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June 2, 2005

The Palestinian Authority: Hothouse for Teen Terror

Juvenile jihad update, plus a skillful placement into context of the President's latest act of dhimmitude, from P. David Hornik in FrontPage, with thanks to EPG:

Last week Israeli soldiers arrested a fifteen-year-old Palestinian armed with a bomb at a checkpoint outside Nablus in the West Bank. He was the fifty-second Palestinian teenager caught trying to perpetrate a bomb attack this year.

In the United States the closest analogy to such attacks or attempted attacks by Palestinian youths is school shootings, of which there have been a handful over the past decade. Each such incident shocked the nation and prompted anguished debates about what negative societal phenomena could influence young people to carry out such acts.

According to the recent demographic study by the team headed by Israeli commentator and activist Yoram Ettinger, the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza is 2.4 million. The population of the U.S. is 295 million, or 123 times greater. Fifty-two attempted youthful Palestinian bombings this year would, in U.S. terms, come to 6,396 attempted acts of mass murder by adolescents in the space of five months.

On Thursday last week President Bush met with PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. While pledging $50 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, Bush told Abbas: “We meet at a time when a great achievement of history is within reach: the creation of a peaceful, democratic Palestinian state. . . . The United States and the international community applaud your rejection of terrorism.”

Bush also told him: “A viable two-state solution must ensure contiguity of the West Bank, and a state of scattered territories will not work. There must also be meaningful linkages between the West Bank and Gaza. This is the position of the United States today, it will be the position of the United States at the time of final status negotiations.”

Abbas, for his part, stated his “determination to maintain and preserve this calm”—a “calm” that, in addition to the U.S. equivalent of 6,396 attempted bombings by teenagers in five months, has included hundreds of incidents of rocket and mortar fire, the suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv nightclub in February and subsequent release of the terrorists by the PA, the constant buildup of Hamas’s power, and on and on—and all this in the vaunted “post-Arafat era.”

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Posted by Robert at June 2, 2005 7:31 AM
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Posted by: KAOSKTRL at June 2, 2005 03:19 PM

Gold Star for you today!!

LOVE THIS PART!!

HIS EYE IS ON THE MONEY!!!

