has notified me that I can no longer sell my personal work, my exploration of the Islamic ideology, via the Glass Artist Gallery because of realistic fears about the dangers that their sale would place the Gallery in.

The Gallery is not situated in a suitable location or building that would enable it to withstand any form of protest or attack on any level, either by verbal intimidation or violent act by the extreme Left or Muslims of the extreme type.

This comes after 21 months of negative campaigning and physical attacks on my mural and building in Newtown, Sydney, Australia by the crazy Left -- consisting of the Socialist Alliance, anarchists, the Greens, a twisted group called the Anti-Bogans that are in fact the biggest “Neo Bogans” in Australia, and people of the Islamic ideology.

The personal attacks on me via the Internet are also now increasing. You Tube is one of the Leftists' and Islamic supremacists' favourite platforms for creative lying and make-believe. This gives me no choice other than to distance myself from the Glass Artist Gallery, in order to protect it and all the other artists who are part of it.

The outpouring of support from individuals who believe in free speech has not been lost on me. They have been open and generous in their kind words and eagerness to see the next body of work in my ongoing discussion of the Islamic ideology.

In just 21 months, I have come to understand the dangers of the concept of submission on a totally new level. I will be very busy in the next six months creating and constructing multiple bodies of work, including:

- “Homage to Theo”: Submission revisited.
- Symbolism/motifs of the crimes against humanity of Nazism, Communism, and the totalitarianism of Islam.
- The Koran, 114 suras cast in truth.

This may be seen by some members of the human race as a declaration of something "Islamophobic," but luckily they don’t control the Free World.

"Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”

I have always wanted to use that line.

Sergio Redegalli is an artist and sculptor in Sydney, Australia. He is the creator of the famous and much-defaced "Ban the Burqa" mural.

May 16 at the Wednesday Morning Club in Los Angeles.

Get the book here.

What do Muslims and Socialists have in common? Well, first of all, they both define themselves by having pity toward Muslims. And, of course, the Jeeews -- not inbreeding (here, here), constant Palestinian aggression and violence, Palestinian schools teaching kids to be suicide bombers or the Quran -- must be blamed.

We are still waiting for the Left to demand that goods from occupied Tibet should be labelled. But then again, China is too big to fight, and they are socialists, too... We are also still waiting for the Left to demand labelling of halal goods. But then again, Muslims vote for the Left and will lose income if we infidel consumers are able to see the difference...

Translated from Danish by Nicolai Sennels, Politiken May 18: "Goods from Israeli settlements will be labelled". One more reason for Muslims to vote for the Left:

It must be crystal clear to Danish consumers if they are standing with a product from an Israeli settlement in their hands. This is the message from Secretary of State Villy Søvndal (Socialist Peoples' Party), who will introduce a labeling system for all goods imported from the settlements, 'which are illegal according to international law'. Denmark thereby tightens this new EU law (more than other countries).

"This is a step that clearly demonstrates to consumers that these products are produced under conditions that not only the Danish government, but also European governments, are against. And so it is up to the consumers whether they want to purchase the goods or not," said Søvndal.

Labelling is not mandatory to Danish supermarkets. But the Secretary of State firmly believes that Danish supermarkets will show their goodwill, and Søvndal refers to Britain, which for years has had a similar arrangement "with great success." Søvndal is also confident that the Israeli settlements arouse a lot of anger among the consumers and that the consumers will change their behavior.

"I am certain that the labelling will have a very significant and direct impact on imports."

Muslims commit 91 percent of honor killings worldwide. A manual of Islamic law certified as a reliable guide to Sunni orthodoxy by Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam, says that "retaliation is obligatory against anyone who kills a human being purely intentionally and without right." However, "not subject to retaliation" is "a father or mother (or their fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring." ('Umdat al-Salik o1.1-2). In other words, someone who kills his child incurs no legal penalty under Islamic law.

The Palestinian Authority gives pardons or suspended sentences for honor murders. Iraqi women have asked for tougher sentences for Islamic honor murderers, who get off lightly now. Syria in 2009 scrapped a law limiting the length of sentences for honor killings, but "the new law says a man can still benefit from extenuating circumstances in crimes of passion or honour 'provided he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing.'" And in 2003 the Jordanian Parliament voted down on Islamic grounds a provision designed to stiffen penalties for honor killings. Al-Jazeera reported that "Islamists and conservatives said the laws violated religious traditions and would destroy families and values."

"Parents 'murdered their Westernised teenage daughter in front of her sister because they thought she was bringing shame on the family,'" by James White for the Daily Mail, May 21 (thanks to Mick):

A teenage girl was murdered by her parents because she had become 'Westernised' and no longer obeyed their strict rules, a jury heard today.

The parents of Shafilea Ahmed are accused of attacking her in a killing allegedly witnessed by their other daughter, before dumping her body by a river.

The decomposed remains 17-year-old Shafilea were discovered in Cumbria in February 2004.

Today, as her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed went on trial for murder, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told Chester Crown Court they had killed her because she refused to obey them.

Opening the case against the Ahmeds, Mr Edis told the jury of seven men and five women: 'The defendants, having spent the best part of 12 months trying to really crush her, realised they were never going to be able to succeed and finally killed her because her conduct dishonoured the family, bringing shame on them.'...

Is Interpol under Sharia? Maybe -- it has helped enforce it in the recent past. "Pakistan turns to Interpol after Twitter declines to help manage 'anti-Islamic material,'" by Jon Russell for The Next Web, May 21 (thanks to Twostellas):

Pakistan’s Interior Minister, Senator Rehman Malik, has taken to Twitter to explain that, following the Twitter blockage over the weekend, the government has contacted Interpol to take up the issue of screening sensitive content, after Twitter’s management reportedly offered no assistance with the matter.

Twitter was blocked and subsequently unblocked in Pakistan over the weekend, and the minister revealed that ”un Islamic” content was the reason behind the saga. He also explained that the block was initiated by the IT ministry without warning or consultation with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, who was not in favour of it.

When made aware of the block, the minister and Prime Minister demanded that access was restored, however Malik has admitted that the issue is “highly sensitive” and will need to be addressed in the long run.

Malik explained that certain “anti Islamic material” on the service is causing tension and “hurting the feelings” of many Muslims, forcing the government to take action to help manage the service and keep it open in Pakistan....

