Muslim Leaders Pin Hopes on Abdullah

At $70/barrel, we are funding the global jihad for the next century. Bush is a lost cause in this respect but there must be a couple of smart and courageous Senators (Kyl? Bond?) who are not owned by the Saudis and can make the case for a new Manhattan Project to free us from ME oil.

Islamic Jihad is crime comitted on Modern Secular Civilizations throughout the globe. This is ideologically driven and is as old as Islam itself. Various muslim "Wise Men" have gone to their Don in Saudi Arabia to exprees their loyality to him. They have requested to continue financial assistance to sustain and further increase their jihadic killings.

"A professor of Islamic studies and comparative religion at the University of California, Siddiqui commended King Fahd’s services to Islam and Muslims."
-- from the article above

Oh, I'm sure the students learn a lot in his courses, whether on Islam or on comparative religion.

Let's see the syllabus. Is Fattal on it? Schacht? Margolis? What about William Muir's "Life of Mahomet"? Ibn Taymiyya? The Reliance of the Traveller? Snouck Hurgronje? Leone Caetani? At least, at the very least, Goldziher?

What about the various contributors to "The Legacy of Jihad" -- all those eminent but now-overlooked Western scholars of Islam, their essential works recovered and republished, while the small army of apologists for Islam thought they had sucessfully buried such stuff forever, and as they have seized control of so many academic departments of Islamic studies, where they manage to terrorize into submission the few non-Muslims who might not already be their fellow travellers and willing supporters -- they thought they had taken care of it.

But here they are, these scholars, risen from the dead of the stacks, and the scholarly journals, and the books now unattainable.

What does this man teach? And who apppointed him, who promoted him? Who pays for his chair? Who on the faculty thinks perhaps his courses bear investigation? Who in the Administration? Who on the Board of Regents? Anyone? Anyone a little concerned about how Islam is presented to innocent American students, many of them so devoid of historical or critical sense, and prepared to believe whatever is dished out to them?

For among those dishes will be spicy sumac-taqiyya, cardamom-laced kitman, thick MIddle Eastern coffee sweetened with sugared smiles of affability and feigned friendship or left unsweetened, the better to express the bitterness of tortured victimhood (at the hands of Americans, Israelis, Hindus, or any other brand or subset of Infidels you choose).

We need some tasters -- checking for academic poison. Who will step forward? Perhaps a student or two can testify as to what they are subjected to in the University of California system, by this "Professor" Siddiqui.

It is getting harder and harder to take universities seriously, especially in what is allowed, and what appointments are made, in the teaching of literature and history. What can one say when the impenetrable Homi Bhabha is not only wooed and won (a "splendid appointment") for Harvard's English Department, but he replaces the equally ludicrous Marjorie Garber as head of something called the Institute for the Humanities? What does it mean when Maria Rosa Menocal, sweet singer of Islamic Spain who knows little about Islamic Spain, is the head of the Whitney Center for the Humanities at Yale? And what does it mean when Princeton's Administration gloats that it has mangaed to make, for the Princeton faculty, the great catch of Cornel West?

It is particularly hard when someone like this Siddiqui has a post, and probably tenure to boot (at least, for god's sake, let's hope his well-upholstered chair is paid for with Saudi loot, not California taxpayers' money), at a major university.

During World War II refugees from the Nazis in America established free "universities-in-exile." Perhaps it is time for some Maecenas to come along, and establish such a University-in-exile (if such a Maecenas is reading this, kindly contact me). No degrees, because that is locked up by, controlled by, the Forces of Darkness. But a year of real education in history and literature to undo, or make up for, the nonsense one had to endure elsewhere.

So, for example, if you had courses on Islam taught by assorted Siddiquis, you would need now to have a real course on Islam -- one that would show exactly how the Siddiquis of this world present things, and what they distort or leave out altogether.

A University-in-Exile, right here at home. Its existence shoud shame all those other places, so that at least the egregious errors, the Cornel-West-sized errors, the Ward-Churchill-sized errors, the MEALAC-at-Columbia-sized errors, wouldnot be repeated.

Until the West considers the following as a lynch pin of its foreign policy THAT NO ISLAMIC THEOCRACY IS ALLOWED TO OWN OR CONTROL THE GAS STATION, we are funding our enemies against ourselves. Remove the House of Saud, seven thousand corrupt double dealers on the gas station's payroll who paper Washington with our petro dollars to buy our politicians and bureaucracy. Unbelievable what fools one can be.

mmm..cardamom kitman..mmmm

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002463368_oilstudy01.html

9/1/05
Study reveals huge U.S. oil-shale field

By Jennifer Talhelm

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States has an oil reserve at least three times that of Saudi Arabia locked in oil-shale deposits beneath federal land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, according to a study released yesterday.

But the researchers at the RAND think tank caution the federal government to go carefully, balancing the environmental and economic impacts with development pressure to prevent an oil-shale bust later.

"We've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East," said James Bartis, RAND senior policy researcher and the report's lead author. He added, "If we go faster, there's a good chance we're going to end up at a dead end."

For years, the industry and the government considered oil shale — a rock that produces petroleum when heated — too expensive to be a feasible source of oil.

However, oil prices, which spiked above $70 a barrel this week, combined with advances in technology could soon make it possible to tap the estimated 500 billion to 1.1 trillion recoverable barrels, the report found.

The study, sponsored in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, comes about a month after the president signed a new energy policy dramatically reversing the nation's approach to oil shale and opening the door within a few years to companies that want to tap deposits on public lands.

