Ah, but he meant jihad as a spiritual struggle, doncha know. And that part about equipping a holy warrior, that would be with a nice leather-bound Qur'an. Al-Arian update from AP, with thanks to Anthony:
TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A former Florida university professor accused of aiding Palestinian terrorists was seen on a video Wednesday exhorting an Islamic audience "to adopt the choice of jihad."It was the second video shown to a federal trial jury in which since-fired University of South Florida engineering professor Sami Al-Arian called on a Muslim audience to engage in religious warfare. Another speaker asked the crowd to donate money to equip "a holy warrior."...
The video shown today was made at a September 27, 1991 event in Cleveland. Al-Arian is introduced as president of the Islamic Committee for Palestine in North America, an organization he founded that prosecutors say supported terrorism.
Have you noticed that this trial is not making the news. Not even Court TV channels. Wonder Why?
Good point Twig.
Twig's observation above is spot on. Here's another recent example:
Yesterday afternoon NPR "news" updates were filled with reports of a WorldCom executive catching a 25 year sentence in federal court as the result of a conviction for monetary fraud. There was no mention anywhere at anytime of the LIFE sentence the traitor al-Timimi caught on the same day for soliciting sedition against the USA. Corporate fraud is "news worthy" at NPR, but Fifth Column Islamist sedition is too banal. At NPR they file this under The Banality of Sedition.
Agreed.
(The lack of) Media coverage of these islamofascist trials is a scandal!
I'm no big conspiracy buff, but so many tv channels and media outlets collectively ignoring something this big reeks of an unspoken understanding about something sinister and rotten in this entire enterprise.
Omvi, Voletti:
I'm sure NPR has an ombudsman's/complaints department.
I suggest you log such examples over a specific period of time, illustrating a bias and write them. Let them know that if you do not get a satisfactory response, you will pursue this matter to whatever regulatory authority that has jurisdiction.
The only way you're going to get through to the media is if you can get thier sponsers to pull out, or if we suffer heavy casualties here in the US.
Even then I wonder if they'll ever wake up, the left seems to be a lost cause. After all if 9/11 is slowing turning into a blame-America-first fest for liberals, how many *will* have to die?
Of course the media isn't covering this. Either the Saudis have bought controlling interest in Western media and are ordering them to suppress anything critical of Islam, or the media has decided they musn't offend and possibly inflame the "good, moderate Muslims" that are living in the West. They don't realize that these same Muslims will not critisize the actions of their radical brothers because the radicals are quoting the Quran and to critisize them means critisizing the Quran. That would make them apsotate, and eligible for the same punishment reserved for the infidels. Ultimately this will be portayed as our "inability to understand" because we do not "believe". If we try to "understand" by reading the Quran and in doing so find the lies and flaws in it we will be told that we cannot possibly understand the Quran because we do not read Arabic. Pretzel logic. Educating Mohammadans is like putting a pig in a suit. All you do is waste a good suit.
HERE IS AN ISLAMIC TERRORIST APEALING TO THEIR BASE??
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0528,smithweb,65810,2.html
A Letter to the British People From a Daughter of Iraq
By Iman al-Saadun
July 8, 2005
I'm sending this letter to the British people and in particular to the residents of London. For a period of hours, you have lived through moments of desperate anxiety and horror. In those hours you lost a member of your family or a friend, and we wish to tell you in total honesty that we too grieve when human lives pass away. I cannot tell you how much we hurt when we see desperation and pain on the face of another person. For we have lived through this situation-and continue to live through it every day- since your country and the United States formed an alliance and laid plans to attack Iraq.
The Prime Minister of your country, Tony Blair, said that those who carried out the explosions did so in the name of Islam. The Secretary of State of the United States, Condaleezza Rice, described the bombings as an act of barbarism. The United Nations Security Council met and unanimously condemned the event.
I would like to ask you, the free British people, to allow me to inquire: in whose name was our country blockaded for 12 years? In whose name were our cities bombed using internationally prohibited weapons? In whose name did the British army kill Iraqis and torture them? Was that in your name? Or in the name of religion? Or humanity? Or freedom? Or democracy?
What do you call the killing of more than two million children? What do you call the pollution of the soil and the water with depleted uranium and other lethal substances?