Doesn't he know that honor killing is a cultural practice that has nothing to do with Islam? No, he doesn't, because it isn't. The problem with the "Islamophobia" narrative that Islamic supremacists retail in the West is that it keeps running up against the reality of Islamic teachings and how Muslims act upon them. "Former Pakistani Lawmaker Denounces Secular Education for Women, Justifies Honor Killings: 'Killing of Women In the Name of Honor Is a "Local Custom and Religious Practice,"' Warns Female Western NGO Staff that They will Be Captured and Given Away as Brides," from MEMRI, May 8:

...On the Modesty Code for Women and Secular Education: "It's Beghairti (Immodesty) to Equip Girls With A Secular Education"; "If A Woman Gets Education, She Would Also Seek A Job, Which Islam Doesn't Allow"

"It's beghairti (immodesty) to equip girls with a secular education…. The Kohistani parents who are sending their girls to schools are acting against 'Islamic Shariah' and the local customs…. The Kohistani culture does not allow parents to send their pardadar (modest) girls to schools."[5]

"The 'secular' education of women is against Islamic injunctions…  If a woman gets education, she would also seek a job, which Islam doesn't allow in any way…."[6]

"Getting education for degrees by women is repugnant to Islamic injunctions, because if a woman gets a degree, she may use it for job, an act which Islam doesn't allow in absence of mehram (close relatives)…."[7]

"Several Hadith books [i.e. those containing reports of deeds and sayings of Prophet Muhammad] prohibit girls from receiving degrees and certificates in 'secular education'…. Formal education paves the way for girls to enter the job market."[8]

On Men's Role Vis-à-vis Women: "The Only Responsibility Men Owe to Women is Sustenance, Not Education…. In Return, the Women should Stay at Home and Look After Their Children"

"When they [i.e. male members of a family] permit their women to work, they give them a free hand to mix with na-mehrum (men to whom they are not related blood) – by doing so, the girl's father, brother or husband become dayoos [someone who accepts the wrongdoings of female family members] in the eye of the shari'a…."[9]

"Such people will never enter Paradise….[10]

"The only responsibility men owe to women is sustenance, not education…. In return, the women should stay at home and look after their children and relatives…."[11]

"Killing of women in the name of honor is a 'local custom and religious practice' in Kohistan…. If someone witnesses female relatives roaming with ghair mehram (other than close relatives), he can kill her without producing four witnesses [as required under Islamic law for such a punishment]."[12]...

Will the Islamophobia never end? "Religious intolerance: Hindu temple vandalised in Peshawar," by Riaz Ahmad for the Express Tribune, May 21:

PESHAWAR: In a brazen act of vandalism, unidentified men sneaked into a Hindu temple in the capital city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, smashed a holy figurine and burnt down scriptures and images of deities.

“We opened the temple around 6pm and found all holy scriptures and images burnt down. A statuette of Lord Shiva was also smashed to pieces,” Ramesh Lal, a priest at Guru Gorakhnath temple, told The Express Tribune.

The temple is situated in the Gorgathri neighbourhood inside the walled city.

Peshawar, which is believed to be one of the oldest living cities of South Asia, houses dozens of monuments and structures from the Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and British eras.

The priest said that the community had reported the incident to the local police who gave them the customary cold-shoulder.

“Vandals smashed a statuette of Lord Shiva to pieces and burnt down the holy Gita as well as several images of our deities,” Lal said. The temple, according to him, did not have armed guards because the government pays scant attention to the security needs of a Hindu place of worship....

No group has claimed responsibility for the vandalism – but past attacks on the shrines of Muslim Sufi saints and spiritual figures have been blamed on Taliban insurgents.

You don't say.

The niqab won't help

Acid attacks are increasingly popular among Islamic supremacists bent on controlling women and punishing them for getting out of line. "Pakistani Women Writers Denounce Islamic Clerics' Fatwas Against Women's Use Of Cell Phones And Access To Secular Education," from MEMRI, May 20 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Former Pakistani lawmaker and cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem recently issued a fatwa (Islamic degree) against secular education and justifying honor killings of women.[1]The fatwa was issued in a sermon during a weekly Friday prayer in Kohistan district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Haleem also threatened that women from secular NGOs who visit Kohistan district may be married off forcibly to local men. In a similar incident, a cleric announced a fatwa in a mosque in Noshki town of Pakistan's Baluchistan province, justifying acid attacks on women who use cell phones.

Both fatwas elicited no condemnation from the main Pakistani media. However, two Pakistani women – an author and a blogger –slammed the clerics' fatwas, arguing that there is an urgent need to stop such fatwas against women. In an article titled "Fatwas Against Women: From The One Who Wears Bangles," Fouzia Saeed – an author and a social scientist – stated: "I think it is time for our society to forcefully stop such people who not only violate the dignity and safety of women citizens, but also give a bad name to Islam…"

In another article "Our Stunted Society," blogger and communications consultant Tazeen Javed argued that such fatwas are breeding narrow-mindedness. She wrote: "A country like ours can ill-afford adventurism of any kind, but most dangerous is the practice of resorting to a fatwa to get a point across. Not only does this breed a narrow and rigid view of issues, it also leaves no room for dialogue, debate, and consultation, making us an increasingly 'stunted' and intolerant society."

Fouzia Saeed: "A Fatwa Was Announced In A Mosque On May 11, Stating That Any Woman Using A Cell Phone Will Have Acid Thrown In Her Face"

Following are excerpts from Fouzia Saeed's article:[2]

"Fatwas against women are becoming common again. In Noshki, Baluchistan, a fatwa was announced in a mosque on May 11, stating that any woman using a cell phone will have acid thrown in her face. Another fatwa was issued in Kohistan about two weeks ago, warning 'NGO women' that they would be forcefully married to their local men if they dared to enter the area. There was a time when such fatwas were more common, resulting in serious punishments inflicted on women who dared to venture beyond the four walls of their homes.

"However, over the last four years there has been a steady improvement in creating space for women to be more visible in public. After decades of repression, women have turned the cycle in a different direction by building a high level of solidarity among women from many backgrounds. The awareness that one woman's advancement is linked to breaking the shackles of others has gained ground. Not just women; many men are fully in support of this process of change.

"Who will tell the 'fatwa guys' that they are nearly an extinct species? Who will tell these men that they need to wake up to 2012. Who will tell them that our interest in them is limited to a single news item? Perhaps they should be kept in a museum with the caption 'we used to have people like this who thought work for women was 'un-Islamic' but marrying them by force was 'Islamic.' Idiots who thought talking on a cell phone was 'un-Islamic' but throwing acid in women's faces was 'Islamic'!'

"I think it is time for our society to forcefully stop such people who not only violate the dignity and safety of women citizens, but also give a bad name to Islam, a religion which places a priority on the dignity of women."...

Uh huh.