The report also says oil-shale mining, above-ground processing and disposing of spent shale cause significant adverse environmental impacts. Shell Oil is working on a process that would heat the oil shale in place, which could have less effect on the environment.

Prominent Muslim leaders have emphasized Saudi Arabia’s significant role in spreading the message of Islam across the world, supporting Muslim minorities and strengthening Islamic solidarity.

By all means, he did play a significant role. Particularly by funding the hate-preaching madrassas and by supplying anti-Semitic and anti-Western curricula to the Islamic schools across the Western world. It is a pity these leaders don't tell that, when talking to the MSM.

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Halal burger? ..I bet Burger King is to chicken
to challenge 'Buerger King'

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticleSearch.aspx?storyID=14740+28-Aug-2005+RTRS&srch=Tiziana+Cauli

By Tiziana Cauli

PARIS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Malik Belkouche lives in a city brimming with fast-food restaurants, but it wasn't until a special one opened that he finally ordered a hamburger.

Like many other Muslims, the 24-year-old technician avoided the top item in fast-food chains because the meat had not been prepared according to the Islamic halal ritual. But Beurger King Muslim (BKM) changed that.

"I hadn't had a hamburger in seven years and I missed it," said Belkouche, who has eaten at BKM at least three times a week since the restaurant opened last month in the northern suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.

BKM looks like an American fast-food restaurant right down to its brightly coloured tables and indoor playground. There's not a Moorish peaked window or Arabic sign in sight.

But the beef and chicken are strictly halal. There is even an imitation of bacon -- normally banned for Muslims, since it comes from pigs -- made from halal turkey meat.

"I've always tried to persuade my non-Muslim friends not to go to McDonald's when we went out together," Belkouche said. "I knew there wouldn't be much choice for me, I could only have fish fillet. We needed something like this."

BKM derives its name from the U.S. fast-food chain Burger King and plays on the word "beur" meaning a French-born person of North African origin.

France has five million Muslims -- Europe's largest Islamic minority. Many younger Muslims are French-born citizens speaking little or no Arabic and most are integrated into French society although some still encounter racial prejudice.

European entrepreneurs have recognised the market potential of Muslim communities by rolling out products directed at this niche market, including soft drinks like Mecca-Cola, Muslim Up and British-based Qibla-Cola by Muslim-run companies.

JUST AS GOOD AS A "BIG MAC"

"All our products are halal," said BKM's 37-year-old manager Hakim Badaoui. "Today's food industry makes it possible for us to get halal meat of any kind, including poultry and cold cuts."

Halal meat is drained of all its blood, like meat prepared according to Jewish kosher laws. Unlike kosher, halal has no ban on mixing meat and dairy products -- as in a cheeseburger.

"I eat here because I like the taste of the food," said Jerome Martin, 24, an airport worker who converted to Islam four years ago. "It's just as good as a Big Mac, but it's halal."

BKM's menu includes several types of "koull" burgers -- a wordplay on "cool" and the verb "to eat" in Arabic.

Latifa Kadaouach, 24, a student sporting a Muslim headscarf, came after she heard about the restaurant on the radio. "In other fast-foods we can only eat fish," she said.

"We can finally choose what we want," said her husband Zakaria, 28. "We ordered double cheeseburgers with fries."

FREEDOM TO CHOOSE

Working in a Muslim-run restaurant also offers employees more choice. "Here, women can work with their headscarves on if they like," said Badaoui.

France's government angered many Muslims when it banned the wearing of Islamic headscarves in state schools last year. Public services have also enforced a long standing law barring civil servants from wearing religious symbols.

Private companies can choose their own policy, although usually only Muslim-run businesses allow the veil.

Kheditja Yahiaoui, an 18-year-old student working at BKM for the summer, was not wearing a headscarf, in contrast to many of her female colleagues and almost all the women customers.

"I never did," she said. "But working here I know that I could if I wanted to."

Badaoui said customers come from all over the region to eat in his restaurant, which is on a busy road near a shopping centre in this suburb with a high Muslim population.

"We were astonished to see how many people came from very far away," he said, adding that some people even made an 80-km (50-mile) trip for a meal.

He said Burger King had not complained about the play on its name. A company spokeswoman in the United States told Reuters that the fast-food chain knew about BKM. "We are aware of the matter and we are looking into it," she said.

Badaoui hopes one day to build a chain like Burger King.

"It's going to be hard, but we're not scared," he said. "A restaurant like this would work in any place or city today."

Saudi Arabia and the other Islamic despots have bought the Middle East studies programs at American Universities. He is so obvious but hardly a word of concern from the gov't. It's just not politically correct. By doing this, Islam gets instant credibility, a sense of 'noblesse'. Just another sign of the Muslim infiltration that our government seems oblivious about.

If Burger King were facing any standard business thief and not a Muslim thief, this would have already been in court, argued simply, backed by millions of burger bucks, and won -as a shamelessly clear case of trademark / brand-name infringement. (The 'Satiric Exception' does not apply, unless the Mohammedans could convince a judge they were making fun of themselves.)

The dhimmi pussyfooting by the 'king' is telling.

Does this mean that anyone can open a similar 'play-on-their-registered-name' restaurant chain and expect NO legal repercussions?

How about "Burgher King" in Germany?

Or "Burqa King" in Iran?

And don't forget "Bugger King". (Where all the menu items are based on Koranic suras... like 9:5... which can ONLY be served raw.)