http://www.sperryfiles.com/media.shtml
IN THE MEDIA
Know thine enemy
Frank Gaffney Jr., Washington Times, May 17, 2005,
Flash: Newsweek has apologized. The magazine’s editor says he is sorry for printing a possibly mistaken article that accused US interrogators at Guantanamo of throwing copies of the Koran into prisoners' toilets. Evidently, Newsweek particularly regrets the murderous anti-American rioting the erroneous report set off in various parts of the Muslim world.
Ironic though it may seem, we might just owe Newsweek a debt of gratitude for its shoddy reporting. After all, it provided a wake-up call to see how quickly and how skillfully our enemies seized upon evidence of America's purported hostility to Islam to advance their own agenda.
But who exactly is the enemy and what is their agenda? The instigators of the riots in Afghanistan and Pakistan and their counterparts elsewhere are adherents more to a political ideology — some call it Islamism, others Islamofascism — than to a faith. Using organizational and coercive tactics taken right out of the Bolsheviks' play-book, this Islamist minority seeks first to dominate the Muslim faith's non-Islamist majority, then the rest of us.
For the Islamofascists, material like the fallacious Newsweek report is a godsend. They portray it as proof positive of undifferentiated western hostility towards all Muslims. Armed with such evidence, the Islamists then strive to persuade their heretofore peaceable and tolerant co-religionists that there is no choice but to subscribe to the most virulently intolerant interpretations of the Koran and to join in a divinely-ordered violent struggle (jihad) intended to subjugate infidel nations and populations.
The implications of the Islamofascists' concerted, highly-disciplined and organized and well-financed efforts are ominous. Unfortunately, this is true not only for places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the Islamists have held sway for some time, or in Saudi Arabia, the financial and ideological well-spring of modern Islamofascism. Islamism is on the march in such disparate places as Western Europe, Bosnia, Indonesia, Latin America and Africa.
Worse yet, Islamofascists are also increasingly a force to be reckoned with in America, as well. A chilling new book by noted author and investigative reporter Paul Sperry makes clear that the Islamists are well advanced in their efforts to bring jihad to a country near you.
In Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington, Sperry describes in well-documented detail the inroads being made by mostly Saudi-funded Islamist operations in the United States. Many of these operations are headquartered in what he calls the Wahhabi corridor communities in northern Virginia within a few miles of the nation's seat of government. Evidence of their progress to date includes:
• The take-over of non-Islamist mosques throughout America. Typically, this is accomplished by way of mortgages provided on favorable terms by Saudi financial institutions. Along with the financing come Wahhabi clerics, textbooks and other materials and the transformation of religious schools into Saudi-style madrassas.
• Islamist recruitment in US prisons. Sperry describes how Sister Susan VanBaalen, who administers the federal prison ministries, has naively allowed problematic organizations tied to Saudi Arabia to proselytize in unsupervised meetings with inmates.
• Muslim chaplains in the American military have been selected, trained and certified by Saudi-funded organizations founded by one of this country’s most prominent and best-connected Islamists, Abdurahman Alamoudi. Alamoudi is himself now in federal prison, having pled guilty to plotting to engage in terrorist acts
• Islamist inroads are also being made into the student populations of hundreds of colleges and universities across America by chapters of the Saudis-bankrolled Muslim Student Association.
Sperry's most alarming insights, however, concern the success Islamist organizations have had in penetrating and influencing key government agencies. He documents how the FBI has employed translators of suspect loyalties without adequate background checks. He details how political correctness has replaced common sense as federal agencies like the Pentagon, State Department, law enforcement, the intelligence services and even the White House have reached out to groups known to be sympathetic — if not actually tied to — Islamist terrorism.
In some cases, such outreach has served to legitimate the Islamists in question. For example, Sami al-Arian, an erstwhile professor at South Florida University, is defending himself against some 40 federal charges of involvement in terrorist financing and activities on the grounds that he was included in numerous meetings with senior government officials, including George W. Bush.
At the very least, these meetings have facilitated political influence operations aimed at obscuring the distinctions between non-Islamist Muslims and the Islamofascists. Sperry suggests that they have also made possible the placement of individuals who may be affiliated with the latter in key posts inside the US government.
Paul Sperry’s Infiltration comes at a time when more and more Americans are recognizing the danger to our security, society and way of life posed by Islamofascists. They see TV dramas like Fox’s 24 in which the enemy lives and works among us, even as they plot our destruction. They hear that, by some estimates, as many as 70,000 people described as “other than Mexicans,” — many of whom are believed to be from Middle Eastern nations — slipped illegally last year across our inadequately secured borders.
Thanks to Newsweek’s explosive gaffe, we now have further reason to recognize the need to isolate and destroy our Islamofascist foes, even as we seek to reach out to and empower truly non-Islamist Muslims. The latter hold the key to defeating our mutual enemy and, thereby, to avoiding the potentially apocalyptic clash of civilizations sought by that enemy.
Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is the President of the Center for Security Policy and a columnist for the Washington Times.


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Posted by: Catherine [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 2, 2005 3:59 PM

Bush is an arab, muslim terrorist's best friend.

$50 million MORE to the Jew-killers and their very own state.

May HaShem deliver Divine Justice speedily.

Posted by: Itai [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 3, 2005 12:58 AM

Bush is an arab, muslim terrorist's best friend.

$50 million MORE to the Jew-killers and their very own state.

May HaShem deliver Divine Justice speedily.

Posted by: Itai [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 3, 2005 12:59 AM


Bush works in strange and mysterious ways. It's really hard to follow his bouncing ball. He's a born again, who has apparently attended the black mass rituals as performed at the campouts at Bohemian Grove, Calif USA. He kisses Saudi's, gives money to terrorists in disquise (Abbas), and apparently has no concept about the "truth" of Islam, (unless he is faking ignorance). This stuff is highly inconsistant with the "with us or against us", earlier attitude...do you get a sinking feeling that we are being 'sold out'?

Posted by: duh_swami [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 3, 2005 2:13 AM

Meaningful linkages between the West Bank and Gaza? Fine. Just make sure there are also meaningful linkages between Dan and Beerseva.

Posted by: Kepha [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 4, 2005 5:02 AM


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