Irshad Manji's expansive and broad-minded Islam is her own creation, with no basis in Islamic tradition. Hugh Fitzgerald said it back in 2008: "Irshad Manji has certainly created her own private Islam. She is the child of Asian refugees from Uganda. She has never lived in a Muslim society. She has always enjoyed the freedoms of the West. But she feels, out of filial piety, and perhaps for other reasons, that she will do best if she continues to identify as a Muslim and if, furthermore, she keeps claiming that Islam itself is or can be made into something perfectly acceptable to people such as herself. She's wrong. And any apostate, who had been born into and grown up in a society suffused with Islam, would be able to set her right."

But why don't we see more Muslims calling for any kind of reform in Islam? Here's why: even half-hearted and deceptive attempts at "reform" like Manji's are labeled un-Islamic. "Ban book if it's against Islam, say muftis," by Atiqa Hazellah for New Straits Times, May 21:

KUALA LUMPUR - Two state muftis have called on the government to ban the Malay translation of Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta, a book by Ugandan-born Canadian author Irshad Manji, if it is found to deviate from Islam.

The call was made by Perak mufti Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria and Selangor mufti Datuk Mohd Tamyes Abdul Wahid.

On Saturday, a scheduled launch of the Malay translation of her book at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall and several of her speaking engagements had to be cancelled due to security concerns.

According to her website, the seven-chapter book "shows all of us how to reconcile faith and freedom in a world seething with repressive dogmas. This book is the ultimate guide to becoming a gutsy global citizen".

Irshad had also openly admitted to being a lesbian and also has supported Lesbian, Gay, Bisexsual and Transexual (LGBT) lifestyles.

Harussani said her beliefs as outlined in the book were clearly against Malaysia's position as an Islamic country and the norms of Malaysian society.

"All state religious departments had been informed not to allow her deviant agenda to spread in this country."

Harussani added that he had not read the book but felt the government should ban it if it was found insulting to Islam.

"If the book is found misleading and deviated from the Islamic law and teachings, then the government should ban the book."...

Which of them will win a place of honor in the Islamic world? The Prime Minister of Turkey Erdogan as caliph, or Iranian President Ahmedinejad as the leader of all Muslims, Sunni and Shi'ite? Or someone else altogether? I do not know.

Maybe they are going to put together a great Islamic state. Or will they first sort out all the enemies of Islam and then start to try to understand each other? The latter option is more likely when one examines all the facts.

Some time ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton strongly condemned, and even threatened India, if the leadership of that country would not reduce its purchase of crude oil to Iran. But is India a member of NATO? Is India a strategic partner of the United States? Would it not be better for the U.S. to deal first with its partners, and then with other countries? Or is the authorization for the purchase of oil simply a farcical move in an election year, as the Obama administration attempts to enlist the support of Jews in the United States?

Turkey has significantly increased its oil imports from Iran, despite the oil embargo that the United States and Europe are maintaining against the Islamic Republic.

Oil imports from Iran to Turkey in March exceeded 270,000 barrels per day, which is 100,000 barrels per day more (401 thousand 349 tons per month) than Turkey imported in February.

The data on the website of the Turkish Statistical Committee shows that the country imported 1.174 million tons of Iranian crude oil in March, which is the highest monthly purchase since July 2011, according to the Hurriyet Daily News.

In the first quarter, Iran exported to Turkey an average 193,000 barrels of oil per day (2.44 million tons).

Here you have the embargo.

What do you say about that?

In Turkey, the latest development in the technology of the future is an "electromagnetic bomb." Research in this area is being done in the "Laboratory for the Study of Plasma."

According to TRT, thanks to new technologies of the future being developed in Turkey, it can shoot down airplanes, blow up nuclear power plants and destroy or detonate mines. At Suleyman Demirel University is Turkey's first and only "Laboratory for the Study of Plasma." Turkey is the fifth country that has such a laboratory.

The laboratory, established with the participation of Canadian and U.S. partners, is equipped with high-voltage, high frequency, electromagnetic and radio frequency systems.
As a result of this work, Turkish scientists were able to carry high voltage and high frequency energy from one point to another without using a cable.

In the event that the project will be supported, in Turkey there can be put into place a national defense system that uses electromagnetic energy. This is after the Turks did not allow Israel to the NATO summit in Chicago and arrested the senior military leadership that was constraining Islam.

And this continues...

Now the Turks are changing their constitution.

In announcing the beginning of work on a new draft constitution, Prime Minister Erdogan proposed discussing the possibility of presidential rule. In accordance with the fundamental law, the president has the powers of representation, and the government has absolute power.

Erdogan's statement was interpreted as confirmation of his plans to become a powerful president of the country, in which scenario it was necessary to exchange the parliamentary system for a presidential one. The third and final term of office of the Erdogan government will expire in 2015.

Given the popularity of the prime minister in an Islamic Turkey, his victory in the presidential elections to be held in 2014 can be considered practically predetermined. This will allow the ruling party to continue the process of Islamization. And the president in this Islamic country could well be transformed into the Sultan.

The race continues in the Islamic world, the race to establish who is more harm to Israel. But in this who can rival Turkey, a NATO member country and a strategic partner of the United States?

Maybe it is time to apologize to the Turks and Iran for the fact that we have not accepted Islam and Muhammad.

Maybe our ancestors have died in vain -- those who died fighting against the Turks, and then against the Iranians and Arabs who were allied with North Caucasian tribes.

Maybe the time has come, which I was told about by one of the leaders and financiers of jihad in the Caucasus -- the time when all the people in the world would be Muslim, except for the Jews, and then the Muslims would "liberate" Jerusalem and destroy Israel.

Nahro Farid wrote this to me this morning: "They do this because they know they can get away with it. They know very well that their victims are Christians, thus they won't
be punished. They would never do this to a Muslim shop owner."

"Gunmen attack Assyrian-owned cafe in Bartella," by Nahro Farid for Ishtar TV, May 21:

Bartella, Nineveh Plains - A small argument led to an all-out assault against a Christian cafe owner in the Assyrian town of Bartella on Saturday night.

Eyewitness described the terror that lasted almost an hour in the small town of 20,000, which began after an argument by a group of Muslim outsiders.

The group of people, who were believed to have come from a nearby village, were at the cafe to watch the European club football final match between Chelsea and Bayern Munich.

The group left the cafe but to only return with guns and began to fire at all directions in Bartella. After entering the cafe, the gunmen began to destroy everything in the cafe.

No arrests have been made so far, and the police is [sic] not intending on opening a case.