What do you call what happened in the prisons in Iraq u in Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca and the many other prison camps? What do you call the torture of men, women, and children? What do you call tying bombs to the bodies of prisoners and blowing them apart? What do you call the refinement of methods of torture for use on Iraqi prisoners-such as pulling off limbs, gouging out eyes, putting out cigarettes on their skin, and using cigarette lighters to set fire to the hair on their heads? Does the word “barbaric” adequately describe the behavior of your troops in Iraq?
May we ask why the Security Council did not condemn the massacre in al-Amiriyah and what happened in al-Fallujah, Talaeafar, Sadr City, and an-Najaf? Why does the world watch as our people are killed and tortured and not condemn the crimes being committed against us? Are you human beings and we something less? Do you think that only you can feel pain and we can't? In fact it is we who are most aware of how intense is the pain of the mother who has lost her child, or the father who has lost his family. We know very well how painful it is to lose those you love.
You don't know our martyrs, but we know them. You don't remember them, but we remember them. You don't cry over them, but we cry over them.
Have you heard the name of the little girl Hannan Salih Matrud? Or of the boy Ahmad Jabir Karim? Or Saaeid Shabram?
Yes, our dead have names too. They have faces and stories and memories. There was a time when they were among us, laughing and playing. They had dreams, just as you have. They had a tomorrow awaiting them. But today they sleep among us with no tomorrow on which to wake.
We don't hate the British people or the peoples of the world. This war was imposed upon us, but we are now fighting it in defense of our selves. Because we want to live in our homeland-the free land of Iraq-and to live as we want to live, not as your government or the American government wish.
Let the families of those killed know that responsibility for the Thursday morning London bombings lies with Tony Blair and his policies
MISS IRAQI YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHO IS AT FAULT IT IS MO-HAM-OD WHO YOU FOLLOW WHO MAKES YOU FOLLOW MONSTER LEADERS WHO KILL OTHERS AND WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN WHO CAUSED THE WAR IN THE 90s IT WAS YOUR LEADER WHO INVADED ANOTHER COUNTRY CALLED KUWAIT YOU ASK WHY THE SCACTIONS BUT YOU FORGET TO ASK ABOUT THOSE WHO WERE GASED BY YOUR LEADER IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY WHAT WAS THAT TOWN CALLED HALIBJA???
YES WE SAWW AND HAD TO KEEP HIM AND THOSE WHO SUPPORTED HIM IN A BOX BUT YOU ASK WHO PUT THE SCATIONS ON YOUR COUNTRY IT WAS THE UN=LON=AL THAT WOULD BE THE ARAB LEAGUE WHO PAYS THE GREEDY??
WHERE IS YOUR ANGER AT YOUR OWN AT THE 300,000 MAS GRAVES UNCOVERED SHOT IN THE HEAD WITH HANDS TIED ALL IRAQI PEOPLE THIS WAS DONE BY YOUR LEADER AND HIS GOONES ARE YOU ONE OF HIS saddam [YELLOW COWARD FOUND IN A HOLE DON’T SHOOT I’M A YELLOW COWARD] GOONS???
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO STAY THE COURSE TO STAY THE COURSE TO VICTROY TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM OPEN THE WORLDS EYES TO THEIR THREAT LET NOT THE WORLD BE DECEIVED BY THEM AMEN
Bill O'Reilly just stated that there is no hate speech in American mosques as there is in British mosques. I think we need to send a few emails to Mr. O'Reilly telling him that he's wrong...
disillusioned german.
O'Reilly doesn't have a clue how to deal with Islam, like Fox News in general. They want us all
to cheer on the brave men and women of the armed
forces of America, yet constantly ignore or deny
what our enemies believe and why they believe it.
As a regular viewer of Fox it is absolutey true
that they have a punks notion on Jihad.
sul3j:
I watch Fox News regularly as well and you may be right but there are two guys working for Fox News who have a clue - John Kasich and especially Cal Thomas. Maybe it's time to wake Fox News Channel up - I've written another email to O'Reilly.
By the way, here's a great selection of quotes re. (radical) Islam on Daniel Pipes' website: http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/300