We have lost a lion

It is with great sadness that I must report that my friend David Littman, one of the foremost warriors for human rights of our age, has died today in Switzerland.

Longtime Jihad Watch readers will recall his many reports at this site (see here -- scroll down), recording his numerous valiant efforts to call the attention of the UN's Human Rights Council to the human rights abuses arising from Islamic law.

This was just one small part of his long, vigorous and multifaceted lifelong fight for justice. His heroic efforts to save Jewish children from Islamic supremacist persecution in Morocco in the early 1960s became the subject of a documentary, Operation Mural. He assisted his wife, the great historian Bat Ye'or, in her pioneering work to uncover the forgotten history of dhimmitude, the institutionalized mistreatment of non-Muslims under Islamic law. He wrote a great deal about that and related matters himself. And he did so much more besides to defend the oppressed and downtrodden, such that this would go on forever if I enumerated it all.

David Littman was a man of breadth and vision and humor, a man of astounding vigor such that even in his last years he was much more active and accomplished than many people half his age. He was a man of genuine compassion and true kindness, such that one encounters only very rarely these days. He was a delightful raconteur, an amiable dinner companion, a dear friend, a great soul.

The world will not see the like of David Littman again for a long, long time. May his memory be eternal.

"Far right" in this story and other mainstream media stories means opposition to Islamization and Sharia. "Islamist calls for murder of German far-right party: media," from Expatica, May 20 (thanks to David):

A German Islamist is calling for the murder of members of a far-right party that regularly provokes ultra-conservative Muslims using cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a newspaper reported.

According to an article due to appear Monday in the Tageszeitung daily, an Islamist from Bonn in western Germany has appeared in a video on an Islamic forum in which he encouraged "the killing of all activists from the Pro NRW party".

Members of the small extreme-right political party held a campaign event using anti-Islamic caricatures ahead of an election in Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia on May 13.

In his appeal, the Islamist urged the collection of personal information on Pro NRW members, including their home addresses and work schedules, with the goal of attacking them.

"We take this message seriously," an Interior Minister spokesman told the newspaper, which said the man had broadcast messages for the "Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan".

Several police were injured during recent clashes between Islamists and Pro NRW members.

The right-wing activists have for several years campaigned against the construction of mosques and have in some protests marched with cartoons of Mohammed that were initially published by a Danish newspaper in 2005, leading to a wave of violence and anger across the Muslim world....

Still more Arab Spring democracy on the march. "Israel To Remain an Enemy, Says Syrian Rebel Leader," by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu for Israel National News, May 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):

As Syria creeps into total anarchy, rebels also insist that Israel will remain an enemy after the anticipated fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad. President Barack Obama told the G-8 Summit Saturday that Assad must leave.

Regardless of whether he continues in power or is replaced, Israel is destined to remain an enemy state. Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun told a Saudi Arabian newspaper Saturday that Israel is "the main enemy of the Syrian revolution,” and he accused Jerusalem of being Assad’s “strongest ally.”

Rebels claimed on Sunday that they killed senior Assad aides, but the regime denied the report and also accused “terrorists” of suicide bombings.

The report of the assassinations was published by Al Jazeera, which quoted rebel leaders as saying they assassinated Assad's senior military leader, the Interior Minister and one of his top aides. The regime immediately called the reports “lies” and released an interview with one of the supposed assassination victims.

Anarchy, if not civil war, is overcoming the country. A suicide bomb hit near the government’s intelligence complex Saturday night, with the regime and the opposition accusing each other of carrying out the deadly attack. The target area was the same place that once was a transit station for terrorists fighting American forces in Iraq, indicating that the attack may have been carried out by Al Qaeda-linked groups.

Assad until recently had been gaining the upper hand in the brutal suppression of the 14-month-old rebellion, but Gulf States and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood have begun arming the opposition.

The Obama administration has denied it is arming the rebels but has said it is coordinating with other countries that are sending them arms. The administration has totally reversed itself, having called Assad a “reformer” a year ago and now saying that he must leave power....

What are we fighting for? "Obama to urge Afghan president Karzai to push for Taliban settlement," by Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian, May 20 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Barack Obama is to use the Nato summit to press the Afghan leader Hamid Karzai to engage with greater urgency with the Taliban about a political settlement in Afghanistan.

The US president flew to Chicago on Saturday night after 24 hours of negotiations with the leaders of the G8, dominated by the eurozone crisis but which also included talks on issues including Afghanistan.

With US allies pressing for a speedy exit from a war their countries have become weary of, Obama is to discuss with Karzai and Nato allies a timetable that will see Afghan forces taking over combat duties from the US and its allies by the middle of next year.

Almost all international forces are scheduled to be out by the end of 2014 after completion of the Afghanistan elections. Karzai will not be standing in that election.

The Obama administration had hoped Chicago would be the venue for a major announcement of a political settlement with the Taliban. But these hopes crumbled when the Taliban walked away from reconciliation talks in March.

Instead, Obama is having to focus on trying to keep the international force together until the end of 2014, with some countries already preparing to leave early, in particular France, which has said it will remove combat troops by the end of this year.

After the pullout in two years time, a Nato force will be left behind, in part to help with training....

And to serve as target practice for Afghan troops.

The leaders listed below are urging other clerics to condemn this fatwa. We shall see if they will. "Fatwa against female NGO workers condemned," from the Daily Times, May 15 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

LAHORE: Chanan Development Association (CDA) has condemned a fatwa issued by Maulvi Abdul Haleem, a former Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal MNA, on Saturday, threatening women workers of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Kohistan. CDA Executive Director Muhammad Shahzad Khan said that the fatwa against female NGO workers and girls’ education was not only against human rights, but also against the teachings of Islam. He added that it was a shame that people like Abdul Haleem, misinterpreted Islamic values just to gain fake popularity. Sana Sohail, national coordinator of Y-PEER Pakistan, emphasised that this kind of act would provoked negative impression about the women who work in NGOs. She added that all religions supported girls’ education. Other youth leaders Bashir Ahmed from South Waziristan, Najamus Sahar from Gilgit-Baltistan, Mariam Ishaq from Lahore, Faizan Hassan from Quetta, Fatima Zafar from Multan, Qaiser Roonjha from Lasbella, Raza Ravjani from Karachi, Wiqas Ahmed from Peshawar and Shaheen Kausar from Muzaffarabad urged other religious leaders to speak against this fatwa and correct Abdul Haleem on true teachings of Islam. They also urged the government to take action against mullahs who themselves did not understand Islam....

About time! There are so very many of those!

Arab Spring democracy on the march! "Islamists Threaten Insurgency Should Secularists Win Egypt Election," by Michael Rubin for the generally reliably dhimmi Commentary, May 20 (thanks to David):

...On May 19, Islamic Jihad Organization member Shaykh Usamah Qasim took to the pages of Al-Misri al-Yawm to warn that Islamists would not tolerate a victory by any of the non-Islamist candidates. According to a translation provided by the Open Source Center:

…The victory of former prime minister Ahmad Shafiq or former Arab League chief Amr Musa in the coming presidential elections would lead some Islamic and non-Islamic groups to respond with “armed action.” “Thus, the fate of any of them who reaches the presidency will be like that of former President Anwar al-Sadat, who was assassinated,” Qasim said....

Another salvo in the ongoing Islamic supremacist war against the freedom of speech. Twitter must adhere to Sharia, or else. "Pakistan blocks Twitter because of material considered offensive to Islam," by Zarar Khan for The Associated Press, May 20 (thanks to all who sent this in):

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.

The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication's Authority. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favourable ones, as blasphemous.

Yaseen said Facebook agreed to address Pakistan's concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same.

"We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it," said Yaseen....

"The subject peoples ... are forbidden to build new churches." ('Umdat al-Salik, o11.5). Islamic law also forbids Christians to repair old churches.

Sharia Alert from Egypt: "Controversial Church-Building Law a Focal Point for Egypt's Coptic Voters," by Luiza Oleszczuk for the Christian Post, May 17:

Egypt's Coptic Christians fear they could face further persecution should an Islamist candidate win next week's presidential elections, as frontrunners vying for leadership stem from the Sharia-leaning Muslim Brotherhood. One of the major issues on their agenda is a controversial law that puts heavy restrictions on building and maintaining Christian houses of worship.

The emerging top Islamist candidates in the race include Abdul Moneim Aboul Fotouh, a former leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood; Salafist candidate Hazem Abu Ismail; and the Muslim Brotherhood's own Khairat Al-Shater, who said in April that Sharia should become the ultimate law of the land.

Meanwhile, some Copts are hoping that candidate Ahmed Shafiq, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's prime minister and a former military commander, would be the one to help end the discriminatory rules concerning building churches, Reuters reported this week.

The church-building policy in Egypt has been the subject of a heated Muslim-Christian debate for years. Controversial legislation makes it easy to build a mosque but hard to raise or even repair a church. A new mosque only needs a permit from the local district, while a church needs additional paper work signed by the president himself.

The law goes back to the 19th century, Kurt J. Werthmuller, Research Fellow at Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, told The Christian Post via email.

Actually, it is part of Islam's laws for dhimmis, which go back to the beginnings of Islamic jurisprudence.

However, as far as the law may have been seen as progressive then, "in the context of contemporary Egypt, it has meant that Coptic Christians have been required to submit presidential petition to not just build new churches, but to expand, renovate, or even make simple repairs in existing ones," Werthmuller said.

In 2005, Mubarak altered the policy by issuing a presidential decree that delegated the authority for such permissions to the nation's governors.

"This meant," Werthmuller explained, "that if a village priest had to repair a broken toilet or cracked wall in his church, he would still have to go a high regional executive for permission. Even then, it's worth noting, he would have to navigate a labyrinth of paperwork and corrupt bureaucracy, and often face clerical workers that could easily 'lose' the petition in the process."...

Here is the first video in David Wood's "Qur'an in Context" series. Muslim spokesmen and apologists routinely claim that non-Muslims are quoting the Qur'an "out of context"; however, this claim is total nonsense according to their own sources. So the nonpareil Wood is planning a series of videos discussing the historical, immediate, and extended literary contexts of several key passages, based on Islam's most trusted sources.

See also my Blogging the Qur'an series on 9:29 here and here.

Democracy on the march! "UN says al Qaeda behind Syria suicide bombs death toll from civil war reaches 10,000," from AFP, May 18 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

UN leader Ban Ki-moon has said he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in Syria.

Ban said President Bashar al-Assad has still not implemented a peace plan agreed with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.

"Very alarmingly and surprisingly, a few days ago, there was a huge serious massive terrorist attack. I believe that there must be al-Qaeda behind it. This has created again very serious problems," Ban said at a youth event at the UN headquarters.

Suicide attackers detonated huge bombs in Damascus on May 10, killing at least 55 people and wounding nearly 400.

Syria has accused al-Qaeda of orchestrating attacks in the country in recent weeks, adding to the strife caused by the uprising against Assad.

"More than 9,000, at least, maybe 10,000 people have been killed during the last 15 months. It has reached an intolerable situation now," Ban said....

So as to be able to watch and arrest them more easily, in further crackdowns on converts to Christianity. "Iran – Ministry of Intelligence further restricts Farsi-Speaking churches," from Mohaba News, May 17 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

In addition to the increased restrictions against Iranian Christian converts, the Ministry of Intelligence has now ordered the leaders of the central AOG church in Tehran to compile a list of the names and National ID numbers of its members and submit it to the security authorities.

According to Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News, reports from Tehran indicate that leaders of the central AOG church of Tehran asked their congregation in Sunday May 6 service to voluntarily present them with a list of their names and National ID numbers so that they submit the list to the officials. This reveals the identity of Christian converts and enables security authorities to record detailed information about the Christians.

It is clear that such a decision by the leaders of the AOG church, is a result of pressures the security authorities have been imposing on them. This seems to be a precautionary move by the security organizations to identify Christians and possibly use the information later to arrest Christian converts and watch the activities of the church even more closely, especially to prevent them from receiving new people. Such orders by security authorities make Christians' relationship with their church riskier than ever.

This security move by Iranian authorities reveals that even after cancelling the Farsi services in some churches, they have not been successful in reducing the number of Christian converts and the trend by other people to attend the church. In recent months, organizers and operational groups of the Ministry of Intelligence ordered the last two churches in Tehran still holding Farsi services, to cancel these services. However, this has not stopped Christians from attending church services and illustrates the failure of all these repressive plans and threats which were designed to deal with spread of Christianity in Iran....

KUALA LUMPUR: Liberal activist Irshad Manji has found herself in a spot following strong protests against her presence here to promote the Malay version of her controversial book, Allah, Liberty and Love.

Political parties and non-governmental organisations have opposed her visit to Malaysia, claiming that the writer reported to have openly admitted to being a lesbian has insulted Islam with her writings and attitude.

They have demanded that the authorities ban her work and not allow her to set foot in the country again.

Her views on Islam such as her opinion that a non-Muslim need not convert to be married to a Muslim have gained the Ugandan-born Canadian author infamy.

The Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Datuk Othman Mustapha will review her book, Allah. Kebebasan dan Cinta, saying that although there were complaints that Irshad's work was insulting to Islam, the department needed to go through the book first.

"We will be getting copies of the book soon. Once we have gone through and discover reasons that it should be banned, we will propose it to the Home Ministry," he said.

The title alone is probably enough of a reason to ban it, as far as the Muslims of the religious police (Jakim) are most likely concerned. The review process is merely a formality.

Despite protests, the Malay version of Irshad's book was launched before a small group at the Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall yesterday.

Apart from the book launch, the 44-year-old activist's visit to Malaysia also included several speaking engagements but her programmes have been cancelled.

Irshad had earlier tweeted that the Borders bookstore had scrapped her event, citing security concerns while Monash University claimed it was pressured by the Selangor Islamic Affairs department. Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta is published by ZI Publications.

The writer's first book, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslims Call for Reform in Her Faith has been banned in Malaysia.

PAS Youth chief Nasruddin Hassan has urged the Government to act fast, adding that while the [Islamic] movement supported freedom of expression, creative or literary works should not be used to promote ideas that were against religion and human nature.

"We cannot support something that goes against normal human values, let alone religious teachings," he said.

Umno Youth exco member Hishamudin Yahya said the movement also called on the book to be banned, adding that Irshad should not be allowed to come to Malaysia again.

Doesn't he know that all Muslims abhor and despise his hijacking of the Religion of Peace? How then could be possibly think he could or should serve as an example to Muslims? Unless, of course, the situation is different from what the learned analysts, government, law enforcement, and the mainstream media tell us. Naaah, that couldn't be.

"US jihadi in Somalia craves fast food, misses family," from AFP, May 17 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Top in Bible school, missing his family, and craving Chinese takeaways: an American extremist in Somalia's Al-Qaeda affiliated rebels recounts his life in an autobiography.

Titled "The Story of An American Jihadi" and posted on Islamist websites, the book claims to be written by Alabama-born Omar Hammami -- better known as Abu Mansoor al-Amriki (the American).

If confirmed, the book -- signed by Amriki "still alive and well" on May 16 -- would be the first confirmation he is alive after a furious dispute with Shebab leaders. In March, he issued a video warning he feared he would be killed.

"I guess I hope that Muslims around the world also take my life as an example," he wrote in the book, detailing his time alongside Somali fighters as well as insurgents from the US, Britain, Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan.

"Not that I'm extremely special, but then again I haven't seen too many middle class 'white guys' from Alabama in jihad these days. Hopefully others will say to themselves: I can do that too!"

Amriki, who has reportedly been based in anarchic Somalia since late 2006 and is wanted by the US on terrorism charges, has issued previous videos calling for foreign recruits, including singing rap songs praising jihad.

"I am not simply a disenfranchised foreigner who is jealous of America," the 28-year old said, writing thousands of miles (kilometres) from the small town of Daphne, Alamaba where he grew up.

"The real fear that Americans feel when they see an American in Somalia talking about jihad, is not how skillful he is at sneaking back across the borders with nuclear weapons," he added.

"The Americans fear that their cultural barrier has been broken, and now jihad has become a normal career choice of any youthful American Muslim."...

Amriki, whose closing remarks in the book are "viva la revolucion", adds that he can now "only pray that Allah grants me a righteous ending"....

And soon.

Kuwaitis are going to have Islamic law whether they like it or not. "Islamist MPs to go ahead with constitutional amendments," from the Kuwait Times, May 19:

KUWAIT: Islamist lawmakers still plan to amend Article 79 of the Constitution with the aim of enforcing religious-oriented laws in Kuwait despite the country’s ruler’s recent announcement rejecting a proposed amendment to Article 79.

“The process of making laws comply with Islamic Sharia is ongoing through efforts made to discuss regulations that contradict with Sharia,” said Deputy Speaker Khalid Al-Sultan in statements published by Al-Rai yesterday. The statements come a day after front pages of local dailies carried headlines of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah’s disagreement to add a clause to Article 79, requiring that draft laws comply with the Sharia law after being passed by the Parliament and sanctioned by the Amir.

“HH the Amir’s observed that regulations in Kuwait already comply with Islamic regulations and are derived from the Constitution supporting Islamic laws,” said MP Badr Al-Dahoom of the Justice Bloc which proposed the aforementioned amendment. He added that the opposition will not thwart the bloc’s plans to proceed with a project to amend Article 2 of the Constitution, making Islamic Sharia the only source of legislation.

“The Justice Bloc is currently studying all laws in Kuwait to see if any article contradicts with Islamic Sharia so that we can propose an amendment,” Al-Dahoom said. “Islamization of laws will continue until it is time to propose Article 2 amendment.”- Al-Rai

In the name of human rights, stop the Islamization of Kuwait!

Oh, the rampant Islamophobia! "Maluku, Christian neighborhood attacked," by Mathias Hariyadi for Asia News, May 16 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Jakarta (AsiaNews) - For the third straight day there have been attacks in Ambon (Moluccas), where last night a group of unidentified persons set fire to houses and motorbikes in a predominantly Christian neighborhood. AsiaNews sources say that dozens of families have fled their homes for fear of attacks. Many fear the involvement of Islamic extremist groups.....

Will the Islamophobia never end? No Compulsion In Religion Update from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: "Pakistan, appeal for Christian girl kidnapped and forced to convert to Islam," by Shafique Khokhar for Asia News, May 19 (thanks to C. Cantoni):

Faisalabad (AsiaNews) - The family of Mary Salik (fictional name for security reasons) asks for justice for the 14 year old Christian girl, kidnapped last May 4 in Ali (Faisalabad, Punjab) and forced to convert to Islam. The author of the kidnapping is the uncle of the girl, who embraced Islam about a year ago and since then ended all contact with the family of origin. He kidnapped the young girl to marry her off with his son Kashif. The wedding was celebrated on 7 May.

The girl's father, told AsiaNews that "my daughter is only 14 years old and suffers from the birth from heart problems and can not do heavy work. After converting my brother is conspiring against our family and kidnapped Mary with deception ".

Immediately after the seizure, the father of the young Christian girl turned to local police and demanded the immediate release of his daughter, but the agents refused to return Mary to her family. According to police, the girl converted of her own free will and submitted as evidence a written statement in which the girl says to "be mature and have embraced Islam without coercion or threats."...

Yet another imam gets the religion of peace, tolerance, and respect for women all wrong, wrong, wrong. Why, oh why, does this happen so often?

Video thanks to Blazing Cat Fur.

Congratulations to the indefatigable Blazing Cat Fur, who discovered these website postings and made them into an issue for Canada's multiculti establishment. "Toronto school board pulls permit for madrassah after anti-Semitic postings on website," by Kristin Rushowy for the Toronto Star, May 16 (thanks to all who sent this in):

East End Madrassah cannot use a Scarborough school for weekend classes until police have wrapped up their investigation into anti-Jewish teachings, the Toronto public board has decided.

“We’ve had a long relationship with this organization and there have been no problems to date, but of course when the situation came to our attention, it was something that we needed to investigate,” said board spokesperson Shari Schwartz-Maltz.

When the online materials were discovered last week — which called ancient Jews “treacherous” and “crafty” — the madrassah immediately pulled them and issued an apology....

Right-wing extremists, no doubt. "Iraq anti-terror officer, family shot dead," from AFP, May 19 (thanks to all who sent this in):

An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been shot dead by gunmen in north Baghdad, security and medical officials said on Saturday.

The family was murdered on Friday evening, the officials said, taking to 10 the overall death toll from violence in the Iraqi capital a day ago, and 15 in the past two days, a notable increase from what had been a relative calm.

"Gunmen used silenced pistols to kill Captain Mahmud Abid, his wife and his three children yesterday (Friday) evening in their home in Kadhimiyah," a predominantly Shiite Muslim neighbourhood in north Baghdad, an interior ministry official said....

Getting the true believers in line. "Pro-Brotherhood preacher: Electing liberal or secular president against religion," from Al-Masry Al-Youm, May 18 (thanks to Wimpy):

Muslim preacher Safwat Hegazy, who has been campaigning for the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, Mohamed Morsy, said it is against religion to elect a presidential candidate who wants to establish a state based on liberalism, secularism, communism or socialism.

During Friday prayers in Nagda Mosque in Nagaa Hammadi, Qena, Hegazy called on people not to elect a candidate who participated in the injustice and the corruption of the former regime or who even remained silent watching the injustice and corruption of Hosni Mubarak and his entourage.

Hegazy said voters should choose the candidate who would apply Sharia and “who would be living in Cairo, but would tremble in fear [of God] if asked about a hungry person in Nag Hammadi.”

He described the elections as a testimony before God and a great responsibility, and said: “If you choose a man who corrupted the country, you will be responsible with him for his corruption and will be held accountable with him [before God]. But if you choose a man who abides by the law of God and establishes justice, you will be rewarded with him. Everyone will be held accountable [by God] if the next president is ill-chosen, and we should not blame but ourselves.”

Hegazy stressed that participating in the elections is a religious duty and that not voting or invalidating one's vote is against religion. He added that buying votes is a “great sin.”

“We want a president who we can tell, ‘Fear God and His law and judge according to His Book.’ We want a president who will free Palestine and Jerusalem to tell the world that the law of God has returned in Egypt,” he said....

What is the result of the Obama Administration's purge of the truth about Islam and jihad from all military and intelligence training materials? I received this email this morning from an Army officer:

Special Operations Language Training Module (book) 1, Arabic, p. 133:

"The Shari'ah (Islamic law) prescribes rules to regulate the functioning of the family so that both spouses can live together in love, security, and tranquility."

This is what the U.S. Army is teaching its future Green Berets, Psyops, and Civil Affairs soldiers.

The Ikhwan at work no doubt...

No doubt. The statement is true as far as it goes, albeit with drastically different understandings of the meanings of love, security, and tranquility, but it ignores the political and supremacist aspects of Sharia (which, of course, Islamic supremacists in the U.S. are working hard to cover up in the face of anti-Sharia legal initiatives), as well as the many ways in which Sharia contradicts otherwise universally held notions of human rights.

Our future Army personnel will be woefully ill-equipped to meet the jihad threat.

Eli Clifton, Ali Gharib, and Spencer Ackerman remove "Islamophobic" materials from military counterterrorism training

But not anymore, of course -- at least not officially. The hard Left's war on the truth continues, with a thorough purge of all truthful material about the jihad threat. In this the Obama Administration and the Leftist journalists who have been the catalyst for all this are following a most interesting precedent, as per the photo above, as well as pushing the Muslim Brotherhood invention "Islamophobia."

"EXCLUSIVE: Class Materials From Military’s Anti-Islam Class Repeatedly Cite Islamophobic Authors," by Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib for Think Progress, May 14 (thanks to all who sent this in):

A class taught by the military to officers at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, came under fire when a report on Wired’s Danger Room blog last week exposed it for teaching soldiers to engage in a “total war” on Islam and taking a war on Islam “to the civilian population wherever necessary.” The full set of course materials, hundreds of documents and slide shows obtained by ThinkProgress, reveal just how deep Islamophobia ran through the military instruction. The material contained dozens of citations to the work of some of America’s best known anti-Muslim bigots.

Not all of the material in the course, however, was anti-Muslim. Materials from reputable sources such as the Brookings Institution and RAND corporation also appeared among the readings, and only some of the presenters to the class used blatantly Islamophobic material. (The public affairs officer of the Joint Forces Staff College didn’t respond to repeated inquiries by press time.)

But the “Islamophobia network,” discussed in the Center for American Progress’ “Fear, Inc.” report, played a prominent role in many of the 266 documents acquired by ThinkProgress. Islamophobic “misinformation experts” — as they’re defined in “Fear, Inc.” — cited in Army teaching materials included:

Robert Spencer – 34 mentions across 8 documents (his blog, JihadWatch.org, was cited 11 times across 7 documents)

Spencer is the co-founder of Stop Islamization of America and the director of JihadWatch.org. He has argued that “traditional Islam itself is not moderate or peaceful. Spencer is prominent pseudo-intellectual in the “counter jihad” blogging community who argues that Islam is inherently violent. He says “It is the only major world religion with a developed doctrine and tradition of warfare against unbelievers.”

Steven Emerson – 16 mentions across 4 documents

Emerson is the founder of the Investigative Project on Terrorism and a former journalist at U.S. News & World Report and CNN. His greatest notoriety came from prematurely declaring that Oklahoma City bombing was committed by Muslims. The actual culprit was right-wing anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh. Emerson tells his followers that “Nearly all of the Islamic organizations in the United States that define themselves as religiously or culturally Muslim in character have, today, been totally captured or dominated by radical fundamentalist elements.”

Center for Security Policy (CSP) – 60 mentions across 3 documents

CSP is led by notorious Islamophobe Frank Gaffney and produced the report, “Shariah: The Threat to America” which has served as the blueprint for “anti-Shariah” legislation across the country.

David Yerushalmi – 9 mentions across 3 documents

Yerushalmi is general counsel for CSP, a co-author of “Shariah: The Threat to America” and the founder of Society of Americans for National Existence. The Anti-Defamation League concluded that he has a “record of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-black bigotry.”

Daniel Pipes – 50 mentions across 10 documents (his organization, Middle East Forum, was cited 39 times across 10 documents)

Pipes, the director of Middle East Forum, is increasingly strident about the supposed threat posed by Islam and Muslims in America. He argues, “All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most.” ...

Over at Gatestone Institute (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I chronicle the many abuses Christians suffered under Islam in the month of April -- several occurring on Easter Sunday. Some "highlights" follow:

India: Muslims stormed and terrorized a home where a Christian prayer meeting was being held, beating the Christians, including a 65-year-old widow. The Muslims "called them pagans as they kicked, slapped and pushed the Christians…. The Christians were running in all directions for their lives, including the children who were crying in fear," even as one Muslim, "brandishing a sickle, chased many of them, hurling all kinds of insults and attempting to murder them all…. 500 Muslims had gathered and were watching in amusement as the extremists chased and harassed the Christians for about 90 minutes."

Philippines: Two pastors were slaughtered by Muslim assailants: 1) A former Muslim who became a Christian pastor was murdered in front of his wife in his home: "My husband staggered into our bedroom and I was shocked because he was full of blood," she recalled. "I brought him to the hospital right away. He was operated on for eight bullet wounds, but did not survive." The Philippines is a mostly Christian nation, but in the south, "Muslim fundamentalists are trying to build an Islamic state. Christians there face persecution and even death…. This year, at least four house churches closed down after their pastors and lay leaders were killed by Muslim extremists." 2) Another pastor was shot in the head five times and killed by two "unknown gunmen" in front of his teenage daughter.

Sudan: A Christian compound in Khartoum was stormed by a throng of Muslims "armed with clubs, iron rods, a bulldozer and fire," the day after a Muslim leader called on Muslims to destroy "the infidels' church." Shouting "Allahu Akbar [God is greater]" and "No more Christianity from today on—no more church from today on," the jihadis stormed the Bible school bookstore, burning Bibles and threatening to kill anyone resisting them. "What happened could not be imagined—it was terrible," said an eyewitness. "They burned all furniture of the school and the church as well." As usual, "Police at the compound stood back and did nothing to prevent the mob from vandalizing the compound."

But some are concerned that such slogans reveal too much to the stupid Infidels in the West who are so eager to believe their pipe dreams about "Arab Spring" democracy. "Syria - Islamist slogans under criticism," by Khaled Soubeihi for Sapa-AFP, May 18 (thanks to Twostellas):

The use of Islamist slogans by protesters during weekly on Friday demonstrations against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime has triggered criticism among an already-fractured opposition.

Activists have been organising online polls on “The Syrian Revolution 2011” Facebook page since the beginning of the uprisings in March last year to pick slogans for demonstrations that usually take place after Friday prayers.

But slogans like “victory from God,” “God's Victory is near” and “armies of Islam, set us free,” have provoked criticism from many in the fragmented opposition, which includes the Muslim Brotherhood, nationalists, liberals and independents.

Syrian activist and journalist Kinan Ali said the use of religious slogans “shows that the opposition is bankrupt of political ideas.”

Abdul Karim Karman, a Hama-based activist, agreed.

“I am a committed Muslim but Islamist slogans do not benefit (the revolt) and do not represent everyone,” Abdul Karim Karman, a Hama-based activist, told AFP though Skype.

“We need slogans that have political content for the Syrian public and for the international community.”...

Yes, we especially need to tone down the Islamic supremacism for the silly West.

Here is an interesting anecdote of taqiyya—the Islamic doctrine that permits lies and hypocrisy whenever Muslims fear their stronger adversaries, including fellow Muslims: Soon after the clash between Egypt’s military and Islamists at al-Abbassia, Sheikh Hassan Abu al-Ashbal, one of the leaders of the Salafi party, declared a full-blown jihad against the military—only to retract it, once the Egyptian media exposed it. Backing down, al-Ashbal said that he was “angry at the spilling of innocent blood by the military,” and so he “spoke words he did not mean,” including his “declaration of war and the raising of the banner of jihad in Egypt.”

Instead, the sheikh redirected his rage at those who exposed him—the “rabid media,” which he proceeded to blame for the chaos in Egypt. This, of course, is reminiscent of the recent threats Egypt’s On TV received from the “Jihad Group to Cleanse the Country,” which blamed the media station of "seeking to destroy the nation and create chaos to implement the American and Zionist agenda.” Apparently, some Egyptian media are not as sympathetic or apathetic to the Islamist agenda as are their media counterparts in the West, no doubt because the threat is much closer to home.

Over at FrontPage Mag (via RaymondIbrahim.com), I discuss Muslim reactions to Coptic Pope Shenouda's recent death, and show how they, once again, expose Islam's hate for all things non-Muslim. Snippets follow:

...While Ghoneim engaged in the usual lies and projections—saying the Pope wanted to create a Coptic state and "set Egypt ablaze"—there is no denying that Ghoneim's position on condemning dead infidels is grounded in Islam: the remainder of the cleric's "eulogy" is riddled with quotes from Islam's core texts, the Koran, Hadith, and scholarly [ulema] consensus.

For instance, he quoted Caliph Omar's famous ejaculation upon learning that a Muslim had hired a Christian scribe: "What is wrong with you—may Allah curse you?! Have you not heard Allah's words: 'O you who believe: do not take the Jews and the Christians as friends and allies; they are friends and allies of each other' [Koran 5:51]? Why did you not employ a hanif [a Muslim]? The man replied, "I profit from his [the Christian's] writing, and his religion is his own affair," to which the pious Omar rebounded, "I will not honor them, when Allah has humiliated them, nor will I be close to them, when Allah has cast them away."

Incidentally, Omar is the same "righteous caliph" who gave the contradictory commandment to "Humiliate them [Christians] but do not wrong them"—as if humiliating people does not amount to "wronging" them. (For more Islamic quotes, see this fatwa.)

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Which leads to the great irony of Islam: while it boasts that it is the religion of fitra, the religion of "nature," which is why all humans are supposedly born Muslims, its teachings—from "adult breastfeeding" to "death-sex"—often contradict the most natural human impulses. Worse, while many religions try to ennoble humanity, by making them strive to a higher level, here is yet another example of Islam forcing people downwards, to tribalism and egoism, to rancor and hatred.